2021 U.S. Open Men's Barebow Gold Final

we are getting ready for what promises to be a fun match yeah between a powerhouse and maybe not someone you've heard of that much but our number one qualifier and number two qualifier in the barebow senior men are getting ready to get after it this should be quite a fun match in an exciting match because we have someone who cares about fashion and someone who does not [Laughter] for sure as our archers step onto the field of play for our final match of the 2021 us open for this senior bear bow category for the men on the right side of your screen matt jacob from fort collins colorado coming in at the ripe old age of 48 and next to him from kingsley pennsylvania a legend in archery the archer who owns all the world records john demmer the third yeah and an addressing record i'm sure and yeah he always he always has his attire on and no fashion sense and like we talked a little bit about earlier is the brackets this is number one versus number two yes we're gonna leave this our first match our only match of the day that sees number one facing off number two and john uh he pretty much did work on the crew for the whole nationals i mean he won by 60 almost 70 points unreal this guy has done it all he starts off with a four a little wide right a little wide right but the nice part is in that type avenue is uh again it could be erased he may lose the set but it's not going to beat him as bad as if it was a straight score so yaka opening up with an eight follows it back up with an eight mm-hmm matt yaakov has been shooting a variety of different bows over the course of his lifetime the president of his local archery club in fort collins colorado does a lot of volunteering he's a personal trainer by trade so for matt yaka his opportunity to shoot come after work in the afternoon sometimes in the evenings sometimes they'll even take a nap and then they'll head out to the range and put in the work that's a good one wow very nice at 988 which will give him the set and like i said a lot of times it's hard to come out from the practice field over here to see where you're gonna hit maybe that's what got john i don't know maybe it wasn't a good shot there's a lot of avenues you can go with you have been in this situation in this stage the world stage rio no matter how many times you go through it is there a possibility that nerves can play into it oh a hundred percent 100 i don't care if you won every match that you ever shot in you're gonna get nervous i mean we can look at guys even even mikey saucer who we've seen you know get down to the last arrow and it just melt down because it it it is nerves and and i get to ever see anyone that walks out there that doesn't get nervous i mean if they have i they've never i've never seen them because i mean they do a lot yeah especially with the crowd we have watching especially with the popularity of barebow as well as the competition archery media cameras are rolling it definitely can put some pressure on not to mention just your personal goals yep yeah for sure so the first two set points go to matt yaka well matt has an interesting coach in the box and justin hewish you want to tell us more about that uh that would be your olympic gold medalist from the atlanta olympics he won individual and team gold and justin's been kind of trying to make a little comeback been doing really well and he's starting to make some some headway told me this weekend he got a little nervous when he was getting closer to doing well and said he's just got to work through that but he's getting there but yeah kind of an interesting person to have as your coach in the bear box or barebow box as opposed to on the john demmer side he has claire z yeah an absolute beast of a barebow shooter in her own right ooh a little bit of a flinch there from denver but he pulls him back in and ends up with an a yeah definitely not denver's first rodeo as the no owns all the records world records there are in barebow i like what i'm seeing from i'm loving what i'm seeing from this young man yaka at 48 years old he's been solid the whole time he stepped out here there you go then we're starting to get her dialed in feel the flow yeah jd three moving closer to the middle trying to put some pressure on matt yaka who's got the two eight set advantage he's down one point in this set so demmer with a good arrow can take this set if you're just tuning in 50 meters downrange on 122 centimeter target face matt could use a 10 here to tie the set not easy with a bear bow no now we need to we have a titan match now two set points two set points yeah john demmer rocking those shorts i mean how else do i put it just shorts i remember meeting john the first time when we were in warsaw poland for the world games and he had some pretty colorful stuff on and we were like oh hey it was pretty entertaining for sure definitely something you can say about jd3 john demmer is that you know as a world record owner of so many he's a leader in barebow and the openness of information that flows in and out of him the welcoming attitude of john