Recording yourself on video during practice raises your score
1 study · 60 archers measured
The summary today
There is a single study, and it comes from a journal with questionable editorial standards. Sixty Indonesian archers under 18, split into two groups of thirty, took a 40-metre test before and after fourteen sessions, between February and April 2022: one group filmed itself at every practice and reviewed the footage with the instructor, the other trained as usual. In the video group the test score rises from 18.30 to 22.53, in the control group it stays put (from 19.10 to 19.37, p = 0.133), and at the end about three points separate the two groups (3.17, p < 0.001). The limits are many. The paper does not say how the groups were formed and its method section describes a single-group design; the abstract counts sixteen meetings, seven on the field, seven online and two for testing; the confidence interval for the experimental group has its signs reversed relative to the difference; and it is unclear how many arrows the score is based on. Above all there is no group receiving the same attention from the instructor without the video, so nobody can tell whether the filming or the time spent reviewing the shot made the difference. By rule a questionable venue does not decide the status: the registry reports the study, but the status remains not studied.
Also phrased as: "filming yourself in practice"; "do-it-yourself video analysis"; "recording yourself on your phone"; "watching yourself on video improves your shooting"; "self-recorded video"
In practice
Archers are advised to film themselves in practice, even just with a phone on a tripod, to see their own shot from the outside and correct it before it turns into a habit.
Evidence
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2024
Context Archers Published later
Venue with questionable editorial standards: this result does not count towards the status. 60 Indonesian archers under 18, 30 filming themselves at every practice and reviewing the footage with the instructor, 30 as controls, fourteen sessions between February and April 2022, a 40 m test before and after. Video group: from 18.30 (SD 2.63) to 22.53 (SD 2.85), a difference of 4.23 (t = -15.94, p < 0.001), with a reported confidence interval of -4.78 to -3.69, opposite in sign to the difference. At the final test the video group is 3.17 points ahead of the controls (95% CI 1.68 to 4.66; t = 4.25, df = 58, p < 0.001).
The Success of Archery Training in the New Normal Era Questionable venue · Arisman, Yusmawati, Firmansyah Dlis, Dede Dwiansyah Putra, Ardo Okilanda, Alonzo L Mortejo
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2024
Context Archers Published later
The control group, thirty archers under 18 doing their usual training over the same fourteen sessions, does not improve: from 19.10 (SD 3.00) to 19.37 (SD 2.92), a difference of 0.27 (95% CI -0.62 to 0.09; t = -1.55, df = 29, p = 0.133). It is the most informative part of the work: fourteen sessions of normal training are not enough to move the test score.
The Success of Archery Training in the New Normal Era Questionable venue · Arisman, Yusmawati, Firmansyah Dlis, Dede Dwiansyah Putra, Ardo Okilanda, Alonzo L Mortejo
Status history
- 2024 Not studied The first and only study comes from a journal with questionable editorial standards: 60 Indonesian archers under 18, half with fourteen sessions of self-recorded video reviewed with the instructor, half with their usual training. The 40-metre test rises from 18.30 to 22.53 in the video group and stays put in the other, with about three points between them at the end. There is no group receiving the same attention without video, and some of the figures do not add up. Because of the venue, the registry reports the study but does not use it to decide the status, which remains not studied.
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Cite
Campagna, M. (2026). Recording yourself on video during practice raises your score (Version 2). In Evidence Registry. Retrieved 16 October 2026, from https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/self-video-recording-score
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author = {Campagna, Matteo},
title = {Recording yourself on video during practice raises your score},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Evidence Registry, matteocampagna.com},
url = {https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/self-video-recording-score},
note = {Version 2; accessed 2026-10-16}
}
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