We had a great time shooting at the 4-H Indoor tournament and Caleb and William made us proud at the US Archery Indoor National Tournament!
Tomorrow, we start our outdoor season that runs through to our Thanksgiving break. We will also be holding our 4-H e-Tournament. For those of you that have signed up and paid the $3 fee per archer, we have special times for you!
First, we’ll be holding our normal lessons and practice for archers not participating in the e-Tournament from 4:00pm to 5:00pm! New archers are welcome. Invite a friend!
Practice/Lessons: 4:00pm to 5:00pm
For team members and those participating in the e-Tournament we have extended hours!
Field setup: 2:00pm to 2:30pm
Sighting/Practice: 2:30pm to 3:00pm
e-Tournament: 3:00pm to 5:00pm
It should be beautiful weather tomorrow! Hope to see you there!
We have several things coming up and I wanted to get the word out.
[1] There won’t be any practice this Saturday, 02/27/2010. We’ll resume things on Saturday 03/06/2010 with lessons and the 4-H e-Tournament!
[2] This weekend, we’ve got two archers that will be participating in the JOAD and NAA National Archery Tournament going on in Conyers starting Friday (today) through Sunday. Our best wishes to Caleb and William. We’re proud of you already! Just do your best!
[3] Saturday is the 4-H Indoor Tournament down in Fortson, GA. We’ll be taking about 10 of our archers down to compete starting at 10am. The archers participating should arrive at 9:15am. For more information and maps, visit:
http://bit.ly/a2MSAo
That’s it for this morning! Best of luck to our archers!
[Miles] Heyman [13 years old] will be one of about 30 archers participating in a statewide National Field Archery Association competition this weekend at Carolina Outdoor Sportsman
Heyman has won the event in his age group three times, and he has entered indoor and outdoor archery competitions on the national level, including with USA Archery, the body that oversees the U.S. Olympic archery team.
Aside from all the accoutrements Heyman carries while practicing, he also wears a pair of lanyards for the 14 achievement pins he has earned from shooting high scores.
The next pin he covets requires a score of 290 out of 300. His most recent acquisition, a yellow pin, was earned with a score of 270 out of 300.
“To be honest, (I’m) not as close as I’d like to be, but I’m really getting there,” Heyman said when asked how close he was to the next pin. “I’m a lot closer now than I was a month ago, but I’ve still got quite a way to go.”
In a sport of centimeters, archers will take every small advantage they can. Take a look at this article about Neurosky and their program to help the USA Olympic archers.
In addition to the Bright Ideas display in the Winter Olympics, athletes in the upcoming Summer Olympics are applying NeuroSky’s technology to athletic training. The United States Olympic Archery Head Coach Kisik Lee and Resident Athlete Coach Guy Krueger use NeuroSky’s technology to identify optimal thinking patterns for each of the athletes. “We are able to see how an archer thinks and from the data we can help them adjust how they think for an optimum mental state for competition,” said Coach Guy Krueger.
The Sandon Business & Entrerprise College pupil, who only turned 14 last month, beat Olympic bronze medallist Alison Williamson en route to finishing third.
She was eventually defeated by another Olympian, Charlotte Burgess, but then overcame British international Amy Oliver in a third/fourth place play-off.
Becky, from Meir, who finished in the top 10 in last year’s championships, impressed onlookers with her maturity against more senior and experienced opposition.
We will definitely need to keep our eye out for this promising young archer in future Olympics.
Now you can practice on your iPhone with the “Archery World Championship” app! I don’t have an iPhone or an iTouch but this looks pretty cool.
Just tilt the phone when at draw and release at the proper time. Kinda like real archery. Kinda. It’s not enough of an incentive to pull the trigger on an expensive phone, but it’s cool.
The upcoming 4-H Archery Tournament is undergoing a surge of interest! What great news.
Thanks to all your efforts, we have had an overwhelming response for this year’s Indoor Archery Tournament. At the close of registration, we had over 330 registered to shoot on a range that could only accommodate 240. What a great problem to have. For the 296 youth that registered, we are making arrangements to accommodate all that want to participate.
Wow. That’s great news. The 4-H team is working hard on making the most of the range to fit each archer in. This includes splitting the tournament into 5 flights! Last year, there were only three flights. This is great news for the sport of archery!
Now for the bad news … for me at least.
Due to interest by youth, we will not be able to allow adults to participate in this year’s event. Although I know many of your were looking forward to standing on the line with your 4-H’ers, I am sure that each of you will agree that our number one goal is to have our 4-H’ers at the line that day.
I know that our team was going to be sending around 5 coaches to shoot in the Coaches Tournament. Ah well, perhaps next year. I am very happy that this tournament is such a success.
