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In 2011, log stats show this website had 5,000,000+ hits, and this map shows that from Nov 1 to present, we've had more than 5,000 unique visiting archers on the site. Click the map for a neat perspective on where your fellow archers are!

If you get value from this site, please consider making a safe, quick and easy donation to the TSAA?

State JOAD Indoor ( VICTORIA on Jan 28th (Now done)
and in PLANO on February 4th!) TO REGISTER for the Plano portion, use this link

A THIRD COACH HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE INSTRUCTOR FACULTY FOR THIS Community Coaching Certification Course in Austin the weekend of Feb 10-12- MAKING IT A TRIPLE! CHECK IT OUT!

State Indoor Tournament (Austin) - Feb 17-19,2012

NAA Master Calendar

1/11/2012: Further evidence of the effects Tom Barker and Gene Kacir are having on the youth of the small town of Victoria: A great writeup of TWO archers they coach who are THIS CLOSE to making the highest ranks of US Team Archers.

1/3/2012: Tom Barker noted that for 2012 Texas has a continuing influence in the US elite archery ranks:  "Victoria Haynes, Ladies Junior Compound, and Hunter Barthels, Gentleman Cadet Compound, from Victoria, Texas join Kayleigh Rogers, Ladies Junior Compound from Plano, Texas,  and Mackenzie Brown, Ladies Cadet Recurve from Flint, Texas on the elite Junior USAT team of youth archers. Congratulations to the Texas Junior USAT members."

12/27/2011: The TSAA has posted the tournament information for the 2012 State JOAD Indoor tournament. For the 30th anniversary, it will be held in TWO locations on two successive weekends, in order to help more archers participate.  It will be held in the NORTH Texas area in PLANO, and in the SOUTH Texas area, in VICTORIA.  Since Texas is more than 790 miles in length, 770 miles in width, giving our youth archers the chance to avoid 6 hours of driving to get to the venue means we have twice the chance for participation.  Thanks to the evolution of an excellent archery center in Plano, we can now "divvy" it up and well, we have!  For more information, and to register ONLINE once again for the 13th or 14th year running, use this link please...

NOTE that you can shoot in both events, but only the first time you shoot will count towards championship in your division, the second time will be for fun if you want.

12/23/2011: For those that remember the Sag board, which is based in the Netherlands, there is another very neat, similarly useful site in the same country ; a site dedicated to digitizing old archery documents and books and sharing them with the world.  They do it on their own dime, much as I do with this site, so if you should happen to see value in what they are doing, consider dropping a coin in the till, so to speak.

Check this website out:  http://www.archerylibrary.com 

and don't forget the images of the scrapbooks from the early 1900's of archery happenings in the US, including some pretty interesting photos that demonstrate well, excellent form in some cases, these I have put up on the USA Archery Records website for posterity: http://usaarcheryrecords.org/History/index.html

11/18/2011: A snippet of results from Guadalajara 2011 - the ParaPan American Games!

Women's Standing Recurve ParaPan Ranking Round Results:

Position/Back No./ Name /Country Code /70m 70m 70m 70m 10s Xs Score

1 13B LAYOLLE Patricia BRA 252 / 3 259 / 3 261 / 3 272 / 1 19 4 1044
2 13A FORD Eileen Mary USA 261 / 2 269 / 1 264 / 2 245 / 3 11 3 1039
3 14A HESS D'arce Raelene USA 268 / 1 243 / 4 258 / 4 260 / 2 9 3 1029
4 15A WELLS Natalie Lynn USA 229 / 4 261 / 2 269 / 1 222 / 4 13 5 981
5 14B TREMBLAY Lyne CAN 195 / 5 215 / 5 210 / 5 197 / 5 4 2 817
The US ladies go on to win Gold (13A), Silver(15A), and Bronze(14A).  Congratulations to Team USA & read more at USA Archery

11/7/2011: In keeping with the bylaws of the TSAA, this is an announcement of an executive board meeting to be held at College Station during the A&M Aggie Indoor tournament.  Specific time and location will be posted here in due course. Agenda will include the submission of bids for the upcoming years' tournament hosts, and any other items submitted to the president, Mike Hojnacki, for the agenda. Email him using president "AT" (replace this with the symbol) texasarchery.org .

9/26/2011: It's Monday and over 4 gigabyte of photos and video action clips, shot cycle photos, are being/have been uploaded from the just-concluded State Target Championship.  (It may take until the evening of Monday, Sept. 26 or even the morning of Tuesday, to get all links "alive" with the files in progess of upload at present).  If a link errors, just wait awhile and try back...

Weather started out fantastic each morning, then got kinda warm <G> by the end of shooting, winds always remained light and variable. Congratulations to all, and thanks to Paul Searle of Australia who journeyed to Texas in order to fling arrows with us.  Click here for the photo album.  (Reminder: you can download any video or photo, inluding the high-resolution version, to your computer for any non-commercial use, such as putting on your facebook page, or to study for personal improvement!)

Results are posted to this link.

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THE TSAA STATE TARGET EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED! (SAME TIME/DATE, DIFFERENT CITY)

The event is being relocated due to the heavy damage to the city of Bastrop by fire.  The University of Texas has agreed at short notice to host the event on their archery field, and the club will provide volunteers to work the event as well.

9/5/2011:

Please add http://www.TexasArcheryAcademy.org to your JOAD Resources and Links.
Contact Tony@texasarcheryacademy.org

Archery 101 – JOAD I – Youth Class (5 session $150 program fee):

The JOAD archery program is a nationally recognized archery program developed by USA Archery.  It combines teaching techniques and easy to use archery equipment.  The curriculum introduces archery safety, shooting form, archery styles, equipment and scoring rules. The course is held over 5 sessions that are 60 minutes long.  Students learn a neutral style of archery that builds the basics of a solid shooting form.  The archery lessons are conducted using lightweight recurve bows or compound bows at short distances; as a result gender or age has little advantage.  The bows draw weight is 15 or 20 pounds.  All of the equipment and range facilities are provided by Texas Archery Academy.    Fee is $150.00

Archery 201 – JOAD II – Youth Class (ongoing coach supervised practice program $25/session, plus the cost of equipment you purchase):

This program is a semester long structured training and workout program.  Archers in this program participate in the Junior Olympic Archery Development’s National Training System program, a training program developed by USA Archery.  This program specializes in target archery employing the Olympic shooting form, applied to recurve or compound. Archers within this program are committing to purchasing their own equipment during the training classes.

NEW TRAINING OPPORTUNITY - CHECK THE TRAINING OPS LINK (TO THE LEFT)

There is a strong chance that the Tournament Director for our upcoming state championship has lost his home, including many of the tournament supplies, but due to the current situation we/he cannot tell at this point. Chaos would be an apt word to use for much of that area in Bastrop County.

We cannot know for awhile, as the authorities are not allowing any civilians into what is still a fire zone.

REGARDLESS - the tournament is still on. There is a strong chance that the venue itself is not part of the fire damage, in which case the tournament will be "all the same" - location, timing, etc.
If you have a hotel reservation, I would recommend that you contact the hotel, make sure it is still standing, etc. Note that you may have trouble getting through, due to the many powerlines and phone lines that have burned, yet the hotel itself may be just fine - for chains, calling their headquarters or main reservation lines might be wise, as would using email and websites' "contact us" options.

If we need to, we have several options for nearby locations to Bastrop so this tournament IS going to happen, but the venue itself is subject to change based on what happens/we find out, in the next few days.

We will keep you informed, please also check the main page of the TSAA at
http://www.texasarchery.org , and I will also put any updates on the registration page information at
http://texasarchery.org/Registrations/11/Target/STa.htm

AGAIN, AT THIS POINT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ABOUT THE TOURNAMENT, PLEASE MAINTAIN YOUR SAME PLANS, AND BE SURE TO REGISTER IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO. More than ever, we need as early of an idea of total participants to help us insure adequate bales, stands, etc. so please do NOT put off registering until the last minute as it will just make it that much harder for us to accomodate you. Your help in this matter is greatly appreciated, and if you find out later that you cannot attend, you will NOT lose any registration fee - ALL fees paid will be refunded if you decide you cannot attend for any reason, so register now, register often, and pay as soon as you can to insure we have it "all together" when it is time for the arrows to fly!

Thanks, folks!

Ron Carmichael, webmaster TSAA

8/30/2011:  I got a couple of bulletins:

USA Archery changed the name of the event "U.S. Olympic Trials - Archery/First Nomination Shoot" to "U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Archery/First Nomination Shoot".

and

USA changed the time of U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Archery/First Nomination Shoot.  It is now Wednesday, September 28 at 12:00pm.

7/6/2011: Allesandro Ame' of Italy is giving away a software APP for your Windows-based PC or phone, for use in archery, in honor of the world champs being held in his home town of Turin.  I don't know for how long, so check it out now... 

3/31/2011: The Sunbird, part II, was even better than the first. 17 archers participated, and 7 remained at the end to shoot a total of 2 x 144 PLUS 1 x 72 arrows. Photos and results to be posted in the next few days.

3/8/2011: These are now available and I cannot recommend them 100% YET, simply because mine has not arrived.  BUT I have full confidence that they will/are a vast improvement over the crticially important FORM MASTER, and I've ordered mine already. If you coach, or are an archer trying to adopt the National Training System (aka, BEST METHOD) then this tool will move you much further down that difficult path.  Please note that they do not have the LARGE version ready yet, the one they have will work for younger archers, female archers(most likely), and those with short or slender arms.  ORDER ONE BEFORE THEY SELL OUT, and keep your eyes open for the April release of the larger version.

Here is the link to the website where you can get yours.  Oh yeah, it's called the SHOT TRAINER.   You don't realize it yet, but you do need it.  NOW.   Endorsed by Ron. :) :)

2/16/2011: I found this email from awhile back in my "to do" list, to post up here.  They are hoping for a male coach due to the nature of the camp's participants, but are open to considering *any* qualified individual:

This is Alex Rotman of Camp Caribou, a boys residential summer camp located in Winslow, ME.  We offer professional instruction in a variety of sports and we are currently looking for an enthusiastic and outgoing Archery instructor to coach boys aged 7-15.  Our coaches would be required to live on our campus from 6/16/11 to 8/14/11.  It's an amazing summer job and gives great coaching experience.  If you know of anyone that may be interested in this great opportunity please let me know. 

We would prefer a male, as he would be living in the cabins with the children as their primary care supervisor along with the duties of an archery instructor.  We are also looking for someone to head our entire Archery Department, one who has knowledge of maintaining our equipment and the development of a 3.5 week curriculum.  However, if you have an outstanding female archer, looking to be our Archery Director, we will strongly look at her resume. 
--
Alex Rotman
Camp Caribou
Program Director
1-888-305-2267
www.campcaribou.com

2/14/2011: TSAA JOAD IDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP results have been posted.
From the DOS, Tom Barker:
" I am happy to report the results of the 2011 TSAA State JOAD and VC Invitational tournament.  We had 49 archers compete for the TSAA State JOAD titles and 45 archers in the VC invitational.  During the JOAD portion there were four TSAA state indoor JOAD records broken or tied.  They are highlighted in Red on the attached spreadsheet with the results.
Highlights included Heather Trafford breaking both of Kayla DeBord's records for 30 and 60 arrows.  Hunter Barthels tied the 30 arrow record and broke the 60 arrow record.  Finally, Colin Klimitchek broke the 30 arrow record.
For the VC invitational the participation by 10 Longhorns, 10 Aggies,  2 Victoria College, and one Richland College archer greatly enhanced the experience.  The UT archers and the two VC archers competed as seniors or novices because they have not submitted their USCA formal memberships yet.
Thanks to all who came and participated."
JOAD Results are at this link.  Overall Invitational Results are at this link.

