Hi All,
Welcome to this week’s ‘5 quick tips’ email. As always, feel free to forward this message to your archery friends.
🛠️ Equipment recommendation
Most archers shoot with too much stabiliser weight, which hinders alignment and execution.
Some Korean coaches also say that ‘clicker disease’ (target panic) can be caused by having a bow that is too heavy in mass weight.
How do you know what mass weight is good? Pay attention to whether you can maintain a fluid, smooth shot over the course of a whole scored round,
and how your execution feels. And pay less attention to whether the sight is stable or not. More mass weight will always make the sight wobble less, but this just masks the problem. It doesn’t fix it.
Also, you can do a
7+2 test on different days, one with your stabilisers and one without your stabilisers. If your result is much better without your stabilisers this should tell you something 😜
🏹 Technique tip
“Basically, if you have too much power in your fingers, good shooting is impossible”.
This is a direct quote from one of the world’s best archer’s when I asked them about their expansion and how they focus during the release.
Can you guess which archer said this? I’ll explain more in a future email…
🧠 Mindset
I love this quote below, which is from an entrepreneur, but carries over perfectly to sports.
“you don’t become confident by shouting affirmations in the mirror, but by having a stack of undeniable proof that you are who you say you are. Outwork your self-doubt.”
– Alex Hormozi
How can you build an undeniable stack of proof in your training? Scoring more often and under more pressure is a good start.
💪 Try this in training
There are so many variables you can alter to change your training focus, and you can read my
How To Train for Archery guide for more ideas.
But this week, try some ‘eyes closed shooting’. Obviously, you have to be very careful with this…
Only ever do this at very close range, around 2-3 metres. Simply close your eyes and shoot a normal shot. But quickly open your eyes when you get to full draw to make sure your aim is good before closing them again and shooting.
What you’ll notice is
you can feel a lot more of what’s happening in your technique with your eyes closed. It’s a super helpful drill, particularly when working on your release.
You can also find more training exercises in my
Archery Drills Library.
🎬 Cool video or podcast I’d recommend
This video of
An San’s technique is great. And also shows just how consistent her shot timing is, even across different events. You can also see a YouTube video I did on the importance of good timing
here.
That’s it for today, have a wonderful weekend!
Happy shooting,
Ashe
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