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Editorial by Arlyne Rhode Olymic Champion wins gold; qualifies for Rome Courtesy of World Archery 10 Im versus Kim: Crazy shoot-off decides all-Korea final Courtesy of World Archery 11 US National Outdoor Collegiate Championships Day One Qualification and Mixed Team Eliminations Courtesy of US Archery 12 USA Archery Nominates 2017 World Archery Championships Team Courtesy of US Archery 14 Podium Sweeps and Surprise Challengers at NOCAA Finals Day Courtesy of US Archery 15 USA Archery Congratulates Collegiate Archery Program National Coach of the Year Courtesy of US Archery 16 Develop a Consistant Form by Terry Wunderle 17 Field National Champions Crowned in Washington State and World Games Team Named Courtesy of USA Archery 18 S3DA - Illinois Clubs Attend First S3DA Archer;y Regional 20 S3DA - Central Kentucky 3D Regional 22 S3DA - Kentucky S3DA presents Shooter of the Year Awards 23 S3DA - Indiana S3DA host 3-D State Championships 24 S3 DA - Kentucky S3 DA State Tournament Results 24 Bigshot/R&W Targets Sponsor S3DA 26 S3DA - Wisconsin S3DA State Championships 27 If I should die before I wake by B. Howard Coffey 28 NASP Nationals 40 Better Your Best by Debbie Crews Ph. D and 2X Olympic Archer Judi Adams 42 Easton Southwest Shoot Out by April and Joey Girvin 45 Leopold / AAE Georgia Pro/Am by April and Joey Girvin 48 Significant Predictor Variables Among Top Archers by Rick McKinney 50 Dave Keaggy Sr. One Hour Workout at LA Fitness 52 Five Principals to Follow when Learning Archery by Larry Wise 54 News & New Products - Last Chance Archery T.R.U. Ball Archery American Targets & Target Systems 58 Dick Tone leads elite recurve traing camp at Lancaster Archery Academy by P.J. Reilly 60 NFAA National Target Championships and NFAA Upcoming Events 62 Advertising & Press Release Directory
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Page 34 NASP3D Champions by Brittany J. Jones
Page 18 S3DA reports sent to us through the Pope & Young Club by Rick Mowery
Page 57 Diane Miller brings you, AHOF Name these Hall of Fame Icons
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Page 27 IfI Should Die Before I Wake by B. Howard Coffey
Page 48 Significant Predictor Variables Among Top Archers by Rick McKinney
Page 16 Develop a Consistant Form by Terry Wunderle
Page 50 Dave Keaggy Sr. Workouts
Page 42 Easton Southwest Shoot Out &Leupold/AAE Georgia Pro/Am by April & Joey Girvin
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Page 52 Five Principals to Follow when Learning Archery by Larry Wise
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NASP Indoor National Attendance climbs by 12.4% to 14,492 archers competing! Almost 15,000 students participated in the 2017 NASP Indoor Nationals. Of course this is a new record for attendance. Also 4,123 shooters participated in the International Bowhunting Organization (IBO) side of the tournament and 1850 shooters came from Centershot Ministries (archery in church). All totaled more than 45,000 people attended this year’s Nationals. See pages 39 28for the NASP report and photos of the champions. Again this year, Mr. Charlie Baglan sent us all of the wonderful photos. Thank you, Charlie. Scholastic 3D Archery (S3DA) regional reports came to us courtesy of Rick Mowery of the Pope and Young Club. S3DA Executive Director Jennie Richardson, State Coordinators and many volunteers bring us Regional Reports from across the US. Check out pages 18-26 to see their new champions. Congratulations to all of the young champions! Our arcHer correspondent April Girvin and her hubby, Joey,
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Olympic Champion Chang wins gold; qualifies for Rome 26 June 2017 Salt Lake City (USA) Courtesy of World Archery
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The Rio 2016 winner’s gold medal won her enough points to make the 2017 Hyundai Archery World Cup Final. Recurve women’s Olympic Champion Chang Hye Jin won gold at stage three of the 2017 Hyundai Archery World Cup, beating Tan Ya-Ting in four sets, closing with a perfect 30 and qual ifying for the World Cup Final in the process. “I did well here in Salt Lake City. In the qualification, 1 was first out of all the women and the men. It was a good start and then it ended with me in the final,” said Chang. “Now I have it [the gold medal| here with me, so I’m really satisfied.” “I’m more than happy with [qualifying to the Final in Rome]. It will be my first World Cup Fi nal and I’m looking forward to it. I hope I can win and get the Longines watch there, because I’ve never won one before.” The Rio 2016 winner opened with two sets of 28 points to go 3-1 up in the Salt Lake final, shot a point 29set in the third against het opponent’s 27, then closed with a perfect 30 to win the match, 7-1.
Hye Jin, who was the high est-scoring recurve qualifier in Salt Lake - man or woman — near ly broke a world record to start the tournament. The Salt Lake title is the year-old ’s first major gold 30medal since winning the Olympic Games, having finished second to teammate Ki Bo Bae at stage one of the international tour in Shang hai, China. Those two results, com bined, put the world number one to the top of the World Cup rankings with enough points to be confirmed as the first recurve women qualified for the 2017 Hyundai Archery World Cup Fi nal in Rome, Italy at the start of September. Chang also won silver in the women’s team event and gold in the mixed team with Im Dong Hyun. Choi Misun beat Alicia Marin to the recurve women’s bronze medal in Salt Lake. The third stage of the 2017 Hyundai Archery World Cup ran 20 to 25 June in Salt Lake City, USA. www.archery.org
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Men champions (l-r) Kim Woojin 2nd, Champion Im Dong Hyun & Wei Chun-Heng 3rd Kim Woojin only needed an eight with his last arrow to take gold, but shot a seven. An all-Korean recurve men’s final in Salt Lake City went down to the last arrow of regula tion, and then even further, as Kim Woojin missed an eight-to-win opportunity and let Im Dong Hyun take a shot at winning the match in a tiebreaker. Kim shot first in the shootoff, posting a nine about a milli metre out of the 10-ring on the right side. Im Dong Hyun’s arrow, was also right, but hit the 10-line. “I thought the match was over before Kim’s last arrow. I never thought having the chance of a shoot-off,” said Im, who hadn’t worn shades throughout the match - until the tiebreaker. “Because of the wind, my eyes were crying a bit, so 1 had to put my sunglasses to protect them from the wind. I saw that Kim shot a 9.9 so I thought there was no chance I would shoot a 10 - but that’s what I went for, and that’s what I got.” On paper, the match-up was as close as it turned out to be. Both Kim and Im’s average ar row scores over the preceding 24 months were 9.49 and Kim’s win
percentage 80% to Im’s 79%. Kim, the World Archery Champion in 2011 and 2015 opened with a 30 to win the first set of the Salt Lake final - but af ter three, the pair were tied. Kim won the fourth to go 5-3 up, be fore 2007 World Archery Cham pion Im posted three nines in the fifth set. Woojin had one 10, one nine on the board and needed just an eight to win the match. He shot a seven, wide and left, and that sent the match to its tiebreak conclu sion. “The wind was blowing towards the three o’clock, and 1 aimed to nine o’clock and the ar row just hit where I was aiming,” said Kim, explaining his bad ar row. “It’s very difficult to shoot a 10 under pressure in a one-arrow shoot-off. I shot nine and it was a bit disappointing because my op ponent was Im Dong Hyun, who’s very strong and able to shoot 10 at any time. I thought I shot a 10 but it was a 9.9.” Chinese Taipei’s Wei ChunHeng beat Marcus D’Almeida, from Brazil, to recurve men’s bronze. Neither archer missed the gold in the five-set match. www.archery.org U.S. Archer Inc. 34th Anniversary
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The National Outdoor Collegiate Championships and World Uni versity Games - U.S. Team Trials features 144 arrows of qualifica tion shot over two days. The first 72-arrows began this morning, followed by the mixed team com petition in the afternoon. Over 50 schools are battling for team and individual titles. Texas A&M's Ariel Gibilaro, who is one of the recurve women's qualification leaders, is a first year student after leaving the Resident Athlete program last year, and is back competing on her old practice field. Gibilaro also led her team to silver in the recurve mixed team event: "It's a very different dynamic than you'll find at USAT events or international events," she shared. "I started off okay, then the pressure kind of got to me, but 1 realized it was in my head and 1 just needed to trust my shot and I came back. My scores are not as high as they used to be, so if people notice that and they're like 'what happened?' well, college happened." Gibilaro's favorite as pect of competing at NOCC: "It's the team, it's the fact that the ma jority of people are here to have fun and not to win."
Texas A&M's bowhunt er mixed team brought home the gold. Carla Warren attributed her success: "On my breaks I was able to focus on what I'm doing right
but also have fun, enjoy the mu sic they were playing and hang out with my teammates. I'm look ing forward to keep seeing how we do, especially in team rounds; we've been working really hard." Northern Arizona Universi ty's Paeton Keller, who won bronze at the World University Champi onships in Mongolia last year, is leading the compound men's field in qualification after today's 72 ar rows. "It was going great for me until the wind kicked in in the last three ends maybe," he shared. "As far as this competition is concerned, I definitely hope to make the team again. As far as tomorrow is con cerned, just hopefully 1 start off on a good note, try to make my shots run smoothly and fight through the wind if there is any." UCLA's Brandon Chin, a senior in the barebow division also led his team from a fifth-place seed to the gold. The barebow di vision, which has been growing exponentially, was highly com petitive with exciting matches. "It was nerve-wracking; we were seeded fifth, so middle of the pack," shared Chin. "We had outups and downs through the whole thing, when one of us wasn't do ing well the other was able to pick up the slack." On the growth of the barebow program, he added: "It's great seeing the growth; in my freshman year, we only had a handful of archers and the scores were nowhere near as high as they are now." Other teams with great suc cess in the team competitions so far, looking ahead to the Overall National Team Championships award include: UC San Diego, Michigan State University and James Madison University. Results from the competi tion are available here. For more, follow USA Archery on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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Outdoor Collegiate Championships concluded today with individual elimination matches. Several wellestablished teams continued strong holds on much of the field, while new and smaller teams emerged as strong contenders. Texas A&M swept the bowhunter women’s podium, took bowhunter men’s gold, compound men's gold, compound women’s gold and silver, and recurve men’s silver. Bowhunter top finisher, Nicole Schultz, who battled from an 8th place seed to the gold win, shared: “I'm really proud, I'm shocked honestly. We worked so hard to get here, it’s incredible. I couldn't ask for a better team, or better friends. They do everything for me and I'm so happy and proud.” Cody Sahualla of Lamar University was the second place qualifier for the barebow men. After a narrow win in the semifinals, he went on to take the gold: “1 thought I was going to choke and I ended up making it on a one-arrow shoot off by a quarter of an inch,” he shared. “After that 1 got a second wind and ss«a
ended up going on to first. It does mean a lot, I took pictures and everything. I’m hoping to bring this win back to my school and show them what our program can do. We’ve gone to a about five or six shoots so far and some of my team has done really well, and hopefully we can all make it here to Nationals next year.” The Columbia recurve women swept their podium. Sophomore Bianca Gotuaco took the gold in a close final match with Christine Kim. I am very happy, I am very proud of our team. I know we deserve it, but I’m still very shocked. We worked so hard this year - our practices were very productive now that we have a dedicated practice space and we’ve had better weather so we were able to prepare very well. I think we’re all very happy with how we did.” The recurve men’s podium saw University of Connecticut’s Elliott Simon take the gold and University of Nebraska's individual archer David Wolfe take the bronze. Simon shared: “It was awesome to know that the hard work 1 put in, especially in such a short amount of full-time course load and the northeast weather, has paid off and I’ve been fortunate enough to shoot great the past few years. Shoutout to my mom, my girlfriend and my team for supporting me and staying on the field through these long days; I couldn’t do what 1 do without you all. www.usarchery.org
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Hyundai Archery World Cup’s first leg, the U.S. picked up two more medals to join the compound men's team and compound mixed team bronze medals from yesterday’s events. The women’s team of Mackenzie Brown (Flint, Texas), Khatuna Lorig (Denver, Colorado) and LaNola Shepherd (Lehi, Utah) climbed from an 11th place seed to the gold final against Russia. Russia opened, taking the first set 53-50. The U.S. trio tied it up in the second set with a 51-50 win, but Russia was the victor of the next two sets and the match for gold. Brown returned to the field in the afternoon session with 2016 U.S. Olympic archery teammate Zach Garrett (Wellington, Missouri) for the mixed team event. Ranked 5th in qualification, they only fell to Korea in the semifinals to advance to the bronze match, again against Russia. Starting off strong, the duo took a solid 4-0 lead, but with a few shots a little off, Russia came back for a 4-4 tie. Garrett and the Russia’s Kozhin both opened with perfect 10s. Brown followed an 8 and Erdynieva with a 7 and the U.S. clinched the win and the bronze. Complete results from the competition are available at www.worldarchery.org. For more, follow USA Archery on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. U.S. Archer Inc. 34th Anniversary
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proud to announce that James Madison University’s Coach Andy Puckett has been named the 2017 USA Archery Collegiate Archery Program Coach of the Year! Coach Puckett was selected from the 2017 Re gional Coaches of the Year. Coach Puckett was recognized for his outstanding contributions to grow the sport of archery at the college level and incredible achievements for his archers at the 2017 U.S. National Outdoor Collegiate Championships awards banquet. Puckett was a member of JMU’s archery team in the early 1990s and his passion for the team and the sport has only grown since then. His team shared in his nomination: “Andy is extremely devoted to improving upon the JMU Archery program and each and every individual shooter that wears purple and gold. Our victories would not be possible without Coach Puckett - he is not just a coach, but a supportive and reliable friend who has a selfless commitment to our team and its members.” Coach Puckett commented: “1 have nothing to thank but the team. I read the nomination they wrote and I can’t say anything beyond that. It’s all about the sport, it’s all about the kids, 1 don’t ask for anything back.” Beginning in March, Collegiate Archery Program clubs and teams submitted nominations for Regional Coaches of the Year. Each club was eligible to submit one vote for the coaches in their respective region. Regional Coach of the Year winners were named as finalists for the National Coach of the Year Award. Each club or team was then eligible to submit one vote for the National Coach of the Year. We share our sincerest congratulations with Andy Puckett on the National Collegiate Coach of the Year Award. USA Archery CEO Denise Parker commented: “In addition to his efforts at JMU, Andy has taken a leadership role in shaping the overall direction of collegiate archery. He has been a great partner to me and to USA Archery in helping us plan and redevelop collegiate archery. This recognition is well deserved and we are grateful for all that Andy continues to give to this sport and our athletes.” For more information on the Collegiate Archery Program, click here or contact collegearchery@ usarchery.org.
