Over the past few months, I have been experimenting with carbon arrows, with the plan to start shooting in the National Field Archery Society’s Traditional Bowhunter class. So when the opportunity arose to try out the Easton Carbon Legacy arrows, it

Bow International’s archer of the decade, Ki Bo Bae, in official practice the day before her third World Cup Final victory in Rome, 2017. ■

If we spend a little time thinking about what we call beginners’ courses, we might be swayed to consider how we run them. For a club struggling for income, a series of beginners’ courses can raise a considerable sum. An elite-focused club might targe

The international outdoor season officially started on 1 April. Perhaps not the most auspicious date, but the event that kicked it off, from 3-8 April, was exceptionally well organised and produced some elite level performances. Despite some downpour

Late June will mark 400 days to go until the Paris Olympics, followed as usual by the Paralympics. The Olympic ‘movement’ – the global network of sports, sports professionals, athletes, federations and related staff who coalesce around the Switzerlan

The youngest of the Great British women’s team, Penny Healey, at 18 years old, has proven yet again that she is here to stay, and can only get better. Putting in the hours – including training after closing time at the training centre – Penny has qui

Watching the denouement of the Antalya World Cup, live just off the beach (the finals venue has moved a few feet), I was struck by the drive and talent of the Chinese recurve teams, who both made the recurve finals. Far more vocal and expressive than

It sometimes seems hard to believe now, but a huge swathe of London just north of the City was once dedicated to archery practice, shooting at and between permanent targets called ‘marks’, trying to get as close as possible to each one. It’s essentia

The level in compound, across both men and women, has taken a massive jump in scores, talent and depth. During qualification a huge 42% of the field scored over 700, with 15 women and 49 men. This is the highest amount of 700+ scores to date, and sur

Homo sapiens who migrated to Europe 54,000 years ago may have introduced archery techniques to the Continent, according to a new study published in Science Advances. Researchers examined stone points and artefacts discovered at the Grotte Mandrin, a

Scottish production company QTV has announced its sponsorship of promising young archer Cameron Radigan in support of his qualification campaign for the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. Radigan, 20, who is from Galston, Ayrshire, has risen quickly thr

Q Why, when at least three of the world’s leading compounders are punchers, is this style of execution deemed by nearly all experts as an unacceptable method? A The question suggests that several elite archers successful on the circuit at the moment–

The era of Genghis Khan, who lived in the 12th and 13th centuries, was a time of great military conquest and expansion. The man who founded the Mongol Empire, was known for his formidable military tactics and his highly skilled army of soldiers and a

Apeep sight is critical to your accuracy as a compound archer – when you’re aiming, you should think of it as your rear sight. Your peep and your front sight need to be perfectly aligned so that the peep consistently encircles your scope housing at f

The Invicta ‘Shoot to the Marks’ was hosted by the Fraternity of St George on 18-19 February 2023 in Godinton Park, near Ashford, Kent. This was the Fraternity’s first shoot of the new year, and while we shoot on many of the finest estates in the cou

Great Britain’s Ella Gibson was named as the best of 2022 by World Archery, in a televised ceremony ahead of the finals at the first stage of the 2023 Hyundai Archery World Cup in Antalya, Türkiye (see p43). Gibson had an exceptional year in which sh

The board of Archery GB has appointed Ruth Hall as its new chief executive, starting in May 2023. Hall joins from Sport England’s National Outdoor Centre. She arrives at Archery GB with 15 years’ executive leadership experience, four years of it in t

Now that we have fully prepared shafts – as detailed in my previous three articles – it’s time to turn our attention to what most people believe is the hardest part of arrow building. This is practical fletching, the process of attaching your chosen

I have no idea where the time has gone but somehow I have been writing for Bow longer than some members of our GB team have been on this planet! My message is still the same: do the strength work. I wouldn’t have had my archery career without putting

Imagine air was visible and you could see the turns and swirls that it makes as an object – an arrow, say – passes through it. This, in part, is what computational fluid dynamics (CFD) enables, providing amazing insights into flow structures, pressur

A new performance facility is being constructed by Sport England at Lilleshall National Sports Centre to combine both indoor and outdoor ranges on one site. The facility will be used by Olympic and Paralympic archers, as well as Pathway development a

It is stating the obvious to say the more you shoot leading up to the event, the more archery fit you will be and the more confident you will be about your shooting form. But don’t train for the sake of it without giving 100% to the session. When tra

To ‘follow-through’ means to bring an action to its conclusion or finishing position. If we consider the process of a pitcher throwing a baseball, we see that the follow-through consists of the athlete continuing to move the propulsive extremity (and

Sara Lopez waiting to compete on the finals field at the Vegas Shoot, 2019. Photo: Dean Alberga ■

Archery is a relatively small but growing sport in Estonia, the Baltic state that borders Latvia, Russia and the Gulf of Finland. The Estonian Archery Association (EAA) is the governing body for the sport in the country, and it is affiliated with Wor

The squad that Great Britain will send to the first stage of the 2023 Hyundai Archery World Cup in Antalya has been announced. Ella Gibson, currently the world number one and who won three out of three stages of the international tour last year, will

On the Indian team, Atanu Das (pictured) returns to the squad for this year’s major tournaments and the Asian Games, but his wife, former world number one Deepika Kumari, has missed the cut and will not be on the team this year. Atanu and Deepika had