Archery GB has announced that Richard Priestman has joined the performance unit as Senior Olympic Coach. An Olympic medallist at the Seoul and Barcelona Games, Richard has previously worked for Archery GB as well as taking coaching positions with the Bangladesh, Brazil,…
Bow International Issue 100 – the big winners!
Congratulations to Adam Joice (Lancashire), Cecelia Ross (Pennsylvania), Damien Culley (Warwickshire), Glenn Rowland (Cornwall), Angela Williams (Norfolk), Roger Gammon (Glamorgan), Jonathan Ingram (Devon), Stuart Dunlop (Pembrokeshire) and Darren McNeil (Galway) – one of our nine prizes up for grabs from…
Travel Time
Don’t let guilt about not practising ruin the holidays for you. John Dudley shares his tips for staying sharp when you’re away from your bow From time to time I ponder what kind of a subject I want to write…
Tagged with: execution, exercise, holidays, john dudley, mental game, rest, time off
Posted in Traditional
Posted in Traditional
Motor Learning
Craig Johnson explains how the brain learns in co-ordination with muscle systems, and how archers can use that to their advantage in training I have previously given an overview of the nervous system and looked at feedback in the motor system,…
Tagged with: craig johnson, focus, motor learning, repetition, special skills, still eye, training, visualisation
Posted in Psychology
Posted in Psychology
New Easton Centre of Excellence
A brand-new Archery Center for Excellence has been built in the U.S Olympic training facility in Chula Vista, California, as a gift through the Easton Foundations. Jim Easton, a previous board member of the International Olympic Committee and long-time supporter…
Tagged with: California, Center For Excellence, Chula Vista, Easton, Easton Foundations, Jim Easton, olympic
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Posted in News
W&W Online Shop Open
Win&Win has announced the launch of its new online shop, which will sell clothing (including shooting shirts, t-shirts and hoodies) and accessories such as hats, phone cases, arrow wraps and stickers. The online store will ship worldwide, and can be…
Finalists Finalised
The qualifiers for the 10th Archery World Cup Finals, taking place in Mexico 24-25 October, have been announced. After stages held in Shanghai, Antalya, Wroclaw and Medellin, seven archers in each competitive division, with a maximum of two per country,…
New World Records
Russia’s open recurve men’s team of Bato Tsydendorzhiev, Sergey Khutakov and Anton Zaypaev set a new world record of 1926 for the category at the Para-Archery World Championships in Donaueschingen, Germany – beating the old record by a staggering 92…
Tagged with: compound open, italy, para-archery, recurve open, Russia, team, W1, world record
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Ask The Experts – Making a Longbow
Q: I am a relatively new archer and would like to make myself a longbow. A friend in the club has a lovely osage longbow so I would like to make one like it from a kit, but how much…
Ask The Experts – Practice
Q: I’ve been shooting a longbow for a while but it is only now that I’m actually thinking more seriously about practicing archery. Just going out and flinging some arrows down the range doesn’t improve my skills. Is there anything…