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Editorial byArlyne Rhode.................................................................................54 International Field Archery Association News by Ken Rogers..................... 58 International Field Archery Association Technical Committee Report by Walter Rueger............................................................................................. 60 2004 Iowa Pro Am features record attendance and exciting shoot off! ..... 62 2004 Archery Trade Association Show draws record Indy crowd.............. 65 New Products .. New Archery Products................................................................................ 70 .. T.R.U. Ball Releases................................................................................... 70 .. SureLoc Sights and Paulette sign agreement........................................... 70 .. TailorMaid BowStrings............................................................................... 71 .. Trueflight Manufacturing adds Barred colors............................................ 71 .. FlexFIetch Products.................................................................................... 71 Coach’s Corner by Bernie Pellerite................................................................ 74 2004 School of Advanced Archery..................................................................76 The Mental Side of Winning by Roger W. Breternitz Ch. T.......................... 78 Mental Archery: The vital skill winner’s master by Frank Addington Jr...... 80 From the Senior Corner by Joe Bauernfeind................................................. 82 Focus in Archery by Jake Veit......................................................................... 84 Dave Cousins Archery Seminars, Chock-Full of Info! by Rhonda Campbell....................................................................................... 86 The Shot Doctor by Terry Wunderle............................................................... 89 Up-N-Coming Archer Ryan Phelps................................................................ 90 Second LG International Archery Tournament. Mexico City by Alfonso Manrique........................................................................................ 92 Advertisers and Press Release Directory....................................................... 94

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Editorial Report

It is a pleasure to bring you this issue. We have just started our 2004 tournament year. Please see our coverage of the Mexican Indoor and Iowa Pro Am in this issue. We received the invitation to the Mexican Archery Federation too late to publish in this issue. That event will be held in Mexico City on May 10-16, 2004 at Campo Marte on Reforma Avenue. D.F. Watch up coming issues for reports on this event. There have been excellent reports from the National Archery School Program about their Kentucky State Championships. At this time there are 1700 students registered for this event which is to take place March 18th prior to the NFAA Indoor Championships on March 19-21, 2004. Reports on both events will be in the upcoming issue. Keep the tournament reports and Up-N-Coming Archer articles coming to our office. Thank you for your time. See you at a show or tournament. My best to you and your families. Arlyne

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Photos sent to us by Amanda Spears from her trip to the IFAA North American Championship December 13-14, 2003. Sorry, we received them too late for the January-February issue. See pages 13-15 in the January-February issue for the coverage of this event.

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Commentary on Recurve Archery By Roy Rose

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for Victory Olympic Archery A Sport that rewards Diligence. Let me state right at the outset, that this article is designed to inform, even instruct, certainly not deter all good folk who enjoy the challenge of the recurve bow. Not everyone seeks to be competitive at an elite level but it is hard to find anyone who does not wish to improve. Recurve archery is possibly unique, in that it rewards the hard worker, the diligent practicer, to the point where natural talent, so often credited with elite status in a sport, becomes less significant, perhaps almost insignificant. Top USA archery think tank, coach, equipment whiz,etc etc Don Rabska put it like this -’’People who win in archery are not necessarily those who are naturally talented but those who have the fortitude to practise long and hard. It is determination and hard work, not natural talent, that generally prevails.” Why is this so? Well, we are all aware of the old cliche, “Archery is more of a discipline than a sport.” This is true. Ours is a unique endeavour. Repetitions and marathon. Hours with the bow produce a shooting sequence which becomes second nature in the subconscious mind, so that the whole procedure runs its course, over and over, without interference. While the archer’s conscious attention is taken up with aiming. This is the goal. While the average recurver’s mind shifts from bow hand placement, to anchor position, to release, that conscious pattern is robbing the shooter of the chance to be “flawlessly repetitiously” which is the chief ingredient for tight grouping, along with concentrated aiming. The obvious and only way to obtain this duplication of form shot after shot, is to spend hours per day indoctrinating the subconscious with a shot sequence, until it is completely second nature. When the archer achieves this level, where his form is “trustworthy,” he or she can focus all their conscious attention on aiming. Bernie Pellerite, long time top USA coach and innovator, summarized in this way - “We nock an arrow, we grip the bow handle, hook our fingers on the string etc. At first, all these things are consciously controlled. With major repetition we eventually Continued on next page.

Author’s biography - Aussie, Roy Rose was a national indoor and field record holder in the early 1970’s. Since retiming to the sport in 2001, he has won the National Masters recurve target and field titles. At the 2002 FITA World Master’s Championships he emerged in the 60 plus division with two gold and two bronze medals.

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start doing all these steps subconsciously. This is the real secret to excellent archery. The body is operating the equipment subconsciously. While our conscious mind is immersed in aiming.” While all agree that the subconscious shooting sequence is obtained by shooting hundreds of arrows per day, there seems to be some variance in opinion, as regards aiming. We've probably all seen the Jay Barr’s video where he says he doesn’t put huge emphasis on aiming. “The eye and the mind won’t let you not aim” is his quote. Others share this “don’t aim” creed. The Koreans, whom we look to as leaders in the recurve realm, certainly advocate huge numbers of arrows per day in practice, clearly developing the subconscious shooting program. However-they also work on what is called “One action shooting.” where the archer has but one thought throughout the entire shot sequence. This is usually the elbow- think only about the elbow motion the entire shot. They do, however, suggest the archer think aiming which opposes the principle of “don’t aim” advocated by a number of USA luminaries. So there are some quandaries to ponder over. Does thinking elbow motion and aiming, contradict the theory of simply allowing the subconscious to work the equipment, while the archer focuses entirely on aiming?

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I have also not brought into the equation, the other obvious factors conducive to elite level performance, such as form, breathing, mental aspects, equipment etc. All of which undoubtedly contribute to a gold medal result. An interesting question to ponder, is whether an archer with a less than average bow tune,and less than average form, provided he put in those hours and hours of work on the subconscious, and his less than average shot sequence become near perfectly repetitious, would be capable of big scores? The answer is undoubtedly yes, and this surely accounts for the wide variety of shooting styles, bow grips, releases etc. that any cross section of top recurvers display. However, equally obvious is the fact, that good form, incorporating the principles of bone, back tension, in-line functioning, and the like, will be more easily duplicated, than unusual variations in shot performance, especially under the mental pressures of major competition. So, how much time and effort are the top shooters putting in? Top Korean coaches like Mr. Lim, Mr. Park, and Ms Oh advocate as many as 800 arrows a day for their 1300 plus archers. While the very elite whose techniques have become mastered, shoot as little as 300. Did 1 say “Little”! This still amounts to a huge workload which obviously the average performer has neither the time (nor the inclination, probably) to incorporate. This multi-houred, daily ritual, is not just the backbone of the Korean system, it is now an intergral part of the World Team Squad thinking worldwide. The Italians do it, the French, the Russians, and, although I’ve not had the pleasure of watching Mr. Lee at work at the Australian Institute of Sport. I venture to say, his charges are chalking up similar hours. Of course Darrell Pace and Rick McKinney were shooting hundreds of arrows daily, three decades ago. Pace describing himself in the 1984 Olympic video as a “subconscious shooter” so the idea is not that new. So what is the bottom line. If you like the recurve, if you are fit and focused enough to handle it, if you get your equipment tuned, and your form conforms to the accepted practices concerning back tension etc. Then you can reach a very high standard (maybe even elite level) if you 1982 - 22th Anniversary - 2004

practice religiously 3, 4, or 5 hours each day, shooting in excess of three or four hundred arrows. The reason Korean boasts close to 300 men and women over 1300 in the F1TA is because they are part of a very disciplined program and they are doing this work on a daily basis. The reason we have but half a dozen, is for the same reason; only that many have the time, inclination and opportunity to tackle the work load, especially with work and family duties. It is difficult to think of any other sport where one simple action which takes in total, probably five to ten seconds, is repeated exactly, over and over, in spite of the distance or the form of competition. Golf swings, delivering a bowling ball. striking a baseball, rowing a boat, virtually are sports have some repetitious aspects, but a variety of movement is almost universal no matter what sport you call to mind. So, recurvers, it’s very much up to you. Given the time availability, the dedication and perseverance. You could be a top line performer. Pity most of us have a huge lack of the first and questionable doses of the second and third, even if the desire is strong. In conclusion, is my suggestion, that because of the singularly unique short term execution of the shot, which is our sport, in essence, that long hours of practice in itself produces our elite recurve archers valid? Maybe that is debateable, but it is certainly factural. Remember too, that being elite, does not guarantee victory There are still a myriad of factors in the personal profile of the champion, which sets him or her, above even the elite at any time. A short perusal of the Olympic and World Championship results does reveal that a wider cross section of our elite in archery have the potential to win, than in any other sport I can research. Hence our leading recurver, as accepted by most informed observers, Michelle Frangilli, has in fact, a very low winning percentage in major events (although superior to his adversaries). Archery has a wider dominant group of potential winners than in other sports. We have no archer who wins, at even remotely the ratio, that Agassi, for example does in tennis or Tiger Woods, in golf, despite the pool of great performers both sports can boast. So back we come to the theory that our uniqueness, coupled with the repetitious THE U.S. and INTERNATIONAL ARCHER

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development of the subconscious, honed by long, long hours of practice, can produce a broad elite group, from which it is near impossible to find a conclusive “best performer," whose winning percentage at top level, remains elevated above his opponents of similar class. The Koreans, as a classic example, continue to dominate recurve FITA archery, but it is not the “same few” who perpetually winning. Each successive Grand Prix World Championship or Olympic Games serves up new Korean names, and while a very few remain, the majority are new, even to we who follow such results religiously. If you wish to join this broad group of elite potential victors, more so, than in any sport. Long hours of practice, diligence, dedication and hard work can with all the pointers suggested get you there. What is defined as necessary may be reasonably clear but it still takes a special individual to embrace the workload and stick with the long hours of repetitious (dare I say, often boring) practice needed to add one’s name to that ever widening list of elite competitors. Eliteness beacons, but can you embrace the criteria?

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International Field Archery Association News

In the past few issues of this magazine, you should have noticed articles by Mr. Walter “Wally” Rueger-IFAA Technical Committee Chairman and a past President of the NFAA-USA. You may have noticed the lack of information regarding the In these articles Wally has attempted to enlighten us all regarding upcoming (July) 1FAA World Field Archery Championships the rules of the IFAA and, how they are administered and enforced which has been available on the IFAA website and in magazines - particularly when a ruling is made due to a protest at an IFAA event. I would like to underscore a couple of points that might in which IFAA News appears. As of this writing (a full week save some hard feeling later on. beyond this magazine's deadline) 1 am sorry to report that we 1. IFAA Cubs (under 13 years of age) shoot in styles: are waiting crucial information from the host organizer, Barebow (Recurve), Barebow (Compound), NFAA-USA. Freestyle (limited) Recurve and. Freestyle (limited) With some amount of certainty we can say: Compound - Only. There are two things Cubs and 1. The WFAC-204 is to be held on Watkins Parents of Cubs need to know before entering the Glen. New York. USA - 19 - 23 July 2004. (These are actual shooting dates only) Cub into IFAA competition. (a) AnNFAA Cub (under the age of 12) is qualified 2. IFAA Bow Inspections for all contestants in the IFAA World event will take place by age, to compete as an IFAA Cub. (b) None of the four styles that the IFAA Cub prior to the date of 19 July 04. Usually this is accomplished on Thursday, Friday and Division allows for Cubs, allows the use of a Saturday of the week preceding the event. In Release aid. No Release aids. this case, 15,16, 17 July. In all likelihood a Sunday, 2. IFAA Juniors (13 through 16 years of age) may 18 July Bow inspection will be set aside for late shoot in all IFAA styles. arrivals. (a) An NFAA Young Adult (15 - 16 years of age 3. The Opening Ceremonies will take place on only, may participate in the IFAA Junior Division. Sunday, 18 July as well. Those NFAA Young Adults age 17, cannot 4. Due to lack of information in advance, I have been participate in the IFAA Junior Division. working with the NFAA Director for the State of 3. IFAA Adults are ( 17 years of age and older) Those New York, Dave Hryn, to provide information NFAA Young Adults age 17, must compete in the concerning hotel/motel accommodations, Airport IFAA Adult Division if they desire to participate information and, any other helpful information for in the IFAA event. those archers not familiar with the event locale. Mr. 4. IFAA Veteran (55 years of age and over). NFAA Hryn has also graciously assisted the IFAA by Seniors (55-64 years of age) and, NFAA Master fielding questions and rendering assistance to our Seniors (65 years of age and over) will both overseas archers. Dave has posted this information compete in the IFAA Veterans Division if they on the New York State Assn, website. (Accessible choose to compete in the IFAA event. from the IFAA website by choosing “Member As of this writing, the following Officer positions of the IFAA Nation” NFAA-USA. At the NFAA-USA site, are held by: select New York under “Members” and the President - Kenneth A. Rogers (USA) information is readily located. The IFAA, through Vice President - Robert Wilson (Australia) its President, sincerely thanks Dave Hryn for his Secretary - Loet Smit (South Africa) vital assistance. Treasurer - Brad Marshall (USA) A great deal of uncertainty exists in these areas. Of these, three have stated and indicated to the IFAA 1. A registration form (either in print or posted on the Committee that they will not be standing for re-election to their NFAA-USA Website. current position for the term 2005-2006. Not standing for re 2. A means for archers to pay the required fees by election are: Kenneth A. Rogers -President, Loet Smit Credit Card. This was scheduled for early February Secretary and, Brad Marshall-Treasurer. but did not mature. The next IFAA World Championship scheduled is the IFAA 3. The schedule of events for the event: World Indoor Archery Championship - 2005. This event is (a) IFAA World Field Archery Championships are scheduled for Louisville, Kentucky, USA and is to be hosted by in the sequence of Mon - Field, Tue-Hunter, Wed NFAA-USA. (17-20 March, 2005) The IFAA W1AC is a four -Field, Thur-Hunter and, Fri -Animal, (seperate day event and is to be run concurrently with an NFAA-USA for NFAA and IFAA) sponsored Youth event the first day, stand alone on the second (b) Awards - IFAA awards are usually presented day and, with the NFAA-USA annual National Indoor at an Awards Banquet on Saturday following the Championships on the final two days of the IFAA event. shooting week. While these items (Banquet and Hopefully, we will have some information soon regarding this Awards) had been agreed upon - there is a event. modification: Awards and a sit down dinner will Until next issue - Ken take place on Friday evening instead. KRogers-IFAA@att.net IFAA President Ken Kogers

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International Field Archery Association Technical Committee Report By Walter Rueger - committee chairman

Wally Rueger

The purpose of this article is to review some of the inquiries and interpretations submitted to and by the IFAA Technical Committee. As mentioned in a prior article, many countries have variations in their rules pertaining to equipment and shooting rules. I cannot stress enough the importance of knowing IFAA rules if you intend to shoot an IFAA tournament, be it national, regional or international. Here I will present several instances answered by the IFAA Technical Committee Chairman to help clarify questions submitted. In some instances these were interpreted by a country’s delegate and reviewed for accuracy by the Technical Committee Chairman. Unless otherwise noted, opinions are interpretations and not rulings. Several inquiries have been made regarding mounting a quiver

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on a long bow and whether or not slight projections can be on the opposite side of the sight window that would accommodate mounting a quiver. Reply: IFAA rules do not prohibit a quiver being mounted on the longbow. Some bows are manufactured with metal inserts on the side of the riser into which a bow quiver can be mounted. This is acceptable as long no part of the quiver can be seen in the sight window. The quiver cannot be mounted on the face or the belly of the bow or in any manner where it might be used as a sighting assistance. Ruling: There are a number of bow sights on the market that have what is known as “Gio Pins”. They have been deemed legal in the Bowhunter Freestyle and Bowhunter Freestyle Limited divisions. The configuration of this sight pin is such that a fiber optic is bowed behind a flat pin that comprises the straight stock. and is totally hidden behind the straight stock until curling to the tip of the straight stock to present the sighting point. The fiber optic bowed behind the straight stock should not be visible to the archer when at full draw. Any other configuration may be subject to another ruling. More recently President Ken Rogers was presented with three issues that gave concern to a member of the longbow division that appeared to be creating some controversy. President Rogers presented these issues to the Technical Committee for an opinion. After the Technical Committee issued their opinion on the three issues the IFAA secretary submitted the opinion to the members of the IFAA committee via regular mail at the request of the President. There will, no doubt, be discussion on the issues at the forthcoming delegate’s meeting this coming July in Watkins, Glen. NY. The Technical Committee interpretations were as follows: 1. The Longbow Division excludes the use of a stabilizer. Adding weight to the riser of the longbow is tantamount to using a stabilizer and therefore should not be permitted. 2. Sighting devices are not allowed in the Longbow Division. Using rings on the arrows provides the archer with a physical sighting device and should not be permitted. 3. The use of a tennis style wrap would allow the archer to move his/her hand up and down on the handle and can be regarded as a physical sighting method which should be disallowed in the Longbow Division. Other individual questions were asked of the Technical Committee that were already covered in the IFAA Constitution and By-Laws. This will conclude the series of articles on IFAA Technical Committee information. In closing I would like to call your attention to the significant Preamble to the IFAA Constitution and By Laws. By quoting the preamble it is my hope that archers everywhere will take to heart the sincerity and genuine desire of

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371 archers from 26 states including 8 from Canada provided the Iowa Pro Am with another record attendance. This popular indoor event held at the fairgrounds in Mason City, Iowa January 10 & 11 features a NFAA 360 round the first day and a Vegas 330 round the second day. Credit is given in the form of one extra point for the x ring both days, this combined with a trade show featuring busy display booths makes for a very fun weekend for all archers. After a tie for the men’s money division, hundreds of archers watched the exciting finish as Billy Meyers edged passed Michael Anderson to capture first place and the winners check of$2000 for his great shooting. Another shoot off winner was Gary Pechinski who tied with Ladon Sams and won the first place trophy in the Adult Male Freestyle division. The Iowa Pro Am is a unique major archery tournament because it is hosted by a state organization. The Iowa State Archery Association combines a one of a kind archery event using the x ring as a major part of the scoring, as well as having a trade show all in the same weekend. Add in the $10,000 dollar purse, door prizes, and distinct large trophies, and it is easy to see why this archery weekend grows every year. Archery Industry Sponsors are the main reason for the success of the Iowa Pro Am. The Iowa State Archery Association would like to Thank these great sponsors for making the Iowa Pro Am the fun event that it has become for so many archers. Platinum Sponsor Mathews Solocam Silver Sponsors Copper John, Delta Industries, Easton Technical Products, Hoyt USA, Martin Archery, and Specialty Archery. AMBBChampionship lDUANE HESS AMBHFS Championship I JASON WOODS 2 PAUL HUBBARD 3 PETE ROMIG A M BHFS Flight 1 1 JEFF INLOW 2 JASON MALLO 3 DAVID HARMS A M BHFS Flight 2 1 DALE DETERMAN 2 TERRY JARMUZEK 3 THOMAS REED A M BHFS Flight 3 31 DEAN SUMMER 32 DAVID ARNESON 33 PATRICK MCCABE A M BHFS Flight 4 41 JIM BARTELS 42 KEVIN LOECHLER 43 JAY PETERSON

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2004 ATA Show Draws Record Indy Crowd: Exhibitor Space Use Tops in History

Exhibitors attending the 2004 ATA Archery Trade Show rented a record 136,500 square feet and attracted the largest crowd ever to attend a show at the Indianapolis Convention Center during its Jan. 22-25 run. Total attendance at the 2004 show was 7,792, second only to the 8,116 attending the 2002 show in Nashville, a 4 percent difference. The crowd bested the 2003 crowd of 7,641, a 2 percent increase. The show’s exhibit floor at the Convention Center covers 270,500 square feet, nearly the size of five football fields. This year’s 136,500 square feet of rented booth space was an increase from 135,200 in 2003, the previous record. The size and attendance of ATA Archery Trade Show ranks it among the top 200 trade shows in the United States. “Exhibitors were working harder than ever to attract the attention of buyers and dealers on the show floor,” said Denise Parker, ATA Vice President and Trade Show Director. “Companies were creative in their use of show space, with many using elaborate structures, suspended signage and other innovative techniques to grab the attention of attendees." In the all-important category of registered dealers and buyers, the 2004 show attendance was 2,683, an 8 percent decline of 235 from 2,918 in 2003, which is the record for dealer/buyer attendance at Indianapolis. The 2002 show in Nashville drew a show-record 2,945 dealers and buyers.

