Off the Arrow Shelf

So, following requests from some listeners I am focusing this and the next podcast on arrow making, giving my thoughts and starting the breakdown of what I consider important with arrow making. You might find this article i wrote several years ago useful starting point too https://offthearrowshelf.com/2015/11/13/wooden-arrows-shafts-a-few-thoughts-before-you-buy/ 

I make mention of a couple of other podcasts and wanted to include the details here. Also if anyone has come across any studies on the use of different woods in arrows i would love to hear about it.

Check out The Push technical guys I was talking about was Cody and the Trad lab podcasts. https://www.thetradlab.com/copy-of-tradlab-studies

I mentioned  a review of the Batwing feathers from Gateway I wrote and here is the link https://offthearrowshelf.com/2019/02/19/equipment-review-batwing-feather-fletchings/ also to Gateway themselves (https://www.gatewayfeathers.com/

A good thing to buy is a grain scale to weigh you arrow components, I use a digital grain scale.

Top tip to remember your arrows are a disposable asset so accept they are disposable asset, they will wear out, break or get lost.

As always, any questions or thoughts let me know.

Stay safe, stay well and thanks for listening.

#bows # arrows  #fieldarchery #archerycoaching #archery #archerypodcast #archerylife #thepusharchery #gatewayfeathers #arrowmaking #archer

So, in this episode which marks a the 13th episode (unlucky for some) I am going to be talking a little about the importance of finding a good coach you can work with, along with saying how coaching made me think of a classic British comedy duo of Morecambe and Wise Christmas show with Andre Previn.

Also, I want to give a shout out to a few of other podcasters who I have been listening recently Richard over at Archery Geek Outdoors, The Off Center Archers with Stephanie & Anthony Conte and Angel Garcia at High Power Archery Podcast. I am so sorry Angel I couldn’t remember your name off the top of my head, anyone who knows me will tell you my memory for names is truly awful.  Please accept my apologies.

I really  do like the slot in your podcasts “Don’t be that guy” hope you don't mind me adapting / adopting a similar idea.

#bows # arrows #NFAS #fieldarchery #archerycoaching #archery #archerypodcast #archerylife #thepusharchery

@offcenterarcher @A_G_Outdoors @highpowerarchery

So in this episode I am going to give a bit of a review of the current situation field archery is in in UK or at least a perspective of how some NFAS clubs are coping with COVID-19 and have started to run competitions again.

I also mentioned the Angry Badger podcasts which is following a bushcraft day I did in North Wales recently.

#Archery #fieldarchery #nfas #theangrybadger

In this episode I cover the last element of the archers triangle - that of the archer and the archers mindset when it comes to  shooting. It is a huge topic and I made mention of a couple of books which are detailed below.

Apologies for all the sniffing too and chair creaking. My desk chair is about given up and I blame the sniffing on the change of weather here in the UK. Before anyone says it, it's not me that is creaking it is the chair.

Thanks for listening, stay safe.

The Chimp paradox - Prof Steve Peters ISBN 978-0-09193-558-0

Jay Kidwel - Instinctive Archery Insights overcoming target panic - REVISED EDITION ISBN 0-9639718-2-4

I also made reference to The Push podcasts and it was episode Episode 143 - Canadas Finest with Alex Melnik

So this is episode 10, double figures time already.

In this podcast I will be continuing to look at the Archers Triangle and focusing on the Archer side of the triangle. In the previous podcast I talked about the physical aspects associated with the archer and in the one I will spend time discussing the Shot Sequence.

How the chain of actions you perform when taking a shot, might have a positive or negative effect on the success of your shot.

I mentioned a several podcasts and I thought it worth adding a list here of them. I also mentioned Joel Turner and Shot IQ which is well worth investigating further. There is a great session with the guys at Bowjunky archery podcasts available from Podbeam (https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/3vnys-42d61/Bowjunky-archery-podcast)

Fellow club member Rich at Archery Geek outdoors - https://archerygeekoutdoors.podbean.com/

Off centre Archers - https://offcenterarchers.podbean.com/

The Push podcasts and especially the coaching moments one they have released, which has some great resources. https://www.thepusharchery.com/

https://www.shotiq.com/is Joel Turners site

Some of these guys have their own YouTube channels too which are worth checking out.

So in this episode I focus on the third side of the Archers Triangle, that of the archer. Possibly the hardest element of the triangle to control as it has the most variables.

I will be focusing on the physical aspects in this podcast and moving onto shot sequence in the next episode and finishing on the mental side in the episode after that which should be episode 11.

I mentioned Archery Geek Outdoors in this podcast and here is a link to his site https://archerygeekoutdoors.podbean.com/

Continuing the series on the Archers Triangle concept I mentioned back in episode 6. This episode gives some thoughts on the second side of the triangle the Bow. How this might affect the archer, touching on topics like over bowing.

As always if you have any questions drop me a line on [email protected] or drop by the website https://offthearrowshelf.com/

In this podcast I am expanding on the concept of the Archers Triangle, focusing on the arrow initially.

This covers one of the sides of the triangle and looks at some of the aspects to be considered when thinking about arrows from a traditional archers prospective.

I hope you find this of interest and use.

In this podcast I am going to introduce the concept of the Archers Triangle.  Whether you are a target archer, hunter or field shooter. Archery can be broken down into three components, Archer, Arrow and Bow. These three need to work together successfully for the best outcome.

I have found this method of explaining archery to students very useful when coaching as they can easily identify the relationship between the three elements, whilst also useful in focusing them on specific elements as they develop.

In future podcasts I will go into each of the three elements in more depth.

SO in this episode I am going to talk about the wealth of resources out there for archers, but also the dangers of getting swamped by all the different messages and advice.