https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/aim-and-arrow-in-opposite-directions 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/aim-and-arrow-in-opposite-directionsThere is a single study, from 2005, and the signal is weak. Twelve archers from the men's team of a Taiwanese sports university shoot twelve arrows at seventy metres with a laser on the grip recording where the bow points over the last second and a half before the release, while a second camera marks where each arrow lands. Archer by archer, the authors relate the offset of the aim to the offset of the arrow, tenth of a second by tenth of a second. Horizontally the link is not the same for everyone: in three archers, four according to the paper's abstract, the arrow follows the aim throughout the second and a half, in another three it always goes the opposite way, so that when the aim drifts to the right the arrow tends to land on the left. Vertically the picture is less clear, because the abstract and the text do not give the same counts. The limits matter: each correlation rests on twelve arrows, the paper reports neither the values nor a test, and with so few arrows a negative sign can turn up by chance. Nor does the study record what the bow does at the release, which, between aim and impact, could account for the reversal. What can be said is that in this sample the relation between where the bow points and where the arrow lands is not the same for every archer.claim:mira-freccia-direzione-opposta:revision:2026-06-27:2Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/aim-and-arrow-in-opposite-directionsclaim:mira-freccia-direzione-opposta:new_claim:2026-06-15:riportatoMon, 15 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT