https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/choking-common-among-archers 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/mind/choking-common-among-archersTwo surveys, in two countries, point the same way. Among sixty-nine British competitive archers at county level or above, inside a sample that also included eighty-six golfers, 75.4% say they have at least once had a dramatic drop in performance that was out of their control, against 61.6% of the golfers; and those who report it do not differ in age or in years spent at their highest level. Among a hundred and fifteen competitors from the Italian federation, approached at competitions in Lazio, the average is three episodes in the last six months, from one to seven, each lasting six training sessions on average, and nearly three in ten say they are in the middle of one as they fill in the questionnaire. The limit lies in how the counting is done. Respondents decide for themselves whether the label fits, the British question is very broad, recall is retrospective, and in the Italian sample nobody reports zero episodes, even though the authors say they drew participants at random from the 2,325 registered archers in Lazio: either the definition is very wide, or random selection did not survive recruitment at the competitions. Neither study checks the accounts against competition scores.claim:choking-diffuso-arcieri:revision:2026-03-14:2Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/choking-common-among-archersclaim:choking-diffuso-arcieri:new_claim:2026-02-11:riportatoWed, 11 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT