#AxcelSights

[the-earpiest-earp]

Fun times and silver at Nationals last weekend! Now on to bigger things, leaving for the U S of A tommorow for the World games 🤩 Super excited to shoot there, LET’S GO 💪 📷: @timbruijninckx ............🦖🦕🦖🦕............. @hoyttargetarchery @ramrodsarchery @truball_axcel @eastonarchery @beiterarchery @teameuropearchery @custommadewraps @gas.bowstrings @matracarchery ............🦖🦕🦖🦕............. #Hoyt #GetSeriousGetHoyt #BowsofChampions #TeamHoyt #RamRods #RamRodsArchery #truball #axcelsights #easton #beiter #europearchery #vandorsthandboogsport #custommadewrap#matracarchery (at Netherlands) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfllff_gtU4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[chuckingsticks-blog]

Some days you just shoot groups the size of the target face. Nevermind, I got out and shot arrows and that's all that matters! • • • #archery #bow #arrows #X10 #handboog #recurve #recurvearchery #target #targetarchery #outdoors #hoyt #faktor #thewinningfaktor #silverice #easton #eastoncontour #axcelsights #archerygb #worldarchery #fitness #training https://www.instagram.com/p/By3BqbnAr3j/?igshid=6ggzcwuyc28q

[shootingskulls]

Reposted from @bonus_ring BOGO FLASH SALE!!! Order your's today!! Ships A.S.A.P.!! No codes - no gimmicks! Thanks! #bonusring #getmorebonusrings #archerylife #archeryhunting #hhasports #axcelsights #bowandarrow #practice #hunting - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/CEMySvRjFHm/?igshid=1ldkklf06orha

[offcenterarchers]

Fun times at the range with @dougiemarholz and @destephens68 . This was our end practice session at 80 yards #arrow #archer #archery #rangetime #practice #bowandarrow #bowmararchery #bohningarchery #psearchery #pseinertia #psesupra #mathewsarchery #trx38 #gasstrings #ghostxv #hhasports #axcelsights #trufirerelease #nockonnation #wickstickstabilizers #80yards https://www.instagram.com/p/B5QfUuYlgmF/?igshid=1b6ko63l6t3e2

[lynndakin]

Zach at the 3DA Simon Caddy Classic this weekend #axcelsights #truball #athensarcheryfactorystaff #athensarchery #doinkerarchery #doinkon #hchcustomquivers

[trad-bow-newbie]

I mean, I'm no @isabella_maria4 .... But this is the best I have shot at 10 yards in MONTHS! #targetpanicImcomingforyou #eastonarrows #eastonarchery #hoytarchery #hoytprocompelite #shadowstabilizers #axcelsights #targetbow #targetpractice #targetarchery #archery #archerylife (at C & B Archery)

[mudflat-creative-blog]

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The rut is about to get fired up here in VA. This was the first of 3 different bucks I saw in 30 minutes. To bad he needs a few years! What are y’all seeing???? #mudflat #mtnops #qdma #whitetaildeer #bowhunting #archery #compundbow #hunting #deerhunting #therut #bucks #eastonaxis #elitearchery #carterreleases #fall #muzzleloader #axcelsights #alpzoutdoors #mtnops #gethushin #grittybowmen #nockonnation #outdoors #treestand #acorns #booneandcrockett #popeandassociates #virginia #vadgif #hunt @mtnops @elitearchery @gethushin @grittybowmen @nockontv @theqdma

[joottioutdoorrecreation]

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[bluelinearchery]

"Gotta wear shades"

[the-earpiest-earp]

🥇place at indoor nationals yesterday! It was a long day but managed to keep up the scores and get away with a win. Now back to 50 meters for outdoor selections next weekend 💪 @handboogsport ............🦖🦕🦖🦕............. @hoyttargetarchery @ramrodsarchery @truball_axcel @eastonarchery @beiterarchery @teameuropearchery @custommadewraps @flexarchery @matracarchery ............🦖🦕🦖🦕............. #Hoyt #GetSeriousGetHoyt #BowsofChampions #TeamHoyt #RamRods #RamRodsArchery #truball #axcelsights #easton #beiter #europearchery #vandorsthandboogsport #custommadewraps #flexarchery #matracarchery 📸: @kristiankrijgsman_photography (bij Maaspoort Den Bosch) https://www.instagram.com/p/CawscydAosY/?utm_medium=tumblr

[chuckingsticks-blog]

When you only have time to shoot 8 ends, make it count. 305/360 and I'm very happy with that. I feel consistency is starting to really show in my shooting and it's only a matter of time until I will break 600 in competition. • • • #archery #bow #arrows #X10 #handboog #recurve #recurvearchery #target #targetarchery #outdoors #hoyt #faktor #thewinningfaktor #silverice #easton #eastoncontour #axcelsights #archerygb #worldarchery #fitness #training https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxj7BNyAb2Y/?igshid=1jwaos7cqmk8w

[tinatassoarcher]

Archery -  ALONE vs COACHED

I first picked up a bow in February of 2013 and I was instantly hooked. I ordered my first bow (thanks Hoyt) and the shop got it all set up for me and I began this long journey of shooting archery. After a bit I purchased a sight (thanks Axcel Sights) and I began shooting straighter and with more accuracy. That fall I entered into the 25 Meter Fall Classic. I shot a 1081 and people were a bit amazed given that I was shooting with no stabilizers. Well, for the last eight months I had been shooting without them. I didn’t see what all the hub-bub was. But I had been saving up anyways to buy a set. When I had the money together I ordered them. It took a couple of weeks, but when they came in mom went with me to get them and low and behold she paid for them. She said they were my Christmas present. She said I just needed to wrap them up and put them under the tree so everyone else could be surprised by them. Deal. It was less than a week before Christmas, so I wrapped them up and put them under the tree. Christmas morning came and SURPRISE! I got stabilizers for my bow. Everyone cheered - because that’s what happens in my family and that afternoon I was out in the back yard practicing with them on my bow.

Practice, practice and more practice. It got to the point that I was tired of fighting the traffic to just go to the range to shoot, I just couldn’t see the point in paying a range fee to shoot when I could shoot for free in my backyard. A mom of one of my little JOAD friends had dubbed my backyard as the “Lone Wolf Range”. I liked it, so it has stuck. When it got to be warmer out and outdoor season kicked in, he and his parents would come over and we’d practice together. It was actually kind of easy given that I could mark off to about 75 meters or 80 yards in the yard (further if we don’t mind standing in the middle of the subdivision street). Since I was shooting Compound and he was shooting Recurve I didn’t have to measure off more than 60 meters. Plenty of room for us to practice.

In spite of all the practicing I had done I realized I had kind of reached a plateau in regards to my shooting. So the internet became a frequented friend. I would watch YouTube videos of how other archers would shoot. Archers like Jesse Broadwater, Lexi Keller, Bridger Deaton, Jake Kaminski and Brady Elison. Yes, I even watched Recurve archers. There is always something to be learned from everywhere. I started incorporating some of the things I would see them do into my own shooting. And my scores began going up.

On the local level I was doing pretty good, but I found that when I would go to bigger events like NFAA Indoor Nationals in Kentucky or Gator Cup in Newberry, FL, I was still missing something. That missing something was keeping me from being on the top of the list, standing on the podium and receiving medals. So I would go back to watching more videos and practicing, but I wasn’t figuring it out.

One day this past Spring I found out that Carl Greene was conducting a Level 1 and Level 2 Instructor Seminar in Newberry, FL. I decided to sign up for the seminar, not so much as to become an instructor; but to get more informed and have a better understanding of what a coach would look for in an archer’s form and shot technique. To hopefully understand more from the non-archer’s point of view. It was enlightening. I understand a lot more now. And with my visual mind I am able to take what I saw and experienced in the class and translate it into my own movement - to a point. I still can’t see what my back is doing or see what my release elbow is doing or see what my head is doing. I can feel them doing things, but without being able to see them how do I know what I’m feeling is right??

That brings me to the point that I am at now. I need a coach. So I started making a list of the coaches in the area. Making a list of things I know I will need from them. Such as: Am I comfortable being around them, What are their rates, Where are they located, What kind of traffic will have to deal with in order to get to a lesson, Are they going to be able to work with me to translate what they want to say into a visual that my brain will interpret so I can recreate, Are we going to be comfortable with each other so he/she will be honest with me (even if I’m doing something seriously wrong - I’d rather be told I’m doing something wrong so I can work on stopping than to just be told what I should be doing.) It was a long list of things I knew I was going to need from the coach as I’m sure there is a long list a coach he/she has before deciding to take on a student.

