Thanks, Greg! 😊 The information you shared in this video is awesome! I'm 66 years old and a newbie to archery. I started about 6 months ago by taking lessons, joining an archery club, and buying a 35 lb PSE Nighthawk, which is like a Samick Sage. I depended on the recommendation of the guys at my archery shop and have .600 carbon arrows, cut down 1/2". Your information on arrows is invaluable to me moving forward. I saved your video to my list. I will review it over and over until I have the information down by memory until no part is confusing, and I have a fluent understanding of these concepts! 😊 i just bought a 64" 40 lb. Southwest Archery Spider XL. It comes with a Dacron string. I ordered a 60" D97 Flemish Twist string. I understand D97 is between Dacron and Fast Flight. I will consider all these factors to buy new arrows for my 64" 40 lb. Southwest Archery Spider XL.

Remember guys, it's not about length, it's about the stiffness 😅 Thankyou for this, really useful as salespeople always say different things which is frustrating. I'll be crafting my own instead soon for my off shelf recurve.

This is the best, most thorough explanation of arrow performance out there. Take this info and use some of the other guys like, Jake Kaminsky to fine tune if you’re deep into target archery. THIS channel, Archery 101, is THE best for beginners!

Thank you so much for this awesome video....I'm new to archery and this video has clarified more about arrows than any other video i have viewed. Thank you for taking the time to make all of your very informative videos. I find you explain everything in terms even a newbie can understand. Thanks again.

That is one killer bass line in the intro music ! just found your channel. Awesome info. Thanks

Auto subscribed. Mate YOU ARE THE MAN! Finally someone that knows what they are talking about, but you share all the knowledge in a way that is honest, easy to understand and in full in detail. I learnt more from this video, than watching hundreds of other videos where people only tell you little bits and pieces. It feels like people out there will share little bits and pieces on a subject, but intentionally withhold vital pieces of information from us? You however; share it ALL. my friend and must be commended on that. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. And now I am going to watch all of your other videos.

My God this is the best educational video i have seen in a long time on KZfaq. I just got my new bow which happens to be a used recorve and this made my life so much easier to understand this part of the sport.

Best video ever, clear and simple. Thanks 👍🏻🇨🇦

first video I've found that gets to the Nitty Gritty of the subject. Great.

Awesome thanks so much im brand new to archery and even though i baught my bow from a proper well known shop i learnt more from this than my apparent expert who sold me my gear. thanks for posting such a great vid.

Clear, concise and direct..Thank You! This has been saved to the library to be watched several more times😁

Most informative, easy to understand, VERY relevant information on how & why that I have enjoyed & learned from so easily in my 67 yrs !!!! Goodonya Mate - Thankyou for taking the time to share this vital knowledge !!

You think clearly and rationally about matters that are inexplicably emotion charged for some people. Really appreciate the good info.

been deer hunting with crossbow for about 5yrs. now and wanted to try archery, have a bear flare a friend gave me,but i wanted to start with a recurve blackhunter i got off amazon...watched alot of your vids and tried your technics and i'm getting groupings about the size of a 5gallon bucket at 20yds, never even held a bow before...anyway just wanted to thank you, your vids work for me!!!

hi greg, i can see and hear arrows are definitely one of your passions. watching your video was amazing, that's a lot of information to take in but perfectly put. i'll enjoy watching this again to take notes. thanks.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!! I have been looking all over for help spinning arrows for my horse bow, and what you've said explains so much about the issues I'm having.

Very helpful video Greg 👍 thanks 👍

I've watched a lot of these videos and you're the best at explaining well things that practicable and actionable! Thank you! The only thing that throws me once in a while is when you're shooting and show one of your arrows as too weak or too stiff and I'm like; wait, that's backwards! Then I remember you're a left hand shooter (& I'm right handed) so that's opposite & correct. LOL

Excellent information! I'm TRYING to figure this out getting back to Traditional Archery with an Old Bear KODIAK Recurve... have been a compound shooter for 40+ years...it's not been an easy transition but I'm going to do this!!!

this was a great video! just getting into archery and your channel has helped me learn so much. I especially like the bit of science you include when explaining why.

great video. this has been overdue. two thumbs up

Great beginner video.

Excellent video. Lots of good info. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!!!

What a fantastic tutorial. I took many note. Thanks Teach.

Very informative. You simplified it for me. Thank you so much for that.

woow mate is so great thank you the fact is still confused yes but yoiur great simple explanation is just great THANK YOU!!!!! so much

I always learn from you thank you sir

Another great educational video. Thanks again.

Brilliant stuff great tips 👍👍👍👍👍

Just found your channel thanks i like the way you explain things, ive learnt so much in such a short time. Appreciate it.

Thanks for the video. You made things a bit clearer to us. And made me subscribe to your channel!

i,ve been shooting for many years and i have been using howard hill tecnics and all i can say is you do a great job thanks my friend i i will recomande you and your work good job

Nice work on this arrow video!

Many, many thanks. You enlightend me.

great presentation thanks keep them coming

I was about to order some carbon arrows for my new coming bow. Couldn't work out with 100% certainty the arrow length. Some manufacturers count overall length, but some count only the shaft or only the shaft and nock ( without a tip). And this is just the length without considering thickness ( diameter) or the weight of the arrows !!!! The only thing I could work out without a problem is a spine from the charts ... Feathers size also vary - and generally the smaller the better.....common bow string I heard is Dynema and not Dacron ( not sure now ).... Time, practice and experimenting will hopefully cure all the bits and peaces ....

Screw-on does not need an insert by definition. If you use a wooden shaft, the screw on can be screwed on directly on and into the wood. Preferably use a battery screwdriver.

Love those four fletch arrows, beautiful

Great stuff and very interesting clever man 👍👍👍👍👍

Good breakdown and useful information, thanks

Great video You helped demystify arrows for me Thanks

Awesome. Learned lots.

Great advice always, thank you

Finally!!!! Thanks for the info!! Great vid

I think that this this video is very informative but you started with the arrows that didn't have a spine chart which were the wooden arrows and they gave you a 45-55 because of the window cut and when it went to fiberglass it was a progressive sevens were lighter than eighths eights were strong and lighter than nines and so forth and the aluminums the diameter was in 64th of an inch and then the second two were wall thickness and you would think that if anything carbon which came 40 to 50 years later would have emulated what was going on but they changed everything to simplify things in their opinion Lefty from New Jersey

Thank you so much for doing this video... helped me a lot

What you need to know about arrows? Number one: Arrows are expensive. Number 2 if you shoot a damaged arrow it might have a catastrophic failure when you shoot, causing extensive damage to you and/or your bow. You should therefore inspect your arrow before loading and discard any that have a damaged shaft. 3) Use the right spine for the bow if you want the best accuracy. 4) Try not to "Robin Hood" your arrows. See Number 1, above. 5) Don't use wooden arrows with a compound bow or modern crossbow. They can shatter when shot. See number 2 above. 6) Aluminum, fiberglass, and carbon fiber arrows can be used with any type bow. 7) "Practice" arrows with replaceable points can be used for hunting, too. 8) As with everything else in life, buy the best you can afford.

Thank you! You're totally awesome.

oh cock, and I was looking at dacron for replacement string, guess I'll pass that one and slap on some fast flights to see the difference

Some Arrows in the Century/Sentry system I have seen as low as 240-250 spine yes they were this not that 3rd system. The 240-250 spine are made for some brands making for the super fast arrows for bows that can't use even the 340 spine as these bows are in the low 300's of initial FPS being 320 FPS or so. Then I have see some arrows on other end in person that were 1600-1700 maybe even 1800 carbon fiber spines in 1990's a guy got them in a set of bows these carbon fiber 36 inch arrows at a big house sale where stuff was being sold before they passed away due to his condition and turns out they were made for disabled archery guy for trying to make the Paralympics where the guy needed a very light bow at 10-15 pounds and the arrows and a long draw weight for the arrows due to having to use his feet being paralyzed with use of the arm and other arm lost in accident. The original guy he got in bulk as factory second stamping/tape mess up but still usable. They person he trimmed the arrows and the person put some tips he made of a thin brad nail and 3M Mr Fix All putty on the arrow for a tip, how he got the tips all same pointy bullet shape and weight of half the grams of a 100 grain arrow is beyond me. This was to make arrows that worked better then the cheap wood or fiberglass kids arrow still being made for the under 20 pound bows so the kids could stand further back if good at aiming like my bother who was 5 or 6 to fire and not have the crap arrow go tumbling and then flying upside down with faster bows due to weight being heavier in the back then the front with fixed heads.

