Vegas 2026
The Vegas Shoot is arguably the largest and most prestigious indoor archery tournament in the world. Taking place currently in March each year in the city of Las Vegas, its a competition where anything...
Category: Competition
Dealing with Adversity
Adversity is never very far from your archery especially in competition. In practice you have time to fix things but in competition ... not so much. You've prepped for a shoot. You've got your...
Innumeracy in Archers
Arithmetic is where numbers fly, like pigeons, in and out of your head - Carl Sandburg Archery is fantastic for improving yourself physically and mentally. For physical activity it engages the arms, shoulders, back,...
Are Bows Electric?
Since the turn of the millennium, electronics and microchips have found their way into everything. Cookers, fridges, tv's, electric toothbrushes rigged for WiFi .. even the humble toaster* can come with as much processing...
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...
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...
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...
One Arrow One Life
One of the great things in modern archery is the head to head. Two archers shooting against each other. Three arrow ends, highest score takes 2 points, draw 1 point, 0 if you lose....
What Happens during a Competition
This weekend we are hosting an American competition in celebration of the 4th of July. However, we can guess that many new archers will be a little lost, having no experience about what happens...
Glasgow League: Missed it by THAT much
Its difficult to write anything about the Glasgow League finale and make it suspenseful or exciting or witty because this hurts .. quite a bit .. and we're not at home to Mr Stoic...
Glasgow League - Rumble in the Time Capsule
Buckle up people, this article may get ranty. Archery is a sport where the difference between a high score and a not so high score .. winning and losing .. can be pretty fine....
Single Arrow Shootoff - Thinking about scores
Today we start a new series of articles - Single Arrow Shootoffs. Basically, a one line, thought provoking comment with a little extra opinion thrown in to get you started .. thinking! Todays thought...
Glasgow League - Seconds out .. Round Four
Round four of the Glasgow indoor league was back to where we kicked off three short months ago - Eastwood High School, Newton Mearns. The 9am Sunday start would have the competitors out their...
Glasgow League - Half Way
The conclusion of the third leg of the Glasgow League would mark the half way point in the inaugural 2024-25 season. This round was to be shot once again at The Time Capsule in...
Glasgow League heating up
The Glasgow League competition has settled into a comfortable monthly meet, shoot and gossip session for the various teams in and around the city. Seven clubs are on the books as competing and to...
Getting your Competition on
One of the great features of archery is competition and competitions. This can be against yourself (personal bests), mano a mano (head to heads) or shooting a round at a formal shoot and being...
Archery and Ladders
There's a bit of excitement set to kick off after Wednesday night at the club. John has restarted the club ladder competition, and the usual suspects are all scrabbling for their slots by shooting...
How Olympic archery works
Archery at the Paris 2024 Olympics kicked off on July 25th with the individual ranking rounds and will switch to the head to head rounds to determine the medals the following week. But what...
We Few, We Happy Few ...
Competitive archery is something that not all archers, even the experienced, try. Perhaps its a bit too stressful. Perhaps archery is their calm place where they can get away from things/people. Newer archers may...
Climbing the Ladder
Hopefully, most of you at GA are aware we have a ladder competition running right now. The rules are pretty simple even if John has done his best to make it hard. Shoot a...
