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Arch eryFoc us v18 n2 March 2014 $12 Tom Dorigatti How to Teach the Transfer Form Step Aaron Kiely Comparing Scores on 60cm and 40cm Targets Van Webster On-Line and Social Media Strategies for Archery Clubs Ray King Using a Hinge Release to Learn Proper Recurve Form Jim Ploen An Open Discussion on Tiller Bob Ryder Aiming to Win Steve Ruis Getting from “Here” to “There” Michele Hansen Archery Coaching How To’s: A Book Review AER Staff Hey, Coach: ‘What’s In It for You?” Announcing The WAF Coaching Library! LARRY WISE ON COACHING ARCHERY Larry Wise , one of the premier archery coaches in the United States, is sharing his coaching wisdom, espe - cially for coaches of compound-release archers but also bowhunters. So, if you coach or want to “self coach” yourself, there is now a new addition to the coaching literature just for you. The Watching Arrows Fly Coaching Library is a effort to supply archery coaches with a literature not just on the shooting of arrows out of bows but on how to coach people to do that better. The Watching Arrows Fly Coaching Library Larry Wise on Coaching Archery (Jan 2014) Archery Coaching How To’s (2013) Even More on Coaching Archery (2013) More on Coaching Archery (2010) Coaching Archery (2008) Available from Better Book Stores and Online Booksellers like Amazon.com editorial Archery and the Multiplier Effect It is unusual for us to have the want help with, email me ( steve you might remember the television wealth of material we have for this @archeryfocus.com ) and we’ll find commercials “When E.F. Hutton issue. Which is why I got sick somebody to write about it. Your speaks . people listen!” When- courtesy of some kind donor at my other magazines don’t offer such ever Jim has anything to say about state indoor championships and good service, now do they? archery I listen. I think you will ended up behind schedule to get benefit, too. The man not only was this issue out anyway. Argh! The We have three (count ‘em) three a great bow designer but he is still archery gods are not kind . but brand new authors this issue . shooting and setting records at 80- then I think you knew that. well, new to AFm in any case and some odd years of age. Some of you may have noticed they all are good at what they do. Van Webster, of the Pasadena that more and more of our articles Michéle Hansen has con - Roving Archers, continues to offer are about coaching and that is so. tributed a book review of Archery great recommendations regarding We think that archers can benefit Coaching How To’s to help you running an archery club. This time from reading such articles, but the coaches decide whether that is a he is addressing how to use online key thing is what economists call good purchase. Ray King shows us tools to market to non-members as “the multiplier effect.” If an article how he uses triggerless release aids well as to provide information to is read by one archer and convinces and shot simulators to help young members. Bob Ryder, our college that archer to try something differ - recurve archers learn proper form. archery guru has an article on aim - ent that improves their game, there And Aaron Kiely shows you how ing that I learned a thing or two is a 1:1 ratio between readers and you can “translate” scores on a from (and I had just convinced improved archery results. If a 40cm FITA target to those on a myself I knew it all!). I chip in with coach reads an article and is con - 60cm FITA target and vice-versa an article about missing structures vinced of a better way to go and (Warning! There is some math in coaching, namely that all our then teaches that to two, five, ten, involved!) coaching training programs do a or a hundred student-archers, then In addition Tom Dorigatti great job of describing where we the effect of that article is multi - takes a break from his reminis - want to take archers but a miser - plied (2X, 5X, 10X, etc.). We get cences of the history of the com - able job in helping us figure out more bang for our buck in our mis - pound bow to share an exercise in how to get them there. And the sion to help archers and coaches which he uses recurve bows to help AER folks have contributed a get better. compound archers learn proper piece for their coaches on figuring We have not abandoned you form. (Between Tom and Ray, we our their own motivations for archers. Bob Ryder’s aiming article have a pair of coaches unafraid to being a coach. (If you don’t think is proof of that, but we have in our step over