Mangus Bowmen 3-D Shoot and Club News

amaro_jason@hotmail.com — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:00:47 +0100

Many of you know that I live in a pretty remote area of Southwestern New Mexico, this is great for hunting but not so great when it comes to hitting the 3-D circuit. We used to have 3 maybe 4, 2-day shoots in the area, basically, all the people from the desert would come play in the Gila National Forest for the weekend. It was alot of fun because these shoots brought in archers from all over the Southwest. Unfortunately Fire Restrictions, Fuel Prices and a new NM Archery Tour has caused several of the local clubs to relocate there big shoots to a more central area of the state. Well, those are the reasons that are stated, personally I think alot of those clubs got tired of having there butts handed to them by the Silver City Crew :).

While I don't know if I would call Silver City a hot bed of archery I would say that there are alot of really good shooters from the area. In fact, there is shoot along the NM and AZ border that pulls about 2500 shooters every year and there is usually a few side bets going on between the NM and AZ shooters. While, I don't know the exact record I do know that the NM teams usually bring home a PILE of cash. Let me just say it, when it comes to busting foam there are A TON of better archers in my area than me, I would consider myself more of a student of the game, and my 12-ringing buddies would back me on that one.

This is what some of the course looks like. If you click on the picture you will get a larger view.

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This weekend our local bow club, called the Mangus Bowmen, had a shoot to gauge interest in keeping the club going and to see if we had enough resources to hold our annual 2-day shoot in July. On Friday, we setup the course and we really had alot of people show up to help setup, it was great to see everybody pitch in.

To be honest, I wasn't real sure how many shooters were going to show up but that didn't matter. We were going to have fun no matter what the turn out was but after everybody got there we probably had about 60 people.

Here is Jose getting ready to shoot.

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It was Jose's 3rd shoot, so we were shooting REALLY slow but it pays off because I can help him remember the basics and we can HAVE FUN. The guys at the shoot tease us because he is shooting $150 arrows out of a $20 bow. Stella and Marissa showed up a little later and they also busted some foam. The cool part is that Jose and I had already finished and they could have just backed out and not shot but I think Marissa is really enjoying archery.

Jose posing with our arrows.

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Anyway you look at it we had a pretty good Saturday Morning.

If it is brown, it is down.

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After the shoot we got everybody together to figure out what direction the club wanted to go. Well, it looks like we have going to have at least one more 1 day shoot and we will be having our annual 2-day shoot. Oh and I forgot to mention, it look like I am the new Vice-President.

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Some more of the PJ's

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Take Care...

J-

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Strength Training for the BowHunter

dan@sportsmansfitness.com — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:52:19 +0100

Our component for [[strength]] training is among us. I will now start implementing daily entries on the routines that I am currently pursuing and you may scale them to suite your [[fitness]] level. My advice to all bowhunters and sportsmen alike is to pursue fitness daily, eat consistently well, and shoot straight. Strength is a prerequisite for bowhunting out West, out East, and out anywhere else in life...you must have an uncompromising and even relentless approach to reach new strength levels. There are numerous strength types out there (IE relevant strength, speed strength, power strength, etc) and we'll hope to tap into all types and their requirements. Resistance or strength training may be used interchangeable, but keep in mind that resistance is your stressor of some form that creates the need for a response. Let's make sure we provide clear instruction to our bodies, get the proper adaptation, and then have the results pay large dividends come late summer!

Adaptive Benefits from Resistance Training ***[[National Academy of Sports Medicine]]

Physiological

- improved [[cardiovascular]] efficiency (your heart become more efficient)

- beneficial [[endocrine]] and [[serum]] [[lipid]] adaptations (your cholesterols get put to good use)

Physical

- increased lean body mass (improved [[metabolics]])

- decreased body fat (look sexier for the bow-ladies)

Performance

- increased metabolic efficiency (stay lean)

- increased [[tissue tensile]] strength (more strength, decreased injury potential)

- increased [[bone density]] (never a bad thing to have strong active bones)

Check back to this blog more frequently as your workouts are going to periodize out until late summer...

By the way, the sportsmansfitness.com website is under new construction and we'll be up again shortly.

Keep it tight.

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***Dan performing a front squat; this move is fundamental for total body strength

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