What happens to all your old archery gear? Bow has a think Sustainability is a long-term issue that affects all of us. Products that are described as ‘sustainable’ are those that provide benefits while protecting the public health and environment…
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Fairweather tab
The archery tab designed by the 2000 Olympic gold medallist has been gaining some major fans, including Arne Metzlaff At the European Games this year, Simon Fairweather posted a graphic on Facebook pointing out that the top four men in…
Tagged with: Aida Roman, archers, arne metzlaff, fairweather, gabi bayardo, kit, olympic, recurve, shooting, Simon Fairweather, sydney 2000, tab
Posted in Equipment, Reviews
Posted in Equipment, Reviews
Turning pro
Could you do it? Duncan Busby investigates. Turning professional is the dream of many archers; being able to do what you love day in and day out whilst earning a good living seems like the perfect job. Historically archery has…
Tagged with: archers, archery, bow, compound archery, job, north america, professional, shoot, shooting, turning pro, world archery, world championships, world cups
Posted in Features
Posted in Features
The importance of hydration
Many archers forget to keep themselves hydrated, and Ethan Lowry is here to tell you how crucial it is. To some observers, archery may not appear to be the most physically demanding of sports. Due to this assumption, we tend…
Tagged with: amateur, archers, archery, athletes, competition, dehydration, hydration, professional, sports nutrition, water
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Posted in Features
Complete guide to: recurve stabilisation
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…
Tagged with: archers, bow, recurve, riser weights, shooting, stabilisation, stabilisers, technical, top rods, v-bars, weights
Posted in Equipment
Posted in Equipment
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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Posted in News
The key to Korean success
Marc Dellenbach says that the key to Korean dominance in archery is in their schools. Marc Dellenbach was the French Olympic team coach from 2004-2016, and is now the national junior head coach of Germany. Early in 2019 he took…
Tagged with: archers, archery, korea archery association, olympic archery, rio olympics, Seoul Olympic games, south korea
Posted in Features
Posted in Features
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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Posted in FAQs
Archery books
We bring you this month’s top archery book suggestions to add to your reading list, by Emma Davis and Tom Hall The Inner Game of Tennis Author: W. Timothy Gallwey Publisher: Pan, first published in 1972 Although a fairly short…
Tagged with: archers, archery, books, Emma Davis, nlp, performance, shooting technique, simon needham, slow, the art of repetition, the chimp paradox, the inner game of tennis, thinking fast, tom hall, w. timothy gallwey
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Crystal Gauvin’s guide to travelling to tournaments by plane
If you spend enough time in the sport, you’re bound to reach the point where can you no longer drive where you need to go with your bow. At this point you’ll need to pack up your bow for air…
