Archery is one of the only sports where the difference between a gold medal and a mediocre round has almost nothing to do with strength, and almost everything to do with what’s happening in the six inches between an archer’s ears. Ask any elite archer what percentage of the sport Read more
I still remember the exact arrow. Not the score — I couldn’t tell you the score if you asked — but the feeling. That specific drop in the stomach the second you watch an arrow land somewhere it was never supposed to go, and you already know, before it even Read more
What is target panic? Target panic is a sport-specific performance block seen across recurve, compound and instinctive archers. It commonly presents as one or more of the following: Although the label is psychological, modern thinking frames target panic as a learned, maladaptive motor pattern — the brain has learned a Read more