Attention, serious archers: If you're looking for the advanced techniques and strategies to help you refine your skills and thoroughly prepare for competition, Precision Archery can help you achieve your goals.
Relying on the expertise of some of the nation's top coaches and competitors such as Rick McKinney, Larry Wise, and M.J. Rogers as well as the publishers of Archery Focus magazine, this comprehensive book covers all aspects of competition for all disciplines within the sport. Whether you're a target archer, field archer, or bowhunter, you'll discover the subtleties of technique that will give you the competitive edge—and you'll learn how to tailor your approach to specific conditions and events.
Precision Archery covers advanced technique and form of recurve, compound, and barebow archery. It provides in-depth instruction to help you perfect your stance, align your body, engage the right muscles, and flawlessly execute every phase of a shot sequence, from predraw through release. 
You'll also learn how to
 -select and maintain equipment, with detailed advice on bow tuning and setup, arrow tuning, and testing new equipment; 
-employ mental preparation, focus, and relaxation techniques to improve your consistency and accuracy; 
-adjust your technique for various weather and terrain conditions; and
-use fitness training to condition your body in ways that will directly enhance your archery performance and skills.If you're ready to go beyond the basics of shooting and bow stringing to develop pinpoint accuracy, turn to Precision Archery for the edge you need.

Precision Archery

Sports & Outdoors

Ruis, Steve

Stevenson, Claudia

Individual Sports

Human Kinetics

Coaching Archery

Self-Help

Watching Arrows Fly, LLC

Parents will learn how to tell if an archery class is safe, how to protect their pocketbooks, how to select archery equipment, how to find and work with coaches, how to tell if their child is getting serious, whether you should coach your own child, and much, much more.

A Parent's Guide to Archery

For the intermediate to elite competitive archer. Covers form, technique, physical and mental training, equipment, and more.

Winning Archery

An introduction to archery written for young archers but good information for their parents to have as well. How to shoot, safety rules, choosing the right equipment, working with a coach, competition, and more.Steve Ruis is the author of A Parent's Guide to Archery, Coaching Archery, Precision Archery and is the editor of Archery Focus Magazine.

Archery4Kids

Following his book, Coaching Archery, Steve Ruis, Editor of Archery Focus magazine, continues on how to coach archery. The book Coaching Archery served beginning-to-intermediate coaches, and now More on Coaching Archery addresses the full range of coaching levels.Topics include: basic biomechanical aspects affecting the shot, the relationship of stance to being able to aim, where form flaws come from and how to avoid them, how to address students' equipment problems, how to estimate an archer’s chances of winning, how to prepare to perform, how students' personalities determine how they learn and how you should treat them, the role of emotion in shooting consistently, how to help students deal with target panic, and even how to find arrows in the grass . . . and much more.If you are an archery coach and want to become a better one, this book is for you.

More on Coaching Archery

Archery technique and training tools geared to help you avoid problems and improve your score.

Why You Suck at Archery

Archery for Adult Beginners. Form, Equipment, Practice, and more.

Shooting Arrows: Archery for Adult Beginners

For archers there are all kinds of “how to” books available in print and on the Internet, but for coaches there is hardly anything. Even the coach training courses focus on what to teach instead of how to teach it. So where should coaches go for ideas as to how to introduce various pieces of archery equipment or new elements of form and execution? There really wasn’t anything available, so I wrote this book. Steve Ruis

Archery Coaching How-To's

A sequel to The Principles of Coaching Archery, Volume 1 which was a discussion of 50 principles applicable to the coaching of archery by Steve Ruis, archery coach and Editor of Archery Focus Magazine. Volume 2 provides 70 more such principles, directed at archery coaches who wish to better themselves in the craft of coaching.

The Principles of Coaching Archery Volume 2: 70 More Rules for Better Coaching

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