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Master the bow with precision and accuracy! Archery: Steps to Success, Fifth Edition, offers progressive, step-by-step instructions to help you learn the styles, techniques, and equipment needed to shoot accurately, consistently, and safely. This updated edition offers full-color photos and graphics alongside complete coverage of all aspects of archery: ⦁ Selecting, fitting, tuning, and upgrading equipment ⦁ Assessing, refining, and perfecting shooting form ⦁ Compensating for common weather conditions such as rain and wind ⦁ Preparing, practicing, and planning for competition ⦁ Expanded information: Judging distance and shooting on uneven terrain ⦁ New section: Bowfishing. For archers using recurve or compound bows, you can practice the 92 exercises for each phase of the shot - stance, draw, aim, release, and follow-through - to develop consistent technique.
About the Author
Kathleen M. Haywood, PhD, is professor emerita at the University of Missouri at St. Louis, where she has researched life span motor development and taught courses in motor behavior and development, sport psychology, and biomechanics. She earned her PhD in motor behavior from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976.Haywood is a fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology and the Research Consortium of the Society for Health and Physical Education (SHAPE America) . She is also a recipient of SHAPE America's Mabel Lee Award. Haywood has served as president of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity and as chairperson of the Motor Development Academy of SHAPE America. Haywood is also the coauthor of four editions of Archery: Steps to Success and of Teaching Archery: Steps to Success, published by Human Kinetics. She resides in Saint Charles, Missouri, and in her free time enjoys fitness training, tennis, and dog training.
