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Compound Men Champions: (L-R) SILVER Patrizio Hofer (SUI), GOLD - Sergio Pagni (ITA) and BRONZE - Peter Elzinga (NED) success - the archers liked the new concept but the organizers had problems getting the number of archers needed. The Face2Face concept will need to be organized in countries like Germany, Italy, France, England, USA or the other way is to organize it like they do it in the Netherlands, making it an International Prize Money Tournament.

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Recurve Lady Champions: (L-R) SILVER: Justyna Mospinek (POL), GOLD: Elena Richter (GER) and BRONZE: Carrie Wegh (NED) The Facc2Face concept is based on the Face to Face principle or maybe better known as the Head to Head principle where the archers in the Elimination Rounds are competing in a Round Robin System (6 archers in each group) - the two best of each group will proceed to the next elimination round - but the genius part of the Face2Face idea is that the archers (the remaining 4 each group) shooting high scores but, for instance, being number 3 or 4 in a group still can proceed to the next elimination round if they have a high score. The idea is that the good performing archers will not be knocked out before the semi finals. Please go to www.face2facearchery.org for further info. Recurve Men Champions: SILVER: Piotr Piatek Continued (POL), GOLD - Pascal van der Veeken (NED), on page 12, BRONZE: Michael Peart (GBR)

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US Archer: What are the qualifications to participate in the Paras: First and foremost, the archer must be disabled. There are many kinds of disabilities that qualify, but to make sure we all shoot in the correct divisions, we have several official doctors classify us. You can contact the Paralympic coach, Randi Smith, for more details about when and where archers can be classified in next year’s lineup of tournaments. Everyone from amputees to quadriplegics can compete, it just takes some extra thought and a willingness to adapt! As for participation, we have to either place in the top three of our division at the IPC World Championships, or raise our scores at certain official tournaments to improve our world rankings by a certain deadline. For the Beijing Paralympics, the deadline to turn in scores was late January-I should know, because 1 was one of the archers who scrambled to qualify that season. There were quite a few grueling tournaments in the middle of winter, but getting to go to Beijing was absolutely worth it.

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Lindsey, please share more information about your archery career: The best starting point for disabled archers in this country is www. AmericanDisabledArchers.com which is put together by our current head coach, Randi Smith. She’s provided information and pictures from the Paralympics, major tournaments disabled archers attend. She also has content up from the Paralympic Military Summits we’ve held in the past to bring sports into the lives of disabled veterans. My favorite is the annual Endeavor Games held in Oklahoma, where we do the same for disabled kids of all backgrounds. It’s such an inspiration to see those children learning to overcome their obstacles and have fun in the process. It is especially exciting when you find the competitive spark in someone who never thought they could do sports in the first place. That’s how I was when I found archery, and I thank the teacher who recommended it from the bottom of my heart. Sometimes we need a little help in this life, someone to give us a new idea, pick us up when we’ve fallen, or just give us a push us in the right direction. 18

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Diamond Valley Archers, in the southern state of Victoria, hosted the inaugural Australian International Open, with the nations finest pitted against quality competition from overseas teams, with great Britain particularly prominent, and also some leading New Zealand archers in attendance. The weather was variable, with less than perfect conditions wind wise, but nonetheless some fine scoring resulted. In the men’s compound, Pat Coghlan, fresh from his World Cup bronze medal was the top qualifier with a very solid 1385, continuing his great form in 2008. Britain’s Liam Grimwood, following on his new 90 meter world record, continued his rise as one of the real up and coming compound shooters, finishing in second spot with an equally

impressive 1381. In close attendance on 1379 were Brit James Forbes and New Zealand champ Stephan Clifton. On the recurve side Ryan Tyack led the men’s field, while Jane Waller fresh from her Olympic debut was the high qualifier. The ladies’ compound was dominated by British duo Nickola Simpson and Nicky Hunt, with 1369 and 1353 respectively. The head to head confrontations produced some surprises with Coghlan missing the medal rounds, and the less favored Englishman Deoron Meredith taking gold over Australia's Guy Phillips. Liam Grimwood annexed the bronze. Nichola Simpson continued her terrific 2008 form with a solid 112 to 106 victory in the gold medal match over Aussie champ Kellie Holmes. New Zealand’s Linda Lainchbury came from 18th place in qualification to take bronze. Olympian Michael Naray was a conclusive victor in the men’s recurve while youngster Semra Ferguson surprised Jane Waller in the women’s final with a 108 to 100 victory. Great to see two of Australia’s finest on the line, still competitive, although both are now in the veteran class Madeleine Ferris, as always among the top lady compounders, and Leigh Cornish equally famous for his superb Titan Scopes, both icons of the sport Down Under. The Australian Hall of Fame is well and truly on the march with a number of leading archery authorities and personalities inducted into the founding Board of Directors including historian Pat Wright, former top Aussie archer Margeret Nelson, organizer and famous hunting icon Ian Fenton, as well as representatives from every facet of the sport down under. The initial inductees into the Hall of Fame will be named and presented at the first organization banquet to be held in early 2009 in Sydney. With a history of great pioneers in competition, hunting, bow making and administration , some famous names will grace the Hall of Fame in the coming years. The Australia Day tournament held in Canberra each year on the last weekend in January, is one of the major archery events drawing all the top archers in the nation. With considerable prize money, and with the tournaments prestigious history top contenders, Pat Coghlan, Zoran Singerov, Dennis Carson, Brendan Wallace, and likely return to competition of Clint Freeman, are all expected on the men’s line. For the ladies Erika Annear, Fiona Hyde, Madeleine Ferris, Kellie Holmes and Marie Hulbert are all likely starters. On the recurve front, Olympians Sky Kim, Michael Naray, Jane Waller and Lexie Feeney will also be on hand plus other top age divisions competitors. *1 have had a number of requests to pass on to the Wilber Family sincerest condolences on the passing of Doreen. Her impact, not only as a great archer, but as a very special human being, obviously has touched many, not only in her own country, but worldwide. 20

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Dietmar Trillus On Top of the World The Canadian cabinet maker, with a mere couple of years of tournament experience and , at an age when most sportsmen are relaxing, to dwell on past glories, has once again established himself as the finest compounder in the FITA ranks with his win in the prestigious World Cup finals. This follows on from his unexpected victory in last year’s World FITA Target Championships in Germany. The background to the sudden rise of Dietmar Trillus, now 50 years young, has been well documented, mainly because it truly is one of those almost fairy tale like sporting achievements, which happen every so often. His double 358 FITA field rounds at his first attempt and 1400 plus target scores, including a subsequent world record of a perfect 360 with 32X’s at 30 meters, should have had the bells ringing for his more youthful and favored elite, leading into his Leipzig triumph. In my own preview for “US Archer”, 1 did in fact, parade these credentials, and in my report on the World event, again suggested that his success, while perhaps unexpected, could hardly be classified as a major upset. Now, as if to justify any doubters who might still remain unconvinced, his World Cup 2008 campaign, and his eventual gold medal victory in the finals, assuredly places the German born Canadian in the supreme upper echelon of the sport. It is, in fact, only less than a decade since Dietmar forsook his rifle hunting, to chance his arm with the compound bow, and his focus remained in the hunting arena, until his fellow archers at the local Caladon club, introduced him to 3D, at which he became a local legend. Supporting that club saw him introduced to the FITA disciplines, and the rest, as they say, is history. A cabinet maker, who admits to forfeiting jobs, which have clashed with major tournaments, his outlook on the sport is one of centered confidence in his capabilities, intense focus, and yet a sense of reality as regards archery as a fun activity, by attaching a rubber chicken to his scope tripod! Trillus is now part of the powerful Mathews shooting team, his bow a 60 pound Conquest Apex 7 with 65 percent let off, shot right handed, with an index finger, TRU Ball Short n’ Sweet S2 release and Axcel Sight Bar. His success has also brought focus to the Carbon Express Nano Pro shafts he uses, namely 450’s cut to 28 inches, with 110 grain points with Flex fletch vanes, Custom Arrow Wraps from the January-February 2009

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Netherlands and Gold Tip pin nocks. He utilizes a 6 power, dual lens, Specialty Archery scope with a hooded peep and clarifier, a standard Mathews Zebra Barracuda BCY string, a Spot-Hogg Infinity rest with an .008 blade, and Doinker front rod and short back rod stabilizer set up. The Canadian retains his avid desire to hunt, extending his Mathews to 70 pounds and shooting Carbon Express Maxima hunting shafts. His 899 at the year’s Vegas Indoor, including one 300, with 28 X’s, suggests his indoor capabilities are also considerable, and another trip to the World Archery Festival seem likely in 2009. Trillus has also added to the now growing number of elite compounders

who shoot an index finger release. The Russian women’s duo of Anna Kazantseva and Sofia Goncharova, the 2007 World Cup victor Jorge Jimenez of El Salvador, and European Champion Sebastien Brasseur are just a few, who, like the Canadian, have risen to the very highest level in the past couple of years, utilizing an index finger release. The 2009 World Cup series will now, almost certainly, be his next focus. For a man whose chances at the world titles were rated by some of the uninformed, as somewhere between ‘slim and hopeless”, Dietmar Trillus has risen to the very top of the pile, and 2009 may well amplify even further, his status as the finest compounder on the line.

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World Recurve Review by Roy Rose The results from the World Cup, World Championships, and now the Beijing Olympics, have amplified the perception that the Korean domination of the global scene, although still very much in evidence has

waned somewhat. Although team wise, due to their enormous depth of talent, the Koreans have maintained supremacy, their individual status has certainly been tarnished. This is due, more probably, to a rapidly increasing level of achievement by recurvers world wide, than to any downgrading of Korean excellence. For the first time in twelve years for example, a Korean woman is not the reigning world champion. In fact, the lady who won twelve years ago was the same archer, who broke the stranglehold in 2007 in Germany, namely Italy’s Natalia Valeeva. The domination of the Olympics since 1988 by the Korean women also came to an end, with the gold going to China’s Zhang. The 2008 World Cup once again went to a non Korean, Justyna Mospinek of Poland. There is little doubt that the Korean legend Sung Hyun Park, remains the archer most would consider the one to beat, and her record scores are sensational, but she has proved vulnerable there past two years, with not a single gold in the main individual championships. The Korean men who were once less reliable than their female counterparts in the major shoots, have fared somewhat better in the past couple of years, although their dominance, too, is under scrutiny. In Dong Hyun Im and Kyung-Mo Park, they certainly have the premier men’s recurvers, especially now that the Italian icon Michele Frangilli, has faded somewhat from the competition arena. Once again, however, the win by Viktor Ruban at the Olympics deprived the Koreans of an individual men’s gold medal, which surprisingly continues to elude them. To be fair, IM won at both the World Titles, and the 2008 World Cup finals, but on a tournament by tournament analysis, the Korean archers are

now under real pressure from a wide cross section of the world’s leading competition. That they can produce a virtually never ending string of world class shooters, both men and women, remains an obvious pact, but the rise of the Asian and European archers is now clearly a reality. Perhaps if the older, accumulated double FITA score method was still in vogue, then the Korean domination would remain in tact, but the introduction of the 12 arrow head to head matches, has certainly opened up the results to a wider cross section of shooters, and has seen the Koreans on a number of occasions, not as consistently competitive as in qualification. While the overall standard world wide has risen, creating more competition for the Koreans, some former leading nations have had a drop in results, particularly the USA and Australia. The perennial duo of Butch Johnson and Vic Wunderle are now well down the list of major contenders, and the youthful Brady Ellison, has only shown glimpses of medal rewarding scores. The Aussies too have lost the medal wining trio of Simon Fairweather, David Barnes and Tim Cuddihy, their top competition being ex-Korean, Sky Kim. In the ladies the USA relies on Jennifer Nichols and Khatuna Lorig but once again, they have only very occasionally made a podium. The Australian women recurvers are teenage duo Jane Waller and Lexie Feeney, as yet inexperienced in the senior ranks. Nation’s that have greatly elevated their world status in the past couple of years are India, China and Chinese Taipei while the Italians remain a formidable force even without the constant services of Frangilli. Great Britain too, has quality teams Wills, Terry and Godfrey in the men's all capable shooters at the top level. Russia, Scandinavia, and virtually all the European nations, now have men and women recurvers, with medal potential, even though, none of course, have anything like the depth Korea continues to produce. In 2009 the World Target Titles and the World Cup will throw further light on the present status of the World's best recurvers. Be certain the Koreans will be out to once again reinforce their claim to absolute elite status on the recurve stage.

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I can only draw this conclusion from the fact that clearly obvious World Cup final contenders, such as Cousins. Wilde and company, are not in attendance at each round of the event, and therefore may not accumulate enough points to make the finals. If these archers, and others like them, have to fund their own appearances, then it certainly detracts somewhat from the objectives of World Cup competition. The lady compounders are almost as tightly bunched at the top end, as the men, apart from the Americans. Italy has Salvi, a dual World Champion, Belgium, Willhems, Russia, the duo of Goncharova and Kavantseva, Sweden’s Ericsson and Denmark’s Soemod are regular contenders as are Croatia’s Budin, Britain’s Simpson and Finland’s Laurila. The 2009 World FITA Target Championship and the World Cup events will once again see the aforementioned archers to the fore, along with, undoubtedly some talented newcomers. 22

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World Compound Review by Roy Rose Unlike the recurve disciple, the compound scene has almost an innumerable array of world class performers, both men and women, and the accuracy being produced ensures that it is extremely difficult for any one competition to dominate for any extended period of time. Yes, there are the consistently brilliant elite, tried and proven over a number of years, men like Cousins, Freeman, Wilde, Lundin and women such as Van Natta, Goncharova, but along with them, are an ever growing band of equally talented archers, all capable, especially under head to head 12 arrow system, of medaling at the highest level. The contrast with the recurvers does not end there. Korea, for example, the leader in the recurve discipline, is virtually unrepresented in the compound ranks, while the other leading nations in the Olympic style. China, India, Chinese Taipei being three, is also yet to emerge. Only Italy of the very top recurve nations can boast an equally performing compound squad. Another interesting comparison between the disciplines is in relation to the USA and Australia. Both countries stocks in recurve are at a low ebb, but each is a major force in the compound division, the USA even more so, because of the strength of their female contingent. In Dave Cousins, Logan and Reo Wilde, and Braden Gellenthien, the USA has the strongest men’s team now competing, with perhaps another dozen or more, at least score wise, also in a similar league. If the leading indoor and field specialists such as Jesse Broadwater and Chance Beaubouef were to shoot the FITA ranks then the USA power base would be elevated even further, as heralded in the 2008 USA Nationals target. Jamie Van Natta, the world record holder and the World Cup Champion, has been the leading women’s achiever these past couple of years, and while her back up is not as numerous,

or as talented, as the men’s group, the USA still has class shooters in Jahna Davis and Erika Anschutz. Australia now struggling to match its recurve achievements of recent years, certainly has made its presence felt in the compound men’s class in particular. Clint Freeman remains a compound icon, and will return to major competition in 2009, while Pat Coghlan has emerged as a leading force throughout 2008 with numerous medal finishes in the World Cup, and a bronze me3dal in the finals. Robert Timms too has medaled in World Cup events and rounds out a very strong team. With the near perfect accuracy now in the command of top compounders, the depth of talent in Europe and Russia, and the Scandinavian countries is ever-growing. Every nation it seems, has a near 1400 shooter and the familiar names such as White, Lundin, Elzinga, Damsbo, Pagni and Sitar, are being constantly challenged by relatively new achievers, such as Brasseur, Grimwood and Hofer. The South American contingent also now presents a formidable challenge with Jimenez and Dos Santos leading the way. To the north, Canada has now also staked its claims with Dietmar Trillus the outstanding example, being the reigning world and World Cup Champion. Kevin Tataryn too, is a contender of real class. Sadly, it appears, some countries do not fund compound archers as they do their recurve counterparts. This would appear to restrict the presence of many top competitors from the on going World Cup stages.

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Aussie News The prestigious St George Rugby League Club in Sydney will be the host venue for the 2009 Australian Archery Hall of Fame inductions. On March 14, guests from all avenues of the archery r=ffatemity, will gather, for a banquet and the naming and induction of four legendary archery icons into the Hall of Fame. There will be entertainment, displays, prizes and of course, the reunion of many of the nations greatest achievers in the sport. A giant screen will feature past and present archers in a gallery of Greats which encumber all facets of the sport. The following day the Liverpool City Archers will conduct a special tournament, barbeque and get together and a terrific day is guaranteed. One of Australia’s leading archery retailers Eagle Archery in Brisbane, are the proud sponsors of the initial banquet, and Executive director Dawne Clark and hard working promotions and Marketing Director Ian Fenton are to be congratulated on the giant steps already under way to make the Hall of Fame and museum a huge success. The Father of Modem Bowhunting in Australia George Scott, and International bowhunter, author and guide, Bill Baker were the initial inductees in 2008, and their contributions to the Sport Down Under will be reiterated on March 14. Special mention is also in order of the hard initial groundwork being done by Secretary Margaret Nelson, Museum Director Aimee Deaves and Tournament and Historical Director Pat Wright. Also doing a super job in the area of finance and administration is Flocy Martir, and at the helm of all endeavors, the founder and ever resilient, Ian Fenton. With folks like these at the helm, the success of Australia’s Archery Hall of

Fame and Museum is guaranteed. The 2009 Australia Day weekend tournament is late January will once again be hosted by the Canberra Archery Club, in the national capital. With Australia’s best always in attendance, excellent prize money and trophies and the usually hospitable Canberra weather, this event is one of the highlights of 2009 Australian Archery Calendar. Returning to the tournament ranks after a break in 2008 will be former World Champion and World Record holder Clint Freeman, along with National Champion and World Cup bronze medalist Pat Coghlan. Also in the men’s compound field will be International World Cup and World title success stories the youthful Brendan Wallace and Rober Timms. Masters world record holder Dennis Carson, the ever competitive Zoran Singerov, the ageless veteran Leigh Cornish of Titan Scopes fame are also scheduled to appear. With at least another dozen 1350 plus compound shooters in the open division, the competition will be well worth watching. Equally close could be the class of the top lady compounders, Erika Anear, Kellie Holmes, Fioiva Hyde, Madeleine Ferris, Rachel Pye, Marie Hulbert and Hannah Anderson, all hoping to attend and renew their friendly rivalry. Australia’s Olympic recurvers also will be on hand with probably entries from Jane Waller and Lexie Feeney in the ladies and Sky Kim, Michael Naray and a possible return by Olympic bronze medalist Tim Cuddihy on the men’s line. With junior, masters and veteran classes plus the long bow division, a great tournament is assured. A full rundown of results, highlights and photos will be in the next edition.

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Indiana officials (L-R) David Paul, VP-FA01, Sec/ Treas-Northern Archery Association, Jason Lewis, Pres-FAOl, VP-Northern Archery Association, Lisa Lewis, Sec-FAOl, Richard Mowery, Bohning Archery Company, Kathy Fewless, Bohning Archery Company, Ray Wise, Pres-Northern Archery Association, VP-FA00, Pat Fleming, Treas-FAOl. The 2008 Northern Region Championship held in Rensselaer, Indiana at Iroquois Archery Club on July 19th and 20th was a huge success and already competitors are looking forward to the 2009 event. Despite a rain delay on Saturday morning, all competitors weathered the deluge with good humor and were able to complete the events with minimal inconvenience. This championship is a combination of many great things. It is the mixing of The Northern Championship, The Indiana State Championship, The Duel in the Cornfield and Eagles Cup Elimination Championship. This was started a few years back to ease the expense of going to multiple tournaments when the same round was shot for all of them. It has been a pleasant experience for people setting up the event, as you only have to do it once. In addition, on the subject of great combinations, this tournament combined the forces of 3 great archery organizations. Iroquois Archery Club, where the tournament was located, FITA Archers of Indiana, the tournament organizers, and the Northern Archery Association who oversaw the regional aspect of the competition. The 63 competitors shot a 2-day 70-meter format to compete respectively for Northern and Indiana titles. In addition, the revived Duel in the Cornfield, saw as fierce of competition between the competing states. The team of Lori Cieslinski, Holly Stover, Don Baxter and Jim Beasley from Michigan edged out the Ohio team of Don

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3. Ohio (L-R) Don Casteel, Diane Johnston, Erin Reynolds and Mike Stefanini

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STATE GENDER

STYLE

DIS

DAY1

DAY 2

TOTAL

HOBART MURPHY

MALE

CROSSBOW

70M

561

603

1164

ALAN ZOLLAR

MALE

CROSSBOW

70M

425

494

919

RANDALL HUFFMAN

MALE

OLYMPIC

MASTER 70+

70M

270

308

THOMAS DEBERRY

MALE

OLYMPIC

MASTER 70+

70M

258

306

564

JOE STEMEN

MALE

OLYMPIC

MASTER 60+

70M

531

466

997

TED LEMANSKI

MALE

COMPOUND

MASTER 60+

70M

641

642

1283

JIM KRUMEL

MALE

COMPOUND

MASTER 60+

70M

626

644

1270

MALE

MASTER COMPOUND 60+

70M

612

622

1234

70M

576

629

1205

MASTER 60+

70M

559

621

1180

70M

569

466

1135

ROD MILLER

DIVISION

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DOUGLAS LEVINE

MALE

MASTER COMPOUND 60+

DANIEL WILLIAMS

MALE

COMPOUND

MALE

OLYMPIC

MALE

OLYMPIC

MASTER 50+

70M

549

1098

OLYMPIC

MASTER 50+

70M

448

403

851

OLYMPIC

MASTER 50+

70M

367

455

822

70M

376

425

801

GABE QUEROL JEFFEREY WISEMAN

BILL CROFT GREG HEETER

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MASTER

DON CASTEEL

MALE

OLYMPIC

MASTER 50+

DON BAXTER

MALE

COMPOUND

MASTER 50+

70M

685

688

1373

MALE

MASTER COMPOUND 50+

70M

677

674

1351

MALE

MASTER COMPOUND 50+

70M

656

647

1303

MALE

MASTER COMPOUND 50+

70M

632

650

1282

70M

586

612

1198

70M

504

JIM BEASLEY

RAY WISE GARY GILMORE

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MALE

MASTER COMPOUND 50+

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JASON McKITTRICK

MALE

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SENIOR

70M

627

6441|

1271

BEN BAILY

MALE

SENIOR

70M

614

1228

JASON LEWIS

MALE

| OLYMPIC | OLYMPIC

SENIOR

70M

508

549|

1057

DENVER W1SCHMEIER IN

MALE

COMPOUND SENIOR

70M

695

702

1397

BRYAN LOVELY

MALE

COMPOUND SENIOR

70M

692

701

1393

JAMES BOTS

MALE

compound||senior

70M

666

683

1349

MATT HOPPER

MALE

COMPOUND SENIOR

70M

669

659

1328

NORMAN FOX

MALE

COMPOUND SENIOR

70M

667

659

1326

BRIAN THOMPSON

MALE

COMPOUND SENIOR

70M

655

663

1318

MIKE STEFANIAI

MALE

COMPOUND SENIOR

70M

657

660

1317

BRIAN PRZYSLECKI

MALE

COMPOUND SENIOR

70M

657

659

1316

ART KITCHELL

MALE

COMPOUND SENIOR

70M

638

626

1264

JOE MARLEY

MALE

compoundHsenior

70M

598

631

1229

STEVE ZOLLAR

MALE

COMPOUND SENIOR

70M

543

539

1082

DANI SCHULTETI

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666

669

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FEMALE COMPOUND SENIOR

661

668

1329

MAXINE BOTS

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FEMALE COMPOUND SENIOR

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1 1

1335

DIANE JOHNSTON

664

655|

1319

JULIE KITCHELL

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648

638|

1286

LISA LEWIS

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TOTAL

DIS

SENIOR

70M

598

605

1203

ERIN REYNOLDS

FEMALE OLYMPIC

SENIOR

70M

380

450

830

HOLLY STOVER

FEMALE OLYMPIC

JUNIOR

70M ||

458

480

938

raija McIntyre

FEMALE OLYMPIC

JUNIOR

70M |

303

227

530

LISA REPPENHAGEN

FEMALE |COMPOUND|IjUNIOR

70M

609

613

12221

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DIVISION

LORI CIESLINSKI

DAY 1

JOSH LANNING

MALE

COMPOUND JUNIOR

70M

648

670

1318

ALEX WIFLER

MALE

COMPOUND JUNIOR

70M

623

635

1258

JUSTIN WANGEMAN

MALE

COMPOUND||JUNIOR

70M

616

620

1236

ROBERT ZOLLAR

MALE

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70M

591

614

1205

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Casteel, Diane Johnston, Erin Reynolds and Mike Stefanini, for Runner-up Champions. The Indiana team defended their title from the previous year with an awesome performance from all 4 archers. They were Jason McKittrick, Ben Baily, Bryan Lovely and Denver Wischmeier. Individually, the compounders, men and women, turned in brilliant performances, and it went right down to the last arrow to decide 1st and 2nd in both their respective divisions. Denver Wischmeier, edged out Bryan Lovely by just 4 points and Dani Schulteti, held off Diane Johnston by only 6 points. In the recurves, top shooters Jason McKittrick and Lori Cieslinski, turned in outstanding performances to win easily in their respective divisions. The Eagles Cup championship ran late, but was able to finish well before darkness set in and the finishers in those respective divisions were: Compound 1. Denver Wischmeier 2. Bryan Lovely 3. Jim Beasley Recurve 1. Ben Baily 2. Gabe Querol 3. Jason Lewis On Saturday night, the great people from Iroquois hosted a low cost, fabulous, all u can eat BBQ, that everyone is still talking about and looking forward to next year.

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AAE Arizona Cup celebrates its 20th year January, 2009 Phoenix, Arizona The AAE Arizona Cup will celebrate twenty years as a national and international tournament on April 8-12, 2009. The tournament is a perennial USA Archery Team (USAT) qualifying tournament. It is also COPARCO (Continental Pan American Congress) nominated FITA (International Archery Federation) World Ranking Tournament. As a USAT qualifier, the AAE AZ Cup is the first of a series of USAT qualifying star FITA outdoor tourneys including the Texas Shootout in late April and the Gold Cup in New Jersey in late May. The USAT season ends in August with the National Target Championship in August in Colorado Springs, CO. “The best thing about the tourney is that USA archers can complete internationally for world ranking without leaving the country” Bob Pian, AAE AZ Cup Tournament Director. “On average about 200 archers from 7 countries compete every year.” With AAE Cavalier USA title sponsorship, the tournament offers prize money for the individual championship round and the open team round. The format alternates from year to year. For ‘09 the tourney is a four distance outdoor FITA followed by an individual 70 meter elimination championship round. National and Open Tearm rounds are also offered. The tournament is open to all FITA style

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compound and recurve men and women. The tourney also attracts its fair share of USAA College Archery Program (CAP) archers preparing for the USAA CAP US Intercollegiate Archery Championships (USIACs). The tournament takes place at the Ben Avery FITA Range in Phoenix, Arizona and was the site of the USAA 08 Olympic Trials Finals. The size of the range and Open team rounds, archers have an average of only international judge staff 20 seconds per arrow to shoot including time to allows all the competitors rotate three archers to andfrom the shooting line. to compete during one shooting time. For more information and “The archers often tell us that they like coming to the AZ Cup as the first to register for the tournament, national outdoor tourney of the season. www.arizonacup.com. Archers are able to catch up with each visit other between ends. And it doesn’t hurt The tournament is hosted by to be in a major metropolitan area where the Arizona State Archery there is also a lot to do away from the range. We have received several inquires Association with support from from Europe this year. For Europeans, USA Archery, COPARCO and the strength of the Euro makes coming to FITA. sunny Arizona a great place to train and compete.”

A champagne toast in the winner’s circle for (L-R) Tom Crowe, Lana Lynde, Lynn Walter, Jamie Van Natta, Steve Wagner and Randy Brabec.

Jamie VanNatta of Ohio, owns the Big Sky Open — both tournaments! Jamie’s first Big Sky was Mesquite in 2006. Al Schuster of Specialty Archery Products was bursting at the seams to introduce their latest staff shooter to the Big Sky Open and made it clear that she was not only a great shot, but was unbeatable as well! O-o-okay! So we waited and we watched and sure enough, she was impressionable, but not as much as now. Sit up and take notice! The Big Sky Open tournaments have never had a women's five-time, back-to-back winner of both until Hoyt Pro VanNatta! Each tournament has its own records and when Jamie participated in the first Mesquite tournament, she set a record with an 1143 on the colored targets. In 2007 at the Grand Junction Big Sky, she managed to shoot one-point over Erika Anschutz to set and break Michelle Ragsdale's 2002 record of 1130, with her own score of 1153. With only four weeks before the tournament, the city of Mesquite decided to change the shooting site from the baseball diamond to their new soccerfield complex. The move created a mound of confusion

and uncertainty clear to the time of the tournament. So with great anxiety and a ton of paperwork to try and notify archers of the change, the Big Sky tournament was on. So much for all the preparation! The new site however was a surprisingly beautiful location. The archers did not seem to be inconvenienced in any manner and voiced their opinion that we should hold it at the soccer field instead of returning to the ball field, next year. Hopefully, we will be able to secure this location again. Friday is the first clay pigeon event and is designed to give archers a warm up with competition. So what do you do when an archery tournament falls on Halloween? You do as the witches and goblins do - give out Halloween trick or treats, dress-up and hold a contest! No, not who gets the most candy, but who has the best face paint..... After all, archers can’t compete in bulky clothing and when you are shooting for money, you want to win! We did lure a few witches and vampires that couldn’t wait to show off their new makeup, but most wanted to just see what others did. Tom Crowe was in the mood

and amazed everyone with his “Tony the Tiger” face paint. It was so good, no one recognized him. If Mrs. Crowe had been there, even she would not have recognized her husband! Likewise, our referee, Mike McDonald played the game and arrived at the field to call arrows, sprayed with orange paint and a fake arrow on each side of his chest. Some had a great time kidding “Mr. Pumpkin Head” that his breathing was shallow. Shouldn't he remove that arrow? Didn’t anyone offer to take him to the hospital? It was probably a good thing, as the nurses would have just given him more candy for such a cute costume! So in spite of Halloween, Trick or Treating, or the casinos of Mesquite, 21 teams signed up to bust clay pigeons during the “GoForlt” event. The luck of the draw gave Don Snipes and Derrick Poet the opportunity to become teammates and they won the Championship Division with a total score of 91 for $140 over teams Gillingham & Brabec and Harbaugh & Wilson. Snipes was in good shooting form by scoring two-points off perfect with the highest score for the evening.

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Winners of the Championship/FIight were Tony Harbaugh and Amber Christensen for $160 over Wilson & B. Christensen and Gillingham & T. Mansfield. Winners of the Flights were Benton Christensen and Leroy Brown for $144 over team T. Mansfield & A. Christensen. Incidentally, Tom Crowe was voted first for his “Tony the Tiger” face paint and won $25. “Pumpkin Head” McDonald was second. Thanks guys, for making the Team Event on Halloween just a bit more interesting! Goodbye Halloween, Hello Saturday. No candy hangover is worth missing out on the chance to compete in an archery tournament! So to the sound of three little girls saying the Pledge of Allegiance, the third annual Big Sky Open - Mesquite was under way. The day was gorgeous and for those who have already experienced a lot of cold weather, the warm air and sunshine was a gift! Not so for the wind, as it was more than the archers wanted during competition. Like a broken record, someone was chanting, “Nothing can go wrong, nothing can wrong, nothing can go wrong...!” Dave Cousins of Maine had clearly had enough in placing second and third in the last three Big Sky’s he’s attended. 2001 and 2002 belonged to Dave, but he didn’t return until 2007 when he tried to regain his title. He started out with a six-point lead over Roger Hoyle (UT) and Reo Wilde (ID) and eight over Kevin Wilkey (UT) and Tim Gillingham (UT). The scores were close from second on down, but Cousins, a seasoned Hoyt Pro, was planning on making 2008 his year for archery, beginning with the Las Vegas Open in February all the way to end of the season in Mesquite. There was just one more day to go! In other divisions, Dwight Snodgrass (NV), Sr. FS Men, was leading Sid Carlson

(ID) and Tom Crowe (OR). Bret Moran (AZ) posted a higher score than Steve Wagner (CA) and Judd Wathen (UT) in the Mens FSBH competition. Wind or no wind, and there was wind — Cousins, VanNatta and Brabec shot their best single scores ever on Saturday’s colored targets. (See results) Jamie VanNatta and Randy Brabec had extreme leading scores over their competition on the first day. Brian Bowers (CO) and Kris Weaver (UT) posted the highest scores in the Flights on Saturday and Henry Bass (UT) was leading the Amateurs with a 537. Twenty teams signed up for the second “GoForlt” rounds on Saturday. Joining the “Perfect 50” club was Andrew Wilson, Tim Gillingham and Josh Schaff! They made hitting the clay pigeons look easy and their team members very happy! Gillingham & Wilson won the Championship Division with a total score of 97 (Gillingham shot the 50) while Schaff & Snodgrass came in second with a 94 (Schaff scored the 50). Team Wilson & A. Christiansen won the Champion/ Flights with a total score of 89 (Wilson shot a 50). Remember that ‘broken record’? A storm was rolling in from somewhere making the day pretty fierce! Oh the sun was shining, but Mother Nature was playing games with the archers and decided to see what they were really made of. The test was to see if each would pass or buckle under the pressure of the tremendous wind she was stirring up. The desert hills to the west and the open area going east made a vacuum of air disturbance and created one of the worst wind storms since holding the tournament in Orem, Utah in 1980. Come to think of it, Orem was really worse than Mesquite as we didn't have to chase the scoreboards down the line and over the

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Continued front page 31, Mansfield put it. “1 paid to shoot and I wasn’t about to quit! So my only option was to do my best and finish the tournament!” The first flight of ladies all agreed to quit after the first half creating a new rule for future Big Sky Opens. In the Men FS Championship, Cousins had a mind set and wasn’t about to give in as well as most of his competition. The scores were not the best, but determination and focus is what makes a champion when the chips are down. Dave Cousins persevered and won over everyone with the highest score posted - an 1146. Tim Gillingham worked his way from 4'h to 2nd; and Josh Schaff came in 3,J all the way from 6"*. Jamie VanNatta, Randy Brabec, Lana Lynde and Lynn Walter all stayed in first. Two Divisions with over-turns came from the Men Sr. Championship Division with Tom Crowe ousting Dwight Snodgrass and Steve Wagner (CA) taking first away from Bret Moran in the Men BHFS Division. The fun part of the tournament is giving the money away! Cousins had to make an early dash for the airport, so Dave missed the champagne and pictures that take place in the winners circle after the final round of competition. The champagne used to be a part of the Big Sky Open many years ago, hence the reason for the Championship glasses. Jamie VanNatta kept looking at the bottle of bubbly and commented, “I have to drive back to the airport. I can’t celebrate with the others.” However, she agreed to open the champagne and pour for everyone, all the while muttering to herself, “Darn, that brand is really my most favorite!" Finally, not being able to stand it any longer, she took a couple of sips in honor of all the Champions. When it was time to leave, she confiscated the last bottle! “This is for my wedding", she offered and she was gone. Jamie will have a different last name when Vegas rolls around, but she will more than likely still be unbeatable! What 2009 will hold in store for Jamie is anyone’s guess and could make for a very interesting year for her and the pro women in archery. So here’s to all the Champions, cheers and congratulations! And to Jamie and her husband - many, many years of happiness! Thank you so much to our sponsors: Sportsman’s Warehouse/UT; Hoyt/Ut; Martin Archery/WA; Winner’s Choice Custom Bowstrings/OR; Alpine Archery/ID; Specialty Archery Products/IA; Jake’s Archery/UT; Gold Tip, Inc./UT and VS Archer magazine/AZ. Thank you to those who helped with bale ads: Sure-Loc Archery Products/IN; Carter’s Enterprises/ID; BCY, Inc/CT; Red Rock Archery/CO; Pick’s Roll-Off, Inc./UT; Necaise & Son Masonry/UT; Oasis Gun Club/NV; and PlayOffs/NV. Thanks to our Signature Club, the Grand Mesa Bowmen for their support. The Big Sky Open is very proud of our Sponsors and Bale Advertisers; without their help, this tournament could not be possible. Each and everyone are interested in your future in archery, please be interested in their business or company, check out their products and be their customer. We’re all here to help each other and the sport of archery. The Big Sky Open - Grand Junction has been changed to June 5, 6 and 7, 2009 to avoid a conflict with one of the NFAA’s scheduled tournaments, but Mesquite will again be held October 30, 31, November 1, 2009. Registrations, results, dates, locations, hotel reservations are all on our website: www.biskvarchervopen.com. See you in the Nov Year!

Bowhunting first introduced me to Archery in 1980. I quickly took a liking to the sport and soon after explored target archery. The competition influenced me to pursue it even further, before I know it I began competing around The real Tom Crowe the world as a Professional Archer in 1990. Professional Archery has taken me all over the U.S. as well as 13 foreign countries. Both my national and international rec ognition has been enhanced by numerous interviews including #ESPN, local TV, radio, newspapers and various magazines. The first seven years of my career as a professional archer had been devoted to target archery. Then in 1997 I encountered the very exciting and competitive professional 3-D circuit. This then lead me to all the National ASA, IBO, NABH and NFAA 3-D tournaments all over the United States since then. My twenty-nine years in archery have been more than hunt ing, travel, interviews and competition. 1985-1990 Archery Sales Rep: McPherson Archery, Ben Pearson Archery, Muzzy Broad heads and many other archery manufacturers of accessories. 1990-1994 Archery equipment salesman at Archer's Afield Pro Shop, Tigard, Oregon. 1987-present local and international ar chery coaching. 1990-1997 PSE Pro Staff. 1998-Present Mathews Pro Staff. 1 plan to continue being a top competitor in 2009 and doing what 1 enjoy. I want to thank Archers Afield, Jim and Mike Kneeland, of Tigard, Oregon for being lone time friends and sponsors. Also, I would like to thank Curt Mendenhall of Curt’s Archery, Sutherlin, Oregon for the use of his indoor archery range. Curt’s Archery, 1078 S. Calapooia St., Sutherlin, OR 97479, (541) 4599127. My sponsors are as follows: Mathews Inc. 11 years, Tru-Ball Inc. 11 years, Muzzy Products Corp. 24 years, Leupold Optics 4 years, Easton Technical 29 years, Precision Designed Products 12 years, STS 4 years, Du ra Vanes 3 years, Brownell Bowstring Material 3 years, OpticLogic Rangefinders 4 years, Quality Archery Designs 2 years, Doinker Stabilizers 2 years, Hunter Safety Systems 3 years and C’Mere Deer 1 year

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graduated from High School (yes, 1 am that old!), a friend told my brother-in-law who had quit a good job in Washington, D.C., “I can’t even buy a job round here, and here you are quitting yours.” Times were very hard then. Vietnam loomed on the horizon. I bummed a ride to Lexington, Kentucky in the fall of 1961. After I got there, I walked all over the newly developed industrial area being formed off bypass 4 trying to get hired—all this to no avail. I caught a ride with a stranger back to Berea, where I spent the balance of the afternoon watching the New York Yankees whip the pants off my Cincinnati Reds in the opening game of the 1961 World Series. If things couldn’t have been bad enough, the Yankees swept that series, 4-0. The point of all this: God brought me through the tough times in the 60’s, again in the 80 s, and I’m confident he will continue to care for me through all this! The palmist says it best where tough

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was decided that a practice facility was our number one need. We had to share gym time at school with volleyball, basketball, and cheerleading making it difficult to have regular practice times. A plan was drawn up and bids were taken to build the sixty by forty foot metal building. The idea was for the Fish and Game Club to purchase materials and members to volunteer labor to construct the building adjacent to the existing club house. Construction got under way in the early summer of 2007 and each weekend members volunteered their time and money to do Coach Doug Batten keeping a watchful something for the youth of their community. As practice time eye on team members. drew near members often worked late into the night to have the On October 23rd Adairville Archery held a long awaited building open for that first practice. We still have a few details to practice; it was the first practice in their new archery building. finish but we hold practice twice a week and the building is open The newly constructed building measures sixty by forty and still other days for anyone who wants to come by for extra practice. Jennie Richardson, Director of Kentucky NASP, conducted had saw dust on the floor and a few extra boards stacked neatly in the comer. Coaches, parents, and team members didn’t seem to a coach’s clinic in the new facility in late October, and was amazed at what we had accomplished in only our second year mind as the first arrows found their mark. Adairville a small town of approximately eight-hundred as a NASP member. Jennie believes this may the first building people sitting on the Kentucky-Tennessee border is home to constructed by a Kentucky NASP community specifically for Adairville School a K-8 facility of 325 students. In the spring archery practice. The building sits on several acres of land owned by the Fish and Game Club that of 2006 local resident Nanette also includes a small lake that Starks-King called Assistant is stocked with bass, blue gill Principal Steve Stratton, to and crappie. The building and suggest that Adairville School surrounding grounds is an asset adopt the NASP program in the to the community as well as the school. After reading about the Adairville Archery program. The program on the NASP website youth of the community have an and talking to other local opportunity to enjoy numerous schools that had the program outdoor activities throughout the it was decided to adopt the year. In July The Logan/Todd program. It took only one week County Long Beards Association to receive enough donations an affiliate of the National from the community to purchase Wild Turkey Association, in the equipment necessary to start conjunction with the Fish and the program. Game Club conducted their As a small group of parents, first JAKES Day event on the coaches, and students began the grounds of the club. Students program that summer we had no had an opportunity to participate idea what a great year we were in many events including, turkey Coach Chad Campbell and his son Jacob in for or where Archery would calling, fishing, skeet shooting, B getting an early start in Archery take us. We placed two students in B guns for the younger students to our first tournament at Lewisburg who had won the Kentucky state tournament the year before, target shoot and of course Archery. This has been a community wide effort to help the youth of shot in Henderson County who has multiple state and national tournament wins, visited Trigg County another state and national the area learn a sport that they can participate in throughout their winner, and hosted our first Adairville Classic in late February. lives. To have a place where caring adults gather to act as role Each tournament our scores went up, each place we visited coaches and parents gave our kids encouragement, coaches from other schools helped our archers just like they would their own students, each tournament we gained confidence that we could win. At our first regional tournament we placed third to say we were excited would be an understatement, Trigg County won and Lewisburg came in second. We felt honored to just make it to the state tournament. From there we went on to finish in the top twenty at the state tournament, and in the top twenty-five at the National Tournament. Truly a remarkable year for a group of students who for the most part had never shot a bow before beginning practice that summer. One of our main sponsors from the beginning has been the Adairville Fish and Game Club a local group of sportsman and community members. When they asked what we needed most it A view of the club house and the new Archery addition 36

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Update on the Archery Shooter’s Association by Brian Dansby

The Archery Shooters Association (ASA) is throwing out a dare. For years there has been a faction of archers that claimed they did not compete in 3D archery because they couldn't compete with the upper level shooters who “had a yardage judging system.” Those that regularly shoot 3D realize there is a “System" and it is called hard work and yes the top tier archers have worked very hard at judging yardage for unknown distance shoots and yes they are very good at it. But beginning in 2009 the ASA is throwing out two open, upper level known distance classes, Known 50, named for

Both men and women have a great time at the ASA events. the maximum yardage and Known 45. Known 45 is for amateurs and Known 50 is for anyone that has shot or shoots Semipro or above in ASA or another archery organization. The hope is that the ASA will bring in the shooters that used to shoot 3D but no longer have the time to put into working on judging yardage and the shooters that shoot events like the NFAA’s Vegas shoot or other known distance events but do not participate in unknown yardage events. “There are a lot of guys I’ve known over the years who get to a certain point and they are good shooters and they understand how the game is played but they recognize the fact that they are never going to progress to that next level because they don’t have the time,” ASA President Mike Tyrell said, “That is what precipitated it the most... these guys are there, they are out there waiting to come shoot an event and want to compete but they just didn’t have a home anymore.” “Out of the 200 guys that shoot Compound Unlimited Men in Vegas we probably have less than 30% duplication,” Tyrell said. “If we can pick up 100 known distance guys per tournament and we see that kind of increase that is a nice little bump.” ASA has not been afraid of change as they showed by introducing known distance into the formerly unknown distance sport of 3D in 2007. For the previous two ASA Pro/Am Tour seasons Novice and Women’s Bowhunter have been shooting known distance for both days of competition. These classes compete at a maximum of 30 yards and are considered beginning level classes. Several other 40 40

yard classes shoot half unknown yardage and half known. The results of ASA’s tinkering has been growth when many sporting organizations including archery organizations are experiencing a down trend. “ASA went up by 5% in terms of participation last year,” Tyrell said. “We had 3,238 different people competing throughout the seven tournaments we put on. And each event we put on was up on average of about 5%. Every tournament we put on this year had over 1,000 shooters at it. Every tournament was up by 30 shooters or more.” The Known 45 and 50 are a result of a collaboration between ASA and its title sponsor Mckenzie Targets. “We were looking at the numbers and looking at the areas of growth and we noticed that the known distance classes have been growing and the unknown distance classes were somewhat stagnant,” Tyrell said. Laverne Woock, president of Delta Sports Products, the owner of McKenzie targets made an offer to ASA to put up a bonus for the Known 50 class. Before any entry fees are added in McKenzie is offering $1,000.00 for first place, $750.00 for second and $500.00 for third. “The game has been in need of some change to spur growth,” Jen Kresser National Sales and Marketing Manager of Delta Sports Products said. “We have seen some positive impact from the known distance that we have tried in the other classes and we honestly believe that in this day and age there are more and more folks who because of limitations on time and all

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A couple of long shots at deer on the ASA ranges. those issues that they are born with a range finder in their hands to hunt with. The prospect of learning to judge yardage is almost a distraction from the game in a lot of aspects.” “We have seen some great results on the beginning level classes of ASA and we think that by adding the known 45 and known 50 that we just expand our opportunities to bring more people to play the game.” Here is how the ASA known distance game will work. The normal forty target event will remain the same as other classes. There will be two shotgun starts and the ASA will have a range K for known at the season opening Delta Targets Pro/Am to be held in Gainesville, Florida January 30 through February 1, 2009. If that range is filled to capacity archers will share ranges with unknown yardage division such as Semi-Pro or Open A. For that reason yardage sheets will not be given out. Shooters will be required to bring their range finders. “I don’t want to have pieces of paper with numbers on them,” Tyrell said. “That would kind of violate a bunch of standards we don’t want to cross.” The only arrow restriction is the normal ASA restriction of 27XX outside diameter. The ASA will be doing surveys on arrow damage to targets to see if further restrictions need to be made. The ASA is hoping new archers will take the dare and come join the class act that is the ASA Pro/Am tour. “We are hoping we don’t just categorically move guys over from the pro class to this class,” Tyrell said. “It really wouldn’t be in our best interest to just shuffle the deck chairs if you will. What we are hoping to do is say this is a new class for new shooters coming into the program.”

Delta Sports Products By Brian Dansby Delta Sports Products the parent company of McKenzie Targets the official target supplier of the ASA Pro/Am tour had a major fire at its manufacturing headquarters in August 2008. In mid-November we spoke with Jen Kresser National Sales and Marketing Manager of Delta Sports Products about the health of Delta/McKenzie. Her are her exact quotes from that discussion. “Actually we took a phone call, we had just come from the regional director meeting that Mike has every year at the Classic Championship. As we were driving home from that is when we received a call that we had an issue with the building. Laverne flew home right away to see the extent of the damage. It ended up that we are now looking for a new home basically. We have gotten pretty far in that problem in trying to finalize on a building. We hope to be moving here in the next couple of weeks. Repairing and rebuilding molds as quickly as we can. Our expectation is that we will have no issues provided the twenty ASA McKenzie targets that they use by January. We should be in full production on those twenty models and have no issues. As far as orders that were impacted for 2008 we had an inventory of product in an off site warehouse that got us through the heaviest part of the year, the August shipping month. Our ability to produce targets right now today has entirely been compromised. We just don’t have a home to produce those in. In about two weeks we will be able to move and start producing again and we expect that by April we should have about 80% of target production back in operation. Within a year we will be almost 100% again. We will be about nine miles form the old factory site. Closer to some of our homes.”

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The Importance of Draw Length to Correct Form In my opinion, this is where most of the archers first start down the road to disaster. Unfortunately, not much has been written about the methods and importance of finding the correct draw length and its relationship to accuracy. It remains one of the unspoken mysteries of correct archery form. At least we now have a standard definition. It is defined by the Archery Manufacturers and Merchants Organization (AMO), now called Archery Trade Association (ATA) as — the distance, at full draw, from the nocking point to the pivot point (or most forward point) of the grip plus P/i inches.

“All elements of good form can be seen in this photo - the archer is erect with his body slightly open to the target because of an open stance. His bow shoulder is low, locked, but relaxed. His grip is low and relaxed and his draw forearm is above the line of the arrow.”

Methods of Measuring Draw Length

In the past, there have been many methods designed to determine proper draw length. Pro shops have “draw arrows” attached to ten pound fiberglass recurve bows. The customer draws it back and, without formal instruction on where to draw it to, their draw length is determined. This frequently results in a draw length that is much too long, because the customer can and will push the bow arm out as far as possible, lean back, and draw the string almost back to their ear. Another method is to stand straight up, put your fist on the wall and measure from the wall to the corner of your mouth. Unfortunately, this is not accurate either because there are numerous variations on how much the shoulder is rolled, whether the head is upright, whether you are leaning back or forward, or whether you are standing with a straight stance, or an open stance. Draw lengths measured these ways can vary by as much as six inches. Gordon Composites, BCY and National Bowhunter want to remind you of the Bowhunters Hall of Fame inductions of Ted Nugent and Larry Jones on Friday night February 6 at the top of the Riveria. See you there!

to form and execution. The following is a formula I created that will determine correct draw length for about 95% of the archery population.

Without instruction on proper posture, you will probably end up with the wrong draw length. A third method (passed down through the years by recurve shooters) is to put a yardstick end in the middle of your chest and stretch your arms up both sides of the stick as far as possible. Where the fingertips meet on the stick, is supposed to be your proper draw. There again, depending on exactly where you place the yardstick on your chest, the measurement could vary by several inches. In the eleven plus years I’ve been teaching our Shooter’s School, we have had plenty of experience in determining draw length. Of over 2,100 students, 1 would guess that only 250 students had correct draw length. Maybe 90-100 had too short of a draw, which leaves a whopping 1750 students whose draws were too long. This is a critical observation because, in my opinion, draw length is tied directly 44

“All the elements of bad form can be seen in this photograph - the archer is leaning back. His bow shoulder is high, rolled and tense. His grip is high and tense and his draw forearm is below the line of the arrow Notice how “stretched out” he is. This kind of bad form is generated by a draw length that is too long.” Defining Proper Form

First of all, the correct draw length will only be valid for archers using proper form. So, what is proper form?

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The archer should be standing straight up, not leaning back, with his aiming eye directly over his belt buckle or navel. • The stance should be preferably slightly open (slightly facing the target 15-20 degrees or so) or square (toeing a line that points to the target) and the feet should be should-width apart. • The bow shoulder should be low, locked, but relaxed in the shoulder joint, as opposed to extended, tense, and/or rolled. • The grip on the bow should be in “the low wrist position,” (in most cases) with the pressure of the bow handle on the base of the thumb and on the thumb side of the lifeline of the hand (lifeline should be vertical 12 o’clock - 6 o’clock). • The string should touch the tip of the nose at full draw (shooters who wear glasses will probably find it necessary to put the string on the side of their nose). • The tip of the draw elbow should be at least as high as the nose and the crease of the elbow is on the same level with, or above, the line of the arrow at full draw. This is what 1 call “bone-to-bone” form (see photo). It furnishes a solid base of support and eliminates as many muscles as possible, thus minimizing sight •

movement at full draw. This creates the most stable shooting platform for most compound archers (and the majority of recurve shooters, too), regardless of their muscularity.

For every inch of “wingspan” over or under 71” add or subtract a 14” from 28” of AMO draw, respectively. An easy to remember variation of my formula is: wingspan minus 15” divided by 2. For

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example, 71” - 15” = 56” divided by 2 = 28”.

Understanding that this is the form that we are looking for, we can now use the following formula to calculate draw length. The archer should stand with his or her back to a wall, with arms stretched out as far as possible at shoulder height with his palms facing out (as in photo). We are measuring “wingspan.” Measure from tip of the middle finger of one hand to the tip of the middle finger of the other. (No long fingernails!) Here is a partial chart that you can use to determine correct draw length. I developed this system in 1996 and use it in the shooter’s school. You can complete your own chart based on the following measurements: 69 inches AMO draw 70 inches AMO draw 71 inches AMO draw 72 inches AMO draw 73 inches AMO draw

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These formulas work for about 95% of all archers. However, there are exceptions to this, such as people with shoulder or elbow problems, or people with abnormally long or short fingers or hands. When using my formula, the important thing you need to be aware of is, if the fingers or hands are not normal length, you will have to add or subtract a half inch or so on each hand to make up the difference. For example, if you have short stubby fingers, you might have to add approximately !4” to each hand to get a more correct draw length measurement. People with extra long hands and fingers do the opposite. This formula should get you within !4” to !4” of your correct draw length. Sometimes, compensation for long or short fingers will have to be made. And, if you shoot with a high wrist grip, you will probably have to add up to 1” to the final AMO draw length.

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Side Effects of a Draw Length That is Too Long

Since hardly anyone has too short of a draw length (1% maybe), let’s look at the consequences of having it too long. If your draw length is too long, your draw elbow will drop down, and instead of maintaining control of the shot with your back muscles, the control will end up in the top of your shoulder and you can’t contract those muscles and get your elbow to move (see photos). Also, as a result of your elbow being down, frequently your draw wrist will be bent which causes excessive string oscillation and causes left and right misses.

“A high elbow will help you use the rhomboids as the pivot point.”

“Stretching across a tape measure against a wall will measure your “wingspan.” This shooter has a wingspan of 77”. He is 6'4” or 76” tall. Normally your height is very close to your wingspan.”

“A low elbow will cause you to have your pivot point too high above the rhomboids.” “Normal hand (center) - no correction. Short fingers add ‘A” to 1” (per hand) and deduct /” to 1” for long fingers.”

