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

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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For this week’s classes: Archery Videos!

When I woke up this morning, it was 41F. Now, it’s 37F with the wind chill below freezing. Basically, it’s miserable outside.

We are moving the practice to tomorrow, but at a special time due to the SuperBowl … or the Puppy Bowl depending on which you follow. (Puppy Bowl line up: http://bit.ly/980UdU) Practice will be from 1pm to 3pm. It will still be chilly tomorrow, but we should have full sun. This will also give us another day to let the field dry out.

We hope to see you there.

- Coach Kevin

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.”

Read more here:
Jennerstown man wins archery title in France

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.

Read more here:
Resident Athletes “Got Stung” Testing New B-Stinger Stabilizer Bars

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

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

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

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

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