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Young NC Archer Aims For Future Olympics

[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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Neurosky Helps USA Olympic Archers

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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Prince William Experiences Archery For The Blind

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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UK Archer Becky Martin places 3rd in National Championships

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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Archery World Championships on your iPhone?

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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Upcoming 4-H Tournament Has Surge of Interest

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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Recurve Archery Homework

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

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Jesse Broadwater wins French Archery Tournament

The 26-year-old Jennerstown resident captured the Compound Men’s division championship at the Tournament of Nimes, which was held Jan. 22-24 in Nimes, France.

“We had to shoot 60 arrows in a qualification round,” he said. “They score a nickle-sized circle as the 10. I qualified with the highest score, 596 out of a possible 600, only four shy of a perfect score.”

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USA Olympic Archers Test New Stabilizer System

From the looks of it, the new B-Stinger Premier Stabilizer Bar looks like it loads the tip of the stabilizer with more of a “barbell” end. The increase of load at the tip of the stabilizer should act to dampen the effect of torque and shock.

The purpose of the of the trial phases was to maximize stabilizations and hear feedback from legendary USA Archery National Coach Kisik Lee, Resident Coach Guy Krueger and resident athletes. The Stabilizer Company has been working with both top compound and recurve shooters that includes: U.S. Olympic team hopefuls jake Kaminski and Kiristin Braun; 2-time U.S. Paralympic medalist Jeff Fabry; top compound female youth prospect Tristan Skarvan; and pro female compound shooter Jamie Van Natta.

I’m interested in seeing how the tests progress. Perhaps we’ll see the B-Stinger in the Olympics in 2012.

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Archery Stretching Exercises

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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Archive for the 'Archery Stories' Category

Young NC Archer Aims For Future Olympics

Neurosky Helps USA Olympic Archers

Prince William Experiences Archery For The Blind

UK Archer Becky Martin places 3rd in National Championships

Archery World Championships on your iPhone?

Upcoming 4-H Tournament Has Surge of Interest

Recurve Archery Homework

Jesse Broadwater wins French Archery Tournament

USA Olympic Archers Test New Stabilizer System

Archery Stretching Exercises

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