https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/holding-aim-too-long 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/holding-aim-too-longThis is the question the data argue about most, and it is easy to see why. On the side of the claim there is a correlation between mean aiming time and FITA score in twelve Italian archers, two university archers with a shorter aim on their better arrows, eight Brazilian archers whose worst arrow follows an aim of three and a half seconds against two, and the French elite archers who aim for less time than intermediates. There is also the only experiment with figures, a British master's dissertation from 2015: eight elite archers made to hold the aim for three times their usual time drop from 8.60 to 7.75 points per arrow at seventy metres, but the conditions always come in the same order and fatigue cannot be separated from duration. On the other side sits the better sample: sixteen young Malaysian recurve archers measured over five hundred and seventy-six arrows at seventy metres, where the better eight aim longer than the weaker eight and, arrow by arrow, the length of the aim says nothing about the score. In between are the studies that find no relation at all, a competition in which a longer time per shot goes with higher scores, and two elite samples where the link changes from one archer to the next and in opposite directions. That last result explains the others: the group average adds up contrary behaviours and cancels them out. A systematic review concluded in 2022 that there is no agreement on this, and nothing has changed since.claim:mira-troppo-lunga:revision:2026-10-12:3Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/holding-aim-too-long#storiaThe first experiment with figures arrives, in a British master's dissertation: eight elite archers shoot at seventy metres with their usual aiming time, then at double and at triple it, and the mean score per arrow falls from 8.60 to 7.75, while shoulders, elbows and wrists move faster. After correction for multiple comparisons only triple counts, not double, and the conditions always come in the same order, so fatigue stays mixed up with duration. It is extra support for the claim, but the contrary studies are still there: contested.claim:mira-troppo-lunga:history_entry:2026-10-08:2015Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/holding-aim-too-longclaim:mira-troppo-lunga:new_claim:2026-09-29:contestatoTue, 29 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT