The Junior Olympic Archery Development
(JOAD)
Today's age brings a whole new outlook into technology
based fun than it did even twenty years ago. Kids and
teens are staying in the house to play the newest online
game, try out the newest gaming console and find a way
to text faster on their cell phones. Kids and teens do
not enjoy outside activities as much as they once did
because there are so many better reasons to stay inside
and enjoy the fun of technological advancement. We are
all slowly watching our world transfer from self-sufficient
to computer assisted everything.
This is exactly why the Junior Olympic Archery Development
program is so great for kids and teens. It gives parents
a way to help their kids get away from video and computer
games and get back out there and enjoy what is waiting
outside.
The Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD) is a
program that is designed to help both children and teens
from the age of 6-18, learn the basics and advancement
in archery training either for sport or competition.
In the Olympics, Archery became a known competition
in the year1900 and was competed for in Paris in 1904,
1908 and 1920 but was dropped until the year 1972 when
it was competed for again. During 1961, it was brought
to attention that juniors needed to be involved in such
an important sport so the National Archery Association
of the United States recognized the Junior Olympic Archery
Development program as a way to help the youth generation
get involved. Through the years, Gold and Silver metals
have gone to Olympians who have trained through the
JOAD program.
There are many archery centers located all over the
United States and there could very well be one in your
neck of the woods. Each one has their own rules, procedures
and regulations. Sometimes one archery center will only
allow age 8-18 enter their program while others allow
for age 5-18 to enter. There are different policies
when it comes to each center such as renting the needed
equipment or the equipment becoming available through
payment of the program itself.
Through-out a junior's training they start a low level
of training to learn the basics and graduate from there
to go on to a beginners level and from there to a intermediate
level until they have reached the advanced level. There
is training and tests that a junior must complete and
pass before they can go onto the next level of training.
The JOAD program helps to motivate kids and teens and
gives them something to work for, to accomplish.
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