Train. Grow. Compete. — JOAD Archery in Bossier City, Louisiana
Building Tomorrow’s Competitive Archers Through Structured JOAD Training
At Hoot & Holler Archery, our year-round Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD) program helps young archers build the skills needed to grow in the sport and prepare for competition.
Using the National Training System (NTS), our USA Archery Level 4 coaches focus on proper form, alignment, anchor, release, and follow-through to develop a consistent, repeatable shot process. Just as importantly, we train the mental side of archery, helping athletes develop focus, confidence, goal setting, and a consistent mental routine for both practice and competition.
Based in Bossier City, Louisiana, our JOAD athletes have opportunities to compete locally, statewide, and nationally. Whether an archer is developing competition skills or pursuing higher-level goals, our focus is on building strong physical and mental fundamentals that support long-term growth in archery.
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This version makes character development, the physical and mental shot process, perseverance, effort, responsibility, and sportsmanship the heart of the program.
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Every shooting style deserves a bow that genuinely suits it. Compound rigs for hunters, recurves for target archers, and traditional longbows for purists all fill our racks here, ready for you to draw and compare properly before you decide on anything at all.
Everything Included in Our JOAD Club Program
Recurve Bow Training
Recurve archers work on the fundamentals of the National Training System (NTS), including posture, alignment, anchor, release, and follow-through. Training emphasizes patience, consistency, and developing a repeatable physical and mental shot process.
Compound Bow Training
Compound archers develop proper form, alignment, aiming, release execution, and shot consistency. Rather than focusing only on where the arrow lands, coaches encourage athletes to evaluate how they executed the shot and what they can learn from it.
National Training System Coaching
Our coaching is based on the National Training System used by USA Archery. This provides a structured framework for teaching form and shot execution while allowing coaches to work with each archer according to their individual development and goals.
Competition Preparation
Competition is an opportunity to put more than archery skills into practice. Athletes become familiar with tournament procedures, scoring, timing, and competition routines while learning to manage distractions, work through challenges, and focus on the parts of their performance they can control.
We encourage athletes to view competition as a learning experience rather than simply a measure of winning or losing.
Pin Shoots and Achievement Awards
JOAD achievement pins provide opportunities for archers to recognize progress and set personal goals. While scores are part of the achievement system, we emphasize the effort, preparation, perseverance, and improvement behind reaching each milestone.
Family Involvement and Volunteering
Families are an important part of our JOAD community. Volunteer opportunities allow parents and families to contribute to club activities and support the program while becoming more involved in their archer’s experience.
More Than Archery Skills
Perseverance and Grit
Archery teaches that improvement takes time. Difficult practices, challenging tournaments, and disappointing shots give athletes opportunities to keep working, make adjustments, and try again. We encourage our archers to understand that setbacks are part of learning.
Focus on the Process
We teach athletes to concentrate on their physical and mental shot process rather than becoming consumed by the score. They learn to prepare for each shot, execute their routine, evaluate what happened, and move forward to the next arrow.
Hard Work and Personal Responsibility
Progress comes from consistent effort. Archers are encouraged to take ownership of their practice, preparation, equipment, attitude, and goals. These experiences can reinforce the value of hard work, patience, accountability, and continued effort.
Sportsmanship and Fellowship
Although archery is an individual sport, athletes train and compete alongside teammates and other archers. Our program emphasizes respect, encouragement, sportsmanship, and appropriate conduct, regardless of the outcome of a competition.
Opportunities to Compete
Our year-round program provides opportunities for athletes who choose to compete at local, statewide, and national events. Competition is treated as another part of an archer’s development—a place to gain experience, face challenges, and learn how to apply what they have practiced.
Building Archers—and Lessons for Life
At Hoot & Holler Archery in Bossier City, Louisiana, we believe success looks different for every archer. Some enjoy recreational shooting and being part of the JOAD community, while others choose to pursue increasingly challenging levels of competition.
Both paths matter
Our goal is not simply to develop better scores or win more medals. We want archers to develop sound form, a repeatable physical and mental shot process, perseverance, work ethic, responsibility, sportsmanship, and grit.
The target gives our athletes a place to practice those lessons. We hope the lessons they learn along the way are ones they can carry far beyond the range.
Frequently Asked Questions
What age range does the JOAD program cover?
Archers between the ages of 8 and 20 are eligible, spanning children just discovering the sport and older teenagers pursuing competitive selection seriously. Coaching adapts to where each individual student sits within that fairly wide developmental range at any given point in time.
How often does the club train each month?
Sessions typically run roughly three to four times each month, which balances meaningful steady progress against ongoing school and family commitments. Consistent attendance matters far more than sheer volume when young archers are still developing their early technical foundations here at the club.
Does my child need their own equipment to join?
Serious training works best with a bow fitted specifically to the individual archer, since consistency depends heavily on the equipment staying identical between sessions. Our staff will happily advise on suitable setups and sensible upgrades as your archer steadily develops over the years.
Can beginners join or is prior experience required?
Some fundamental instruction beforehand always helps a great deal here, which is why so many students arrive only after completing introductory group classes at Hoot & Holler Archery in Bossier City, Louisiana before stepping into our more structured club training program with us.
Are students required to compete in tournaments?
Competing is strongly encouraged because it genuinely accelerates development, though the pace always suits each individual archer and family involved. Some students shoot only locally for a full season before travelling, while others take to competition almost immediately right from the very start.
What does family involvement in the club actually look like?
Volunteering at least three times each year is simply expected of every family, whether that means running a shooting line, helping out at club events, or scoring rounds. Each family also holds one single vote at the general meetings held during the year.
What is the SafeSport requirement for volunteers?
Volunteers need a valid range pass obtained through USA Archery's SafeSport program, which covers all of the required athlete protection and safety training. Completing it well beforehand keeps everybody eligible to help out whenever the club suddenly needs an extra pair of hands.
How does JOAD training differ from the regular group lessons you offer?
Group lessons at Hoot & Holler Archery in Bossier City, Louisiana teach fundamentals over a fixed number of sessions. The club is ongoing, scored, and competition focused, with archers training year round toward ranked events rather than finishing a course and stopping.
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