From well-meaning but misguided comments to deliberate mind games, there are a number of things that can put you off your shot. Danielle Brown shares her guide to coping with it
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How to combat competitive mind games
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Posted in Features, Psychology
Posted in Features, Psychology
Beating the Field
Liam Grimwood brings you his top tips to getting a head start in field archery if you’re already an experienced target shot Now that the outdoor season is here it’s time to give some thought to the type of archery you’ll…
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Posted in Technique
Posted in Technique
Sieze the moment
John Dudley explains how to prepare for when it all comes down to one shot. I was 18 years old and standing alongside two other guys looking at the final target for an ASA World Championship. All three of us…
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Posted in Psychology
Posted in Psychology
Judgement time
Considering taking on an unmarked field round? Alex Tyler explains how to start judging distances Shooting over unmarked distances is the area where the difference between field and target archery is most obvious. Target archery tests the archer’s ability…
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Posted in Traditional
Posted in Traditional
A Field Guide to Archery
Field archery is the ultimate challenge, whatever your bow style, and many of the world’s elite concur that their field exploits represent their finest achievements in archery. The accuracy that a quality target archer brings to this new experience is…
WA Secretary General elected to World Games Committee
Tom Dielen, World Archery secretary general, has been re-elected to the International World Games Association Executive Committee. The World Games has been referred to as ‘the Olympics of the compound discipline’, and features a field round for recurve and compound…
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Posted in News
What breeds success indoors?
There’s plenty of crossover between archers who shoot well indoors and those who shoot well out of doors – but look down the results sheet, and you’ll notice that some names you see around the middle of leaderboards in the…
