Im Dong-Hyun (Kor) sets new World Record of 693 for 72 arrows at 70M

Im has only 10% sight!!!!

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USA dominates Final World Cup Final in Istanbul with 4 Gold and 2 Silver

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Transition Regional Coaching Course

November 6-12, 2011

Recurve vs Compound

A match between two of the best archers in 2011 at the SoCall Showdown.

Could recurve beat compound?

Our Twentieth Language!!!

Sport Psychology, now translated in Belorussian courtesy of Olga Skachko

Rodger Willet Jr., Compound, joins Brady Ellison, Recurve, to win THREE consecutive World Cups.

USA Team snares 7 Gold, 2 Silver and 1 Bronze for an unprecedented 10 medals

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Brady Ellison, Recurve, becomes the first archer ever to win THREE consecutive World Cups.

Will Rodger Willett Jr, Compound, equal this feat tomorrow?

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USA dominates World Cup 3 in Ogden

USA archers qualify first in 9 out of ten events and will contest 8 Gold Medal matches, one Silver and 2 Bronze

Olympic Archery Quota for London 2012

Thirty-five  places for both Men & Women Recurve have now been allocated based on results from the 2011 World Championships in Turin, with the remainder of the 29 places to be allocated based on CQTs next year: refer to details of Qualification System.

For details of current allocation see Men and Women

World Championships Turin, Italy

USA and Korea share medal rankings with 6 medals each in Turin.

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Twenty seven Olympic Qualification Places determined for each, Recurve Men & Women at WAC in Turin.

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U.S.Men's Recurve Team Clinches Olympic Quota Spots.

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World Cup 2 - Antalya
Team USA was coached by National Head Coach KiSik Lee, the Coach with the Midas touch, assisted by Michael Usherenko and Mel Nichols and the team was lead by Cindy Bevilacqua. USA leads the Medal Tally with 5 Gold. 1 Silver and 1 Bronze, followed by Korea with 5 and Iran 3 medals.

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How important do you think it is to have 20/20 vision to be able to become a world elite archer?

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World Cup 2 - Antalya

Brady ELLISON (USA) and Rodger WILLET Jr. (USA) take out individual Gold in Men Recurve and compound respectively.

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Sydney Opera House during Light Festival
A fantastic location for a World Cup Final

Photo courtesy of Robert de Bondt Jr.

"The Principle of Reinforcement" - by Lanny Bassham now translated in French, "Le Renforcement", courtesy of Philippe BOICHUT

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USA World Cup Team Announced
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Brady Ellison posting a FITA 1357 score at the 1st trial and a 1368 for the second, for a total double FITA of 2725
The selected three men recurve team, all Resident Archers, posted combined Team scores of 4016 and 4009 respectively.

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The reigning World Cup Final winner Brady ELLISON has been nominated the World Archery Athlete of the Week!

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USA Dominates World Cup Stage 1 with
6 Gold medals and1 Silver
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The USA Men Recurve Team defeated the Ukraine 214 - 209 and will shoot for the Gold Medal tomorrow at 15.10 local time, against India who defeated Korea 219 - 217.

Straight after that match the mixed USA Team of Brady Ellison and Khatuna Lorig will shoot for the Gold Medal against Korea at 15.35 local time

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PT- 特定体能训练 The translation of the KSL Physical SPT is now avalable in Chinese, courtesy Coach Leng Morris
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KSL射箭程序四—集中在射箭过程 The translation of the KSL IV Focus Cycle is now avalable in Chinese, courtesy Coach Leng Morris
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The first WAC trial and Gator cup at Florida has just finished. Olympic Resident Archers
did well 1,2 and 3rd! Also 1,2,3 and 4th for world team selection.

Men's Team FITA scores:
1357+1337+1330=4024

For all scores click here

KSL射箭程序三，呼吸节奏

The translation of the KSL Breathing Cycle is now avalable in Chinese, courtesy Coach Leng Morris

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KSL 射箭程序

We are very happy to be able to now bring Chinese translations to our website.

This now makes for 19 languages and includes the core of KSL Olympic Medals winning technique, the KSL Shot Cycle.

We would like to thank Coach Leng Morris for this translation and great effort to spread and make available Coach Lee's winning technique to our Chinese archery friends all over the world.

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Brady Ellison wins Amsterdam Face 2 Face Indoor with 590,592,593,595

The Gold medal match was the most exciting between Brady and Magnus Petersson with five 1 arrow shoot offs. Both archers shot 30,30,29,30,30. Magnus won the first arrow shoot off and Brady the remaining four, clinching the Gold Medal 4 - 1.

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Transition Regional Coach Course to be conducted by Coach Kisik Lee in Philadelphia from November 1- 7

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Brady Ellison - A Winner On and Off the Field

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Outstanding Results for USA Archers at World Cup in Croatia, winning 7 Medals

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Brady Ellison Gold Medal Individual Men Recurve + Gold Medal with Jennifer Nichols in Mixed Doubles
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View video of Gold Medal Match
Brady Ellison vs Vic Wunderle - Click here

Congratulations to Grandpa Lee on the arrival of his first granddaughter on November 19. The doctor recommends no SPT for the first 3 months:)

KSL Shot Cycle now translated into Polish courtesy of Marek Sochacki
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Sports Psychology now translated into Serbian courtesy of Velimir Kojic
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KSL Shot Cycle now translated into Albanian courtesy of
Rudi Guraziu & Bardhyl Luzhnica
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The 2009 US Nationals and US Open Championships saw great results for Kisik Lee’s archers and again shows the magic this great coach can weave and highlighting yet again his successful coaching methods.

The US Nationals saw Brady Ellision come first and Jake Kaminski 3rd in the Open Men Recurve with Heather Koehl achieving 3rd in the Ladies Open Recurve.

Following was the US Open Championships, which was a match play event. Brady Ellison had a great run of matches winning 115, 113, 113, 116, 111 which pitched him against Vic Wunderle in the Gold Medal match. After a close tussle Brady defeated Vic  111-110 to win the Gold medal.

Twenty year old, Jake Kaminski made it to the Bronze medal match, but was defeated by the more seasoned Butch Johnson 113-108.  Jake is showing great promise and his Olympic dream is driving him on to greater heights..
Happy 21st Birthday to Jake for August 11.

Eighteen year old Heather Koehl’s  dream to be in the 2012 USA Olympic Team came a step closer with a great win against Jennifer Nichols in the Gold Medal match, defeating Jennifer 109-106 and winning the Gold Medal.

Technique, now in German,courtesy of Kurt Eggerling.Click Flag

Message from Coach Kisik Lee

To all the archers reading this book, please realize this book was written for you. The subtitle of the book, Inside the Archer, is meant to relate to the feeling, emotion, and power, you as the archer feel while shooting. After the success of the first Total Archery book, I had a great desire to publish a book written from the perspective of an archer. I feel I have come close to the best approach to teaching Olympic-level archery.

Though this book is written from the feeling and understanding of an archer, this does not mean a coach will not find this a valuable read. First and foremost the descriptions will be what an archer should see, experience, and feel, however it is the job of the coach to get inside of his archer. It is impossible to shoot the arrows for your students, but it is my goal that through this book, coaches will feel more like archers, and together the archer and coach can come closer together in their understanding. If a coach remembers that in order for his archer to shoot a ten from 70 meters, the archer must keep the point of their arrow in a circle smaller than the tip of a ball-point pen, and then approach coaching with that same amount of precision and attention to detail, one can be assured of much greater success.

Through the course of writing this book I have  changed my own coaching and understanding, for the better.
Kisik Lee

SPT Tools for Archers and Coaches, in PDF format, by Coach Kisik Lee, now in German,courtesy of Kurt Eggerling.Click Flag

SPT Tools for Archers and Coaches, in PDF format, by Coach Kisik Lee.Check it Out

For ful results of Ranking Round Men & Women Compound and Recurve Click here

For ful results of Match Play Men & Women Compound and Recurve Click here

New National USA 90M & FITA Record
Congratulations to Brady Ellison who set two new National records at the recent USA World Trials in Georgia.
New Record 90M - 331
New Record FITA 90 - 1364
(331, 336,340,357)

Check out the BEST method as used by Top USA Olympic archer, Brady Ellison Check it Out

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Gold Medal: ELLISON Brady (USA) - IM Dong Hyun (KOR)

The last match features the reigning World Champion and Team World Record holder Im and the 19-year old Ellison. The latter has the best start with 9-10-9 (27) versus 8-9-9 (26) for Im. However, the Korean turns the score to his advantage in the second end thanks to a perfect end (10-X10-X10). Ellison shoots 8-9-9 and trails by 3 (53-56). It seems he cannot do anything as the World Champion of Korea continues with another triple 10 (86). Ellison is behind by 6 with three 9s (80). The two archers copy each other in the last end with both shooting 9-10-9. The difference therefore does not change and Im takes gold with 114 pts. Ellison scores a total of 108 pts and wins silver for his first gold medal match on a World Cup.

Brady Ellison (USA)
I was shooting strong. There were good shots but they just didn’t go “in”. Five or six arrows were very close to the 10 ring. I like this final field on the beach very much. Even the warm-up range had the same conditions as the actual final field. I didn’t feel tense because it was a special field. It was still “me, the target and one opponent”.

The US trials to qualify for the Olympic Games were about eight months long. It was a long and difficult process because each round of competitions was more important than the previous one. It obliged the archers to stay strong pretty much every week-end. We played a whole lot of matches and in a sense it was the best training. Coach Lee designed these trials and I trust him. For me he is the best coach in the world. He probably brought home more gold medals than anyone else. I have known him since I started to shoot recurve. He is like family. He is so good in pointing out the little things that are wrong in your shooting. He knows exactly what he wants and how you should shoot to perform at your best. He makes you achieve your best potential.

I hope I stick to my mental game until the Beijing Olympics and I hope for the best there!

We are very happy to add the Greek translation of the KSL Shot Cycle to our website through the labours of Elias Koumarianos and Kostas Lasithiotakis. A great effort, which now brings the total translations of the KSL SAhot Cycle to SIXTEEN. Again a great thank you to all our friends and contributors, who make this all worthwhile.
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The final 3rd USA Olympic Selection trial was concluded today at theBen Avery Shooting Center in Phoenix, Arizona
The top three men
1.Brady Ellison
2.Butch Johnson
3.Vic Wunderle

Top two women
1. Jennifer Nichols
2.Khatuna Lorig

For detailed scores Click here

Phase 1 of the USA mission in El Salvador has been accomplished. Karen Scavoto and Khatuna Lorig finished 1st & 2nd in the FITA ranking round. That puts the USA in the best possible position going into the OR tomorrow. They will have a bye in the first round and then they need to win at least 2 matches to be in position to finish in top 3. The top 3 finishers are the only ones that qualify spots for the Olympics. Hopefully both girls will get into the final.

The girls are in good spirits and are shooting well. There has been no wind, but it rains some every day. Lets pray that it will be good news.

What a great and fitting end to the week of action in Beijing. The archers will now have less than a year to brush up their skills ready for the big event at next years Olympics.

Didier Miéville
FITA Communication