June 2012 – Golden Gate Junior Olympic Archery Development

First time Golden Gate archery student shows her winning arrow.

Splitting an arrow is the classic example of archery prowess in stories and movies. In keeping with stories like Robin Hood and the new Pixar movie Brave, Golden Gate JOAD held an arrow splitting contest for our archers. Splitting real …

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Archery Games

Standard target archery rounds are a staple in archery, but it is also fun to break up your routine. There are a lot of fun and safe novelty games you can play in archery. They can be as simple as …

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Golden Gate JOAD Archers Shoot for Achievement Awards

Practicing archery with Golden Gate JOAD in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. This photo taken at our June 23d Golden Gate JOAD session is a cell phone photo shamelessly retouched to make it look like it was taken with a DSLR camera with a long lens. What isn't retouched is the wiggly looking bow limb in the upper right corner. The bow limb doesn't look like that in real life—the wiggly appearance is an artifact of the motion of the limb after being loosed combined with the way certain kinds of camera sensors scan.

Saturday was a gorgeous day at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park Archery range, and a perfect day for Golden Gate JOAD archers to shoot for their JOAD Star Pin Awards and Adult Achievement Awards. Many of our kids and adults …

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Month: June 2012

A Splitting the Arrow Game for Everyone

Archery Games

Golden Gate JOAD Archers Shoot for Achievement Awards