RECURVE: ERROR ANALYSIS
Archers really are a generous lot, happy to throw away points during a round or head-to-head match by not realising they have an issue and failing to make an adjustment or a correction quick enough to stop haemorrhaging points.
Given the lengths some go to to have their equipment perfectly set up, this is quite contradictory to what you would expect. James Park has written several articles in this publication demonstrating that even the best archers could benefit by adjusting their sight earlier. But it is not just about moving the sight. Changes in our form from shot to shot will move our groups around the target face or create a rogue arrow landing where it was not supposed to.
The decline of multi-distance rounds and the growing prominence of the WA70m and head-to-heads at county, national and international competitions does mean that lots of archers concentrate on this round and are slowly losing the ability to understand some of the shooting errors they have made and how to correct them.
Another reason why archers are slow to react is that they are told to believe in their training, so naturally assume
