The Infinite Curve is very proud to announce that from 2017 it will be sponsored by Hoyt Archery, specifically Hoyt Formula Series bows.
The focus of the blog has always been on target recurve (although all archers are very welcome!) and it seemed fitting to work with the top bowmaker on the planet, who have just launched their brand new Faktor range with X-Tour limbs. Am looking forward to an exciting partnership.
There’s been just a slight redesign, a minor makeover. As before, apart from the sponsorship, nothing will be changing. I still hope to keep on bringing you the best in international archery, from the number one independent archery blog on the planet. I will still try and promote the sport and do my best to interest and fascinate you and anyone else who turns up here. It’s still all just about archery. And you. Thanks! John
*according to Google. Feel free to give me some stiffer competition…
If you’ve been reading my blog on a vaguely regular basis you’ll know that I focus more on the sport side of things than the equipment side, partly because I feel that’s well covered elsewhere.
But someone asked nicely, so on Friday morning (team day) I decided to scribble down what every recurve team in this World Cup was using.
I didn’t have time to note individual models, or who was slinging what. Sorry. Had work to do. If it’s Hoyt, it’s very likely a GMX or Prodigy series riser and almost certainly Quattro limbs. If it’s Win & Win, limbs wise it’s increasingly Wiawis but quite likely Inno Ex Power. Win & Win risers were well mixed amongst their older and newer, carbon & aluminium offerings.
This is apropos of nothing, and you can take from it whatever you like.
IMPORTANT:
1) I think I got most of it right but it was done quickly and there’s a likely possibility of some errors. This is for information only, and is not to be relied upon in any way.
2) These are the bows of the three-member teams participating in the team rounds.
3) Don’t forget a large number of archers and teams at this level are sponsored in one way or another, which might in turn affect the ‘result’ in one way or another.
4) Most importantly: this is an observation of what was on the line at the Shanghai World Cup in 2016, not a peer-reviewed study of trends in the archery industry. It may not mean very much at all!
Scroll to the bottom for totals.
Format is: riser / limbs
MEN’S TEAMS
Japan
W&W / W&W
W&W / W&W
Hoyt / W&W
Spain
W&W / W&W
Hoyt / Hoyt
W&W / W&W
Nederlands
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
Russia
Hoyt / Hoyt
MK Korea / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
USA
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
Canada
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
W&W / W&W
GBR
Hoyt / Hoyt
W&W / W&W
W&W / W&W
Australia
Hoyt / Hoyt
W&W / W&W
W&W / W&W
Korea
Hoyt / MK Korea
W&W / W&W (RXT)
W&W / W&W (RXT)
China
Hoyt / W&W
W&W / W&W
Hoyt / MK Korea
Mexico
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
Chinese Taipei
MK Korea / MK Korea
W&W / W&W
Hoyt / MK Korea
India
MK Korea / W&W
Hoyt / Hoyt
W&W / W&W
Denmark
MK Korea / W&W
Hoyt / MK Korea
MK Korea / MK Korea
France
Hoyt / Hoyt
W&W / W&W
Hoyt / Hoyt
Indonesia
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
Germany
MK Korea / W&W
Hoyt / MK Korea
MK Korea / MK Korea
WOMEN’S TEAMS
Germany
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
Japan
W&W / W&W
W&W / W&W
W&W / W&W
Indonesia
W&W / W&W
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
China
W&W / W&W
W&W / W&W
W&W / W&W
Denmark
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / MK Korea
Turkey
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / MK Korea
USA
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
W&W / W&W
India
W&W / W&W
W&W / W&W
MK Korea / MK Korea
Russia
Hoyt / Hoyt
MK Korea / W&W
MK Korea / W&W
Colombia
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
(all the same colour!)
Spain
Fivics / Fivics
W&W / W&W
Hoyt / Hoyt
GBR
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
W&W / W&W
Georgia
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
Hoyt / Hoyt
Korea
W&W / W&W
W&W / W&W
Hoyt / W&W
TOTAL using Hoyt risers: 53 TOTAL using Hoyt limbs: 44
TOTAL using Win & Win risers: 29 TOTAL using Win & Win limbs: 37
TOTAL using MK Korea risers: 10 TOTAL using MK Korea limbs: 11
TOTAL using Fivics limbs: 1 TOTAL using Fivics risers: 1
New this week at the big archery trade show in Nashville, the Hoyt Stealth Shot. Essentially a set of recurve dampers, similar to that attached to (and often removed from) many compound bows for years, it promises a 1/2 to 3/4 feet per second increase in arrow speed, consistent arrow separation, better post shot reaction, less noise, increased accuracy and feedback and who knows what else. It’s apparently World Archery legal as long as the string isn’t actually touching the dampers at rest (i.e. at brace height). But it’s adding two more variables (which will wear), and obviously changing the bow balance and weight. And separation isn’t an issue anymore with the Beiter nock system. Anyway, watch it here:
I am grateful (not for the first time) to John Magera over at A.T. for his clear and cogent thoughts on the subject: “I think if folks have been paying attention over the past few years, there are a few top archers who are constantly tinkering with gear, and then there are one or two who use pretty basic setups, and they don’t change much. It’s especially worth noting that the archers in the latter category are consistently higher ranking than those in the former… As with anything new, there is a small group of world class archers I watch to see whether they adopt it permanently. If not, then that’s all I really need to know.” I’m guessing Jake Kaminski is stuck with them for a while though… 🙂 But I also wonder if it might help passable/intermediate archers like me more than it might help national team members. Possibly.
