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    The document provides safety rules and instructions for teaching archery skills to campers. It outlines important safety rules like never pointing bows at others and knowing the target and what is beyond. It then describes how to adjust instruction based on camper age and number. The key archery skills covered are body positioning, aiming, loading the bow, and shooting at different distances. Creative competition ideas are suggested like a championship series and shooting at various targets while keeping safety in mind.

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    The document provides safety rules and instructions for teaching archery skills to campers. It outlines important safety rules like never pointing bows at others and knowing the target and what is beyond. It then describes how to adjust instruction based on camper age and number. The key archery skills covered are body positioning, aiming, loading the bow, and shooting at different distances. Creative competition ideas are suggested like a championship series and shooting at various targets while keeping safety in mind.

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    The document provides safety rules and instructions for teaching archery skills to campers. It outlines important safety rules like never pointing bows at others and knowing the target and what is beyond. It then describes how to adjust instruction based on camper age and number. The key archery skills covered are body positioning, aiming, loading the bow, and shooting at different distances. Creative competition ideas are suggested like a championship series and shooting at various targets while keeping safety in mind.

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    Archery Safety Rules

    A.
    B.
    C.
    D.
    E.
    F.
    G.

    ALWAYS listen to the coach


    Campers must remain with the counselors while fellow campers are shooting at all times
    NEVER point a bow and arrow at another person
    NEVER shoot an arrow straight up into the air
    Always know your target and beyond
    NEVER cross the line w/out the coachs permission
    DO NOT retrieve your arrows w/out the coachs permission

    Archery Skills
    **adjust for the age of the campers
    **time and the number of kids determine how many arrows each camper shoots at a time.
    **for the littlest camper you and counselors will need to help them pull the string back
    **use the counselors to your benefit in controlling the class and making everything safe and
    efficient
    EQUIPMENT
    a. bow
    b. arrow
    c. bow string
    e. target

    BODY POSITIONING/STANCE
    a. feet shoulder width apart
    b. turn head to look down field
    c. keep body square
    d. rt handed/lft handed stance

    AIMING
    a. bring arrow to eye level
    b. use one eye
    c. adjust for distance
    d. pull back to your ear
    e. steady pull and release

    LOADING BOW/FINGER PLACEMENT


    a. emphasize dont point at anyone
    b. turn bow horizontal
    c. load arrow on top/click it on the string
    d. bunny ear fingers
    e. fingers split the arrow
    f. load arrow w/dominant hand

    LONG RANGE
    a.
    b.
    c.
    d.
    e.

    dont make it too long


    adjust for distance as shooting
    talk about arc
    need enough power
    work on accuracy

    SHORT RANGE
    a. work on accuracy
    b. adjust for distance
    c. power

    **be overly enthusiastic and crazy and the kids will take a real liking to you.
    Creative Ideas
    a. Championship Series of Archery: take top shooter from each group of 4 and bring them back
    for one last round
    b. Draw clown faces or other art on poster boards w/points allotted for hitting different parts
    c. Bring soda cans or two-liters and have those as targets (be sure to shakeem well)
    d. Highest point contest
    e. Bring balloons to blow up and fasten them to the targets to shoot at
    f. Shoot at fruit (apples, watermelons, grapefruit, etc)
    g. Find different things to shoot at but, remember the perception parents when a child tells them
    what they shot at today
    h. FOR 2 OLDEST GROUPS: get about 10 tennis balls and group them together. Put a large
    rope circle around the group of tennis balls and have campers shoot at the tennis balls to knock

    them out of the circle. Remember to shoot from a safe distance away. Use hay bails or targets
    as a backstop for the arrows.
    i. camper vs. counselor/coach shoot off

    **These are just a few skills that can be done; however, be creative and think of other ways
    to teach the skills**

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