Age classifications

Archers are grouped by age as follows:

	Senior Gentlemen (18+)
	Junior Gentlemen (U18)
	Junior Gentlemen (U16)
	Junior Gentlemen (U14)
	Junior Gentlemen (U12)
	Senior Ladies (18+)
	Junior Ladies (U18)
	Junior Ladies (U16)
	Junior Ladies (U13)

Senior Gentlemen will normally shoot the round mentioned first in each of the families of rounds listed below. Under 18 Junior Gentlemen and Senior Ladies will normally shoot the second round and so on down the age classifications and families. There is nothing to stop an archer shooting either longer or shorter rounds than their age classification indicates, but records and medals cannot normally be won for shooting a shorter round than would be expected.

Descriptions of the families of Outdoor Rounds

Rounds fall into families which share the same pattern of numbers of arrows shot and numbers of distances involved (for example the "York" family all involve shooting six dozen arrows at one distance, four dozen at the next shorter distance followed by two dozen at a still shorter distance). The starting distance in each family gets progressively shorter from the first mentioned to the last.