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Originally Posted by andrew.paterson A good site to use but this got me thinking - does GNAS produce any outline training material that it's members can use?. |
One suggestion would be to get a copy of the "GNAS Leader's award" manual. Cheaper than the full blown Coaching Manual.
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Originally Posted by andrew.paterson There must be some theory at the top as to what way we should be training, exercising, shooting etc. I have had a root around on the GNAS web-site but cannot seem to find anything. There are lots of sections titled development/performance/coaching but they do not seem to contain any advice for it's paying members! |
FITA do a beginning training manual, available in English/French, on paper and CD-ROM. Around €35. Not having had the time to read it in depth, I can't say whether the material is what you might be looking for.
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Originally Posted by andrew.paterson Great I now know who the top coaches are and when the elite archers train, and an awful lot of GNAS's funding seems to go into this area, but the web-site or the Archery UK magazine doesn't contain anything for the rest of us |
Ahh... The old "But what has the GNAS ever done for us?" question...
Depends what you want out of it...
Coaching? Ask your club coach / county coaching / regional coaching organiser. On this front we (the Coaching organisation) are trying to make it better... It will take a little time.... The attitude of archers towards coaches/coaching has been fairly negative, because of things that have happened in the past. Coaches have suffered a lot from "bad press" in the past, and it takes time to build up a reputation - and a few seconds to destroy it.
Books, magazines to read? Loads of web sites, book sellers etc. (Murray's "Archer's reference", Joe Tapley's web-site, The Glade, Bow magazine, US Archer, Archery Focus, this site...) or you could ask around in your club / county / region etc.
Archery UK is the main mouthpiece of the GNAS and distributed to all members. It is a means of passing info about GNAS between GNAS members. If you want info from other places, I'm afraid you have to go looking for it.
Oh, and if you want an improved GNAS, volunteer to do something about it. To paraphrase JFK "ask not what the GNAS can do for you, but what you can do for the GNAS..."
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