Behind The Scenes
April 6, 2016
Behind-the-Scenes with Robin Hood
You probably know Hamish and Angie – but have you met our other behind-the-scenes characters? Meet Robin Hood, who acts as ArcheryPlus sentinel and guards the garage from marauding auks. Robin began life as a slab of pine in the […]
Archery , Archery Club , Community
December 17, 2015
Archery club, anyone?
Despite a horrendous nor’wester, later to be replaced with a freezing southeasterly wind, between 100 and 150 keen folk turned up to have a go at target archery at Lansdowne Park, Blenheim the other week. We had 4 targets set […]
We had a brilliant day when the Saint Clair Family Estate staff came to Archery Plus recently for a team-building event. Arriving in fantastic costumes – their alter egos for the day – these guys really got into the spirit […]
Straight as an arrow? I don’t think so. Did you know an arrow actually flexes and curves as it flies through the air? Ideally an arrow would fly straight to the target but as there’s a bow in the way, […]
Archery , Archery Club , Community
November 13, 2015
Archery open day for all
If you’ve been wanting to try your hand at archery but haven’t yet had the chance, Sunday 22 November is the day for you. As you may have seen in the Marlborough Express, you can come along to Lansdowne Park […]
Hamish recently had the opportunity of a trip to the UK , which included a surprise trip to what Hamish describes glowingly as “Archer’s Heaven”. Here is Hamish’s story: “My trip included a surprise trip to a fantastic archery shop right in […]
Archery
October 21, 2015
Creative ways to destroy an arrow!
We think of arrows as inflicting damage on whatever they hit – but sometimes it is the arrow that takes the beating! This is what happens when a carbon arrow hits something solid: In this instance we had a netting […]
Being in the archery business, we’re often asked “just how realistic is the archery in the Hunger Games movies?” Well, here you can watch Jennifer Lawrence shooting a bow and arrow – and her technique and form in this clip […]
If you’ve been to any school fairs in Marlborough recently you may have seen our Archery featuring… I’ve already mentioned Springlands School and we’ve also been at Spring Creek, Linkwater, Fairhall and Tua Marina schools, teaching Robin-Hoods-in-the-making. I’ve really enjoyed helping […]
Archery
October 31, 2014
Team-Building Takes Off
Recently we had Indevin bring about 30 of their staff here for ArcheryPlus. Indevin is one of the largest contract winemaking companies in New Zealand and it was a real pleasure to host them. “…such a fantastic day, everyone enjoyed […]