the lines separating our that is important, think again.) archives a great many articles on disciplines, to our betterment I almost every phase of shooting you think.) might want to read about. This is And to top it all off we have not equally so for coaching. We are another contribution from the playing a bit of “catch up” on the amazing Mr. Jim Ploen. I think of coaching side of the ledger. In any Jim as the “E.F. Hutton of case, if there is some topic you Archery.” If you are old enough archery focus www.archeryfocus.com contents MARCH/APRIL 2014 VOLUME 18 / NUMBER 2 page 6 How to Teach the Transfer Form Step to Compound-Release Archers by Tom Dorigatti Everybody tells you that you have to “use your back” or “get into your back” but they don’t tell you how to do that. Here’s a way. page 19 On-Line and Social Media 16 Strategies for Archery Clubs by Van Webster If you were wondering why we sought out Van Webster to provide help and direction to archery clubs, wonder no more. Here’s excellent guidance for getting your club noticed and up to full enrollment. page 25 Getting from “Here” to “There:” We Need Better Pathways . Now! by Steve Ruis Coach training courses teach us what an elite recurve or compound archer should be doing, in other words, the course describes the place or the “there” 32 to which we were to guide our students. Unfortunately the pathways taking students from where they are (“here”) to where we want them to be (“there”) have not yet been described. They are needed. page 29 An Open Discussion on Tiller by Jim Ploen A long-time archer and bow designer chips in on the discussion about recurve bow tiller. 35 2 Archery Focus archery focus www.archeryfocus.com toc, con’t page 32 Archery Coaching How To’s: A Book Review by Michele Hansen Do you need this book? Maybe this review will help you decide. page 35 Using a Hinge Release to Learn Proper Recurve Form 38 by Ray King First using recurve bows to learn compound form and now using releases to learn recurve form. Will wonders never cease? page 38 Comparing Scores on 60cm and 40cm Targets It would take a rocket scientist to figure out how to translate such scores . so we went out and got one! page 42 Aiming to Win 42 by Bob Ryder Our resident college archery guru is going to teach you a few things about aiming you might not already know. page 46 Hey, Coach . .“What’s In It for You?” by AER Staff If you aren’t sure why you are coaching, maybe it is time you gave The it some thought. Official Magazine of Archery Education Resources Cover Photo ©Razvan Archery Focus 3 Contributors Bob Ryder is a four time National Collegiate Tom Dorigatti has been shooting archery Van Webster is a USA Archery NTS Level 4 Archery Coach of the Year, an NAA Level III since he was 10 years old. He has been Coach, and a Level 3 Coach Leader and Direc - Coach, a past U.S. Intercollegiate All-Ameri - bowhunting and in competitive archery for 40 tor of Instruction at Pasadena Roving Archers. can and National Champion, past member of years. During his archery career, Tom has shot Van also served as Vice-president of PRA for the U.S. Archery Team, National Judge, Tour - arrows in no fewer than 38 of the contiguous eight years. He coordinates the activities of nament Director for over 25 National Archery United States plus Alaska, Hawaii, the Azores, more than 35 certified Instructors and Coaches Championships, including National Indoor, and Guam. He has won numerous local and at PRA who run an archery instruction and Target, and Field Championships, past Vice- state tournament titles and has placed as high coaching program that serves over 10,000 President and member of the NAA Board of as second overall in three different sections of the archers a year. Van has written articles for Governors, past Chairman and Executive NFAA. Tom prefers to shoot in the Unlimited Archery Focus magazine when it was a print Committee Member of the College Division of Division, but has recently been learning to publication and is now pleased to contribute to the NAA (USCA) and member of the James shoot a recurve bow FITA style. the online version of the publication. In addi - Madison University Athletic Hall of Fame. tion to archery work, Van is president of Web - He is currently Head Coach of the James ster Communications, a creative services com - Madison University Archery Team which has pany and is co-director of the Wandering produced 42 All-Americans, 16 National Around Outdoors Landscape Art Photographic Champions, 23 National Team Titles and 14 workshops.