The ideal competition preparation for archers? Claire van Dijck investigates In the Netherlands, archery has changed a lot over the years. Archery was once known as a sport played in bars, just like darts, but currently there are several regional…
Features
Turning Pro: compound
Could you do it? Duncan Busby investigates. Turning professional is the dream of many archers; being able to do what you love day in and day out whilst earning a good living seems like the perfect job. Historically archery has…
Tagged with: archers, archery, bow, compound archery, job, north america, professional, shoot, shooting, turning pro, world archery, world championships, world cups
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Posted in Features
The way of the bow
Bow paid a visit to the White Rose Kyudojo in London If you are a regular club archer, a Saturday morning at the White Rose, in a sports hall in south-east London, would not be that unfamiliar. The targets are…
Ask the experts
It’s that time again for our experts to answer your questions, so if you have any then please send them to [email protected] Q: I usually shoot with a back tension release but it’s difficult to use in bad weather, would…
Tagged with: aiming, archer, archery, arrow, Ask The Experts, back tension, bow, compound, field archers, recurve, shoot, trigger release
Posted in Technique
Posted in Technique
Para World Championships 2019
Tania Nadarajah competed in Den Bosch for Team GB. She reports exclusively for Bow on a competition that was tougher than most – for several reasons. The 2019 edition of the World Para Archery Championships was the largest competition in…
Tagged with: para championships, para-archery, tania nadarajah, world championships
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The importance of hydration
Many archers forget to keep themselves hydrated, and Ethan Lowry is here to tell you how crucial it is. To some observers, archery may not appear to be the most physically demanding of sports. Due to this assumption, we tend…
Tagged with: amateur, archers, archery, athletes, competition, dehydration, hydration, professional, sports nutrition, water
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Compound in the Olympics: will it ever happen?
Will we see compound archery in the Olympics, and if so when? It is a common question in archery circles, and is entirely understandable from the perspective of compound shooters that see almost all modern competitions allowing multiple bowstyles. Yet…
Tagged with: bow, bowstyles, competition, compound, IOC, london 2012, los angeles 2028, mixed team, olympics, paris 2024, recurve, Tokyo 2020, world archery, World Games
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World Championships 2019
The 2019 Hyundai World Archery Championships in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands was by some distance the biggest major international archery tournament ever held. The total runners were 590 from 88 countries – 200 recurve men, 153 recurve women, 139 compound men and…
Shooting with curves
USA senior athlete Amy Skogen has a couple of things to talk about This article is intended for everyone, but just a warning before we start: a great deal of it will be talking about boobs. When I started learning…
2019 World Archery Championships: Preview
Every two years, the archery world holds a target World Championships. This is the longest running international competition in target archery, and has a history going back to 1931, when World Archery was still known as FITA. It was held…