Dietmar Trillus (CAN) won the prestigious compound division in Las Vegas and cashed in 25,000$ (which is more than for winning the worldcup final). Though, the winner of the Archery Challenge 2010 was Braden Gellenthien (USA) who ranked 2nd and 4th in Nimes and Vegas. The other winners of the World Archer Challenge were Gladys Willems (Belgium, Women Compound), Brady Ellison (USA – Men Recurve) and Brandi Mantha (USA – Women Recurve).

And here they are: Pictures!

Gallery: NFAA World Archery Festival in Las Vegas (USA)

Gallery: European Indoor Archery Tournament in Nîmes (France)

The pictures of both tournaments are made by Dean Alberga. Visit www.dutchtarget.com for his gallery.

The Frensh recurve archer Bérengère Schuh showed a great performance by scroing a perfect 120 points in the gold final match versus Tatiana Segina from Russia and Marco Galiazzo lost the final match by his last arrow, when he scored a nine after a perfect 90 points and a tied score after 11 arrows versus Michele Frangilli. This really have been some thrilling matches this year. If you like towatch them again, they are now set online by archertv:

Video in the gallery: http://www.archeryimages.net/gallery/index.php?action=details&cid=496&pos=1

The second big private european winter event, the Face 2 Face Tournament was not held this season. As it is a biannual tournament, it will be held in November 2010 the next time.

Prince William of Wales (2007)

As you may remember, I already wrote a little bit about disabled archery in January. It is possible to do archery with several different types of handicaps and as seen at the Para Archery World Championships 2009, blind archery is getting more common among the different types of disabled archery.  Yesterday, the British BBC just published some pictures of Prince William of Wales having an archery lesson – also blind.

During a visit to the new specialist centre for blind ex-service men and women “St Dunstan’s” in Llandudno, he took the time to try this advanced level of archery. To simulate blindness, he put on a blindfold that was given by the former private hospital as part of the lesson. Even though Prince William got instructions by blind archer Clive Jones, he apparently was not able to hit the target.

I am not allowed to publish any of the pictures on archeryimages, so here is a link to the BBC:

View the pictures on news.bbc.co.uk

Why that? Yesterday, I published pictures of the 2nd leg of the European Junior Cup 2009 held in Sarzana, Italy. Mr. Riccardo Cafagno, president of the Archery Club of Sarzana gave me permission after a short request and made me able to provide these pictures even after the original event-driven website www.archeryjuniorcup-sarzana2009.com will be closed.

With that, there are now more than 30,000 pictures online covering an enormous amount of 60 different international competitions.

But this is not the only threshold that has been crossed lately. A few days ago, archeryimages had it’s 100,000th visitor. This is nice to see and it’s good that this website seems to be helpful or interesting for a lot of people. If you are still with me, these data seem not to be boring enough. So here is more:

The 30,000 pictures are organized in 400 categories in the gallery and have been viewed 1,3 million times by now. This month I already had visitors from more than 40 countries, including Trinidad & Tobago, the Seychelles, Saudi Arabia and Singapore. The most watched pictures in the gallery are those of the arrows hitting a waterfilled balloon, which have been watched 18,000 times as I wrote last week. The oldest pictures are from 1991, the newest ones from September 2009.

So, what to say? It is nice to see this website grow and I like to carry on with it. I got a lot of different feedback in the past and I am always happy about it. You are always invited to give me your opinion about this site, to complain or say what else you have to say. I am still happy about people giving me a note if they are able to provide pictures that are missing in the ai gallery. For example, photos of the Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney and the Games before are missing to this day although they definitely would be interesting.

I am currently developing some new fancy features for archeryimages that I can hopefully present you within the next weeks, but if you have ideas, feel free to let me know.

Hm… and what is the conclusion of this post? I am not sure, but I guess it simply is: Stay tuned!

But archery in general is an interesting sport to show in slow motion. Caused by the fracture of a second that decides about a perfect in-death-center ten or lousy 7 points in archery, it is always nice to see what is actually going on in this crucial instant of time. As men is not able to see it, people in archery around the world have put effort in slow motion videos over and over again. One of the most famous footage was produced by Werner Beiter whose videos from the movie “Der Weg ins Zentrum” (The way to center) are still available for download. In 1997, he opened the “Werner & Iris Center” in Dauchingen, Germany where top athletes from all over the world have the possibility to practise and improve their shooting with the help of slow motion video. The visitor gallery of the “Werner & Iris Center” is basically a who’s is who of international archery and shows how important slow motion video footage is for high-level archery.

Some days ago I found nice slow motion videos made by former U.S. Olympic Archery Team Coach Lloyd Brown at youtube. He also specialised in high speed video analysis and was not just able to produce this footage under “laboratory conditions” but live, at the practise field during the Archery World Championships 2007 in Leipzig. These videos show archers like Natalia Valeeva of Italy or Sung-Hyun Park of Korea and are awesome shots:

http://www.archeryimages.net/gallery/index.php?action=pictures&cid=375

To present you one example, here is a video showing Natalia Valeeva:

Kathuna Lorig (USA)

So, whats it with archers and tattoos? After so many pictures that I published here, I noticed a lot of archers like to show they bond to archery through a tattoo. It is very interesting what different types of tattoos you find. And even more interesting, what is a good part of the body to have a tattoo on for an archer?

It seems like competing in the Olympic Games is still the most important goal for quite a lot top-level archers in the world. Many of them want to perpetuate a participation in that competition by getting tattooed, that is the reason you find a lot of tattoos with relation to the Olympic Games. And where do you need to have your fancy tattoo placed? The forearm is a very nice spot if you like it to be seen while competition (especially for recurve archers).

Two examples for combining the forearm with the olympic symbol are Khatuna Lorig and Brady Ellison of USA:

Another popular place for archer’s tattoos seem to be the ankle, as proven by the following pictures:

Archery Grandmaster Natalia Valeeva of Italy joins with an archery-in-general tattoo at her ankle

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while Marie-Pier Beaudet of Canda remembers her first participation in Olympic Games 2004 aged only 17 at the same, obviously popular place.

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Bérengère Schuh with Hoyt´s FormulaRX

Hey Folks!
You may liked the portraits made by the french photographer Jean-Denis Gitton ( www.jdgitton.com ) that were already online at archeryimages for some time. There are new ones to see!

The pictures are portraits of Thibault Fioretti and Bérengère Schuh, who are both members of the french national team, presenting the new clothing line for their team.

The pictures are licensed under a creative commons license, it’s detailed conditions are linked within the gallery. Regarding that conditions, these picture are the only ones on this site that can actually be redistributed and used in other public ways. Big thanks for that!

Oh, I forgot the most important thing: The link to the gallery.

FITA World Field Archery Championships 2008

There are new pictures available:
Thanks Robert Potts of www.world-champs2008.net, I could add about 900 pictures of the World Champs Field 2008 in Llwynypia, Wales.

You can find the gallery here:
http://www.archeryimages.net/gallery/index.php?action=pictures&cid=288

For results and further information about this event, please visit the event-driven website www.world-champs2008.net. Always up-to-date and with a lot of more pictures: The team of fieldarcher.org ( www.fieldarcher.org ).

Sébastien Peineau (FRA)

There is now a new entry in the misc-gallery, some very artistic portraits and black-and-white pictures of the French national team. Superb shots, an absolute must-see!

Follow this link to go there directly.

Field EC 2007 Bjelovar (CRO)

I’m now finished uploading the pictures of the European Field Archery Championship 2007. 1840 pictures, that is a lot stuff to look through. Hope you enjoy it and thanks again to fieldarcher.org for the pictures.
Klick here to go directly to the album.

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