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2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Behind-the-Scenes Tales of Teaching Tim, What Archery Teaches About Excessive Efficiency, and Excellence Underneath Strain (#811)

May 17, 2025
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“I’m nicely over 1,000,000 pictures the identical manner—identical approach, identical thought course of, identical thought at full draw. … Sustained effort is what actually makes you good.”
— Jake Kaminski

Jake Kaminski (@jake_kaminski_) is a two-time Olympic silver medalist in archery and a longtime member of the US Archery Crew, with greater than a decade of worldwide competitors expertise. Recognized for his technical precision and deep information of the game, Jake helped lead the US to staff silver medals at each the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympic Video games.

Since retiring from Olympic competitors, Jake has turn into a number one voice within the archery world by content material creation, product innovation, and academic occasions. He runs a profitable YouTube channel, writes coaching guides, and develops high-performance gear beneath the Kaminski Archery model.

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2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Behind-the-Scenes Tales of Teaching Tim, What Archery Teaches About Excessive Efficiency, and Excellence Underneath Strain

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The transcript of this episode could be discovered right here. Transcripts of all episodes could be discovered right here.

Archery Ideas, Methods, & Terminology

  • Olympic Recurve: Particular self-discipline/bow type used within the Olympics.
  • Barebow: Self-discipline/bow type with minimal aids, makes use of string strolling.
  • Compound Bow: Bow type utilizing cams/pulleys.
  • Longbow: Easy, conventional bow type.
  • Horse Bow / Asiatic Bow: Shorter recurve bow, usually shot with a thumb launch.
  • Goal Panic: Psychological subject affecting aiming/launch.
  • Clicker: Mechanical gadget used as a draw verify and launch set off (primarily recurve).
  • Shot Cycle / Shot Sequence: The repeatable bodily and psychological technique of taking pictures an arrow.
  • KSL Technique: Biomechanically centered archery approach developed by Kisik Lee.
  • Ape Index: The ratio of a person’s arm span relative to their peak.
  • Biomechanics: Examine of motion and construction in organic methods.
  • Anchor: Constant placement of the draw hand on the face/jaw.
  • Let Down: Aborting a shot earlier than launch.
  • Comply with By means of: Sustaining stress and course after the arrow is launched.
  • Pressure and Path: Key precept of sustaining drive in direction of the goal (bow hand) and away (draw hand).
  • Launch: The act of letting the string go (considered by KSL because of comply with by).
  • Clean Bale Follow: Taking pictures at a goal butt with no face/aiming level, specializing in type.
  • String Strolling: Method in barebow the place the archer strikes their fingers down the string to regulate elevation.
  • Instinctive Aiming: Aiming and not using a devoted sight or aiming reference level, counting on unconscious coordination.
  • Cross Eye Dominant: When an individual’s dominant eye is reverse their dominant hand.
  • Hook: Particular placement and stress of fingers on the bowstring.
  • Grouping: The proximity of arrows to one another on the goal.
  • Khatra: Particular motion/approach utilized in thumb draw/horse bow taking pictures.

Archery Gear

  • Indo Board: Stability coaching instrument.
  • Stabilizers: Rods connected to bows (Olympic recurve, compound) so as to add weight and scale back vibration.
  • Riser: The central deal with part of a bow.
  • Limbs: The versatile components of the bow that retailer power.
  • Arrow Relaxation: System that helps the arrow earlier than/through the shot.
  • Plunger / Button: Adjustable gadget on recurve/barebow risers that helps tune arrow flight.
  • Finger Tab: Protecting leather-based/materials worn on draw fingers.
  • Peep Sight: Small aperture on compound bow string used as a rear sight.
  • Mechanical Launch / Launch Support: System used to attract and launch the string on compound bows.
  • Arrows: Projectiles shot from the bow.
    • Easton RX7: Particular mannequin of large-diameter aluminum arrow.
    • Easton Avance: Particular mannequin of smaller-diameter carbon arrow.
  • Fletching: Feathers or vanes on the again of an arrow for stabilization.
  • Nock: Attachment level on the again of the arrow that clips onto the string.
  • Sight: Aiming gadget (used on Olympic recurve and compound).
  • Bowstring: Wire connecting the limb suggestions.
  • Bag Goal: Sort of archery goal crammed with materials.
  • Goal Bale: The backstop materials archery targets are connected to.
  • TheraBand: Elastic resistance band used for coaching.

