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Tom Dorigatti the Single Sear Release Aid Revolution Bob Ryder More Advanced Tuning of Compound Bows Hugh D.H Arch ery v23 n1 January 2019 $12 Tom Dorigatti The Single Sear Release Aid Revolution Bob Ryder More Advanced Tuning of Compound Bows Hugh D.H. Soar On Arrow Construction William Moltzan Archery DIY: Making Your Own Strength Trainer Steve Ruis A Proposed Structure for the Mental Game of Archery Simon Needham/Steve Ruis Getting to 650: Conclusion AER Getting Serious: Is It Your Fault? New from Watching Arrows Fly! A New Book from Acclaimed Archery Historian Hugh D.H. Soar! The bow and arrow were invented at least 60,000 to 70,000 years ago and for 99% of that time children learned archery the same way they learned everything else: by doing. At first a child probably played at archery using a found bent stick. Later, they might have been given a purpose –built youth bow (short in length with a weak draw pull) made from basic materials or from a broken adult bow, cut down. Arrows were probably also “hand me downs” and if a child showed enough promise with the bow and arrow, they might be invited to join the hunter’s circle and begin the arduous task of working their way up from the least desirable tasks. More recently, though, children began receiving instruction in the way of the bow. Eminent archery historian Hugh Soar shares his vast knowledge of how youths were taught during this period, both then and now, starting in his native England, expanding to the rest of the U.K, then out to Europe and the U.S., and also including the Middle East, Africa, and the Far East. Archery coaches and archers who have an interest in youth archery or archery histo - ry will love this book. It is packed with history and is charming, too. Fully illustrated. pages • ISBN ---- • US $ . Available from Better Book Stores and Online Booksellers like Amazon.com editorial The Definition of Insanity The definition I am referring to in you get someone to subscribe (how ing. His books on Olympic the title of this editorial is the one to do this are in the ad on page Recurve archery ( The Art of that is often attributed to Albert 28). Repetition and The Competitve Einstein, namely “doing the same As always, we wish you a fab - Archer ) are gold mines of advice for thing over and over and expecting ulous new year, full of archery the Recurve set. I learned a great different results is a form of insan - pleasure and success! deal from reading them and rec - ity” This, of course, applies to ommend them to all of my archery (Big time!). It also applies After bragging about getting new Recurve students. to what I am doing. I do not know authors to share their ideas and William Moltzan hasn’t run how long I will continue to edit wisdom with you, we don’t have out of ideas for DIY projects, so he Archery Focus but at this point we any in this issue! I do have a num - is back with a strength trainer you are going year to year. At the end ber of new authors working on can make for yourself. Note if you of 2018, Claudia and I commited things but none of those are ready make archery gear for yourself or a to “one more year.” This provides a just yet. youth program, consider writing it little structure to our AF life in We are, however, always grate - up to share the wealth. We pay that we won’t wake up one morn - ful for our “regulars,” those authors authors! ing thinking “we do not want to do who provide wonderful ideas to And the wonderful Hugh Soar this any more” and not have a plan help coaches and archers “get bet - has another article on archery his - as to what to do. ter at what they do,” which is after tory for us. This one is on how Because of our “annual review all our primary mission. Tom arrows were made in the 18 th and and re-commitment” we realized Dorigatti is back on track with his 19 th centuries. The scores shot that as of Issue 23-3 (May-June personal history of compound-era then with such “ un matched” sets 2019) we will have been doing this equipment, this time he is writing of arrows is a testament to the for twenty years, which is a long about single sear release aids. Bob archers of those times. time to do anything. We are still Ryder is back with additional having fun working with authors compound bow tuning protocols Happy New Archery Year! and designing new issues and so for those of us who shoot with on and we still enjoy finding new “training wheeels” (Of which I am authors and encouraging the ones one, so please no cards and let - we have had for some time, but ters!). Simon Needham and I are there is a way you can encourage us wrapping up our series of “Getting to keep going! If you like AF and to …” articles which began three like what we are doing, please years ago. (Wow!) The whole pur - adopt the goal of finding one more pose of the series is to sketch out subscriber for this magazine. If a what was needed for archers to sizable number of you do that, it reach reasonably high plateaus of will have a positive impact on our performance. If you are inclined to ability to keep going. want more in that series, we will Not only that, your club or follow up on things that fell off our team can sign up (for free!) as an wagon along the way and I have Archery Focus Affiliate and make already started to work on Simon money for your group every time to make sure he keeps contribut - archery focus www.archeryfocus.com contents JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2019 VOLUME 23 / NUMBER 1 page 6 The Single Sear Release Aid Revolution by Tom Dorigatti A stepping stone between releases with no moving parts and today’s double sear amsterpieces, were single sear release aids. They didn’t know at the time that there was better technology just over the horizon, which is possibly why there were so many of the darned things--they thought this was the penultimate solution of how to release a bow string mechanically. page 16 06 More Advanced Tuning of Compound Bows by Bob Ryder Coach Ryder is sharing the second level fine tuning protocols he uses. He did recurves last issue, now it is time for compounds. page 20 On Arrow Construction by Hugh D.H. Soar How did the target arrows of the 18 th and 19 th centuries stack up? Well, if you have eneough samples, you can weigh them and check their spines 14 ... and our beloved archery historian just happens to have a few sets. page 24 Archery DIY: Make Your Own Strength Trainer by William Moltzan Necessity is indeed the mother of invention and as our DIY specialist found out when he was injuried recently, being able to make your own rehabiliation equipment is a real plus. 24 2 Archery Focus archery focus www.archeryfocus.com toc, con’t page 30 A Proposed Structure for the Mental Game of Archery by Steve Ruis Currently, if you want to learn about the mental game of archery there is hardly a place to start, let alone comprehensive treatments of all of the dif - ferent factors involved. Where to start, the author thinks, is by having a structure to help organize the information so future archers and coaches can find materials to aid their investigations and even add to them. 30 page 31 Getting to 650: Conclusion by Simon Needham and Steve Ruis It has been three years since this series began and this is the conclud - ing installment. While a lot more could be said, the goal for this series has been met and the authors sincerely hope you benefitted from the articles. page 39 Getting Serious: Helping Them to Develop Their Skills by AER Staff Technique is one thing, but archery skill is much more valuable. Here’s some suggestions as to how to help your student-archers get out of a 30 technique rut and into developing the skills needed to score well. Cover Photo is by page 43 chasdesign Getting Serious: Is It Your Fault? by AER Staff Figuring out “what went wrong?” is really important because if you are wrong about the source of the problem, you are literally barking up the wrong tree. Trying to solve an equipment problem by changing your The form only makes things worse, so how do you learn to tell what is what? Read on! Official Magazine of Archery Education Resources Archery Focus 3 Contributors Tom Dorigatti has been an avid archer and Steve Ruis is an avid archer and coach and Hugh D.H Soar is one of the world's leading Bowhunter for over 55 years. He has been Editor of This Magazine and author of a specialists in the history of traditional archery, hunting with a bow and arrow since he was number of archery books, especially on coaching particularly the design and usage of the Eng - 10 years old. Although bowhunting was his archery (Coaching Archery, More on Coaching lish longbow. He began a successful shooting primary objective, target archery quickly took Archery, Even More on Coaching Archery, career over sixty years ago, gaining recogni - a front seat for the times when hunting season Still More on Coaching Archery, The tion as a Main Grade Coach.
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