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The Incredibly Awful Electronics of Archery

Whoa!!  Before  the flamings begin, read further…. I am, among other things, an app tester.  My app-testing job consists almost entirely of reminding genius software designers that the rest of us lowly humans don’t speak Computerese. We Normal People don’t necessarily intuit how to navigate complicated electronic interfaces.  We need it spelled out for us, … Continue reading »

Get Happy > Shoot Better!

Today’s Archery Knowledge Gems come from the Mother Ship of Archery Science articles: The Archery On-Line Bibliography! While nowhere near as quirkily endearing as the Archery Library we explored yesterday, the AOLB (an acronym I shall use henceforth as the actual name is too blasted long to type more than once) is a fabulous resource, … Continue reading »

Brady Ellison, a Donut and Science

When Kisik Lee, the US Olympic Archery Head Coach,  introduced the scientifically-based Biomechanical Efficient Shooting Technique (BEST) and its newer incarnation, the National Training System (NTS), it must have been quite a jolt to a sport that had been taught essentially unchanged since the bow and arrow were invented. An ESPN article from 2012 quotes … Continue reading »