Common Manufacturers & Merchandise

Establishments, Organizations, & Locations

Occasions & Competitions

Books & Media

Folks

Related Assets

SHOW NOTES

  • [00:00:00] Begin.
  • [00:06:50] A glimpse into the high-precision world of Olympic archery.
  • [00:11:04] How Jake and I related.
  • [00:18:27] Jake’s auspicious introduction to archery.
  • [00:21:15] Why you (Sure! You!) ought to strive archery.
  • [00:22:01] The variations between bows.
  • [00:25:19] The admirable proficiency of Shot IQ’s Bodie and Joel Turner.
  • [00:26:24] Moral bow looking, performing beneath stress, and transitioning from rifle to bow.
  • [00:29:22] Why I wouldn’t have reduce it as a aggressive archer in Korea.
  • [00:30:14] Conscious archery and coaching exhausting to make competitors straightforward.
  • [00:37:00] What Jake did when compound bow archery began to get boring.
  • [00:40:00] Assembly legendary Coach Kisik Lee (KSL).
  • [00:43:06] The upsides of getting no social life as a child.
  • [00:45:20] The welcoming weirdness of archery communities.
  • [00:46:33] For the sake of type, Coach Lee shakes issues up.
  • [00:51:21] “I’m.” — an affirmation for apathy adjustment.
  • [00:58:11] London, 2012 Olympics: when all of it begins coming collectively.
  • [01:08:28] How does teamwork play out in archery?
  • [01:15:40] My very own expertise with Coach Lee.
  • [01:19:23] The trials of coaching and touring.
  • [01:27:33] Clean bale follow.
  • [01:31:14] Layering, biomechanics, and different early factors of focus.
  • [01:33:03] The underrated significance of comply with by.
  • [01:36:40] Coach Lee’s tackle comply with by vs. launch.
  • [01:37:29] Gauging stress and intention as an teacher.
  • [01:38:52] Consideration to grouping over hitting the bullseye.
  • [01:40:57] Making variations for bodily limitations.
  • [01:43:30] The ups and downs of our patented “Jesus take the wheel” instinctive strategy.
  • [01:46:24] Heat-up tournaments, barebowing, black bales, and string strolling.
  • [01:50:54] Recovering from the catastrophe that made me rethink Lancaster.
  • [01:55:15] Rebalancing gear: arrows and arrow rests.
  • [02:00:50] The significance of working towards in tournament-like situations.
  • [02:04:03] Securing handy gas.
  • [02:08:17] Lancaster preparation logistics (with particular due to Heather Kaminski and Rick Simpson Oil).
  • [02:13:17] The glue that holds us collectively: note-taking and coaching logs.
  • [02:16:47] Even counterintuitive consistency is vital.
  • [02:18:45] Our expertise at Lancaster.
  • [02:28:00] “The objective is to do the least needed, not essentially the most potential.” — Henk Kraaijenhof
  • [02:31:44] Studying by commentary and dialog on the follow vary.
  • [02:35:35] What’s the Kaminski Archery Yard Championship, and why do you have to become involved?
  • [02:40:30] How will you (and why do you have to) get began with archery in the present day?
  • [02:42:48] Parting ideas.

MORE JAKE KAMINSKI QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“Something you are able to do to make issues tougher—to shoot within the rain, to shoot within the wind, to shoot within the warmth—I’d do as a result of, I don’t know, perhaps I simply get pleasure from torturing myself. However I discovered it to be actually essential. And as soon as I received to the coaching middle, listening to a few of the different profitable athletes giving talks on the coaching middle about their success and the way issues went and what made them profitable, a whole lot of them have been leaning into the identical sort of factor—coaching exhausting to make competitors straightforward.”
— Jake Kaminski

“Follow scores don’t matter.”
— Jake Kaminski

“In the end, no person’s going to forestall you from succeeding or failing aside from your self. So that you’ve simply received to get out of your individual manner and let it occur. You’ve already put within the time, you place within the effort, simply go have enjoyable. Simply shoot some arrows and keep composure.”
— Jake Kaminski

“If I have been to wave a magic wand and attempt to make issues higher the subsequent time, it might be doing archery extra usually. It’s not about what number of arrows you do in a single session; it’s what number of periods in per week are you able to do and what number of days in between every session are there? Something a couple of is simply too many, for my part.”
— Jake Kaminski

“You look skilled from expertise. You don’t simply get it. You’ve received to make that groove within the mind, and actually make that neuromotor connection robust sufficient to the place it simply fluidly occurs. That’s why an professional is an professional. They’ve executed the identical factor 1000’s and 1000’s and 1000’s of occasions. I’m nicely over 1,000,000 pictures the identical manner—identical approach, identical thought course of, identical thought at full draw. So it’s an immense quantity of effort and work over time. Sustained effort is what actually makes you good.”
— Jake Kaminski

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