After breakfast, mixed cabins would rotate activities every hour. Activities usually lasted 4 hours long and consisted of many different things, including: canoe, tennis, and even archery! Every day the activities changed. One of my favorite activities was dance. Groups had to create their own dance to perform at the end of camp. I immediately grasped on to the beats and movements, which made me enjoy the activity even more. Dancing…
the wrong type of arrow head. It is the hunter's responsibility to know and follow all local laws. Here is something to think about for all bow hunting beginners. Are you a hunter who uses a bow? Or are you an archer who also goes hunting? Regular archery practice is the best way to become a successful bow hunter. Do not put away your bow at the end of one hunting season, and then only take it out the following year and expect to be very proficient. For maximum skill learn the proper technique…
He let me quit swim lessons after completing all the levels instead of doing team or diving, and never pushed me into continuing soccer, which was more of my brothers cup of tea. That was when I started archery. My dad took me to the sportsman’s club every Sunday for an hour in the winters to shoot, and after a year he got me my first bow. I got better and better, and my dad supported me, helping me with whatever he could, proud. It was the same when I started…
Apollo: God of Many Things Apollo is often depicted as a handsome, young man. He is often shown holding a bow and arrows or a lyre. Apollo is the god of music, prophecy, colonization, medicine, archery, poetry, dance and light. He is sometimes associated with the sun god, Helios. It was believed that he could spread diseases with his arrow, as well as prevent diseases with it. His mother, Leto, was not allowed to give birth to Apollo on land because Zeus' wife, Hera, found out that Zeus…
They constructed buildings with huge columns. The Olympic Games The Olympic games were sporting games that only took place in Greece. There were summer and winter Olympics just like there are now. The events for the summer Olympics were archery, basketball, beach volleyball, boxing, cycling, diving, and equestrian/jumping.…
In a diffrent universe , lies a world that is ruled by divine beings known as gods.These gods sought domination over the planet but many gods only wanted the world for themselves.This caused a war between divine beings which constantly destroyed the world but because they were divine beings with extraordinary power , they could restore it over and over again. This war lasted for a millennia and during the war many diffrent races were created by the gods to fight each other.These races were…
An infamous method was archery while horseback riding. Genghis Khan trained his mongols to be superb horseback riders. After mastering the riding of the horse, warriors learned how to shoot arrows while riding. “They would gallop at full speed over the plains, turning At the same…
Every summer, from June to August, the PA Lions Beacon Lodge Camp in Mount Union, PA holds weeklong summer camp sessions for adults and children with disabilities. Beacon Lodge is set on 583 acres of land near the Juniata River. It is completely funded by Pennsylvania Lions Club and private donations. The camp was originally established in 1948 for blind residents of Pennsylvania. Today they accept residents with varying physical disabilities and mental challenges. “Beacon Lodge is special,…
feels like you are serving them. In my college there is multiple ways of serving, through clubs, or participating in events that determine the future of my campus. There is so much to get involved in college. For example, I have been able to help my archery instructor by handing out the equipment. Service is a value that sometime we don’t realize we are…
to show his leg strength. A six foot man that weighed over two hundred pounds, was able to run a forty meter dash in 4.12 seconds. Jackson would not workout by lifting weights, instead he would hunt with his bow and carry his game home. Practicing archery and other various activities were Jackson’s workout, His arm strength was also something out of a fable, in Jackson’s childhood, he would threw apples through screen doors. To the public, Jackson was not seen as a major league player, but…