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What is Outdoor Practice?
Who can participate in Outdoor Practice? For me outdoor practice and outdoor tournaments are a dream of green grass, warm sunshine, gentle breezes, no snow and a target far away. The reality is different. The grass may be wet from rain or dew. The wind may be blowing,...
Ace Archers Team Outdoor Tournament Schedule
Wondering what tournaments we'll be attending this year? Check out the schedule below: Tournament Travel To Tournament Dates Travel Home Confirmed Date? Easton Gator Cup 4/23/2015 4/24 – 4/27 4/27/2015 Yes Outdoor Archer’s Cup 6/13/2015 6/13 – 6/14 6/14/2015 Yes SoCal...
Indoor Archer’s Cup
Indoor Season is almost over! In Massachusetts we have the 2015 National Indoors, the Shamrock Shoot (70 meters indoors) on 3/22, the Harvard 70 Meters Indoors (again 70 meters indoors) on 4/12, and the Indoor Archer's Cup on 3/13 to 3/15. The Indoor Archer's Cup is...
Special Notice
No Archery Classes the Weekend of 2/20/2015 On Friday 2/20/15, Saturday 2/21/15 and Sunday 2/22/15 there will be no archery classes since Coach Tom will be at the National Indoors with Team Aces. Team Aces is shooting on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in both the JOAD...
Endurance Training
Endurance Training? For Archery? Yes! Archery is an endurance sport! During an outdoor tournament you will be shooting a minimum of 84 arrows per day, drawing your bow about 90 - 95 times, walking about 5 miles and you will doing this for 2 days for local tournaments...
What are Archery SPTs?
SPT stands for Specific Physical Training and are exercises intended for the muscles you specifically need for your sport. In archery, we need strong bow drawing muscles, strong bow lifting muscles and the strong string hand finger muscles. Not only must these muscles...