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www.doinkGr.com The correct draw length will get your elbow in a position the sight picture “being perfect,” your mind signals your release high enough to allow your back muscles to be able to move the finger to punch the trigger (or your fingers to release the string), tip of the elbow when you contract them on the draw side. These thereby causing you to anticipate “the explosion.” On the other muscles are called the rhomboid muscles, which are located hand, if the draw length is correct, the shoulder will be relaxed and the sight picture will be much steadier. Also, the mind is between the shoulder blades and under the trapezius. Excessive draw length usually causes you to fully extend your much calmer because the anxiety to get rid of the arrow before bow arm, which in turn causes right handed archers to pre-load the sight picture deteriorates is greatly reduced, or sometimes and/or push the bow to the left, causing left arrows. Since the disappears altogether. If the shoulder is down and relaxed into shoulder is a “ball joint” and the arm is already fully extended, the shoulder socket, the bow is being held mainly with bone there is no “slack" in the shoulder unit. The bow has nowhere against bone, instead of relying on muscle tone. else to go but to the left upon release. Also, most archers will If you build your form around the skeletal system instead of have a very difficult time keeping the sight from shaking with a muscles, you will fully extended arm. The deltoid muscles surrounding the top of find that even on the shoulder will be tense while holding the arm in this position, tournament day, and tension causes movement. Correct draw length will help your sight will be you place your bow shoulder in a low and relaxed position in the much steadier. This shoulder joint (bone to bone). is because when you Excessive draw length will sometimes cause you to throw become nervous your front hip toward the target and lean back with the upper (afraid you’ll miss) body (especially if you shoot with your feet close together) and that shaky feeling sometimes tuck your head into the string. It is nearly impossible and the “butterflies” to duplicate these angles each and every time, especially if you (anxiety) in your are shooting up and down hills. This can make your shooting stomach causes form very inconsistent. Correct draw length will keep you from the release of leaning back. Feet should be shoulder width apart and the feet, “Ifyou had to lean against a wallfor adrenaline into hips, and shoulders should line up, one above the other. Your bloodstream. aiming eye should be over the belt buckle and the buttons on thirty minutes, you'dfigure out how to your Adrenaline has no your shirt should run straight down when looking at the side find this relaxed shoulder position! ” effect on bone, but it profile. sure does on muscles! The worst “chain reaction” result of too long of a draw When adrenaline length can be very debilitating. The deltoid muscle in your bow shoulder becomes the “pivot point” and the primary muscle enters the system of a muscle-based shooter, their sight picture holding the weight and controlling the direction of the bow. If will deteriorate a lot faster than a bone-to-bone based archer, you engage the deltoid muscle, this causes tension in your bow who will have less extremes in their shooting performance. arm, thus causing movement of the sight. Because your sight Therefore, they will have less of a difference in scores on a moves, you will try to stop it by using more muscles and/or “good day” versus a “bad day." Don’t be afraid to shorten your holding longer. The longer you hold, the more the sight picture deteriorates and more muscle tension and anxiety builds. In an Continued on page 48, effort to control the exact millisecond of release to coincide with January-February 2009

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The School of Advanced Archery & Instructor Certification a.k.a. “A Weekend at Bernie’s” is scheduling well into 2009. Interested shooters should go after your pro shop owners or club presidents and book a Shooter’s School near you! Remember, the host shop or club receives 10% and the contact person attends for free. The Shooter’s School also offers certification through the NFAA. For more information about attending or hosting a school, go to www.robinhoodvideos.com.

Continued from page 47, draw length because you may lose six or eight feet per second of arrow speed. You will lose ten times as many points because you can’t relax and hold steady than you will gain with a “speed burner” setup that you can’t control. Warning! It is not easy for some people to find the “down, back but relaxed” shoulder position without proper instruction (although it should be), especially if you have been shooting with a high shoulder for a long time. (I’m told the Korean Olympic archers spend up to three months perfecting the shoulder position and other elements of good shooting form, before even picking up a bow!) The trick is to raise the bow arm without raising the bow shoulder. If you have problems mastering this shoulder position, you should find a qualified instructor, attend one of our Shooter’s School, watch the Shooter’s School video series, or the 44 Form Flaws video from Robinhood Videos. Give this a try and you will find, like our students have, that you will be able to hold at least twice as steady at full draw, because your muscles will be relaxed. When there is fewer muscles involved in the shot, your sight picture will be less shaky, which in turn, will cause less anxiety. You’ll be amazed at how all of this fits together!

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How could your archery career change if you knew that you would not fail? Most archers are capable of winning local, state, or national tournaments. The main obstacle inhibiting them from accomplishing this feat is their mental attitude. The most important piece of archery equipment you have is your brain, but in most cases it is the least used. Once an archer learns a quality, consistent form, ninety percent of the success comes from a positive mental approach with his or her shooting.

How does an archer develop a positive attitude about ones ability to shoot? The key word in that question is the word “shoot.” I did not ask about the ability to win. Winning is the result of an archer performing with consistent form. The only thing that you can control is executing every shot exactly the same. During practice, can you shoot five, ten, sixty or a hundred shots with identical form? If not, make it your goal and practice until you achieve it. Once you have accomplished this objective, you will have a more positive attitude toward your ability to shoot. Look at this situation logically. Can you stand there and shoot sixty shots with the very same form? That should not be hard to accomplish. If you can do that, then you will have done the best at the tournament that you can achieve. Accomplishing sixty shots with identical form sounds like an easy thing to do, and it is. The January-February 2009

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problems arise when you start shooting a tournament and shift your objective to hitting an “X” or winning the tournament. This change in thinking makes it very difficult to duplicate your form. You will become overly-concerned about the aiming process, which in turn causes the form to break down. Firmly believe in your ability to duplicate the shot, trust your form, and shoot.

Be optimistic about your ability as an archer. You, like everyone else, will face an occasional problem; but problems are not a difficulty until you lose sight of your goal. Some challenges are only a situation looking for a solution. Refocus on your objective of shooting each shot with the perfect form you have practiced. By staying positive, failures will only be viewed as temporary events in your journey. The only way you can fail is by not trying to achieve your purpose. Walt Disney was responsible for creating the Disney Dynasty. It was his dream and his goal. Even though he went bankrupt on four different occasions, he never lost sight of his dream. When you think about an upcoming tournament, carry an upbeat attitude. In your mind say, “I can stand there and shoot sixty shots with the same form.” If that is your goal and you do not change it, then you will perform the best that you are capable of doing that day.

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As promised in the last issue, this month’s article will be a report on the 2008 North American Field Archery Championship, which was once again hosted by the Everglades Archers in Homestead, FL after a one year hiatus. Last year’s shoot was hosted by the Buffalo Field Archery Cub of Houston, TX in May after a run of four years in Homestead. The original concept was that the hosting of the shoot would rotate each year among the three nations of North America, Canada, the United States and Mexico and it was done that way until the decline in field archery's popularity caused there to be a lack of bids from these countries to host the shoot in the warm weather of spring or summer. To save the shoot from going under, the Florida Archery Association and the Everglades Archers, joined forces and came up with the proposal to hold the shoot in southern Florida in December, where summer weather reigns the whole year round. This successful resurrection 1 hope will one day lead to returning to the original concept of the three nation rotation. With travel to Canada and Mexico not requiring an overseas trip, a feeling of international competition could be gained without actually crossing an ocean. This year's tournament had the largest number of entries since its Florida run began, with over 130 archers crunched onto one 28 target field range. The logistical planning required to pull off the trick of shooting two 28 target rounds in one day in the limited December daylight hours, with 130+ archers crowded onto a range meant to hold just 112, were once again handled by the able Everglades club members, headed by John Laudicina, Kevin McCloskey and Shelly Mascaro. The ranges had to be cleared so that all targets were capable of having four archers shooting at once and lunch had to be made available on the range at several places to minimize the time lost at a single lunch stop. Several extra groups of archers also had to be blended into the flow by having two groups start on the same target in succession. This is not to say that things were completely problem free.

Almost every range has at least one target where things bog down and the Everglades range is no exception. On most ranges the 80 yard walk-up is the culprit and the 80 yarder on the second half of this range has all the qualifications needed to be a major hang-up. Each shot angles across a large pond to a target butt which sits in a shady niche on the other side of the water. It is also subject to severe sun problems in the morning and cross winds in the afternoon as well as difficult footing due to tree roots in several areas. Our group of four archers and the group that started on the same target behind us were cruising right along, with only minor waits, until we got within two targets of the “pond shot” and then we hit the wall of archers piled up in front of us, I would guess a wait of about six groups. Once we cleared the 80 we finished quickly and put up the animal targets for the second twenty eight, figuring that the backup wouldn’t happen again on a one arrow round like the animals. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Under threat of darkness when we got to the back-up, we decided that two groups would shoot each target before advancing, to save the time used when scoring targets one group at a time. This picked things up and we finished with about half an hour of daylight left. Sunday, day two, started off with much warmer temperatures than Saturday morning’s chill and jackets were shed before the round got underway at 8am. The second day consists of a single 28 target Hunter round, so the time constraints of the first day are much reduced. Tim did some regrouping to try to relieve some of the back-ups of the previous day but there was still a considerable hang-up at the same place as the previous day. Before next year’s shoot I’m sure they’ll come up with the best group placements to minimize the back-ups. The increase in the popularity of this shoot and the desire of the host club not to turn away any archers who want to participate will be something I'm sure they’ll have to deal with from now on. This is a great sign that field archery can still draw a crowd and a tribute to the work that the club has done over the past several years.

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Tim Austin with back to camera talking to Warran Buck, Joe Bauernfeind, Steve Tincher and David Townsend at Target #16 (the 80yard over the lake target where it always has a little backup)....having a discussion.

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Friday started out chilly with a cold snap hitting Florida, but by the time we were shooting on Saturday it was well on its way back to usual beautiful weather... comfortable and everyone stripping off extra layers. Saturday and Sunday were absolutely beautiful, if not a little bit breezy. Dark-thirty Saturday morning, and the range gate is open at 6:00 AM, and archers are arriving to warm up for day one. The “flint” range is open with targets from the bunny out to 70 yards, lighted. Grouping has been posted ahead of time and 36 shooting groups merge to fit on the 28 target field range. Announcements at 7:30 include the differences between IFAA and NFAA rules, and archers are instructed to shoot four across throughout the round. We don’t come off the range until the Animal Round is done, and we all make it in just before dusk which comes early this late in the year. We are South of Miami, only 20 minutes from the Keys, so even some of the Florida archers have an 8 hour drive to attend, but the trip is always worth the effort. Individuals are present from all over the United States and Canada. The hosts are friendly and eager to please. The archers include seven Pros, five NFAA State Directors, and one NFAA Councilman.... many past champions and one Olympic medalist. Not counting tied 560 animal records, 20 NAFAC records and 10 IFAA World records are broken over the two days. Serious shooting includes lots of FUN, and once again some of us look up into the trees and find a colorful, large (four foot) Iguana avoiding the “tresspassers". One hundred and thirty three archers include guests from out of region including our IFAA Vice President and three other English archers, one from Estonia, and a talented five member team of ladies from Shanghai, China. We made every effort to have the “Olympic” style ladies shoot with archers of similar skill, style and in some cases even language friendly. The President of Argentina’s Archery Program was a guest who did not shoot but did bring information about next year’s event in that country. Forty nine United States archers from outside Florida joined our more “local” shooters and two from Canada to welcome our 10 International Guests who all received special primitive presentation arrows made by Everglades Secretary Shelly Mascaro. Next year’s 2009 NAFAC will be same time (12-13 December), same station (Everglades Archers in Homestead, Florida). Y’all Come Back!

Continued front page 51, would be going to. If you’ve never been to a shoot run with Tim’s system, you wouldn’t believe how well it works and without computers, no less. This year we had several special guests visit the shoot. A women’s target archery team from Shanghai, China, shot as guests and also put on a demonstration of their technique after the awards were given out. Another famous archer, one of our Olympic men’s team members, Vic Wunderle, was also on hand and joined the ladies to demonstrate how accurate a recurve bow, shot with fingers, can be. They also invited anyone who wanted to shoot the rainbow target to join them on the line and many did join in the fun. The other “guest” who joined us was a beautiful bald eagle, our national bird. As you can see from the pictures he was a very impressive sight but the pictures don’t really convey the feeling you get from being that close to such a huge, powerful bird. 1 sure wouldn’t want to be a rabbit on the ground with his shadow flying over me. One of the other pictures shows part of the Trafford clan with Vic Wunderle supplying the rabbit ears for daddy Skip Trafford. The taller girl in the middle is Heather Trafford who I featured in my report from the 2006 NAFAC shoot. We shot together on the first day along with Tim Austin and you may remember the picture of the Robin Hood she shot on one of my arrows. That was her last year as a Cub and as you can see, she has grown up quite a bit in the two years since that picture was taken. Now she shoots and wins as a Youth along with her sister, the other girl in this year’s picture. That’s it for this year’s archery high lights and I hope you’ll be joining me again next year at the Senior Comer. I really enjoy it when someone comes up and says they read and enjoy my articles, so don’t pass by without saying hello if our paths should cross next year. Joe Bauernfeind Zenith Archery Products www.zenitharchery.com Gordon Composites, BCY and National Bowhunter want to remind you of the Bowhunters Hall of Fame inductions of Ted Nugent and Larry Jones on Friday night February 6 at the top of the Riveria. See you there! 52

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Many shooters are mystified with the notion of “back tension.” For many shooters it is this mysterious feeling you get in your back when your shoulder blades are rotated, tucked, pulled, and squeezed into just the right contorted position that enables the elusive “perfect shot”. For others it requires a medical degree and a body chart to locate ambiguous muscle groups that must be flexed and pinched at just the right interval while poking at your release trigger. Ultimately, it is a confusing distraction that takes our mind off aiming, and aiming is the number one task that must be completed without distraction to complete the perfect shot. All kidding aside, “back tension” can be simplified as a dynamic tension that is set up at the beginning of the draw and it is continues through the release of the arrow. I feel that it is the second only to aiming as the key fundamental part of shooting form that generates accuracy and consistency. Proper setup and use of this tension can help you shoot longer by relieving fatigue. It will make you a more stable shooter by relieving muscle tension in the arms and hands. Dynamic tension also reduces the amount of muscle groups involved in the shot. This will diminish muscle tremors that can cause sudden misses, quick shots, and general unsteadiness. What does it feel like?

Try this exercise. Make a bow drawing motion (without a bow in your hands). For most people it is easier to isolate the back without the weight of the bow or the tension of the string. While making a drawing motion, make sure your hands, forearms, and shoulders are relaxed as they can be. Actually let your hands dangle loosely as you do this. Keep your back straight, head up and turned towards the target, and straighten your bow arm, but keep the elbow unlocked. As you reach full draw, you will be able to feel your back working to hold full draw. Keep your elbow high. The lower your elbow gets, the greater your chances become for your back transferring the pressure to your arms and hands. Loss of tension is usually unrecoverable. You will have to let down and restart the shot. Leaning back at full draw is also another common cause of tension loss. I had this problem and it is hard to fix because you

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can’t feel it. Stick a bow square or an arrow in your waistband or under your quiver belt and let it go down into your pant leg next to your leg. Usually an arrow works best because of its length. It will remind you to stay straight as it stops you from leaning as you draw. This feels weird, but it does help. This is the critical juncture in the whole technique. If your hands and arms take over, you will increase your shot time and will lose stability. The longer you stay with the shot the more unstable you will become, almost guaranteeing a miss. You can test this feel just as you did above by going through the same motions except make your fists super tight. You will be able to feel a diminished amount of tension in your back and if you keep your hands balled tight enough, you can feel the shaking and muscle tremors caused by this loss of tension. How do you shoot a bow with well placed tension?

Dynamic tension is a simple push pull technique. You need to feel a balance between the push and the pull. 56

Imagine drawing a bungee cord and you are stretching it between your bow arm and your drawing hand. Dynamic tension or the push pull effect stretches the cord. Most pro shooters set up this dynamic tension when they raise the bow to the target. This stages the proper muscle groups. The muscles that you use to draw the bow are the very same muscles that you use to aim the bow, and the back muscles will give you the most stability. I feel that it is virtually impossible to reach your full potential as a shooter unless you draw the in this manner because it is extremely difficult to draw the bow with one muscle group and then, at full draw, switch to the proper muscle group. If you draw it with arm and hand power, you are doomed to aim it with ami power, which is incredibly unstable. As you reach full draw you shou Id pull the bow into the stops and continue to apply mild pressure as you align your peep with the scope and the dot with the X. This is important! When you reach full draw, tighten against the stops and then address your anchor without moving your head or wiggling your release into place. This “settling in” or wiggling into place introduces inconsistency that can cause your shot makeup to be different each time. Draw, tighten - then anchor in two distinct, deliberate movements. How do you shoot a release while using Dynamic Tension?

We have reached full draw, set up our tension by pulling into the stops and addressed our anchor. Now what do you do? The release better go off pretty soon. You only have a certain amount of time in which you have peak stability. You want your shots to break within that time. With a trigger style release, usually you will need a slightly stiffer trigger than you are used to. This will let you build strong tension with your thumb on the trigger without risk of pre-fires. I allow my wrist muscles and the tendons in the back of my hand to slightly relax as I pull. This causes my hand to yield or soften on the release. There is no real perceivable movement, but it is just enough to transfer the pressure from the fingers to the trigger, and - boom - the shot is released. A rotational style release works in the same manner. When you commit to the shot and you are

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This is where the mystery is revealed. If your elbow tip is positioned in line with your eye, the dot in your scope, and the X ring. Your power is aligned with the X. Extend the pull straight away from the X and you are doing it right. It is anatomically impossible to create that feel without using the correct muscle groups. Your bow will feel easier to hold, and your sight will hold tighter on the dot. If you feel like you are working too hard you are probably not doing it right. You may be over pulling. If your shot will not go off, you have lost tension. Let down and reset. If the shot still isn’t working, remind yourself not to be hesitant or timid on the release. Be confident, heavy handed and shoot like you don’t care if you miss. Do not over complicate the feel just pull straight away from the X. Practice this on a blank bale until you get it down. Then practice it on a target at close distances until you can forget about it and allow it to naturally happen. Over-leaming performance techniques until you have it memorized is the best way to get it consistent and it is the only way you can be sure that you can depend on it when you are under pressure. We talk about these and other techniques all the time over on my website www.archerleaniinucenter.com . It is totally free and there are thousands of other archers like yourself trying to get it right and improve their averages. Take a second and join us, post your questions, and learn with us. I have just released a new DVD covering this topic and the other facets of form, stability, and shot execution in detail. You can get more information about it on www.unvtech.com. For a cool sneak peak at the DVD go to youtube.com and search GRJV Trailer and you can get a glimpse of what the DVD has in store for you.

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