There have been some great books and online recourses written recently on learning archery. These can be a great tool to remind and reinforce the lessons you’ve already been taught during our beginners couse and you'll learn a whole host new skills to help you become a great archer.
The following books are recommended for someone who has just started in archery hopefully after doing a progressive beginners course (see our courses page for current availability of our great weekend, 3 week ‘Fast Track’ or regular 5 week beginers courses in London Bridge). The best books at this level help you to develop a solid, consistent form without going into deeply technical variations on the standard elements of the shot sequence. All three of the following books provide a clear guide to building a good shot sequence and will help a novice archer achieve good consistent form.
Archery (Steps to Success): Kathleen Haywood (Author), Catherine Lewis (Author)
This is a very good book for people looking for a structured way to become a solid archer.
- Thorough - it's a very thorough book and doesn’t miss out anything that a novice archer needs to know.
- Easy to follow - provides an easy to follow program of exercises and provides space to record how well you have done on each exercise. A fun and interesting way to learn.
- Clear illustrations - good clear photos and drawings of each step to help you to conceptualise your body position.
- Bow tuning - a great section on basic bow tuning so you can get your bow up to speed at the same time as you improve your form.
Other good beginner books to try are:
Archery Fundamentals: A Better Way to Learn the Basics by Douglas Engh (Author)
Less rigidly structured than Steps to success, so is good if you prefer to structure your own training/learning your way.
The Archery For Beginners Guidebook by Archery GB (only available through archery stores, e.g. Clickers, Aim 4 Sport, Merlin etc)
Has a very good guide on archery etiquette and protocols in competitions and in clubs.
The Following online sources can also be helpful:
KSL International Archery
This has a very good shot sequence. It's brief in its description but is free to look at so worth a read. It does get pretty technical though.
Archery Interchange http://www.archeryinterchange.com/forum.php
A very popular UK archery forum, this can be a useful recourse for answering specific questions. Although do bear in mind that as it’s a forum there is often lots of arguing that can be distracting and confusing. The loudest voice is also not necessarily the most accurate!
These are the ones that I particularly favour but there are many more useful resources out there. Do let us know if you have any other recommendations that you've found useful on your archery journey!
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7 comments:
I have the Steps to Success copyright in 1989 by these two authors. I consider it one of the greatest books, it has taught me all the basics and it does so in a thought out, clear, and simplified manner.
Carl
Agree with all of those, especially steps to success! I would also add "Become the Arrow" by Byron Ferguson [warning: contains pictures of dead animals] which has a lot ideas which I've found really useful while blundering about with my Longbow :)
I like the fundamentals book and the become the arrow book, I've also found that some of the friends I shoot with have other books that are hard to find and just as useful.
I highly recommend Core Archery: Shooting with proper back tension by Larry Wise. This book is all about setting your objective to use your back properly and ensuring that every step in your shoot cycle is aimed towards this objective. It's a quick but insightful read and part of the book is also a flick book :)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Core-Archery-Shooting-Proper-Tension/dp/0913305189/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377880597&sr=1-1&keywords=core+archery
Thanks for this, I will have to check these out! Bow Life
While you're learning archery you're basically dealing with a lethal weapon so the importance of an adequate shooting range cannot be stressed enough. A good place to practice archery is a remote strip of land with no one near it. Needless to say urban areas are no go zones as far as archery is concerned.
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