https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/balance-training-accuracy 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/balance-training-accuracyThat a steadier stance goes with better arrows is documented in archers; whether balance training raises accuracy is disputed. The strongest result against comes from high-level archers: in thirty national-level archers, randomly assigned, six weeks of balance work alone take the score over twelve arrows from 108.5 to 111.4, against 107.6 to 106.2 in the group that adds nothing (p = 0.54). At lower levels the picture is more favourable, but more fragile. A randomised trial on twenty-two Ukrainian beginners, which adds a wobble board and a spirit level on the sight, takes the score from 252 to 340 out of 600 against 247 to 298 in the control group; another, on twenty-five beginners, finds no difference between perturbation exercises and band pulls; and in before-and-after studies of club youngsters without a control group the score always rises, in one case by sixty-six points in eighteen sessions. That balance matters more for those starting out is therefore possible, but it has not been tested: no study has compared different levels on the same programme. Even where the score rises, the link with balance is not clean: in the twelve youngsters on the Bosu, those who gained the most balance were not those who gained the most score (r = 0.18), while in thirty professional compound archers, again without a control group, the two changes go together.claim:equilibrio-precisione:revision:2026-09-28:3Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/balance-training-accuracy#storiaTwelve weeks of Bosu balance work added to shooting, in thirty professional compound archers, take the score over fifteen arrows at 18 metres from 88.6 to 104.6, and those who improve their static balance most also gain most, with correlations between 0.49 and 0.59. It remains a single group with no control, and the spread between archers, plus or minus twenty-five points, exceeds the average gain, so some got worse. A review from the same year adds the reason to read the whole family with caution, since without a control group the reported gains reach more than thirty per cent of the score. Eight weeks of yoga raise the balance of twenty-five young women archers slightly, again with no control and with the score not among the outcomes. The before-and-after studies keep rising, while the randomised trial with a passive control in national-level archers still shows no effect: contested.claim:equilibrio-precisione:status_change:2026-09-07:contestatoMon, 07 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/balance-training-accuracyclaim:equilibrio-precisione:new_claim:2026-07-29:riportatoWed, 29 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT