Shooting field teaches you skills that make you a better overall archer, says Chris Wells
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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
Ask The Experts – Bright Arrows
Q: I started shooting instinctively but I now have problems with maintaining my concentration on the target. I group arrows well when I shoot paper faces but when I rove or shoot 3D my groups spread badly. A: Yes,…
Behind The Line
A whole new perspective on archery is within your reach – John Dudley explains how to find it I have been asked – by many archers and on many occasions – several common questions relating to performance archery. A few…
Tagged with: back tension, execution, focus, john dudley, line, scores, shooting line, surprise, target, target panic, tournament
Posted in Technique
Posted in Technique
New boss developed in Warwickshire
A Warwickshire-based coach has developed a new type of boss, made from recycled materials, thanks to a grant from Funding 4 Innovation. Paul Hadley, director of Stratford Archery Centre, experimented with recycled materials to make a boss that was lighter…
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…
UK to host 2016 European Outdoor Championships
Archery GB, the governing body for archery in Great Britain, has won the bid to host the European Outdoor Championships in 2016. Nottingham City Council and Nottingham University partnered UK Sport and Archery GB in putting forward the bid, and…
Tagged with: 2016, archery, archery gb, David Sherratt, European Outdoor Championships, Gold Event Series, legacy, nottingham, Nottingham City Council, Nottingham University, olympics, outdoor, paralympics, participation, rio 2016, target, UK Sport
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Posted in News
