https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/standing-forward-shooting-line 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/technique/standing-forward-shooting-lineThe rules only ask that the body be above the shooting line, and with a torso about forty centimetres wide an archer can gain about twenty centimetres of distance by placing the feet forward. What that is worth in points comes from a single Australian paper from 2019, and it is a model, not a measurement: it keeps the group the same size and moves it closer to the target. Twenty centimetres less is worth between 0.25 and 0.42 points over 72 arrows outdoors, from just under half to three quarters of a ranking place, and between 0.36 and 1.08 points over 60 arrows at 18 metres, where in some categories it is more than a whole place; the gain is larger for weaker archers. The same paper photographed 99 World Cup finalists: 64 per cent stood centrally over the line, 24 per cent behind, only 12 per cent forward. Nobody has tried the two positions on the same archers, so it remains open whether the stability lost in a less natural stance eats up the few tenths gained.claim:inclinazione-tronco-avanti:revision:2026-09-29:2Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/standing-forward-shooting-lineclaim:inclinazione-tronco-avanti:new_claim:2026-08-31:trasferitoMon, 31 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT