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| 8/16/2016: The TOTS 2016 Summary has been posted. Information and a summary LINK TO THE CUMULATIVE TOTAL Page and review of the season by John Magera | |||||||||||||||||
| 8/8/2016: The TOTS Cumulatives have been updated, and provided by Shawn Harrigan. His message to ALL TOTS archers & parents: “The TOTS Champions by division will be determined by the sum of the two highest scores shot this season along with, the doubling of the score from the TOTS Championship. We have a lot of close divisions which makes it important to keep up the practice schedule. Also, should an archer see a discrepancy in a score, please let us know . Also, those names with a gold background and an asterisk* are those that qualify for participation in the Championship event. LINK TO THE CHAMPIONSHIPS AND SEASON TOTAL Page. | |||||||||||||||||
8/7/2016: I've finished the archival process for more than 50,000 photograph images and movie clips of archers which I have taken since 1999 and posted as photo albums in the Photograph page index. The site actually had more than 150,000 jpg images at its greatest size. I am happy to report that there are at least three Archival Archery members are busy with the creation of a website to replace this one, and work is moving forward apace. Looking forward to Archival Archery 2.0 soon! Archived: |
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| 8/2/2-16: Notice for Training Ops: From Level IV-NTS Coach Trainer Holly Avendano:
Due to low registration, the August 13-14th Level 2 Certification course, hosted at the A Archery Academy, is cancelled.
There is a course tentatively planned for December 17-18th that is currently open for registration. There is also a reschedule for the tentative Level 3 NTS course to January 6-8, 2017. (A new tournament schedule has been released showing conflicts with the previously chosen date.)
Here is the link to the online registration form. |
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| 7/28/2016: Just clicked SEND for the latest newsletter, and then (of course) noticed I omitted the world "Paralympics" from the sentence dealing with Rio dropping TV coverage. NOT THE OLYMPICS, which will receive full TV coverage, I think. It's the Paras being given the short sheets on the bed. "Rio has just announced they will be dropping a number of sports from live TV coverage <FOR THE PARALYMPICS>, including archery, due to budget constraints.". | |||||||||||||||||
| 7/25/2016: Tiny Targets! Scot Heath, originator of the PowerPoint macro I first posted in 2005 called, "Tiny Targets" has sent me a new version, which accomodates the changes in PowerPoint screen appearance. What is a "Tiny Target", you ask? | |||||||||||||||||
| 7/23/2016: The AA's website will be renovated into a "2.0" version in the near future, under a project being conducted by Michael Hojnacki and Alex Meyers. Stay tuned! | |||||||||||||||||
| 7/20/2016: Pointing out there are TWO choices for a TOTS near to you, on August 6th! Both La Vernia and Victoria will have a TOTS event that day! Registration is now open for both! | |||||||||||||||||
| 7/7/2016: JUST DISCOVERED there will be another TOTS event. Please add TOTS tournament on August 6th, 2016 to calendar. The tourney will be in La Vernia, A. Registration is now open . practice at 9:00 a.m. and shooting starts at 10:00 a.m. Hosted by Bear Country Archery JOAD | |||||||||||||||||
| 6/27/2016: The results have been updated for the TOTS 2016 - thanks to Shawn Harrigan for all the work put in coordinating this season's scores! | |||||||||||||||||
| 6/23/2016: Results from the 2016 State Target Combined JOAD and Senior Championship have been posted. 101 scores were turned in for this combined JOAD and Adult Target event, which is perfectly in line with the combined totals of participation for the JOAD and Adult events over the last five years: 104, 113, 135, 120, and 106. By all accounts this event was well-run, had great volunteer involvement, and very favorable reviews from all the participants. | |||||||||||||||||
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| 6/15/2016: By the way. Archery is a sport that has been established to have started more than 60,007 years ago. That puts it right at the same time as many places, they were just beginning to throw sharpened long sticks by hand. No Atlatls. Chipped flint arrowheads, more than 60,000 years ago. Aside from running for your life, that makes archery one of the two or three OLDEST OLYMPIC ENDEAVORS. Of course, back then, it put food on the fire spit and cut down on getting trampled by wild animals. But still, 60K years is a pretty neat thing (another source) and when you behold today's compound and Olympic Recurve bow rigs, you have to admit, we've come a LONNNGGGGG way, archer. | |||||||||||||||||
6/15/2016: The registration has closed for the Archival Archery Combined State Target Championship, at 114 archers! A RECORD by nearly 20 archers! To support our growth, the board of the Archival Archery has acquired an additional 26 new American Whitetail 8" by 52" bales for the event, which were delivered to Palestine today, in time for the event! |
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| 6/7/2016: The Tejas Bowmen Archery Club in Corpus Christi has announced they will host a TOTS EVENT, in July! Plans are being firmed up for July 30 & 31, at this location. Want to combine some archery with some beach time? Padre Island National Seashore and Port Aransas are both less than an hour away! Please stay tuned to the TOTS INFO PAGE! | |||||||||||||||||
| 5/28/2016: 2016, the year the rains just would not stop. I announce with reluctance the need for the postponement of a TOTS event: May 28, the Woodlands. With more than 7 inches of rain in the recent days this area of A just is not a good place to shoot archery. People are too busy fighting for too many things right now. OUr thoughts are with all the families in the region. ENOUGH RAIN! | |||||||||||||||||
