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FL Gov. Tours Olympic Archery Facility

Governor Charlie Crist today, as part of his continuing commitment to preserving Florida’s natural beauty and resources, toured the Beau Turner Youth Conservation Center and met with Ted and Beau Turner and energy entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens to discuss environmental and related economic opportunities for the Sunshine State. Governor Crist visited with Jefferson County children as they enjoyed the solar-powered conservation center’s Olympic archery center, various nature trails and fishing pond.

The center, through its free classes and host of volunteers, has provided more than 1,300 youth with environmental education and hunting and fishing activities. The center features a stocked fishing pond, managed impounds for waterfowl, planted fields for small game, a state-of-the-art rifle range, Olympic-style and 3-D archery courses, and a trap-shooting facility that throws biodegradable clay pigeons. Free classes teaching gun safety, fishing, wildlife management and other aspects of outdoor life and conservation are offered throughout the summer for youth ages 12 to 16.

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UK Olympic team looking to prepare for 2012

UK Olympic archer Alan Wills and Copeland’s mayor Keith Hitchen have been getting their heads together to come up with ideas for an archery camp.

They hope the camp would be used by archers from across the world to train at and get used to the British climate.

Mr Wills said that a major part of an athlete’s training before the Olympics is to go to the host country and get used to the weather conditions.

In 2006 and 2007, he went to Beijing to train ahead of last year’s Olympics, where he was shooting his arrows in temperatures up to 40 degrees and 100 per cent humidity.

Read more here:
Olympians to train in West Cumbria

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High speed video of arrows with spin wings

Our thanks goes to Jake Kaminski for posting this high speed video of arrows with spin wings. It always amazes me on how much flex is in an arrow during flight. In real time you really can’t see the flex.

Korean Archery Champions Wed

We’d like to add our congratulations to two great Olympic archery champions who wed recently. Best wished to you two!

PARK Sung-Hyun won two gold medals (individual and team) at the 2004 Athens Games. She repeated as an Olympic champion in the women’s team final in Beijing last year, leading her country to a sixth straight Olympic title. She also won individual silver in Beijing.

PARK Kyung-Mo, who also won team gold in 2004, had similar success as her fiancée four years later. In Beijing, he helped the men’s team clinch the Olympic title for the third straight time and won the individual silver medal.

Read more here:
Olympics Champions Tied the Knot

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Test Comp. for Olympics held in 2007

Womens recurve, Korea vs. Poland. A good match with great shooting. I love looking at the setups: Samick vs Hoyt with all of the technologies. Very cool.

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Beijing Archery Promo Video on The Great Wall

This was a pretty cool, but short video taken on the Great Wall in China. Fun archery video.

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World FITA Coaches Seminar in Italy

In November of 2009, some of the best archery coaches in the world will assemble in Rome, Italy to get even better.

This will be a great opportunity to gather with Archery Coaches from all over the world, learn from the experience of the experts conducting the seminar as well as from the participants. As you know the Italian archery has always been strong in all disciplines, equipment divisions and genders; hence we will give a priority to its coaches for presenting us their successful know-how.

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Archery community mourns the loss of Coach Bob Towne

Coach Bob Towne with girls compound team

Coach Bob Towne, San Diego, California, passed away at his parent’s home on January 17th after a short battle with a rare form of cancer. Bob was a Certified Level 4 National Coach with 25 years experience in the sport of archery. As a competitor, he had won 3 state championship titles and was a staff shooter for Browning. In 2004, Bob served as a Coach on the Jr. World Team which competed in England. The Compound boys and girls brought back 5 gold and 3 silver medals under his team leadership at that event.

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UK Junior Archer profile: Antony Wood

Antony Wood was part of a three-man team representing Great Britain who annexed the team gold at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival.

National Junior Archery Champion, Antony, 15, from Vansittart Drive, joined 16-year-old Mark Nesbitt from Banbridge and Alec Wheeler from Bedford, vanquishing tournament favourites Australia, Korea and China to win top honours.

The feat was made even more remarkable because it was only the second time the team has competed in an international tournament together – they had spent the previous week in Brisbane.

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Professor Sam Liles calls the NAA onto the carpet

I must admit that I’m relatively new to the inner workings of the NAA and the changes that they’re going through. Professor Liles is certainly not fond of the current incarnation of the NAA and the changes going on there.

Archery has a problem with leadership and the sustainability of the organizations. The roots of the problem are in the leadership, the issues of differing opinions, the problems with past practices. There is also some temerity in the different organizations for buy-in. The idea that the membership is more than supporting the very few is empty. The practice of the National Archery Association currently is to promogulate a ponzi scheme where all of the membership supports very few athletes who go to the Olympics. The wholesale changes to the coaching and high performance programs centralize and denigrate the efforts of smaller clubs. The governing processes and representation are woefully inadequate for a membership driven organization.

I’m hoping to have the opporunity to ask him some more specifics about the issues and changes to the NAA that he is making reference. I’m hoping that the NAA is open to criticism as long as criticism is supported and offered in the right light. Stay tuned.

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Archive for the 'Olympic News' Category

FL Gov. Tours Olympic Archery Facility

UK Olympic team looking to prepare for 2012

High speed video of arrows with spin wings

Korean Archery Champions Wed

Test Comp. for Olympics held in 2007

Beijing Archery Promo Video on The Great Wall

World FITA Coaches Seminar in Italy

Archery community mourns the loss of Coach Bob Towne

UK Junior Archer profile: Antony Wood

Professor Sam Liles calls the NAA onto the carpet

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