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JAM Magazine
Welcome to the first edition of the JAM (Junior Archery Magazine)

This is a free fun archery magazine for children (and adults!!!) with interesting information about archery (from medieval times to the modern olympics), news of events, jokes, your letters, pictures, puzzles and funny stories.

The JAM is a reader interactive magazine - so please send in your jokes, funny story, pictures or your view on archery. We can't not promise to publish all the items you send in but we will try our very best. Please feel free to print this page out and share it with family and friends
There were two fish in a tank.
One of them said to the other:
"How do you drive this thing?"
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The Basics
If you like archery you may already know most of these, but for those who don't:

Archery in the Olympics 		Longbow
traditional bow approx 6 feet tall and made from either one piece of wood (yew, ash, hickory) or a combination of these plus a thin laminate of another wood (purple heart, rosewood,)
Although archery has been around since the stone age where it was used to hunt to survive believe it or not it was only included in the modern Olympics in 1900 (Paris) but was dropped for many years due to lack of international rules. It finally returned in 1972 (Munich) There are four archery events held at the Olympics: Men's Individual, Women's Individual, Men's Team and Women's Team.
The competitors shot 36 arrows for a single competition and 72 arrows for a double competition. Men shot from 90, 70, 50 and 30 meters while women shot from 70, 60, 50 and 30 meters. In the1988 Games in Seoul , Korea , team competition was added.
The 2012 London Olympics are planned to be held at Lords cricket ground.

1908 Olympics competing with longbows

Modern Olympics
Recurve
the term given to modern archery bows - which are made up of a handle (wood or metal) plus two limbs (wood/glass laminate or carbon). The limbs lock into position and when strung give a curve to them.

S pot the difference - there's 10
(we will show you the answers on the next edition) 		Compound
A turely modern bow - originally invented by the American's to hunt with it's short limbs and pulleys both top and bottom using the laws of physics and pulleys when pulled back the drawing weight is reduced anything up to 80%. Very quick and accurate (only in the right hands of course!!!)
 
  Nocks & nocking points
the piece of plastic at the end of the arrow which attach's to the string between two points - the nocking points these are either cotton, tape or brass.
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 Fletchings
the flights on an arrow (x3) on longbow and traditional arrows usually made from feathers. Modern arrows will have either plastic or thin shaped foil flights
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The Battle Of Hastings Joke - a bit long but funny
King Harold was inspecting his troops on the eve of the Battle of Hastings, chatting with them a bit, trying to raise their morale, that sort of thing.
He went to the swordsmen first, choosing a soldier at random from amongst the ranks. "Do you feel ready for the battle tomorrow?" he asked.
"Oh yes, sire," the swordsman responded eagerly.
"Handy with that thing are you?" Harold asked, indicating the man's sword.
"Reasonably so, sire," the man replied. "Watch." He bent down, picked up a handful of grass, flung it in the air, and waved his sword about. When the grass fell down again, it had been cut into a neat line of soldier figures.
"Good work, man," said Harold, impressed, "and good luck in the battle."
"Thank you, sire," said the soldier.
King Harold proceeded to inspect the pike men."Are you looking forward to the battle?" he asked one of their number.
Medieval Speak
Confuse/astonish your parents &
friends with some medieval speak

Hello, nice to see you! - Hail and well met!
Please wait on me! - Prithee attend me!
I'm thirsty! - Parched I am!
I'm Hungry - I'm in need of victuals
What is your name? - What be thy title?
Where are you from? - Whence dost thou hail?
Goodbye - Fare thee well
Hurrah! - Huzzah!
"Yes, sire," the man replied. "Good with your pike, are you?" the King asked.
"Not bad," the pike man said. "See that flock of birds?" Harold nodded, and the pike flashed in the soldiers hand. It went sailing through the air, right through the centre of the flock, and when it came down five birds were skewered on it."Well done," said Harold, "and good luck in the battle tomorrow."
He then went to the archers, who stood proudly with their longbows, looking intimidating even to someone on their side. "Are you ready for tomorrow's battle?" King Harold asked one bowman.
The man squinted at him a bit, then said, "Good Lord, it's the King! Um, yes I'm ready."
"What can you do with that bow, then?" Harold asked him.
"What? Oh, this thing? I dunno. Someone gave me it yesterday and told me to stay with these people here."
"Well... do you see that barn over there, about twenty yards away?"
The archer peered in the direction of Harold's pointing finger. "Oh yes, I see it," he said at last.
"Do you think you could hit that?"
"I think so." He lined himself up with the barn, grunting with the effort of drawing the bow, and loosed the arrow. It sailed past the barn, five feet too high and ten feet to the left.
"Did I hit it?" he asked.
"Er, yes," said Harold, clapping him on the back. "Well done, and good luck."
Then the King turned to the captain of archery and said in an undertone, "Watch out for that man tomorrow, will you? He'll have somebody's eye out with that thing."
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