The score tells you what happened. Almost never why.
For years I looked for that "why" on my own, trusting my feelings. I never found it. Then I stopped guessing and started measuring.
Talent explains the first score. Science explains the hundredth.
When an archer tells me why they shot poorly, they always describe the same things: I was tense, it was windy, I couldn't feel the shot. Rarely anything measurable. Yet the difference between a good session and a poor one comes down to exactly that: the duration of the quiet eye, lower trapezius activation, bow arm oscillation in the two seconds before release. Details you cannot see with the naked eye. With the right tools they become numbers. And numbers, unlike feelings, can be trained.
I believe in a few things, but I believe in them deeply:
- Opinions are fine at the range bar. Training decisions deserve data.
- An archer is not their score: it is how they build the shot, how they hold together when fatigue sets in, how they change on competition day.
- What you cannot observe and measure, you will rarely improve.
- Science alone does not make anyone shoot better: it has to be translated, stripped down, brought back to the shooting line.
- I am not a replacement for your coach. I work alongside them, with different tools.
- Working seriously with a few people is worth more than rushing through many.
In the end, the point is not to shoot more. It is to understand exactly what is holding your shot back.
Matteo Campagna · MCPerformance