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Devckp a Conitotut Form By Terry Wunderle
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shooter. This young lady was very dedicated to becoming a champi on. For two months, she practiced with a blank bale and never shot an arrow at a target. This time was used to develop her concentra tion skills and a strong, consistent form. As the years passed, Jamie rose to the top of her sport and became recognized as one of the world’s elite archers. Practice is the main foun dation that an athlete has to build upon in order to be successful. Quality practice gives you stami na, muscle memory, confidence, and enhanced concentration lev el. I prefer to separate practice into two categories: form prac tice and performance practice. In order to be a successful archer, you must be able to shoot the shot with the same, precise form every time. This means using the same rhythm, the same amount of back tension, and the same explo sive force. The bow arm and the release hand should complete the shot in the identical position at the conclusion of each shot. The best way to achieve this is to start with blank bale shooting. Feel the muscles used in the execution of the shot; then, concentrate on ap plying the same degree of muscle tension with each practice shot. If you are starting a new season and have not practiced for an extended period of time, you should spend a week or longer perfecting your form and devel oping muscle memory with blank bale shooting. Once you feel posi tive about your form, take it to the next level by placing a five-spot target at 10 yards and shoot at it. Aiming is part of the shot process and needs to be phased into the program. Shooting the target at 10 yards requires you to aim but does not put too much emphasis on the process. This will allow you to focus more on perfect shot execution. After a week of prac ticing in this manner, try placing
the target at 20 yards. If you find that you are not shooting the same shot at the 20-yard target, begin alternating every other shot us ing the blank bale, but do not be concerned where the arrow hits. Try to get the blank bale form to identically mirror that of the tar get shot. Once the two match, you will have a form that should put you on the road to success. I can not stress enough that being able to shoot the same, identical shot is one of the most important factors necessary to be a skilled archer. When you have refined your form, you should have also devel oped stamina and muscle memo ry. Now, work on your confidence and concentration. It makes no difference whether you are a 3-D, field, FITA, or target archer, be cause all of these require the same basic foundation in order to be successful. You must execute the shot in an identical manner every time. Mount a five-spot target at 20 yards again and now shoot for points. Because score is pail of the game, you must learn to deal with it. This is the way you devel op your concentration level. Focus and execute every shot the same, but do not let your mind float off into “Lala Land.” As your groups tighten and your scores rise, so will your confidence. You are proving to yourself that you are capable of replicating every shot. There are many components to a winning archery program, but one of the most important elements is a strong foundation upon which to build. Begin your season by spending several weeks with the goal of developing consistent form. The perfect shot is a feeling, and you will know it is a perfect shot when it is released. Concentrate and try to duplicate this feeling.
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Field National Champions Crowned in Washington State and World Games Team Named June 04, 2017, 6:49 p.m. (ET) DARRINGTON,
Washington
- The 2017 U.S. National Field Championships concluded today with competition at 24 targets of marked distances after shooting at 24 unmarked targets yesterday. For the recurve and barebow archers, this weekend’s competition doubled as the World Games - U.S. Team Trials for the multi-sport tournament in Poland later this summer. Top finishers John Demmer HI (Kingsley, Pennsylvania), Heather Koehl (Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin), Jenifer Stoner (Lorton, Virginia), and Olympians Brady Ellison (Globe, Arizona) and Vic Wunderle (San Antonio, Texas) were named to the team. The U.S. World Games compound squad will be comprised of Kris Schaff
(Billings, Montana), Reo Wilde (Pocatello, Idaho), Lexi Keller (Omro, Wisconsin) and Cassidy Cox (Albuquerque, New Mexico) who were also nominated to the team after a two-part qualification at the AAE Arizona Cup and the Easton Foundations’ Gator Cup as compound archers compete in the target events at the World Games instead of field events. With the largest division this weekend, John Demmer 111 took another National Champion title with a 47-point margin over the rest of the barebow men’s field. Demmer commented: “The course today was a lot more interesting, we had a lot more hills, which is always a lot of fun. It was not easy, but it was a lot more fun and it’s always fun to shoot with new people. I’ve shot with John Dillinger and Ben Rogers several times in the past, but 1 shot
with Sean Snyder for the first time today and we all had a nice time.” Demmer, who’s grandmother was bom in Poland, is excited about the chance to compete at the Poland World Games this summer and to explore some of his family’s history. Female recurve National Champion Heather Koehl agreed about the competition this weekend: “I thought it was a nice course this weekend, it was definitely more challenging than it’s been the last couple of years; we had a lot more ups and downs. I actually had to do a bit of cutting on some of the shots and that was really cool to see. I had a couple of bad targets with the shorter shots but made up for it on some of the quad targets, so that was really nice.” www.usaarchery.org
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Illinois Clubs Attend First Scholastic 3-D Archery (S3DA) Regional 3-D Tournament
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Middle Fixed Pins Male
1. 2.
Peyton Fallen - Edwards County Ethan Wyatt - NCOE
3.
Layne Whitley - Southern Illinois
Middle Open Male
1. Nate Gamer - Southern Illinois Middle Traditional Male
1. Colter Rister - NCOE High Fixed Pins Female
1. Adriana Armstrong - Hardin County 2. Kassi Ketten - Hardin County Louisville, KY - The first Illinois Scholastic 3-D
3.
Krista Stanford - Hardin County
Archery (S3DA) Regional tournament of 2017 was held March 19,h at Southern Illinois S3DA. Southern Illinois S3DA is located at 404 CR 1125E, New Haven, IL. There were seven S3DA clubs represented; Havana Outdoors, Southern Illinois S3DA, Wabash Bowhunters, Edwards County School, NCOE School, Gallatin County School and Hardin County
High Fixed Pins Male
School.
“This tournament was a huge success,” stated Ricky Sauls, Illinois S3DA State Coordinator. “I was very surprised at the number of students that came out to shoot in this tournament. Last year the first Region al Tournament in Illinois consisted of 20 kids. With 85 kids at the first Regional of 2017, I can’t wait to see what the rest of the 2017 3-D season brings. I want to thank all the kids and their parents for allowing me to be a pail of this experience with them. I also want to thank the coaches that volunteer their time to help these young archers.” Started in December 2012 by the Scholastic Archeiy Association, S3DA has grown exponential ly as a next step program to follow introductory pro grams offered as part of 4-H or the National Archeiy in Schools Program. S3 DA addresses the need for a program to bridge beginning target archery experi ence and more advanced activities such as 3-D shoot ing and bowhunting. The program currently operates across the United States with hundreds of certified coaches serving thousands of young archers, grades 3-12. For more information on S3DA membership go to: WWW.S3DA.ORG or email: infos3darchery@ gmail.com Check out S3 DA on Facebook
The Team Honors:
Elementary School - Edwards County Middle School - NCOE High School - Hardin County Elementary Fixed Pins Female
1. 2.
Aly Williams - Edwards County Paige Mosson - Edwards County
3.
Bella Hall - NCOE
Elementary Fixed Pins Male
1. 2.
Wyatt Landingham - Edwards County Collin Monroe - Gallatin County
3.
Grant Jackson - Gallatin County
Elementary Traditional Male
1.
Wyatt Wells-NCOE
Elementary Open Male
1.
Hayden Sauls - NCOE
Middle Fixed Pins Female
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Alexis Johnson - Havana Outdoors Zepplyn Fiala - NCOE
3.
Bree Vollman - NCOE
1. Kenny Raigner - Wabash Bowhunters 2. Audie Goebel - Gallatin County 3.
Hunter Horton - Edwards County
High Open Male
1. David Johnson Jr. - Havana Outdoors
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Central Kentucky 3D Regional Green River State Park
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May 6, 2017 Stacy Groce- Media Specialist
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Boyd County Champions RAIN, RAIN and yes you guessed it...lots and lots of mud! This seems to be the trend for the Ken tucky S3DA 3D outdoor season! Daviess County Coach and Volunteer Mike Wilson describes this sea son as the “S3DA 3D Mudfest 17!” Saturday’s 9am flight time archers had to deal with steady rain and temperatures in the low 40’s. “We can’t seem to catch a break from the rain,” was stated by several early morning archers. Between flight times two tractors spent time pulling several stuck vehicles out of the parking area and some were pulled into a better parking area. By the 1pm flight time the rain had slowed to a drizzle but the mud seemed to have doubled on the ranges. A couple of targets required archers to step through mud more than ankle deep and one stake be came buried in deep mud. Several archers became stuck and some lost shoes. “I had a good time but I didn’t shoot my best,” said archer Ben Fannin. Kentucky Regional Coordinator and tourna ment host, Wes Barker, summed up Saturday’s 3D Regional event with this statement. “Amazing is about the best way to describe the Central Kentucky S3 DA Regional! It rained for almost 3 days straight mixed with cold temperatures and we still had 268 archers show up to shoot their bows! That is a true statement to what parents, grandparents and coaches will do for these kids! We only had about 20 vehicles that had to be pulled out with tractors and a hand full of kids that fell in the mud but it was a blast! 1 can’t wait until state to see what it brings.” 20
Results for the Central Kentucky 3D Regional: High School Teams: 1st Boyd County, 2nd Davies
County, 3rd McCreary County High School Clubs: 1st Green River 3D Archery, 2nd Central KY Nock Busters Middle School Teams: 1st College View, 2nd Da viess County Middle School Clubs: 1st Central KY Nock Busters Elementary School Teams: 1st St. James Elementary School Clubs: 1st Central KY Nock Busters, 2nd Impact Archery High School Male Open: 1st Brady Hempen, 2nd Jase Boils, 3rd Tanner Barker High School Male Pins: 1st Brandon Whitt, 2nd C.J. Jones, 3rd Houston Raikes High School Male Traditional: 1st Kody Kline, 2nd Matthew Miley, 3rd Tyler Younger High School Olympic Recurve: 1st Robert Dick High School Female Open: 1st Natalie Brockman, 2nd Meg Curtis, 3rd Kaylee Brown High School Female Pins: 1st Hallie French, 2nd Katie Hemmann, 3rd Taylor Adkinson High School Female Traditional: 1st Danielle Underwood, 2nd Cambron Johnson, 3rd Geneva Renshaw High School Female Olympic Recurve: 1st Olivia Hamer Middle School Male Open: 1st Dave Hast, 2nd Chase Morris, 3rd Tucker Strong Middle School Male Fixed Pins: 1st Kenton Banks, 2nd Alex Austin, 3rd Cade Crume U.S. Archer Inc. 34th Anniversary
Serious young men get ready to shoot the target.
Rain, rain go away, come again another day!
