I'm very interested in becoming an instructor and trying to talk the local pal into starting a local archery program. With the popularity and success of NASP I'm hoping it won't be too hard to convince them. Thanks. Jason

Ask this on the shooters forum. There are a few instructors here.

Bowwild is the instructor of instructors.

Adam (18 yr old son) and I are level 2 instructors. Most areas have a Regional Instructor who can give you the course and exam. Takes a weekend to do and get certified. Look it up on NFAA site or USA Archery.
Adam has a summer job teaching archery pays him 20.00 an hour!

I started a program this year and it has been a wonderful experience for me as well as for the kids.

Jason,
Kudos for you wanting to become a NASP instructor to help your local schools or the kids after they've taken lessons from their teacher.

You can go to  www.nasparchery.com  and click on contacts to reach the NASP coordinator in NJ (Paul Ritter). Your state has jus added TWO NASP coordinators and I look for NJ to become #2 on the East Coast in a year or two (behind Virginia). NJ will be doing quite a bit of training over the next couple of years.

In order to teach NASP you have to go through NASP-specific training which was developed for PE Teacher use. It is 8 hours or 24 hours depending upon whether or not you want to train kids or teachers. You have to be authorized by your state NASP coordinator to be trained. They must keep track of the 27,000 NASP teachers and trainers (adding 7,000 annually world-wide).

This year NASP exceeded the size of LIttle Baseball (2,055,000 vs. 2,000,000 participants) in a single year). NASP is now 3 times the size of Lacrosse and is growing 16% per year.

Thank you all for the info. I will contact Paul for info.

It is a great thing, and you don't have to be affiliated with the school system to get things going.  My wife and I got the ball rolling in our county last year (neither of us are school employees).  Kids started shooting this year, and one local middle school that we worked with won state, shattered the state record, and competed in KY for the National title (nerves got them, they didn't shoot nearly as well at KY as they had been at home, but did ok).  This tiny school hadn't won a sports title since the 80's and had never won a state championship before.

Our club (traditional only) has become NASP friendly.  We're figureing it out as we go, but hopefully we'll have more kids coming out to shoot with us since they will be allowed to use their NASP bows.

Good luck!

Chad

NASP has taken off!!!!  Projected numbers are that within 5 years it will have more kids than little league nation wide.  That, is impressive.

Certified instructor here!