With my list of criteria and my list of coaches in hand I began the task of matching up coach’s names with the criteria list. Some coaches got crossed off right away mostly because I knew I wouldn’t be able to work with them. If I’m not comfortable with someone the relationship isn’t going to go anywhere. I whittled the list down to three: two here in Georgia and one in Florida. All three matched up pretty well with my list most importantly being that I’m very comfortable with them and their coaching styles. So it started coming down to some of the smaller things like location: am I going to drive a long distance for a short lesson or a shorter distance and get more out of the lesson. Things like that.

Now I’m to my stage of approaching them to see if they are open to taking on any new students. Keeping in mind I already know a lot about these people and they have very busy lives. What I want just might not equal up to what they want or can give. And if at this point you are thinking that all of this must have taken forever - well, you should experience what I go through when I research for buying a new car (the last one took me six months to get to the test drive stage). Doing my research on these coaches didn’t take as long.

All three were willing to talk, but one asked questions. Tough questions. Questions that made me sit down and seriously think about my answers. Answers that ended up being a one or two typed pages long (typed mind you. I wanted to work with these guys not make them go blind trying to read my tiny hand writing). The more this one coach asked questions and made me think about my answers the more I wanted to work with this one.

[I have become very good at listening even when people don’t think I am. Keep in mind that everyone everywhere likes to put others down. If I listened to everything that was being said about every coach out there I wouldn’t work with any of them. So instead I rely on how an individual treats me and me alone. Not how they treat others. Stories can be embellished to suit ones purpose.]

Some of the things being said about the coach that was first on my list to work with were true. He’s gruff. He blunt. He speaks his mind. He tells it like it is. He tells you the truth even if it hurts. He tells you what you are doing wrong, not just what you should be doing. GREAT!!! That’s what I want in a coach. All these things that people would say about him as reason to stay away from him are the very things I consider strong attributes and I want in someone who is going to coach me.

We decided to get together for a - try out, if you will. We started out just chatting. The longer we sat there chatting the better I felt being around him and the more I would talk (and if anyone truly knows me, they know I am not one for doing a whole lot of talking). Then he had me shoot some arrows in a strategic form. He watched from several different angles. Three plus hours later he gave me the great news of that he would like to take me on as a student. I said, “Great! Now what am I doing wrong?” He said he was happy to report it wasn’t all me. In watching me shoot he found that I was shooting to the left. He speculated that it could be an alignment problem with my limbs or an alignment problem with the arrow rest. He suggested that since the bow I’m currently shooting with (a beautiful Royal Blue Hoyt Podium X) is still under warranty, that I should take it to where I bought it and have them check it out. The rest we’ll work on once the bow is in order. I’m happy to report that the limb are just fine and that it was the arrow rest that was out of alignment and causing me to shoot left.

With my bow tuned and shooting straight, now comes the arduous task of fixing/correcting all the little problems and working towards a better form and shot execution. Thanks Coach Estrada for taking me on and working with me to fix all my problems - well, at least fix all my archery problems.......

[offcenterarchers]

Fun times at the range with @dougiemarholz and @destephens68 . This was our end practice session at 80 yards #arrow #archer #archery #rangetime #practice #bowandarrow #bowmararchery #bohningarchery #psearchery #pseinertia #psesupra #mathewsarchery #trx38 #gasstrings #ghostxv #hhasports #axcelsights #trufirerelease #nockonnation #wickstickstabilizers https://www.instagram.com/p/B5QfUuYlgmF/?igshid=15xb1vb19f0l0

[lynndakin]

Cam consulting his site marks at the 3DA Simon Caddy Classic. #axcelsights #truball #doinkerstabilizers #hchcustomquivers

[chuckingsticks-blog]

I'm pretty sure this is one of the biggest shoots I've been to, the Archery GB National County Team Tournament. 70 targets and over 260 archers! • • • #archery #bow #arrows #X10 #handboog #recurve #recurvearchery #target #targetarchery #outdoors #hoyt #faktor #thewinningfaktor #silverice #easton #eastoncontour #axcelsights #archerygb #worldarchery #fitness #training https://www.instagram.com/p/BzTxq0pA-Lt/?igshid=svvhuh8joj2a

[chuckingsticks-blog]

New fletching choice for 2019 👌 Deep Purple Spider Vanes @bradyellison • • • #PurplePeril #archery #bow #arrows #X10 #handboog #recurve #recurvearchery #target #targetarchery #outdoors #hoyt #faktor #thewinningfaktor #silverice #easton #eastoncontour #axcelsights #archerygb #worldarchery #fitness #training https://www.instagram.com/p/BwfUm6ygUoD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=uzezdd1vnhgm