Arch ery v21 n4 July 2017 $12 Tom Dorigatti The Launcher Blade Rest, Pt 2 William Moltzan Screaming Streaming Tournament Videos Bob Ryder Memo to Self: Keep an Archery Journal Randi Smith Help with Tournament Organization Charles Moffat Marketing Strategies for Archery Coaches Simon Needham/Steve Ruis Getting to 600: It Starts with Planning Arthur Halligey Archery in a Digital Age Hugh D.H. Soar A Contrast of Bows AER Staff Do Your Students Have Balance Problems? 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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The Watching Arrows Fly Coaching Library The Principles of Coaching Archery, Vols 1 & 2 (2015) Teaching Archery (2015) Still More on Coaching Archery (2014) Larry Wise on Coaching Archery (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 It may not interest you to know was expecting a 48-page issue. If the payment for your services.) And peo - what someone in my position 48 pages didn’t get filled, there would ple can’t use your services if they do encounters on the way to making be blank pages! On one occasion, I not know about them So, thanks, another issue of This Magazine . wrote two articles for the same issue Charles! but I am going to tell you any way. (out of desperation, I assure you). In addition, Coach Randi Smith We moved (once again) just a But now, I find that when I ask is back with help on how your tour - week or so ago and all went well, until people to write for you, the number of naments can be more inclusive of dis - I fired up my everyday computer and “yeses” has gone up substantially and abled archers. nada. I could not do this job with - for that I am grateful. Among our more frequent con - out having a backup computer and I tributors, Hugh Soar is back with a do. I am typing this on the “backup” In this issue, we have a veritable “A Contrast of Bows” to parallel his computer right now, so I am still cornucopia of articles for archers and “A Contrast of Arrows” in the last functional . but many of the files I coaches. (This is another issue in issue. Bob Ryder pitches in with a needed for this issue were stuck on which you are getting more than you piece on keeping an archery journal that other computer. (I had not trans - paid for . Claudia is going to kill and Tom Dorigatti continues his fered them to this computer yet.) me.) journey through the Forest of Arrow So, it was past time to “get under We recently have been empha - Rests. the hood” of the dead one, so to sizing a theme on the use of the And, Simon Needham and I speak. Since there was no boot up the Internet. Arthur Halligey, from the have reached the next to final stage in problem was physical (not software) U.K., chimes in with his take on how our “Getting To” series. This final and during a move, it is common that a coach can use the Internet as a stage (Getting to 600), nor the final something gets jarred lose. All it takes resource for his coaching. William stage (Getting to 650), is the end, of is a loose memory module and a Moltzan took a little time off from course, as elite archers are shooting computer starts morphing into a boat his Archery DIY projects (I have him much higher scores. We are trying to anchor. So, remove and reinstall, working on more!) to address his lat - point out how you or your students remove and reinstall, disconnect est passion: the increased availably of can get close enough to realize what it superfluous attachments, and voila! long form videos of archery competi - takes to get into the fray at the top. The computer started up . and then tions on the Internet. hung just before the operating system As additional support for you kicked in. Argh! To make a long story coaches, I got Charles Moffat of shorter, it took almost three days of Canada, to share some of his knowl - fiddling to get it back up and func - edge and experience on marketing a tioning. Editorial terror, indeed! coach’s services to the archery com - munity. (If you are still in the camp On the plus side, we have never had with those who think archery coach - so many, high-quality authors sub - es should work for free, consider that mitting so many articles. I actually the highest paid employee in major first wrote for AFm because we had U.S. colleges is usually . their foot - “holes” to fill. Back when we pro - ball coach. In our culture, if your skills duced a paper magazine, the printer are valued, it shows up in the form of archery focus www.archeryfocus.com contents JULY/AUGUST 2017 VOLUME 21 / NUMBER 4 page 6 The Launcher Blade Rest, Pt 2 by Tom Dorigatti Tom Dorigatti continues his series on launcher rests, showing that, as with much other compound equipment, we have come full circle, again. page 12 Screaming Streaming Tournament Videos by William Moltzan 06 There are many more options for viewing archery performance on the Internet now. Here is a guide. page 19 Memo to Self: Keep an Archery Journal by Bob Ryder What? Ask college students to write things down? It isn’t just good for them; take a lesson with our award-winning college coach. page 23 Help with Tournament Organization 12 by Randi Smith More and more archers who use adaptive equipment are shooting. More and more tournament organizers want to make their tourna - ments more accessible to adaptive and para-archers. Are you ready? page 25 Marketing Strategies for Archery Coaches by Charles Moffat Want more business? You will have to engage in marketing . just like any other business. Here’s help as to how to do just that. 19 2 Archery Focus archery focus www.archeryfocus.com toc, con’t page 29 Getting to 600: It Starts with Planning by Simon Needham and Steve Ruis As much as we would like it to be just about how to shoot better and better, there is much else involved in reaching this loftier scoring goal. Here’re some suggestions as to what to do for your archers. page 38 Archery in a Digital Age 40 by Arthur Halligey You got students learning stuff off of the Internet? Good! We think. page 40 A Contrast of Bows by Hugh D.H. Soar Our favorite archery antiquarian discusses the development of target archery bows, which involved no lack of innovative ideas and variations upon a theme. page 45 Do Your Students 45 Have Balance Problems? Cover Photo is by by AER Staff Esebene Do you check? Do you know what to do? Is balance all that impor - tant? Help is here! page 51 Exploring Balance by AER Staff The A key element of consistent accuracy in archery is being still at full Official Magazine of Archery draw. A key element of that involves balance. Let’s explore this. Education Resources Archery Focus 3 Tom Dorigatti has been an avid archer and Simon S. Needham whilst being born in Hugh D.H. Soar is one of the world's leading Bowhunter for over 55 years. He has been Scotland continuing to live in Scotland, Simon specialists in the history of traditional archery, hunting with a bow and arrow since he was has represented Great Britain in the Olympic particularly the design and usage of the Eng - 10 years old. Although bowhunting was his Games and is the author of the fabulous book lish longbow. He began a successful shooting primary objective, target archery quickly took The Art of Repetition and even better com - career over sixty years ago, gaining recogni - a front seat for the times when hunting season panion DVD Archery in Action . Then he tion as a Main Grade Coach. He is currently wasn’t open. Tom has been a member of the followed up on that with an even better book: Secretary to the Society of Archer Antiquaries National Field Archery Association for 45 The Competitive Archer . While being a and the author of a number of important books years and has actively participated in tourna - committed Olympic Recurve archer, he does on traditional archery.