Monthly Archives: October 2015

The World of Archery with Coach Keaton Chia

TFA: 005 The World of Archery with Coach Keaton Chia – TheFlyingArcher.com Discover Your Passion For Archery

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Keaton Chia:   Archery has become a fun part of Keaton’s life as well as his family’s as Keaton’s parents, sister, and brother also enjoy shooting arrows and coaching.  Keaton met his wife through archery and once their little girl is old enough, Keaton believes it will be fun to see if she wants to give it a ‘shot’. Keaton feels blessed with the opportunity to work in the archery industry through the Easton Foundation. Keaton enjoys helping with the Olympic Archery in Schools program, where he helped develop a unique league for archery teams in different schools around the United States.  Keaton is now the 1st director of the new Easton Archery Center of Excellence at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista California, that officially opened October of 2015.

” I am thankful for all of the friends and opportunities that God has brought into my life through archery.”  Keaton Chia from interview with Lucy Morris, host of the TFA podcast

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In This Episode You’ll Discover …

  • Keaton’s passion for archery
  • Keaton’s  favorite archery book
  • Why you should smile more
  • How different foods affect your shooting
  • Keaton’s earliest challenge in archery
  • Where Keaton met his wife   🙂
  • What a loophole archery range is
  • The craziest weather day that Keaton experienced in a competition
  • What kind of bow does Keaton like?
  • Keaton’s tip on how to stay focused on the archery range

“My name is Keaton and I’m a toxophilite. =)”  quote from Keaton Chia

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Sponsor:

New England School of Archery and Supplies llc www.nearchery.com Where we also offer the mindset of a champion coaching to athletes as well as to the business world.  How to think like a champion at work, in life and on and off the archery field.

Our Guest’s Links:

Visit Coach Keaton Chia at:

 https://www.facebook.com/keaton.chia

https://www.facebook.com/Easton-Archery-Center-of-Excellence-565330633526946/

https://www.facebook.com/Olympic-Archery-in-Schools-535353979834860/

CLICK HERE to learn about all of the exciting things happening at the Easton Archery Center of Excellence in Chula Vista, CA 

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Older Episodes of our TFA Archery podcast show

The World of Archery with Coach Derek Davis Podcast

The World of Archery with Coach Tim Williams Podcast

The World of Archery with Coach Charlie Sneed Podcast

The World of Archery with Coach Jim White Podcast

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SALAD FOR BREAKFAST?? YOU’RE NUTS LOL

I know this looks like the ingredients for a lunch or dinner meal, but with these items I made a delicious salad for breakfast.  I have more energy and focus then if I had eaten one of the traditional American breakfasts that come out of a box, tastes like cardboard, and all you have to do is add milk and lots of sugar.

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  • What do you eat for breakfast and how does it make you feel an hour later?
  • Do you run out the door with coffee in one hand and a bagel in the other hand with your car keys in your mouth?
  • What does eating have to do with archery and / or high performance work?

 

 

I did an experiment a couple of years ago, I decided to keep track of the foods that I was eating, as well as how they made me feel, and to my surprise,  I felt much better when I didn’t eat wheat.  I’m in no way saying that you should stop eating those delicious bagel breakfast sandwiches, yum yum drool drool 🙂  .   Just maybe perhaps create a food diary  so that you can keep track of what you eat and how it makes you feel, because that will allow you to get a basic idea of how your body reacts to the foods you are eating.

In the below picture is the breakfast that I had this morning, I think it’s just missing some steak tips….. and maybe some nuts lol

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If you feel like it, I would recommend checking out this website http://fastfoodhealing.com/  Sarah Bingham who owns Fast Food Healing, is a good friend of mine and Sarah has some great information about food on her website.  

The World of Archery with Coach Derek Davis

TFA: 004 The World of Archery with Coach Derek Davis – TheFlyingArcher.com Discover Your Passion For Archery

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Derek Davis:  is the Head Coach for Woman’s Archery at Columbia University. Derek is a Junior Dream Team Coach as well as a coach for other teams, which has given him the opportunity to travel with the teams around the Untied States and internationally. Derek was awarded Coach of the Year for 2014 and a Level 4 NTS Archery Coach.  You may not know this, but Derek has also worked in the computer industry and he has a passion for music.

 

 

 

“Be open to what the bow and the shot can teach you” Derek Davis, Level 4 NTS Archery Coach

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In This Episode You’ll Discover …

  • Derek’s passion for everything archery
  • Derek’s favorite archery book and how it’s meaning changed over time
  • How to give up control and let the shot just happen
  • How different foods affect your shooting
  • Derek’s discovery of how to stay focused and embrace the moment
  • Derek’s earliest challenge in archery
  • The craziest weather day that Derek experienced, and what a story!
  • What kind of bow does Derek like?
  • Derek’s tip on how to stay focused on the archery range and how important it is in life
  • How did Derek get his archery nick name Coach Panda?

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Sponsor:

New England School of Archery and Supplies llc www.nearchery.com Where we also offer the mindset of a champion coaching to athletes as well as to the business world.  How to think like a champion at work, in life and on and off the archery field.

Our Guest’s Links:

Visit Coach Derek Davis at:

https://www.facebook.com/Derek-M-Davis-548144291889880/timeline/

http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=777841

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Episodes of our TFA Archery podcast show

The World of Archery with Coach Tim Williams Podcast

The World of Archery with Coach Charlie Sneed Podcast

The World of Archery with Coach Jim White Podcast

The World of Archery with Coach Tim Williams Podcast

TFA: 003 The World of Archery with Tim Williams – TheFlyingArcher.com Discover Your Passion For Archery

Tim Williams  was raised on a farm in rural Kentucky. Tim is an amazing father of 2 wonderful children, Natalie who is 11, and Ethan who is 9. Tim has been married to a very understanding and wonderful lady for 14 years, Katie 🙂 .

Tim worked as an electrician for 20 years, and he hurt his back 3 times in the last 4 years, so Tim decided it was time to walk away from the back breaking work of a trade, and use his mind and skills to create a new company and to do things that empower others. Now, Tim currently owns his own executive coaching and training business, and Tim is a part of the John Maxwell Team as well as being certified as an archery coach in a variety of programs.

Tim is in the process of starting an archery academy in Kentucky with a fellow archery coach. Tim is certified as a NASP (National Archery In The Schools) coach, and Tim has started a NASP program at the school his kids go to.  Tim is also a Scholastic 3D archery coach and a level 3 USA archery coach. Tim enjoys the outdoors and is an avid hunter and loves to fish and camp and do anything related with outside.

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Field Archery is in the woods. You follow an archery course that has a path with foam targets at different distances.

In This Episode You’ll Discover …

  • Tim’s passion for everything about archery
  • The power of self talk during a stressful situation
  • Tim’s thoughts on those archery gadgets
  • That Scholastic 3D is a new craze in Archery
  • That the pizza might not be the best to eat at the tournament and why lol
  • Why is outcome not important to focus on?
  • The craziest weather day that Tim has shot in.
  • What kind of bow does Tim like?
  • Tim’s tip on how to stay focused on the archery range and how important it is in life.
  • Tim’s response to what to do when your equipment breaks:  SPRINT!

Sponsor:

New England School of Archery and Supplies llc www.nearchery.com Where we also offer the mindset of a champion coaching to athletes as well as to the business world. How to think like a champion at work, in life and on and off the archery field.

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Our Guest’s Links:

Visit Coach Tim Williams at:

Website: http://www.johncmaxwellgroup.com/timwilliams/                                                                  E-mail: bluegrassolympicarcheryacademy@gmail.com                                                                           Twitter: timwilliams38                                                                                                                                     facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tim.williams.583234

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NO CELL PHONES ON THE ARCHERY RANGE! BUT WHY??

ATTENTION PLEASE: Cell Phones Must Be Turned Off, Or On Silent Mode.  

In the below picture you see me watching 2 archery instructor candidates during a shooting evaluation at Camp Wyonegonic .  I’m aware of everyone around me including the other 14 people in the instructor class.  We have some very specific safety rules that we build on before they get to shoot an arrow.  And there is no way I can be on the phone or have my head be anywhere else than giving my full attention to this class. No matter the size of or the kind of classes that I teach, from high performance private lessons, community classes, my JOAD program and online webinars, I’m nowhere else but focused on that class and those students that I’m working with at the moment.

