At the recent Roma Archery Trophy, we spoke to four elite archers to find out what they were swinging this season. (Click each image to expand).
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Poundage: how heavy does a recurve bow need to be?
One of the most common questions that people unfamiliar with archery ask is along the lines of: “Don’t you have to be really strong to do it?”. The pretty-much-universal advice is to start shooting at a low bow weight, and…
Winter Maintenance
By Duncan Busby and Crystal Gauvin. The New Year is a time for resolutions, but when it comes to archery the winter season can make even the most passionate of archers lose interest. Between the cold weather – and gluttony…
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Changing the Sport? New Style Clubs
For as long as anyone can remember, archery has been based around clubs; and they remain the cauldron of most people’s archery experience, barring the usual first-try suspects of summer camps and fairgrounds. Archery clubs vary wildly across the UK…
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All the gear…
Club archery has a problem. By Chris Wells Shooting a bow effectively requires the knowledge of the movements required and the muscle memory and physical fitness to deliver those movements identically each time. It’s easy to learn bad habits and…
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Archery Holidays
With the winter clouds rolling in, beat the blues with these holiday ideas for 2019 catered for the archer who can’t bear to leave their bow behind. Heather Flint has it covered. Chianti 3D Chianti 3D Archery is part of…
The New TV: Archery on YouTube
Andrea Vasquez investigates why archers are creating content on YouTube. When YouTube arrived on the internet in 2005 it changed how video – and TV – would be consumed for either. The most-widely used online video platform, it currently…
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Tough At The Top: Interview with Chang Hyejin
Once described as “five foot one of indomitable will”, this interview with the Olympic Champion, Chang Hyejin took place earlier this year shortly before this year’s Asian Games. By Vanessa Lee. Chang Hyejin didn’t appear to be the most intimidating…
Hunger Games-inspired archer places 7th at Youth Olympic Games
Rebecca Jones of New Zealand, topped becoming the first NZ archer to be selected for the Youth Olympic Games by finishing 7th in the competition. Despite seeding 31st of 32 archers, she fought her way to the quarterfinals, after dramatically…
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