Middle School Male Traditional: 1st Nate Jarboe,
2nd Jack Haley, 3rd Lucas Wheatley Middle School Female Open: 1st Serena Witt Middle School Female Pins: 1st A K Warren, 2nd Savannah Philpot, 3rd Emilee McFadden Middle School Female Traditional: 1st Raelei Wal lace, 2nd Audrey Routte, 3rd Rickalyn Rayboum Middle School Female Olympic Recurve: 1st Na talie Williams Elementary Male Open: 1st Landon Cox, 2nd Tan ner Willis, 3rd Elijah Cook Elementary Male Pins: 1st Bently Boils, 2nd Brody Shelton, 3rd Haden Knoy Elementary Male Traditional: 1st Trey Stuecker, 2nd Jason Purvis, 3rd Ethan Fields Elementary Male Olympic Recurve: 1st Ethan Williams Elementary Female Fixed Pins: 1st Allie Riddle, 2nd Audree Kaylor, 3rd Becky Heavner Elementary Female Traditional: 1st Mary Jurus, 2nd Erin Riney, 3rd Isabella Moore
Congratulations to everyone that finished the tournament!
Mud everywhere!
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Kentucky Scholastic 3-D Archery (S3DA) Presents Shooter of the Year Awards
------ 3-D ARCHERY------Louisville, KY - Shooter of the Year Awards were
presented for the Kentucky Outdoor 3-D Season following the 2017 Kentucky S3DA 3-D State Tournament held at Pulaski County Park on May 20th. 2017. In order to qualify for Shooter of the Year, archers had to participate in two of the three outdoor regional tournaments as well as the state tournament. Scores from the regional tournaments were combined with the state score. The top three archers in each class of at least three participants were awarded Shooter of the Year standings. The Shooter of the Year for each class received a Belt Buckle while 2nd and 3rd places received medals. As the Kentucky outdoor season ends, planning for the next season has already begun. “We have definitely had our share of challenges with weather and the increasing number of participants,” stated Kentucky State Coordinator Chris McDonald. “We will use that information while planning for future seasons. Again, 1 would like to thank all of our coaches and volunteers that help make S3 DA possible in Kentucky.” 2017 Shooter of the Year Awards: High School Male Open: 1st Jase Boils 2nd Brady Hempen 3rd Tanner Barker High School Male Pins: 1st Brandon Witt 2nd C.J. Jones 3rd Blake Boyd High School Male Traditional: 1st Kody Kline 2nd Darrell Turner 3rd Ryan Dozer High School Female Open: 1st Natalie Brockman 2nd Kaylee Brown 3rd Bethany Groce High School Female Pins: 1st Halie French 2nd Kynsley Redmon 3rd Taylor Adkinson Middle School Male Open: 1st Chase Morris 2nd Asa Flowers 3rd David Hast Middle School Male Pins: 1st Kenton Banks 2nd Shane Truett 3rd Caden Huff 22
Middle School Male Traditional: 1st Nate Jarboe 2nd Lucas Wheatley 3rd Jack Haley Middle School Female Pins: 1st A.K. Warren 2nd Harley Wilson 3rd Savannah Philpot Middle School Female Traditional: 1st Rickalyn Raybourn 2nd Audrey Routtee 3rd Raelei Wallace
Elementary Male Open: 1st Tanner Willis 2nd Landyn Cox 3rd Elijah Cook Elementary Male Pins: 1st Rylan Long 2nd Brody Shelton 3rd Ethan Partin Elementary Male Traditional: 1st Trace Stuecker 2nd Jason Purvis 3rd Ethan Fields Elementary Female Pins: 1st Becky Heavner 2nd Audree Kaylor 3rd Landrey Prewitt Elementary Female Traditional: 1st Isabella Moore 2nd Mary Jurus 3rd Anya Carson Emma Vicars (tied) For more information on S3DA membership go to: WWW.S3DA.ORG or email: infos3darchery@gmail.com Check out S3DA on Facebook U.S. Archer Inc. 34th Anniversary
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Indiana Scholastic 3-D Archery (S3DA) Hosts 2017 3-D State Championship
------ 3-D ARCHERY------Louisville, KY - Indiana held their 2017 3-D State
Championship on May 20th 2017 at Pinehill Archery Club in Danville Indiana. Rain and lightning postponed the scheduled start time but after a lengthy delay and a couple inches of rain, the 233 kids were finally able to take the range. Despite the delay, these young archers were ready and it showed in their scores with just a point or two deciding several classes including the “shooter of the year.” “We put in a lot of time and effort preparing for this tournament, and other than the rain delay, it went very well,” said Jay Morris of Pinehill Archery Club. “It has been a great indoor and 3-D season here in Indiana and we are looking forward to our Outdoor Target Championship in July.” High School Team: 1. Hilltop Archery 2. Team ACUSA 3. Blackhawk Archery Middle School Team: 1. Team ACUSA 2. Attica Ramblers 3. Fountain Central Elementary Team: 1. Hilltop Archery 2. Attica Ramblers 3. Pine Hill Archery Elementary Female Open 1. Emma Britt, 300 4-12’s, Attica 2. Lanie Nash, 296 2-12’s, Pinehill 3. Taylor Clevenger, 288 4-12’s, Attica Elementary Female Traditional 1. Ava Mershon, 210, Hilltop Elementary Female Olympic Recurve 1. Bridget Bailey, 45, Bass & Bucks Elementary Female Fixed Pins 1. Paige Hudson, 276 2-12’s, Hilltop 2. Sydney Ulrey, 271 3-12’s, ACUSA 3. Chatney Altman, 260 2-12’s, Hilltop Elementary Male Fixed Pins 1. Logan Vance, 303 8-12’s, Hilltop 2. Zane Merritt, 297 8-12’s, NAK 3. Noah Coyle, 297 3-12’s, Pine Hill Elementary Male Open 1. Chase Vance, 308 8-12’s, Hilltop 2. Nick Erwin, 303 8-12’s, Hilltop 3. Wyatt Rucker, 302 9-12’s, Steve’s Archery Middle School Male Fixed Pins 1. Fletcher Casson, 320 10-12’s, ACUSA 2. Clay Dempsey, 315 13-12’s, Blackhawk 3. Drew Runyan, 300 8-12’s, Hilltop Middle School Female Fixed Pins 1. Brianna Shofner, 308 7-12’s, Blackhawk
2. Ashley Coffing, 304 6-12’s, Hilltop 3. Jessica Laine, 302 5-12’s, ACUSA Middle School Male Open 1. Harrison Milne, 317 16-12’s, Pinehill 2. Chantz Dodd, 310 8-12’s, ACUSA 3. Brock Hagan, 304 9-12’s, Hilltop Middle School Female Open 1. Leah Seaton, 304 8-12’s, ACUSA 2. Karley Dodd, 294 3-12’s, ACUSA 3. Kaydence Stevens, 289 7-12’s, Bass & Bucks Middle School Male Traditional 1. Gavin McMinn, 212, ACUSA 2. Jarred Richards, 129, Bass & Bucks 3. Wade Harrison, 88, Attica Middle School Female Traditional 1. Ashlev Virgin, 262 2-12's, ACUSA 2. Chloe Ungetheim, 227 2-12’s, ACUSA Middle School Female Olympic Recurve 1. Natalie Cash, 199, Pinehill High School Male Fixed Pins 1. Cameron Sesco, 312 11-12’s, Bass & Bucks 2. Caleb Skelton, 300 6-12’s, ACUSA 3. Blake Brosmer, 297 6-12’s, Blackhawk High School Female Fixed Pins 1. Nikki Bollman, 304 6-12’s, Hilltop 2. Willow Krantz, 304 6-12’s, ACUSA 3. Hope Dodd, 285 7-12’s, ACUSA High School Male Open 1. Cole Knox, 326 14-12’s, Steve’s Pro Shop 2. Luke Schirmer, 322 13-2’s, Pine Hill 3. Matthew Holley, 322 13-12’s, Blackhawk High School Female Open 1. Hannah Drudge, 310 7-12’s, Bass & Bucks 2. Dakatoh Meadows, 308 8-12’s, Attica 3. Mackenzie Hessong, 301 7-12’s, Pine Hill High School Male Traditional 1. Ben Geise, 286 3-12’s, Steve’s Pro Shop 2. Kenny Puckett, 188 1-12, Pine Hill
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Kentucky Scholastic 3-D Archery (S3DA) State Tournament Results
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Louisville, KY - Kentucky archers were happy to
see sunshine, clear skies and warm temperatures on Saturday, May 20, as they competed in the 2017 Kentucky State 3-D Tournament. The tournament reached another record total of 300 competing archers and was held at the Pulaski County Park in Nancy,
Girls checking out the vital zone on an uphill target. “Finding a space to accommodate 300 archers is a task and finding a space to accommodate all of the parents, grandparents and other spectators is even more difficult,” stated Kentucky State coordinator Chris McDonald. “Pulaski County Park was a great
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location with future potential for growth. The park includes approximately 800 acres with rental cabins, campsites, boat ramps, hiking and biking trails, 2 disc golf courses, 2 playgrounds and much more. It’s been great to see the progression the kids have made over the past few months.” Each range, elementary, middle, and high school was set in a unique location in the park and each had its own challenges. Having each range separate made it more enjoyable for the spectators with less congestion. The middle school range had some extreme downhill shots. “Well, they disappeared down in that dark hole. I think there’s a target in there somewhere,” said one of the middle school spectators. While the middle school range had downhill shots the high school range consisted of almost all extreme uphill shots. “The state tournament is always a challenge and this one was no different but 1 enjoyed it,” said high school archer, Bethany Groce. “It challenged us to think about our shot and put our knowledge to work.” The 2017 outdoor season presented some good challenges and some not so good challenges. Increasing numbers of archers is always a good challenge, but the weather is one of those not so great challenges. It certainly takes a team of people that are willing to put in some long hours to make a season run smoothly. As the 2017 Kentucky S3DA 3D season comes to a close planning for the next season is already in progress. Scores on next page. to have access to full-size 3-D animal targets. We look forward to having their company grow along with our program in the coming years.” “Bigshot and R&W 3-D targets are delighted to support the S3DA program,” said Al Perelli, President of R&W 3-D Targets. “Scholastic 3-D Archery represents a tremendous opportunity for young archers to learn the joy of archery and the outdoors. We also believe that S3DA stands alone as a program that brings the proper balance of skill and engagement to educate future generations on the ethics and excitement of bowhunting.” Started in December 2012 by the Scholastic Archery Association, S3DA has grown exponentially as a next step program to follow introductory programs offered as part of 4-H or the National Archery in Schools Program. S3 DA addresses the need for a program to bridge beginning target archery experience and more advanced activities such as 3-D shooting and bowhunting. The program currently operates across the United States with hundreds of certified coaches serving thousands of young archers, grades 3-12. WWW.S3DA.ORG or email: infos3darchery@ gmail.com Check out S3DA on Facebook U.S. Archer Inc. 34th Anniversary
School Team Awards: High School: F' Apollo 2nd Daviess County 3rd Boyd County Middle School: T' College dew 2"d Daviess County 3rd West Carter Club Team Awards: High School: Is' CK Nock Busters Middle School: F' Impact Archery Elementary: F' CK Nock Busters 2"d Impact Archery
2017 Kentucky State 3-D Tournament Results:
HS Male Open: 1st Jase Boils 2"d Tanner Barker 3rd Jimmy Gibson HS Male Pins: Is' Elliott Cross 2"d Aaron Adams 3rd Lucas Gillaspie HS Male Olympic Recurve: F' Robert Dick HS Male Traditional: F' Kody Kline 2"d Darrell Turner 3rd Tristan Kitchens HS Female Open: Is' Kaylee Brown 2nd Natalie Brockman 3rd Meg Curtis HS Female Pins: F' Gertie Heavner 2"d Holly Armstrong 3rd Taylor Adkinson HS Female Olympic Recurve: Is' Olivia Harner HS Female Traditional: F' Danielle Underwood 2nd Taylar Middleton 3rd Cambron Johnson MS Male Open: Is' Grayson Montgomery 2nd Tucker Strong 3rd Asa Flowers MS Male Pins: F' Kenton Banks 2"d Shane Truett 3rd Jerrad Brown MS Male Traditional: Ist Nate Jarboe
2nd Lucas Wheatley 3rd Jack Haley MS Female Open: Is' Tyra McWilliams 2"d Serena Witt MS Female Pins: F' Madison Richardson 2nd Harley Wilson 3rd A K Warren MS Female Olympic Recurve: 1“ Natalie Williams MS Female Traditional: F' Rickalyn Raybourn 2"d Audrey Routte 3rd Raelei Wallace EL Male Open: F' Tanner Willis 2"d Landyn Cox 3rd Elijah Cook
EL Male Pins: F' Michael Prince 2nd Bently Boils 3rd Rylan Long EL Male Olympic Recurve: F' Ethan Williams EL Male Traditional: F‘ Addan Witt 2nd Jason Purvis 3rd Ethan Fields EL Female Pins: F' Becky Heavner 2nd Landrey Prewitt 3rd A udrey Kaylor EL Female Traditional: F' Isabella Moore 2nd Mary Jurns 3rd Anya Carson
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Wisconsin Scholastic 3-D Archery (S3DA) 2017 3-D State Championship
Louisville, KY - Winnebago Aichers, in Neenah WL hosted the Wisconsin S3DA state 3-D championship on June 3rd, 2017. Despite a few raindrops and storms early in the day, the kids and families had fun. Some of the kids were competing for the first time in an outdoor 3-D tournament. Winnebago Archers did a fantastic job getting the range ready despite some flooding conditions from the week before. Everyone was well fed, safe and had fun. Thanks to all the volunteers, the folks at TUFFY'S Outpost and Lakeshore Bowhunters of Fond U Lac, for donating awards and prizes for the event. Thanks also to the parents of the Blazin Arrows S3DA club for the tasty treats and for handling registration and tallying the results.
