Posted in Club News on January 31st, 2010 | No Comments »

We got rained out yesterday, and it’ll be a cold (but sunny!) day today for the “Mail-In JOAD Tournament”. Please show up at Ducktown Park, from 3pm to 5pm. The tournament fee is $10 per archer. We’ll be shooting at 18 meters, 10 ends of 3 arrows. This tournament will help us prepare for the upcoming indoor tournaments.

If you do not want to participate in the tournament, there will be additional targets set-up for practice. We’ll also be holding our “beginners” lessons as usual.

Best of luck to all of our archers in this tournament!
- Coach Kevin

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Posted in Club News on January 29th, 2010 | No Comments »

We were supposed to have the JOAD mail-in tournament tomorrow. Rain is likely and the temperatures won’t rise much above freezing, if at all. We’re just going to go ahead and cancel for tomorrow.

We are tentatively scheduling the tournament for Sunday, 01/31/2010, however we’ll be making that call early Sunday morning on whether it will be on or off.

When the tournament is held (Sunday or next weekend) we will be starting at 3pm and going until 5pm. Please arrive promply at the start time. We want to make sure that the kids have enough time to get all 10 ends of 3 arrows.

REMINDER: To participate in this tournament, there is a $10 entrance fee per archer.

Thanks,
Coach Kevin

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Posted in Archery Stories on January 28th, 2010 | No Comments »

One of the goals of our clubs this year is to do a better job of preparing our archers for the demands of archery itself. Part of that preparation is stretching. Stretching prepares the muscles for the demands that are about to be placed on them. Not only should this lower injury rates, but should also help relax the archer and get them into the proper mindset. If stretching and exercises are good enough for our Olympic archers, it’s good enough for us!

I would like to thank the Redruth Archers from the UK for creating this stretching exercises document.

Please take a few minutes before (and after!) shooting. The best injury is the one that doesn’t happen.

Click here to load the PDF document:
archery_exercises

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Posted in Archery Stories, Olympic News on January 27th, 2010 | No Comments »

It has been gifted to the city by the Beijing Olympic Sculpture committee and China’s Ministry of Culture, who also chose Gisborne as one of only 12 cities around the world outside China to host the collection of much smaller templates for sculptures submitted to commemorate the Beijing Olympic Games.

What a beautiful statue of archers. I’m sure it will look beautiful in Gisborne, New Zealand.

The sculpture is Evolution, showing the evolution of one of the world’s oldest sports, archery, from Roman times, through the imperial era to contemporary.

Read more here:
Four-tonne Olympic sculpture now in Gisborne, awaiting installation

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Posted in Archery Stories on January 25th, 2010 | No Comments »

Yes, this an old video. Yes, Drew Brees is an amazing quarterback. “Sports Science” just gets it wrong however. He’s doing a disservice to Drew Brees … and to Olympic Archers. Not only that, but their editors put in clips of archers using compound bows which are not allowed in the Olympics. These compound archers, with sights and lenses, and releases, are even *more* accurate than archers limited to bows allowed in the Olympics.

Sport Science is a show on one of the various ESPN networks. It previously aired on FSN. The Brees experiment occurred months ago, at which time the folks at FOX were still paying the bills. Here’s the video. Brees was throwing from 20 yards; the eight-plus-minute segment fails to mention that the Olympic archers are shooting from nearly four times that distance. And video images of people shooting arrows create the false impression that Olympic archers fire from a much shorter distance than five feet longer than three-fourths of a football field.

I’m getting a little tired of shows with “science” and “lab” in their name, only getting things half right. Science deserves better, archers deserve better, Drew Brees deserves better, and the public deserves better. This film short could have been just as cool if they had been complete and, ya know, all “sciency and stuff”.

Science up folks!!! Science is cool.

Click here for the video:
DrewBrees Sport Science
Click here for the story:

Brees more accurate than Olympic archers, sort of

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Posted in Club News on January 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »

Hello Archers!

We’re on for archery today! We’ve finally got (marginally) good weather for archery.

We’ve got some things coming up coming up so here are some reminders:

[1] We have some mail in tournaments this month and next. Mail in Tournaments are tournaments we hold at our park and mail in the results. If you would like to participate in both tournaments please bring in $13 ($10 JOAD + $3 4-H) to practice this weekend or next. If you want to just participate in the 4-H tournament, then just bring in the $3.

[2] The JOAD State Indoor tournament is Feb 13th. Registration is $25 per archer, +$15 each additional archer, $50 max per family. The tournament is in Conyers. Please check our web site for more information. The GAA State Indoor tournament is Feb 14th. $25 per archer, +$15 each additional archer, $50 max per family. NAA dress code required.

[3] The 4-H State Indoor tournament is Feb 27th. Registration is $15 per archer. Register through our club. Deadline to notify our club is Feb 6th. Please have money and forms submitted by that time.

[4] For today, it won’t be exactly that warm. What I recommend is that you wear a coat. I recommend archers taking off the coat for shooting, and then putting them back on in between shoots and for pulling arrows. Please remember to not wear loose clothing during shooting. The string can “grab” a coat and rip it. This also applies to long hair and jewlery. Please have long hair tied back.

That’s it for the news! I hope to see you all later today!

- Coach Cully

http://forsytharchery.com

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Posted in Archery Stories on January 19th, 2010 | No Comments »

Money isn’t everything … but it sure is nice. Once again The Easton Foundation has stepped up to the plate and is supporting our USA Archery program in a big way!

“On behalf of all USA Archery members we thank the Easton Foundations for their generous support again in 2010,” said Denise Parker, USA Archery CEO. “This financial commitment from the Easton Foundations allows us to sustain the momentum created in 2009 of reestablishing USA Archery as a premier leader worldwide. It also accelerates our long-range vision of fielding a competitive team for the 2012 Olympic Games in London and broadening the base of archers across the country.”

Our much appreciated thanks go out to The Easton Foundation in supporting our great sport!

Read more here:
USA Archery Awarded Easton Foundations Grant

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Posted in Archery Stories on January 19th, 2010 | No Comments »

2010 is really starting out with a bang of activity from USA Archery. In this article, the USA Archery High Performance Manager Robby Beyer lays out goals and plans for the elite archers.

The USA Archery business model is to establish and maintain high performance standards and objectives at all competitions for all athletes. To better establish and help us in continuing to reach these high objectives it takes regular medal performances to attract support for USA Archery.

It’s nice to see a comprehensive plan to support not only the existing elite team, but also to have a plan to grow the sport by supporting the archers and coaches from the bottom to the top.

USA Archery is now positioned to send teams abroad, expand support for grassroots initiatives, and further develop athletes’ and coaches’ skill sets.

Read more here:
Sustaining Excellence – 2010 & Beyond

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Posted in Archery Stories on January 19th, 2010 | No Comments »

Please join me in congratulating Jim Pruitte as USA Archery’s Development Coach of the Year. I had the honor and pleasure of having Jim Pruitte as my teacher in my Community Coach class (Level II). No doubt that Jim has done a great job in helping some Georgia archers become the some of the best archers in the USA.

Jim is the leader of the Georgia Archery Team. He is active in local event management, Columbia County 4-H and Pruitte’s Archery. Some of Jim’s coaching success is evidenced by several young archers who are making their mark on the national and international scene: Garrett Abernethy, Kailey Johnston and Samantha Pruitte.

Read more here:
2009 Coach of the Year

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Posted in Archery Stories on January 18th, 2010 | No Comments »

As an archery coach, I know how fulfilling it is to teach archery to kids. I didn’t know how therapeutic archery would be to our military personnel returning from war.

Ros received the award for his “countless hours” of volunteer work in establishing a local youth-centered archery program. While going through a divorce a few years ago, Ros used projectile therapy through archery as an emotional release tactic. As his skills progressed and the stress became more relieved, Ros realized he was a good archer.

From there, he entered professional competitions, and eventually joined the Skookum Archery Club in Puyallup, Wash., which is part of the National Archery Association. At Skookum, he turned around a struggling Junior Olympic Archery Development Program that trains and teaches children aged 8 to 18 years old how to shoot the bow and understand proper safety procedures. A couple of his students might qualify to shoot in the Olympics one day.

Read more here:
Sergeant Hits Bullseye As Volunteer Archer

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