Parallel Pro .. Take two
Not that long ago we wrote an article on the latest target arrow to come out of everyone's fav purveyors of aluminium and carbon products. No, not Tesla .. Easton. The arrow was the...
Yearly Archive: 2025
Gossip behind the Tent Line: Looking good for the Olympics
The following article is based on an interview of UK international compounder Ella Gibson by Greg Poole of BowJunky media. We'll be quoting Ella's own words about this situation and this formidable archer does...
Show Me? Show You!
There are veritable oceans of bushwah (Noun, North American informal: rubbish or nonsense) floating around in archery, especially in equipment. Advice is bandied about without consideration of who it applies to. Ask an elite...
The Great Arrow Tuning Mystery: A Tale of Wobble and Woe
So there you are. You've just bought yourself a shiny new set of arrows. The shop assistant assured you they were "perfectly matched to your setup" and you nodded sagely as if you understood...
The Hottest Archer in Scotland
We are well into the winter/indoor season for 2025/26 .. happily shooting indoors in the warm and dry and on ground that is in no way a swamp. However, there will be chances to...
Practicing with Purpose - Part 2
How to Practice Using The List (… with Purpose) .. Note—Please read Practicing with Purpose - Part 1 first otherwise this will be confusing. Steve So, you have sat down and made a list...
Gossip behind the Tent Line: Cost of Archery
In the last few years, archery kit prices have been sliding alarmingly upwards. Compound seem to be pricing themselves out of the majority of people's pockets. Outside of Hoyt, recurve is resisting with a...
Wrist in Peace
How you grip your bow is one of the great evolutions of your archery. As a noob you are grabbing that thing like its an annoyed cobra and if you let go of its...
Archergate
Lets be honest, when you think of scandals in sport, you don't think of archery. Endless drug suspensions in athletics and cycling. Bribes and backhanders in football. Hurtful language in cricket (although thats really...
Practicing With Purpose - Part 1
On a recent post on my coaching blog I addressed the question “Does Visualization Work?” In answering that question I began with: “The broader question is ‘How do we know anything works?’ The generic...
Archery on the TV?
Back in the distant past .. lets say 2010. You could get live archery from every World Cup stage on YouTube. We picked 2010 as our example year because that was the year the...
Making Archery Watchable
According to World Archery (WA), there are 30million archers in the world spread over 156 federations and that's just the ones WA know about*. Very few of them watch archery because, lets be honest...
Gossip behind the Tent Line: Greg Easton Prez!
Gwangju, South Korea – Greg Easton has been elected the new President of World Archery, securing a decisive victory over long-serving Secretary General Tom Dielen at the 56th World Archery Congress held in Gwangju,...
The Role of Emotion in Your Shot Sequence
Coach Ruis's article today looks at emotion in your shot. Yes, we are mostly steely eyed archer folks but lurking behind the icy exterior we are seething emotional basket cases. Over to you Sensei.....
A year in at Glasgow Archers
A Noob's Tale: Twas winter season 2024 when Finlay first darkened our door with his newfangled compounding ways and a beard you could hide a badger in. A year on, how has he found...
Random Archery Thoughts - Insanity
While in a long boring meeting, the following quote was used in the presentation .. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" .. causing this archer to...
It is About Life …
Archery is considered by many medical bodies to be a fantastic tool for physical and mental well being. Today, Coach Ruis is all over one of the great mental benefits of archery. Take it...
Gossip behind the Tent Line: ATA Lawsuit
On the 30th of May, a 63 page class-action antitrust lawsuit was filed in Utah accusing the US archery industry of colluding to fix the prices of products. According to the lawsuit, the Archery...
The Obstacle is the Path
To get better in archery you need motivation. To get you on the line, shooting the arrows, putting in the practice. We have written about methods of motivation before but here is a slightly...
Habits Have Contexts
Second of Coach Ruis' articles on Habits and Emotions ... as well as great American cuisine! ;o) My last post was about emotions and how they “fit” with habits. Habits also have contexts. An...