Wisconsin State tournament Results: ELEMENTARY FEMALE TRADITIONAL
Dorothy Peck Hannah Cleland
Brompton Stingers - 118 Brompton Stingers - 86
ELEMENTARY FEMALE FIXED
Charlotte Kahl Lanie Mallmann Madlyn Harkus Evy Drozd Hannah Riehl
Brompton Stingers - 161 Blazin Arrows - 148 Brompton Stingers - 141 Blazin Arrows - 119 Blazin Arrows - 72
ELEMENTARY FEMALE OPEN
Bryn Fuchs Carmen Herbeck
Blazin Arrows - 145 Fond du Lac - 140
ELEMENTARY MALE TRADITIONAL
Eligh Peck
Brompton Stingers - 53
ELEMENTARY MALE FIXED
Anothony Leiting
Brompton Stingers - 77
ELEMENTARY MALE OPEN
Briar Wirtz
Fond du Lac - 205
MIDDLE SCHOOL FEMALE OPEN
Makiya Ervin-Young Blazin Arrows - 252 Tessa Wirtz Fond du Lac - 230 Taylor Clark Brompton Stingers - 225 MIDDLE SCHOOL MALE FIXED
Hunter Miller Zachary Berndt Ryan Breitrick Christian De Bruin
Blazin Arrows - 144 Blazin Arrows - 143 Blazin Arrows - 122 Blazin Arrows - 108
MIDDLE SCHOOL MALE OPEN
Brady Buss Cole Penn Sam Schaefer Darin Horneck Owen Coon Jacob Parker Rudy Drozd
Fond du Lac - 210 Blazin Arrows - 194 Fond du Lac - 192 Blazin Arrows - 169 Blazin Arrows - 159 Blazin Arnows - 157 Blazin Arrows - 141
HIGH SCHOOL FEMALE FIXED
Blazin Arrows - 166 Blazin Arrows - 126
MIDDLE SCHOOL FEMALE TRADITIONAL
Savanna Miller Katie Fox
Rosie Cobb
HIGH SCHOOL FEMALE OPEN
Blazin Arrows - 80
MIDDLE SCHOOL FEMALE FIXED
Tori Schmidt Halley Cleland Olivia Nachtigal
Fond du Lac - 127 Brompton Stingers - 51 Brompton Stingers - 36
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Paige Fuchs
Blazin Arrows - 181
HIGH SCHOOL MALE FIXED
Austin Horneck
Blazin Arrows - 155
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Riley Sabel Fond du Lac - 198 Started in December 2012 by the Scholastic Archery Association, S3DA has grown exponentially as a next step program to follow introductory programs offered as part of 4-H or the National Archery in Schools Program. S3 DA addresses the need for a program to bridge beginning target archery experience and more advanced activities such as 3-D shooting and bowhunting. The program currently operates across the United States with hundreds of certified coaches servingthousands of young archers, grades 3-12. WWW.S3DA.ORG or email: infos3darchery@gmail. com Check out S3 DA on Facebook U.S. Archer Inc. 34th Anniversary
If I Should Die Before I Wake by B. Howard Coffey
Revelation 3:2, “Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God. ” When you were young, did your nightly prayer have a line in it, “If I should die before I wake”? Many of us were taught to pray that simple prayer. It made perfect sense to us, or did it. Actually when we are young, we are going to live forever. The thought of dicing never occurs to us. Now it occurs to me that “Age cures many bad habits” is so true. Perhaps I should add that age limits several good habits as well. For instance, I don’t hunt nearly as much as I once did. Haven’t played basketball since I was 35. Played my last softball game after I turned 60, and now I don’t shoot 3-D. My goodness! What’s left? Well, let’s see. There’s relaxing in my recliner, watching the Outdoor Channel. Oh, and while relaxing, I seem to nap a lot. Then, of course, there’s driving down to McDonalds for a diet drink. Along the way I take the back roads to see i f the deer or turkey are visiting the
fields to eat. After all that exercise and exertion, I get to mow the lawn and water my tomatoes. Occasionally, I may shoot close to a squirrel in an effort to scare him from my bird feeder. My day is so filled with exercise that I’m just like the Statler Brothers and their solitaire game with a deck of 51 cards. Really though, there is so much to do that I’m glad I turned 74 in May. So if you haven’t gotten there just yet, feel blessed and begin to become more active. As always, shoot straight, with your life and your bow. We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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ouisville, Kentucky, fa mous for the great Ali, baseball bats, and fast horses, once again hosted the highly an ticipated 2017 National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP®) national tournament. This was NASP®’s fifteenth national tour nament since its inception on March 3, 2002. Student archers, coaches, parents, and friends from forty-one states and Washington DC gathered at the Louisville Ex position Center from May 11-13 for three record-breaking tourna ments under one roof! In addition to the near ly 30,000 friends and family in attendance, 14,492 youth were present and eager to participate in
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Elementary Individual 3D Champions the world’s largest archery tour mentary, middle school, and high nament. This was a 12.4 percent school divisions. Like previous increase over the 2016’s nation tournaments, there were twenty als! Not only did NASP® see an flights, and each flight was sev increase in the bulls-eye compe enty-five minutes in length. As tition, but the International Bow the bulls-eye competition com Hunting Organization 3D Chal menced, each archer took to their lenge (NASP/IBO/3D Challenge) assigned lane where each shot 5 entertained 4,123 shooters, six practice and 15 scoring arrows hundred more than last year. Fi from both 10 and 15 meter shoot nally, 1,850 participated in Cen ing lines. A perfect score of 300 tershot Ministries’ (“archery in (30 bullseyes) has never been shot the church”) tournament, double at Nationals, but several come the record attendance established close. The results of the bulls-eye in 2016. Including participants, competition are as follows. more than 45,000 people attended, In the elementary division, including the 240 hard working Austin Hall, a fifth grader from volunteers that make this event Northern Elementary, received possible every year. top honors with his score of 292. Shooters competed in eleFrom White Hall Elementary, U.S. Archer Inc. 34th Anniversary
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with a 298. Bailey White, also an eleventh grader from Lawrence County Fligh School achieved the top female rank with her score of 298. As you can see from the results, NASP® is truly a co-gender sport. In fact, 47 % of the par ticipants were female and the top boy and top girl BOTH shot a near perfect 298 out of a possible 300. NASP® had one of its highest numbers of tied scores this year, fifteen to be exact! In fact, during the tie-breakers archers continued to match scores! After ties were
settled, bows were racked and arrows put away, Lawrenceburg, Kentucky’s Henry Thompson was the overall male champion, and Bailey White from Monticello, MS took overall female! Congrat ulations Bailey and Henry on your achievements! Of course, the national tour nament wouldn’t be complete without the scholarship shoot-off. During this part of the tourna ment, the top five male and female archers had a chance to shoot for an array of cash scholarships to
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be utilized for any post-secondary education of their choosing. This year NASP® gave away S105,000 in individual cash scholarships. The results of the scholarship shoot-off are as follows: In the male category, T. Sanchez was the winner of the S20k scholarship. Henry Thompson won S15k schol arship, Todd Craghead received the $ 1 Ok scholarship, Aiden Jones received $5k, and Chance Sabot received S2.5k. In the female cat egory, winning the $20k scholar ship was Sydney Vivian. Saman tha Hartman-Stackhouse received SI5k, Bailey White S1 Ok, Maria Zielinkski, shooting a borrowed bow, won the $5k scholarship, and finally, Anne Reinkemeyer re ceived S2.5k in cash scholarships. Congratulations archers! Team scholarships were also awarded to each of the 24 members of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd placing High School (HS) teams. Thanks to Academy Sports each of the 1 st place HS team members was awarded a S1,000 scholarship. Easton Technical Products provid ed $750 to each of the 2nd place HS team members, and American Whitetail Targets provided $500 to each 3rd place HS team mem ber. During the 2017 NASP® tournament awards program, Easton Technical Products, title sponsor of the NASP® Academic Archer Program, awarded a prize package to the top male and fe male Academic Archer in each of the three bullseye divisions - ele mentary, middle school and high school. Each prize package includ ed Easton arrows, Easton accesso ries, a Delta McKenzie Target and a Hoyt bow of their choice. With all the excitement that radiates from the students, we often forget that NASP® has a profound affect not only on the youth competing, but their parents as well. During the national tour nament, a father approached Roy Grimes, President of NASP® to let him know just what NASP® has meant to him over the years. He said, “I’ve been attending
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years. Easton Technical Products (TP) provides the arrows while Morrell Targets are used at the competition. Of course, Mathews Archery' provides all the bows for the archers to use, as well. These are just a few of the many sponsors who donate to NASP®. TruBall’s Ben Summers was very excited to witness his first NASP® nationals as was his son who competed in the event. “This was my favorite archery tournament that I’ve ever attended, including the Olympics and [the] World Cup Finals in Copenhagen and Lausanne, Swit zerland. You all should be com31
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mended on how well the tournament was run and tor the enormous positive [affect] that it has for archery! Thanks for the great memories!” As the 2017 NASP® nationals wrapped up on Mother’s Day weekend and kids returned home, the program and its top achievers prepare for fun in the sun at the 2017 world tournament in cheery Orlando, Florida. Worlds will take place July 21 and 22nd at the Orange County Convention Center. So, the beautiful and quick ponies need to make a bit of room, because Louisville has become famous for the world’s largest archery tournaments as well! For further information and results, please can visit www.nasptoumaments.org-
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3D Champions (l-r)- Runner-up - Tabitha Way - Carolina Warriors Homeschool Archery (SC), Champion - Dorothy Cobb -Allen High School (Texas) , Runner-up - Henry Thompson -Anderson County Middle School (KY) & Champion - Cole Luburgh - Philo High (OH) ouisville, KY, home to Center. At this year’s tournament, Challenge a total of 4,209 youth the Kentucky Derby and students not only got to participate registered, and 4,122 participated popular for the Louisville Slugger in the highly anticipated bulls-eye in the challenge; a phenomenal baseball bat, is increasingly tournament, but also competed ninety-eight percent show-rate. becoming known for hosting in a “wild” opportunity with This established, for the 3rd year National Archery in the Schools the International Bowhunting in a row, a new world record for Program (NASP®) national Organizations 3-Dimensional the largest 3D archery tournament tournaments at the Exposition (NASP®/ IBO 3D) Challenge. in terms of participation. Thirty The NASP®/IBO 3D seven states participated in the Challenge was invented for the shoot-off and some of the top sixty-five percent of the NASP® archers from the challenge resided SUBSCRIBE to the student archer population who from states including: Missouri, U.S. Archer at: wanted to take part in a more Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio! 520-742-5846 “realistic” experience with Another exciting accomplishment $19.95 targets that were simulated at this year’s competition was the for one year in US wild beasts. These simulations ratio ofgirls and boys participating, $38.95 include: Turkeys, Coyotes, Bears, which was 46:54. It’s a great day Pronghorn Antelope, Whitetail in the world of archery when both for two years in US Deer, and Sheep. There were boys and girls are enjoying the Canada 1 year eighteen identical ranges set up sport! $39.95 USD for this challenge, and each range As the tournament All other Countries included one of these unique commenced, each archer got to 1 year $49.95 USD replicas. shoot five practice arrows. Two At this year’s IBO 3D hundred and sixteen youth shot
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in each of the twenty flights, and each flight was seventy-five minutes in length. As students began to shoot, results started rolling in. The top female shooter for the 3D challenge was Dorothy Cobb. Dorothy is an eleventh grader who attends Allen High School in Allen, Texas. She shot a total of 295 out of a possible 300. Right behind her taking runner-up is Tabitha Way with 294 points. Tabitha is a twelfth grader who attended Carolina Warriors Homeschool from Chesney, South Carolina. In the male division, the overall male winner went to Cole Luburgh, a twelfth grader who attended Philo High School. Cole is from Duncan Falls, Ohio, and he shot a 298. Taking second place was Henry Thompson, an eighth grader from Anderson County Middle School in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. He also shot a 298. After a close tiebreaker, the overall championship went to Cole! Congratulations to all of our youth on their outstanding accomplishments! Of course, just like in the bulls-eye competition, scholarship awards are given to the top individual and team contenders who participated in the 3D challenge. These cash scholarships can be used towards any post-secondary education of the student’s choosing. The following awards went to these students and teams. Dorothy Cobb and Cole Luburgh, the top overall male and female, both received one thousand dollars in cash scholarships. The runner-ups, Tabitha Way and Henry Thompson received seven hundred and fifty dollars. Awards are also given to the overall team and second place high school teams. The overall team scholarship went to Hartland High School located in Hartland, Michigan. Each team member received five hundred dollars. Second place went to Lincoln City High School located in Stanford, Kentucky. Each team member was awarded three hundred and seventy-five dollars. Scholarship
