00:05Clyde Samuel is about to turn 67 and he's leaning towards Archery.
00:12I don't see in this eye because of a mishap when I was living in Belmont. Bandits broke open to
00:17my place and I had a fight with them and they threw a bottle.
00:21I was trying to hold them off in the dark but they threw a bottle and hit me in the
00:25eye and I saw the whole kaleidoscope chat.
00:29The bandits that broke in were they ever caught?
00:33Some of them got killed by police months after. Some of them just disappeared.
00:41In a separate medical incident he lost his foot but still his past in the military has made him strong.
00:48As a young fellow at home we used to play Robin Hood and we used to make we own one
00:53arrow and shoot.
00:54And shoot lizards and so on and birds and so on.
00:57Ah! Finally! The hunter!
00:59So that's how I get to learn about these things.
01:03But you know when you make your own one arrow with a string and so on?
01:05Alright. But this is different. This is something different.
01:09This is something that puts pressure on muscles that you don't use.
01:12His aim is remarkable.
01:24The points archery club has welcomed young and old for over 20 years.
01:29President of the club David King says their objective is to share the joy of the sport.
01:33My objective especially for the young people is to get them away from the TV, get them away from the
01:39video games and all of that.
01:41Get them to do something outdoors.
01:43And those who have retired looking for something to do, this is an excellent opportunity to get out and be
01:50outdoors and do something physical and mental.
01:53And what about his thoughts concerning the differently abled?
01:57This exercise that we are doing to include the para artery into that is new.
02:04We are trying our best to introduce it.
02:07At one time in my career I served on the board of the Paralympic Committee.
02:12I was the president of the Paralympic Committee at one time.
02:14So I have a connection and affinity to help those people who are differently abled.
02:22You have some concerns moving forward.
02:24Our big fear now is that after this exposure, whether we have an avalanche of people coming in and we
02:32have to be able to be prepared to handle some of them.
02:36That's going to be a challenge for us.
02:38Because to create the site for visually impaired, just today by just telling me there is another archer that would
02:47like to come.
02:48For now he is embracing the journey of sharing his knowledge about archery.
02:52Sir Jude for TV6 Sport.
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