Membership is open to all archers who are members in good standing of a club affiliated to a province. All club members, in turn, are associate members. Associate members are permitted to participate in the development programme. There are many benefits to joining the Association, the greatest being that as a member you can contribute towards the growth and recognition of the sport. Members are required to renew their membership each year.

Membership is a requirement to participate in SANAA and FITA sanctioned tournaments, including the national championships. Existing members are sent their membership renewal automatically. To join the SA National Archery Association, download the membership form and fax them through to The Treasurer on the numbers indicated on the form.

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In order to view the league scores, Gold Squad Weighted Averages and download the SA Archer, then you need to register on the web site.  Simply click on the Signup link and complete the requested information.  A few seconds later you will receive a verification email to verify your address.  Use the login name and password you selected to log into the web site and you can participate in the forums, e-shop and host of facilities the web site offers. If you are a member in good standing of a SANAA recognised club, click here to join SANAA.

Archery is a sport for all seasons, indoor or outdoor, for all people, whatever the gender, age of physical ability.  It's a versatile sport and can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be.  So, try it and find your nearest club.Log your details on our signup pages and you will have full access to hints, tips and a host of information to help you along.
Our Provincial Associations have been kitted with a full development programme for aspiring archers, called the Feathers and Arrows Program.  It starts you with the basics and systematically grows your skill to as high a level as you desire.

As part of the country’s preparations for the World Cup commencing later this year, ACSA will be implementing hand luggage restrictions. This is being done in conjunction with all domestic airlines in an attempt to ensure a reduction in unnecessary flight delays, mainly caused by at-home check-ins and self-service kiosks, contributing to the increase in hand luggage. The restrictions have already been implemented at O.R. Tambo International since 20 January 2010 and will be enforced at the Cape Town and Durban International Airports from this coming Saturday, 6 February 2010. The restrictions  are as follows: For Economy Class Passengers: 1 bag + 1 laptop. For First Class/Business Passengers: 2 bags + 1 laptop.  The weight of each bag may not be greater than 7 kg.  The dimensions for each bag may not exceed 115cm (56cm+36cm+23cm).

South Africa has been honored by the Federation of African Archery, who have requested that Charmaine Ho (International Judge Candidate) of Johannesburg be part of the Judges team at the 8th African Archery Championship at Ein Sokhna (Egypt) during 7th-11th March, 2010.  The invitation was extended by Dr. Ahmed Helmy Koura, the President of Egyptian Archery Judges Committee, himself an International Judge Candidate.  South Africa will be participating in the event against some of the toughest competition on the continent.

Aurelle Medalie, the current SANAA Treasurer has been nominated for the David Award 2010 in the category "The Blue Label Telecoms Award for a Considerable Contribution to Sport ".  To view and vote for nominations, visit the King David Foundation web pages.

Archers are invited to the Gauteng SANAA Indoor Series Championships to be held on 6 February at the Guthries Archery Club.  The competition is a standard FITA Indoor round consisting of a ranking round followed by an elimination. Come and test your skills against one another on Saturday 6th February at the Guthries Archery Range, Le Roux Ave, Midrand.  The first Session registration and practise starts at 7.30am with the first scoring arrows at 8.00am.  The second session registration starts at 9.00am.  Archers will shoot at 18 metres (u12 9m).  The rules are as per the SANAA rules with a maximum arrow size of 9.3mm or a 23XX shaft. All SANAA recognized bow styles allowed and medals will be awarded for all styles.  To book your place call Aurelle Medalie on 011-728-4025 or 083-266-2984

The SANAA recurve coaching course was held at the High Performance Centre during the 8th to the 15th of January.  The course was run by coach Baek Mun - FITA coach based in Egypt. The first section of the course was for archers.   Many lessons were learnt by both our experienced and new archers not only on shooting form but also bow tuning.  Coach Mun has shown our archers that there are many subtly different styles, that one can learn new "tricks" (even after 34 years of shooting), that it makes good sense to go back to shooting with  a basic bow when working on  form and that the bow draw exercises that were shown – although they were like going through “boot camp” at the time are essential to remaining archery fit.

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The President of the Lake Joondalup Archery Club in Australia reports that "Over the last few weeks we have had a number of South African archers on holiday in Perth, Western Australia shooting with us (we shoot FITA outdoor target). You guys/girls are great.  For info on our club see http://rightforu.com.au/archery.html Please let your members know that they are welcome to come and shoot with us."

The South African National Archery Association (SANAA) will be using the Youth Olympic Continental Qualifier and Continental as a platform to announce the second phase of its archery development programme.  According to Barbara Manning, SANAA Secretary General, “The goal in supporting the young archers is to enable the youth to become role models for other youth by allowing them to participate in a formal training programme and having the opportunity to both improve their individual abilities and also promote the ideals of sportsmanship, ethics and fair play”

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