Andrew Smith weighs up your options. Despite all the technical papers on recurve stabilisation, when you ask top coaches and archers about their stabilisation set up and how they arrived at their current configuration, all of them will say that…
Complete guide to: recurve stabilisation
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Berlin and Yankton awarded next World Championships
World Archery awarded hosting rights for the 2021 and 2023 editions of its World Championships to the US city of Yankton and the German capital Berlin, respectively. World Archery has also elected to scrap the World Indoor Championships. The decisions…
Tagged with: archers, Berlin, hosting rights, para championships, Paralympic Games, paris 2024, qualification tournaments, south dakota, summer olympics, world archery, world archery field championships, world championships, World Indoor Championships, World Youth Championships, Yankton
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GBR wins six spots for Tokyo 2020
The majority of places for Olympic competition at Tokyo 2020 were handed out at the World Championships in Den Bosch, Netherlands. For Great Britain’s men’s team of Tom Hall, Patrick Huston and Alex Wise, they managed to qualify in eighth…
Tagged with: alex wise, archery gb, competition, Great Britain, japan, korea, olympic, patrick huston, shooting, Tokyo 2020, tom hall, world archery, world championships, world cup
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Shooting with curves
USA senior athlete Amy Skogen has a couple of things to talk about This article is intended for everyone, but just a warning before we start: a great deal of it will be talking about boobs. When I started learning…
Arrows in the Middle Ages
Continuing on in a history of arrows, Jan H Sachers takes us from the rise of the knights to the sinking of the Mary Rose With the advent of the knight in the 11th century, the social elite fought with…
Tagged with: archery, arrows, english archery, history, Mary Rose, medieval, middle ages, nocks
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New products in 2019
We’re looking at some of the shiny new products available in 2019 MK ‘ZEST’ LIMBS MK Korea are known in the recurve world as a relatively ’boutique’ brand, at least compared to the bigger names. Started around a decade ago…
Tagged with: 2019, ATA, bowcase, compound, easton deluxe, easton elite, kim woojin, mk korea, mk zest limbs, new products, price, recurve, takedown hip quiver, the elite, veracity, zest
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Complete guide to: compound stabilisation
By Duncan Busby, who likes to keep things balanced. Look along any shooting line and you will see an entire row of stabilisers pointing towards the target. These are not actually essential to shoot a bow, but you will see…
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Ask the experts
Our expert panel answers your questions. Send yours to john.stanley@futurenet.com Q: I’ve got a new set of arrows and one is a bareshaft as normal for tuning. But how often should I shoot it? Seems a bit of a waste…
Tagged with: archers, archery gb, arrow, Ask The Experts, bareshaft, field archery, progress, technique, uk structure
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Wiawis CX7 Riser review
How does the new intermediate riser measure up? Amy Skogen finds out. At this year’s Archery Trade Association show, Win & Win unveiled yet another new carbon option in their recurve riser line, the WIAWIS CX7, billed as a high-end…
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Ask the experts
Our expert panel answers your questions. Send yours to john.stanley@futurenet.com Q: I’ve noticed that whenever I shoot a perfect end I tend to follow this up by shooting badly in my next end. What’s going on? Duncan Busby says: You…
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