Videos
15 videos produced for the benefit of the HBA trainers and archers contain practical aspects of improving technique and demonstrate a trainer’s approach to the topic tackled through material.
Videos were produced as part of the ARCHed project, co-financed with the Erasmus+ Sport funds in 2019 and can be found on our YouTube channel.
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Compendium outline
The outline of a compendium on The Methodology of Teaching Horseback Archery (HBA) is an attempt to gather issues which are essential to the development of the sport. The outline brings together ideas related to teaching the sport at the recreational level with an assumption that everybody can participate in a competition if they are appropriately prepared by their coach/trainer.
The outline of a compendium contains sections on HBA history, its position as a contemporary sport and current competition structure, the rationales, methods and desired outcomes of teaching HBA, the importance of the trainer’s role, the diversity in the HBA sport, the practicalities of riding and shooting, scaffolding the teaching and learning process. Furthermore it points to the rules of fair play and good practice in horseback archery as a sport of the 21st century.
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Guide for Horseback Archers
Anna Minkkinen, member of the Finish Mounted Archery Association, while participating in our project ARCHed was also a physiotherapy student. The participation in the project helped her to gather knowledge needed for her thesis.
“Accurate shooting with well-functioning body: Guide for Horseback Archers” is an excellent resource for our growing sport on how to train effectively and to practise archery with a reduced risk of injury. A must read document for coaches and horsearchers alike.
Horseback archery is a growing sport where you shoot with a traditional bow on a cantering horse. However, knowledge of a good shooting technique is not currently standardised, instead largely consisting of oral information collected by teachers and thus often not able to reach the many amateurs who practice alone. According to a survey that was done as a basis for this thesis, about one-third of the respondents suffered from horseback archery related aches and nearly half suffered from muscle soreness. Particularly for a beginner, the focus is often on accuracy alone without also considering feedback from body sensations, which exposes them to adopting the wrong technique for soft tissue wellness. Problems often come to light later, when development does not continue or the body begins to show symptoms.
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