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2004 ATA Show “The drop in Dealer/Buyer numbers was not real in that our high on-site registration cost of SI00 caused many exhibitors to provide free badges to dealers,” Parker said. “We watched as this was happening and realized we had created an unnecessary obstacle for some dealers to attend the show.” The high on-site registration cost was an effort to persuade more dealers/buyers to pre-register, which allows ATA staff more time to qualify each shop according to criteria adopted by that ATA Dealer Council. By pre-registering, dealers who arc ATA members received two free badges and paid S20 for each extra badge. Nonmembers pre-registered for $35 per badge. As a result of some dealer/buyers getting into the show with exhibitor badges, the attendee category experiencing the largest growth in 2004 was exhibitor staff, which grew by 478 to 4,042, or 13.4 percent, from 3,564 in 2003. “This increase in exhibitor staff numbers was directly related to the decrease in dealer/buyer registration,” said Parker, “and you can rest assured we'll fix this oversight in 2005. “We were extremely pleased once again about the atmosphere on the show floor,”

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2004 ATA Show Parker continued. “Many attendees from all segments of the industry appreciated that the show has really become an industry trade show rather than a gathering of everyone interested in bowhunting and archery.” Parker said she was also pleased by the record number of people attending this year’s morning seminars. Total attendance for this year’s 26 seminars was 908, an average of 35 per seminar; compared to 603 attending 27 seminars in 2003, an average of 22 per seminar. Despite the 50 percent jump in seminar attendees, Parker said the ATA continues to evaluate ways to expand and improve the education and training opportunities for 2005. Parker said the ATA is also reviewing this year’s show hours. The 2004 show opened at noon on Thursday, a half-day ahead of previous openings, and closed at 1 p.m. Sunday, two hours earlier than previous shows. “Show length and show hours will be a major topic in the weeks ahead for the ATA Board and Dealer Council.” Parker said. “We’re also doing a telephone survey of dealers and exhibitors to gauge everyone’s thoughts. Early indications are that dealers liked this year’s

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2004 ATA Show extra length because it gave them more scheduling flexibility, but we know it caused some problems for exhibitors. "We will continue to rely on feedback from our attendees, on input from our Trade Show Committee-which isopen to any ATA members - and discussions with the ATA Board and Dealer Council to improve the show,” Parker added. The Archery Trade Show will return to the Indianapolis Convention Center in 2005. and is scheduled for Jan. 6-9. The 2006 show will be in Atlanta, Ga., and is scheduled for Jan. 5-8 that year. Final determination of the days and show hours will be made at the ATA Board meeting in February 2004. For futhcr information: Denise Parker www.archerytrade.org

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Tomorrow’s Resources Unlimited, Inc., the makers of T.R.U. Ball® Release Products, is proud to announce new additions to our shooting staff for 2004. We are excited to add eight-time World Champion and nine-time Shooter of the Year Jeff Hopkins and five-time World Champion and 18-time National Champion Burley Hall. We are also proud to add 2003 BuckMasters Champion Justin Martin and 2003 Atlantic City NFAA Champion Tony Tazza, who tied one of Duane Price’s perfect scores in the process. We are also honored to 70

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SURE-LOC® Archery Products is proud to introduce the quality products of Paullet Archery to the U.S. market. Paullet Archery, who distributes SURE-LOC® sights and accessories in Europe, wanted to find an easier way to offer their exquisitely detailed quivers, arm guards and other archery accessories to shooters in the United States. The extra space in the SURE-LOC® facility in Versailles, Indiana, is perfect for Paullefs warehousing purposes. SURE-LOC® knows how to introduce new products into the market and is serving as import and fiscal agent for Paullet, based in France. Call 812/689-6307 or fax 812/689-7116 today for more information or to place your order.

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Cams Can’t Separate Tight TailorMaid Servings Ask any veteran archer where most string wear occurs, and it’s not under the center serving. It’s at the cams, especially on single cam bows that have abrupt cam angles. String serving is designed to protect the high-strength miracle fibers used in today’s compound bows from the abrasion that can weaken them. But that serving can’t do its job if it doesn’t stay in place or wasn’t made long enough to wrap fully around the cam. TailorMaid has been able to increase the tightness of its servings to keep them from separating, even where the string

makes abrupt transitions off the heel of the cam. And TailorMaid extends the serving further than other manufacturers, so even the largest cams contact only served areas of the string. “Our string loops are also served where they anchor to the string posts within the cams,” President Marv Long pointed out. “It’s not an easy process to serve those tiny loops. But it can lengthen string life and it definitely makes it easier for the retailer or shooter to correctly install the string.” For 2004 the upgraded servings are available from TailorMaid for every style of compound bow, including Darton CPS strings, Hoyt Cam & ° strings, cables, one cam bowstrings, two cam strings, and Oneida strings. Reach TailorMaid in Michigan at (734) 246-3182, fax your request to (734) 2463185, or access the complete line at www.stringmaker.com

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Trueflight Feathers has added Pink Barred and Blue Barred to their popular line of “Trueflight Barred™” pattern feathers. The new patterns add dark bars to a Pink or Blue dyed Feather, resulting in a very close duplicate of a natural barred feather which has been dyed pink or blue. Pink Trueflight Barred™ and Blue Trueflight Barred™ patterns are available in 5 of Trueflight’s best selling feather sizes and shapes, including “Full Length” sections so popular with Traditional Archers. “Demand for our ‘Phase 3 Process’ Trueflight Barred™ patterns has surprised us all,” reports Bob Link, Trueflight’s General Managerand Vice President. “We live in the age of "high tech’, but the barred look is back — Even on arrows for the most modem compound bows! But that’s easy to understand... light weight, high performance. Natural Feathers are the "high tech' fletching for any high performance bow!” Trueflight supplies Natural (high tech!) Feather fletching world wide, in more than 14 different sizes and shapes, in 14 solid colors and 12 Trueflight Barred™ pattern colors. For more information visit your local archery dealer, check out: www.trueflightfeathers.com , or write Trueflight at: P.O. Box 1000. Manitowish Waters, WI 54545 USA.

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Coach’s Corner 44 Form Flaws - Part 1 When Things Go Wrong by Bernie Pellerite ©2004 Author’s Bio: Bernie Pellerite is a professional level IV Master Coach who has been a pro staff shooter, pro shop owner and seminar speaker. He has 10 animals in the top 10 of the S.C.l. Bowhunting World Record Book.. He’s a leading technical writer and archery analyst who is published in many countries as well as several U.S. archery magazines and recently published his new book. "Idiot Proof Archery” (ad on page 273) He is president of Robinhood"Video Productions, which presently has 37 titles marketed all over the world.'He is also the inventor of the “Bernie’s Can’t Punch™ release which eliminates punching and target panic. He also manufacturers “Bernie’s PanicMaster and Bow Simulator” and offers a series of 9 videos called the Shooter’s School Master Series. He is in the process of introducing 2 new back tension releases and an air bow in 2002. As a professional coach, he created the world-famous NFAA Shooter’s School and also offers the NFAA Advanced Certified Instructor program as an option. Bernie and his wife. Jan, will be conducting these exciting shooter’s schools, which are "also available on six video tapes. For more information, call Bernie or Jan at Robinhood Videos (614)933-0011, fax (614)933-0010 or website www.robinhoodvideos.com.

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from “Idiot Proof Archery” (see ad page 90) Over the years, not much has been written about form. Most articles you read deal with tuning and gadgets. Form seems to be somewhat of a subjective matter. In my opinion, there are some shooting forms better than others. The one that I teach in the NFAA Shooter’s School is a composite of what I’ve observed 90% of the “winners” using over the years. I call it “idiot-proof archery”. Theoretically, (at least on paper) archery says you don’t have to do it my way or Joe Archer’s way, all you have to do is “...do it the same way every time.” The following is a list of 44 different form flaws that I have identified in my coaching career. I will tell you how to identify them and also how to correct them. The correction is based on achieving “idiot-proof’ form, which is much easier to do the same way every time, because it is natural and logical (see photo). The posture is natural and the bow is held mainly by bone-to-bone contact in perfect alignment, versus a muscle-based individually contrived methodology of varying proportions. It also holds up much better under pressure, is less practice-intensive, and not as hard to absorb to the subconscious level, as some of the more unorthodox ways of shooting are. These 44 are the most common that I have noticed. However, I’m sure you can probably add to the list. "Idiot Proofform Because of its length, the second and third parts will appear in the next issues. The list is broken into the following general categories: Stance, Alignment, Bow Hand & Grip, Anchor, Bow Arm, Finger Release and Mechanical Release. The assumption will be made that you are a male (so I don’t have to say he or she every time), right-handed archer (so we

New Shooter’s School for 2004 Debuts “A Weekend at Bernie’s”

This year, the NFAA Council decided to no longer offer an exclusive shooter's school contract. Additionally, the NFAA Shooter's School will no longer certify instructors as it did in the past. (Students wishing to become Certified Instructors will have Master Coach, Bemie Pellerite announces the debut of his to attend a separate course.) So, Jan and I decided to offer both new shooter’s school, “The School of Advanced Archery and in our new school. This also gives us the freedom to expand the Instructor Certification.” Its nickname is “A Weekend at program we've been doing and try some new things. I think outBernie’s.” This new venture is an exciting 3 day format and will new school will take archers and instructors to the next level be a more liberal and “souped up” version of the NFAA Shooter’s much quicker and cheaper. We will be able to graduate advanced School that was created by Bernie 8 years ago. The curriculum level shooters and advanced certified instructors out ofonly one used in the past NFAA Shooter’s Schools, which has produced mobile school for a much lower price. We already have 8 to 10 over 85 world and National records and championships, will now schools scheduled for the first half of the year and another 10 be taught exclusively in their new school by Bemie and his wife, tentative schools for the second half. We even have 3 scheduled Jan, who both have NFAA Master Coach Certifications. for next year, so we 're off to a good start. Jan and I plan to Advanced Archery Instructor Certification will also be offered continue to support the NFAA. no matter what we do. I will at the school through Bernie’s organization but will not be continue to write for the NFAA magazine and do seminars at associated with the NFAA Certified Instructor program or the NFAA events for as long as they want me to. " Bernie and Jan own Robinhood Videos, which has 27 NFAA Shooter’s Schools. For the last 8 years, Bernie and Jan have traveled 47 states instructional videos. Bemie has also invented and patented several and 3 foreign countries, conducting 112 shooter’s schools for products, including 4 different release aids, a complete line of over 1,800 students and certifying over a thousand NFAA stabilizers, 2 laser-equipped training aids that bear his name, along Instructors in the mobile school that Bemie ran for the NFAA. with a best selling book called “idiot Proof Archery.” For more information on schools already scheduled and Bemie says, "We had a lot offun. taught a lot of people and made a lot offriends doing our schoolfor the NFAA. and we are available future dates for The School of Advanced Archery thankful to them for that experience. But, all good things must and Instructor Certification (“A Weekend at Bernie’s”), come to an end. We wish the NFAA well with whatever instructors private lessons, or Robinhood Video’s products, call Bemie or and new curriculum they decide on for their own NFAA school. Jan at 614-933-0011 or go to www.robinhoodvideos.com. 74

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don’t have to say vice versa for lefties), shooting a release. The opposite will be true for left-handers. (Sorry southpaws, you need a better union!) Take the information below and critique your form. Get an inexpensive 12” by 48” mirror (about $5.00 at a discount store,) and suspend it overhead, with the front end hanging about one foot lower than the back. Put a video camera behind it and point it up at the mirror. Stand under the mirror and film yourself shooting. Or, prop the mirror up in front or to the side of you, so you can come to full draw and peek out of the corner of your eye to observe your form. Also, you can set up a video camera to tape different angles of your shooting form and play it back, using freeze frame or pause, to analyze and correct your form. In the shooter’s school, we tape each student from three different angles, which has yielded outstanding results. First, an overhead shot (with the mirror), then a profile shot (from the side), and finally, a “laser shot” (laser mounted on the bow) to show aiming patterns. You can use this technique to see if you can recognize yourself in any of the next form flaws, and compare it to the picture of good form on the previous page. We also completely illustrate all these flaws on our video 44 Form Flaws. STANCE 1. Feet Too Close Together (ankles touching or almost touching.) This is a common flaw, especially among 3-D shooters. If your feet are too close together, it promotes leaning back, away from the target (another flaw). This is because you are holding out a bow that weighs 4 to 12 pounds in your left "Feet too close hand and you have together" to lean back, just to keep your balance. When you lean back, your bow shoulder comes up, which causes you to use the shoulder (deltoid) muscle instead of your back muscles. This causes an unsteady sight picture. As you can see, one flaw can cause several more flaws, and conversely, correcting one flaw can help clear up other problems you might be having. Your feet should be shoulder width apart, with weight evenly distributed on both feet. This should also help with inconsistencies you might encounter in shooting up and down hills. 2. Leaning Back Looking from the side at the profile of an archer at fiill draw, there

is sometimes a tendency to throw the left Tough Man or Tuxx Man, hip toward the target and lean back with we've got great strings to the upper body. Having your draw length too long usually causes this. This can cause satisfy any shooter. Next the draw wrist to bend and throws the draw elbow into too low of a position, which makes back tension nearly impossible to achieve. This is because the pivot point in your back is at a much higher point (in your upper back) instead of between the shoulder blades. It also promotes rolling the bow shoulder, which creates tension in the bow arm and a shaky sight picture. Feet, hips, and shoulders should line up, one above the other. The aiming eye should be over the belt buckle and the buttons on the shirt should run straight down when looked at from a side view. 3. Leaning Over The Bow Looking from behind the archer, he would appear to be bent slightly forward at the waist, shoulders and/or neck. Leaning over the bow causes premature fatigue, promotes creeping and erratic arrow groups. The www.stringmaker.com head and neck should be relaxed on a straight spine. 4.Body Profile In “Z” Formation This is a combination of several form flaws. important that the hips are directly above the feet, and the shoulders are directly Looking from above the hips. the side at the ALIGNMENT profile of an archer at full 6, Draw Elbow Too Low Ideally, the tip of the elbow should be about as high as draw, an archer the nose (or higher), to get proper back will throw his tension. On an archer’s back: if you draw front hip an imaginary line from the tip of the elbow forward, the to the spine, it should end right between trunk of the the shoulder blades at the rhomboid body is leaning muscles. If the elbow is too low, and you back, and the draw the imaginary line, it will end up in head is bent the upper shoulder area, a few inches below forward into the the neck. This will cause the bow to be bowstring, “ Z Formation ” pulled with the upper shoulder muscles and creating a the arm muscles. For proper back tension. zigzag or “Z” formation of the spine. It is nearly the bow should be pulled primarily with impossible to exactly duplicate all of these the rhomboids, located at a point about 1” angles each time, especially when shooting from the tip of the right scapula (shoulder up or down hills, thus making shooting blade on the string side). The elbow is form inconsistent. Once again, it is operated with the draw-side rhomboid back important to align the spine, head and neck muscles only, which acts as the pivot point to hinge the entire in-line unit from the in a straight, relaxed line. 5. Twisted At The Waist (feet open, rhomboids through the shoulder, and shoulders closed) Looking from behind the through the upper draw arm. to the tip of archer, the feet would be slightly open, (15- the elbow. 7. Draw Elbow Too High Some 30 degree angle), but the upper body would still be straight on a line to the target. This coaches will say that it is impossible to have frequently happens when an archer changes the draw elbow too high, and most of the his foot position to a more open stance, but time I am tempted to agree with them, but doesn’t adjust the upper body to line up there are exceptions. I f the elbow becomes with the feet. He sets his feet in the new so high that the draw wrist bends, this can position, but draws the bow back with his cause tension, and string torque problems. shoulders aligned “straight to the target” Also, if the elbow is artificially high (not the way he is used to, especially if he has naturally high such as an abnormally long (or used to have) too long ofa draw length. upper arm) it would also elevate the draw A symptom of this problem is sometimes shoulder much higher than the bow a pain or cramp in the lower kidney area shoulder, causing tension and would be from being twisted at the waist. It is very hard to duplicate the same position

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The School of Advanced Archery & Instructor Certification a.k.a. “A Weekend at Bernie's” (formerly the NFAA Shooter’s School) Current 2004 Schedule Jan and Bernie report that there is still an incredible amount of interest expressed in attending this new Shooter’s School, but more people willing to nost the event are needed. So, you interested shooters, go after your pro shop owners and club presidents and book a Shooter’s'School near you! Remember, the host shop or club receives 10%. Due to the overwhelming popularity of the school and the limited number of open weekends, it is recommended that interested pro shops or clubs schedule as soon as possible. Scheduling is well under way for 2004. Available dates always fill up quickly, so book yours today! You can also be put on the waiting list. The following is a list of the schools presently on the schedule. Additional schools will be posted here, as they are booked. CURRENT SCHEDULE - 2004 February 27-29 - Maitland's Archery, Reno, NV. Contact: Rob 775-972-8811

email: maitlandsarcherv@ovramid.com March 5-7 - Flying Arrows, Victor, MT (50 miles S. of Missoula) Contact: Ronni 406-961-3991 rflvinaarrows@aol.com March 12-14 - Kyanne Archery, Maple Ridge, B.C. (25 km east of Vancouver - subject to change) Contact: Shelley or Gerald 604-465-3651 kvanne@infoserve.net April 2-4 - Potomac Valiev Archers, Petersburg, WV (E. panhandle) Contact: Bob Clark 304-538-2420 or 304-538-2473 April 16-18 - Archery Shack, Neenah, Wl (Appleton area) Contact: Todd Dontje 920-733-6824 April 23-25 - Ferari Archery, Watertown, NY (N. of Syracuse) Contact: Judy Pearson 315-688-2527joearson@westelcom.com June 18-20 - S & S Taxidermy“Archery Pro Shop, Springville, NY (30 miles S. of Buffalo. Contact: Tom Sullivan 716-942-4953. After b pm 716-592-5971 ThomasRSullivan@starband.net http://sstaxidermy.com July 16-18-7 Oaks Archery Club. Mineral Point, Wl (45 miles S. Madison) Contact: Steve Bertram 608-987-3520

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•The format is as follows: Friday afternoon and early evening - (usually 3:00pm to 6:00pm) video taping of the students. School lecture starts Friday at 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM. Saturday and Sunday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. •Curriculum is for intermediate to professional level. •Topics include 3-D, target shooting, bowhunting, practice regimen, equipment set-up, tuning, holding steady, mental and physical aiming, back tension, professional form, shot sequence and execution, tournament pressure, and judging yardage. Problem solving and question and answer sessions will cover topics such as punching the trigger, bow torque, penetration, target panic/buck fever and much more. • Minimum 10, maximum 25-30 students. (Any number less than 10 students must be pre-approved).

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shot to shot. In general though, higher is better than too low ... as long as it is natural. 8. Draw Elbow Out Of Line With The Arrow I f the tip of the elbow is outside (to the right) of an imaginary line through the arrow to the target, it can cause the release hand to fly out and away from the face, (causing string torque) instead of straight back, like it should. If the elbow is too far inside, (toward the archer’s back at full draw, looking from behind the elbow) this can also cause bow and string torque. The draw elbow should be in line (or very nearly so), behind the arrow at the moment of explosion of the shot. (The exception to this is for some finger shooters and a few others who can’t get their elbow in line because of limited range of motion or other physical limitations.) However, it’s better to be a little too far inside the line, than outside. 9.Draw Wrist Bent (Release Shooters). Some archers bend their wrist because they are using the wrist and hand muscles to help pull the bowstring back, instead of the back muscles. Ideally, the fingers should only be used to “hold on.” The pulling should be done with the back muscles, which moves or rotates the elbow back. Unfortunately, some mechanical release models, such as a “concho type” release can only be shot with a bent wrist, because the barrel won’t line up with a straight wrist. Other reasons for the wrist to bend are that the draw length is too long, or some shooters will collapse into the back of their neck, and/or put their thumb behind their neck (also see # 15) at anchor, upon coming to full draw. Therefore, at the moment of explosion, the hand-wrist-arm unit sort of “springs back,” causing string torque, which in turn causes unexplained lefts and rights, undesirable paper tears, etc. The wrist should be straight, expanded, and relaxed, regardless of whether you shoot with fingers or a mechanical release. BOW HAND AND GRIP The bow hand is a part of form that is much more important than most people realize, because it is the final place that the human body touches the bow and can influence the bow’s effect on the arrow,

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before it clears the front of the riser. lO.High Wrist Grip (Hand Position) This hand position or grip is actually considered, by some, preferable to the low wrist grip that I recommend. The logic of the high grip is that there is less hand on the bow to influence the shot. In practice though, the average archer will find it nearly impossible to duplicate the exact same hand position and pressure on the bow handle consistently, over and over and over. There are a handful of well-known archers who have mastered the high wrist grip, and do quite well with it. However, it takes very strong wrists and many, many hours of practice to perfect it. More muscles are used in the high wrist grip than any of the others and therefore, causes more tension in the hand, which can cause an unsteady sight picture. When an archer starts to get tired, distracted, or starts to relax, the bow hand will usually start to “break down,” and he will experience high and low arrows. I recommend the low wrist grip, because it is already as relaxed as possible, thereby much easier to duplicate over and over, regardless of the physical condition of the archer or the amount of practice put in. The pressure should be on the bone at the base of the thumb, on the thumb side of the lifeline. It should be directly in front of, and as an extension of, the radius bone (big bone in the forearm), not on the web of the hand between the thumb and index finger. 11. Grip Across Lifeline (too much hand in the bow). With a few notable exceptions, most top shooters prefer not to have the bow handle cross the lifeline or “Palmar crease”on the hand. The reason for this is, there are muscles on both sides of the crease. They are called the “thenar eminence” (thumb side) and the "hypothenar eminence" (little finger side). If the grip crosses this crease, four different reactions can be experienced at explosion: flex both muscles, relax both muscles, flex one muscle and relax the other, and vice versa. The handle should be placed on the thumb side of the crease with a relaxed bow hand (bone-to-bow contact). There is also less chance the string will hit the bow arm, and less chance of bow torque with this position. To find a torque-free hand position, lubricate your hand or bow handle with water or baby oil, and try out many, slightly different hand positions. Find a torque-free hand position that will allow the stabilizer to jump toward the target, not left or right upon explosion. 12. Too Much Thumb (not enough hand in the bow). Just the opposite of # 11. The handle is placed too far out on the thumb where only soft tissue (ligaments, tendons, and muscle) are holding the bow. This grip is very unstable, inconsistent, and causes bow torque (usually to the right). This hand position is sometimes used to

try to avoid string contact with the wrist or forearm, which is more easily avoided by shortening draw length, opening stance, and/or not rolling the bow shoulder into the bow. Again, the bow handle should be placed against the bone next to the palmar crease, on the thumb side. This is solid, relaxed and easily repeatable. 13. Grabbing the Bow or Gripping Too Tight Grabbing the bow upon release, is generally caused by a conscious release or punching of the trigger, which “telegraphs” to the body and the bow hand, that the explosion is about to happen. When playing my student’s videos back in slow "Fingers Spread and Tense " motion, we have witnessed, on many occasions, archers grabbing the bow before change, on a blank bale, three feet away, or the arrow is completely clear of the arrow with a bow simulator! rest. They will usually punch and then grab, 14. Fingers Spread And Tense but sometimes they grab . . . then punch. Spreading the fingers of the bow hand at Another variation of this flaw is gripping full draw is usually a futile attempt to stop the bow too tight in the first place. Both of grabbing the bow upon release. The tension these problems will end up causing bow in the hand and bow arm will cause bow torque and unexplained misses. The use of torque and an unsteady sight picture. a sling and/or tucking three fingers in can Again, the more muscles that are involved help eliminate these problems. Tucking the in the shot, the more unsteady the sight three fingers will also encourage proper picture becomes. Let the fingers of the bow placement on the bow handle. Leaving the hand completely relax. Upon release (as index finger out (to lightly touch the bow), in # 13), the bow should shoot “through the will give the archer a certain sense of fingers” and the sling should catch the bow. security. If you are using a sling (and you Just like grabbing the bow, this bad habit should be), the hand should not be able to should be retrained on an empty bale or move more than to ” away from the bow simulator, until the habit is gone. bow handle . . . any more than that and you Come to full draw normally and, instead won’t have confidence in the sling; any less of looking through the peep sight, simply than that could cause some torque from the stare at your bow hand while you execute sling. The hand should be relaxed and you the shot. Notice what your hand does ... should let the bow shoot out of your hand, 100 to 300 shots later, you will have trained through your fingers . . . and let the sling yourself to relax your hand and trust the catch it! So, you need to experiment and sling. find out what works for you. Your new This concludes the first of a three-part hand position should then be tested and article. The second and third parts will practiced until it becomes automatic. This appear in the next two issues. Good luck should be done, as with any new form and see you in the next issue!

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Does this sound like a situation you may have been in at one time in your life? You see a new idea, concept or way to improve your shooting, you try it, and before long you find yourself on a flaming skateboard Hying down hill in to a lake of gasoline...or so it seems. That's the way it is with the mental control and belief system change necessary to develop the mental skills of rock hard Roger IK Breternitz Ch. T. concentration, relaxation under pressure, and the art of LETTING yourself win instead of TRYING to win, when it comes down to The “Old Man” in all of us the last arrow. You have a belief system, that belief system is How many of us like change? You work hard to achieve your responsible for you allowing yourself to win or finding a way to station in life, to get things going your way, and you seem to lose gracefully. have gotten a handle on all of it...you think. Then along comes a It seems the older people get the more they resist change, new idea, a concept, or a different way of thinking and doing, a hence the saying, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”. There different method of getting to what you think is a higher level of is an “Old man” in all of us that resists change, and sometimes achievement than you have ever reached. We’re not only talking will resist violently to keep us from making the change or changes about archery here, we could be talking about anything or skill necessary to climb to a higher level of proficiency. This is in that you would like to improve upon. In order to climb to a higher anything we do and hitting more X rings is only one of them. lever they say you have to change this or that about what you are Change in our belief system is the most difficult change to make now doing, and you have to start over in parts of what you want on a deeper level within us. This “Old man” we’re talking about to improve, and suddenly it all starts to take on a whole new and here will resist violently because he (or she) likes the comfort of sometimes “Ugly” picture of what you thought you were just what’s already established, likes the known set of problems to trying to make better. Like the story about the woodsman. He’s be dealt with, and doesn’t want any more NEW problems. This chopping down trees to build his log cabin, and somebody walks Old Man can actually cause you to do worse in order to get you by as says, “Ya know if you got a chainsaw you could cut down to “Go back” to what you used to do, or what you used to think, a lot more trees, and a lot quicker too”. So he goes to town and in order to preserve the status quo. Then when you actually do buys a chainsaw, comes back and gets a quarter of the way worse, you will say, “Ya. I better stick with what I know”, and through a tree and it quits. Goes back to town to the hardware this Old Man can go back to being comfortable in his little world store asks what’s wrong. Store owner says, “You needed to mix of mediocrity and being anything but number one. Think of it the oil with the gas to get it to work properly”. He does it, goes this way. In order to climb higher, sometimes you have to get on back to the woods, cuts half way through the tree, saw quits a “Taller ladder”, which may mean you have to climb DOWN to cutting...back to the store again. Owner says, “You gotta learn get off the one you’re on. something about chainsaws here pardncr, it needs sharpening if If there is something you feel you need to change about your you expect it to keep cutting, you gotta buy a file sharpener.” He equipment, first research it thoroughly, ask a credible source for buys the file, gets back to the woods, discovers it’s the wrong advice, see if you can “Try out” a temporary, or loaner device size of file for that particular saw...back to the store, and gets the first. That’s the best way to bring about a physical change in right file. Now he’s ready to do some major cutting. Cuts almost your shooting for the better. However: when it comes to mental all the way through the tree and runs out of gas. Well, it was dark change approach it with an open mind, remember it’s the Old by then anyway. Next morning you see him swinging his axe! Man who will always keep you from new learning, new concepts, and the quest for expanding your thinking. 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He will fight you all of the way, and may even make you take a step backwards to make you THINK what you’re doing will not, or is not working. You need to keep I istening to your chosen reprogramming source, tape or CD. DO NOT give up, sometimes people tell me that they go for several weeks and nothing is happening, they even got (or shot) worse. Then in one practice session or one day or night, it all came together like finally breaking through the ice you’ve been trying to chop through on a frozen lake. It was like a blot of lightning, the change was so overpowering. It was like all the work, training, and perseverance came together at once, and a great block was removed, they climbed to the top of the mountain...and they never looked back. In your quest to have this breakthrough, remember to fight the Old Man, don’t let him win, you have to keep hammering away at him, keep the pressure on. If you start to do worse because of changes you made, if you start to get irritable, it’s usually a sign that the Old Man is about to give in. He’s giving it one more try to make you give up and go back to being comfortable with the old state of being. It’s a sign that your are very close to a break through in your quest for change, and effort to excel to a higher level. If it was easy, we’d all be shooting perfect scores, be on the cover of this magazine, and be driving home from Las Vegas in the new Mustang. So...hang in there, fight the Old Man, and get ready to jump into the winner’s circle, because your breakthrough is just around the comer. The best of luck and Good Shooting, Roger Any comments, or questions on the “Mental Side of Winning” e-mail to roger@vectorstudios.com or check http:// www.vectorsludios.com

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Mental Archery: The vital skill winner’s master By Frank Addington

Frank Addington, Jr. has been shooting a bow and arrow since 1971. At 36 years old, he is considered one of the youngest "old timers" in the sport of archery. In 1994 Addington is believed to be the first archer in the histoiy ofthe sport to ever hit an aspirin and baby aspirin from mid air with the bow held behind his back. He often uses this skill to promote archery and drive home a message to our youth about staying drug free . Addington appears across the United States on stage in his Instinctive Archer)’ Exhibitions. In July 2003 he did exhibitions in New York City in conjunction with the F1TA World Championship. While there CNN's Jeanne Moos featured Addington hitting aspirin and baby aspirin tablets from mid air and dubbed him the "William Tell of popping pills... " Addington resides in Winfield, West Virginia with his wife Amanda, two Quarter Horses, a puppy named Miss Elly and their three barn cats. Addington is currently working on his first book on archery. Frank has produced a CD-Rom compiling 17 years of media articles, letters, snapshots and video footage of his shows. The CD is available for $10.00 plus shipping. Call (304) 755-2084 or email at Aspirinbusterla),aol.com. 80

One might ask what if anything a lifelong instinctive shooter can say or write that would in any way benefit the target archers around the globe that read this magazine. After all. I have never used a sight and rarely if ever shoot a target with a traditional bull’s-eye. There are many differences in our shooting styles. I use a quick, fluid shooting style—Fred Bear once told me it was called “snap shooting”. I rarely ever anchor or even hold the bow or my body in one position during an exhibition. I move about the stage shooting various airborne targets and often shoot with the bow behind my back—which is a world away from the traditional FITA style shooting. The equipment is also much different. You won’t see any sights or aiming devices on my bows and I use a home made modified leather rest. I use flu flu feathered arrows and big, heavy shafts that stabilize quickly at close range. I shoot bare fingered or with a homemade flat leather tab Rev. Stacy Groscup makes for me. I rarely shoot past 20 yards. The only thing! add to this set up isaset of SIMMS Vibrations Labs Limb Savers and a similar short stabilizer. So there are many differences in our styles of equipment and in our actual shooting techniques and goals. But when you boil it down to the basics, aren’t we both trying to obtain the same goal? We both want our arrows to hit their intended target every time. This my friends is where we come together because at this level it changes to a mental game. The Mental Game At any given sport the very best athletes will almost always tell you that at the very top level it becomes a mental game. It does require hours and hours of practice and hard work to get the skills down to become a top athlete. It also requires solid equipment. Don’t be fooled into thinking a certain brand name makes a champion. Champions have the foundation of experience and skill and then master the mental side of the sport. They could win with almost any brand at their level. Mastering the mental game is where it really boils down to separating the champion from the herd. Surely you have witnessed this in action. A shooter that in practice bums the bull’s-eye up. They practice, practice, practice until every arrow finds its mark. Everyone knows this will be the shooter to beat and then comes the big tournament and they blow it. Maybe they blame the equipment, the weather, or some other excuse when in reality they did not have the mental edge mastered. This can be a 1982 - 22th Anniversary - 2004

good shooters downfall in competition. My friend the late Al Henderson was the first person to get this point across to me. He was an Olympic coach and wrote a column in an archery magazine years ago about the mental game. He even wrote a book titled. Understanding Winning Archery published by Glenn Helgoland at Target Communications. If you do not have this book I highly advise getting it. Al was a master at coaching champions. He worked on the mental edge to get them ready for the intense competition at the top level of our sport. Al Henderson was the first to point me to the mental side of the sport. His articles and book helped me tremendously and were a foundation to my archery career. I credit Al with helping push me to develop my mental game. I met him around 1978 or so and really enjoyed meeting this mental guru in person. I also had the privilege of meeting Dr. Wyant Woodsmall one time, an advanced behavioral expert from the Washington. DC area. He is considered one of the top experts in his field and has been called “the trainer’s trainer.” Dr. John MacCallum brought Dr. Woodsmall by my place one time around 1990. I was in a huge rut and couldn’t seem to be able to find the aspirin. My shooting was in a slump. Dr. Woodsmall (www.inlpta.com/trainers/ trainers.htm) had me shoot several shots at the airborne aspirin. I missed every single time and was no where near the intended target. Dr. Woodsmall then sat down and talked with me. Little did I know he was about to change my shooting forever. We talked maybe five minutes and he coached me with his technique then he said, “Now Frank go and shoot the aspirin.” I had my thrower toss a pill into mid air and “pow” the aspirin flew into dust the first shot. Pretty powerful lesson. Almost 15 years later I continue to use this specific technique when I get in a rut. Don’t ever think you can skip mental practice. It would require too much space to try and write about his technique. It is an art, a science and a complex training method and so much more. I will list his website at the end of this article so that you may explore it on your own. So you see my friend although our shooting styles and equipment differ, we share a few things in common. A passion for the great sport of archery, a desire to be the best, and mastering the mental aspects of the game. Until next time, Shoot Straight.