demmer of people into the community in barebow has in my opinion he's been one of the leaders to set the tone as to how incredible it is you know rio you and i both competed this weekend on the field of play and between where i was shooting and where you were shooting we had barebow competitions and how many times just at any time give you know during the course of the tournament did you hear people just start yelling barebow careful oh yeah it's a it's a group that it's it's a family that is totally different i mean i can go to an event and you better be careful because if you're going to dinner they may have the whole restaurant tied down with theirs that is true they are a group that travels together and they enjoy each other and have a good time and that that to me is that's what our tree is about having a good time and enjoying it and it's i think that one of the greatest examples is who's in the coaching box for john demmer yeah you know where claire z kind of came on the scene just three short years ago and now now deeply tied into the community and getting an opportunity to stand in the coaches box for the legend jd 3. so denver's thoughts all right it didn't look like he liked the shot but it was solid screen yeah he didn't love it for sure he kind of had that look at it but we've seen that today and maybe that wind coming around the end of that that stand is causing a little bit of that another quick shot just outside of the nine ring as for matt yaka we talk about fashion sense look at john demmer who enjoys it yak has been shooting nothing but godzilla and jaws t-shirts got the godzilla on for this gold medal match i like the fierceness of that yeah yeah for sure we're tied after two arrows so oh and an eight all right so doors open yeah he could get the set points to take a 4-2 lead anytime 10 seconds still left on the shot clock we have our first split explain that the two guys have shot 25 points total with their three arrows so now they will get each one get one set point versus the normal two for for winning it or the zero for losing it so now it makes it a little more interesting because if the two guys win the next two sets each one we could have our one arrow shoot off we've talked about a little bit today so this is at the end of end three five ends available to shoot yeah if it goes that far yes boy a shoot-off in senior men bear bow for the gold medal would be just a treat it would be the capper to an outstanding weekend yeah here at dory park in virginia usa archery partnering with the richmond virginia tourism board putting on an outstanding show for us a great event yeah for sure they've done a really good job that's kind of cool too to see uh barbeau hoyt really just kind of started really putting stuff in and wanting to do more in barbeau in the last few years too and and i mean you see they got a weight system on the uh matt's bow and it's just it's interesting to see because like i said the inflow of people companies want to provide stuff for them so it's been kind of a cool deal to see them get into it because it had been a lot of off brands that have been doing it for them especially brands from europe yeah and korea as well yup a lot of italian yeah barebow bows in the mix now hoyt in it yeah and what a shooter to get in there oh yeah there you go okay that is what we call putting pressure on your competitor yeah for sure as demmer just drains one in the 10. we'll see what matt yaka has in store for us and there's nothing worse than having a 10 already down there and you have to shoot an arrow yeah oh gus the wind just picked up a little bit yeah oh that was his club just outside yeah ah the disappointment on matt's face okay there were the nine so he can get a 10 and time back up oh god he's right there yeah boy demmer ooh the name eight okay so dora what i was going to say in the middle could close this thing out oh boy there it goes nine nine oh so we end up he gets he should get the set points 27-26 27-26 that means two points are going to go to matt yaka but we've got to get down there have the judges take a closer look all right so we're looking there at 10 9 8. that looks like a 26 27 to me yeah 27. so i believe we're going to be tied up tied up i think so too so another split set yeah that was a good one for sure to put to put it out there and throw the pressure on your competitor that was a nice start for john still waiting for those scores to come back if you're curious as to how the actual scoring system works uh here in dory park okay there we go now we're at four now we're at four yeah yeah so here at dory park uh in the 137th u.s national target which happened the first two days and now the 2021 u.s open you score with a tablet electronic scoring as well as written scoring yeah each it's so normally when you're shooting these these qualification rounds you're going to have the people on your bail will split duties as to call arrows score arrows on tablet or paper and then one person gets to sit around and enjoy everybody else's work yes i'd have an older gentleman one time tell me he says you know how you