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TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES AROUND THE STATE OF TEXAS (mainly) FOR COACHES, ARCHERS, AND PARENTS OF ARCHERS
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NADA is the official source for NAA/USA Archery Level I and II courses       Past Events


The Georgia Archery Association (GAA) will host a camp for intermediate and
advanced archers beginning on Sunday afternoon, June 8, 2008 and conclude on
Thursday morning, June 12, 2008 at Georgia College & State University in
Milledgeville, GA.

The camp is open to anyone age thirteen and older.  The camp will be limited
to 20 participants. Archers must bring their own equipment and should have
some prior experience in competition.  The camp is open to both recurve and
compound archers. The use of the Biomechanically Efficient Shooting
Technique (B.E.S.T. Method) will be the central focus of the camp.

We will have Regional High Performance Program Coaches (Level IV) available
who have been certified by USA Archery National Head Coach, Kisik Lee.

The accommodations will be at a three year old dormitory facility on the
school campus.  The school is located approximately 30 miles east of Macon,
GA.  The cost for the camp will be $325 per person.  This will include
instruction, video recording and analysis, archer’s personal record and
workbook, room (double occupancy), three meals per day at the school’s
cafeteria and a facility use fee.  Participants will arrive Sunday afternoon
and depart on Thursday morning.

Some of the topics to be covered are:

Proper use of the BEST Method        Sports Psychology
Dartfish Analysis of Skills         Nutrition and Physical Fitness
Goal Setting                 Equipment Setup & Tuning
Practice Techniques            Tournament Preparation
String Making                Personal Training Plan

The GAA hopes you will join us for this inaugural event that we hope will
become an ongoing program of advancing the sport of archery at the
competitive level.  Our aim is to help you become a better archer and a
future champion in your division. While I can’t guarantee you a gold medal
at the next Olympic Games, I can guarantee you will leave with a better
understanding of what it takes to be a top level archer and you will
definitely have fun!

Go to the GAA web site at www.gaarchery.org and click on Calendar and Events
to get the application form.  Applications need to be postmarked by February
1, 2008.

B.E.S.T. Regards
Jim White - RHPC - Level IV
jwhite43@comcast.net
(770) 9998-7496


 

 

Larry Skinner's Website

Image of Larry Skinner at Target

I finally took the plunge into the digital age and started a website for myself!

I have been coaching for a long time and I wanted a way to reach out to the archery community. Please feel free to look around and explore. For those archers looking for a coach, look no further! I am fully qualified to teach Recurve, Compound, Traditional, Long Bow and pretty much any other discipline you can throw at me. I have taught archers from beginner to World and Olympic team members. Take a look at my Current link to see some of the archers I have been coaching. I live in a quiet town in Missouri where I have a fully equipped Training Facility that allows for shooting throughout the year. If you are interested in learning how to shoot please see my Contact page and get back to me however you see fit. Thanks for stopping by! Larry Skinner, Coach

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Here are links to acrobat documents on the USOC website - these are COACHING tips.

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Coaching Ethics - USOC Coaching Ethics Code
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NASP (National Archery In Schools Programs) in Texas has established a training agenda for instructors. Other states: please send me your agendas as well!

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2007:

Attention: Summer Camp Instructors
Edward Vargas, a NAA Level 3 instructor, will be teaching a Level 1 certification course at SureShot Archery in Humble, TX, on May 28, 2007 from 8 am to 5 pm.  The NAA Level 1 course is the perfect course for Summer Camp Instructors because it includes training time with young, inexperienced students, exactly what you will be doing at camp.  For more information or to register for the course please call 281-540-2265 or email SureShotArchery@ev1.net.

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MEMO

To:                   Instructors        

From:               Michelle Horne, Project Coordinator

Date:                April 2006

Regarding:        ACCESS Classes

 

 

            NADA would like to invite you to the first ACCESS Classes (Archery Coaches Continuing Education Seminar Series)!  We are offering these classes to any Level 2 Intermediate and above instructors who may be interested. 

NADA has created a series of neutral regional instructor courses designed for Level 2 instructors and above to make them stronger at their craft.  ACCESS is a number of training modules, that combine the latest coaching techniques with re-curve and compound bows. There are a dozen top level coaches to act as official facilitators of ACCESS to teach courses in their geographical area. 

Our new program web site, www.accessarchery.com, is up and running, to handle online registration.  Get a jump start and call today to register!  Participants will be able to register for single or multiple classes.

For further information please contact NADA at 352-472-2388, email at info@teacharchery.org, or visit our new website.

