Duncan Busby rates the current intermediate compound bows on the market. All sports have different spending options, depending on the brand name and quality of the item you’re buying, but for us archers it’s rarely as simple as picking up…
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Arrows: dynamic behaviour
Dr. James Park explains just what happens on the way to the target. Arrows do rather a lot in the few moments they spend in the air. They flex vertically and laterally, rotate about their centre of mass in both…
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
KTA: An introduction
Kristina Dolgilevica took a second trip to Korea to learn traditional archery, and gave us a taste. Korean traditional archery (KTA), much like Japanese kyudo, descends from both martial and ceremonial practices. Thanks to various Imperial campaigns to preserve archery…
Arrows are not bullets
Real world arrow deflection tests provide insight into range safety and the safe design of field archery ranges. By Simon Allen. Since Archery GB produced their 2017 ‘A guide to field archery courses’ there has been much debate over the…
Tagged with: archers, archery, archery gb, arrow, arrows, carbon, deflection, field archery, longbows, overshoot, ranges, shooting, target
Posted in Features
Posted in Features
The mindset: form and execution
Roy Rose, in this compound-focused piece, talks us through developing a bulletproof process. Every archer, no matter what discipline is involved, whether you are a world champion or just plinking away in the backyard, shoots with the same objective: to…
Why field archery shouldn’t be overlooked
Shooting field teaches you skills that make you a better overall archer, says Chris Wells
Nîmes: From the inside
Rebekah Tipping tells us what it’s like to shoot in Nîmes against the best – and what she took home from the experience
Tagged with: archery competition, arrows, Bow International, competition, compound, indoor world cup, indoors, news, nimes, recurve, shooting, target, world archery
Posted in Events, Features, News
Posted in Events, Features, News
Picking your kit: Stabilisers and setup
Patrick Huston completes his guide to choosing equipment with a look at a recurve archer’s stabilisation options
Tagged with: archer, archery, archery set up, bow, bow and arrow, compound, kit choices, recurve, set up, stabilisers, target
Posted in Equipment, Features
Posted in Equipment, Features
8 Top Tips for new competitive archers
For many new archers, their first outdoor season presents a number of challenges. Andrew Smith breaks down the most common, and what to do about them. For first timers, the transition from the indoor season to outdoors can be quite…
Tagged with: bow arm, bow hand, clickers, competition, competitive archery, new archers, position, sight marks, target, technique, the back sight, tips
Posted in Events, Features, Technique, Traditional
Posted in Events, Features, Technique, Traditional
