Who is KISIK LEE?

Kisik Lee

The world’s most successful archery coach

Kisik Lee has been involved in the sport since his school years in Korea. He was an enthusiastic and talented archer, competing at national level. However, Korea did not send archers to major international competitions at the time so Kisik Lee’s athletic successes were enjoyed only within his country. 

Korea started a national archery program for women in 1977 and for men in 1978. When the men’s program was created in 1981, officials asked Lee to be the coach. He was just 24 years old. From 1981 to 1997, he was Head Coach of South Korea. Under his guidance, Korea won a combined total of eight gold medals at the 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympics. 

In 1997 he moved to Australia to become National Head Coach assisting Simon Fairweather win the Men’s individual Gold in front of his home fans at Sydney 2000 Olympics. In January 2006 he took on the challenging role of National Head Coach for the USA and trained archers like Brady Ellison who is described by many as the best modern archer the world has seen. 

Lee has always invested a lot of time in the scientific aspects of archery. He studies technique, body control, muscular requirements, mental concentration, and other elements, which he believes, are essential to becoming an elite competitor. Kisik Lee strongly believes that his coaching talent and successes over the years are a gift from his God. Now he wishes to continue to share this gift to others through coaching seminars. These seminars and camps are aimed and open to all archers and coaches worldwide.

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TESTIMONIALS

 Just to say thanks for the enormous help your book, and the shot cycle has been to me. I’m an amateur nearing 59 years old who has struggled with target panic all my archery life. You have helped me realise that this was all due to lack of discipline and to fear – particularly a fear that I was not strong enough to take the time to hold, aim and release under control. I now have this in perspective as a direct result of studying your methods and using your strength training techniques. I now enjoy my archery, my groups are half the size they were (though still pretty big compared to the standard you are used to I’m sure!) and I feel relaxed and in control through the whole shot

So thanks again!

Yours sincerely 

- Colin Britt -

 I just read on your website that the Swedish national coach is spreading the word about the KSL shoot cycle. For that reason I just wanted to tell you that the Stockholm Archery Club (in Swedish: Stockholms Bagskjutningsklubb) is preparing to implicate the KSL shoot cycle into regular training and coaching.

I personally bought your book “Total Archery” from an English website (Alternative Archery) a few years ago and was immediately fascinated by the logic and transparance of your ideas concerning archery performance and coaching.

I am at the moment undergoing a coaching course in Sweden called HTU and is at the present the highest coaching level course in Sweden. The HTU course is also partly led by the National Coach/General Secretary of the Swedish Archery Association Mr Cenneth Alund.

Stockholm Archery Club was founded in 1928 and though we have a long way to go to reach top international level, we have the past five years become one of the larger archery clubs in Sweden and we now seek to continue to develop our methods of teaching and coaching.

I feel that your success as a coach is unpresidented and the KIA method is indeed something we will try to master, execute and teach.

Thank you and all the best wishes for the future!

- Bengt Eriksson -

I considered it a great privilege to be part of the Dream Team program at the Olympic Training Center in California! I learned a lot about the BEST method from Coach Lee, how to pursue our goals from Rick McKinney, and why and how to keep a field book from George Tekmitchov. However, I learned the most about how to improve my technique and how to implement the BEST method during the training times that week.

Coach Lee’s presentation on the BEST Method helped me a great deal. I know understand that the reason that it is the best method is because of back tension, which allows us to perform better under pressure. I learned a lot about my posture: stance, having a straight back rather than a hollow back, keeping my head position, and not leaning forward. I also now have a better understanding of loading and transfer. I know what the difference between angular movement and linear movement is and because of that I know how to load angularly. I also learned about follow through, how to drop my wrist and use my back to complete the shot.

- Andrew Noble -