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NBC San Diego Interviews 2 USA Olympic Hopefuls

kevin cully — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:24:18 +0000

View more videos at: http://www.nbcsandiego.com.

Joe Fanchin and Jake Kaminski are two pieces to a deep, talented U.S. men’s archery program ranked No. 1. in the world.

Source: America’s Archers Take Aim | NBC San Diego

Archery Olympic Tickets Surprise Hit

kevin cully — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:09:26 +0000

LONDON 2012 organisers reported a huge surge in demand for Olympic tickets before last night’s deadline pinpointing archery, badminton, water polo and rhythmic gymnastics as the sports which had attracted surprising levels of interest.

Archer Chuck Lear is in pursuit of another Olympic dream

kevin cully — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:27:06 +0000

Our paralympic athletes (especially the archers, of course!) get my respect. This is a great story about one athlete in search of another Olympic dream.

Archer Chuck Lear

The 64-year-old Lear was in Yankton last week to train at the National Field Archery Association Easton Yankton Archery Complex. The outdoor archery season begins soon, including the World Championship trials on May 1, and he traveled to Yankton from his home in Lee’s Summit, Mo., to work with the archery center’s facilities coach, M.J. Rogers.

Lauren Clamon featured in Sports Illustrated Kids

kevin cully — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:33:11 +0000

Lauren Clamon, a Junior Dream Team member from Chula Vista, CA, has been featured as the “Sports Kid of the Month” in the March issue of Sports Illustrated Kids. Clamon, the 2010 National Champion in the recurve cub female category, had a standout 2010 season, setting three JOAD records and one FITA Star record, as well as winning the California State Games and California State Archery Championship.

UK’s Williamson Getting Ready For Olympics

kevin cully — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 03:15:48 +0000

Williamson, who is a member of the Long Mynd archery club in Shropshire, hopes to use the scheduled test event later this year to get a feel for the environment in which she will be competing.

“I’ll be looking at the wind patterns at the stadium, that’s really important in archery,” Williamson added.

Click here to read more:
British archer Alison Williamson not worried by slope

USA Olympic Archer Profile: Heather Koehl

kevin cully — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:55:59 +0000

Heather Koehl, a 2008 graduate of Sheboygan Falls High School, [Wisconsin] is currently ranked second in the nation in Olympic-style recurve archery.

She is a resident athlete at the United States Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif., where her full-time job (10 to 12 hours a day) is to train for international competition. All expenses, including room, board, food and travel, are paid by the U.S. Olympic Committee.

“The best way I can say it as a parent; this was truly her dream and to watch her do this well, we are just so happy for her,” said Kelly Koehl.

Neurosky Helps USA Olympic Archers

kevin cully — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:01:59 +0000

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

USA Olympic Archers Test New Stabilizer System

kevin cully — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:55:24 +0000

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.

Chinese Olympic Archery Sculpture Arrives in NZ

kevin cully — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:53:51 +0000

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.

An Olympic Archery Overview

kevin cully — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:54:55 +0000

This looks like a web site Wiki set up to describe the Olympic sports to be held in 2012. Take a look.

The format of the men’s and women’s individual competition is the same and consists of a ranking round followed by the FITA Olympics round.

In the ranking round, archers shoot 72 arrows at a target 70 meters (229 feet, 8 inches) away in 12 ends of six arrows each. A perfect score is 720.

The same set of shots is used to seed teams for the team competitions.

Read more here:
An Overview of Olympic Archery