Friday, February 22, 2013

Monday, February 4, 2013

Clean Shot Laser Broadhead Hunting Archery Whitetail Moose

Sadece teknolojinin gelişimini görmek için bloğa koydum, canlıya ok atılmasını asla tasvip etmiyorum... 3-D maket hedeflere ok atarak ta okla hedefi vurma isteğimizi tatmin edebiliriz.

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Friday, September 21, 2012

BİGA ARCHERY FESTIVAL IN TURKIYE





BİGA ARCHERY FESTIVAL THANKS MESSAGE OF OUR DISTRICT GOVERNOR FATİH GENEL

Biga Flag Officer Osman Bey Traditional Archery Competitions and Festivals, organized by Society for Turkish Archery and District Governorate of Biga has successfully took place between 14-15-16th September 2012. The event has started with a meeting dinner at Kırkgeçit Spa Hotel on 14th September Friday. On 15th September, the Horseback and Ground Archery competitions got started in Biga Dikmen Village Hafızın Düzü at 9 a.m and after serving pilaf with burghul for lunch, the competitions continued till the evening. 32 competitors from 7 countries and 110 competitors from all over our country have participated in the tournament.
On the 16th September Sunday, a marvelous breakfast was given and then in company with Mehter Band, foreign and Turkish competitors joined an official walk with their traditional clothes. After a half an hour walk, the team arrived at the stadium and unforgettable shows were performed. The shows got started with incredible Cirit shows and went on with horseback archery, sword, horseback acrobatics, sword-colt shows and jar shot, qabaq shot, puta shot and ground archery performances. Afterwhile, an award ceremony was held for first, second and third prizes in 8 categories.
We pay tribute to the founding president of Society for Turkish Archery Sami Genel on behalf of all the sporters. 
We would like to express our gratitude to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, The Governor of Çanakkale Güngör Azim Tuna, Special Provincial Administration,Prime Ministry Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities, İbrahim BODUR and Çanakkale Seramik family, Chief Executive Officer of Turkish Airlines Hamdi Topçu and Turkish Airlines community, our main sponsor İÇDAŞ A.Ş, especially the General Director of İÇDAŞ and the head of Commerce and Industry Chamber Bülent Engin. 
I would like to thank Biga Mayor Mehmet Özkan and town mayors, the head of Biga Archery Club Zühtü Uygun, Biga Archery Club Sporters, Karabiga Yakamoz Hotel, Biga Şahin Hotel, Administration of Kırkgeçit Spa Hotel, Law Enforcement and Gendarme Agencies, District Director of National Education, Department Chiefs and teachers in charge, especially the Principal of Public Education Ramazan Tasar, the Principal of Biga Technical and Vocational High School Yaşar Çakır, the Principal of Çiçeklidede Special Administration Secondary School Musa Çetin, the Principal of Diyarbakırlı Ekrem Ergün Primary School İhsan Şiren, Organization General Coordinator and District Director of Youth and Sports Cabir Kaşdemir, Director of Food, Agriculture and Livestock Murat Ceylan, Director of Special Administration Hasan Kaya, Dikmen Village Headman Sabri Işık, Community of Health,District Governorate Staff Mehmet DEMİR, Ümit ÖRNEK and Kadir AKKUŞ, briefly to my all colleagues for their moral and material support. 
We would like to express our gratitude to the great artist Cüneyt Arkın and his precious son Kaan, advocate Seçkin Tay, the head of İstanbul Horseback Archery Club and charismatic artist Cemal Hünal and his team who have participated in the organization with his 10 horses, Murat Sezal who has acted İsa Pasha in Fetih(Conquest) 1453. 
I would like to thank the Head of Kemankeş Archery Club Metin Ateş who has made contact with foreign competitors on behalf of Society for Turkish Archery, the Head of Sivas Horseback Archery Club and Undertaker of Horseback Archery Organization Hilmi Arıç and his team, the Head of Tokat Danişment Archery Club and Undertaker of Ground Archery Organization Dr.Metin Aksoy and his team.
I also would like to thank foreign sporters participated from Sweden, Slovakia, Bulgaria,Greece,Mongolia, Hungary and Romania. I want to thank Kemankeş Archery Sports Club from Istanbul, İstanbul Horseback Archery Sports Club, Talimhane Archery Sports Club, Kayseri Horseback Archery Sports Clu, Ankara Kavsi Kemankeşleri Archery Club, Ankara Sports Club,Tokat Danişment and Anatolia Archery Sports Club,Amasya Gümüşhacıköy Gümüşyay Archery Club,Ankara Archery Club, Konya Bulcukspor Archery Club, Sivas Sipahi Ocağı Archery Sports Club and Sivas Horseback Sports Cirit Club, Samsun Canik Archery Sports Club, Uşak Cirit Club and Turgutlu Mehter Band.
I thank a lot to the Hungarian bow master Csaba Grozer, our bow master friend Mehmet Gölhan and Kemanger bow master Ercan Özek from Istanbul and The Art Director of Turkish World Music Community of Ministry of Culture and Tourism İrfan GÜRDAL.
I also would like to thank friends who have coloured our organization with their handicrafts.
Of course I would like to thank citizens of Biga for their contributions and positive energy, protocol members, my colleagues, non-governmental organisations, members of Provincial Council and the Secretary Ayhan Gider, the Head of Çanakkale Black Sea Fellows Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation Turgay Kılıç and our public.
I want to thank so much to the local and national media for being our hand, foot and voice and supporting us. 
I would like to expess my gratitude to the Deputies of Çanakkale Mehmet Daniş and İsmail Kaşdemir who have honored us by taking part in our festival and supporting the Traditional Archery in every step.
I wish Biga Flag Officer Osman Bey Second Archery Competitions and Festivals will be beneficial for the development of our ancient sport and I believe that Turkish Archery and Horseback Archery will go forward. The arrow is already off the bow. I congratulate those brave people who strive to rejuvenate this noble ancient sport.