 

Prices:             1 day class- $200.00      2 day class- $300.00      3 ½ day class- $350.00

 

Units of Modules: Unit 1- Shooting & Form Analysis, Teaching Optimal Form

                             Unit 2- Compound Bow Dynamics, Tuning Examined, Archery Crafts

                             Unit 3- Aiming & Sighting, The Release, The Mental Side

 

Schedule:

Date                            Location                     Facilitator                   Topic

4/22/2006                              Lancaster Archery Supply Randy Ravago                     Unit 1                                                                                     Lancaster, PA

 

5/4/2006                                                Gene’s Custom Strings      Bill Holzmer                          Unit 1

                                                & Archery Equipment

                                                Spooner, WI

                               

5/5/2006                                                Gene’s Custom Strings      Bill Holzmer                          Unit 2

                                                Spooner, WI

 

5/6/2006                                                Gene’s Custom Strings      Bill Holzmer                          Unit 3

                                                Spooner, WI

 

5/6/2006                                                Camp Carter YMCA            Tim Humphrey                     Unit 1

                                                Ft. Worth TX.

 

 

5/13/2006                              Camp Carter YMCA            Tim Humphrey                     Unit 2

                                                Ft. Worth, TX

 

5/20/06                                  The Archery Center of        Claudia Stevenson             Unit 1

                                                Nevada County                    Steve Ruis

Grass Valley, CA

 

5/21/06                                  The Archery Center             Claudia Stevenson             Unit 2

                                                Grass Valley, CA                 Steve Ruis

               

5/26/2006                              Fletchers Corner                  Ray Caba                              Unit 1

                                                Cape May Court House, NJ

 

5/27/2006                              Fletcher’s Corner                 Ray Caba                              Unit 2

                                                Cape May Court House, NJ

 

 

5/28/2006                              Fletcher’s Corner                 Ray Caba                              Unit 3

                                                Cape May Court House, NJ

 

Current ACCESS modules

 

Unit 1

Shooting Form Analysis

            The facilitator will be actually coaching the participants (so they can experience being professionally coached- many participants have not been), videotaping them shooting for later analysis, and leading the video sessions using the videotape of the participants as well as stock video clips on the accompanying disk. 

 

Teaching Optimal Form-

            This module is a key module for the ACCESS series.  In it, the most favorable and forgiving archery form is described and exercises to teach it are shared. 

            This module is scheduled for at least a half day of instruction time and spent on the range trying those elements of optimum form with which the participants may be unfamiliar. 

 

Unit 2

Compound Bow Dynamics-

            This is a topic in which it is expected that participants’ understanding will be widely varied.  Some re-curve bow archers do no understand compound bows at all.  Even some compound bow archers do no understand compound bows at all.  This module will bring everyone to the same level. 

            This module is scheduled for three hours of instruction time, with about the last hour spent showing the use of a bow press (inserting peep sites, replacing bow strings, adjusting cable lengths, etc.)

 

Tuning Examined-

            This module is scheduled for 4.5 hours of instruction time, including the “Bow Tuning Game” at the end.  Each of the tuning principals (re-curve, compound, and arrow tuning) with its accompanying chart should be discussed in detail.

 

Archery Crafts-

            This module will be demonstrating and guiding the participants in performing: 

Arrow assembly (fletching, gluing on nocks, inserting points, & inserts)

Arrow disassembly (stripping vanes, removing nocks, points, & inserts)

Arrow straightening (use of straightener, stripping jig)

Bow string work( instead of focusing on making a whole new bow string, we will have the participants make a center serving, tie on a nocking point locator, and create a D- loop)

            It is scheduled for a total of 4.0 hours of instruction time.

 

 

Unit 3

Aiming and Sighting

            In this module the topic is aiming and sighting, a topic which it is expected that the participants understanding will be widely varied.  This module will bring everyone to the same page. 

            This module is scheduled for 2.5 hours of instruction time with about the last hour spent on the range trying out those methods of aiming of which the participants are unfamiliar.

 

The Release

            This module topic is the release (both fingers and with release aids) which is expected the participants understanding is widely varied.  Some re-curve archers have never experienced release aids.  Some compound archers start with a release and have not shot fingers or have not tried a “live” release with a re-curve.  Many archers do not know the basic traditional aiming techniques (gap shooting, sting walking).

            This module is scheduled for 4.5 hours of instruction time with the last hour spent on the range trying out those methods of releasing which are new to the participants.

 

The Mental Side

            This module shows you the benefit of how your brain works when you participate in archery.

