http://bhaa.org.uk/blog Welcome to our news site Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:33:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We recently held our first competition for horseback archery in the UK on the 26th September in Lynsted, Kent. A more detailed write up will follow along with results and photos. For now here is how the local news covered the event! http://bhaa.org.uk/blog/2008/07/31/the-kent-champs-08/ We received an email from our colleagues in Greece who have established the sport there. Below is a small introduction they sent us along with some pics from their very good website. "Hellenic (Greek) Horseback Archery start since February 2005 in Kaposmero’s Valley, when a Greek horse-passionate, Aristotle, met a modern ... http://bhaa.org.uk/blog/2008/04/11/hellenic-horseback-archery/ The Tuba Archery Club in Croydon recently held a weekend training course at Neil Payne's in Somerset. Despite the gale force winds, freezing temperatures, snow, rain and some sunshine at the end a good time was had by all. The organisers would like to thank Christian Schraude for coming all ... http://bhaa.org.uk/blog/2008/04/02/mounted-archery-march-2008/ Dear horseback archers throughout the world, We, the German Mounted Archery Association "Die Steppenreiter", would like to invite you to the 1. European Open Championship in Mounted Archery. The championship will take place at the Hummelhof in Northern Bavaria Address: Hummelhof 1 97514 Oberaurach Germany Google-maps-link: http://tinyurl.com/2sn9lc on the 6th and 7th of September 2008. For more information please ... http://bhaa.org.uk/blog/2008/03/27/european-open-championship-in-mounted-archery/ Sad news (well maybe not for everyone) but next in line, HRH Prince Charles, has squandered his once in a lifetime opportunity to become Patron of the BHAA. Who shall we try next?? http://bhaa.org.uk/blog/2008/01/15/charlie-dont-want-us/ Kim Young Sup of the World Horseback Archery Federation has today announced that the 2008, Fourth International Horseback Archery Competition will be held from August 14th - 17th. http://bhaa.org.uk/blog/2008/01/15/fourth-international-horseback-archery-competition-2008/ The Long Riders’ Guild’s new Equestrian Wisdom and History series has been brought to our attention. The series is designed to re-publish the most important equestrian books previously written, as well as publishing indispensable new works by the world’s leading equine academics, equine investigative journalists and riders. There are approximately ... http://bhaa.org.uk/blog/2008/01/04/the-equestrian-wisdom-and-history-literary-collection/ We have added some movie clips now to the website. There are a lot more to come but this should give newcomers to the website a flavour of what horseback archery is and how it looks. At present there is only one clip from the meeting that was held in ... http://bhaa.org.uk/blog/2007/12/19/horseback-archery-clips/