1 TÜRKİYE PROFESYONEL LİGLERİNDE GÖREV ... - Spor Bilim

Instructor interviews were applied between in their institution and expert
interviews were made during an Archery Championship. The interview
instrument with instructors and experts had four main headings:
1. What are your purposes in teaching archery to beginners?
2. What kind of equipments do you use during teaching basic archery
skills?
3. How do you organize the course content?
4. How do you evaluate the student improvement?
b. Observation Strategy and Participants
Observation was made during the Archery Championship. There were about
200 archers taking part to this competition. Five male and five female archers
were observed during the competition. All of the behaviours were video-taped
and manually recorded during a single shot.
2.1. Student Interview Results
All of the students who are taking Archery course informed that they have chosen this
course because of their interest in archery. They had some ideas about sport archery
before taking the course. Yet, they did not have deep information. They knew archery as
an individual sport and that bow and arrows were used to hit the target. Students who are
taking this course supposed to learn theoretical knowledge on archery and the basic
fundamentals of shooting. One of the students especially expressed that he wanted to
practice on shooting during the course. They were not interested in archery history.
Students do not believe that they can reach their purposes related with archery by
taking PES 320 Archery Theory and Practice course. They needed to take preintermediate
and intermediate course to learn shooting properly. One of the respondents
said “I do not think I can reach my purposes only by taking this course, because if you
want to be successful in any sport you need to spend more time than a semester.”
Students were asked about the effects that influence their success in archery
course. The students acknowledged that practice time in the course was not enough to
learn archery shooting techniques. Also, one of the students expressed that lack of
archery equipment was a serious limitation for their success. One of the interviewees
said “I wish we had a bow and at least six arrows for each student in the course.”
Students were also asked about the difficulties in performing archery techniques.
They pointed out some difficulties in drawing the 16 kg bow. They said if we had
stronger shoulder and arms, we could draw the bow easily. One of the students said, “If
we had some strengthening programs, especially for shoulder area, it would be easier to
draw the bow.”
The interviewees were asked what the order of teaching would be if they taught
archery to beginners. Most of the students expressed that the focus of the information on
archery equipment should be the first step in teaching archery skills. Then, an instructor
should teach basic shooting techniques. However, they were not able to give detailed
information about the order of the teaching procedures.
The last question directed to the students was related with the evaluation
approaches that can be used in any archery course. They talked about the importance of
technique to hit the target. They said the evaluation should be made not only by looking
at the point that a student gather but also their shooting technique should be considered.