Arch eryFoc us v21 n6 November 2017 $12 Tom Dorigatti The Games People Used to Play William Moltzan Making a Stabilizer Quick Disconnect Christ Waters Beating Buck Fever Bob Ryder Selecting Equipment for New Recurve Archers Markus Wagner Mental Training: Science or Just Gut Feelings? Steve Ruis Mindfulness or Mindlessness? Hugh D.H. Soar The Young Archer AER Staff Is Your Bow Too Heavy? New from the The WAF Coaching Library! TEACHING ARCHERY by Van Webster Running a Teaching Archery is a complete guide to setting up and oper - Recreational ating a public archery program. Whether teaching archery to kids at a camp, teaching archery to adults in a park, or running Archery Program an archery range at an archery pro shop, this how-to manual will give you all the information that you need to set up and operate your program successfully. 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An argument could be through on short notice like the that no longer seem to get shot any made that it is more popular in the champions they are. I wouldn’t more. U.S. than ever before, but since dare detail what goes on in getting Simon and I didn’t get our there are no statistics or surveys one of these issues out. (I wouldn’t next installment in the “Getting to available from the past, that argu - want to frighten the women and ...” series out in time, so that will ment is probably not worth the children.) come in the January issue. And the breath to make it. We frequently solicit new AER folks have been “Getting The list of coaches on the authors to write for you and this Serious,” if you haven’t noticed. USA Archery site is longer than I issue contains one: Chris Waters Having covered the basics several have ever known it to be, so that is has written an article on buck fever times, the AER Team is moving a good sign. I still wish there were that should benefit both hunters up to help their coaches, actually better support for archery coaches. and target archers in battling the all coaches, in dealing with their so we are doing our bit by hosting scourge of our sport: target panic. more serious students. As the a blog for archery coaches We are pleased to include an Basshams say, the sport has three (https://archerycoach.wordpress.com ) excerpt from Hugh Soar’s new phases: learning to participate, and through Watching Arrows book, which has a coaching intent. learning to compete, and learning Fly, we are trying to create a pub - It looks at the history of teaching to win. Recreational archers are lished literature in support of archery to children and youths. satisfied with learning to partici - coaches ( see the ad on the left and on The book will be coming out pate (which includes participating the inside rear cover of this issue ). We around the turn of the new year in competitions) but serious are also doing what we can in that and will be announced in Archery archers want to learn how to com - we are publishing more articles Focus . pete so as to compete better and directed at coaches (from which William Moltzan has another very serious archers want to learn archers can benefit by reading over DIY project for those of you who how to win. As always there is a bit their shoulders). You can help if are comfortable working metal. for coaches and a bit for archers. you are so inclined. If you really This time it is a stabilizer quick Enjoy! like what Archery Focus offers, we disconnect. Bob Ryder addresses will be posting a gift subscription one of the responsibilities of col - form on the AFm website lege archery coaches: recommend - (www.archeryfocus.com ) to make ing equipment (recurve for now, PS The cover shows Bhutanese it easy for you to give subscriptions compound is promised for later). shooting archery. The sheer joy for the holidays to coaches and Markus Wagner addresses how on their faces is something to friends who you think might enjoy mental training needs to be incor - behold. Nobody enjoys archery (and benefit from) it, too. If this is porated not only into archers’ prac - more than they do. a new golden age for our sport, it is tices, but also into our coaching. I a time to make as much progress as address what the most beneficial we can. mental state we should cultivate archery focus www.archeryfocus.com contents NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 VOLUME 21 / NUMBER 6 page 6 The Games People Used to Play by Tom Dorigatti Tom Dorigatti reminisces about the indoor archery rounds and games that seem to have disappeared, much to our detriment. page 17 Making a Stabilizer Quick Disconnect by William Moltzan This article on Archery DIY shows you how, if you have metal skills, you can make a very nice quick disconnect for your stabilizers and side rods. 06 Must easier than threading ... and threading and threading them in. And it is way cheaper than buying them. page 21 Beating Buck Fever by Chris Waters Target panic has quite a few different forms, one is refered to as “buck fever.” There is help, you know, so if you are a bowhunter give this advice a read. page 24 Selecting Equipment for 17 New Recurve Archers by Bob Ryder And I quote “You may have been hired as the coach of a collegiate archery team and as such you may have assumed that you were taking over a team of experienced and well-equipped archers. I think it’s time for your wake-up call.” 23 2 Archery Focus archery focus www.archeryfocus.com toc, con’t page 28 Mental Training: Science or Just Gut Feelings? by Markus Wagner If you think there are a lot of techniques used to shoot a bow, there are probably just as many mental approaches. Did you think “one size fits all”? I didn’t think so. page 33 Mindfulness of Mindlessness? 25 by Steve Ruis Should your mind be empty when you are shooting (mindlessness) or full (mindfulness)? And if you chose “full” ... full of what? page 36 The Young Archer by Hugh D.H. Soar In the U.S. youths weren’t allowed into national championship events until the middle of the last century. Since archery has been around 60 to 70 thousand years or so, how did kids learn the skill? Our favorite archery historian shares what he knows (which is a lot!). page 41 38 Getting Serious: Is Their Bow Cover Photo is by Too Heavy? Andy Macdonald (Bhutanese by AER Staff Archery at the Tuggeranong As your students get more serious, you need to be sensitive to things Archery Club 2-26-2017) that will kill their form. You already know about having too much draw weight, but did you know that too much bow eight can be just as bad? page 45 Getting Serious: Is Your Bow Too The Official Magazine of Archery Heavy? Education Resources by AER Staff If your bow is just too darned heavy for you, it will impede your progress. But there is help; check it out. Archery Focus 3 Tom Dorigatti has been an avid archer and Markus Wagner started archery 40 years ago Hugh D.H. Soar is one of the world's leading Bowhunter for over 55 years. He has been when he was 7 years old. He says “Archery is specialists in the history of traditional archery, hunting with a bow and arrow since he was my sport which I never really stopped. Even particularly the design and usage of the Eng - 10 years old. Although bowhunting was his when I had some longer breaks I always came lish longbow. He began a successful shooting primary objective, target archery quickly took back to archery. In 1989 my father, some career over sixty years ago, gaining recogni - a front seat for the times when hunting season handicapped people and I founded an archery tion as a Main Grade Coach.