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he National Archery in the Schools Program Announces the 2017 winners for the On Target for Life Awards and Recognition Program. The OTFLA program is intended to recognize and celebrate the many instances where in school archery, and the people involved with it, are positively impacting the lives of 2.23 million NASP® student archers each year. Since its inception in 2002, NASP® has continued to hear powerful examples of how in school archery has positively impacted the lives of students and adults. The OTFLA program is intended to capture examples of the “best” of what NASP® is doing in 47 states and 11 jurisdictions with both team and individual awards. In November of 2015, National NASP® leadership and a group of NASP® educators/coaches and students met to discuss ways to further enhance the 16- year-old program. A system of recognitions and awards to capture the many “positives” that go on behind the scenes of NASP® was recommended. As a result, the following awards and recognitions were recognized at the 2017 National NASP® tournament: The Community Service Award is a team award intended to recognize outstanding service to a community from a NASP® team or class. The 2017 winner was: Chesapeake Elementary School - West Virginia The Bullseye Award is an individual award for a NASP® Student that has made notable positive strides in academic performance and behavior through their involvement with the program. The 2017 winner
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egistration for the Academic Archer program concluded for the 2016/2017 school year on April 30th with 19,381 students enrolled into the program. Educators from 40 US states, three Canadian Provinces, and schools from the British Virgin Islands implemented the NASP® Academic Archer Program with their students. For the 2016/17 school year, Easton Technical Products, a long time NASP® sponsor, became the title sponsor of the Academic Archer program. ETP recognized the value of academic emphasis for all students early on, and wanted to help NASP® promote the concept. Since then, growth has been substantial. Mark Pezzoni, President of Easton Technical Products said, “The NASP® Academic Archer program is a great inspirational and motivational driver of academic and archery achievement. Perhaps Anna Howard said it best in a letter she wrote: “...I like the NASP® Archery Program because it helped me through a hard time when my best friend died from cancer. It has helped with my concentration on my school work, it also makes me tty even harder to get good grades, so I can continue to shoot and qualified for Academic Archer...” Mark continued, “1 feel that our partnership with NASP® is one of the clearest examples where we can illustrate the wisdom of investing in our youth. Hearing from students like Anna Howard, and seeing the students and families participating in the program at the National Tournament and beyond, simply makes me feel honored to be a sponsor and promoter of what is good for kids.” Following the close of registration for Academic Archer, NASP® conducted a random computer drawing from among all registered students and selected ten student names. Each of these young people won a new Genesis Bow of their choice and custom Easton AA Arrows! NASP® would like to thank a generous sponsor who purchased the bows, and Easton Archery for donating the arrows. 2017 Winners include: HALLIE CRANE ST MARY’S NORTH VERNON IN GARRETT DELONG RAVENSWOOD MIDDLE WV ZECHARIAH LILLY ELON ELEMENTARY VA ALYSSA LAVIANA NORTH MURRAY HIGH SCHOOL GA CAMILLA WEAVER HICKORY COUNTY R-I/ SKYLINE MO SHYLA PONCE RICO BUSBEE CREATIVE ARTS ACADEMY SC JOB HINKLE TRI VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL OH
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SIERRA LIEF ANAMOSA MIDDLE SCHOOL IA TRINA HURTADO BATONELEMEMENTARYNC JAKE ANGLIN WACO ELEMENTARY KY Academic Archer will be opened in early September for the 2017/2018 school year. NASP® is hoping to see the number top 50,000 students soon. It is our intention to increasingly send the strongest message possible, about how teaching archery as part of the school curriculum, is important to the mission of educators. As you can see, the ten lucky Academic Archers were vety excited to receive their new equipment. Perhaps a qualifying student from your local school will be among the winners next year! For more information on beginning the Academic Archer program in your school: Please visit the Academic Archer toolkit Or Contact Dr. Tommy Floyd at: tommy.floyd@ naspschools.org
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ment on the line. It is not likely that they are doing these behaviors on purpose but our own standards highlight these as annoyances. So cially Prescribed Perfectionism de scribes a standard that is assumedly accepted by the social structure of the community in which the performance takes place (the out side world). The source of this perfectionism may be at odds with the athlete’s internal make-up and as such, is not conducive to high performance. We would prefer to have our inside world dictate our high standards. Our own Better Your Best athletes score high on both of these inventories, but they are not at the maximum values. However, some of our less skilled performers have higher levels of perfectionism than our gold med al winners and our true champions who have won in multiple arenas. More is not always Best! It starts to run our performance and any thing that starts to run us causes a decline in performance. Questions to ponder 1. What excites you most about the future? 2. What setback ended up being your greatest lesson? 3. What does the vividly imagined future look like? 4. How hard are you willing to work to achieve your vividly imag ined future? 5. What distractions are you allow ing to influence you now? 6. What stops you from letting go? 7. What activates you to keep go ing toward your vividly imagined future? Dr. Debbie Crews is CEO and president of Opti Internation al, a performance optimization company offering neurofeedback apps and performance improve ment systems to Better Your Best™. For more information on tools and techniques to improve your performance as well as Bet ter Your Best™ opportunities to strengthen thefive elements listed above, visit the website at: www. myoptibrain.com 38
2017 NASP® All-American Academic Team Announced
ased on the results of the 2017 NASP® Na tional Tournament and using rosters of all 19,831 registered Academic Archers, NASP® an nounces it second All-American Academic Teams in Elementary, Middle School, and High School Divisions for 2017. These student archers not only excelled on the
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In every walk of life, be it athletic performance, business, music performance, to name a few, we see the dynamic of a por tion of the population rising far above the others when it comes to their performance. They are not just in the top 10th percentile; their performance is exponentially superior. They are the cream of the crop. What differentiates these super-performers? What do they have that others do not? Is it tal ent? Is it hard work? What are the characteristics that set them apart? For anyone in the perfor mance coaching arena, this is the age-old question that invites us to identify the characteristics that point toward excellence. Our search started with a discussion of leadership. First and foremost, our observations of these su per-performers indicates that they are leaders of themselves first, and often of others as well. Those who excel in any endeavor, who strive always to be Better Than Their Best1'' are leaders. They are the CEOs of their own life who take charge, set challenging goals and are committed to their vision. They are willing to take the lead, to have a target on their back, to be the one to catch. They do not hesitate to start strong and finish strong and they are willing to take cutting edge approaches to their pursuit of excellence. There are many protocols out there that measure confidence, commitment, etc., but for the ba sis of our research, we looked to the extreme sports world. These sports: big wave surfing, extreme skiing, rock climbing to name a few require an intensity of focus and the athletes themselves will tell you the importance of finding See previous articles on Opti International in the March/ April and May/June issues. 40
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the “zone”. In these sports, fail ure to find the “zone” will likely end in severe consequences and has led to our understanding that the skill of finding the “zone” can be learned. Using proven assess ments and evaluations, studying the research, and considering our own experiences in a number of performance arenas, we identified five elements that are present to a high degree in the super-perform ers. These elements help them to achieve synergy, which combines the balance of Body, Mind and Spirit, with a connection to the environment, allowing them to achieve a state beyond their best; what we call Better Than Their Best™ performance. Obviously evaluations and assessments come with question naires, and while we can’t say that every super-performer is placed on the high end of each question naire, we can say that the elite tend to score on the high side of the five elements, leading to Better Your BestTM performance. The five elements are: Cour age, Forward Focus, Adventure Mindset, Authenticity and Con nectedness. In this two-part se ries we will first cover Courage and Forward Focus and follow up in the next issue with Adventure Mindset, Authenticity and Con nectedness. While courage is an over used characteristic in leadership circles and other walks of life, it does not take much to realize it is a key component of any suc cessful performance. For many it starts with the courage to take part, to put yourself out there and be in the arena. For others it is the cour age to make challenging decisions under pressure and to trust your instincts with regard to those deci sions as you carry them out. Cour age is a critical component to take
on the field with you and often it is left behind. Courage is defined as the willingness to tackle action and has 4 components: 1.) free choice to accept or not accept the con sequences of acting, 2.) risk of danger, 3.) a worthy end, and 4.) uncertainty of outcome. Fear does not need to be present to be coura geous. However, we often believe we have to have fear to be cou rageous and this may be why we don’t think of taking it to the field when we perform. Super-per formers understand the value of courage and they also understand that most of what we fear in the athletic arena is driven by the unknown and is fertilized by the emotions associated with that un known. After all, the sport we play is not about life and death. When you break down the fear to the underlying emotions, it is much easier to then focus on the facts to move through the discomfort. And if the facts of the present moment don’t contribute to a great state of mind for shooting the next arrow, we use imagery to imagine exactly what we want to do! Courage is measured through a questionnaire that asks participants how they would re spond in certain scenarios, and then asks them to rate how likely they are to “act” in that scenario. There are many facets that po tentially engage courage during performance: perceived physical threat, perceived emotional threat, threat of moral integrity, unknown consequences of action, to name a few. Digging deeper into the cause of our inability to act allows us to separate emotion and fact and often, that alone can enable us to gather the courage to act in the face of perceived fear. The abili ty to act in spite of the unknown is key to success in sport and can U.S. Archer Inc. 34th Anniversary
be observed in every high reward performance. Questions to ponder 1. When do you think courage is required in your sport? 2. What is it you “need” during your performance that causes fear? 3. How is fear holding you back? 4. When are you the most coura geous in your sport? 5. What are the underlying emo tions behind what you fear? 6. What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? 7. What strategy have you always wanted to implement in your per formance but never did? What stopped you? Forward Focus is an ele ment of mindset and attitude that demands a proactive versus re active approach to performance. With Forward Focus, you involve yourself in ideas and activities that move you toward your vivid ly imagined future, bringing that image to the present in order to give it proper attention. You sur round yourself with positive en ergy and leverage distractions to stay on track. You are resilient to rise above stress, adversity and setbacks. You learn from the past but otherwise spend no time re viewing or reliving past actions. You use pressure and importance of an event to focus forward only, and perform your process. As you engage fully, you are driven by curiosity to create and seek a state of “flow”, the “zone” that follows your focus and leads you to Better Than Their Best™
Forward focused athletes are excited about the future and what it holds. They can’t wait to apply the lessons of the past tournament to the next one. Often, their great est setback leads them forward to unimaginable achievement, as they do not allow themselves to be stuck in the past wallowing in what could have been. These ath letes are capable of imagining the most inspiring outcomes and they anchor those images directly in front of them, believing them to be within reach. Being stuck on a plateau is furthest from their
minds as it is simply seen as a step toward their goal. There is no im patience with the depth of the step since their eyes are always mov ing toward the next incline. Super-performers have learned the skill of letting go — letting go of thoughts, actions and experiences that do not serve the pursuit of their vividly imagined future. Many people hang on to the hurts, disappointments and trauma that life serves up, for it is more comfortable to avoid the edge of discovery and glory. The edge of victory can be scary and many prefer to steer clear of the discomfort. Super-performers rel ish the edge; they only see the vic tory that is in front of them. They can de-emphasize those elements that do not pave the way toward the goal, the risks and pitfalls they see them for what they are, distractions, and they choose to focus forward. The future is full of possibility and they are hungry for the chance to achieve it all. To evaluate an athlete with regard to Forward Focus, we re view questionnaires that measure positivity, negativity, and perfec tionism. We also use baseline Opti Brain maps to assess brain activ ity — we interpret whether per formers are more left or right side dominant, stronger in thoughts or emotions, and whether they are motivated by moving toward an activity (shooting a 10) or away from an activity (not missing a 10). All of these measures help us understand how an archer per forms Best and how we can help