18th September 2012 
Fatih GENEL
Biga District Governor
fatih@genel.web.tr www.fatihgenel.com


Friday, May 25, 2012

The 'Best Archer Who Ever Lived'?

The 'best archer who ever lived'?

Updated: May 23, 2012, 12:07 PM ET
By Jim Caple
CHULA VISTA, Calif. -- The three-bedroom apartment Brady Ellison shares with two fellow archers near the U.S. Olympic training center has three floors, with one bedroom off the garage, a kitchen and living area on the middle level and two bedrooms on the top. It isn't fancy. There are two decorative touches, however, that make Ellison stand out from most every other Olympian.
A deer head and a Corsican (long-horned) sheep head mounted on his bedroom wall.
The trophies are just two of the many animals Ellison has hunted, either with a rifle or his preferred weapon, the bow and arrow. "It's much harder with a bow because you have to get so much closer," he said. "With a gun, you can shoot stuff from a thousand yards. I've killed animals at 92 or 93 yards with a bow, but most people aren't going to do it from more than 40 or 50 yards."
PETA members, start your engines.
"It's something humans have done forever, so there's that whole side of it. But it's also fun. It's exciting. You get to be outside," Ellison said of hunting's allure. "You have to be smarter than the animals, which sounds a lot easier than it is because they smell and hear so much better than we do. You're trying to outsmart them and getting close is just fun. The adrenaline rush I get is better than shooting in tournaments. And the animals taste better."
This summer, though, Ellison, 23, is hunting something much more elusive and precious than a deer, wild boar or javelina: an Olympic gold medal. He has been so committed to this goal, and archery in general, that he first moved to the Olympic training center at age 16, foregoing his last two years of high school to surround himself with Olympians and better develop his skills.
In other words, Ellison would have been a very smart first-round pick in your "Hunger Games" fantasy league. He is now the No. 1 ranked archer in the world.
"I came here because I wanted to be the best in the world," he said. "I wanted to be known as the best archer who ever lived. ... I feel like a bow fits me. I honestly feel God put me on this earth to shoot a bow."
Brady EllisonMike Ehrmann/Getty ImagesAmerican Brady Ellison is currently the No. 1 ranked archer in the world.

