Wilderness After-School Programs on Northern California Coast

2011-2012 Archery Programs Offering

After-School JOAD Archery

• Dates and times: Fridays 3:30 to 5:00 Open Entry
• Prerequisites: None
• Location; Santa Cruz, CA
• Open to: Preteens and Teens
• Cost: 15/hr.

Archery is a discipline that can be practiced a lifetime. WSI Our director is a US Archer Community Coach focuses all of our archery programs on establishing good solid fundamentals in archery. As the archer develops it is our goal that along this journey will never have to relearn any thing..

WSI supports 3 different Archery Disciplines, Field Archery, Target Olympic Archery, and 3D Archery having good solid form will make for good solid shooting in all three of these disciplines for a life time..

We hold charters for both JOAD

Wilderness Skills Institute's Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD) is a program of USA archery that is designed to teach archery to young people, over a series of classes taught by our certified archery instructors and coaches. Our JOAD programs offers both recurve and compound archers the opportunity to learn range safety and proper shooting technique in an environment that also fosters focus, increased self-confidence, and team building skills. Wilderness Skills Institute’s JOAD is open to any youth archer aged 8 to 20 and is designed to grow with the youth archer. Introductory JOAD classes teach the fundamentals of proper shooting form; as the young archer develops, they will learn more advanced techniques.

Both recurve and compound bows are used in WSI activities and in tournaments. JOAD archers who use compound or recurve bows can train to compete in local and regional tournaments, and can earn a seat on a youth world team to compete in other countries representing the United States on behalf of USA Archery. Recurve archers have the added benefit of being able to use their recurve bow to try out for a spot on the US Olympic Archery team which is selected and managed by USA Archery.

WSI archers can compete in US Archery and NFAA competitions.

Target Archery (Olympic Archery)

In the discipline of Outdoor Target Archery the archery shoots at four distances on a flat field. Men shoot at up to 90 meters and women at up to 70 meters. Young archers shoot at shorter distances. Archers shoot 36 arrows at each distance, in ends (groups) of 6 arrows each. Target sizes vary with the distance shot.

The Olympic Round

The Olympic Round is exciting to watch. A qualifying round will be shot in order to order the competitors and given a seeding. The qualifying round is usually a FITA 70m round, consisting of 72 arrows shot at a distance of 70 meters. These seeding are then sorted into head-to-head matches.

Each match consists of 4 ends of 3 arrows, giving a 12-arrow match shot at a distance of 70 meters on a 122 cm target face. In early stages of the elimination rounds this may be changed to 2 ends of 6 arrows in order to save time. In later stages and at the Olympics and World Cup the shooting order alternates with each archer shooting one arrow at a time, having 40 seconds to shoot each arrow. The highest placed athlete in the qualification round will decide the order of shooting of the first end. The athlete with the lowest cumulative score will shoot first the next end. If the athletes are tied, the athlete that shot first in the first end, shoots first in the next end. The archer with the highest score at the end of the 12 arrows is declared the winner.

3-D/Bow hunting

Hunting with the bow and arrow is one of the most widely practiced archery activities, in order to have a successful hunt the hunter must be able to accurately judge their distance from their prey.

3-D archery consists of shooting at 3-dimensional models of legal game, set at varying unmarked distances on the range. The 3D targets are set in a wooded area to simulate hunting conditions. Because our targets are full size models of game animals the archers, in time will be able to develop the skill of judging distance.

Our field archery program follows the rules established by the International Bowhunting Organization.