Here is a cool little video that is smoking hot!!  Good basic answers for new archers.

As I write this, It is the deep of winter here in New Hampshire. The sun is shining and the snow is melting.  Makes you think that spring is just around the corner lol.  (until the next snow storm comes along),

Below is a picture of an early winter class outside on a warm day and yes, that is ice on the pond.  Then during the second class, the sun dipped behind a cloud and the temperature dropped about 15 degrees in 15 minutes and we were all freezing.  In between shots the class was doing jumping jacks.  We moved the range inside for the 3rd class, it was by then getting very cold and a little dark.

Archery has a deep root in the lives of us humans. The bow and arrow (now called archery) allowed us, way back when, to not have to fist fight the animal for food and survival.  The Bow and Arrow allowed the human race to hunt from a safer distance, when hunting for a bear or such.

Now you can use Archery as a way to relax from the stress of the day, or decompress from that challenging drive to archery class. And shoot at foam like substance that does not eat you alive if you miss….  thank god that the target does not have teeth, much more relaxing then being chased by a bear or a lion lol

A couple of years ago we were featured on TV with Erin Fehlau from the NH Chronicle and her cool cameraman.  A huge thanks to Erin for contacting me and being willing to be one of my students in a private lesson and in a group class.  And you hit the balloon!!

It was wicked cool, we did the shooting at 2 different locations. We had to add a class to the adult education program that I was running.  For the other location I had a 3 day notice to get a group of students to come and shoot with us in Bow NH and for both events we needed good weather.   And it finished raining just before we started setting up for Erin’s private lesson, that was just before the adult education program, and it started raining again 3 hours later.

At the Adult Education program I had a guest archery instructor running the class while I was being interview with Erin…  And I never saw the footage of the interview with my students until I watched it on TV!!  As I was actively teaching then.

Check out the program by clicking on  Hitting The Bulls Eye on WMUR Channel 9 NH Chronicle

A big thank you to Kathy at the  Concord Community Education for letting me add an extra class to the already running archery class and to Cindy and her staff at the Bow Park & Recreation for letting me schedule a class on such short notice.  And a huge thank you to Erin and her crew at WMUR for contacting me and putting together such a great moment in time about archery for the New Hampshire Chronicle.

I’m very grateful to the my wonderful students who were able to come and participate in the filming.  And I know some of you talked to me, about how being on TV scared you and you did it any ways!!

For those of you down south, all you would now need, to make that Snowman that you have been dreaming of,  is a snow maker :).

It was the winter solstice of 2014 and my intermediate classes of Bow NH had merged into 1, to celebrate with a competition and to share good food with each other… Oh yes, and everyone brought canned and dried food, that I delivered to the Bow food pantry the next day.  It felt wonderful being able to help out the community by donating food :).

But before any of us could eat, the archers had a fun and challenging competition, and then the balloon popping…. They didn’t want to stop shooting to eat, except for one teenager who was a little hungry  :).

A moment in time is when an arrow is shot, it cannot be taken back, it is gone to the place you sent it to.   And now what does the student do? They either stress or get excited about where the arrow went.  But, but what if you, the student,  accepted where the arrow went, understood how it went under the target, skipped back up and into the tree.  Hmm, a quick thought on the form, ahh got it.  Then breath, re-focus and forget that last arrow, and just focus on what you are doing now.

The student who shot the arrow below ,  was dancing for joy. Look at how close to the edge the arrow is, without going off the paper!!

I’m LUCY MORRIS, I’m a level 4 NTS archery coach and I own New England School of Archery & Supplies LLC .  And my students are awesome!!  They come from different backgrounds different ages, and I work with maybe about a 1000 students a year.  I also have a commercial Pilots License and I have been an active flight instructor.  Yes, I love things that fly through the air.   Ohh and the water is cool also.  I have been on a Coast Guard Cutter out in a hurricane, and they say that it is much safer for the ship to be out to sea than being tied to the dock during a hurricane. I’m now a Coast Guard Veteran.   Yes, I also did the grad school thing and a diploma on the wall, and I have lived in Washington DC working for the corporate world.