'I'm just a country boy'

Ellison occasionally wears a cowboy hat over his brown curly hair, along with a silvery belt buckle so large it could be mistaken for the Wimbledon championship tray. At the recent Olympic media summit, his marvelously trim fellow athletes prominently wore Ralph Lauren (and in the case of gymnast Nastia Liukin, five-inch black heels), but the husky Ellison wore a weathered baseball cap with a hook on the curved bill. Until recently, he also chewed tobacco. "I'm just a country boy," he said.
The Ellison family has been in Arizona since the 1880s. His grandfather ran a cattle ranch and Brady said he would be working cattle as well were it not for archery.
The sport has been central in Ellison's life since he was in diapers and his father, Alfred Ellison, gave him a toy bow and arrow. Brady remembers receiving his first real bow for Christmas when he was 6 or 7 years old. His mother, Julie Nichols, said there were no "You'll shoot your eye out!" worries in the family because Brady was always surrounded by people who stressed gun and bow safety. Plus, with 20/10 vision, Brady enjoyed somewhat better aim than Ralphie did in "A Christmas Story."
"He's loved archery his entire life," Alfred said. "It's been his passion forever."

I came here because I wanted to be the best in the world. I wanted to be known as the best archer who ever lived. ... I feel like a bow fits me. I honestly feel God put me on this earth to shoot a bow.
-- Brady Ellison on his decision to move to the Olympic training center in Chula Vista at a young age
Although Alfred and Julie divorced when Ellison was 2, he and his father bonded during frequent hunting trips in their native Arizona that began before Brady could even speak. Alfred fondly recalls a day in a duck blind when he was aiming at some ducks and Brady startled him from behind by shouting, "Bang! Bang! Bang!" He turned around to see Brady pointing his finger to the sky as if firing a gun. "I shoot, too!" he yelled.
As a child, Ellison suffered with Perthes disease, a condition that affects the hip and required him to wear leg braces when he was in kindergarten. It did not slow him down -- he still ran and played sports and even broke the braces several times, Forrest Gump-like. Afterward, his passion for hunting led to archery tournaments, including some informal competitions against local archers in the family's one-acre backyard in Glendale.
"Everybody would put in $20," Nichols said, "and Brady figured out, 'There are 10 people back here shooting and we're all putting in $20. I can make some money off this just messing 'round with the adults in the backyard.' Half the time he won the money and there was all sorts of trash talk and that's how he grew up in his teenage years."
Ellison's national goals grew out of a 2003 tournament in Colorado where he noticed a number of kids wearing USA shirts. "He asked me, 'Why do they have USA on the back of their shirts?'" Nichols recalled. "I had no idea but I asked around and found out. So I told him, 'These are kids who have finished in the top of the U.S. or made the world team. And when you do that, you get a shirt that says USA with your name on the back.' And he said, 'I think I want one of those.'"
Within a year, Ellison was on the U.S. junior world team (his mother eventually married one of his coaches, Mel Nichols). By 16, he faced an important decision.
He was switching from a compound bow to the less precise recurve bow that is used in Olympic competition. Ellison could continue his development at his home in Arizona or he could move to the Olympic training center and work full time with U.S. coach Kisik Lee as a resident athlete. Even though the latter meant missing his final two years of high school -- proms, homecoming dances, those fun lunch-room cliques -- he decided living at the training center was the way to become the best archer possible.
"It just felt right to be out here shooting my bow all day long," he said. "This was going to be my dream, this was going to be my job, this is what I was going to do the rest of my life."
"It was scary, an unsure thing," Alfred said. "School is always a huge deal to me, even if it's just high school. He had to finish high school there, that was the deal, and he had great people looking over him. You knew the talent was there and just didn't want to let it go to waste."
Ellison took high school courses online, but combined with his training, the process took so long he wound up getting his GED instead. "It was kind of hard because I put archery first and school second," he said. "Which I'll tell you right now was probably one of the worst decisions I made."
On the other hand, he became an Olympian while his old classmates were probably still driving around with graduation tassels dangling from their rear-view mirrors.
"It made me grow up," he said. "I went out there at 16 thinking like any other 16-year-old kid, 'I can do this and do that.' And then you go into an environment where you have all these people who have been training forever. I had all these guys who had been to the Olympics and won medals. And as soon as you step into that atmosphere, you know you can't do what you do anymore. You don't want to be the immature, little 16-year-old kid who messes with everyone. You look up and say, 'This is what I'm supposed to do, this is how I'm supposed to act.'"
Athletics at the training center are a little different than, say, the JV basketball team. For one thing, there are no cheerleaders decorating your locker on Friday mornings.
[+] EnlargeBrady Ellison
Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty ImagesBrady Ellison deliberately tattooed the Olympic rings on his forearm so it would show up in photos.
"You go from being in a high school scene with a bunch of high school kids to being in a place with a bunch of elite athletes who are 10 years older than me at least. It's an immediate change," he said. "And it was like, all right, I made the decision right then and there, that it's time to grow up. If I want to do this, if I want to be good, if this is what I want to do with my life, then I have do what these guys are doing and I have to start acting like they are. And then instantly you mature."
Ellison joked that his body doesn't look as if he does cardio work, but he does. He devotes eight hours a day to his sport, but considers his focus and mental discipline to be his greatest strengths. He trains with the Mental Management System developed by Lanny Bassham, a 1976 Olympic gold medalist shooter.
"Mentally, I think I'm the strongest person on the field," he said. "I'd put money on that statement. I do a lot of mental work. I do more mental work than physical work."
Although Ellison first went to Chula Vista with the goal of making the 2012 Olympic team, he was so good he made the 2008 squad at age 19. A labral tear in his hip that stemmed from the Perthes disease required surgery in 2008, but Ellison put it off until after the Olympics. He advanced to the final bracket in Beijing, but did not medal in either the individual or team competition.
Ellison said the hip condition did not affect his shooting during the Games and it certainly has not hurt him since because he has dominated the sport. He's been ranked No. 1 in the world the past two years and won 35 of the 37 world events he entered last year.
He is not who you would want standing before you with an arrow if you were a deer. Nor do you necessarily want him standing between you and a gold medal if you're a competitor.
"He's raised the bar a lot, and other countries and other people here in the U.S. -- myself included -- know we have to shoot better in order to stay competitive," said five-time Olympian Butch Johnson. "He's a very humble person, and has a very good attitude and work ethic. If he keeps those qualities, and continues to love the sport, he could be even better."

