The Big Book of Archery: Textbook for all levels of archers - from beginners to competitive archers and their coaches

If you learn an easy, healthy, and power efficient shooting technique right from the start, you’ll develop a more satisfying hit pattern and have more fun on the way.

Whether you are a beginner, hobby archer, competitive archer or trainer, whether traditional or modern: This comprehensive basic book provides archers of all levels and disciplines with the tools they need to improve their own shooting. It is particularly suitable for archers who do not have the support of trained coaches.

For beginners, this book contains special chapters that provide an advantageous introduction and enable you to filter out what is useful and suitable for you from the many well-intentioned pieces of advice from others. From familiarising yourself with the equipment to learning a healthy, energy-saving and successful shooting technique. For the inquisitive, the complete standard shooting sequence, which is suitable for all bow classes, is explained down to the smallest detail (including explanations) and clearly illustrated in photos.

For advanced archers, there are numerous tips on how archers can train and analyse themselves, plan their training, tune their equipment and optimally prepare for competitions. This book offers more than 1000 exercises for learning and improving shooting, mental strength, fitness, coordination and adaptability.

For the trainer, this book is a valuable all-round knowledge base, from a separate chapter for beginners to differentiated competition training under difficult conditions for competitive shooters. It is very practice-orientated and is full of exercises with the corresponding explanations as well as special tips for the coach.

The author Urte Paulus is a trainer instructor, coach, multiple world and European champion with the traditional longbow and modern recurve bow. Here she presents her extensive experience on how to learn archery and how to improve while having fun and enjoying it. Here, the secrets of successful archery are finally explained in an easy-to-understand way.

More than 850 photos as well as numerous diagrams and tables present the content in a very clear and easy-to-understand way and make this book absolutely practical. This book provides all archers with a basic, practice-orientated tool that will accompany and support them for many years to come.

© 2025 Hörnig, Angelika (Ebook): 9783938921869

Translators: Katharina Hudson

Release date

Ebook: 28 February 2025