My rough plan is to publish as blog posts and gradually add to each of the topics that I’ve allocated a page for. The list below covers the posts that I’ve either already collected the data for and need to write up, or plan to make in the future.
Recent articles
Oven curing paint and tiller bolts
My tiller bolts are shiny silver aluminium. I’ve always been slightly envious of the brightly coloured ones that Win&Win and some other brands sell. About the paint I bought a small bottle of Pebeo Porcelaine 150 paint in Lapis Blue about five years. It’s made for painting things like ceramic plates. I used it to…
Who wins one arrow shootoffs?
If a match is tied after 5 sets for an individual match or 4 sets for a team match, a one arrow shootoff is held. Each archer shoots one arrow, and the highest score wins. If the scores are the same, then the archer or team with the shot closest to the middle of the…
Looking at heart rate
Korea Archery recently published videos of “Special Matches” between national team members at the country’s national training center. The videos had an unusual feature that I haven’t seen before: the competitors’ heart rates. The feature only appeared a few times per match, and usually only covered a few seconds so often one archer was shooting…
- String
- nock height
- weight
- effect of strands on speed
- materials
- brace height
- nock fit and speed
- Arrows
- point weight
- effect of straightness
- spine tolerance
- effect of spine on speed
- carbon wrapping
- aligning the stiff or weak or random direction
- pin damage
- nocks
- nocking point height
- wooden arrows
- effect of mass on speed
- wind drift
- fletches
- effect on drag
- silicone tubing instead of tape
- effect on group size
- weight of different vanes
- Riser
- riser stiffness and material selection
- Limbs
- effect of limb mass
- limb dampers
- Stabilisation
- moment of inertia
- vibration damping
- comparing stabiliser stiffness
- wind drag
- Sight
- level of precision when moving the sight
- range of sight masses
- Pressure button
- How much it compresses
- difference between bareshaft and feltched arrow position at different pressures and centershots
- magnets vs springs
- Arrow rest
- contact issues
- hoyt super pro at the olympics
- does it affect speed?
- Literature review
- the WIN&WIN vibration graphs and other data
- the Simon Needham brace height group size graph
- McKinney aluminium fatigue from elastic bending
- riser torque articles
- “stability” meanings
- Tools
- metric and imperial allen key comparison
- Bow Hand
- torque
- not holding the bow
- Release hand
- finger weights
- how much force is on each finger
- Scope and tripod
- Scope magnification and distance
- tripod materials and cost
- Methods
- audio recording
- chronograph
- magnetic chronograph building
- types of chronograph technology
- software
- spine testing
- high speed video
- lighting
- camera choice
- camera settings
- camera protection
- camera angles
- video processing
- data analysis
- Student’s T test and significance
- adding standard deviations
- not fooling oneself
- The outdoors
- Rain
- How many raindrops does an arrow hit?
- wet bowstrings
- wet finger tabs
- wet pressure button lubrication
- wet archers
- Wind
- how much it moves the fletched and bare arrow
- effect on the archer and bow
- Rain
- Historical scores and equipment
- progression of world records and olympic scores
- timeline of equipment inventions
- Carbon risers
- pressure button and clicker
- progression of national amateur competition scores
- Environmental impact of target archery
- total carbon footprint of participation
- recyclability of materials
- How bows fail
- cracked risers (mostly historical) and metal casting improvements
- broken arrows
- hard object
- rubbery object
- limb delamination
- bolt fatigue
- historical kevlar string failure
- Non-archery topics
- environmental impacts of
- washing clothes less
- low-impact milks in nonrecyclable packaging
- non-meat iron sources
- non-meat protein sources
- environmental impacts of
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