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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An Olympic Archery Overview

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

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NZ Archery Machines Own Bow in Bid For Olympics 2012

Stephen, who lives in Glen Eden, is one of seven machining apprentices at Buckley Systems Ltd in Mt Wellington, producing a range of steel objects that require high concentration and precision to give exact, smooth and flat finishes.

He uses the same skills to design and make his own archery equipment. A new bow costs about $5500 but isn’t always a good fit.
Stephen, 20, started developing his own gear to overcome the problem and gain a more competitive edge.

Read more here:
Stephen eyes up Olympics

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USA Archer Hopeful to appear on Jay Leno show!

2009 USA Archery World Championship team member Kristin Braun (Palos Verdes, Calif.) is slated to appear on the NBC’s Jay Leno Show on Thursday, Nov. 5. Braun, a U.S. Olympic Training Center resident athlete in Chula Vista, Calif., will travel to Los Angeles on Thursday to tape her piece.

Set your DVRs right now. We’ll have to follow Ms. Braun’s path to the Olympics closely. Good luck Kristin!

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Historical video of how archery returns to Olympics 1970

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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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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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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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US Archer Brady Ellison returns to his Elementary School

America’s most talented archer returned Jan. 9 to his roots when 19-year-old Brady Ellison visited Payson Elementary School to talk to students about his pursuit of the Olympic dream.

Ellison, now a resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif., formerly attended both PES and Rim Country Middle School before moving to Glendale at the end of his seventh-grade year.

In 2008, Ellison took first place in all three Olympic Trials and was the top member of the U.S. team that traveled to Beijing in August 2008.

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USA Olympic Archers Test New Stabilizer System

An Olympic Archery Overview

NZ Archery Machines Own Bow in Bid For Olympics 2012

USA Archer Hopeful to appear on Jay Leno show!

Historical video of how archery returns to Olympics 1970

Test Comp. for Olympics held in 2007

Beijing Archery Promo Video on The Great Wall

Archery community mourns the loss of Coach Bob Towne

Professor Sam Liles calls the NAA onto the carpet

US Archer Brady Ellison returns to his Elementary School

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