[Archers] Archers Digest, Vol 89, Issue 2

[Jonathas]

My sincerest apologies,

I should have said major archery titles, as there are now several groups who
host awesome archery events besides the two title events which the current
holder hosts.  Many of which do recognize the attending youth archers
extremely well.

Jonathas



On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:41 AM, John Atkins <cogworks at triad.rr.com> wrote:

>  Uh, two major archery events?????  At SAAD this year we will be
> implementing two youth divisions.  Kids are 10 and younger.  Youth are
> 11-13.  There will be special targets for these two categories when
> appropriate, i.e. typically kids and youth use bows that are not effective
> at the longer clout distances.  In such case they will have shorter distance
> targets that score the same points as adult distance targets.  The age
> divisions were selected based on expected bow draw weights per age.
> Typically a 14 year old or older, who will be shooting with the adults, use
> a bow of 25 pound draw or more.  In some cases 30 pounds and up.  A 25 pound
> bow set up correctly can shoot an arrow 100 yards which is plenty for the
> SAAD shoot stations.  Youth archers are allowed a choice of which targets to
> shoot at.  i.e. if they choose to shoot the adult targets at a station that
> has youth targets they will get bonus points for points scored.  The idea is
> to reward effort and accepting the challenge.
>
> As in the past there will be a "classification" shooting station known only
> to the MIC, that would be me, the scores of which will divide the archers
> into four groups.  This way expert shoots against expert and novice against
> novice.  Keeping the classification station secret prevents anyone from sand
> bagging their score on that station to be grouped in a lesser skilled
> group.  Thus there will be awards for the top three archers in all four
> adult groups and both children's groups, six groups in total for 18 awards.
> SAAD staff are a generous lot!
>
> cog
> MIC for SAAD V
>
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