https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/continuous-final-pull 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/continuous-final-pullTwo studies of archers, both small, find a steadier final pull on the better shots. In 8 archers shooting at 90 m, each one's draw hand moved back more evenly on high-scoring arrows than on low-scoring ones, and the elite archers were steadier than the university-level ones; in 7 international junior archers, the two with the lowest averages showed pauses and creeping in draw length on precisely their worst arrows, although that part of the work is descriptive, and the same authors note that among archers this strong the differences in steadiness are small. These are associations, and the only attempt in the bibliography to make the pull steadier with an audio signal succeeded in 5 archers out of 6 without a significant rise in their scores. A systematic review in 2022 reads the two studies together and arrives at the same reading, without adding any sample; in 2025 electromyography shows which muscle holds the pull as the clicker goes past, although that is the mechanism rather than the outcome. The earliest observation close to the question, in kyudo, said only that in trained archers the hold does not give way, and a 2007 measurement on nineteen kyudo archers with an instrumented grip confirms it without adding anything more.claim:trazione-finale-continua:revision:2026-09-08:3Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/continuous-final-pull#storiaKyudo provides a second measurement of the hold, on nineteen university archers with a bow instrumented at the grip: in the seconds before the release the force, thrust and torque of the bow hand stay practically still. It confirms the 1971 observation on a larger sample, but it does not measure draw length or link it to score, so the direct evidence is still the two studies of 1993 and 2006 and the status does not change.claim:trazione-finale-continua:history_entry:2026-08-18:2007Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/continuous-final-pull#storiaA second, independent group, 7 international junior archers measured with a strain gauge on the clicker, points the same way: pauses and creeping in draw length appear on the worst arrows of the two archers with the lowest averages. The analysis is descriptive, though, and based on a few selected shots, so with two small studies the evidence remains limited. The same authors also note that among archers this strong the differences in steadiness are small, much less marked than those seen in 1993 between elite and university archers.claim:trazione-finale-continua:history_entry:2026-08-18:2006Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/continuous-final-pull#storiaA review chapter takes up the 1993 experiment with the audio signal, which makes control through to the release steadier in five archers out of six, but does not report its effect on scores, which in the original study had not risen significantly. No new data, and the status does not move.claim:trazione-finale-continua:history_entry:2026-08-18:2005Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/continuous-final-pull#storiaThe first study in the bibliography to measure the final pull, on 8 archers at 90 m, finds in each of them a steadier movement of the draw hand on the better arrows than on the worse ones, and a steadier pull in the elite archers than in the university ones. In the same paper an audio signal keyed to collapses in the pull makes it steadier in 5 archers out of 6, but scores do not rise significantly over 36 arrows. It is a single small study, with an association and an intervention on six archers that brings no points: the evidence in favour is there and it is limited.claim:trazione-finale-continua:history_entry:2026-08-18:1993Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/continuous-final-pullclaim:trazione-finale-continua:new_claim:2026-06-22:riportatoMon, 22 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT