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June 24, 2009 - Total Archery - "Inside the Archer" 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. With the assistance of co-author,Tyler Benner, who trained under my tutelage for two years at the USA Olympic Training Centre, 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 Total Archery " Inside the Archer" , published and distributed through Astra LLC, will be available in early July. Note: Next time you meet Coach Lee at a tournament or seminar, bring your book along for a free signing.

May 31, 2009 - USA World Selection Trial Results 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

April 12, 2009 - Brady Ellison wins Arizona Cup 2009 In Recurve Men, the local hero American ELLISON claimed another victory in his early career. He beat Baar NESTENG (NOR) in the final 116 -103. His ranking round of 1328 placed him in the box seat, placing him first. Brady Ellison is coached in the BEST method by legendary coach Kisik Lee, USA National Head Coach. In addition he also set a new AZ record at 70M of 339, whilst his 116 in the final was only one point below archery’s great Rick McKinney’s AZ record of 117, set in 1993. Click here for full results. Click photo to enlarge 15th January 2009 - USA CHANGES ENTIRE COACHING SYSTEM. Click here for further information May 31, 2008 - World Cup Stage 3 - Turkey Click on photos to enlarge Extracts and photos from FITA official website 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! May 20 , 2008 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. Click here May 4, 2008 - USA Olympic Team 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 October 10, 2007 CQT - El Salvador 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. Ranking for CQT on Thursday 1 Scavotto USA 1333 2 Lorig USA 1332 3 Garcia MEX 1328 4 Brito VEN 1315 5 Sarduy CUB 1311 6 Beaudet CAN 1309 7 Roman MEX 1306 8 Van Lamoen CHI 1294 9 Pagan CUB 1287 10 Vrakking CAN 1279 11 Ruiz PUR 1274 12 Gamon MEX 1247 13 Niles CAN 1247 14 Deschamps CHI 1244 15 Jones BAR 1243 16 Duenas ESA 1241 17 Marquez VEN 1241 18 Nikitin BRA 1241 19 Leoni VEN 1224 20 Quiroga ECU 1223 21 Maldanado ECU 1219 22 Burgos CHI 1214 23 Rocha BRA 1212 24 Mora ECU 1205 25 Landaverde ESA 1204 26 Sanchez BRA 1203 27 Escalante ESA 1180 28 La Torre PUR 1024 August 26, 2007 Gold Medal Final KIM originally from Korea, but now competing with a lot of passion for Australia produced a spectacular finish to the tournament in Beijing. CHENG and KIM were tied at 111-111 at the end of the 12 arrows. KIM was leading 84-82, but a triple 9 in the last end gave an opening to CHENG to tie the match with 10-9-10. The tie break then required each archer to shoot the maximum three arrows each before the gold medallist finally emerged. Perfect 10s by both archers in the first two shots took it to the very last arrow, in which the flawless shooting of KIM secured him the glory, shooting another 10 to CHENG’s 9. 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

The seminar focussed on the BEST method (Coach Lee's Shot Technique System) and was attended by some 72 coaches. [read more]

We have been promised translations in Hebrew and Greek and would hope that we can also obtain a translation in Standard Arabic to be able to share the KSL knowledge in these regions.

Catalan: is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra and co-official in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Valencia (under the name Valencian) and Catalonia. Spain has the majority of active Catalan speakers. It is spoken or understood by approximately 10 million people who live not only in Andorra and Spain, but also in parts of southwestern France (most of Pyrénées Orientales) and in the city of Alghero in Sardinia, Italy.

This now makes for the tenth language and it is through the generosity of other archers and archery officials that we are able to come closer to realising our objective of sharing the knowledge of one of the great archery coaches in modern times with the rest of the archery world.

We have been promised a Brazilian Portuguese translation and also for French, which will make for twelve languages....FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!

One of the major languagesstill missing is French. We are hoping that, through the kind efforts of a yet to be indentified generous French archer, this can be rectified in the not too distant future.
Vive la France!

We are pleased to advise that the KSL Shot Cycle has now also been translated into Swedish by courtesy of the efforts of Claes Colmeus from Sweden. We also understand that the Swedish National Coach has emailed all Swedish archers and recommends them to read the KSL Shot Cycle.

Kisik Lee will be flying to Italy to conduct a BEST seminar for Italy's top federal coaches in the Sports Center Saini in Milan on December 16 and 17, before he flies back for a well deserved two weeks Christmas break back in Australia with his family.

Our web site has been relatively inactive during the last month, which has been mainly due to restructuring and redesign of the website. This, as you will appreciate, takes a lot of time.
We would like to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to Jonathan Ohayon, who has given so freely of his time and talents to create this outstanding web site. We are sure you agree.
We are always amazed by the generosity of our fellow archers, all over the world, who contribute to this website through translation of the KSL Shot Cycle in their native languages; the translation of Total Archery now in Spanish. It is through this that we are encouraged to continue to bring the latest coaching information from one of the world’s top coaches to archers world wide. We are a non-profit organisation and bring you this website for the love of the sport.

Announcing North Region BEST training camp Nov 18th-19th at ChicagolandJOAD.
http://www.chicagolandjoad.org/1st_north_region_camp.htm

Unfortunately, due to severe time constraints by Coach Kisik Lee it will not be possible to conduct any seminars or coaching camps over the 2006 Christmas period in Australia. Nearly all seminars for 2007 will be conducted in the USA, so check our Upcoming Seminars section as well as the USA Archery official web site http://www.usarchery.org/ for details when and as they become available.

The Italian translation of TOTAL ARCHERY can be bought directly from ARCO SPORT SPIGARELLI via Prenestina, 252/E 00177 Roma (Ita)
Tel 062148351
info@arcosportspigarelli.com
and all archery shops.

Il libro TOTAL ARCHERY puo' essere acquistato direttamente presso la Arco Sport Spigarelli via Prenestina,252/e 00177 Roma (Ita)
tel 062148351
info@arcosportspigarelli.com
e presso tutti i negozi specializzati in arceria

Coach Kisik Lee has accepted The Italian Archery Federation's invitation to conduct a two day seminar for 30 selected coaches in Italy on December 16 & 17, 2006.

Announcing A High-powered BEST Archery Seminar At Texas A&M, October 27-28.
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Congratulations to Tyler Martin, Guy Kruger and Tyler Domonech, all Residental Archers at Chula Vista, who were baptized on Saturday September 29 in San Diego Bay, with Kisik Lee as their sponsor.

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We are very pleased to be able to bring you the KSL Shot Cycle now also in the German language through the kinds efforts of Andreas Hinrichs. We just received the translation without any preamble or requests and are very much indebted to Andreas and those archers who give their time freely to translate the shot cycle in their language so that their countrymen and women, who may not be as fluent in English, may also benefit from this important piece of coaching information. Coach Lee and myself wish to make this available to as many archers in the world at no cost and any translations in any language are very much welcomed.

We are happy to announce that the KSL Shot Cycle has now been translated into Hungarian through the kind efforts of Borbély László, a member of the Hungarian Olympic Committee.

Total Archery has now been translated into Japanese, Italian and Chinese; French and Spanish are in the making. Translation of an entire book is an enormous task, as everybody will appreciate. However, we consider the KSL Shot Cycle to be extremely important in the total scheme of things and we are very much indebted to people like Borbély László who want to share this important piece of information with their countrymen, who may not be as fluent in English as they are. We will be happy to host any other language translation of the KSL Shot Cycle on this website. Please contact us for further details.

We have just received advice that the Italian Archery Association will be adopting Total Archery, which has been translated in Italian by Spigarelli, as their text book. Copies should be available in the very near future.