Comments for Traditional Archery

Comment on Defending “The Stick” by Jan van Hulten

Jan van Hulten — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 08:11:51 +0000

Sometimes new members of my archery club ask me wether they should buy a modern or a traditional bow. I never give a specific advice but to some obvious candidates for traditional archery I reply: “What would you prefer? Tuning equipment or tuning yourself?”. So far, all of them seem to be quite happy with their longbow or horsebow.

Comment on Getting Coaching by How To Learn Archery Techniques For Beginners : Sports Live Wiki

How To Learn Archery Techniques For Beginners : Sports Live Wiki — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:00:50 +0000

[...] big problem of course, is getting access to a qualified coach. Many archery clubs have coaching contacts through GNAS, but if you can’t get a qualified coach ask an experienced [...]

Comment on Selecting a bow for Asiatic archery – Part 1 by Axel

Axel — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:55:21 +0000

Dear Nadeem, I would like to thank you for your articles about asiatic archery. Do you know somebody in the UK or USA that already bought a bow to Mr Zhang Li at Alibow.cn? I have tried, several times to contact him by email, but not response, could you help me? Thank you!

Comment on Are you shooting for accuracy, or precision? by John

John — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:57:59 +0000

I totally agree, we need to shoot as if we are a machine, the most important aspect is locking your bow arm and using your back muscles to draw the bow, this way you will always be at full draw (eg) on a 37 pound bow a 1/4\" less of draw will drop the poundage by 2.5 pounds with the result a low shaft on the target, i see this all the time with my friends at the club, if we can master locking our bow arm precision will come and then accuracy

John Hoskin

Comment on Falling for Field Archery by ArcheryDuns

ArcheryDuns — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:30:21 +0000

Like your simple “romantic” approach to archery & description. Might even plagiarise it (or at least the sense of it). Your IFAA brigade might not like it so much though.

Comment on Outdoor shooting: Appropriate Clothing by Rob

Rob — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 05:56:38 +0000

All excellent suggestions. Especially for students or younger archers starting out.

Comment on Outdoor shooting: Appropriate Clothing by Adam

Adam — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:06:00 +0000

For: “if you shoot in the UK” read: “anywhere north of the Watford Gap”
For: “a tassle” read:- “use any scrap of old bathroom towelling” excellent!
For: “an arrow puller” read: “buy a tea-tray, non-slip liner and cut it into suitable squares” Cheap, long lasting and very effective, and tucks into a very small space.
For: “…Sense of humour” Read: Ditto and yes; do enjoy. Happy shooting!

Comment on ‘Gap’ shooting or ‘point of aim’: Traditional archery technique by Adam

Adam — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:57:07 +0000

Like the article! A field archer from preference (NFAS) use mediterranean release as per the rules for \\\’Hunting Tackle\\\’ class. But, the essentials of the article apply; need only adapting for the mediterranean release.
And yes; clipping the nose on release IS painful!!

Comment on Essential reading for novice archers by Rob

Rob — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:02:44 +0000

That is true Ole. Although from my own (limited) coaching experience, do we not teach what works best for us?

I suspect that the best coaches have experience with many different styles of shooting.

They’re not easy to find, but if you find a coach who has deep experience of freestyle shooting, olympic recurve, gap shooting, field archery etc etc, then pay attention to what they have to say!

Comment on Essential reading for novice archers by ole hunter

ole hunter — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:43:27 +0000

archery is a life style more than it is a sport…
I learned more about shooting a bow and hitting my targets from free style shooters…
archery coachs, some not all, want their student to shoot exactly like thay do regardless of the result…