The Thinking Side of Archery

James Park distils the essential rules for understanding why you lose points, and some additions that should go into your personal rulebook  The thinking side of archery is properly the domain of the psychologist, not the engineer. Nevertheless, it is

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Norfolk Training Centre Open

Archery GB has opened a new training centre in Norfolk. Leading the centre will be coach Chris Latimer, and Archery GB has stated the centre’s aims are to act as a ‘focal point’ in developing best practice and talent development, and supporting archery

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Aiming and Attention

Liam Grimwood explains how to achieve the relaxed yet focused aim top shooters use, which can help keep you calm as well as on target      Aiming is an extremely critical part of the shot. Most compound shooters that

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Master Classes open at Lilleshall

Archery master classes will be running at Lilleshall National Sports Centre from 28 March to 1 April. Clubs, coaches and archers (recurve and compound) are welcome to attend, and the sessions include coaching from Archery GB’s performance coaches and top archers, information on equipment

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World Archery Awards

The winners of the World Archery Awards were announced at the World Archery Gala, held in Las Vegas, alongside the Vegas Shoot and Indoor World Cup Finals. The winners in each category are decided by a combination of a panel of archery

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New World Record

Park Sehui of Korea has set a new world record of 594 for the 18m indoor round in the women’s recurve category, beating the old record of 592 that was set by Berengere Schuh of France in 2009. Since she’s aged just

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Silver Archery

Bow International looks back at the time we took a visit to Silver Archery, one of the newest archery retailers to open up shop in the UK, to find out what’s in the shop and to meet the people behind it Silver Archery

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Finals draw the crowds

The World Cup Finals, held in Mexico City on the weekend of 24-25 October, was the largest crowd at an archery event since the London 2012 Olympics, according to World Archery’s president. The 4,500-capacity stands were packed out as the

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New World Record!

Sara Lopez has hit the headlines once again, as the Colombian archer has posted the highest-ever recorded score for the World Archery 1440 round in history, shooting 1424 at the Colombian National Games. The previous record in the women’s compound round was set by Germany’s Kristina Heigenhauser,

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European Championships: Tickets on sale

Tickets for the 2016 European Outdoor Championships have gone on sale to Archery GB members. The event will be held in Nottingham from 23-29 May, and tickets are now available for the finals on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 May. While the qualification and

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