https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/static-stretching-before-shooting 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/static-stretching-before-shootingThe registry holds a single study comparing static stretching with no stretching before shooting: 30 intermediate Turkish archers, 15 women and 15 men of about 17, shoot 30 arrows at 18 metres on three different days in random order, after five minutes of easy running and their usual warm-up. After static stretching, three sets of 15 seconds on five shoulder exercises, the score is 245.5 against 246.2 without stretching: less than one point out of 300, with a spread between archers of 12 to 14 points. The test gives p = 0.055, though, just above the threshold, so the null result is borderline: with thirty people a difference this small can be neither confirmed nor ruled out. What can be said is that in this sample static stretching did no visible harm over a short test, not that it makes no difference in competition or for stronger archers. The authors cite a 2016 Turkish paper in which static stretching reportedly made no difference to performance, but it could not be verified and the registry does not count it. In the same study dynamic stretching lowered the score to 244.8, and that is a separate entry in the registry.claim:stretching-statico-pre-tiro:revision:2026-06-26:2Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/static-stretching-before-shootingclaim:stretching-statico-pre-tiro:new_claim:2026-05-19:riportatoTue, 19 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT