https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/archers-standing-stillness Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/archers-standing-stillnessTwo force plate comparisons point the same way. Ten Bulgarian recurve archers with more than five years of shooting sway less than fifteen untrained people of the same age in almost every condition, eyes open and closed, on a firm surface and on foam; the one exception is the simplest of all, standing on a firm surface with eyes open in the forward-backward direction, where there is no difference. In a Japanese study 24 archers regain their balance sooner than 34 non-athletes when the dotted box around them starts to swing, and at one point also sooner than 35 ball-sport athletes; the difference, though, appears in two five-second windows and vanishes on the third repetition. The most interesting point is how the advantage shows: closing the eyes barely disturbs the archers, while foam removes almost all of their advantage in sway speed, as if they relied more on their feet and body than on vision. Three limits weigh on this. These are cross-sectional comparisons, so they cannot say whether archery makes people steady or whether the steadiest people take up archery and stay with it. And standing still on two feet is not balancing on one leg, where the advantage is less clear: in an Indian comparison of 194 young people the women archers hold the position longer than women of the same age, while in the men the result changes direction from the right leg to the left. Finally, being an experienced archer does not mean exceptional standing balance: of 30 Indian professionals, measured with no comparison group, more than half are classified as showing sway on a platform test.claim:arcieri-controllo-posturale:revision:2026-09-28:2Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/archers-standing-stillnessclaim:arcieri-controllo-posturale:new_claim:2026-08-31:riportatoMon, 31 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT