Playtimes HK Magazine Spring 2019 Issue | Page 104

archery Hong Kong Archery Association Tuen Mun Recreation and Sports Centre Hong Kong Island Archery Club 852 2504 8148, 852 2504 8239 852 2466 2600 852 9801 0830 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.archery.org.hk www.lcsd.gov.hk www.archery.com.hk Hong Kong Archery Association is the The Archery Range occupies a site of Hong Kong Archery Club’s aim is to governing body responsible for archery in 4,700sqm. It can serve as an archery range promote archery, foster young talents and Hong Kong. It is a member or the Hong Kong with a shooting distance of 70m long for enourage parent-child activities - all training Sports Association and the Olympic Comitee groups or individual hiring. In addition, the programmes welcome parents to participate of Hong Kong and is also a memebver of centre organises archery training courses and with their children. International Archery Association (WA) and archery competition recreational activities Available at: Hong Kong Island Archery Club, the Asian Archery Association (WAA). regularly for public participation. Pokfulam Available at: Lion Rock Archery Range, Available at: Tuen Mun Recreation and Sports Tianshuiwei Lanxinfu Archery Field Centre, Lung Mun Road, Tuen Mun Hong Kong Archery Centre Hong Kong Archery Workshop Pro Archery 852 2739 8969 852 2782 3528 852 2796 9177 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.hk-archerycentre.com www.archeryworkshop.com www.proarchery.com.hk English speaking archery coaches available The Archery Workshop is a one-stop shop for Boasting a large, comfortable area of for beginner, intermediate and advanced all your archery needs. The equipment shop more than 2,000 square feet, the centre archery lessons. Clinic sessions are also contains a wide array of the latest in archery can accommodate up to eight people for available on a one-on-one basis, focusing gear and supplies, and the workshops can be practise and training on the 18 metre indoor to solidify shooting form, mental skills and utilised to modify and maintain bows while the practise lanes. equipment tuning. practice range can be used to try them out. Available at: Flat J, 4/F, Block 3, Kwun Tong Available at: 902, 20 Hillwood Road, Tsim Available at: Unit 10-12, 1/F, Fu Tao Building Industrial Centre, 448 - 458 Kwun Tong Road Sha Tsui, Kowloon 98 Argyle Street, Mong Kok, Kowloon YMCA Golden Trust Archery 852 2368 7070 852 2370 2250, 852 6521 8288 [email protected] [email protected] www.ymcahk.org.hk http://archeryhk.com This programme teaches fundamental Golden Trust Archery is the biggest archery archery skills and enhances the archery centre in Hong Kong, with 7,000 square feet accuracy and stability of participants, and 25 shooting lanes. Most lessons are thereby improving concentration and conducted in Cantonese. However, English personal endurance. lessons are available upon request. Available at: 41 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui Available at: 2/F, Block C, Wing Hong Factory Building, 781 Yu Chau West Street, Lai Chi Kok 102 www.playtimes.com.hk Although archery dates back to the Stone Age - around 20,000BC - the earliest people known to have used bows and arrows were the Ancient Egyptians. In China the earliest evidence of archery dates to the Shang Dynasty – 1766-1027BC.