them Better Their Best! We know that positive and neutral attitudes result in strong performance and negative attitudes result in lesser performance. So where an ath lete falls on the Positive Affect or Negative Affect scale is a critical starting point for developing pos itive attitudes across a number of scenarios. Perfectionism is an inter esting concept. We use two in ventories to assess perfectionism. The first scale measures adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism. High level performers have high standards and we measure this. In addition, they often have a need for order which can help athletes perform. The last subscale of this measure is maladaptive perfec tionism. This scale tells the dif ference between where we think we “should” be and where we are now. This measure can help iden tify when anxiety, fear, self-doubt, lack of confidence, etc. can set in. The second inventory measures Perfectionism across three areas: Self Oriented, Other Oriented and Socially Prescribed. Self-Orient ed Perfectionism is driven from an internal standard created by the individual athlete and is a positive indicator for success. High scores in Other Oriented perfectionism indicates a high standard we might have for the people around us and can interfere with performance due to our own distraction. For example, we may be irritated by a competitor’s loud bow, slow addi tion for scoring or constant moveContinued on page 38,
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Easton Southwest Shoot Out Stop #3 on the ASA Pro/Am Tour... Paris, Texas by April Girvin, arcHer
April & Joey Girvin
Women’s Pro (L to R): Emily McCarthy - 2nd Place, Kailey Johnston - 1st Place, Sharon Carpenter - 3rd Place Here we are ladies and gentleman! For the 11th year, archers from all over the country descended upon the welcoming town of Paris, Texas. As we packed up the car and headed out on our 13-hour trip to Paris, I found myself excited to get there and practice in the warm weather. The question able Indiana weather had put a damper on our own practice prior to the tournament, but we were deter mined to arrive, shoot well and have a great time with our archery friends and family. I follow many different archers on Facebook, pros and amateurs alike and read about some horri ble incidents with those of you who were flying to the tournament. Storms delaying flights for 1-2 days...bows arriving in Dallas, Texas, but the shooter wouldn’t be arriving until after the tournament. Yuck! I know of one family that ended up renting a car, driv ing an obscene amount of hours from Atlanta to Dal las (their flight was delayed two days), picked up their bows and then drove back to Paris for the tournament. What aggravation laced with a lot of dedication you guys have! We’re glad everyone made it to the tour nament safe! A little quick arcHER news...arcHER debuted their arcHER travel vendor trailer at the Paris event! Combined with our purple canopy, you’ll definitely Women's Pro Kailey Johnston 403/9
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Senior Pro (L to R): Darren Collins - 2nd Place, Tony Tazza - 1st Place, Art Brown - 3rd Place
be able to spot us in any tournament village. Come by and check out our merchandise. Support our female arcHERs! Your purchases allow us to give away con tingency money at each of the ASA Pro/Am events. For instance, in Foley, our spotlight women’s class receiving contingency was High School Open Girls; in Ft. Benning, we gave out contingency to Women’s Hunter and here in Paris, we are giving away contin gency to Women’s Open B. Good luck ladies!!! Women’s Pro Shootdown Kailey Johnston - 403 / 9; Emily McCarthy 403 / 7; Sharon Carpenter - 390 / 3; Sarah Martin 383 / 8 and Connie Calloway - 393 / 10. The first target of the Women’s shootdown was a little bittersweet...Kailey Johnston starts out with a five on the new Lynx and Women’s Pro Rookie Sar ah Martin misses the Hill Country Deer, while Emily McCarthy takes over the leader position with a 10 and Sharon Carpenter puts the smack down on a 12. After four targets, the wind continues to wreak havoc on the ladies; Emily’s arrow is blown out to the left for an 8, while Kailey picks up a 10, attempting to shrink the gap. With five tremendous shots fired by our female pros, the 6th and final arrow comes down to Sharon, Kailey and Emily. Sharon shoots first, attempting a shot at the 14, but scores an 8. Kailev shoots a 12 on
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462/14
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456/13
466/13
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Tony Tana 416/ 12
Sharon Carpenter 390/3
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391/5
401/8
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J antes Frazier411/19
Connie Calloway 383 /7
393/7
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409/7
419/7
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her 6th and final arrow, forcing Emily to shoot a 10 to tie or a 12 to win. Emily calls the upper 12, draws back on the Hill Country Deer, shoots and lands low under the 10...crowning Kailey Johnston the 2017 Southwest Shootout Champion and recipient of her 1 st Texas belt buckle since turning Pro in 2011. Ex citing shootdown ladies!!! Way to brave the wind! 1! Senior Pro Shootdown Darren Collins - 417 / 13; Tony Tazza - 416 / 12; Art Brown - 412 / 10; James Frazier - 411 / 19 and Carl Adkins - 411/12. The Senior Pros were looking for a lull in the wind for their shootdown, but it just wasn’t in the cards. After the first two targets, and 8s and 10s for all of our shooters, for target #3, Super Slam Hunter, and current leader, Darren Collins drops to his knees (low ering his center of gravity and reducing the amount of body surface area for the wind to attack) and it pays off with a 12 on the Black Panther; creating a three point lead off of Tony Tazza. James Frazier, in his Senior Pro Shootdown debut, continues his hunt for a top three finish, but struggles a little with some 8s and a 10. In the fifth arrow, James scores a 5, unfortunate ly not enough for a 6th and final arrow, and finishes in 5th place; while Darren Collins shoots from his knees again, and after two let-downs, MUST shoot his third drawn arrow and scores a 5; Tony Tazza scores a 10 and pulls into the lead by four points! For the 6th and final arrow at the Javelina, Carl Adkins makes a play for a 14, but shoots a 5 high; Art Brown calls for an upper 12, and hits just under and keeps it in the 10ring. Darren Collins shoots his 6th and final arrow for a 10, forcing Tony Tazza to hit an 8 for the win. With two umbrellas protecting him from the wind and sun, Tony effortlessly shoots an arrow into the center
10! Great shooting guys! Great to watch such expe rienced archers in less than ideal weather! Open Pro Shootdown Levi Morgan - 434 / 19; Tommy Gomez - 424 / 17; Dan McCarthy - 424 / 15; Joseph Goza - 424 / 13 and Darrin Christenberry - 422 / 19. With second place only separated by bonus rings, the Open Pros shootdown was sure to give the crowd a good show. Right out of the gate, Levi Morgan and Dan McCarthy pound out 12s on their first target, while the remaining members of the field score 10s. With Dan following up his 12 with an 8, he drops right back into a tie with Tommy and Joseph. Levi and Darrin continue to make solid shots in the wind, both scoring a 10. Dan scores a 12 on his third arrow and with Tommy scoring an 8 (caused by a lit tle bit of wind drift) on the Hill Country Deer, Dan pulls into 2nd place by two points over Joseph. The breeze continues to gust becoming a little more stout as the day rolls on and on the fourth target, Darrin and Levi both let down twice, forcing a shot on the third draw. Beginning the shootdown with a 10-point lead, the odds were in Levi’s favor, however with the tremendous talent out on the field with him, he was in no position to let off the gas. There was no need for a 6th and final arrow.. .after five arrows and five tar gets; Levi takes the win with a 12-point lead over 2nd place, Dan McCarthy and 16 points over 3rd place, Darrin Christenberry. Congratulations, gentlemen!! Known Pro Lewis Holmes, III - 454 / 28; Chance Beaubouef- 450 / 25; Tim Gillingham - 442 / 24; Stephan Hansen - 442 / 23 and Chris Perkins - 442 / 23. Heading into the shootdown, we find Lewis Holmes, III with a four-point lead over Chance Beau-
Open Pro (L to R): Danny McCarthy - 2nd Place, Levi Morgan - 1st Place, Darrin Christenberry - 3rd Place
Known Pro (L to R): Chris Perkins - 2nd Place, Lewis Holmes 1st Place, Chance Beaubouef - 3rd Place
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488/21
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468/21
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452/17
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446 / 20
Tommy Gomez 424/ 17
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Dan McCarthy424/ 15
436/16
444/16
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466/17
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466/29
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460/25
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477/26
487 / 26
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456/25
464/25
472/25
477/25
485/25
462/13
472 / 13
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457/23
469/24
479 / 24
462/19
Stephan Hansen442/23
472/19
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476/25
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The most liked guy m archery, Darrin Christenberry, in the hunt for a coveted ASA Texas Pro/Am Buckle.
bouef and a 12-point lead over a tied up 3rd place, separated by bonus rings, Tim Gillingham, Stephan Hansen and Chris Perkins. PSE Teammates Lewis and Stephan making their Known Pro Shootdown debut here at the ASA Southwest Shootout...Lewis holds nothing back starting his five-target round with a 12. Tim and Stephan begin their round on their knees, again lowering their center of gravity to get out of the wind. And in a somewhat typical Tim-fashion, he’s looking for 14s. He takes a 14 on his first target, but the remaining possibilities for a 14 elude him, finishing in 5th place. Scoring a 5 on his 2nd tar get, Stephan loses some ground trying to catch Lewis, who stays pretty solid throughout his five shots, with
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Women’s Pro Rookie, Sarah Martin, taking aim! the exception of an 8 on his 2nd target. After five exciting targets in the unpredictable winds of Paris, Texas, the 6th and final arrow comes down to Chance, Chris and Lewis. Chris shoots first, hitting a 14 on the Mule Deer, forcing Chance to take aim at a 14, in order to secure a 2nd place finish. Chance shoots and hits high and left of the 14-ring, scoring a 5. Lewis steps up to the stake needing an 8 to win and shoots a solid 10! Congratulations on fine shooting!! The ASA Southwest Shootout is a wrap for 2017! Rumor has it we’ll be back next year! We’ll see you out on the range in Appling (Augusta), Geor gia!! Safe travels!!!
Tim ‘The Hammer” Gillingham gets creative in the Texas wind. U.S. Archer Inc. 34th Anniversary
Leupold IAAE Georgia Pro/Am ASA RETURNS TO BEAUTIFUL WILD WOOD PARK
by April Girvin, arcHer And we meet again, folks! This time, we report to you from Appling, Georgia in Wild Wood Park. This tournament stop hailed 1,592 shooters. The incoming weather, however, would be the elephant in the room this trip. Forecasts called for an 80-90% chance of thunderstorms to begin on Saturday around noon. ASA officials monitored the radar as the storms encroached upon our little tournament. With the scary looking colors fall off the radar and only green settling in, we headed out towards our ranges. Once score cards were passed out and we walked to our stakes, the heavens opened up with a steady, heavy downpour. For the first half of Saturday’s competition, we trudged through, attempting to make shot after shot a great one. After Mother Nature had her way with us, we were able to complete the remaining targets without her interfering. Sunday’s competition round was sunny and bright with temperatures in the high 70s and low 80s. The shootdown competitors would be in serious need of an umbrella while they shot.
April & Joey Girvin
Women’s Pro Podium (L to R): 3rd place, Cara Kelly; 1st place, Kailey Johnston, 2nd place - Sharon Carpenter
Women’s Pro Shootdown
Kailey Johnston - 455 / 11; Cara Kelly - 396 / 8; Sharon Carpenter - 394 / 4; Erin McGladdery - 393 / 6 and Renee Hornbuckls - 377 / 4.
Women’s Pro Top Five Shootdown Competitors (L to R): Women’s Pro Rookie - Erin McGladdery, Renee Hornbuckle, Kailey Johnston, Cara Kelly and Sharon Carpenter
Another rough start to the Women’s Pro shootdown, with a couple of 10s for Kailey and Sharon; some 8s for Erin and Renee (looking for that 14-ring) and a miss on the Coyote for Cara (I was told, her 1st miss ever in a shootdown...bum deal!). But, after target #3 for these ladies, Cara has put her nose to the grind and working hard to get back onto the podium with a 10 and 12 to follow-up that miss. Kailey seems to be on cruise control throughout her time in the shootdown. With a commanding 13-point lead to start, she just needs to keep her arrows in the middle and make solid shots. Meanwhile, Renee takes a 14 on target #2, and attempts 14s at target #4 and #5, but to no avail. Erin also tries to bridge the gap between herself and Kailey, looking for some 12’s, but falling short on a couple. At the end of five arrows, Kailey remains in the lead, with enough of a point gap to avoid a 6th and final arrow. An awesome victory for Kailey Johnston, who just three days prior to the shootdown, graduated from nursing school with her Bachelor’s degree. She’s definitely got a lot to celebrate this weekend! Great shooting!
