Ki Sik Lee Coaching Website

[joetapley]

Added this to the resource directory.
(Even the jokes are pretty good )

http://www.kslinternationalarchery.com/

[Little Miss Purple]

Nice one JT - womble will love that, have some

[Thunk]

Excellent work JT - let me buy you a pint!

I think I'm going to spend quite a lot of time on this site...

[andrew.paterson]

Originally Posted by joetapley

Added this to the resource directory.
(Even the jokes are pretty good )

http://www.kslinternationalarchery.com/

A good site to use but this got me thinking - does GNAS produce any outline training material that it's members can use?

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!

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.

[Rik]

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?

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!

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.

Well, there is the GNAS coaching manual. I don't think it's online, though... Some of the material in it will be on Steve Ellison's website (as he contributed to it).

Have you checked out the training program stuff on the FITA website? That's pretty comprehensive.

[joetapley]

This comes to mind.

http://www.texasarchery.org/Document...One/Level1.ppt

The GNAS coaching system has always seemed to operate as a cross between the Masons and the Mafia. I have a feeling there is a GNAS coaching discussion forum - but access is for GNAS coaches only.

[Yew Selfbow]

Excellent link Joe.....
Some very interesting stuff, especialy the Biomechanics. Interesting his recommendation on weight distribution. Carlson et al in1984 looked at load distribution under the foot and its relationship to the position of the centre of mass relative to the base of support. They suggested that the ideal stable position was a little further back than suggest in the link. Wernick in 1996 looked at what he described as "planal dominance in postural stability, he advised that the dominant plane of motion of a joint or series of joint should not be orthogonal to the direction of applied load... seems like the link supports that arguement with their recommendation on an open stance.

Great link Joe ....

[Meddler]

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.

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.

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..."

Disclaimer : any opinions expressed in this message are the opinions of the writer.

[Cakemeister]

On the Ki Sik Lee site, the stance demonstrated as most effective is a very open one- how man people use this? I have always tried to get sideways on but is that necessarily best?

[Flandyman]

Originally Posted by Cakemeister

On the Ki Sik Lee site, the stance demonstrated as most effective is a very open one- how man people use this? I have always tried to get sideways on but is that necessarily best?

Hi, I noted that and have tried it on my last couple of practices - found it was good as it made me think a bit more about my line and I actively formed my stance with each arrow rather than just stand there - instant improvement on groups and scores - may well be that it forced me to work on my form at a greater level of awareness rather than it gave me stability but hey it worked for me !