do this you wait back till everybody else gets it settled and then you get it is that the key is don't be so anxious to get to the bale for the first the first end he says they'll have it figured out by the time you get there i was like that's an interesting thought process but all tied up for the gold medal oh and he starts off with a good night yes good solid nine for john demmer and he needs this one i don't know where it for so he can they need to split again so we have a one arrow shoot off yeah but they have split the last two so and this is the fifth and final end it's so funny because a nine is just not a given in barebow but the way these two are shooting and they're shooting them they are going toe-to-toe how do you like this match oh this is awesome this arrow is so important for demmer oh yeah it's open for yaka if he can get in the gold he's going to win the gold medal he does he finishes with a boom wow how do you like that one the most important arrow of the day and 48 year old matt yacka and he knew as soon as he shot it oh somebody call a plumber he just put that one right in the drain yeah he nailed it unbelievable and the cool part is look how excited he is that's he can't even believe it yeah he came in here with no expectation just a person who enjoys the outdoors with his wife julie with their pets and just the pride of the fort collins archery club the president of the archery club he says his life is about personal training and archery and wow what a match put on by both athletes it coming down to the final arrow and john demmer put the pressure on matt yaka and yaka able to answer the call yeah he did he answers that understatement he stuffed that one in the tan dude can't wait to get him on the headset and find out how this one went because we didn't even talk about all the other factors involved with the wind and all that kind of stuff yeah well maybe i knew matt maybe i knew that we were going to be talking here after this gold medal match the swagger the casualness of you entering this and man you stuffed a 10 to do it all at the end congratulations how you feeling uh it's so overwhelmed i think i'm going to cry this is unbelievable i just can't believe it i mean let's talk about your journey to even get here man like how are you shooting and why'd you decide to come to this match everything um you know i barebow has always just been um you know a thing i wanted to try i tried olympic recurve and i didn't do so well and i i'm a trad shooter by heart and barebow's the next step in in competition so this is where i wanted to go cool how how how nervous were you on that last arrow i didn't even know the score because they weren't flipping the card so i had i just kept hearing ty ty ty and you know john is a stellar shooter i mean the best right and to to you know i was just so nervous i don't know i just justin said just take no prisoners and i you know i just held it on and released and here i am i can't believe it i really can't believe it yeah you came through with an awesome 10 there right at the end that was a thank you very impressive performance yeah well i think it's time for you to get back to the archery club in fort collins and they need to throw a big party for you yes so this is unbelievable thanks guys i appreciate it ah congratulations what a show for us we really appreciate it and enjoy the title of 2021 the us open champion i can't believe it thank you guys thank you all right take care congrats wow matt yackett does it over the legend john demmer and you can see how excited he is and that's what archery does for you rio oh that's awesome that was a great match i mean we like to see maybe one or two one arrow shoot-offs but that ended up pretty much was a one-arrow shootoff they both had that last error to do what they did and he stepped it up and did amazing well congratulations to all of our champions our gold silver medal and bronze medal winners here at the 2021 u.s open u.s archery it's been a couple tournaments three days it started with 137th u.s target national championships for two days of score for a national champion we took those scores took the top 64 from each category and we went to single round eliminations today and we just wrapped up the 2021 u.s open and crowned gold medals and that'll do it for the u.s archery outdoor season for 2021 more archery coming at you throughout the year indoors around the corner more world archery where the us will be participating but a huge congratulations to the champion for competition archery media for all the crew for real wild thank you so much for being in the booth rio it was a lot of fun yeah thanks for having me it was awesome to get to watch this today i mean it was a great shoot and some great uh matches and everything it was just a good day keep an eye on usartree.org for the 2022 championship where they're gonna be that information will be coming out soon so you can make plans to come join us usa archery we had a great time we hope you enjoyed it we'll see you again real soon [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Wed Aug 25 2021