Royle Hutton (1938 -2004), Youth Archery Advocate
Royle Hutton (1938-2004) was an integral figure in Archery New Zealand. At first, when he attended Greenwood Archery Club in New Plymouth with his wife Alison and his daughter Kylee, …
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Making the Half Century
I picked up the editorial role of the NZ Archer magazine in January 2011 when Cedric Gorman, the previous editor, stepped down after his ten years of work and Archery …
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Setting your Sights
What’s the fastest and easiest way to set sight marks for your bow? Say you got a new bow for Christmas, or a new sight, or your coach just increased …
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Healthy Lunches for the Starving Archer
THE “PERFECT” FILLED ROLL One long bun, cut lengthwise Crisp lettuce Grated cheese Mayonnaise (a must) Sliced tomato Champagne ham or your meat of choice, like shredded chicken or salami …
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What makes a GREAT coach?
There are a lot of opinions about what makes a great coach, from “ones who’s archers win all the time” to “ones who are nice people”. But what do the …
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Do I need help? Setting up your Clicker
A Thin Metal Strip If you shoot recurve target archery at some point you will have seen other archers using a thin metal strip on the riser to check their …
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Mental Skills
How mental imagery and self-hypnosis can improve performance Focusing your mind can result in huge performance gains The ability to look into the future and the capacity to imagine have …
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Looking Towards Tokyo 2020
It is great to hear through the grapevine that there is a group of archers very keen to be nominated for this event. Even better that people are focusing a …
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Practicing Safely at Home
Once new archers have been hooked with the archery bug, they will commonly want to practice more in their quest for world archery dominance! Often I’ll hear from a new …
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