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The Archery Trade Association (ATA) show is coming up on Januaray 13th, 14th, and 15th!  For those of you that can make it, be sure and check out our booth, numbered 1-2-3-4.  Can you guys believe it?  I guess they love us so much they wanted to give us a memorable number.

If you’ve never been to an ATA show before, it’s an entire event dedicated to new archery technology, networking, and even possibly meeting archery pros!  The official release of our previously talked about Glow-n-Shoot vanes.  If you guys don’t remember, this is what I mean:

Glow-n-Shoot

If you guys need some details to the event, they can be found at:

http://archerytrade.org/

Free glow vane samples available, while supplies last! Don’t forget, only found at booth 1-2-3-4!

I added a new logo, a new layout, and a shoutbox! The shoutbox is like a chatroom in which you can chat live with other users on the site at any time. It only updates new messages every 10 seconds, so it’s not as super responsive as a real instant message/chatroom, but it’s pretty good anyway.

What do you guys think of the new design? I think it’s pretty slick and I always enjoy adding new features.

The video in the previous post got removed, here’s a direct link (sorry I can’t embed):
Youtube Video

Have safe and happy holidays everyone!  I’ve been battling some sickness for the past week, so this newsfeed post is a little delayed.  During my time being sick, I found a nice video demonstrating the archer’s paradox.  The first half the video shows some O.K. stuff, but it really gets good about halfway though.  I’m not 100% sure if they were using incredibly weak spines for the purpose of demonstrating the archer’s paradox, or if they just happened to use weak spines by chance (or high bow tension).

Anyway,

We got 14 inches of snow here at Flex-Fletch overnight!  We went from zero snow to a ton of snow very, very fast.  For those of you in this weather, drive carefully and be safe.

I’m still working on trying to get more pictures up for the site, especially for our Vanes section, but it’s just proving to be really difficult.

I haven’t heard much feedback from you guys, so I presume everyone is enjoying the site.  It will always be a work in progress, but the initial tidal wave of information that needed to be transferred is complete.  There are still other things I’d like to add or address, such as just cleaning up a few pages to make them look a little more organized, but these are relatively minor and the site does look quite well.

I was doing some digging around and found another neat video.  This doesn’t really tell anyone anything they didn’t (or shouldn’t) already have known, but I find even simple videos like this to be just a helpful reminder.  Like most things, no matter how good you get, once you go back and see the basics again you might either re-learn something you forgot you should be doing or at worst it’ll be just a reassurance that you’re doing everything correctly.

It’s not out yet, but the prototype is finished and we are aiming to have it out by mid December. It will definitely be out before January because the ATA show will be happening and we have to have it ready by then. The new brochure and a better Vanes page was going to be part of the big update, but I’m having trouble with both right now.

The good news is that the site is mostly transferred over, content-wise. I still have to figure out a color scheme for the new website, because I don’t think I’m going to keep it the way it is. It’s lacking something, but I don’t know what yet.

Now, I know a lot about archery, but I can never claim to know it all. But one thing that is really important is back posture. This is an extremely large portion of archery and studying how correct posture should look (if you don’t have it) can and will improve your aim drastically.

I think this is a pretty decent video showing back muscles used during shooting and a lot can be learned from this video. I suggest watching this one and others, as well as doing your own research into posture to find out exactly where you might be able to improve.