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Goals
Safety, consistency, accuracy
Philosophy
It's not about doing better than someone else.
It's about doing better than you did yesterday.
What do we offer?
Year-round classes
$50/month; Stop by and observe one of our sessions on Tuesday & Thursday 4-5 or 5-6pm at Murr Community Center.
Open to ages 8-17, younger with coach approval.
All equipment provided at our indoor range.
Register at Murr or call 520-533-0738.
Private lessons
$50/hour for up to a family of four. I have all required equipment, including more than 90 bows, and can come to your back yard or schedule a range.
Homeschoolers: AZ Desert Archery is an AZED ESA-approved vendor, and ESA can even purchase equipment for the class!
Archery merit badge
Free merit badge counseling for registered Scouts in Cochise County (District); just have your Scoutmaster select Dave Freeman from the MBC list. This also applies to Girl Scouts!
Homeschool Club
Announcing the founding of Cochise County's ONLY National Archery in the Schools (NASP) archery club, open to any homeschooled or online-only student.
Archers will be eligible to complete in local, state, and national tournaments (see the Events page).
Why do we teach traditional archery?
Traditional archery means longbows and recurves, and does NOT include compound bows. I like shooting compound bows, and I like teaching them, but learning archery on a compound bow is like learning to drive a car with an automatic transmission. Yeah, you'll learn most of what you need to do, but you won't get the true basics of driving a car.
The biggest difference between the two isn't the let-off of a compound (where you pull 70 pounds but only have to hold 10 or 15); it's all in the controlled draw length. As you pull a 30-pound compound bow's string back, it starts at 30 pounds, then the farther back you pull it, it's still 30 pounds, until you get it all the way back and it's maybe five pounds with let-off. With a traditional bow, pull it a little and it's five pounds, then 10, then 15, 20, and 25. When you get it back to the "rated draw length" it's 30 pounds, and it STAYS that way (so it's harder to hold while you aim). The difference between 29 and 30 pounds might be a quarter of an inch of draw length, and even if your anchor point is solid, just breathing can change that length. That's not a big difference until you're shooting at a five-inch target ring at more than 75 yards. Watch any Olympic archer and you'll understand the scope of this change.
The bottom line is, we teach traditional archery because if you learn on a recurve or longbow, you can shoot a compound with little or no adjustment. The opposite is absolutely not true.
Come learn traditional archery. It's harder, and it's sometimes more frustrating, but it's also more rewarding. Learn to drive a stick, literally!
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