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Recreational Modern Traditional Archery with Arrow Aiming

Archery should be fun and create satisfaction within the archer. Learning, muscle and skill development are the objectives. 

Traditional archery takes many forms. This class is intended for adult and near adult sized beginner (or some experience) in archery, to help them to learn about the choices in archery, and specifically this one style. This class is designed for new intake every month. The Introduction and the Bare Essentials classes will be repeated the first and second Saturdays of each months, and the remaining Saturdays will be devoted the shot sequence in detail, exploring each step in detail with some overlap. As archery is iteration learning, the order of the classes beyond the introduction and bare essentials is not critical. Additional practice outside of the classes is recommended.  

Currently the schedule is:

2017	Saturday Oct 14	3.00 to 4.30	Introduction to Arrow Aiming
	Saturday Oct 21	3.00 to 4.30	Bare Essentials
	Saturday Oct 28	Halloween shoot
	Saturday Nov 4	3.00 to 4.30	Introduction to Arrow Aiming
	Saturday Nov 11	3.00 to 4.30	Bare Essentials
	Saturday Nov 18	Zone 6 Tryouts
	Saturday Nov 25	3.00 to 4.30	Stance, form
	Saturday Dec 2	3.00 to 4.30	Introduction to Arrow Aiming
	Saturday Dec 9	3.00 to 4.30	Bare Essentials
	Saturday Dec 16	3.00 to 4.30	Nock, Loose
	Saturday Dec 23	3.00 to 4.30	Anchor	tentative
	Saturday Dec 30	3.00 to 4.30	Shot setup	tentative

Warm-ups

So what is the value of warmups?

Well, the studies do not show any decrease in frequency of injury, but frequency is a hard thing to measure. Serious athletes may have different issues that recreational's.

Studies show serious injuries occur to both stretchers and non-stretchers. No clear preference there.

Maffetone says that stretchers heel faster, with less visits to the doctor. Finely a clear benefit, or is there? So do stretchers self select to seek attention faster, or is there a benefit? 

Doing the stretches lightly in the morning helps loosen the muscles and tendons and the old body feels better, but is that the benefit?

What warm ups?

• small to big shoulder circles, both ways. 
• Elbows up, shoulder streches
• hands clasped and back
• forearms both way, both sides
• arm against the wall, both sides
• Touch toes

A Quick Outline

This is intended to suggest a series of lectures/discussions and core lessons for traditional with arrow aiming.

Recreational, pleasure, learning, 

Introduction, five classes of archers plus other's.... compound, OR, BB traditional with arrow aiming, intuitive. 
Theory of arrow aiming, horizontal and vertical gap.
Iterative learning, so four essentials; solid bow arm, clear target, consist draw length and anchor, faithful release. Muscle development required for most.
Many different styles of traditional, with arrow aiming, plus instinctual, arrow and bow must be compatible, arrow must also be compatible with the target...  
Difference between the bow types, required differences in form to compensate.
Each shooting style/bow type has different emphasis on the form, many variations are possible... try them all, repeatedly. 

1. Stance, form, limits of the style, lines that could be.
2. Nock, arrow and bow must be compatible
3. bow hand, recoil
4. String hand, grip possibility's, loose
5. raise, find target, check, pre-draw 
6. draw styles,
7. anchors, anchor types, uses, advantages, disadvantages, short, long, wide, floating, high, low, soft, hard ...
8. aim, horizontal, vertical gap, point blank distance, horizontal gap, double gap, picture, instinctive,
9. setup the shot
10. loose,  release
11. Follow through
12. Reflection, feel the satisfaction.