            It can be expected the participants understanding of this topic will be widely varied.  The module text can be used as a guide by actually having them do some of the exercises. The participants will stand and mentally shoot two ends at their home range (vividly visualizing and feel their shots, the wind, the sun, the smells, everything) Have them write out a shot sequence. 

 

NADA

25145 NW 8th Pl, Suite 60

Newberry, FL 32669

352-472-2388

352-472-2375 FAX

www.teacharchery, org

pat@teacharchery.org

 

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The go archery! Program

The go archery! ™  program was developed to promote archery recreation classes throughout the country.  It’s divided into a series of 1 hour classes that can conducted daily, or spread over a series of weeks.  To ensure a prosperous growth for the sport of archery, the go archery! ™  program is designed to provide archery instructors with class schedules, and business plans should they choose to facilitate this program in area recreation centers or other portable venues.  Either as a volunteer instructor, or as paid facilitator, go archery! can be instrumental in providing a consistent training method for teaching new archers form and execution.  Teaching archery can be a very rewarding occupation.  The first chapter helps you get a go archery! recreation class started.

The go archery! Instruction Method

go archery! ™  was developed to address the need to find a better way to teach new archers in the United States.  Every new archer should learn good foundation skills in their early weeks of training so they could enjoy a lifetime participating in the sport of archery.

Archery is taught in the United States as well as in other successful countries, such as Korea.  In Korea, kids who are enrolled in archery programs start by practicing three hours per day, six days per week.  For the first three to six months they don’t even shoot a bow.  They only go through the motions, or drills.  The kids learn to shoot first without a bow, and then slowly work in to shooting arrows only after they have perfected the drills.

In the United States, we tend take the other extreme.  To keep the kids interested and attract them to the sport of archery, we put a bow in their hands right away and get them shooting as quickly as possible.  There are not very many kids in the United States that would stick with archery if they had to go through the Korean system.  There are just too many other sports or activities competing for their time.

The go archery! ™  method of instruction utilizes proven Korean methods merged with American reality.  We offer the drills and skills for archers to learn and practice at home.  Those that are really interested in learning proper shooting technique will now have the tools to learn proper shooting form if they want to put in the effort.

go archery! ™  puts a strong emphasis on keeping the student focused on their form and the process of shooting the shot, rather than the outcome and score.  It is important to repeat this to your students as they progress, especially when you first put up a target face or introduce an aiming method.  This focus on form and execution can help them enjoy a lifelong career in the sport of archery, regardless of which style of the sport they may follow.

go archery!  Drills and Skills

The foundation of the go archery! ™  program is the Drills & Skills booklet.  This booklet is intended as a handout or student manual for everyone in your recreation classes.  It contains their sign-off sheet so they can be rewarded as they progress through the each drill and skill.  Each page contains a detailed description of the drill or skill to be learned, along with colorful photos showing the correct technique.  Every student knows what is expected of them before the drill or skill can be signed off as accomplished.

The go archery! curriculum is designed to provide better instruction for those who are new to the sport of archery.  The Drills & Skills are taught in a progression so students learn proper shooting technique before bad habits are learned.  The go archery! ™  lessons plans help the instructor introduce each shooting drill and skill in an organized format.  Each class also follows a similar format, creating good practice habits for your new archery students.  Chapter 6 discusses these plans in detail.

Another great feature of the go archery! ™  method is accountability.  The signing off on the successful learning and mastering of shooting drills and skills makes the Instructor accountable to the archer and the archer accountable to the instructor.  The drills and skills must be learned correctly before the students can be signed off.  As the instructor, it is important that you make sure the student has learned or mastered these skills before you sign off in their book.  They must perform the drills or skills perfectly and consistently.  This way they will know when the need to continue working on the drill or skill and what they need to do to accomplish the task.  Chapter 9 explains each drill and skill along with information on how to teach and evaluate the skills.

 go archery!™ is a trademark of NADA.  For further program information, or questions about the go archery!™  website, contact NADA.

National Alliance for the Development of Archery (NADA)
25145 NW 8th Place, Suite 60
Newberry, FL  32669
(352) 472-2388  phone
(352) 472-2375  fax

www.teacharchery.org

 

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Level 1 NAA Coaches course to be held in Humble, Texas

Sure Shot Archery

Ed Vargas, level 3 NAA coach, is going to be doing a level 1 at his store on Saturday, May 21.
The address to the store is:
1213 B East 1st Street
Humble, TX 77338

The phone number is 281-540-2265 and his email address is SureShotArchery@ev1.net .

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USA Archery :  Level 3 & 4 Coach Course CALENDAR

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