If you are looking to get in more shooting, you can enjoy winter field archery with a few small adaptations. Asking a field archer when the indoor season starts and you are likely to get a funny look. The National…
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How to solve eye dominance problems
Having a dominant eye can be a problem, but Ethan Lowry explores how it doesn’t have to be. Eye Conditions As you visualise your target, before you even pick up a bow, the calculations have already been starting in your…
Tagged with: aiming eye, archers, archery, arrow, eye conditions, eye dominance, eyesight, field archery, outdoor archery, shooting, target
Posted in Technique
Posted in Technique
Archery: what the pros eat
Mimi Landström explores what the pros eat in competition. It’s wintertime, and you may well have been indulging a little in the last month or so, and perhaps wondering how to get back to that next level in the New…
Tagged with: archers, archery, bow, compound, Elite, ella gibson, gabi bayardo, gb, indoor, kings of archery, medals, mimi landstrom, naomi folkard, nutrition, olympian, outdoor, paul tedford, pros, shooting, sjef van den berg, tournaments, vegas, wintertime, world cup
Posted in Technique
Posted in Technique
Indoor: 12 compound tweaks
Duncan Busby shows you how to squeeze out every last point on the way to 600. In recent years indoor archery has become about the pursuit for perfection; this indoor season alone has seen world records falling in the compound…
Hacking The Darkside: part 3
In the final episode of Hacking The Darkside, Vanessa Lee learns about building a strong shot. After years of contemplating whether or not I should start shooting compound, I finally took the plunge. I had already taken my first shot…
Hoyt 2020 Risers: On test
With some brand new technology on offer, how do the latest top-line Hoyt recurve offerings work out? By Mark Brown and John Stanley The new-for-2020 Hoyt Xceed Grand Prix riser sees a continuation of the new features introduced to Hoyt’s…
Taking back control
Something that could be holding you back is right in your pocket. By John Stanley. Have you, recently, picked up your phone – or opened a new browser tab on your computer – intending to do one thing, and without…
Bow: The Beginning
The magazine’s first editor Richard White takes us back to the start The early days The concept for BOW Magazine, as it was then titled, came about after I and my late wife Daf returned from the 1993 2nd World…
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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 just switched to compound archery and no one at my club or the local area knows anything about the discipline, so how do I expand my knowledge and…
Tagged with: archer, archers, archery, Ask The Experts, back tension, body alignment, bow, club, compound, duncan busby, foc, recurve, shooters, shooting line, wind
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Posted in FAQs
USA Archery: Ultimate Guides
Bow reviews USA Archery’s tuning videos from some of their biggest names. By Amy Skogen and Duncan Busby Have you ever wanted to know how the world’s best pros set-up and tune their equipment? Well now, thanks to USA Archery,…
