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Hi, I am Bruce from Auckland, New Zealand and half of the reason I wanted to start this website for helping new arches is because at the archery club I belong to, I see a large number of new archers dropping out. The club offers a first visit for free and then a $10 a visit fee to hire a bow after that and new archers are advised to hire a bow for about six months to make sure they want to get into archery. Just about every new archer that turned up to the club after one or two visits with a new bow dropped out and they had a expensive bow that is hard to sell. I am guessing that the large number of people dropping out was. # Not enough support or information given at the archery shop. # People not asking enough questions when buying a bow. # Remember, it is hard for an archery shop to tune a bow until the new archer has worked out their style and anchor point. # You can ask archery shops if they have had a customer bring back a bow and say "This bows no good"! The staff have picked up that bow, shot a couple of bull's eyes and handed it back to the customer and said "There is nothing wrong with it"! You really don't want to be in this situation ! # People not making full use of the club and you could say that about a lot of different clubs. Most members are really friendly and helpful. So make the most of your club. # They haven't read any archery books or watched videos on You Tube. # When your new to archery, you are constantly questioning, "Is it me or is it the bow"? And when you turn up to a club, there are so many different people with different bows and reasons for getting into archery. There are target shooters ( paper hole punchers ) who are very against hunting, then there are hunters. There are people who turn up to socialise and talk. There is two Asian gentlemen in our club who feel archery is a spiritual journey and use Zen meditation to aim the arrow. I've tried Zen Meditation with archery and it works really well. The Asian gentlemen are quite hard case and use large wooden bows with wooden arrows. As we are all standing in line shooting, they'll stand next to a new person with a recurve bow, point to their fancy sights on the front of the bow and say, "Whats all the rubbish you've got on the front of your bow"? "Why don't you take that off and have some real fun"! Traditional bows don't have sights. So hopefully, I can guild the new archer in the right direction.

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