Note
Very important. Show up on time if you want to take part in this competition. Latecomers will have to spectate.
DUE TO RAIN ON BOTH THE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, THE ABOVE COMPETITION HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY, JULY 29TH.
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Showing posts with label Archery Competitions. Show all posts
The 2018 Seton Archery Competition
Note
Very important. Show up on time if you want to take part in this competition. Latecomers will have to spectate.
DUE TO RAIN ON BOTH THE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, THE ABOVE COMPETITION HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY, JULY 29TH.
The Rio 2016 Archery Venue
Coming this Summer 2016... The Rio Sambadrome, which will be the archery venue for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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| The Rio 2016 Archery Venue |
Jay Lyon winning Bronze at the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games
In the final round of the bronze medal round, Jason (Jay) Lyon scored a perfect 30 out of 30 at the Toronto 2015 Pan America Games. The archery competition was held at Varsity Stadium at the University of Toronto.
Universal Archery Ranking System
Lets say different archers - using different bows and shooting different distances - wanted to compare themselves statistically. How would they do it?
What you need is an Universal Archery Ranking System that compares archers based on how well they can shoot and the distance they are shooting.
The end result is this:
Joe B. Olympic Recurve - 23,550
Gary D. Compound Bow - 42,100
Sarah H. Traditional Recurve - 41,220
But how do you get that result?
Well it is actually pretty simply. You pick the longest distance you feel comfortable shooting at. So for example Joe picked 30 meters, Gary picked 50 meters, and Sarah picked 60 meters.
Then you shoot 100 arrows (10 rounds x 10 arrows or 20 rounds x 5 arrows, however you do it) at a FITA 122 cm target and record your score each time until you get a total score out of 1000.
Then you multiple the score you got by the distance you shot in meters.
Thus
Joe shot 785 out of 1000 at 30 meters. 785 x 30 = 23,550.
Gary shot 842 out of 1000 at 50 meters. 842 x 50 = 42,100.
Sarah shot 687 out of 1000 at 60 meters. 687 x 60 = 41,220.
Thus if you were really good at shooting longer distances you might try shooting at 100 meters, and if you scored 605 out of 1000 you would get a score of 60,500.
Anything above 50,000 and you could be shooting competitively. (Shooting 715 at 70 meters is a score of 50,050. Shooting 900 at 70 would garner a score of 63,000 - putting you in a class of top Olympic recurve shooters.)
The score is only valid if you shot it within the last 6 months. Shooting really well 2 or 3 years ago doesn't count.
The Universal Archery Ranking System rewards archers with higher scores the further distance they shoot. Thus even if they shoot a low score at the distance, they are still rewarded with a higher number if they managed to beat their overall score at a lesser distance. Your goal essentially is to beat your own best score at lesser distances, by pushing yourself to shoot further and more accurately.
And what do you do once you have your UARS? Meh, bragging rights. That is about it.
Arguably it is just an excuse to ask "Hey, whats your UARS?" because it sounds like "you arse".
In the end it is just numbers. The big trick is to remember which type of bow you are shooting with. Compound shooters will evidently have a much larger number if they are shooting at 50 yards or more and have good shooting form.
Note that this system differs from the World Archery Ranking system which awards points based on how many other "top archers" you compete against and uses a very convoluted point system wherein the more you compete and the more score, the higher your ranking is. This ignores the possibility that the best archers in the world either don't compete, or don't compete that often.
What you need is an Universal Archery Ranking System that compares archers based on how well they can shoot and the distance they are shooting.
The end result is this:
Joe B. Olympic Recurve - 23,550
Gary D. Compound Bow - 42,100
Sarah H. Traditional Recurve - 41,220
But how do you get that result?
Well it is actually pretty simply. You pick the longest distance you feel comfortable shooting at. So for example Joe picked 30 meters, Gary picked 50 meters, and Sarah picked 60 meters.
Then you shoot 100 arrows (10 rounds x 10 arrows or 20 rounds x 5 arrows, however you do it) at a FITA 122 cm target and record your score each time until you get a total score out of 1000.
Then you multiple the score you got by the distance you shot in meters.
Thus
Joe shot 785 out of 1000 at 30 meters. 785 x 30 = 23,550.
Gary shot 842 out of 1000 at 50 meters. 842 x 50 = 42,100.
Sarah shot 687 out of 1000 at 60 meters. 687 x 60 = 41,220.
Thus if you were really good at shooting longer distances you might try shooting at 100 meters, and if you scored 605 out of 1000 you would get a score of 60,500.
