Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 150 i Bow International

The second stage of the Archery World Cup, due to be held in Shanghai, China, on 17-23 May 2021, will now be held at the World Archery Excellence Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland. It will be closed to spectators, run to local health regulations and with strict accommodation, travel and access policies in operation. The tournament’s eventual running remains contingent on receiving official authorisation from the Swiss health bodies and continued local progress in the fight against the pandemic.…

Olympics world is full steam ahead (unless you’ve bought tickets). Archery is in Olympic trials season, with ambitious archers gearing up around the world. Great Britain are apparently holding their final selection trials (very much behind closed doors) as Bow goes to press, but other international squads are already being named. JAPAN TEAM SELECTED Japan, uniquely among major archery nations, base their selection entirely on scores from 70m rounds – no head-to-heads are involved. They have named their squads for Tokyo. Ren Hayakawa, Miki Nakamura and Azusa Yamauchi will make up the women’s team, while Yuki Kawata, Takaharu Furukawa and Hiroki Muto will be taking on the men’s chores. Kawata and Yamauchi seem to be new to the international scene, Nakamura and Muto have been making a small dent in…

I first encountered Bow at the World Indoor in Birmingham in 1995 (Issue 1). I was/am friends with the White family, having grown up shooting for the same county (Warwickshire), so was aware of the magazine prior to launch. The cover featured Barry Farndon and Sue McGrath. It was inspiring to me (as cover stars should be) and shortly afterwards I moved to be coached by Barry and his wife, June, at their Dunlop club in Coventry. I first became involved with Bow with Issue 33 in 2005, following its sale to Blaze Publishing (publisher of predominantly fieldsports magazines, based in my home town of Leamington Spa). Peter Jones, who was the GNAS PR officer at the time, was new to editing Bow, and I was then working at Custom…

In last issue’s Ultimate Gear feature we picked out the Arizona Archery Enterprises Advante-X as the best small-diameter stabiliser system. It’s notoriously difficult to review stabilisers, for several reasons. Set-ups are essentially personal and individual archers will use the same equipment in different ways. More than that, quantifying the resultant ‘feel’ of a shot is exceptionally difficult to do in print – or, indeed, any other way that doesn’t involve actually having a bow in your hand. This is true of much archery gear – and stabilisers more than anything, where the effects of different gear are extremely subtle. Previous reviewers for this magazine have at times delivered sound spectrograms in an attempt to quantify some of the data, but these don’t really help the reader that much. Despite there…

Are you shooting or shooting? It’s a question I get asked a lot because, as well as being an archer, since 2012 I’ve been at the National Field Archery Society (NFAS) 3D and national championships, creating a record for the society and mementos for archers. The idea of having an official photographer came about informally. It is my other hobby and I asked the committee whether I could bring my camera as well as my bow. The first time I tried, I found I simply couldn’t do both effectively. As people seemed to enjoy the pictures, concentrating on that was a natural step. I start the weekend with a plan for what shots I would like to take but this will be dependent upon the courses, the weather, the light…

I’m the founder and CEO of AccuBow, the world's first virtual archery and bowhunting system. The AccuBow was spurred from a need among the archery and bowhunting community to stay in touch with archery more regularly throughout the year, especially when we are not able to get out to an archery range to shoot our bow. The idea was sparked in February 2015 and we had products on the market by September 2016. We had a concept of making the AccuBow interactive by tapping into the widespread use of apps and smartphones, so we hired a team of developers to turn our concept into reality. I was a civil engineer by trade, before starting AccuBow. I had zero experience in manufacturing or marketing. My original partner has experience in manufacturing,…

If you have an idea for an article for Bow, or think you might be able to write for the magazine, Bow International has now set up submission guidelines on its website. There has been a large increase in the number of unsolicited articles sent in recently. While we welcome both submissions and reader enthusiasm, most are not in a format that is publishable. As is usual with print publication, the normal way is to work with an editor on shaping an idea before it gets written. To this end, Bow has compiled a set of friendly guidelines that can be found here: www.bow-international.com/submissionguidelines It also includes details on the sort of articles we are looking for. Interested readers and writers are welcome to apply.…

Bow is 150! I’m John Stanley, the current editor. I started archery in 2010 and ended up blogging about it, working for several manufacturers and writing for various organisations including World Archery. I was a pretty regular contributor to Bow during Nicola Turner’s reign, and took over when she decided to move on in February 2018. My first issue was 123, so this is my 28th edition. I’d had writing experience but taking on the editor role was a whole different kettle of fish. Essentially, it requires you to keep dozens of plates spinning at the same time. A magazine is formed by the publisher and the ad team, and the views of contributors and writers – but it is always shaped by the editor. In Issue 137, Bow’s co-founder Richard White…

I used to read Bow when I visited my friend Jon Nott’s house, in the early days of it being owned by Blaze Publishing. I started writing for the magazine when I was still at secondary school. I studied at Warwick University for a little while, which is close to where Blaze used to be based. I did more work for that publisher and then ended up as deputy or assistant, editing a couple of magazines, Bow being the one that was most in my camp. I also worked a lot on Airgun Shooter and a few other titles. I did about three years – and 20 or so issues. When I started, we did six issues a year and by the time I left, we were doing eight. James…

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I was engaged as a freelance press and agency photographer in the 1970s and 1980s, when editors used anyone to bring back short stories from the field. Prior to Bow, for a short time I became the editor and publisher of News from the Centre at GNAS (the newsletter of what would become ArcheryGB). Bow was my way of trying to improve the image of archery with a contemporary looking, well-designed sports publication. Several had attempted to do so before in the UK but most had faded into obscurity with the exception of one: Ted Bradford’s The Glade. Although popular amongst traditionalists, The Glade never really tried to promote the sport amongst the general public and mainly supported the UK archery market. I saw an opportunity and asked a print…

I first came across Bow through my club at the time – I think someone had got hold of a couple of copies in order to show us one of the articles. I’m afraid I can’t remember what it was they wanted us to read! I ended up becoming editor through a series of fortunate circumstances, really. I had just finished a degree in English and was applying for work experience at various publishing companies. I was offered two weeks at the office publishing Bow, then went straight into a three-month internship at another company. Just as I was finishing there I got a call from the group managing editor to see if I wanted to apply for a position that had become available. I started in November 2011, but…

How did you start in archery photography? I was quite involved in my university archery club, and when I graduated and was no longer eligible to compete at the university championships, I came along to do running repairs, keep an eye on our novice archers and generally help my club out. I also took a few photographs of my clubmates so they would have some. The following year, I also took photos of archers from clubs in our local university archery league (SWWU – South Wales & West Universities). By the year after, I was getting people from other universities asking if I could take their photo as well. It wasn’t long until I was there only to take photos of people. Which events do you try to go to…

La Belle Assemblée was an early British women’s magazine published from 1806 until 1837, when it was merged with the Lady’s Magazine and Museum. and continued as The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic. From its earliest days it contained poetry, short stories and serialised novels, commentaries on politics and science, and book and theatre reviews. From the 1820s on its editors focused more on matters of good housekeeping as well as the latest trends from the world of fashion. Today, La Belle Assemblée, or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine, its full title from 1823 onward, is valued for its countless, often colourised engravings, offering – apart from sheet music and sewing patterns – a panoramic impression of fashion ideas from Regency era Britain. Vol XIV No 81 from September 1831…