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,...
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Chris Accardo
Jan 29, 2023
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...
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Chris Accardo
Jan 21, 2023
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...
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Chris Accardo
Jan 16, 2023
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...
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Chris Accardo
Dec 6, 2022
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...
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Chris Accardo
Nov 13, 2022
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,...
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Chris Accardo
Sep 27, 2022
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...
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Chris Accardo
Sep 24, 2022
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...
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Chris Accardo
Sep 24, 2022
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...
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Chris Accardo
Sep 24, 2022
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...
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Chris Accardo
Sep 24, 2022
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...
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Chris Accardo
Sep 24, 2022
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...
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Chris Accardo
Sep 24, 2022
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...
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Chris Accardo
Sep 24, 2022
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...
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