ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN NATIONAL ARCHERERS� SKILLS AND ABILITIES OF THEIR EFFICIENT ARCHERY POSTURE TRAINING ANALYSIS OF ARCHERY PERFORMANCES FOR EXCELLENCY ACHIEVEMENTS

Purpose of the study:

The aim of this study was to assess on associations between national archers’ skills and abilities performances of their Actual and Preferred Forms to their efficient archery posture training analysis for the excellence achievements by the guideline of the expert professional trainers and watching the postures of a world-class archer videos were observed and analyzed.

Methodology:

Creative the effective archery skills and abilities of the 31-national archers who were volunteers that controlled the timing taken shooting an arrow 10 times. Actual Form (before their participation) and Preferred Form (after they have been trained and practiced) were compared. Archer Performance Ability (APA) Form and the Archery Skill Analysis Assessment Form (ASAAF) instruments for assessing were associated.

Main Findings:

The national archery age as 23 years old, height 171 cm, weight 64 kg. The shooting outcomes of scoring as 79 and 86 for the Actual and Preferred Forms in 10 times were tested. The R2 values comprise 51% and 69% of the variances in archers’ abilities to their archery skills were attributable to their actual and preferred performance achievements. 

Applications of this study:

Analysis of archery skills, it comprises 10 skills, namely: Stance, Hooking, Drawing, Anchoring, Loading/Transfer to Holding, Physical Strength and Stability, Developing Intense Focus and Concentration, Aiming, Releasing, and Following through skills that they were trained and practiced by the archery expert professional. We got the data from the development of archery sports for further excellence in the achievements of efficient archery postures.

Novelty/Originality of this study:

Archers of Thailand have taken part in four SEA Games, one World Archery Sport, and the Annual Asian Grand Archery Competition, never qualified as an athlete to compete in the Olympic Games. Thailand National Sports Universities are the public Higher Education for Sports Formerly. We solved the main important for this study to investigate the problems for archery sport in Thailand