Crowood Sports Guides are the perfect tool for anyone wanting to improve their performance, from beginners learning the basic skills to more experienced participants working on advanced techniques. These practical, no-nonsense guides will help you give you that all-important advantage. Archery - Crowood Sports Guides gives a clear explanation of bow set and arrow tuning; detailed advice on how to produce a good shot cycle; choosing the right bow and arrows and how to prepare physically and...

One Arrow, One Life is a classic treatise on kyudo, the art of traditional Japanese archery, and its relation to the ideals and practice of Zen Buddhism.With a solid introduction to the form and practice of Zen meditation, as well as a thorough description of the Eight Stages of Kyudo, One Arrow, One Life captures the subtleties of the complementary nature of thought and action, movement and stillness. Demonstrating the importance of bringing movement, posture and ...

Written by an acknowledged expert, this invaluable book is aimed at archers of all levels, from those starting out in the sport to those taking part in competitions at the highest levels. The author analyses shooting techniques and tuning, and also emphasizes the development of mental toughness; he argues that this goes hand in hand with the mastery of the physical aspects of the sport.

An iconic medieval missile weapon, the deadly longbow made possible the English victories at Crecy and Poitiers at the height of the Hundred Years' War. The longbow was the weapon at the heart of the English military ascendancy in the century after 1340. Capable of subjecting the enemy to a hail of deadly projectiles, the longbow in the hands of massed archers made possible the extraordinary victories enjoyed by English forces over superior numbers at Crécy and Poitiers, and remained a key...

A comprehensive book on hunting whitetails with a bow. Loaded with information, this book has something for everyone from novice to veteran. Topics include selecting the right bow, gaining familiarity with whitetails, learning what drives whitetails, kill zones on a whitetail, styles of hunting, trailing and recovering whitetails, effective strategies and tactics, and how to hunt and harvest a nocturnal buck during legal shooting hours. Over forty pictures are included in the book.

A sports performance and training book from five times British Field Archery Champion Jackie Wilkinson. Jackie has held several British records competed at international level many times and enjoyed success at home and abroad including gold medals at the Circuit des 5 Nations. Whether you are at club county or national level the tool Jackie describes can help you succeed in sport. - Jackie's system can help anyone from beginners to experts improve their performance - Jay Barrs - US...

Traditional archery is spoken in every language, in every culture. Whether you compete in Olympic venues or bowhunt for big game, you participate in a shared history, a tradition of joy and of trial. Archery embodies the philosophy that newer is not always better, that faster does not always win the race, that easier is not always in one's best interest. With the help of The Ultimate Guide to Traditional Archery, learn to rise to an ancient challenge, and with bow in hand, reconne...

This concise guide will show you how to make your own recurve bow. It covers all of the information you need to make jigs, forms, templates as well as information on epoxy and laminations. Everything you need to make your own recurve bow, build by you, designed by you, for you.

Do you know the difference between a Bowyer and a Fletcher?It has been said that any old stick can become a bow, but an arrow is a work of art. The person who makes bows is called a bowyer and the person who makes arrows is a fletcher. The word is derived from the French word flèche, meaning "arrow". Fetching is an art form which encompasses a variety of knowledge and skills and is arguably much more difficult than being a bowyer.Do you know about t...

Did you know the American Flatbow is considered the most robust design for an bow? The flatbow is a superior bow design because the stress is more evenly spread out across the limbs than for a rounded bow. When a limb is round like the English longbow some material sticks out farther from the neutral axis and therefore under greater stress. Conversely on a flatbow the most strained material is a uniform distance from the neutral axis. This acts to spread the load o...

Hockey Facts & Stats was the #1 hockey statistics book in Canada again in 2009, outselling even the NHL Official Guide and Record Book and making it the #1 hockey stats book four years in a row. Updated for the 2010-2011 season, this pocket-sized marvel returns with new stats and an even bigger collection of facts. This year, to celebrate the incredible double gold victories of Canada’s men’s and women’s teams at the Vancouver Olympics, Hockey Facts & Stats

Let this concise guide show you how to make your own professional bowstrings. Using this guide you'll learn how to make both Flemish Twist and Endless Loop bowstrings. In addition this book contains plans and instructions to allow you to create your own bowstring jigs at home with common materials. If you've ever wanted to make your own bowstrings or want to develop a hobby which people would pay for, then this is it. Learn to make bowstrings today.