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Instructor
Training Schedules
NADA maintains a quick-access message board where all known Basic and
Intermediate
instructor training courses open to the public are posted. Check theses postings for a course in
your area. Also check out "NADA News" there.
Start an
After
School Archery Program
ASAP programs continue where the "first shot" leaves off! Learn
new skills, earn awards, and experience the wealth of archery styles and
equipment used in tournaments and leagues. Sanctioned by USA
Archery, National Field Archery Association, Archery Shooters
Association, and facilitated by NADA.
Equipment Access
As an instructor, you can rent
or buy program equipment from NADA. If you teach instructor
training courses, NADA will waive the rental fee.
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Clothing and Gifts
Have fun giving and wearing archery
shirts and clothing, or give the gift of archery! Visit the "Archery
Goodies" Center. Your purchase supports instructor training
programs nationwide.
Host a Certified Instructor Course
You can host a certified instructor course with as few as 6 participants.
NADA will locate a qualified course instructor, provide course materials
and loaner equipment, and will help you promote your course.
Contact NADA for details.
JOIN NADA
If you are a certified instructor of USA Archery,
NFAA, 4-H or NASP, you can join NADA and enjoy valuable instructor
benefits!
Your Support is Vital!
Please
consider making a cash donation to NADA to help support its role in
training new archery instructors well into the future. Your donation is
tax deductible, and can be made with just a "click" through PayPal.
Thanks from all of us for your support!
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Archery has many faces! |
Archery tournaments come in all styles--indoors,
outdoors, shooting from a line or from a marker stake.
National organizations have formed to develop rules and
awards for tournaments and clubs. Each
organization hosts events with various categories for
equipment styles and archer abilities. Several
styles of archery may overlap from more than a single
organization, but here is a sample of the styles, and
some links to the national organizations most likely to
be conducting them:
Target Archery
Target Archery is shot indoor or outdoors while
standing on the shooting line together, shooting
in the same direction at a row of targets using
recurve or compound bows (some even include
crossbow divisions). Major
tournaments include the NFAA Vegas Shoot
(indoors) and the USA Archery Nationals
(outdoors) Excellent archers can even earn an
income as tournament professionals.
The Olympic Games
Archery is an Olympic Sport with more than 140
countries participating in Olympic Style Archery.
The Olympic Round consists of exciting Match Play
elimination rounds for both men’s and women’s
classes. A fast paced Team round is also shot, in
both the men’s and women’s classes.
All Olympic
round competitions are shot at a 122cm target
face
at 70 meters with recurve bows only.
The
International Archery Federation, FITA, also holds
World Championships and a World Cup series during
non-Olympic Years. There are opportunities for
Junior’s under the age of 18 and Collegiate archers
to compete at FITAWorld Championships.
For
more information, visit:
USA Archery
www.usarchery.org
Field
Archery
Field Archery is shot on a challenging course, with
targets placed at different distances, up hill, down
hill, or on the side of a mountain. The archers walk
the course from target to target, often in the
woods. Most Field courses have targets at marked
distances. Some field rounds are also shot at
unmarked distances, requiring increased skills of
the competitors.
Several organizations offer field rounds, and other
types of rounds that may include a hunter round or
an animal round. The types, sizes and scoring of
target faces may differ. Compound bows
dominate this style of sport, but recurve bows have
popular divisions as well
For
more information, visit:
National Field Archery Association
www.fieldarchery.org
3-D
Archery
 3-D
Archery is shot on a course like Field Archery,
however the
targets are made of foam that is molded and painted
to resemble game
animals.
3-D Archery is extremely popular throughout
the
United States.
Most courses are
of unmarked distances to closely
resemble bowhunting where calculating distance is
important in achieving aiming accuracy.
For
more information, visit
Archery
Shooters Association
www.asaarchery.com
International Bowhunting Organization
www.ibo.net
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