Episode 138 – with Chris Mussell talking archery in scouting

Happy Christmas everyone.

In this week’s episode I delighted to have as my guest Chris Mussell. Chris is a highly experienced archer as well as being heavily involved with the Scouting organisation in the UK,  specifically with respect to archery.

In the episode we explore how scouting approaches the challenging task of coaching young people but also training scout leaders to enable them to coach young people.

As always the episode is available on Spotify and Amazon music.

I feel this episode provides a really good insight into how the scouting organisation plans, runs and controls the rules of shooting for scouts and leaders. There are obvious similarities to National Field Archery Society events but also key differences, most noticeably the target selection. The scouting prohibits the use of any animal or human like targets, so no shooting zombies or 3D targets.

Of course we do tangent at times into other archery related topics, including chats about past events and campfire chats after festivals.

Thanks for listening and I would like to wish you all a fantastic Christmas and New Year.

Episode – 102 car accident, roof repairs, shot sequence guidance

The latest episode is now live to wrap your ears round and as the title says, there have been a few stressful events. the important thing is we are safe, pretty shook up but unhurt.

In the episode I spend sometime discussing shot sequence in reference to some recent coaching with a student who is continuing to recover from injury following a motorcycle accident several years ago.

We focus on identifying the element of the shock sequence, how easy it is to skip or miss parts out. As you know I have over the years spent a good deal of time offering guidance and advice on this topic and you can read this material in past posts.

Let me know if you have any questions.