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…
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Complete guide to: recurve stabilisation
Tagged with: archers, bow, recurve, riser weights, shooting, stabilisation, stabilisers, technical, top rods, v-bars, weights
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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
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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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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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Posted in Features
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…
The business end with Adrian Tippins
Getting arrow selection right first time. With Adrian Tippins. What standard of arrows do I need?” and “Which should I buy?” are two very frequently asked questions from archers. I spend a lot of time with customers debating these very…
The Armguard: an appreciation
Hugh Soar narrates a surprising history… I wonder, when they unstrap their bracers, how many archers give more than a passing thought to this unobtrusive object, as it gets tossed carelessly into the bowcase? Yet, it has a history comparable with…
Project: yourself
Erin Prior shows you how deliberate practice can make training effective. Many archers see the value in their training sessions to help them prepare physically and perhaps even mentally for their upcoming competitions. However, various other commitments in life can often…
Tagged with: archers, athletes, coaches, deliberate practice, feedback, field, learning, practice, process focus, shooting, skills, sports psychologist, training
Posted in Technique
Posted in Technique
Ask the experts
I thought ILF risers and limbs were all supposed to fit together the same? My limbs don’t fit exactly in the riser pocket? How does this all work, exactly? Andrew Smith says… International Limb Fitting, more commonly known as ILF,…
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Posted in Features, Technique
