This page includes information provided by the JOADs.  JOAD (Junior Olympic Archery Development) clubs exist to teach youth archery to all interested individuals.  Most provide equipment for beginners to use, and follow the USA Archery guidelines to insure safety and fun.

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The Texas Archery Academy in Plano is the North Central Texas' best source, and the Straight Arrow Archery school is the same high quality and uses the revolutionary method teachin' for South Texas in Victoria, Texas for teaching the National Training System (aka B.E.S.T. method) per Kisik Lee, and certifies people to be instructors for camps, schools, NASP, and much more. If you are within an hour's drive of either of these two acadamies of archery excellence for kids AND adults, you are fortunate to be able to visit them and expose your children to one of the safest, most powerfully effective builders of self-esteem Olympic sports going. Click the images above to see more. Of interesting note, Straight Arrow Archery and Tom Barker/Gene Kacir have trained to such excellence that as of June, 2012, just a couple of years since they started, FORTY-FIVE international competition trips have been won by their students - Texas archers representing TEAM USA in countries around the world 45 times! What an astounding track record!

North Austin - Archery Country has a range, sells gear, and has in May of 2012, started conducting weekly lessons for youths on Saturday mornings.

For beginning, personal and elite/expert olympic style archery lessons, see this link to Lindsey Carmichael

More Personal Coaching Excellence, near Houston in Columbus, Texas:

John Magera, Olympian. That pretty much sums it up! I am pleased to post this information on John's archery instruction services for T.H.E. JOAD, a youth archery organization, and adult archers as well, in Columbus Texas:

John's CV as of June, 2012 is as follows:

2004 U.S. Olympic team member (Athens)
2005 U.S. Archery team member
2006 Asst. U.S. team coach at Turkish Grand Prix event
2006-2007 Junior Dream Team coach
2007 Regional High Performance coach (BEST Method)
2007 nominee for NAA developmental coach of the year
2012 U.S. Olympic shadow team member
7 years experience as a JOAD and Adult Achievement Program coach
Students have achieved:  1 Olympic team, 2 U.S. archery teams, 6 national championships, 8 U.S. records, and numerous state championships and state records.
 
Along with a capable group of volunteer parents, I manage T.H.E. JOAD club in Columbus, Texas (meet every Monday evening Jan. - July) and work with several top-10 U.S. ranked archers from the Houston and San Antonio areas, as available (usually on Saturdays).
 
His fees for coaching juniors (under 18) are only accepted as a donation to T.H.E. JOAD club.  Fees for adult archers are negotiated on a case-by-case basis. 
 
Coach John can be reached by email at johnmagera@msn.com, or by calling 979-733-8838

Austin JOAD Archers - South Austin has an advanced academy for teaching the National Training Method in their JOAD environment, and have been responsible for hundreds of excellent archers through the last 16 years.
Per Racae: "Archery Training Center trains 40-50 kids and parents each weekend at our facility in South Austin. Our 2012 Summer Archery Games program is fully booked all summer. (We're creating a few more spots.) Coach Alex (Level 4 Regional/JDT Coach and member of USA Archery's International Training Staff) gives one-on-one private lessons to advanced archers every week. Our archers come from as far away as Georgetown and San Antonio...This is our 17th year of coaching!"

A Junior Olympic Archery Development Program

 10203 Old Manchaca Rd.

Austin, TX 78748

http://www.aajoad.com

 512 436 8813 / 512 203 2368

Register online for your first 2-hour weekend Qualifier class!

Class times and directions to the indoor range are on our website.

 Certified USA Archery coaches and instructors

Bows, arrows, armguards and fingertabs provided

USA Archery Star Pins for your personal best!

 Saturdays: First-timer Qualifier Class $20 per archer

Sundays: Achiever Class: $15 per archer

Sundays: Advanced Class: $10 per archer

 USA Archery Level 3 Archery Coach: Alex Meyer

USA Archery Level 1 Basic Instructor: Racae Meyer

We have coached over 1300 kids since 1995!

You can start any Saturday – just register first on our website!

After your first lesson, you can come when you want and

come back again and again.

Austin JOAD Archers is an unincorporated non-profit association

serving the public interest by promoting the sport of Olympic-style archery.

Our goal is to provide a safe, inspiring training and practicing environment

for JOAD and FITA target archers.

Recurves, compounds, and barebow archers at all skill levels and experience are welcome!

Register today!

Cameron County JOAD Club

Cameron County, South Texas, 8/14/2000

CC-JOAD has been in existence since 1995. It boasts over forty members, at present. 

We have also received two NAA grant awards and various local and regional grants to promote archery in South Texas.

Our current officers are:

Greg Garcia, President
Charles Leal, Vice-President
Irma Ramirez, Secretary
Alicia Guajardo, Treasurer
Joe Garcia, Historian

The JOAD Coordinator for Cameron County can be reached at the posted e-mail.

We meet every Saturday at 8:30 AM at the Los Fresnos CISD stadium parking lot. 

The superintendent of schools and principal provide storage and practice facilities.

If you have any other questions, please contact us.

Kelly High School Archery Team JOAD 

Beaumont, TX. Contact - John Scott
4715 Lanark Lane
Beaumont, TX 77706
409-866-4649 Wk or 409-898-0335 HM.

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