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From the Senior Corner By Joe Bauernfeind

Author Joe Bauernfeind

Once again the time has come for me to post the list of Senior Games State Qualifiers. The next National Senior Games, also called the Senior Olympics, will be held in Pittsburgh, PA from June 3rd through June 18lh. 2005. The important thing to remember is that you must qualify in your state's 2004 games to be eligible. After just seeing the results from the 2003 games a few issues ago, it seems like there's lots of time to qualify for the next Nationals, but don't be relaxed into doing nothing. Look at the list and start making your plans. Even if the dates aren’t posted for your state in the current list, there is still a name and number to call for information. So the burden has been placed directly on YOUR shoulders. If you miss this chance, don’t tell those who

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NATIONAL SENIOR GAMES ASSOCIATION 2004 Summer State Games Directory 2/18/04 Following is a list of summer state senior games sanctioned by the NSGA GAMES COORDINATOR LOCATION STATE GAMES 2004 DATES

Alabama Senior Olympic Games* Alaska International Sr. Games. Inc.* Arizona Senior Olympics* Arkansas Senior Olympics* California Senior Games Championships*

(Colorado) Rocky Mountain Senior Games*

Connecticut Senior Olympics*

Delaware Senior Olympics

Ronnie Floyd. 334-242-4495 Jim Madonna 907-456-2569

Montgomery. AL

Fairbanks, AK

Apr 3 (road race) May 7-9 Aug 13-22

Irene Stillwell. 602-534-3500 Email rene sti>*elt@pboemx gov www seniorgames org Gail Ezelle. 501-321-1441 or 800-720-7276 in AR Emad arsro!ym@hotspnr>gs net www srsports org____ Cynthia Rosedale 626-685-6754 Emsi cpr@cosi>der.aseniorca-ile' org www caUcxn asemorgames com www pasaoenasemoro'/mpics com Sheri Lobmeyer. 970-350-9433 or 970-350-9437 Email Iotxnoye5@ei greeley co us www rmseniorgames com Patrick Fisher 850-528-4588 Email pat@nutmegstategames org www seniorgamesctorg Mary Costello. 302-736-5698 or 888-881-6128 in DE

Phoenix. AZ

Feb 21 - Mar 7

Hot Springs. AR

Sep 23-28

Pasadena, CA

Jun 4-20

Greeley. CO

Jun 22-27

Trinity College. Hartford. CT

June 19. 26. 27

Sept / Oct

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Florida Senior Games State Championships**

Stephen Rodnguez. 850-488-8347 Email gamesQflasports com

The Villages. FL

Dec 4-12

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Georgia Golden Olympics*

Hawaii Senior Olympics*

Vicki Pilgrim. 404-657-6644 Ema: vcpdgnmgohr state ga us www georgiagoldenoympxs org Mark Zeug. 808-732-8805 Email zeug@hawa» rr com www ha-waasemoror/mpics com

Warner Robins. GA

Sep 29 - Oct 2

Honolulu. HI

Nov 13-29

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went and had a great time that you didn’t know how to enter. If the dates set for your state’s games don’t work for you, pick out a nearby state, or plan a vacation around qualifying in another location. How about Hawaii or Florida where the warm weather rules? Check the asterisks and double asterisks on some states to determine where you can or can’t compete. I’ve qualified twice in neighboring NJ when there were conflicts in dates between the NY games and the NFAA Mid-Atlantic shoot. It’s also important to remember that since archery is an under attended sport in the games, the requirements to qualify are set very low. You don’t have to finish in the top 3 in your state, but simply shoot a qualifying score, which is set at a very low level. If you do go to another state and take one of the top spots, it will not affect the archers who are trying to qualify and are from that state. So, there’s no excuse not to at least qualify at a state level, even though your plans for the national games are not yet in place. Once you’ve qualified you can relax and take your time about planning for 2005, but if you miss it, you’ll be out of luck when June ’05 rolls around. Ken Wilkes, 208-322-7033 x243 Email kwiikes@sageidaho com www idahoseniorgames com Illinois Senior Selvanne Jones/ Debra Staley, Olympics* 217-753-0701 EmaJ dsta'«y@spmgfie’dparks org Indiana Senior Steve Patrow, 812-464-7800 or 800-253-2188 Games* Email spatrow@$wirca org www swrca.org Iowa Senior Susan Skinner. Games* 515-633-5011 Email tkinners@home.wam k12 la ui www iowasemorgarr.es org Kansas Senior Becky Sewell. Olympics* 785-368-3798 Email bseweH@topeka org ■ww tcoeu OTytd-.eyVto nun mrjHr Kentucky Senior Eddie Bowen. Games* 270-358-4321 wwwscrtc corrV~wenx4jz Louisiana Senior Butch Gipson, Olympic Games* 225-925-1748 Email: lsog@lsog net www Isog net Maine Senior Anita Chandler. Games* 207-396-6500 Maryland Senior Phil Adams / Dorothy Kielian Olympics 410-704-4456 Email mso@towson edu www towson edu/solympics Massachusetts Linda Fitzgerald Senior Games* 413-731-2974 Email bnda.frtzgerald@bcbsma com www.mascmorgames org Michigan Senior Marye Miller. 248-608-0255 or Olympics* 248-608-0250 Email msro:ympics@yanoo com www rmchiganseniorolympics org (Minnesota) Erin Wenneson. Northland Senior 218-626-4521 Ema I ewennesonga.d iduth mn us Games* Mississippi Joyce Anderson, Senior Olympics* 601-925-7994 Emad mssenorotym@aol com www msseruorolym ora Missouri State Jack Miles. Senior Games* 573-882-1462 Email rru!es/w@missoun edu www.smsg org/senor games

Boise. ID

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Springfield. IL

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Indianapolis, IN

Sept 9-14

West Des Moines, IA

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Topeka. KS

Pikeville. KY

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Baton Rouge. LA

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Portland, ME

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Springfield, MA

June 17-20

Lansing. Ml

Aug 6-10

Duluth. MN

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Now that that’s out of the way, I’ll write just a little on this year’s ATA (Archery Trade Association) show. This is the annual kick-off for the new archery season and the time for the manufacturers to unveil their new products for the year. Distributors and dealers come from all parts of the country and from around the world, to place orders for the upcoming year and to establish contact with the rest of the archery world. Not only can you see and touch the latest goodies, you can test them for real in one of the many shooting areas set up around the show floor. This is a big plus for those looking for that new bow line, which may be the hot ticket this year. All of the pictures and words written by the anxious manufacturers can be confirmed or refuted in just a few minutes once you get your hands on the bow. Once again the trend is toward shorter, parallel limb, one cams with a lot of attention being placed on changeable cam modules, which will cover a wide range of draw lengths and weights. This takes a load off the dealer; with respect to how many different bows he’ll have to stock to fit all the different archers who enter his shop. Of course the battle to be the fastest or the shortest continues unabated. I don’t know where the speed limit is but when the top wheel and the bottom wheel touch at full draw the shortest bow race will be won. It hasn’t happened yet but you never know. The search for the torque free handle continues as well, with one manufacturer introducing a compound bow with the grip mounted on gimbals, allowing rotation of the handle in both the vertical and horizontal planes. This sounds like the ultimate in stability in theory but in practice it’s going to take some work to achieve. The bow makers haven’t completely Kay Newman 406-586-5543 Email kayjn@imt net Nebraska Senior Michael Feamley, Games* 308-233-3229 Email mfeamiey@keameygov org www nebraskasenorgames com Nevada Senior Vincent Addamo, Games* 702-242-1590 Email srgamesl@junocom www nevaaa-seniorolympics com (New Hampshire) Charles Houser, Granite State 603-622-9041 Email: nhgssg@att.net Senior Games* www.nhseniorgames org New Jersey Michael Garamella, Senior Olympics* 973-618-1111 New Mexico Cecilia Acosta, Senior Olympics 505-623-5777 Emad nmso@qwes’. net www nmscniorotympics org (New York) John Doherty. Empire State 212-866-2794 Email doherty@oprhp state ny us Senior Games www emp.restategames org North Carolina Cindy Trumbower, Senior Games 919-851-5456 Email ncsg@mmdspring com www ncsemorgames org Jeff Heisler. North Dakota Senior Games* 701-298-6980 Email jheis>r@targoparks com www.fargoparks com Ohio Senior Bob Gandee, Olympics* 330-972-7243 or 330/864-4659 Email info-gohioscn orolympxs org www ohiosemorolympcs org Oklahoma Senior Dana Brown. Olympics* 918-596-7866 Email danabrown@ci tulsa ok us www oksrgames com Oregon Senior Games Pennsylvania Judith Brominski. Senior Games 570-823-3164 / 888-445-4559 Email Paseniorgames@aol com www keyslonegames com (Rhodo Island) Mike Lyons. Ocean State 401-431-5007 Senior Olympics* Montana Senior Olympics*

forgotten the competitive archer though, with some nice, less radical handled, longer axle-to-axle models still available. The release market continues at about the same level; with the wrist draw releases dominating the hunting market and hand held releases prevailing in the competitive areas. The back tension releases have also continued to evolve, with the safety feature offered by many of the manufacturers luring in those archers who were previously afraid of this type of trigger less release. The sight market, which had pretty much peaked as far as innovation and quality were concerned, may be on the verge of a new era, with Spot Hogg’s introduction of a non-sliding target sight. This sight uses an adjustable, internal prism system to give the archer the same range attained with the traditional sliding block sights, while eliminating the need for adjustments to your anchor when going from the shortest to the longest range. With shots ranging from 20 ft. in field archery to 100 yd. in target archery, this could be a significant innovation. While not a completely new concept, in the hands of Steve Johnson, Spot Hogg’s resident design genius, this should be an interesting trend to watch as it develops. That’s it for now. Keep the Senior Games in mind and look me up at the major shoots if you’re a wandering archer like me.

