Ireland Amateur Archery Looking For Professional Coach

The Irish Amateur Archery Association is looking for a professional national archery coach. You can stand as a candidate if you meet the following requirements:

Desired Qualifications

Ø Proven skills in developing archers for international level
Ø A degree in Sport Sciences would be commendable but not necessary
Ø The successful candidate must have excellent communication skills
Ø Able to work with coaches and tutors, archers of all levels, in Recurve and Compound, target and field disciplines
Ø Must speak English
Ø A proven track record of coaching and/or competing at international level.

Duties, roles and responsibilities

Ø To make training plan for and coach the national team
Ø Preparation to international archery events
Ø To offer any technical advices requested by the federation
Ø To coach the athletes of the national archery squad
Ø To maintain and analyse data on national athletes, then develop programmes to maximise performance
Ø When required, to coach athletes at international level tournaments
Ø Liaise with coaches in the preparation of training programmes and archery technique
Ø To serve as an advisor to the national archery domestic committee in:
- Improving competition opportunities
- Establishing successful national major events
Ø Other: Assist tutors in the development of a national coaching structure

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CA Luxury spa … and archery range … opens for business

The Borrego Ranch Resort and Spa may have a begging-to-be-mocked philosophy (”So-B-It: The Luxury to Choose. The Freedom Not to Have to.”), but the luxurious amenities are no joke. Located in Borrego Springs, California, the 42-acre property, which opens Thursday, November 6, offers 63 deluxe poolside rooms and casitas, an Olympic archery range and a $25 million, 18-hole Tom Fazio-designed golf course.

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Namibia splitting words on Archery Appology

Stanley Simaata
Did they apologize? or did they apologize “profusely”? We may never know. An administrative blunder in Namibia left their archers names off of the list for recognition in their country at an awards ceremony. Only politicians differentiate an apology and a profuse apology.

The chairman of the Namibia Sport Commission Stanley Simaata has refuted allegations that he “apologised profusely” to the president of the Archery Association of Namibia, Jan van Blerk at Friday’s Namibia Sport Awards.

Van Blerk made the statement at a press conference on Saturday, where he expressed his displeasure at the treatment that the four archery finalists received at the awards. The four archers were all amongst the finalists in their respective categories, but due to an administrative blunder by the Namibia Sport Commission, they were not called up on stage along with the other finalists.

Read more here:
Simaata refutes archery allegations

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Archery World Cup 2008 – Stage 3 – TV Magazine

This is a great video, well done at 25 minutes in length it really gives you an idea of the pressure at the World Cup.

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Video on how to shoot a recurve bow

This is a great, simple video to show the foundations of shooting a recurve bow. I teach a slight adjustment to the bow hand, but the fundamentals and purpose and results should be the same.

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High Speed Video of the flexing arrow as it is shot

Continuing on with the high speed videos, this video shows an Olympic archer shooting an arrow and the huge horizontal flexing of that arrow during flight. Notice the flex of the arrow compared to the rate of spin as the fletchings take hold in the air. Amazing stuff.

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World Indoor Archery Championships announced! Rzeszów, Poland

As the President of the Organising Committee I would like to invite all of you to the 10th Indoor Archery World Championships which will be held in Rzeszów at 02-08 March 2009.

Our city offers Indoor Sports Arena in which Chapmionships will be held. Located in the centre of the city the Arena is modern and impressive. There are also other sports and leisure complexes equppied with courts, gyms, swimming pools in close neighbourhood.

The infrastructure of the city enables you easy connection between the Arena, Hotels and other most popular tourists attractions. Rzeszów as a student friendly city is a vibrant and exciting all the time. The main square’s pubs, clubs or restaurants attract visitors even during the night. Podkarpacie Region is one of the fastest developing parts of Polnad. This beautiful, most easterly situated point of European Union is blooming at all aspects.

Archery high speed video of the release

In this video, Natalia Valeeva shows how to relax the fingers on the release and everything else about the shot just happens. Beautiful high speed camera work here.

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Namibia loses list of World Championship Archer Names; Not recognized at Awards Ceremony

The Archery Association of Namibia (AAN) has slammed the Namibia Sport Awards as ‘a joke’ after four of its archers, who became world champions this year were not amongst the finalists for the awards on Friday evening.
Senior archer Beatrix van der Merwe and juniors Hofmeyer van Blerk, Oliver Rohrmuller and Eunice Pieterse won gold medals in their categories at the World Field Archery Championships in Windhoek earlier this year, but were not recognised at the awards ceremony.

At a press conference on Saturday morning, the president of AAN Jan van Blerk accused the Namibia Sport Commission of incompetence, saying that it was totally unacceptable to them.

“For us this is totally unacceptable. If the Sport Commission don’t want to recognise us as a sport code then we will in future participate on our own without national colours. The medals that we win will then be ours and not the country’s,” he said.

Read more here:
Archery slams Sport Awards

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Great photo of Eric Bennet competing at the Paralympic Games 2008

Eric Bennet

Eric Bennett of the United States competes in the Men’s Ind. Compound-Open Archery event at the Olympic Green Archery Field during day four of the 2008 Paralympic Games on September 10, 2008 in Beijing. (China Photos/Getty Images)

Read more and see more great photos here:
“One World, One Dream”: 2008 Summer Paralympics

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