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From exotic dancing to fitness craze. Pole dancing appeals to people of all ages, a local woman says. See Page A3
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patricia gonsalves and Jason holmes run lykopis archery, conducting workshops and classes in the ancient discipline at Boorman’s range in sapperton.
Movies fire renewed interest in archery Mario bartel
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Patricia Gonsalves is making it her mission to put the sexy back into archery, one butt at a time. While Orlando Bloom’s character in The Fellowship of the Ring may have been able to slay Orcs and Sauron’s wolves with his longbow and arrows, he would have been hard pressed to hit a bullseye, says Gonsalves, who runs Lykopis Archery with her business partner Jason Holmes. Likewise Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood and Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye in The Avengers.
But it’s those very movies, along with this summer’s blockbuster The Hunger Games and Disney’s animated fable Brave which are firing renewed interest in the ancient sport that dates to the Stone Age. Gonsalves and Holmes say they’re seeing new clients every week at the workshops and classes they conduct at the Boorman range in Sapperton. They’re starting a youth program in November. They also teach at Acadamie Duello in Vancouver. Too often Hollywood makes archers “look stupid,” says Gonsalves, who is also working to
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fix its portrayal from the inside as the archery instructor for the new TV series Arrow. Directors and actors favour flash and panache over proper technique, but what they don’t realize is a properly drawn bow and well-shot arrow can look sexy. “It has this fluidity of movement,” says Gonsalves, an archer for 30 years. “It’s like a dance, you need to be calm, disciplined. When someone does it well, it comes across as a martial art.” Doing it well is about more than
just hitting the butt, or target. “People get target-obsessed,” says Gonsalves. “But there’s a connection with your own being, there’s breathing involved, you have to concentrate. When you settle into it and the arrow goes where you want it to go, you can feel it.” Archery’s newfound big screen glamour has attracted everyone from computer programmers to bus drivers to yoga instructors to a biker to their classes. please see ‘It’S MAGIc’, A3
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As the crowd gathered in the lobby of Royal Columbian Hospital munched on cupcakes and apples while listening to speeches about its 150th anniversary, two paramedics pushed a gurney carrying an elderly patient through the assemblage and past the podium. It may have been party time but, just like the past century and a half, the hospital’s work continued. RCH officially marked its sesquicentennial Friday morning in front of staff and visitors. The stretcher came through, appropriately enough, while Dr. Sadiq Abdullah, the 1,000th intern to graduate from Royal Columbian, was speaking. Still dressed in scrubs, he told of only getting a couple of hours sleep after a busy night. “We had a memorial for an appendix we took out, we got a pacemaker going and a baby born,” said Abdullah. “It was another successful night.” please see rcH, A3