https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/active-follow-through Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/active-follow-throughThat the shoulder and back muscles of the better archers stay switched on after the release has been visible since 1976, with electromyographic traces that carry on in the experts and break off in the beginners, and in 1987 somebody put a duration on it, a second and a half in the two world-level archers measured. The link to the score, by contrast, rests almost entirely on one 1993 study of ten Japanese club archers, where those who kept at least 79 per cent of their aiming activity through the follow-through had the better rounds, and the correlation on the string side reached 0.79. Since then the measurements have multiplied and complicated the picture: in eight university archers the better arrows come with a slower shoulder rotation, not a wider one, and between nine and ten points the difference disappears; in four elite women archers the deltoid is slightly less active on the better arrows; in French elite archers what changes from one arrow to the next is not the shoulder but the trunk. What can be said today is that in the better archers the muscles stay on, not that the arrows shot with the muscles on land closer to the centre. With two studies of the individual arrow pointing the other way, as small as those in favour, the picture remains contested.claim:follow-through-attivo:revision:2026-09-05:3Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/active-follow-through#storiaThe thesis that gathers the same French work gives the form closest to the claim: through the follow-through the eight elite archers hold the middle and upper trapezius and the drawing-arm finger extensor more active than the seven intermediates. Inside the elite group, though, the link to the individual arrow still concerns the trunk and not the shoulder. The same year a Ukrainian theoretical model, with no data, describes the follow-through as the phase that holds the movement together after the release and provides the sensory feedback through which the motor programme is refined: it is a hypothesis about why the muscles stay on, not a measurement of their link to the arrows. Fifty years of measurements, and the thing coaching teaches remains an association on small samples, with two studies of the individual arrow pointing the other way: contested.claim:follow-through-attivo:status_change:2026-08-10:contestatoMon, 10 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/active-follow-throughclaim:follow-through-attivo:new_claim:2026-06-03:riportatoWed, 03 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT