In the below video you will hear a little about Level 5 Archer Coach Dee’s Coaching Philosophy.   My filming was not all that great so the beginning  starts in the middle of this part of the presentation.  The below video is from the level 3 archery instructor class held at the Massac State Park in Illinois in June of 2015

Rather than just shooting and shooting with no pressure, Coach Dee makes it fun, and creates an artificial intensity and increased heart rate of a competition during training.

Coach Dee play’s a game with his high performance private students.  They have to meet a certain criteria and if they don’t meet that criteria, then the athlete may be doing some push ups or splitting wood between ends which creates some of that intensity of a competition.

Level 1 Archery Instructor Class at Cape Cod Sea Camps 2015 with Coach Lucy Morris

My archery instructor classes consist of more than just learning archery form and safety, they are challenged with team building skills, leadership, problem solving and laughter ( must have some laughter).

In my 2 day level 1 instructor classes the students will have been teamed up the night before to work on varies home work assignments and to come up with a fun and safe archery game.

In the video below a team of students from my instructor class at Cape Cod Sea Camps give a new version of the game Save The Dragon. It’s so much fun as I can tell that they have learned from instructors I have taught at Cape Cod Sea Camps in the past 🙂 :).

I usually teach a version of this game about the 3rd or 4th time I have met with my students.  My regular students will already have learned aiming and string alignment before we do a game that they don’t realize is an aiming game lol so much fun.

Below is another version of the game that my intern is having fun teaching to a group of my students.

Thank you Cape Cod Sea Camps for hosting another year of awesome training at your camp!!

PS In June I trained  a lot of level 1 archery instructors and I video taped all of the games that they created.  I will be compiling the games and posting a game page created by the instructors that I trained in June of 2015.

This week I have been teaching a group of boys at the Somersworth Youth Connection summer camp and on this day we were inside because of the rain.

At one point we were shooting at balloons and look at this picture!! This young man wanted to show off to you, what it is like to hit a balloon with an arrow and to show you IT DID NOT POP.