Anything above 50,000 and you could be shooting competitively. (Shooting 715 at 70 meters is a score of 50,050. Shooting 900 at 70 would garner a score of 63,000 - putting you in a class of top Olympic recurve shooters.)
The score is only valid if you shot it within the last 6 months. Shooting really well 2 or 3 years ago doesn't count.
The Universal Archery Ranking System rewards archers with higher scores the further distance they shoot. Thus even if they shoot a low score at the distance, they are still rewarded with a higher number if they managed to beat their overall score at a lesser distance. Your goal essentially is to beat your own best score at lesser distances, by pushing yourself to shoot further and more accurately.
And what do you do once you have your UARS? Meh, bragging rights. That is about it.
Arguably it is just an excuse to ask "Hey, whats your UARS?" because it sounds like "you arse".
In the end it is just numbers. The big trick is to remember which type of bow you are shooting with. Compound shooters will evidently have a much larger number if they are shooting at 50 yards or more and have good shooting form.
Note that this system differs from the World Archery Ranking system which awards points based on how many other "top archers" you compete against and uses a very convoluted point system wherein the more you compete and the more score, the higher your ranking is. This ignores the possibility that the best archers in the world either don't compete, or don't compete that often.
2015 Pan Am Archery Events to be held at Centennial Park in West Toronto
The Toronto Public Archery Range in contrast has no bathrooms, no electricity, and no parking facilities large enough to host all the necessary visitors.
And while you might ask "Why don't they just build all the necessary stuff?" the answer is budgetary constraints and time constraints.
It would take too long to put in electrical lines and build sewers under E. T. Seton Park (the location of the archery range). Let alone find the space to build a parking lot.
So you might think, wait, does this mean Toronto will have TWO archery ranges when the Pan Am Games are over?
Nope.
The archery targets will be ripped out of the new range. Possibly even thrown in the trash. Wasteful.
What would be nice is if they moved the Pan Am archery targets to the Toronto Public Archery Range - so that local archers can still benefit from equipment that would have otherwise been tossed out.
Learning to Win with Al Henderson
In 1976 the United States Olympic Archery Team coach was Al Henderson, who at the time was recognized as the world's most successful coach in the 1970s. He wrote a book that to this day is still available in many archery circles, Understanding Winning Archery.
I came back to this book just recently when going over some old photos with some new archers and ran across a section from the book. The article was very interesting at the time and the reason I know this is because I underlined the important sections.
The best part about this whole article was the comment, “Don’t let your concentration waiver during the shot.” It goes on to explain that 'learning to win' begins with good preparation, further to that is to not allow your concentration to leave the task at hand when at full
draw.
Finally, if the shot is not the way you wanted it, you need to accept it and try to do better next time. Once it is shot let it go, because you can’t change it and harping on it only will make you upset. Accepting the mistake is a positive move that allows you to maintain emotional control and the ability to move to the next shot in a confident manner.
When you think about it, you spend hours and hours shooting arrows for practice. Arrows in the bank, under the belt, whatever it is called. All this time is so you can train your body to do the job. The job is to shoot good arrows and know the feel. Once you have trained the body to feel the shot it becomes subconscious. Then you learn to let the subconscious mind take over and let the body shoot the arrows. How often have you heard a good archer say, “I was thinking to much.” As odd as this sounds it has it’s merits.
We often talk about concentration on the target, not averting you attention, keeping your eye on the target even after releasing the arrow, until you hear the arrow hit the target. So you ask why is this so important? The answer to this may be hard to completely understand or even believe, but here it is. When you aim your attention at the target and work on pulling through the clicker or squeezing the trigger, you are working in a subconscious stream of thought. The instant that you have something else cross your mind, like, you think about the travel in your release, or "I should let down..." or most commonly the command release or “let Go”, that is the instant that you should stop, let down and start again. That split second, although very short is just enough time for the form to fall apart because you have interfered with the subconscious stream. Now you will tell your coach that you are concentrating, but you may not even realize that your concentration is broken because it occurs during a movement segment of the shot.
So the next time you are at full draw and that tiny little voice in your head can be heard, if it changes direction even for a millisecond, the best thing I can tell you is to let down and start over. Don’t force the shot, you are not doing yourself any favors by continuing on that path because the results will not be your best.
FULL CONCENTRATION HOT TIP
Meditation practice - Stare at an object or point in space for a long time and see if you can lose track of your surroundings, lose track of time, ignore sounds around you. You probably do this all the time when watching TV or texting on your phone anyway, so the trick is to learn to use all your concentration even when just staring at a blank wall - or something equally boring. Learning to use all your concentration on a task is an important step on becoming a great archer.
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