'Put our sport on the map'

Thanks to "The Hunger Games," in which the hero, Katniss Everdeen, is a skilled archer, the sport's popularity is at an all-time high. Although that's a relative term in this country.
"It's been huge for archery," Ellison said. "I know archery shops across the U.S. are sold out in everything. A lot of my friends who run archery shops say they have to turn people away. It has been huge for us in just the exposure of people wanting to try it. I just hope and pray those people won't just try it and leave. Hopefully we'll get a little percentage of those people shooting competitions with us."
Ellison would like to further increase archery's popularity, saying he would welcome becoming a breakout star at the Olympics. "I would like to be the person who can put our sport on the map."
He may be just a country boy, but he is also very aware of his public visibility. When he got the usual Olympic rings tattoo so many Olympians traditionally do, he had them inked onto his forearm so they are prominently displayed for photographers when he draws his bow. He recently gave up chewing tobacco because he doesn't want to be a bad example for children who might see him on TV. He also regularly donates a share of his winnings to cancer research and used a pink bow on at least one occasion.
"Brady's a great person -- kind, humble, very mature for his age," said Johnson, who is 56. "He's a leader that a lot of other archers, many of whom are his age or older, look up to. He loves his fiancée and is good to the people around him. He always has time for fans, and the success he's had hasn't changed those core values. ... The excitement around him hasn't gone to his head, and he's very strict with himself about being true to who he is and staying humble."
Of course, it would help archery's popularity if competition included shooting an apple off the top of someone's head, possibly a Kardashian.
"Skill-wise, it's a big target and I know I would make it," Ellison said of the William Tell stunt. "I would never do it because too many things could go wrong. Equipment-wise, a limb can break, a rest can break, an arrow can break -- that's just not a chance I would take. If I knew 100 percent that nothing would go wrong with my equipment, I would be comfortable doing it."
Ellison allows archery would be more exciting if the targets exploded after a bull's-eye, "But is it what our sport needs? I don't think so."
If Michael Phelps hasn't been able to get Americans excited about swimming outside of the Olympics, it's even less likely we will see "Monday Night Archery." But while the Olympics may lack the violent drama of "The Hunger Games," perhaps Ellison's skill, folksy charm and drive to be the best archer who ever lived can at least draw Americans' attention to the sport for a couple days this summer. If so, that could be his most impressive victory of all.

