® April/May 2021 Casey Kaufhold & Mackenzie Brown: Aiming at the Top Youth Bow Setup Consistent Bow Hands Online Coaching Bearʼs Recurve Side Product Showcase Compound Bow Reports Apr-May21AW001.indd 1 4/6/21 1:15 PM USA Archery is proud to present a new educational video series: TUNE WITH THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THETHETHE PROSPROSPROS RECURVE AND COMPOUND BOW TUNING Step into our pro shop with iconic archery legends as they take you through every single step of their processes to set up a bow, brand new out of the box, to tuning for tens on the tournament trail. WITH JESSE BROADWATER WATCH THE TRAILER AND BRADY ELLISON 2 Archery World - February/March 2021 - Subscribe free at ArcheryWorldMagazine.com LEARN MORE AT USARCHERY.ORG Apr-May21AW002-005.indd 2 4/8/21 11:24 AM USA Archery is proud to present a new educational video series: TUNE WITH THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THETHETHE PROSPROSPROS RECURVE AND COMPOUND BOW TUNING Step into our pro shop with iconic archery legends as they take you through every single step of their processes to set up a bow, brand new out of the box, to tuning for tens on the tournament trail. WITH JESSE BROADWATER WATCH THE TRAILER AND BRADY ELLISON LEARN MORE AT USARCHERY.ORG 3 Apr-May21AW002-005.indd 3 4/8/21 11:25 AM IN THIS ISSUE 26 TOM CLUM ON ONLINE COACHING The restrictions surrounding the pandemic have led to more archers seek- ing online coaching. Level IV Coach Tom Clum o ers advice on how to nd a dis- tance-learning coach and a program that makes sense for you. The image at right is from the Coach’s 6 Eye app that he uses CASEY KAUFHOLD, MACKENZIE BROWN with students that SHINE AS OLYMPIC HOPEFULS cannot meet with him in one of his popular archery Twenty-six-year-old Mackenzie Brown and her clinics or at his Denver-area pro shop, Rocky Mountain teenage friend and rival, Casey Kaufhold, share what Specialty Gear. it’s like to train and compete with some of the world’s best recurve archers. That’s Brown, above, shooting in 31 the 2020 Olympic Trials. By Rachel Givens. ACHIEVING REPEATABILITY WITHOUT CONTROL WITH OUR HANDS Until it becomes second nature with carefully guided practice, holding a bow and launching an arrow with consistency and accuracy goes against the way we use our hands the rest of the time we are awake. 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LLC, 508 4th Street SW, Rochester, MN 55006. 5 Apr-May21AW002-005.indd 5 4/8/21 11:26 AM By Rachel Givens Kaufhold, Brown Shine as Female Olympic Hopefuls The Olympic Games are seen as the pinnacle of lives of these two Olympic hopefuls, we sat down with sporting events; to compete in those Games means both Kaufhold and Brown to talk about the games, the you have truly achieved success within your sport. In regimen required for preparation and their lives outside the world of archery, you may have heard the name of of the quest for gold. Olympian Mackenzie Brown, who has advanced swiftly Kaufhold was born on March 6, 2004; the 2017 at a comparatively young age. Even younger up-and- World Archery Youth Championships were her break- comer Casey Kaufhold is now trying for a spot on the out tournament, followed by the 2019 World Archery 2021 team. Brown and Kaufhold are well-acquainted Championships in the Netherlands and the 2019 Pan through the competition circuit and are renowned as American Games in Lima, Peru. At Peru, she shot the two of the most accomplished archers for their age and women’s individual recurve event, which is where her gender demographic. To give you a glimpse into the specialty lies, and earned bronze. She then went on to Kaufhold is all smiles at the 2019 World Archery Championships U.S. Team Trials. 6 Archery World - April/May 2021 - Subscribe free at ArcheryWorldMagazine.com Apr-May21AW006-017.indd 6 4/8/21 11:31 AM the 2019 World Archery Championships in ‘s-Hertogen- 2019 Archery World Cup Stage 1 in Medellin, she took bosch, Netherlands, where she and Team USA nished silver for mixed-team shooting. Kaufhold also holds the 17th in the women’s team recurve event. Later, at the junior world record for the 72-arrow, 70-meter ranking round: 675 out of 720. Brown is currently aged 26, having competed for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Archery Team when she was 16. She currently holds two medals from the Pan American Championships and has experience with the National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) as well as USA Archery’s Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD) Program. Kaufhold rst began shooting traditional archery recreationally at age 3. She was 8 when she rst began shooting competitively. Archery was strong in her family; her grandfather was an avid bowhunter. Kaufhold’s father Rob took up the sport and became so passionate about it that he grew an entire business around Brown representing Team USA at WAC 2017. archery: what we know as Lancaster Archery, the distributor and retailer Brown warming up at the 2020 SoCal Showdown. 7 Apr-May21AW006-017.indd 7 4/8/21 11:32 AM based in Pennsylvania. This is one reason Casey Kaufhold it, but she was involved with Lancaster’s JOAD program and her brother began shooting at such a young age. since age 8. Brown began shooting when she was 10 years old, Brown also moved into JOAD, shortly after NASP. having become involved with NASP through a fth- Scoring high at a state tournament and JOAD’s involve- grade P.E. class. She was the rst person in her family to ment in educating the teachers at her school for the shoot competitively; some of her cousins bowhunted NASP program contributed to this change. but not regularly. When Brown was introduced to Both Brown and Kaufhold have chosen recurve archery at school, she was on the swim team, hop- over compound because of their Olympic dreams; the ing for Olympic honors in that sport. Finding out that Olympics are recurve-only unless you are in the para archery was also an Olympic sport, and one that was a division. Brown, however, does dabble in compound much better t for her, she switched disciplines. shooting every now and again, having gone bowhunt- As for Kaufhold’s other extracurriculars, she partici- ing for the rst time this past season and found it enjoy- pated in competitive gymnastics for seven years. After able. She stated that she “could potentially have some an accident resulted in a broken kneecap, Kaufhold had compound success in the future.” to put gymnastics on hold. During her recovery time, Kaufhold also bowhunts with a compound and is she devoted more of her energy to archery, eventu- used to the discipline from 3D shooting when she was ally transitioning to the competition circuit. Soon her younger. archery prowess became greater than her gymnastics Brown’s success was facilitated by the coaches she skills and she devoted herself to the sport.