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Arche ryFocus Volume 1, Number 1, 1997 $5.00 NOTE Prior to the Vol. 3, No. 3 issue all we inheirited were individual articles from the AFm website. With the help of a generous subscriber were were able to download those articles and convert them to our present file for - mat. This “Whole Issue” has been reconstituted from those files and so doesn’t look exactly like the current issues. Arche ryFocus Table of Contents Volume 1, Number 1, 1997 Note—Since we didn’t begin the rst issue in January, the Issue Numbers don’t correspond to the month of publication as they do in subsequent years. featured 5 Archery, The Internet, and You articles George Tekmitchov 6 Did You Know? Jennifer Furrow 8 Bow Tuning Made Easy Frank J. Pearson 9 Product Evaluation: Shaft Selector Plus Rick McKinney 16 Youth Archery Camps Marcia Wyman 26 Field Archery Today Wally Rueger 29 Kyudo Archery Jennifer Furrow 32 Bowhunting Education Bob Anderson 45 Who Shoots 3-D? Randy Chappell 49 Bows, Arrows, and the Mind Lisa Franseen 52 Olympic Training Sheri Rhodes techical 12 100 Purchasing Your First OlymrepiccuSrtyvle Bow Jennifer Furrow 20 200 Personal Training Programs Courtney Lane 52 300 Bow and Arrow Compatibility (missing) Don Rabska technical 19 100 The Importance of PropercAormropwoSuelnecd tion Dave Feil 31 200 Selecting a Riser Design to Meet Your Needs Bobby Ketcher 42 300 Aim Hard Robert Ragsdale news 2 Editorial: Focused on Archery Kris Facer 34 News 56 Product News EDITORIAL Focused on Archery Welcome to Archery Focus! I am proud to introduce you to a new educational, recreational archery publication for everyone. Archery Focus is your connection to all venues of archery; Olympic, 3-D, field, youth, bowhunting and much, much more. Archery Focus brings you, the archer, whether you’ve just picked up a bow for the first time or have shot more arrows than you can count, valuable information about the various types and forms of archery styles and equipment that is not always easy to find. In addition, Archery Focus shares many other helpful tips that can improve your shooting skills. At Archery Focus, we want to help you find your way through the maze of archery information so that you continue with your archery desire. There are many organizations out there that would love to see you get more involved in archery. We would too!! Archery is fun! Archery is for everyone!! And, archery can be very fulfilling if you know where to go and how to get involved with the style(s) that interests you. Archery is a year-round sport and one that many people, including myself, enjoy. I personally find pleasure in bowhunting. I believe that it does not matter what style you prefer as long as you are shooting a bow and arrow and having fun. I invite you to share the information and excitement you receive about archery with all your friends, family and archery club members. There are many fun opportunities and experiences under the archery umbrella and at Archery Focus we want you to share them with everyone. Let’s work together for total archery growth. Don’t forget to turn in the yearly subscription card if you haven’t already. In each bi-monthly issue, Archery Focus plans to bring the events, the styles, the forms and the images all together in one publication for easy access. You won’t want to miss an issue. I am very interested in hearing from you. How can Archery Focus help you and your friends pursue your archery desires? Please send me your comments to: Archery Focus Magazine, P.O. Box 271104, Salt Lake City, UT 84127-1104. At Archery Focus, we are “Focus”ed on your archery interests. Kris Facer Editor, Archery Focus Magazine SPECIAL FEATURE Archery, the Internet, and You by George Tekmitchov The Internet has long been a great source for hard-to-find information on various topics. Today, archers have literally thousands of information sources on their sport accessible with a few mouse clicks. It’s great to be able to download a picture of Justin Huish or get the IBO rules from your keyboard. But as we will see, there can be such a thing as too much information, and not all of the information available is accurate or timely. So let’s look at some ways to make the search a little easier. Archery on the Internet “lives” in two distinct areas - the World Wide Web (WWW) and the Usenet, also known as Newsgroups. While these are both part of the Internet they are vastly different in both content and presentation. Usenet, spam and you There are currently two archery related Usenet “discussion groups” on the Internet. Unlike IRC Chat or other real time chat channels on the internet, Usenet involves a participant leaving a message, often a question about something, then waiting for a few days as other readers add their input to the discussion. The two groups are in the alternative and recreational hierarchies, alt.archery and rec.sport.archery. Of the two, rec.sport.archery is the ‘official’ usenet group in the sense that it is available on many more services than the alt.archery group. The two groups largely duplicate each other, though, with rec.sport.archery items frequently cross posted to the alt.archery group and vice- versa. These groups are frequented by the full spectrum of the archery community from beginner to Olympic champions, and longbow to compound shooter. Because of this, there’s often some conflict and strong opinion expressed on these groups. Unfortunately both groups, especially alt.archery, are filled with “spam”, unsolicited advertising that has become the bane of the Net. Even worse, should you post to the groups your e-mail box is likely to become filled with “spam” within a few days. While some good information can often be found on the Usenet archery groups, they should be looked at as more entertainment than a way to get good information. The exception to this is in what is known as FAQ’s. These compilations of “Frequently Asked Questions” and answers are usually well put together and very informative for beginners. FAQ’s on subjects ranging from Kyudo to Olympic shooting appear about once a month on each group and are well worth looking at. Caught in the Web The World Wide Web’s greatest strength, and greatest weakness, is the sheer volume of available information out there. It’s easy to get lost in all that information, and hard to find specific things unless you know what you are looking for and how to look for it. That’s where search services come in handy. There is no “best” search service. For example, Alta Vista, run by Digital Equipment Corporation, is one of the most powerful search services, but input “archery” and you’ll get thousands of hits, too many to actually look at. Alta Vista becomes much more useful when you use a few tricks such as using a hyphen between key words to force the search to hit ONLY the words juxtaposed by the hyphen, e.g. Olympic-Archery will only return hits on Olympic Archery, while Olympic Archery separated by a space will return hits for Olympic and Archery separately. A highly recommended search service besides Alta Vista is Excite, which uses ‘fuzzy logic’ to find what you’re looking for. Just plug in a string of search terms, such as “Longbow Shooting in Africa” and this service will return hits along with a percent probability that the hit is what you are looking for. The key to using any search service is to learn how it works and how to frame inquiries to “separate the wheat from the chaff”. And there is LOTS of chaff out there. Fortunately, you are not limited to having to search on your own for good information on the Internet. Several archery related sites have compiled lists of good pages on archery, all connected with hyperlinks. One of my favorites is Sagittarius, run by the Sagittarius Archery Club in the Netherlands. This page contains loads of interesting information and lots of pointers to other places. Even better, the Sagittarius web site reviews these other places for content and interest level. The URL for the links page at Sagittarius is: http://snt.student.utwente.nl/~sagi/ Besides the club and individual web sites, major archery firms and organizations are getting “on the net”. Hoyt, PSE, Martin, Bear/Jennings and other manufacturers all have sites with lots of information about their products. The National Archery Association of the United States and the NFAA both have web sites, and FITA has plans for one in the future. The Internet can be a medium for archers around the world to get together and “see” what is going on, share tournament results, equipment opinions, technique, or just simply be social. With explosive growth, more and more people getting connected, and cheaper access, the Internet is here to stay, and more and more about archery will be on the Internet. But, as you surf, remember once in a while to pick up your bow, go outside, and shoot! SPECIAL FEATURE Did you Know?... by Jennifer Furrow ... the longbow only lasted as a weapon of war until 1610? The popular firearm was rising quickly so as to fade out the archery artillery. And what archer in those times didn’t want to try the newly popular weapons, have the desire to be in fashion, and going with the crowd is part of human nature.