Whole Body/Back Body: A Handbook for Archers
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Life Course Health Press | Available from Amazon
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For archers
Integrate physical awareness into your training in order to foster and refine the positions and posture optimal for you, in your shot. Improve your technique and skill in the game by engaging this archery-specific movement program designed to enhance your proprioceptive and kinesthetic acuity (awareness of your position and your movement) so that you may better guide yourself in the discovery of your shot process.
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What's inside?
A program linking to form elements as well as crosscutting themes pertaining to the shot. Innovative, attentional guides that specify zones of form or aspects of your movement on which to place your attention as you perform the basic movement. Precise and concise how-tos—providing the ground from which you will grow physical awareness.
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For coaches
Learn ways to encourage students to get curious about the deep physicality of archery (often misconstrued as a sedentary sport); cultivate autonomous learning; activate joy in movement; help students overcome physical reticence; introduce verbal, tactile and external cues to support technical work and skill building; implement the ecological approach to coaching for both learners and elite athletes.
I’m an Instructor of Archery at Cornell University and Consulting Coach at Ithaca Archery, also a certified Level 3 NTS Coach. I’ve competed in Olympic recurve, and now practice and teach barebow.