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INTERMEDIATE INSTRUCTOR CERTIFICATION COURSE IN AUSTIN AT UT

Ron Carmichael will conduct an Intermediate Instructors course for 15 individuals. This course will be March 27 & 28, 2010 from 9:30am to 6:30pm each day and will be held on campus in the Anna Hiss Gym at the University of Texas. (1 hr for lunch)

This class is intended for people that have at least 6 months' archery experience, who will be working with established archery program such as JOAD, NASP, Parks and Recreation programs, College Archery, Scouts, 4-H, and similar Camps. The cost is $165.00. This price includes two 8 hour classes, materials, and equipment.  To register, send an email to Ron, utarcherycoach AT gmail.com (replace the AT with @).

This is a 2-Day course, you'll learn how to teach the specific steps of shooting, to identify and correct form errors, to conduct training exercises using the official "Drills & Skills" student guidebook, and to teach a Basic Instructor course for your staff or as part of the NADA referral network.

Course Requirements:
- Previous Basic Instructor training, or have at least 6-months experience in the sport of archery. - Membership in either USA Archery or NFAA (must be a current member in standing PRIOR to this course)

Course Content:

• - Intermediate teaching techniques.
• - Steps of Shooting
• - Class schedules and exercises.
• - How to teach a Basic Instructor Course.
• - Sample lesson plans.
• - How to teach more "Drills & Skills" to archers.

This course is a pre-requisite for the Community Coach Course I will conduct later in the spring. Stay tuned for more details...

More Details Now Available:

COMMUNITY COACHING CERTIFICATION COURSE (CCC) - MAY 8-9 from 8:30a-7p

The instructor course teaches the fundamentals designed to insure a basic knowledge and level of safety and how to teach these to others..

The prerequisites are that you have to be a Intermediate Instructor for one year (NASP BAIT’s also qualify) or a Basic Instructor for two years and be able to pass the “test-in” test (NAST BAI’s also qualify).

The CCC goes to a higher plain of awareness, beginning the process of converting the instructor into an actual "coach".

To me, the title of "coach"is an honorific as well as several other things - to be worthy of such takes a dedication to learning more than just how to teach to hold a bow. When done properly, a "coach" is no less significant than "doctor", "minister", etc...

It also goes to how you nurture and provide the athlete with a philosophy, your philosophy as well as expertise, integrated deeply with their goals which they do not even know they have. Being a "COACH" is a tremendous honor and responsibility. If you take this CCC with me I will give you the right start to becoming a coach.

COURSE LIMITED TO 12 STUDENTS. You must be an Intermediate Coach

Email utarcherycoach@gmail.com with your particulars to sign up for the course. You will spend $250, two ten-hour days of solid intensive learning, and come out with a new outlook on how to teach.

This course is taught by Ron Carmichael, a high performance coach for USA Archery and one of two archery coaches in the USA to have been granted the Order of Ikkos by the USOC. He adheres to and is a student of the philosophy of the Kisk Lee Shot Cycle and all that it covers.

It is also useful, but not required, to study the latest book by K. Lee, "Inside the Archer". Copies can be ordered through http://www.lancasterarchery.com, or http://www.astraarchery.com/Astra.html .

Click here to go to US ArcheryHouse.Com

Our ultimate goal/game plan is to help market the sport of archery, by acting as an agent to aid coaches and athletes.

For athletes:
Lorinda Cohen & Tara Robey feel a need to positively promote the sport. They want to market the sport more the the entertainment world. In return, the entertainment industry will hopefully use our resources for help. We plan to act somewhat like a sport's agent to our U.S. Athletes. We want to provide athletes with an avenue for income, publicity, and enhance future opportunities.

For coaches:
In the same manner, we will help market all coaches by promoting them to the archery community.  Our goals on the local level is to create programs and development for youth? We advocate the BEST Method by getting involved with the Olympic Archery in Schools and surrounding B.E.S.T. youth programs.

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