Quick Answer: To choose arrows for a recurve bow, match arrow spine (stiffness) to your draw weight and draw length using a manufacturer spine chart, then set arrow length about 1–2 inches past your draw. Beginners do well with 500–600 spine aluminum or carbon arrows in the 26–29 inch range. Spine is the single most […]
Quick Answer: The week of June 22–28, 2026 belonged to the Pan American Archery Championships in Tlaxcala, Mexico, where the United States swept three of four team golds and locked up the first wave of Lima 2027 Pan American Games quota places. Argentina’s Denis Castellanos and 18-year-old American Ava Jones took the barebow titles, India […]
NASP’s national finals filled the Daytona Ocean Center this week, USA Archery dropped the 2026 calendar that puts Yankton at the center of the sport from June through October, and the archery world lost Boris Isachenko at 67. The Mathews ARC 30 and ARC 34 also kept generating noise after Mike’s Archery and Extreme Outfitters […]
Three out of every four wild misses inside thirty yards trace back to one fault: a sloppy archery anchor point. Coaches at Nock On call it the single most decisive piece of form in either style. If your release hand lands in a slightly different spot on every shot, your arrows will too — no […]
Mike Schloesser hit his 12th World Cup individual gold in a shoot-off, Zhu Jingyi backed up her Puebla title, India stunned Korea in the recurve mixed team final, and Türkiye answered a European Championship setback with home-soil compound gold.
The Antalya archery week ended with two stories that will travel further than the venue blurb suggests. Mike Schloesser collected his 10th individual World Cup gold on a windy Saturday, and on Sunday a 17-year-old from Maharashtra and her 25-year-old teammate handed Korea’s reigning Olympic mixed-team duo a 5-1 loss in the gold-medal match. Between […]
USA tops Pan Am medals in Medellín, Williams sets two recurve 50+ world records, Veronica’s Cup opens in Kamnik, and Yankton confirms its 10-event 2026 outdoor slate.
Pan American archery 2026 hit a US-flavored peak in Medellin this week, with Team USA dragging 31 medals out of the Unidad Deportiva Andrés Escobar and Mark Williams pulling two pending world records off the recurve 50+ lines. Across the Atlantic, Slovenia hosted the tenth edition of Veronica’s Cup with the world’s hottest compound shooters […]
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Türkiye sweeps both compound titles at Antalya 2026, Bakker wins first major in recurve as Germany claims both team golds, and three world records fall — your full archery week.