Customer Reviews

Archery: Steps to Success (Steps to Success Sports Series)

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Read this book from cover to cover as an experienced archer and thought most of the information was superfluous. Authors tried to cover all aspects in a very brief amount of time and text. Methods are too standard stated in a matter-of-fact manner disregarding other theories, practices and methods. This book might be good for a boy scouts counselor but not a serious archer with goals of competition and proficiency. All illustrations are hand drawn leaving out critical detail.

I'm a newcomer to the sport of archery. I could not have selected a better book to start with. I read the book completely before buying my bow and other gear. This helped immensely in knowing somewhat what I needed and wanted. The lesson plans and activities are easy to understand and very useful. I refer back to the book often. I highly recommend this book.

I agree with another post that this book is primarily written for a summer camp counselor who is in charge of the archery course! I was probably dissapointed because I read this after reading the revised edition of Dr. Kidwell's book Instinctive Archery Insights. That book enlightened me, and helped my shooting, in ways I could never have imagined! This book, Archery: Steps to Success is pretty basic. If that is what you are looking for I guess it's OK.

If you are interested in archery this is a great book for overall information. You will learn about the history and equipment. It walks you thru all the basics with a check list. You will learn step by step on how to shoot a bow right and what not to do. If you can not be personally intructed get this book.

Archery Steps to Success
by Kathleen M. Haywood & Catherine F. Lewis
If you target shoot, then you do need this book to improve. It is "The Dummies Guide to better archery". All clubs should have a copy for all bow types; it is simply a training book, which takes you step by step through what are painfully obvious tuning and practice sessions. This is your own personal tutor book, which is full of hints and explanations on style and equipment.

I was very disapointed in this book. If you are interested in Traditional Archery (Longbows & Recurves with real wood arrows) stay away from this book. It is very dirogitory to the Native American and Primative sytles of archery. I give it 1 star only because the scale won't go lower!!

This is the easiest book to use for a beginning archer. It explains all the aspects of archery (i.e. terminology, shooting, etc.). The illustrations make this the most comprehensive book I have seen. You can't go wrong buying this book for your archery library whether you a beginner or advanced

This book is geared for beginners, but is really lacking. Line drawings are no substitute for decent pictures. Many of the explanations are so basic that they don't really give you any information at all. There is nothing in this book that can't be found somewhere else, such as the internet for free. I believe that anyone starting in archery would be much happier with some of the other books available.

Excellent book in better than expected condition. Covers a wide range of subjects that are bound to be of interest to the beginning archer like myself.

This book covered everything you need to start the sport of acrhery and more. I continue to refer back to it for guidence.