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Target *4
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484/17
494/17
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Dan McCarthy426/14
440/15
450/15
462/16
Levi Morgan 424/ 14
436/15
446/15
456/15
464/15
478/16
492/17
2nd place
Joseph Goza 416/11
428/12
438/12
450/13
464/14
474/14
488/15
3rd place
462/14
n/a
5th place
464/ 12
n/a
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Joby Shaw 412/13
422/13
432/13
440/13
454 / 14
Jack Wallace, Il 412/10
420/10
434/11
444/11
452/11
Senior Pro Podium (L to R): 3rd place, Michael Braden; 1st place, Tony Tazza; 2nd place - Richard Holmes
Open Pro Podium (L to R): 3rd place, Joseph Goza; 1st place, Dan McCarthy; 2nd place, Levi Morgan
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Open Pro Shootdown
Bill McCall - 425 / 15; Tony Tazza - 416 / 13; Richard Holmes - 414 / 10; Allen Conner - 411 / 10 and Michael Braden -410/9. The Senior Pros step up, ready for their show down. Bill McCall starts the shootdown with a 9-point lead over Tony Tazza. All of our shooters start out with 10s, except Richard Holmes looking to catch Bill, scoring a 12 on the Large Alert Deer. Unfortunately, Bill shoots a zero on his 2nd target, the Coyote, creating an opening for the remaining competitors to climb to the podium. Allen turns on the juice by shooting 14s on his 3rd and 4th target; while Bill tries to get back on his feet with a 12 and a 10 and Michael keeps chugging along keeping his amows in the 10-ring. Finally, all competitors make it to the 6th and final arrow...with only a 6-point separation from 1st to 5th. The Mule Deer is set and Michael takes aim first.. .scoring a 14! Next up, Allen takes his chances at a 14, but hits high for a 5. Bill looses his 6th arrow and it falls just short of the 12ring, scoring an 8. As Richard gears up to shoot, he must shoot a 10 to take the lead, forcing Tony to score a 10 to tie and require another arrow or a 12 to win. Richard takes a 10. With a little bit of pressure and a truckload of finesse, Tony Tazza steps up the the stake and sinks his arrow in the 12-ring. Awesome shootdown!!!
Dan McCarthy - 426 / 14; Levi Morgan - 424 / 14; Joseph Goza - 416 / 11; Joby Shaw - 412 / 13 and Jack Wallace, 11-412/10. The Open Pro shootdown saw the competitors taking their gloves off...no Mr. Nice Guy here. Dan McCarthy attempts to keep his lead starting off with a 14 on the Lynx, one of the closer targets on the range; while Levi Morgan and Joseph Goza try to gain a little ground with 12s of their own. Jack Wallace goes for a 14 on the Black Panther, causing the ASA officials to get down on their hands and knees and scrutinize his arrow, unfortunately ruling it an 8. Jack would continue to make an attempt at 14s on two of the next three targets, but landing only one. The rest of the pack continues their quest to take Dan out. Levi takes a 14 on his 5th target, Joseph scores a 12 and a 14 within his last three targets. Joby scores a 14 on the longest shot of the course, the Coyote (which was missed by two other pros in their shootdowns). After five targets, Jack and Joby finish 4th and 5th, respectively. Into the 6th and final arrow, leading off is Joseph, shooting the Coyote again (after it was moved in closer). Joseph puts the smack down on a 14, forcing Levi and Dan to stay focused. Levi takes his crack at the Coyote and also lays in a 14, knocking Joseph down to 3rd place, unless something tragic happens to Dan’s final shot. Dan must shoot an 8 for the win...not too difficult a task for such a talented archer. He draws, he shoots...a solid 10. Dan McCarthy wins! As always, a fun shootdown to watch and I’m sure Mathews was super proud of an
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Target •3
Target .4
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Chris Perkins 432/23
446/24
456/24
464 / 24
476/25
488 /26
500/27
2nd place
jacob Marlow432/18
444/19
456/20
466/20
478/21
192/22
502/22
Istplace Champion
Donnie Thacker430/19
442/20
452/20
462/20
476/21
486/21
496/21
3rd place
Robert Householder • 429/22
437/22
412/22
450/22
460/22
474/23
n/a
5th place
Kyle Dowell 427/18
437/18
445/18
455/18
469 /19
477/19
n/a
4th place
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The support for one another portrayed by the Senior Pros...priceless.
Known Pro Podium (L to R): 3rd place, Chris Perkins; 1st place, Jacob Marlow; 2nd place, Donnie Thacker
Open Pro sweep! Known Pro
Chris Perkins - 432 / 23; Jacob Marlow - 432 / 18; Donnie Thacker - 430 / 19; Robert Householder 429 / 22 and Kyle Dowell - 427 / 18. We’ve made it to the final shootdown here in Georgia, and only five points separate our leader, Chris Perkins, from Kyle Dowell, sitting in 5th. Two of our Known Pro competitors made their shootdown debut here in Appling, Georgia.. .Robert Householder and Kyle Dowell. I’m sure this won’t be the last we see of any of these boys! Another aggressive shootdown started with Chris shooting a 14 on his first target, the Lynx; while Jacob and Donnie take 12s on theirs, Kyle scores a 10 on the Black Panther and Robert struggles a little bit, scoring an 8 just low of the 14. Robert would continue his pursuit of the 14ring on three of his next four targets, finally landing a 14 on his fifth target, the Large Alert Deer. Jacob kept the pressure on Chris to keep making good, high scoring shots, and then bypassing him by two points after target #3. Jacob maintained his lead a 12 and 14 on his final two targets, forcing a 6th and final arrow with Chris and Donnie. Donnie shoots first, scoring a 10. Chris steps up next, hitting a 12 pushing Jacob to keep it in the 10-ring to take the win. Jacob shoots his final arrow from his Elite bow and scores a 10 without difficulty. Way to give us a show guys!!! Well, that’s a wrap from here in Appling, Georgia! We will see you on the next stop in London, Kentucky!!
Long-time Open Pro shooter, Joseph Goza, makes his 3rd consecutive shootdown for 2017.
That moment when you know all the practice and sacrifice was worth it. (Jacob Marlow, Known Pro)
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Significant Predictor Variables Among Top Archers by Rick McKinney, President of Carbon Tech Arrows and U.S. Representative for Win & Win Archery n the 1980's, the United States Archery Team was one of 5 sports that were chosen to study and research the top athletes to find out how to improve the top archers, how to educate coaches and how to help develop young archers into Olympic Champi ons. This project was funded by the United States Olympic Com mittee. With the help of Dr. Dan Landers, of Arizona State Uni versity, research was conducted during the USAT training camps where the top 10 men and top 10 women would be training. For about two years, the sport scien tists conducted their testing while the top archers trained and strat egized on improving their per formance. During this period of
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time, archers were able to learn more on training strategy, men tal focus, visualization and other mental training programs to help them improve their game. The results were fairly pre dictable and yet with science behind us, we were able to fo cus more on the important parts, which could shorten and improve the archers’ ability to reach the top. Each of these predictors were explained in a “US and Interna tional Archer” article in the mid 1980’s. It was titled, “Unravel ing Some of the Mysteries of Ar chery”. You will note that out of the 12 predictors, 8 were based on the mental while the remaining 4 were physical. This is why it is so important that the mental game be practiced and the focus should be on positive reinforcement and beliefs once you get to a certain level. In his book, “The Psychol ogy of Winning” by Dr. Denis Waitley, he listed 10 qualities of a total winner. They are”
1. Positive Self Awareness 2. Positive Self Esteem 3. Positive Self Control 4. Positive Self Motivation 5. Positive Self Expectancy 6. Positive Self Image 7. Positive Self Directing 8. Positive Self Discipline 9. Positive Self Dimension 10. Positive Self Projection
What stands out in these 10 qualities are two words. Without these two words, I seriously doubt that they would have as much meaning as they do. They are “Positive” and “Self’. Most top athletes are very positive. They must be. Sometimes they are so
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positive it makes one wonder if they are a bit cocky! Howev er, that fine line of cockiness and confidence is based on delivery. If you can accomplish what you say you can, that is all about con fidence while the cocky side is more about boasting and yet not delivering. The positive altitude has been discussed several times in the past articles. Any negative can be turned around to be posi tive as discussed before. Prac ticing this change will become a habit and will treat you well if you start now. Eventually it will be an automatic response. The “Self’ part is what archery is all about. No matter who is helping you and what experience you have, it still comes down to you as the archer standing on the line, by yourself. You and you alone will be the person to achieve the success you strive for or not. Many can guide you and feed you knowledge, but in the end, it is up to you to de liver. The reason I bring this im portant discussion up at this time is because many of the predic tors that Dr. Landers and his team found were found to coincide with the “positive” and the “self’. The following were the predictors. These predictors account for about 60% of the overall picture. Thus there was 40% of predictors that were still unknown at the time. Or at least what can scientifically be proven to help improve an ar cher’s performance. 1. Attentional Focus. “The comU.S. Archer Inc. 34th Anniversary
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bined scores of Broad Exter nal Attentional Focus (BET) and Broad Internal Attentional Focus (BIT) with BET defined as the ability to effectively in tegrate many environmental stimuli at one time and BIT defined as the ability to effec tively integrate ideas and in formation from several differ ent areas.” Confidence. “Measure of the individual’s confidence level toward his or her ability and performance.” Past Mistakes. “The com bined scores of (1) how diffi cult it was for the individual to recover psychologically from the past mistakes, (2) how of ten the individual thought of the past mistakes during com petition.” Visual Imagery. “Test of the extent to which the individu al used imagery (mental pic tures) in training and compe tition.” Imagery Control. “Measure of how easy or how difficult it was for the individuals to con trol their mental picture.” Focus of Imagery. “Test of the internal or external imagery style that was used by the indi vidual. External imagery oc curs when a person views him or herself from a perspective of an external observer (much like in a movie). Internal im agery involves feeling those sensations, which might be ex pected while participating in the actual situation. In addi tion, internal imagery involves seeing something from the performer’s own perspective (i.e. seeing the target through the sight).” Reaction time. The time in terval from the presentation of an unexpected stimulus to the initiation of the response.” (Clicker response) Anticipation time. The abili ty to predict and anticipate the movement of an object.” (Pre paring for the clicker)
These 8 mental variables were significant enough for the science team to feel confident to help archers improve their game plan by developing programs sur rounding these keys. Many of the top archers were already near that top spot but the next level of ar chers were guided to learn how to improve their imagery and how be stay positive and how to key in on issues that could improve their game. These ideas are nothing new to many people, but the problem is delivery. Most people struggle to practice these techniques in order to become a better archer. There is no question working on the mental side is boring and it is really hard to tell if you are getting any better. However, it has been proven time and time again to work. The prob lem is getting people to practice the techniques and believe in it to keep at it. You may not see much improvement initially but when it happens, you will know it. Happy Shooting!
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step-up and offer to fill the vacant Director seat,” said Jim Willems, President of The Pope and Young Club. “Dallas has been active in ensuring the future of bowhunting in his home state of Utah and now he will be able to expand his efforts to the national level. The Pope and Young Club is the foremost national bowhunting organization, working diligently to promote fair and ethical bowhunting across North America. 1 look forward to working with Dallas on the Pope and Young Club Board over the next few years.” The Pope and Young Club is a non-profit North American conservation and bowhunting organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of bowhunting. Contact the Pope & Young Club office at: www. pope-voung.org or P.O. Box 548, Chatfield, MN 55923, Ph: 507.867.4144
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Dave Keaggy Sr. One hour Workout at LA Fitness, Mesa, Arizona
When you reach the nineties it is very difficult to build mucscle size. But you can develop more overall body strength. This can be very important for the retired who love Archery and want to continue shooting. Rather than reduce your bow weight, why not develop a strength building program? On January first this year 1 developed a training program that could be tracked and show the results over a four month pe riod. I selected ten exercises that I could do ten repetitions using 160
pounds; (my body weight). That would equate to 100 repetitions at 160 pounds each, for a total of 16,000 pounds. The one problem I had was the pull down machine. 1 could only do four repetitions the first several workouts. After sev eral weeks I could do seven and ten after four weeks; five times per week. As I became acclimated to the equipment and movements, 1 gradually added more reps and after two months the total weight increased to an average workout of 32,000 pounds. When 1 had reached that goal I started to add a second set of 10 repetitions to some machines and then gradually increased all exercises to 20 repe titions with a rest break between sets. This took another month. At the end of four months of training I was doing two sets of 20 repe titions on all but the Pull Down. “I’m still working on that one”. This workout includes about 10 minutes of warming up and stretching exercises, including an average of 15 chin-ups or 40 push ups on alternate days. During a workout following a day of rest I will attempt maximum chin-ups, (16 to 19), or push-ups, maximum
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(55). All of the above takes a to tal average of one hour. My last exercise is the stationary bicycle, 3 miles in 18 minutes. This give me time to lower my heart rate to under 100 and affords good blood circulation. The photographs shown are six of the devices with old Dave doing his body weight, (160) lbs.); one doing Flies with 105 lbs. and 20 body dips. The dips and flies are done on alternate days. 1 have also included a page from my log
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Abdominal crunch that I record the workouts as a daily routine. The dai ly log is very important. It will help you maintain your interest in working out and give you a good visual of progress made. I have always been a firm believer that setting personal goals can help you achieve them. Join a fitness center and enjoy life into the Nineties. Dave’s email address: dukekea@yahoo.com
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FIVE PRINCIPLES to FOLLOW WHEN
LEARNING ARCHERY LARRY WISE JUNE 2017
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You can enhance your ability to learn archery if you follow a few simple principles. Understanding them will enable you to navigate through the archery maze without getting lost - you use them to test what you are learning, evaluate it and then to throw out the useless and hang onto the useful. In other words, once you understand these principles and how they logical ly relate to each other they will be your compass. Use these principles to test each and every change you introduce into your shooting form. If the new action or mental thought contradicts one or more of these principles, especially the first one, then you must ask the question, “Why am I doing this?” If one or more of your actions does not meet these princi ples then you need to replace what you are doing with a thought or action that does follow them. Put struc ture into your approach so that you make your perfor mance more consistent and your scores higher. GETTING STARTED: Every action we take and every thought we have within our archery game has to follow this principle.
