Forsyth County Archery Club - Forsyth, Cherokee, Fulton Georgia,USA » 2010

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!

- Coach Kevin

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[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.”

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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.

CNN Video here:
CNN – Mind Control via NeuroSky

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Here’s a quick slide show of Prince William trying out archery for the blind. They hint that none of his arrows hit the target. Take a peek.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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We got snowed out of practice yesterday, but we’re a go for today! Because of Valentines Day(TM), we’ll be having a special start times!

Club members practice – 3pm to 4pm
Team members practice – 2pm to 3pm
Field setup 1:30pm to 2pm

We hope to see you there today!

- Coach Kevin

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We just can’t win for the weather. It won’t be snowing tomorrow, but the field will be unusable.

We’re cancelled for Saturday. Stay tuned for an announcement to see if we can have a make-up on Sunday … but I’m not hopeful.

Sorry folks!
- Coach Kevin

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Hall’s Arrow JOAD club posted some homework for their archers. That’s a great idea, especially for our recurve archers. Take a look at these videos for homework.

Park Sung Hyun – perfect recurve form! (holds world record for full FITA outdoor round):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIeBGcaETYw

Khatuna Lorig – Four time Olympian:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xNiUoSp3n8

Jake Kaminski – Resident Athlete, US Olympic Training Center:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUylI8zXMF0

Jennifer Nichols – Two time Olympic Team member:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u6sYubCQ_w

Butch Johnson – Five time US Olympic Team member:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5KdOr3R-Xo