Eccentric
Arrow

Shoot Like You

Eccentric Arrow is the combined efforts of competitive archer and writer Chris Accardo, and professional photographer Devan Accardo, and their friends and teammates. Through their writing and photographs, they strive to create an inclusive philosophy that supports, celebrates, and uplifts archers at all stages of their journeys while also providing solid, simple information, both on and off the line. We recognize that every archer's body, mind, circumstances and goals are unique, and aim to create space, support, and community to help you shoot like you.

On Turning Back: Mountains, Frostbite, Archery, and Change

The thin, tinny alarm of my wrist watch sounded blaring in the dark, silent winter morning. I popped my head out from my sleeping bag,...

On Fear and Joy: Why Target Panic Makes Archery Worth Doing

I think of thunderstorms a lot when I shoot. Once when I was little, I got stuck outside during a particularly bad lightning storm, and...

The Benediction of Bill Burr: What Every Archer Can Learn from Comedians

Stand up comedy has always been a love of mine, ever since I was a child. I vividly remember sitting transfixed watching Maria Bamford's...

Archery on the Spectrum: Hyper Awareness and Being Consistent(ly Weird)

In my last piece, I talked about how most of what we perceive as Autistic behavior stems from how our brains perceive information: while...

Archery on the Spectrum: Sensory Overload Challenges

I've been thinking about writing something about my experience as an autistic archer for some time, as it's something folks message and...

In Defense of the Feral Archer

On Learning the Wrong Things Well I recently watched a young, self-taught archer shoot. His form was…interesting. It was inefficient,...

How Lucky Am I?

What thought do you have when you first step on the line? I have one that comes to mind over and over. I say it to myself as I feel the...

Archer's Paradox

"The real archer's paradox is the archer themself." A coach and I were discussing what qualities make a good archer. Ideally a few easy...

2022 Indoor Recap

Target Panic, Food Poisoning, and the Joy of Shooting This season I received two of the best honors of my short archery career while...

Putting it Down in Ink

"Archery transforms loss into learning, failure into curiosity, and winning into humility." I don't get tattoos lightly. Really, for all...

Next Arrow

"With time archers can look at holes in paper and see stories" I'm not one to create personal rituals, nor one to engineer metaphorical...

On Smurfs

Why it matters how we talk about targets, for ourselves and others The other day I heard a newer archer bemoan a 5 they hit, saying it...

On Autism

"But what do I have to lose?" For once, I'll get to the point: I'm autistic. I'm not very open about this. Folks who discover they're on...

The Mystic On The line: Approaching Competition with an Expansive Mind

"Is a goal a direction or a limitation of imagination, or both?" I was talking with an archery friend the other day, and we got to...

Essays

Chris and friends write about the mental, philosophical, and spiritual lessons learned from thousands of hours on the shooting line.

Photos

Devan uses her 15+ years of photography experience to capture not just the action, but the energy of every shoot. She wants every archer to see themselves as the athlete they are.