| 5/22/2016: The TWO Collegiate Archery Championships have both concluded. The USA Archery has pulled ahead in numbers of attendees (over 300) and numbers of schools (more than 40), with the "National Outdoor Collegiate Championship" aka NOCC. It is a very good thing they are restoring support (albeit slowly) to the collegiate archery program. The organization that stepped up when American Archers wasn't funding Collegiate archery at a level that some felt was adequate, US Collegiate Archery, has retained the abbreviation "USIAC" (United States Intercollegiate Archery Championship), and had about a third of the archers, and far fewer schools in attendance. REGARDLESS of which camp you favor, congratulations are in order to ALL the collegians flinging arrows and gathering together. That's more than FOUR hundred college students, often on a frayed shoestring budget and self-funded in travel AND hotel, which is certainly a HUGE number of archers to consider. And perhaps 50 different schools represented? Supporting them is a very important opportunity for both businesses and organizations. I would like to also congratulate the Aggies - A A&M - for their 18th National Championship taken at the NOCC. A&M has a superb program of support for a very wide range of student athletic endeavors, with archery really bringing the trophies home year after year. | |||||||||||||||||
| 5/18/2016: TSAJI - The Archival Archery has an initiative to promote "Archery For All". Few sports are able encourage ALL to participate by adjusting the way the sport is performed. Archery can and SHOULD be that sport. It is a work in progress, but literally anyone that wants to play can, in A. Read our position paper on the A Special Archery JOAD Initiative. (TSAJI) | |||||||||||||||||
| 5/10/2016: Mickey Estep, Level III-NTS coach, is hold a USA ARCHERY LEVEL I AND LEVEL II INSTRUCTION CERTIFICATION course, June 25 and 26, 2016 in Midland, A | |||||||||||||||||
| 5/6/2016: The deluge that hit Houston has forced the cancellation of several TOTS events, including the May 21st event. Stay tuned, we hope to have more events scheduled for other venues that do not require the archer to tread water to shoot. TOTS 2016 Info Page | |||||||||||||||||
| 5/2/2016: I just realized I did not put up a link to the few photos from the precipitation-laden State Field I manage to take. HERE IS THE LINK TO THE STATE FIELD PHOTOGRAPHS. | |||||||||||||||||
| 5/2/2016: The registration for the State Target event has been opened on Archery Event. Information starts on this page. | |||||||||||||||||
| 4/27/2016: Records have been flagged for the State Field Event. | |||||||||||||||||
| 4/21/2016: Here is the TOTS primary information page for 2016. JOAD and 4-H and Club leaders/parents: TOTS is a way for clubs to MAKE MONEY for bales, targets, bows, etc.! The majority of each shooting fee stays in the club! TOTS EVENTS ARE EASY TO DO! Contact John Magera about hosting a TOTS because the Archival Archery will HELP! These are the cumulative results. | |||||||||||||||||
| 4/21/2016: There is a tournament scheduled for June 11 & 12, in north Dallas, by the North Dallas JOAD. The Archival Archery is very happy to congratulate coach Kamilar and all the folks in the JOAD for putting on this event. Here is the flyer for it. Remember that the Archival Archery State Target is one week later, so their event serves as a great warmup prep for the Archival Archery Target Championship in Palestine on June 18 & 19 !! | |||||||||||||||||
| 4/21/2016: The TOTS event scheduled for the Buffalo Bayou on May 5th is postponed, due to the historic flooding Houston is experiencing. The field will NOT be seeing sky before then. Stay tuned. If you signed up already, Shawn has sent you an email about this, and would appreciate your emailing him back so he knows that you are informed. All other TOTS are ongoing, and we are hoping for venues in San Antonio and other parts of the state. Contact John Magera if you are interested in making some money for your club as well as helping kids get some quality arrow air time! | |||||||||||||||||
| 4/18/2016: Our friends in Louisiana are getting more active in the archery organization - seems it's getting more popular there, as it is here in A! ON MAY 7, 2016, Caddo archers is holding a USAA-sanctioned shoot in conjunction with a city celebration! This is being held in OIL CITY, Louisiana, and I'm linking to a flyer with more information. Emite Rose is the Level III-NTS Coach who wrote to let me know about this, and I hope many Texans cross the Red River for some fun shooting and great Louisiana hospitality and festivities. |
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| 4/16/2016: The first day of the Archival Archery State Field Championship has been completed, and the results are listed here. | |||||||||||||||||
| 3/26/2016: Got a nice email from a collegiate archery coach:
We sponsor Women’s Archery as a Varsity Sport (with athletic scholarships) and are a USCA Archery member, saw your list and thought I might see about getting added. Thank you. Rusty Kennedy, Athletic Director |
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| 3/22/2016: What will I shoot during the State Field Tournament? I've adapted a matrix created by Rick Stonebraker, and you can view it here. | |||||||||||||||||
| 3/20/2016: Target stand for FITA-Style field target has been designed in great detail for use in field events. Very robust, protects from rain and lasts for many years, by Dan Zinn. | |||||||||||||||||
TOTS REGISTRATIONS ARE OPENThe TOTS events are shapping up to be super (see below) and the registration is at this location. |
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| 2/23/2016:: Level 2 courses offered by Level IV-NTS Coaches in DFW and Houston areas! See our Training Ops Page! | |||||||||||||||||
2/14/2016: The STATE FIELD CHAMPIONSHIP will be April 16 & 17, 2016, at the same location as last year, Emma Long Park in Austin, at the Austin Archery Club. Mark your calendars, set your phone reminders. It will be nice and cool, and the flowers should be in full bloom. LINK FOR INFO IS HERE. |
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2/14/2016: TOTS is gelling! We have a number of dates set for 2016, with more to come. Here is our preliminary set of dates for the 2016 TEXAS OUTDOOR TARGET SERIES, featureing the A 1080 round.
Again, these are not all of the events. We will set up an online registration that lets each site know who is coming towards them for the Saturday Fun! As with past events you will need to "pay at the door" as you check in. But it is VITALLY important that you let them know you will be there to shoot, that's what our registration process is for. MORE to follow. |
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1/22/2016: 4H Archery is having a nation-wide (National State of A, that is) shoot in March and April! Four locations, but the registration is going on now, so all 4H pointy stick flingers need to check this link ASAP! |
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| FEB. 13 & 14 and FEB 20 & 21: Archival Archery State Indoor: Multiple Locations- Bryan, Houston, and Victoria | |||||||||||||||||
| USA Archery is once again supporting collegiate archery in an active way. For questions about USA Archery’s Collegiate Archery Program, please contact Program Manager Callie Grieser at collegearchery@usarchery.org. You can also view information on the American Archers website. (http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Archery/Archers/Collegiate-Archery-Program) | |||||||||||||||||
4H District 11 Indoor Championship Results Posted To 4H Page |
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The Armless Archer Comes To A To Set Guinness World Record by Rick Stonebraker
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1/22/2016: 4-H is having a statewide shoot in FOUR locations all over A, in March and April! One is in Bay City. If you are 4-H and fling pointy sticks, this is something you do not want to miss! |
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X10 Archery is our first FEATURED JOAD for our Newsletter. |
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Results continue to come in and be posted for the 4-H Indoor tournament series! |
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4-H Wilson County Archery Project is hosting a |
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The Hardy Ward workshop details are now firm. Lancaster Archery and the Archival Archery are sponsoring a 2-day workshop in Bryan on October 23 & 24th for recurve archers and coaches. Limited to the first 25, since he will be spending hands-on time with shooters. See this link for full information. We are subsidizing this so the 2-day fee is only $100! |
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The Aggie Indoor Invitational is now up on the TAMU Archery website: 2015 Aggie Invite Registration Info (read all info) |
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| Jan 22-24,2016: A Cup in DFW area. Hosted by: North Dallas JOAD | |||||||||||||||||
| Coach Holly sent a link to a HORSE ARCHERY OPPORTUNITY based in New Braunfels. Apparently they provide the horse! :) Worth checking out for a family weekend event! | |||||||||||||||||
| The American Archers Level III-NTS course by Coach Ron Carmichael scheduled originally for September has been pushed back to OCTOBER 2,3 & 4, due to renovations at the PAC venue. All information regarding the course can be seen on the CERTIFICATION OPS page, including Level I & II courses scheduled by Coach Holly Avendano. | |||||||||||||||||
| 8/26/2015: The Records for the TOTS has been updated and posted. Thanks to Karin Magera for collating the scores throughout the season and creating the summary of records! | |||||||||||||||||
| 8/19/2015: Photos from the State Target Championship/TOTS Championship have been put into an album. | |||||||||||||||||
| 8/18/2015: Results from the Archival Archery State Target Outdoor Championship have been posted. | |||||||||||||||||
| Click Here for all of the past What's New Items You can now access the JOAD Resources page directly by simply going to http://www.joad.org. A gentleman in Alaska has held that domain for a couple of years but hadn't put up a page, and graciously allowed the transfer of this domain name. His last name? BOWMAN. His first name? JOAD. And no, he is not an archer. Just one heck of a nice guy, who found the coincidence as strange as I did. Joad Bowman. The world is indeed an interesting place, and thanks to Joad for transferring the domain. |
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| 3/18/2013: RSS feed for Coaching Corner | |||||||||||||||||
FUN and INTERESTING Archery Related Photos . Caution and Disclaimer Unrelated, Cause of Death Script |
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Coaches of A
Another version of the AA's Coaching Locator Resource map |
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