Viking Archery

04/29/2022

Such an amazing find 😲

06/17/2020

USA Archery has a free 1 year trial membership for youth involved in S3DA and NASP programs (which our archery program is connected with). Follow the link and check out these new opportunities. 🏹🎯

USA Archery is excited to introduce a free trial membership to introduce youth to USA Archery programs and events.

05/19/2020

Proper grip. I hope you’ve been able to continue practicing? Even if you don’t have a range, you can always use a string bow to work on your form🏹🎯

04/03/2020

I hope you are able to get some practice during this time. On TV always has great tips and lessons. Always learning, always improving!! I miss our sessions together!! Stay healthy and remember archery is a fantastic way to destress or take a break from the monotony of sheltering in place. 🏹🎯

Today’s Lessons: -Zanshin- the mind with no remainder. In other words the mind is being completely fixated on the task or the action and is in a state of awareness, a relaxed alertness! This can be done by focusing on the steps required to properly acquire these 4 critical parts pictured here! I teach on 4 P.O.C (points of contact). This 1,2,3,4 method is something I designed to make sure archers are focusing on the anchor, facial contact and peep in the appropriate order. #1 is the anchor position. It should always happen first. Index finger under the jaw then the other fingers above it. The mistake many people make is instead of anchoring first they are being eager to see their sight so they instead pull the peep back to their eye as number 1. WRONG! If you focus on the peep first then who knows what combination of facial pressure and anchor positions you can come up with. Most likely, not a repeatable one! Also if you add in angled shooting then you are destined for disaster! The release hand to the anchor position is always #1! Then #2 is feeling a light and delicate touch of the string in the side of the lips. This pressure should be light and the lips must be relaxed. #3 is the string to the tip of the nose. This happens naturally as you slightly tilt the head forward to acquire the peep. This step is important because where and how that string sits on the nose tells you a lot about your other steps. If the pressure or position feels wrong then one of the first steps is likely wrong. If that’s the case, cancel the shot and start over! LAST IS THE PEEP, as the head is tilted from step #3 its likely that #4 comes into plain sight and easy peep alignment happens. The head position is correct and your technique is proper for shooting any angle simply by maintaining this position and bending at the waist for up or down shooting. Learning to be fluid at this and not wasting time or energy is something that happens with practice and also promotes ZANSHIN imo! These steps promote repeatability, clearance, low pressure and alignment.If you plan to share it give credit where credit is due.

03/03/2020

Eli House here is a shot sequence you should check out. Notice the index finger on the trigger. It doesn’t move 👍👍 https://www.instagram.com/p/B9PQp1EJ0ZT/?igshid=1mgw3qm9yl5ic

02/27/2020

The balloons brought out a little friendly competition today‼️🎈🏹🎯 Nice shooting McVey👍👍

02/27/2020

Little 🎈 targets today‼️🏹🎯 Some were safe the entire practice 🤔😆

02/13/2020

We had some “heart breakers” targets today at archery in honor of Valentines Day coming up 💘. Also, WELCOME Josue as the newest member to archery club 🏹🎯🙌

02/06/2020

Arrow flinging went well today‼️🏹🎯