Monday, March 5, 2012

World Archery Rule Book – Valid as of 1 April 2012

Constitution & Rules 2012
World Archery Rule Book – Valid as of 1 April 2012


Please find below a pdf text version of the new rule book which will be effective as of 1 April 2012. This version is for internal use at this moment and a version with an enhanced layout will be published as soon as possible. However, since there have been many changes we preferred to publish this working version which allows translators and judges to prepare for the next season. We also ask our Member Associations that if they have an official translator to send us (info@archery.org) their details so we can create an online account for them to prepare the document online. This will have many benefits since they will be automatically informed on any editorial or substantial changes.





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Source : http://www.archery.org/

Friday, September 2, 2011

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Saudi Arabia Archery Men Team in Antalya Turkey


“ Saudi Arabia Archery Men Team in Antalya Turkey ”The National Team has a training camp between 17th june-1 th july 2011 in Turkish Riviera .
The team get ready for the 2th-10 th july World Archery Championship in Torino /Italy with 6 archers (Turki Alderbi , Khalid Alhazmi ,Mohamed Omar , Braa Alnabulsi ,Sami Albwardi , Mosab Alsulimani) and 2 coaches. The aim is to get quota for the olympic games. Suudi team accommodate in Ramada Plaza Hotel and the training camp organized by... 


The head coach of the team ; Mr Clint Sayo (Phliphine) and Mr Baekwoon Mun (Korean) have a target to shoot more than 1230 point and get a quota for olimpics. Mr Sayo said ;“we have 2 times performance training in each day, we believe that we ll get the quota in Torino , till now the training goes very efficient . We prefer Antalya fort he camp because the weather conditions are same as Italy and the training facility and hospitality is better.
The manager of the Suudi Team Mr.Abdullah Abushal; “we have been in Antalya before for the World cup organizations but first time we make training camp here. Our aim ;the develop archery sport in our country and represent well in olimpics.
By the way we want to say thank you to our government to support archery.
(Photographed by Suleyman Ekin DHA)

Monday, June 20, 2011

Inspirational Archer Matt Stutzman - (Kolsuz Okçu Olimpiyatlarda Yarışacak)





Kolsuz okçu milli takıma seçildi! video.mynet.com


Kolsuz okçunun büyük başarı
ABD'nin Lowa Eyaleti'nde yaşayan, doğuştan kolları olmayan, 27 yaşındaki Matt Stutzmann, ayakları ile başarıyla ok attı.Güncelleme:20 Haziran 2011 10:11
Stutzmann, ABD'nin 2012 yılında Londra'da düzenlenecek yaz olimpiyatlarına katılacak takıma girmeyi de başardı.
Yapılan elemede en yüksek puanı alan Matt Stutzman, ayakları ile gündelik yaşamını sorunsuz sürdürüyor. Otomobil, motosiklet kullandığı ayakları ile yemek başta olmak üzere yaşamını kimseye muhtaç olmadan sürdüren Stuttzman?ın azmiyle büyük takdir topladığı belirtildi. (DHA)

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Turkish Archers Eye Worlds for Berths in Olympics

Turkish archers eye Worlds for berths in Olympics

All eyes are set on the World Archery Championship in July of next year, which will determine the Turkish team’s quota in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, as Turkey continues to seek its first medal in this sport.

Natalia Nasaridze, an idol in the field of
women’s archery during the 1990s.
The national archery team continues to work hard
for the upcoming international competitions.

All eyes are set on the World Archery Championship in July of next year, which will determine the Turkish team’s quota in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, as Turkey continues to seek its first medal in this sport.

Turks, ambitious and assertive in archery, came close to making it to the podium with fourth place showings in three previous Summer Olympics.