Joe Bauemfeind www.zenitharchery.com Editor’s note: Sorry we had to print the National Senior Games Schedule so small. Too much news coming in at this time of year.

Butte. MT

June 3-5

Kearney. NE

Aug 12-15

Las Vegas. NV

Sep 25 - Oct 9

Tennessee Senior Games

Manchester. NH

Aug 7-15

Texas Senior Games*

Sept 10-12

(Utah) Huntsman World Senior Games*

Fort Monmouth. NJ Las Cruces, NM

Cortland. NY

Aug 4-8 Jun 11-13(VbaU) Jun 25-27 (Bba’I) Sep 17-19 (Shall) Jun 3-18

' South Carolina Senior Sports Classic South Dakota Senior Games*

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Raleigh. NC Wins:on-Sa!em(goif) Greenvile (bsktbl)

Sept 27 - Oct 3 Sept 15-17(sftbi) Oct 11-12 (golf) Oct 22-24 (bsktbl)

Fargo, ND

Jun 18-19

Akron. OH

Jul 9-25

Tulsa. OK

Aug 28 (Softball) Sept 10-Il (Golf) Sept 21-29 (other sprts

Shippensburg. PA Pittsburgh (goif/sftbl/tnathion)

Jun Il - Jul 3 Ju.' 25 (golf) Jut 24-27 (sftbl) Aug 8 (triathlon)

Providence, Rl

Jun 11-13

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Clarksville. TN

July 16-22

Temple. TX

Oct 18-24

St. George. UT

Oct 4-16

Poultney. VT

Sept. 8-12

TBA

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Virginia Beach, VA

May 13-15

Olympia. WA

Jul 24-25

Ben Butler. 202-282-0753 Ema*. ben butJer@dc gov www opr cc.gov Harold Vealey 304-346-2154 Email veaihfgaol com www wvssc com Helen Ramon. 262-821-4444 Emaj wisenxxolympcsgtcwaaa com www aamcresource com Amber Boysen, 307-587-2550 Ema a ampeiCTc tyofcodv com www wysenioro'ymp.cs com

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Sep 7-19

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Jul 29-31

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Focus in Archery By Jake Veit Editor’s note: Jake Veit comes to us with 50 years experience in competitive shooting. He is a world record holder in the International Field Archcry Association(IFAA) Recurve division, world record holder of the IFAA Senior Indoor Recurve division, three National Field Archery Association (NFAA) National Championships, one IFAA North American Championship (Recurve), one National Archery Association (NAA) National Championship plus numerous Ohio, Idaho and Georgia. Jake has won numberous NFAA Sectional Championships in the Northwest and Southeast. He has reached the IV Level NAA Coach and is a National Judge. He was an Olympic Scoring Judge at the 1996 Olympics and has reached Master Instuctor at IBEF.

Jake Veil

“I Would Like to Have a Chance to Win” This is a comment I hear a lot. From beginners, who are reluctant to go to their first tournament? “I'm not good enough”. 1 understand this and try to help by telling them everybody has to start somewhere. In teaching I try to get beginners to learn to shoot against themselves. Just to do their best, one arrow at a time. Archery should be a mental game from the first arrow. Learn execution and timing, just shoot a good shot. It should not matter where you are to shoot that one good shot, home or national championship. By inviting new shooters to go to a tournament with me, it seems to be easier for them. Most say they really enjoy themselves. What I have trouble with is experienced shooters, good shooters, not the best, but excellent shooters. These shooters shoot near perfect indoor scores. They rarely win in Freestyle and refuse to shoot in handicap leagues because they have no handicap. It seems that after a while these shooters do not shoot for the sake of enjoying shooting. They want something, but seem to be in limbo. They do not know what they want from archery, to win something? Is this why we have a large turnover in our shooters? At this point I only have questions, not answers. What do you shoot for? Are you willing to try other styles of shooting? Or are you willing to try different forms of archery competition? There is an indication that there is a secret out there, they need to find. They know by now that archery is a mental game, and

they are trying so hard. But want is the best equipment? What do the Pro’s use? Which Pro’s - Indoor, Field, 3-D; does the NAA have Pro’s? Is it the equipment that makes the difference? I do not think so! Even equipment given the Pro’s by sponsors is immediately modified to the, individual. Pros do not buy equipment, we do. Manufacturers have to make a profit or no one has archery equipment to use. Most beginners think archery equipment seems expensive, get what you feel you can afford. Because after you get your equipment archery is one of the least expensive sports to continue. Our local archery club cost S60 a year. Most local tournaments are S10 to compete. You can always go on from here to bigger and better. Since 1 started promoting archery in the 1960’s, 1 have noticed a destain for archery that is not the same as ours. The diversity of modem archery can be confusing. Why cannot we just shoot our bow and arrow the way we want? You would think with archery being such a small entity in our society, that all of archery would help eachother. I grew up shooting NFAA rounds and rules. For years I did not even know about the NAA and target archery. It was in 1972 when I saw Olympic archery, this stirred an interest in me to learn more about what archery really was. 1 found out that target archery, the NAA was traditional archery, not the NFAA. It was English writings that help stir interest in modern archery before the turn of the century, the 20th century. The NFAA is a culmination in 1939 of the growing interest in bowhunting. Traditional English archery was practice for warfare, not close range bowhunting. Our primitive weapon, the bow and arrow, in ancient time were artillery. Archery was and is as diverse

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as the ancient civilizations that used this invention. Let me know if I get off the track again. I’m trying to figure out what archers feel it takes to shoot well. I do not mean win every time we shoot, if you do not shoot unless you feel you are going to win? We are going to shoot very few tournaments. Experience is the finishing touch to hard work at proper practice and equipment tuning. As you experiment and learn about archery you build your confidence and increase your consistency in shooting. What most archers come up with is “I’m just not trying hard enough.” The real problem is they are trying too hard. You cannot force a shoot consistently. It must flow from your training to tournaments with consistent execution of one shot at a time. You must let it happen without distraction from the outside, just shoot a good shot. Shooting a good score in practice does not mean anything. You have to shoot a good score under tournament conditions to mean something. If your practice scores are better than your tournaments scores you are letting in those distractions. This is normal, you have to relearn under tournament conditions. Some say you have to let your subconscious mind shoot for you, a blank mind, blank conscience mind that is, IMPOSSIBLE? Your conscience mind can only think about one thing at a time, but it will find something to do if you’re not in control. You use your conscience mind to train your subconscious mind. The subconscious does not know right from wrong, only what is instinctive and what you teach it. But it is mult-tasking, like walking and chewing gum. It can leant the entire shot sequence in proper order and execute it. I suggest you use your conscience mind at a check on the subconscious routine of executing the shot sequence step by step to the conclusion of the shot with the arrow in the target. Or you could be at full draw at the aiming step of your shot sequence, and be thinking about where to eat lunch, LET DOWN! Do not shoot a bad shot. It is hard enough to shoot a good shot, why shoot one you know is bad, let down and start over. We hear about sportsmanship and fairplay. This requires ethical behavior, showing a respect for the sport and other participates. Do you really want to win without earning the reward or gaining the disdain from your competitors because their perception that the contest was unfair? Those who are at the top of their game did not get there by accident. They at one time felt it impossible to shoot at that level. But, they kept trying; they did not give up. They competed as much as they could, to learn and improve, to have set backs and move on. It is not suppose to be only about score. In 1999 I participated in the National Seniors Festival at the Disney Sports Complex in Orlando. I had been practicing every aspect of my shot for five months every day. I was on the top of my game. The score I shot would have won the last three and the next two senior festival competitions. I shot the best score of my life and came in second. It is one of the most memorable tournaments of my life. All you can do is your best. But your best changes over time. Should you quit if you do not have a chance to win? That is your perception, not reality. Do you have to win to enjoy yourself? If you do you have not learned what archery is about or what archery has to offer. Everyone wants to shoot his or her best! But your best does not always win. Sounds tripe, but there is always another day. Archery is a hobby, a life sport, a family sport, great general exercise and a pleasant diversion to everyday life.

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Anyone who shoots archery has heard of Professional Archer, Dave Cousins! Around 1998 he emerged onto the professional archery tournament scene, seemingly from nowhere, and proceeded to win about every tournament he competed in! At the tournament’s end, people were left saying “who was that guy!” Now at the young age of 26, Dave Cousins has already accomplished goals that might take other archers a lifetime to achieve! He is a 25 time National Champion. 6 time World Champion, holds 18 World Records and has won 11 F1TA World Championship Medals (6 gold, 4 silver & 1 bronze). He is ranked#! in the

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Students listen intently as Dave explains the proper way ofputting a “D” loop and nock on a bow. (seated background to foreground) Glenn Campbell, Jason Hansen, Don Schwartz, Tish Murphy, Jessica Mattson, Rick Mattson, Dave Stephens, Randy Stoddard (not pictured), Dave Hindbaugh, Gary' Sanders, Mike Amicangelo and Chris H'agner.

USA 1998-2003, #1 in the World 19982001 and is a past Las Vegas Champion. He is the first archer in the USA to break 1400+ F1TA and the only archer to shoot back-to-back 1400+ F1TA. Dave is also a member of the United States World Archery Team 1998-2004, Technical Advisor for Hoyt USA and Easton/Beman and is International Sales Director for Copper John. Dave finds time within his busy schedule to hold archery seminars. The 2 day seminars cover a wide variety of topics and subjects including Bow tuning (discussion and demonstration of the most effective tuning techniques), tiller, cable guard position and its effects on arrow flight, center shot location, nocking point type and location, arrow rest selection and setup, paper tuning, group tuning, shooting form (optimizing form and shot execution for each individual shooter), proper body posture, stance, bow arm, bow hand position, release hand position, anchor, draw length, proper use of back tension, follow-through and aiming. Students are also videotaped and much time is spent on analyzing each individual archer’s form. Dave is very interactive with his students, encouraging them to get involved by asking questions. It’s important to him that they come away from his seminars with a complete understanding of what he has taught them. Recently Dave held a seminar at the 1982 - 22th Anniversary - 2004

Lincoln Bowmen Archery Club in Brownstown, Michigan. 1 had the chance to stop in, take some photos and observe him with the class. He graciously set aside some time from his busy day to answer a few questions I had for him: U.S. Archer: How long have you been shooting a bow? Dave: I have been shooting a bow for 21 years and shooting professional archery for 6 years. I started shooting 3-D with my dad, Wayne. We hunted too. It was a good way for us to spend time together. Going into target archery later on was more of a personal satisfaction thing for me. U.S. Archer: How did you get started in archery? Dave: Before going full time as a professional archer, I was manager of several small archery and outdoor sporting goods retail stores. U.S. Archer: Why do you like archery? Dave: For me, it’s a “self sport”. Everything is all in your own hands. . . there is nothing holding you back but your own desire. U.S. Archer: How long have you been putting on your archery seminars? Dave: I first started in November of 1999 in Singapore. I got my feet wet in the “big pond” right away. Jay Barrs and I did seminars as ambassadors for Easton. We went to Europe, did a five stop tour over three countries, then went back and THE U.S. and INTERNATIONAL ARCHER

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Dave: I'm not telling them anything they haven't heard before. I try to reach people differently than others do. 1 try to explain the basics and filter out some of the myths. I “walk” them through everything.

