CENTRAL FLORIDA—Six teams compete for the highly revered title of “Self Defense Archery Team Champion” as Individual Competitors strive to finish in the Top Three. The youth have different reasons to strive and dedicate themselves to such a unique, complex mind-body sport.
One boy is working on being selected into the League Hall of Fame one day. Other new archer-athletes are trying to be their best and soak up the new challenge. While still others enjoy making new friends, setting goals, breaking league records, growing their self-esteem and confidence, and improving their mental and physical condition.
Amanda is a new female archer-athlete with no competitive background until joining this league. She did wonders in the Series 1 Championship for her Clermont team. Amanda represents Team Anime. She was told she would need to score 34 points minimum in order to lead her team to victory and defeat the extraordinarily regarded Red Rubies. The pressure was on. Coach Weber gave her a pep talk and assured her that her focus would lead her to a phenomenal result. Amanda took the approach to just “Relax and Win.”
The Red Rubies (a team of all boys) have garnered 4 team victories (more than any other team in history). Amanda is on a coed team and she was the last competitor to compete for score on her team.
Amanda breezed through the self defense portion of the event garnering 11 out of 13 possible points. Then, she did something astonishing and shot 2 bullseyes off the bat and kept going to finish with a total 51 points, which propelled Team Anime into First Place with 18.5 point lead over the Red Rubies.
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Amanda also tied in third place for girls with her teammate Ashley. The 2017-2018 Series Champ, Raven, on Team Anime placed second with 52 points. Amber on Team Curry Wolf, an amazing new archer full of surprises, earned 53 points for first place.
The Top Team Scores are in… Team Anime WINS with 261.5 points. Second Place team is The Red Rubies with 243 points. The third place team is Team Curry Wolf with 221 points. The fourth place team is Junior Rubies with 206 points. Fifth place team is Couriers with 202 points. Sixth place team is Fit N Fighting Fortiter with 171.50 points.
The individual male competition was finalized after Thanksgiving as Newbie Sean from Team Fit N Fighting Fortiter was the trooper to fight the coldest conditions to perform a Top score (36.5 points) for his team.
Top 3 Leading Males and Females so far after Series 1…
1. Nathan Team Anime 59 points
2. Yasiel Team Curry Wolf 57 points
3. Martin (Team Courier) and Henry (Team Red Rubies) 55 points
1. Amber Team Curry Wolf 53 points
2. Raven Team Anime 52 points
3. Amanda and Ashley (Team Anime) 51 points
This is Series 1 of a THREE PART SERIES….MORE SOON.
Below Coach Alicia Weber demonstrates record breaking physical fitness leading up to her League Series 1 Championship.
Alicia performed “Super Woman Witch Self Defense Training Gone South” a Mind-Body Self Defense Challenge. Workout: Hold 2 bows out (weighing approx 5 lbs each) and balance on one foot. The other foot must then do a high side kick at a punching bag for at least 200 consecutive reps (repeat on other side of body). Then, recite Halloween poem from memory in a wall sit.
Alicia broke the strict form 100 burpee pushup with clap and 100 strict form pull-up world record for the 5th time on October 22, 2018 by completing the event in 9 minutes and 51.6 seconds.
Contact Alicia to get in Sharp Shooting Self Defense Shape at Awinningway@gmail.com
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