“The World Outdoor Archery Championships will take place next year in July in Torino. We will strive for Olympic quotas there. Our entire schedule is about that. The women’s and men’s national teams continue training at the facilities of Ankara’s Hacettepe University under the supervision of professors from the sports sciences and technologies department,” Turkish Archery Federation President Abdullah Topaloğlu told Sunday’s Zaman.

The national team continues to work hard for the upcoming international competitions and is currently training in Ankara in this year’s fourth training camp. “We keep on working to select the best athletes for the 2011 worlds in Torino. We want to take the best degrees in the Olympics. Making it to the top 16 or eight will be advantageous for our Olympic targets,” the Turkish national team’s coach, Alper Aytaçoğlu, said. Aytaçoğlu further noted that the quotas have not been announced by the International Archery Federation (FITA) but, according to their earlier experiences, the top eight can secure a spot in London 2012 Summer Olympics. Archery is featured in both individual and team categories in the Olympics. “Our squad is a rather young one. We have European champions. We began early to work for the next season. Important days are ahead. The target is 2012 London,” he noted. While recalling the close shots for Olympic medals, Aytaçoğlu added that they are working both psychologically and physically lest they miss a medal this time. Göktuğ Ergin, a Turkish archer who took part in the Summer Olympics, was among the athletes in Ankara, while Natalia Nasaridze, an idol in the field of women’s archery during the 1990s, will join the training camp later, the coach said. Nasaridze had made an Olympic record in the 1996 Olympics; however, she was unable to perform in the finals.
Eighteen-year-old archer Begünhan Elif Ünsal has entered Turkey’s sports agenda with her recent achievements and become a hope for an Olympic medal in London.
The successful archer became a bronze medalist in the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympics Games, won a silver medal in European Indoor Championship in the Croatian city of Porec and took a bronze medal in a European championship in the teams category.
Ünsal started archery eight years ago with her father’s support. “I began earning good degrees as a result of a year of work. Now I must develop my achievements,” the young archer told the Cihan news agency.
“I started archery at 10. My elder sister was an archer. Her coach left the city and then my father became an archery coach. I continued for two years. I got a medal in my second appearance at a national competition,” she said.
Ünsal aims to work more and win an Olympic medal. İstanbul, Antalya to host major archery events Federation head Topaloğlu said Turkey has always been among the top archery countries and that the nation is in top three in terms of organizational skills. To prove Topaloğlu right, İstanbul is set to host the World Cup finals, one of the most prestigious archery events in the world, in September 2011, while the southern city of Antalya is set to host World Archery Championship in 2013.
Topaloğlu further noted that they are happy with the growth of the sport across Turkey.
“Interest in archery is increasing nationwide. There used to be 100 to 150 athletes in national competitions, but this figure has risen to 300 to 350 in each category of the competitions nowadays.”
He also added that they provide equipment to the cities where archery is taking off.

Archery as a Turkish tradition

The sport was practiced in early Turkic states, but the greatest importance was attached to it during Ottoman times. Fatih Sultan Mehmet, the conqueror of İstanbul, concentrated archery activities and the production of bows and arrows in İstanbul’s Okmeydanı (Square of Arrows) district. Subsequent sultans expanded the district by adding additional facilities. Later, a bazaar was opened behind Beyazıt Mosque in İstanbul, where all the manufacturers of archery equipment gathered. Although the sport went into decline during the later periods of the Ottoman Empire and during the early years of the Turkish Republic, numerous attempts have been made to revive the tradition of Turkish archery.

Turkey became the 16th member of the International Archery Federation (FITA) in 1955. After the establishment of a national archery federation in 1961, Turkish archers began to represent the country at the international level. There was a brief interruption in the development of the sport in 1982, when the federation was attached to the Turkish Shooting and Hunting Federation. The Turkish Archery Federation was re-established in 1982, and Uğur Erdener became the head of the federation. Erdener would later manage archery throughout the world when he was elected president of FITA in 2005.

24 October 2010, Sunday
ESRA MADEN İSTANBUL


- Source : http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-225223-5-turkish-archers-eye-worldsfor-berths-in-olympics.html