1/31/2011:   We are still planning to have the SUNBIRD 2011, a STAR Fita Outdoor event in Austin, Texas at the University of Texas archery fields on February 19th, starting as early as is practicable on that morning.
photos from the 2007 sunbird
In Austin, we can have a frost one day, (or even snow), and then in two or three days be back in sandals, shorts, and tshirts, thanks to the effect of having the gulf of Mexico so close. We did this in 2007, shoots in January, and had a great time with wonderful weather. But we can never tell for sure what the archery gawds will do, weatherwise. We plan and hope for the best. :)

ALL arrows will be shot at the 70 meter distance, 122 cm target, though if I have cadets that typically shoot fixed at 60 meters, we'll accommodate them as well.

No trophies. Just Star FITA-qualifier, at least TWO, 72-arrow rounds and if we can get a 3rd in, we'll do that to0, on the same day.

Shooting to commence with earliest time after sunup if temps permit, and to stop when the sun goes away.

Cost will be $20 for the day, all proceeds to the University of Texas Archery Club. Limit will be one line - around 40 archers max, though we had around 2/3 of that last time we did this in 2007.

We will repeat the Sunbird 2011, part deux, on MARCH 26TH, also a Saturday, same provisions.

In either date, if it looks like it's going to be freezing, we will postpone it by a day to Sunday, though if the prognosticators say Sunday won't be any better, we will play it completely by ear and reschedule to the soonest possible Saturday. We MAY be able to set up a 3-wall tent, space heaters, and shoot/stay warm as possible, if it is a dry cold, and just shoot on Saturday 19th.

Registration will be by sending me an email with your intent - no payments till actually on the field.

We may order pizzas delivered to the field so that we can maximize shoots, also Chipotle and such are nearby and we'll have a couple of non-shooters (ie, students<G> and spousal units) that can make the food runs if need be)

I have gotten interested emails from as far away as Utah and Pennsylvania. At this point, the STAR Registrations have been submitted and the events are on.
Please let me hear from you if you plan to shoot. Not a firm committ on your part, But I need to start planning logistics.

10/1/2010: Bids to host the Texas State Indoor and Texas JOAD State Indoor are being accepted. By our bylaws, the deadline is December 1 to send in a bid to host either of these events.  So far we have two bids, one for each event.

If you wish to enter a host bid, check the board link at the left side of this page, for information on hosting and bidding.  Send your bid to the webmaster.

8/27/2010: I am wrapping up a week in Shenzhen, China.  As team leader, I have had the honor of watching over 12 of the finest of our US collegians from around the US shoot and shoot well.  We are leaving today for the US, along with bronze, silve, and gold medals for our performances.   It's been a hard shoot - the weather was extremely Houston-like, but winds were not a factor for most shooters.  Good hosts as well.   I'll write more when I can get to a place where net is open and I have more time.   Been VERY busy with the students' needs and getting things done.  Sure would have helped if I spoke Chinese, but we have had a good interpreter/guide assigned to us and she has done well.

8/10/2010: A thought about the upcoming TSAA State Target Championship... The TSAA awards the "Archer Of The Year Award to both seniors and junior, based on results from the Field, Indoor, and Target events. This year the outcome is in play, and several collegians are also looking pretty competitive....So who is going to get one of THESE?

8/10/2010: Lots of good publicity abounds, egad!

http://www.archery.org/index.asp?m_id=2724&cnt_id=4966 is a neat article on the Traffords

Tom Barker sent me this list of a few good people's exposure in the media!: Some local and not so local archers in our JOAD club.

http://www.myvictoriaonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5668:summer-kids-play-archery&catid=62:home-stories&Itemid=87

http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2010/aug/06/archery_080710_106230/?sports

http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2010/jul/28/5things_archery_print_072910_105348/?sports

8/10/2010: For the 10th year running, the ONLINE registration for the TSAA State Target Championship is now up and active. You can get all the information, <ahem> VOLUNTEER to help set up the field, and register at this link. Please do send in your checks asap - they are NEVER cashed before the end of the tournament, and if you cancel before hand we simply shred it. Register now, register often! Please encourage your friends to shoot as well.

8/8/2010: From member Rick Walker: I have a new American Whitetail center for sale.
I picked it up at the 2004 JOAD Nationals where I bought several target mats. I have this center left and it looks like it has been hit with maybe 2 dozen arrows. Fits the big 122cm target mats. I am asking $50.00

Email the webmaster and I'll forward the note to Rick.

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