Technical factors utilised by elite archers: towards setting an agenda for archery

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Archery, in one form or another, has been around for thousands of years yet research into what makes an archer 'good' is still in its infancy. There are several variations over bow type and different competitions which can be competed, previous works have focused on Recurve (Olympic) bow types whilst Compound have generally been ignored. Research in the area has tended to focus on muscle activation patterns using Electromyography (EMG) and aiming based studies, where generally scores are used as a factor to correlate to. AIM: The aim of this research is to offer a development from the use of score incorporating additional marksmanship based statistics. These are used to identify which factors are most critical to elite archers, allowing the identification of the technical performance indicators. METHOD: A Matlab script was produced to represent a target face where arrow locations can be input. The coordinates from these are used to calculate accuracy and precision, and additional terti

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