COMPLETE GUIDE TO: RECURVE STABILISATION
Despite all the technical papers on recurve stabilisation, when you ask top coaches and archers about their stabilisation set up and how they arrived at their current configuration, all will say that it was achieved through trial and error.
Today there are many companies making stabilisers and associated products, varying wildly in price. The price difference is down to the materials used, production costs and the cost of the research and development deployed to make the finished article. Most long and short rods are now made from carbon, or a mix of carbon and fibreglass as found at the cheaper end of the market.
Adding any stabilisation to a bow adds mass weight; how fit you are will determine how much weight you can add and ultimately the correct stabilisation configuration for you.
Unquestionably, stabilisation helps to increase scores – it is why every top archer uses them and not to do so will compromise your results. Most Olympic riser manufacturers expect an archer to add stabilisation and design the balance and centre of gravity (hereafter referred to as COG) to allow for it.
A well set-up stabilisation configuration helps to iron out minor form errors that create unwanted torque and movement of the bow, affecting arrow flight and lowering scores.
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