https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/drawing-elbow-force-line 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/drawing-elbow-force-lineThe alignment of the elbow with the line of force has been measured several times, but rarely beside the score, and when it has been, the results have split. The only study that moved the alignment on purpose is a randomised trial on thirty-one Korean elite archers: eight weeks of lower trapezius strengthening cut the deviation of the line of force from about ten degrees to eight, and the score over fifteen arrows did not change. The only study that set the deviation of the elbow from the line of force beside the score, arrow by arrow, on sixteen young recurve archers and 576 arrows at seventy metres, splits within itself: between the better and the weaker archers the deviation is the same, both at anchor and at release, while arrow by arrow a slightly smaller deviation goes with slightly higher scores, with a correlation so small that it is significant only because there are so many arrows. Around these sit measurements showing how much the alignment varies between athletes of the same level, studies on elite archers where the drawing-arm angles do not tell good arrows from bad ones, not even within the same archer, and a single supportive review, in a journal with doubtful editorial standards, which leans on that very study of 576 arrows.claim:gomito-linea-di-forza:revision:2026-08-20:3Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/drawing-elbow-force-line#storiaThe thesis that takes up the eight French elite archers confirms that the string shoulder and elbow do not change between good and bad arrows, neither in the group nor in the individuals, and adds a figure worth keeping: at aim the elite archers hold the shoulder more abducted and the elbow more flexed than the intermediates, in other words a different geometry that does not turn into better arrows. The year's only support is a systematic review in a journal with doubtful editorial standards, which by our rules does not decide a status, and which leans on the same 2023 study, already counted here with its tiny correlation and its group comparison that finds nothing. That same review notes that a small deviation from the line of force is the norm. The status stays contested.claim:gomito-linea-di-forza:status_change:2026-08-08:contestatoSat, 08 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/drawing-elbow-force-lineclaim:gomito-linea-di-forza:new_claim:2026-06-01:contraddettoMon, 01 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT