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Coaches Training Courses: Level 2, 2004 Dress Code for NAA Tournaments Directions: Parker Road RecCenter,Conyers Resources Achievement levels; score /distance: Adult ( Senior Training Program) Achievement levels;score/distance: AGE DIVISIONS Determining JOAD division/category to enter for competition Distance/Face Size specifics for Adult & Youth, indoor & outdoor Photos: |
A New GAA Championship Round The KAC will host a new GAA Championship competition this year. For the first time, the GAA will offer a FITA Field Championship to be held April 22, 2006 at the KAC outdoor field range. If you’ve never shot a FITA Field Round before, it’s different than shooting a target round. The targets are laid out in a walking course through the woods. The targets are at various distances, known and unknown, uphill and downhill. The target faces are different than the normal five color face we are used to shooting at too. There are different sizes depending on the distance to be shot at each target. For a full explanation of the round, go to the KAC Home page for a link, or, directly to the GAA web site at www.gaarchery.org where you can also find registration forms. We hope you will join us for some fun competition! Training Opportunity : Let’s Look at Your Shooting Form! Trying to analyze your own shooting form is like trying to kiss your own elbow. It’s impossible! It’s easy to recognize what someone else’s shooting faults are because you can get at the proper angle to see them. Not so, with your own form. As the Director for the newly created GAA program, The Georgia Archery Team, I recently invested in a software program called Dartfish. It’s designed for coaches who work one on one with athletes to improve form and execution in their sport. It is used extensively by golf pros that analyze swings and give immediate feedback to the athlete at the practice site. The coach can also e-mail the session’s video to the athlete to study at home. The software is pretty sophisticated. It can playback on varying speeds of slow motion and down to a frame by frame replay. It cam compare two, three or four actions at the same time and can even overlay one video on top of another to see differences in execution of the same motion. I’m still learning the ins and outs of everything it can do, but I am already impressed with its capabilities. I plan to use the software in the coaching efforts of the Georgia Archery Team. I’m sure it will prove useful in improving their skills. I also think it can help any archer who is interested in learning more about their form. Having said that, I would like to know if you have any interest in having your form analyzed using this technology. If so, I would like to schedule a session to do this at our outdoor range sometime in the near future. Please allow about 30 – 45 minutes per session. The cost for each session will be $20, with half going to the club. Evaluation Session sign-up : If you are interested, please contact me at KACArcher@aol.com so I can get a feel for how many people would like to do this. Shooting Tip The more I get into trying to coach archery, the more I believe this: “Archery is 90% mental and the other 10% is mental”. You know, I can teach someone how to shoot an arrow in less than an hour, but to have them shoot it in the same spot every time, I have to get inside their head and that can take forever if they don’t understand the mental aspect of the game. All of the great athletes have talent, no doubt. However, they all also do something that sets them apart from all the rest. They put in the work to perfect their mechanical form which almost everybody does and then they do that extra thing....its called visualization. Michael Jordan could see the ball swishing through the net before he made the shot, Tiger Woods can see the putt dropping in the hole before he makes the stroke, John Smoltz sees exactly where the ball will cross the outside corner over the plate before he even starts his windup motion. All the top athletes, whether they are professionals or amateurs use this process to take their game to its highest level. Ask any Olympian and they will tell you it’s the most important part of their performance. I especially noticed it in the recent Winter Games in Torino , Italy . The ice skaters were doing their routines in their head while waiting to go on. So were the snowboarders and skiers. They were programming their subconscious mind to take over their physical movements to allow them to relax and perform at their best. I recently had an archer who I have been working with suddenly make a mental breakthrough and shot an outstanding score in a tournament. The archer told me after the tournament, “All along you have been telling me to relax and let it happen, and today it did! I finally got it!” Seeing the light bulb go on was a rewarding experience for this coach. Try using visualization as another tool in your quiver to achieve higher scores. It will give you an edge on those archers who haven’t discovered this technique yet. One of the best sources to learn more about mental management of your game is the book by Lanny Bassham, “With Winning in Mind”. You should get a copy and read it until it becomes part of your training program. This stuff works! Good Shooting, Jim White KAC |
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