PRINCIPLE ONE: ARCHERY IS A TWO-STEP SPORT: STEP ONE: LEARN TO HIT THE MARK ! STEP TWO: REPEAT STEP ONE!
Our ancestors knew about this a long time ago. In fact, there is evidence of it painted on cave walls all over the Mediterranean area, some of which date back over 21,000 years. You can see in this example from La Valltorda Ravine, Spain, where several archers are depicted shooting at deer-like crea tures. If you look close on the left you can see that one archer has shot an arrow into the deer figure and has another arrow drawn and ready to do it again. So he knew then about first hitting
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THE NATIONAL TRAINING SYSTEM FOR COMPOUND BOW A BACKTENSION RELEASE AID STEP-BY-STEP SHOOTING FORM 1) STANCE 2) NOCKING 3) SET: BOW HAND POSITION RELEASE HAND POSTURE/MINDSEt 4) SET-UP (RAISE) 5) DRAW TO LOAD 6) ANCHOR 7) TRANSFER TO HOLD 8) AIM..... (CONTRACT)...... AIM 9) RELEASE 10) FOLLOW-THRU 11) FEEDBACK
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the mark and repeating his effort. Our ancestors had to with those weapons that were not very powerful and arrow points that were not as lethal as the ones we use today. Simply stated, killing an animal required multiple wounds. We know that our ancestors succeeded in this effort, procured their food, survived, and reproduced. You and I are here today as a testament to their “abil ity to repeat”. So how did they do it? What secret did they learn about the bow and arrow that allowed them to succeed and what can we apply to our own shoot ing today? When we address a target, begin shooting at it and record our score we desire to measure our human ability to repeat. We desire to repeat our physical shot process so that our arrows impact the same spot over and over and over again. And our scores get higher. U.S. Archer Inc. 34th Anniversary
Repeating our effort is the challenge that ar chery presents to us each and every time we pick up our bow and shoot at a target. We are competing against ourselves in an effort to improve - a worthy challenge! We are not unlike our ancestors. HOW DO WE REPEAT: My mentor and great friend, former Olympic coach and Archery Hall of Fame member, Bud Fowkes, taught me that 1 must know and do three things if 1 want to repeat my shooting ef fort. Most archers are doing the first two and achiev ing some success. They are not, however, reaching their highest performance level because they are not paying attention to the third and most important in gredient in their shooting routine. PRINCIPLE TWO TO REPEAT YOUR PHYSICAL ACTION YOU MUST LEARN: WHAT TO DO! HOW TO DO IT! WHEN TO DO IT!
Many archers I know and coach are not paying attention to when they are doing certain necessary and important actions in their shooting form execution. For instance, how many archers do you see drawing their bow, anchoring and then “moving their feet”? Or reaching their holding position and then adjusting their bow hand position, adjusting their release hand or changing their head position? It's important to have all of these elements in place to make a good shot but when you do them after reaching full-draw-position and under the holding load of the bow then you can not ’’repeat” them twice out of a hundred tries. And so, if you are doing something different on each and every shot can you then expect to achieve the same result for each of those shots? The answer is of course, NO. Principle two is, therefore, vitally important to your ability to repeat in that you must establish each form element a time that will allow you to repeat at your highest rate. Once you learn to complete each action at its appropriate time you must maintain that sequence with no variation from shot to shot.
present to execute the shot and our conscious mind is thinking in the future then do we have the best condi tion for success? “Making a good shot” is a good thought but hardly specific enough to actually help us do it. To best repeat our shot we must focus on the most im portant part of our shot and the process needed to complete it. In our National Training Systems we teach the internal dynamic of “TRANSFER TO HOLD” which moves our drawing effort from our arms into our back muscles----- our holding effort and shot execution must be in our back muscles. How we use our back muscle-contraction and its partner action, chest-muscle expansion, becomes the heart of the shot process and must be the focus of both our mind and body if it is to be completed at the right time and with repetition. PRINCIPLE THREE: YOUR SHOOTING OBJECTIVE MUST BE FOUNDED ON PRESENT PROCESS THINKING. BACK CONTRACTION & CHEST EXPASION
In other words, we must be focused on how we are using our posture and back muscles if we want to repeat our physical action. We must focus on the physical feel of those muscles if we want them to RE PEAT their action. This is the most important part of your shot so you must not, you dare not, leave this muscle performance up to a lottery - you must feel it on every shot and guarantee that these muscles do their job. BUILDING PROPER POSTURE: If you agree with the concept of “transfer of holding into your back” then you must conclude that there is a pos ture that will allow you to do that at your most effi cient level. Since your muscles are anchored on your bones and operate most efficiently when those bones are properly positioned the fourth principle follows:
HAVING THE PROPER SHOT OBJEC TIVE: Please now take time to answer this important
question: As you stand at full-draw holding your bow and aiming at a target with the intention to record the score of your arrow, what is your objective for this shot?
Most answer “Hit the X” while others say “make a good shot”. How did you answer? We’d like our arrow to hit the “X” but if we are thinking of that goal while we are aiming then we are thinking in the future - not very far into the future but it’s still in the future . . . and on the result of the shot. At this point we must ask “when do we have to physically execute the shot”? Of course we have to physically execute the shot now .... in the present while we are at full draw. So we must next ask, if our body must act in the
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PRINCIPLE FOUR: YOU MUST UTILIZE YOUR BIOMECHANICALLY OPTIMUM POSTURE IN ORDER TO MOST EFFICIENTLY COMPLETE THE ACT OF TRANSFER of HOLDING.
This position is observable and easy to under stand. To transfer your holding effort into your back muscles requires that your holding arm be in line with the arrow as observed from a top view. This also is the position that allows you to resist the force of the bow most efficiently by placing your holding forearm in a line directly opposing it at a 180° angle. Opposing a force at some obtuse angle less than 180° is very inef ficient and prevents full transfer of holding. Further, on the opposite side, aligning the bones of your bow arm will allow you to resist the bow force with minimal muscle effort. Your arms and shoulders when properly aligned will also maintain a constant length and help promote a “repeatable” transfer, hold and release. Maximize your skeleton use and mini mize your muscle use so you can achieve your high est level of “repetition”. ORGANIZE YOUR FORM STEPS: If you desire to build a specific posture and to follow the aforementioned principles then you must set your posture in place in an ordered manor. In other words, each element must be set in place at the optimum time and then maintained through the remainder of the shot execution.
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PRINCIPLE FIVE: BUILDING YOUR OPTIMUM & REPEATABLE HOLDING POSTURE REQUIRES A SPECIFIC AND ORDERED SEQUENCE OF BODY ACTIONS KNOWN AS FORM STEPS.
Here is where the work begins. In order to build your best posture you must begin at the ground. You must connect yourself to mother earth through your feet, legs and hips. From there you build up ward, placing each part of your anatomy in the best and most efficient position to raise, draw and then achieve “transfer of holding”. These steps from our Compound National Training System are listed here for you to see and use. They are tried and tine so you can have confidence in them........ and get going. (2: CNTS FORM STEPS) CONCLUSION: Your ability to repeat your shot us
ing your human body is your performance measuring stick. If you can’t attain a high degree of repetition in your performance then you must look to how and when you are setting your form elements. Repetition is the goal and biomechanics with timing is the means by which we get there. In other words, we have to embrace the “science” of our sport if we want to reach our potential. Following these five principles will get you there. LW 54
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Dick Tone leads elite recurve training camp at Lancaster Archery Academy 2016
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The Tokyo 2020 Olympics might be three years away, but the Olympic spirit was alive and strong at Lancaster Archery Academy June 9-11. About three dozen archers, coaches and parents immersed themselves in all things Olympic recurve archery over those three days under the tutelage of former Olympic coach Dick Tone, Olympic gold medal winners Jay Barrs (1988) and John Williams (1972) and master recurve equipment technician, Tom Stevenson.
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videos for future training. During the two days of instruction, Tone and Barrs worked with the archers as a group and individ ually to coach them on stance and form. Stevenson made sure everyone’s equipment was properly tuned, and he showed them how to fix common issues, should they arise. Stevenson also explained his analytics software, which is used by archers to break down their shooting form, and shared advanced tuning techniques to opti mize grouping and tournament performance. Coach Dick Tone watches Sabrina Sison shoot, and offers comments on her shot, while Lancaster Ar chery Academy’s Heather Pfeil records the analysis on her phone. “This was a tremendously successful camp for us and for the archers and coaches who participated,” said Rob Kaufhold, president of Lancaster Archery Supply, which is the parent company of the Academy. “At Lancaster Archery, our goal is to help archers of all disciplines in every way possible, to be the best they can be. This camp exposed archers to shoot ing and coaching techniques that maybe they never thought of before.” Archers started the camp by shooting their bows through the Academy’s Vision Quest system. It’s a se ries of four cameras that captures an archer’s shooting motion from four different angles. They shot through the system again at the end of the weekend, after they had received two full days of instruction from Tone and his team. “We were able to show them the differences, so they can see what they’re supposed to do and how they’re supposed to do it,” Tone said. Each camp participant received copies of their 58
The coaches also stressed the mental training archery requires. Tone’s shooting method is pretty simple. Get your form right. Perfect it through prac tice, so the act of shooting becomes a subconscious act during competition. “Rhythm and timing are critical to the process,” Tone said. “All the top archers in the world have the best rhythm and timing.” Too often, Tone said, archers get caught up thinking about minute details associated with shoot U.S. Archer Inc. 34th Anniversary
From left, Tom Stevenson, Rob Kaufhold, Dick Tone, John Williams and Jay Ban's. USA Archery enjoyed some success at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, with Brady Ellison taking home the individual bronze, and the men’s team of Ellison, Jake Kaminski and Zach Garrett winning the team silver. But Tone and Barrs said there is a lot of room for improvement in the weeks, months and years leading up to Tokyo. Especially with mixed team ar chery being added to the Olympic archery tournament in 2020. “Thirty years after 1 won my gold medal, you’d think we would have a deeper team,” Barrs said. “There should be 30 archers fighting for the Olympic spots, but there’s always a couple good ones at the top, and then everyone else behind them.” This was the second year Lancaster Archery Academy has hosted Tone for an Olympic recurve camp. Kaufhold said he expects to bring Tone and his team back again later this year or in 2018. Keep checking lancasterarcheryacademy.com for informa tion on dates. Lancaster Archery Supply, Inc., offers the world’s largest selection of 3D, target, how-
hunting and traditional archery equipment. The company actively supports tournament archers around the world, and hosts the annual Lan caster Archery Classic, an international compe tition that draws over 1,000 competitive archers to Pennsylvania each year. The Lancaster, Pa., based Pro Shop is also home to the Lancaster Archery Academy — a year-round training facil ity for beginner, intermediate and competition archers.
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and Young Club is proud to announce the appointment of Dallas Smith to the Club’s Board Of Directors. As a Pope and Young Club member for the past 20 years and a measurer for 15 years, Dallas has attended eight conventions, co-chaired the 40,h anniversary convention in Salt Lake City and served on the membership committee under Jeff Pals. Dallas will be filling the seat vacated by Jay St. Charles who recently resigned to attend to family health concerns. “I would like to thank the Pope and Young Board for their vote of confidence and appointment to Jay’s Director position,” said Dallas. “I look forward to working with board members to insure the longevity and viability of the Club. Jay’s longtime dedication and commitment to the Club is a testament to his ambassadorship to bowhunting. My thoughts and prayers are with Jay and his family as they go though these trying times.” As a resident of Utah for the past 26 years, Dallas, his wife Tammy and their 4 daughters, owned and operated their own flooring and design business. Prior to owning his own business, Dallas spent 25 years working in all aspects of the archery industry from manufacturing and distribution to retail sales. “Working in the archery industry has fueled my passion for bowhunting and fostered long-term relationships within the bowhunting community,” said Dallas Smith. “I’ve been involved in archery clubs at both the state and local levels for more than 30 years. After an appointment from the Governor of Utah, I spent 10 years on an eleven-member panel known as the Central Rac. This panel was appointed to take public input on hunting and wildlife management in our state and make recommendations to the Fish and Game Department in order to connect the wants of the public to the needs of biology. To some bowhunting is a pastime, and to others, it’s a lifelong journey... a passion with commitment and dedication. No matter what bowhunting is to you, this Club should represent all members equally without prejudice. We are all bowhunters.” “The Pope and Young Club is fortunate to have long-time, dedicated Club member, Dallas Smith Continued on page 49,
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