FLIGHT ARCHERY: FOREVER
I'm on a field. An airfield, to be exact; East Leeds Airport, the former RAF Church Fenton, and one of just a tiny handful of places in the UK where you can do one particular, rarified version of our sport.
A fair bit of a flight archery shoot will be familiar to most of you used to competing in the UK: the line, the details, the hunting for arrows, the tents, and even the drizzle. But some of the rest of it really is nothing like anything else; a monomaniacal quest to go higher and further than someone has gone before you.
Today here in Leeds is a de facto national championships in all but official name; all the associated regional shoots have been cancelled, and most clout shoots as well. Tony Bakes, the organiser of this meet and a longtime ambassador for the sport, has a gleam in his eye when he talks about flight. "Bear in mind a lot of archers are very ignorant about what their equipment can actually do. This is one of the few times you can actually find that out. And then you can understand why we take safety that seriously."
'FLIGHT HAS BEEN FREQUENTLY AND CONFIDENTLY DESCRIBED AS 'THE FORMULA ONE OF
