Borut Zalar
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(9/5/01 3:25 am)
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scores of young children in UK
Last year I became rather seriously involved in the coaching of young children (7-10 years) in a school nearby.
There is a very limited number of such children participating in archery in my country so it difficult to judge what their results really mean.
The main point is that want to be able to know when are some results beyond normal standards and so to recommend parents that their children should in fact deserve a chance to work under much better and more qualified coaches than me. Such recommendation can have serious financial (Win Win or PSE optima, ACC,+..) and time consuming (good coach is some distance away) consequences for family, so they should not be given to lightly.
As UK has much more archers, I am interested if someone can direct me (perhaps to www site ) or in reply to this message to the scores UK children in the group '10years under' are achieving in some discipline we both share. Most probably this is half Portsmouth, which in my country means 9 sighters+10times 3=30 scoring arrows at 60cm FITA face at 20 yards indoor.
For instance, based on UK experience, are half Portsmouth scores of 226 (of 300 possible) points at age 9y 5months or 201 at age 7 years 10 months (in official competition where 90% of archers are seniors or veterans)promissing enought that children in question will ALMOST SURE become 1200+ shooters, when being later coached properly at age 10-18?
PS. I forgot to mention that I only talk about olympic style (recurve, stabilizers, anchor tab, nonoptical sight) and not about compound, barebow or longbow.
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