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At the archery range, I offer a space where, just for an hour or more, depending on the class, you are cut off from the world because your cell phones are off. This allows you to be in the moment with a family member and or just enjoy the here and now. Archery is about being one with the bow, being in the moment, and forgetting everything else in your life. And that is what my adult archery clients tell me about our archery classes, and they say they love having that space to be in the moment.

My adult clients come from all walks of life, from doctors and cops to people that work in retail and parents that do home schooling. The wonderful thing is that the peace and relaxation that happens on the archery range can transfer over into archery competition and other areas of life. Our cell phones don’t have to become an electronic leash. Have you ever seen someone talk on the phone and shoot an arrow? I have and I was amazed that she did not drop her phone

As an archery coach, I want to be fully engaged with my archery clients, be it instructors learning to teach or folks coming to learn how to shoot an arrow or my more advanced clients refining their skills and mental toughness. I mentally prepare for my class, way before they arrive to the archery range. I put my phone on airplane mode when I get into my car before I start driving to where I’m going to teach archery, since I provide lessons in different towns. I think about my lesson plan and how grateful I am to have these students in my class.

My archery instructor interns come to my classes early to help with set up, and sometimes they will show up with cell phone in hand and not paying attention to where they are walking and I wonder if they are going to run into something lol I’m just waiting for that to happen. Teaching and learning archery is about leaving the day at the door and learning to be in the moment when you enter the archery range, which is not always that easy to do.

A couple of years ago I called an archery instructor on the phone and I did not know that he was in class teaching archery. This person answered the phone and he told me that he couldn’t talk right then because he was in the middle of teaching archery. Then why the heck answer the phone? Just let the phone go to voice mail and listen to the message later on when you don’t have lives in your hands. Things can happen on the range in an instant and the phone can be a distraction. You never see lifeguards talking on the phone while working… Ok so you might say that people could drown and swimming is more dangerous. I give the lifeguard example because teaching archery may feel safer than swimming and because of that archery coaches may get a get a false sense of security that nothing bad can happen.

It is that one moment when you are coaching archery that you look the wrong way that you miss that one thing, that one student who gets excited and walks forward or someone does something stupid. And it can be something as small as a child that is watching your archery class and wanders forward without the parent noticing. You always want to be focused and 100% paying attention like a lifeguard when you are teaching archery, and that is not always an easy thing to do when you yourself are not at peak performance that day.

Every June I offer certification training at summer camps and I usually have about 140 potential archery instructors signed up for my instructor’s classes. I don’t work with all 140 students all at once lol, but I usually have about 15 instructor candidates in each of my classes. At the beginning of each instructor course, I will give a cell phone briefing where I tell the instructor candidates to turn off their phones while they are taking my class. We discuss the hazards of being distracted by the cell phone and the positive impact on a student when you give them your full and undivided attention. Even though at the beginning of every class we talk about cell phone hazards on the archery range. I will always have at least 1 or maybe 3 potential archery instructors who don’t comply with my cell phone policy.

I had one instructor candidate who actually got on the phone while we were out at the archery range when I was teaching, but it was not during the shooting evaluation. It happened near the end of the course, so after I graded his written test, we had a private discussion about using the phone while I was teaching. He gave me an explanation as to why he used his phone during class and I told him that I considered failing him for not complying with my cell phone policy.

I wanted him to get the point that using the cell phone at the archery range can be dangerous. And I explained that you can turn off the phone and the world won’t fall apart if you unplug for a little while. I also said that he could take control of his life and not take a call and not be at the whim of other people. I tried to make the point that you always want to be alert and watching your students when you are teaching archery and working with other people’s children, be small or adults. The archery instructor candidate has only a small amount of time to prove to me that not only can he or she teach a safe archery class, but that the candidate can listen and comply with my safety instructions.

Oh and by the way, I do bring a cell phone to the archery range. Actually, I bring 2 of them so I have a backup because I film my classes and I take pictures. And in doing so, I have caught on tape some beautiful moments, and I also use the video for form analysis as well. Just think about it: any tool can be dangerous or useful depending on how it is used. As an active archery coach or just going out to shoot arrows, let the range be that one place where you disconnect from the world. Just focus on the now and be one with the bow and in the moment with the arrow. The feedback that I get from my adult archery students in my different classes is that they love shooting arrows, and that it allows them to forget about the day and to enjoy the moment.