Southeast Asia's largest gathering of Barebow archers...
There has been tremendous development in the region's Barebow scene as Thailand's Princess Cup archery tournament had recorded it's highest numbers in terms of participation in the Barebow class.
More than 150 people from all walks of life took part in the Barebow shoot and this year's event saw history as Malaysia's entry stood at the podium for the first time.
As for our team, we prepared for this by training regularly at our range and when the time came, we just hopped onto the airplane and headed straight out to Bangkok where the game was held...
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| Getting some arrows on the target butt in Archery Thai |
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| Zeroing-in with my Spigarelli Club 650 barebow riser |
This year, it's a bit different. The organizers decided to do a full 18-meter round. We had to qualify with 60 arrows and the elimination rounds had been reduced to 1/32. Only 64 of the top archers will face-off on the last day of the event.
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| Tatrawee Harikul of TOAC gave the briefing during the manager's meeting |
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| Registration... |
Our day started very early on Friday, June 28. We made our way to the event hall, set up our gear and waited for equipment inspection. Michelle, my wife was a bit annoyed when she was told about her centre-serving. There as a loose thread which we managed to remove and her arrows are not properly marked.
That aside, we waited till mid-day before warming-up and before we knew it, it was time to stand on the shooting line to qualify for last day.
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| Equipment inspection |
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| The judge at work... |
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| Qualifying rounds |
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| The cadet-class archers |
It is fair to said that on being an old-timer, (my fourth outing at the Princess Cup) I maintained my game-play and worked on an average of 7.5 points per end. This is not even enough to make it to the mid-ranks as the archers became really good.
There were wild cards in the fray and I must say that Indonesia's debut in the Thailand Princess Cup would get many more Barebow archers to compete at future tournaments held in Bangkok.
Michelle was ranked at 66th and I came in at 68th place out of 153 archers.
In total, more than 100 archers had scored at least 200 points in the first round. The remaining 53 people had scored below 400 points in total making this one of the highest scoring class with team Five Arrow's Norhisyam Ismail shooting 272/300 and 262/300 totaling at 532 points after 60 arrows.
The last guy in the top 64 came in at 446 points. We were just a couple of points shy of qualifying and this became our motivation to train even harder.
There are a lot more games in the offing and we shall not take for granted on how good the Barebow archers from Malaysia has become...
(next: elimination rounds...)
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