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The Oldest registered archery club in Australia, catering for:
- Children 5 years and older
- Teenagers
- Adults
- Disabled
- Recreational & Social Archers
- Competitive Archers
- Schools
- Sporting Clubs
- Archery Parties
- Corporate Events
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"It Doesn't matter if you miss my an inch or a mile, so long as you're having fun"
Zane Sanderson
Archery CoachAbout the Club
Wendouree Archery Club is based in Ballarat at Prince of Wales Park reserve. Wendouree Archery Club was established in 1941 as Ballarat Archers and underwent a few changes in the late 1940's before taking on its current name. This is the oldest registered archery club in Australia. Archery is a social sport for the whole family, with our coaching courses catering for 5 to 80+ year olds. We also offer a wide variety of skill levels, ranging from recreational to Olympic level and, of course, everything in between! Adding to the diversity of this sport is the range of different equipment available. There is the Robin Hood style of bow known as the longbow, the Olympic style of bow known as the recurve bow and there is the modern style of bow known as the compound bow. Both the recurve and the compound can be used with or without sights. Wendouree Archery Club caters for three types of Archery, Target, Field & Clout, and we provide coaching from Beginner to Intermediate levels.
Compound
A compound bow is a modern bow that uses a levering system of cables and pulleys, or "cams," to bend its stiffer limbs, providing a mechanical advantage that makes it easier to draw and hold the bow
Precision
LongBow
A longbow is a tall, typically straight or single-curved hand-drawn bow, as tall as the archer, made from a single piece of wood (or modern laminate) with a D-shaped cross-section, and traditionally from yew wood.
Traditional
Recurve Bow
A recurve bow is a bow whose limbs, at each tip, curve away from the shooter when unstrung, a design that stores and releases more energy than a traditional straight-limbed bow, resulting in greater speed and penetration for the arrow.
Olympic Recurve