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Jason Hansen and Dave examine the cable slide from Jason’s bow.

U.S. Archer; Briefly describe your “BEST” Launchers and “JUST CUZ” release. Dave: The BEST Launcher was made because there are different arrows— indoor, outdoor and different arrow weights. There is no “one blade” for every set up. So hence we have 3 sizes for light, medium and heavy arrows. The BEST Launcher supports the arrow for the entire time it’s on the bow. It’s available from QuikTune and Trophy Taker. The JUST CUZ is a modification of the TARGET 3

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U.S. Archer: What goals do you have for your future in archery? Dave: I want to shoot at the same level I’m shooting at now. I want to keep competing at the same level. I’d like to do more seminars, coaching and teaching. I want to inspire more people to shoot. U.S. Archer: What advice would you give to anyone just beginning to shoot? Dave: Realize your goals. Whether you shoot for recreation or want to be the next World Champion, lay out a goal oriented program. And don’t be disappointed if you can’t get to your goals as quickly as you want to. Archery is the sport of a lifetime if you have the desire! U.S. Archer: Is there anything you want to add that I didn’t ask you about? Dave: I would like to take this time to thank my sponsors for everything they do to help. Currently they are Hoyt USA, Easton, Carter Enterprises, Copper John, BCY, Winners Choice Bow Strings, Nikon optics, New Archery Products, Leven industries, Specialty Archery Products, Shibuya Japan Archery Products and Angel Japan Archery Products. And last but certainly not least, I would like to thank my wife, Brenda, for all of her patience and support. After the seminar was over, I asked some of his students what they thought of it/him. Their answers were similar. They 1982 - 22th Anniversary - 2004

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said that he explained to them why he does everything the way that he does. He spent lots of time working “one on one” with each person, carefully going over everything with them. He walked around and made sure everyone was working on what they were supposed to, and asked if they had questions or needed anything explained. They said he went over everything thoroughly, and talked to the students on their same level— “like one of the guys”, said one person. They added that he was open to questions, had lots of patience, was very bright and “on the ball”, upbeat, positive and motivating, and communicated well. He was very dedicated and worked hard throughout the weekend. In short, a great teacher! They felt that Dave could teach any archer at any level of shooting. And one student said “if you are a really serious, dedicated shooter and you need to polish up your skills, then you need to go see Dave! Dave’s students are obviously happy with how he conducts his seminars. With help from Dave’s seminars, a shooter can expect to get a wealth of knowledge of how to shoot better and can certainly expect to improve! If you are looking to improve your shooting skills, you may want to attend a Dave Cousins Archery Seminar. Check with your local archery club on it or visit the calendar on Dave’s website at www.davecousins.com

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When I was talking with a good target archer at the Las Vegas Shoot, he said, “I was too nervous to shoot well. 1 would love to be able to simulate the excitement level that 1 experienced the first day on the line, so I could prepare for it.” Some tournaments are won and many are lost weeks before the event. At the big tournaments, most people experience the effects of too much anxiety. The anxiety starts long before the tournament and builds until the tournament is underway. Most people think of the tournament in terms of winning or shooting a high score. This is what causes anxiety. The apprehension in turn causes muscle tension and/or loss of focus. An archer must limit the anxiety level by putting more emphasis on the performance, rather than the results of the performance. Every time you think of a big tournament, think in terms ofyou executing every shot with perfect form. True, nearly everyone wants to win or shoot a high score. This is not the problem. The problem develops when you give winning more attention than producing a perfect shot. Winning and score are part of the game; however, they are not the primary component. Shooting the best that you are capable of shooting is the main element. So when you think of going to the next big tournament, put your first emphasis on the most important part. Think, “I will shoot each shot with perfect form.” This should be the goal that you strive to achieve. If you do shoot each and every shot the best that you are capable of shooting, then you will shoot the tightest group possible. That will transfer into the best score that you are capable of shooting. You can’t ask

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anymore of yourself than that. I like the way my son, Vic, responded to a reporter after the gold medal match at the Olympics. The reporter asked, “How does it feel to lose the gold medal?” Vic replied, “I didn’t lose the gold. I shot good and won the silver. He shot better and won the gold.” To help prepare for big tournaments, give practice more importance. When you practice, pretend you are starting a national championship. Try to feel the excitement associated with the event. Try to raise the excitement level in your mind and the value of each arrow that you are preparing to shoot. Then concentrate and focus on perfect shot execution. Practicing in this manner will teach you how to control your nervousness and focus your attention in the right direction. When you go to the next small tournament, treat it as the national championship. Also, when you think of the tournament and when preparing for the tournament, think of it as the national

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championship. True, you will be building anxiety, but to some degree you will be doing the same thing when the real championship comes. When you think of the championship, try to picture yourself shooting every shot with perfect form. In other words, shooting your best possible form should be synonymous with shooting the championship. This should help prepare you mentally for shooting the big tournaments. You will have experienced the nervousness and you will know how to get it under control. This will help foster the confidence you need in your ability to focus and duplicate the shot. An hour or so before the start of a big competition sit down and shoot the whole tournament mentally. See and feel yourself shooting every shot with perfect form. Visualize the arrow hitting the desired mark. This will help place your priorities and thought patterns where they should be ... shooting perfect form. 89

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My name is Ryan Phelps. I’m a target archer and I love to shoot at tournaments. It gives me a great feeling to be able to hit the x on a target. I also enjoy shooting with my friends in practice and in competition. I started to learn the sport when I was 13. My Dad bought me a compound bow and started me in the JOAD program. I learned to shoot FITA targets indoors and outdoors and really liked it. After one year I went to my first outdoor tournament and won first place in my group. We all shot in the pouring rain but had fun anyway. Later on 1 switched to a newer target style bow and eventually made master archer at the 2001 NAA Nationals in Lansing, Michigan. At this point I was starting to become frustrated. I was practising hard but having trouble keeping my sight on the target the way I wanted to. My scores had stopped improving, ant the harder I tried the more trouble I was having. Then I met John and Cara Fernandez who introduced me to a man named Glenn Campbell. Glenn is an NFAA Master Coach and a Matthews Pro Shooter. He watched me shoot and said he could help. Glenn became my individual coach. He fixed my form and taught me the mental 1982 - 22th Anniversary - 2004

game too. Glenn straightened me up so fast it made my head spin. I started shooting better right away and was enjoying the sport again. At the 2001 State Archers of Michigan outdoor FITA 1 shot 200 points better than my score the year before. At the NAA Outdoor Nationals in Canton, Michigan I shot 400 points better than the year before. In 2002 and 2003 1 scored in the top ten in my division in the NAA Outdoor Nationals. In 2003 1 won in the Cadet division of the outdoor FITA S.A.M. shoot in Waterford, Michigan with my Mathews Bow. Now I practice with Glenn and other shooters at Jim Morrow's MJC Archery in Royal Oak Michigan and shoot JOAD with Lincoln Bowman Archers in Romulus Michigan. I also like to hang out with Gary and Marty Musson at Howell, Michigan.

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Gary was a U.S.Olympic coach in 1988 and he and his wife also taught JOAD. In October this year my Dad and I attended Bernie Pellerite’s NFAA Shooter’s School. We had a great time and learned a lot. I never thought I would come this far in this sport when I started. I’m grateful to my parents, Lynne and Ken, for all their support. Especially 1 would like to thank Glenn for being a great coach and a great friend. He’s the one who made it all possible. lam looking forward to seeing my friends at coming events. THE U.S. and INTERNATIONAL ARCHER

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Segunda Copa Internacional LG de Tiro con Arco. Ciudad de Mexico. 24 y 25 de enero del 2004. Second LG International Archery Tournament. Mexico City. January 24-25, 2004. Alfonso Manrique

Este fue el escenario concebido por Lee Wong. Shooting in the pool.

^Habiase visto alguna vez un tomeo de arqueria inaugurado por una exhibicion de nado sincronizado? y quc los competidores, tan solo por el placer de festejar, decidieran darse un chapuzon, justo ahi donde se realizaba la competencia? Eso y mas fue posible gracias a la prodigiosa imaginacion del profesor Lee Wong. El es responsable de montar un stand de tiro con arco justo en la alberca del Centro Deportivo Olimpico Mexicano para celebrar la Segunda Copa Internacional LG de Tiro con Arco. Desde 18 metros dispararon 32 arqueros mexicanos, australianos, coreanos, eslovenos, Franceses, holandeses, italianos estadounidenseses, salvadorenos y suecos, tanto en la modalidad de arco recurvo como compuesto.

Did you ever see a tournament starting with a swimming exhibition? Did you ever see that the archers celebrated in such way as diving in the very same place where the competition was held? This and a lot more was possible thanks to Lee Wong, organizer of the Second LG International Archery Tournament. He decided to run an indoor tournament at the pool of the Mexican Olympic Center. 18 meters was the shooting distance in which 32 archers showed their skills. There were competitors from Mexico, Australia, France, Holland, Italy, Korea, Salvador, Slovenia, Sweden and USA.

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Los 16 arqueros mexicanos. 16 mexican shooters.

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La gatiadora en area recurvo: Kim Du Ri. Female recurve winner: Kim Du Ri.

La ganadora en arco compuesto: Almendra Ochoa. Females compound winner: Almendra Ochoa.

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Resultados. Recurvo Femenil Kim Du Ri Petra Ericsson Natalia Valeeva Recurvo Varonil Oh Kyo Moon Jorge Chapoy Michelle Frangilli Compuesto Femenil Almendra Ochoa Choi Mi Yion Valerie Fabre Compuesto Varonil Dejan Sitar Jorge Jimenez Ernesto Ochoa

Corea Suecia Italia Corea Mexico Italia

Mexico Corea Francia Eslovenia El Salvador Mexico

Female Recurve Kim Du Ri Petra Ericsson Natalia Valeeva Male Recurve Oh Kyo Moon Jorge Chapoy Michelle Frangilli Female Compound Almendra Ochoa Choi Mi Yion Valerie Fabre Male Compound Dejan Sitar Jorge Jimenez Ernesto Ochoa

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