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He was Australian Compound Champion in 1999, Oceania Regional Champion in 1996, and World Indoor Masters Champion and World Record holder in 2002. He has competed in three World Field Archery Championships. Back In Print! In a New Edition! Available from Amazon.com and Other Online Sources! editorial A Little of This, A Little of That We just got news that Randi slouch as an archer, either. He is to me along the way. Smith’s husband and partner, Larry even know to dabble in the dark If you liked last issue’s cover, Smith, has died. In the past I have side of archery by playing with Al Wills is back with an article on criticized our sport for not treating compound bows a bit, too. (Before that “toy bow” and how it can keep the pillars of archery well. By all you start flaming me online, please a youngin’s interest up in the sport. accounts Larry had a huge impact on be aware that I came up as a com - (The guy who invented that thing Utah archery, but I don’t know his pound archer and still think of is the inventor of the Nerf Bow if whole story (I only met him one myself as one. So, all of you your memories go back that far.) time), so I will stop there, maybe it is Recurve addicts can consider me Mike Gerard has an article time for us to print retrospectives. to be the Dark Lord.) about how he uses drills to keep Seriously, I learned recurve sharp and stay ready as well as Outdoor season is on our doorstep archery because of student learn new stuff. I chime in with an (here in the north) and it looks like demand. After a fair amount of article about dealling with one’s we will have ranges to shoot at this getting coached, and a prodigious mind wandering while one is summer. Whether we will be able to amount of reading, I am still a shooting. And the AER folks have shoot indoors in the fall and winter is mediocre recurve archer. (I can two articles on trying out new yet to be determined. I personally talk a good game but will not be gear, now that they are addressing can’t wait. betting on the outcome if we com - working with serious students To help you get geared up we pete against one another.) (they covered the topic working start a two-parter on getting an Tom Dorigatti is continuing with beginners earlier). intermediate recurve archer’s bow his personal history of everything I do hope you get out in the set up and a start on it getting compound, now he is addressing sunshine and shoot! tuned. Long time readers know “scopes,” that is telescopic sight that we have written on this topic apertures. If you were wondering more than once, but we continue why he is making all that effort, do to do so for a number of reasons. realize I looked for many years to One is that many of us have differ - find an author to take on that task ent takes on how to do these tasks and, finally I imposed upon our and we can learn from each of friendship ( aka twisted his arm) to them. Another is that you cannot do this. I am afraid that much of go wrong by reviewing the basics. what we “know” about archery One of our goals is to provide equipment ends up in landfills as content for all levels of archery and people like Tom and I die and in addition to setting up a bow for don’t pass on all of our knowledge. an intermediate archer, we have I have aready started preparing Simon Needham writing about for my demise by giving away how he selects arrows. Simon is an much of the archery equipment I equipment-centric coach (or so he have colected over the years and is described by others) and he is a am trying to get into print any former Olympian, so he was no archery wisdom I have had passed Archery Focus 1 archery focus www.archeryfocus.com contents MAY-JUNE 2021 VOLUME 25 / NUMBER 3 page 6 The Quest to See More Clearly, Pt 2 by Tom Dorigatti Tom Dorigatti continues his personal history of compound bows; he has gotten up to apertures (pins, prisms, and scopes). page 13 Basic Recurve Set-up/Tuning, Pt 1 by Arthur Halligey We go over the basics time after time because many of you have different 06 approaches and we can learn from each of them. It is true here, too. page 21 Arrow Selection and Tuning, A Personal Example by Simon Needham How elite archers go about this differs from how others do, so we present all sides of the same issue. page 26 Having Fun in Archery —A Review 13 by Al Wills How to keep/get a youth engaged in our sport has been complicated by the current pandemic. Here is part of a solution, with a way to shoot in one’s back yard, safely. page 27 Using Drills to Raise the Bar by Mike Gerard Our polymath author (he has won significant tournaments with both recurve and compoound bows and is an accomplished coach, too) shows how he uses drills to stay fresh, get prepared, and learn. 21 2 Archery Focus archery focus www.archeryfocus.com toc, con’t page 32 An Archer’s Wandering Mind by Steve Ruis Does your mind wander during practice, even competitions? How about your students’ minds? There is a reason why our minds do this; here is how to cope. page 38 Getting Serious: Trying Out New Gear (Successfully) 26 by AER Staff Is there a way to manage your equipment changes so that they result in improved scores and not just empty wallets? (Hint: Yes!) page 41 Getting Serious: Helping Them Plan (And Survive) Equipment Changes by AER Staff The AER folks have written about the basics of this topic before, now they dive deeper. 27 Cover Photo is by noblige (Estonia) The Official Magazine of Archery Education Resources Archery Focus 3 Contributors Tom Dorigatti has been an avid archer and Mike Gerard began competing in archery in Al Wills states: “I started shooting in 1971 Bowhunter for over 55 years. He has been 1971 when he was 11 years old. After a couple with my wife Mary. Fell in love with releases hunting with a bow and arrow since he was 10 of long hard years of being dead last in the club in 1973. One of the first people to shoot a com - years old. Although bowhunting was his pri - he belonged to, he decided to start learning pound in Canada. Shot my first Canadian mary objective, target archery quickly took a how to do things.