Archive for August, 2008
OLYMPIC 2008 ARCHITECTURE
A temporary facility (shown here under construction) , the 93,000-square- foot archery center comprises three fields: one for the preliminary rounds and two for the medal competitions. The project provides seating for a total of 5,384 people; fans at the final-round competition field will sit in 46-foot-high stands that are the steepest of any outdoor venue. After the Olympics, the prefabricated steel frame, along with other materials, will be recycled.
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Here are some pictures from the NAA Intermediate Coaches training, held at the Lake Oconee Shooting club, August 25th-26th, 2008. Instructor Jim Pruitte.
I’ll put together my notes and make sure to share what I’ve learned with our club. Stay tuned!
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Cupid’s arrow hits South Korea’s Olympic archers
South Korea’s top male and female archers capped gold medal performances at the Beijing Olympics by announcing wedding plans just as the games ended, an archery official said on Tuesday.
Park Sung-hyun, 25, who led the women’s team to a gold medal and won an individual silver in Beijing, is to marry Park Kyung-mo, 33, who had similar success at the Games.
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A missed opportunity for GB archers
So where do we go from here? Well, as I said, British archery has had a tremendous three years, and looking ahead, there are a good crop of youngsters waiting to break through, and snapping at the heels of the seniors in the countdown to London 2012.
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U.S. men, women win 4 x 400m gold
Archery competitor Khatuna Lorig, a native of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, was chosen to carry the flag for the United States at the closing ceremonies.
Lorig didn’t medal in the Games, but learned while competing here that her homeland was the site of fighting involving Georgian and Russian forces. She worried for her friends and family.
“As an athlete, I tried to concentrate on the competition,” Lorig said. “I finally was able to talk to them and I found out they were safe.
“That helped a great deal.”
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Hey Bow, let’s shoot some archery
Next, we went looking for a bow that was best suited to my strength level. Unfortunately there weren’t any made out of cooked fettuccine, so we settled for a kiddie bow that Hames ended up helping me draw back. After about 15 unsuccessful tries, I was finally able to hold the string back on my own. Once everyone cleared out of the store, Hames put an arrow in the slot and I fired the archery equivalent of an air ball. After some good-natured ribbing, Hames helped me try again and this time I improved greatly, hitting a giant foam bear right between the eyes. Unfortunately I was aiming for a paper target on the other side of the shooting range, but let’s try to focus on the positives here (I hit something other than a customer).
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NYTImes: For Coach, God and Archery Are a Package Deal
Michael David Smith: U.S. Olympic Archery Coach Accused of Discriminating Against Non-Christians
To that end, he tailored Ellison’s Olympic schedule to include spiritual and athletic objectives. “I give him six tasks a day, including reading the Bible and education,” Lee said
Susan Caldwell and her teenage daughter, Raquel, are Buddhists. Raquel is an archer who trained at the national training center, and Susan tells the New York Times she has complaints about Lee’s methods.
“To me,” she said, “it felt like those who were Christian were favored, and those who were not were almost not acknowledged.”
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Local Archer Takes Aim at World Competition in Turkey
“She’s been very dedicated. She’s put in a lot of time and the results have really shown,” says Tristan’s Dad Paul Skarvan.
“Her form is terrific and what I was looking for before were inconsistencies in her form to correct them so she does better and it really boosts her confidence,” says Tristan’s Coach Mike Strassman.
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The Independant: The winning formula: Scientists and the Olympics
Hoyt Helix 900CX archery bow
As part of its Olympic build-up, the BBC asked British archers to fire arrows at fruit dangling on strings. The watermelon and apple were easy. Then the archers faced a bigger – or smaller – challenge: a single grape. But the tiny fruit barely twitched as Charlotte Burgess sent an arrow straight through it, using a Hoyt.
Bows by the American firm have accounted for more than 75 per cent of all Olympic archery medals since 1972. Key to their success are the “limbs” or blades, made of the same flexible yet crush-proof “syntactic foam” used by the US Navy inside the dive planes or “wings” of some of its nuclear submarines.
Before Beijing, the British team travelled to a lab in Germany to record their shots using high-speed cameras. The team reviewed their shots in ultra-slow motion and made minute adjustments to ensure that nothing brushes their arrows when they are released from the bow at 150mph.
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Many of you have received this postcard in the mail, but in case that you haven’t, please mark this down on your calendar and RSVP back to Allyne if you are planning on attending. We want to end our season on a high note, and that can only happen if you join us!
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