excellent work nice explanation greeting from Saudi Arabia

This week at archery 101 were going to be talking about archery 102

Really great video!

PS I do want to say that originally the carbon arrows were designed or invented in France which was later bought by Easton so they didn't conform with the spine chart but gold tip had it right when said 5575 because of what you're saying now depending on the length of the arrow the tip the front of Center it you have to find for yourself but they do give you a spine chart to check on this and it came with all the original things that Easton had so you could get a starting point which is what they tell you so the companies that are doing it with those numbers that say 400 500 600 when you actually find them the ridiculously off they're much much stronger than what they indicate that's only if you have a spine chart the check all this stuff I mean a spine spine Spiner I should say to check it thanks anyway

Great info thanks

Great stuff - thanks brother!

Good job here

Great video!

Greg, another great video on a very complicated subject for many archers. You obviously put a lot of work and effort into this one where many people on KZfaq have tried and failed. Just one question though. Doesn't draw length have an effect on choosing the correct arrow spine? A suggestion for another video would focus on he differences between a recurve and American flatbow or longbow. Those differences would be accuracy, flexibility, overall performance and durability.

Thanks that about the string and if the bow is cut in center I didn’t know

when you say center cut, am I measuring the width of the bow at the shelf? or am I not even close? thanks. Became a para a few years back and i'm having to relearn how to shoot sitting down, I have a 45lb L bow and a 50lb recurve. Any tips on a best shooting position sitting down chair level. Any help would be much appreciated, trying to start out right.thanks

You explained that really well cheers .

You should try the skylon radius pretty cheap and good quality

i might be able to make a website that can calculate this info for us with the help of some of these youtubers to verify the info

They used to attache carve pointed rocks and tree sticks with string and shoot 100 plus yards and hit the target. Meanwhile we spend $100 on arrows and can't hit a target 20 yards away.

Great video.

Hey Greg great vid. I will have to brush up on my vocab. I can't help but feel this vid has a bit to do with an arrow discussion we were involved in on the trad archery page. I will strive to refer to spine as stiff and not heavy. I have a bad habit of calling a stiff arrow as a heavy arrow . Your vid sets a great platform to move into other things that affect an arrow as well and to set up bow set up. Great vid looking forward to more. And ya the numbering of spine stiffness's is annoying specially the aluminums

They picked 888 grams I do not know since 900 grams is closer to 2 pounds and a round number for archery. I think at one point there was a different older measurement system that is not used anymore by some archery from some parts of Great Britain/UK that we do not use anymore so they got 888 grams when testing the weight.

Well that was bloody good.

For mounted archery I was told a stiffer spine is wanted like a 400 since we shoot thumb for right handed shooters and arrow is on right side of the how handle. I assume because the paradox is the arrow is already pointing off to the right a bit since we don't use an arrow shelf and the fact that we are moving on a galloping horse we want to take into account that we actually want the arrow to go left so we hit the target since we are moving off to the right (right handed shooters shoot off left side of the horae). Am I understanding this right?

well done!

Great info, I like the way you present stuff so I can understand. Can you explain why an arrow has 3 or 4 flecthing? Why not 2?

best video Ever!!! thank you

Incredible, great video. Can you do a video just for fletching, I heard larger fletch's straighten out the arrow faster and better for shorter distances, and smaller vanes while allow for a faster arrow but straightens out the arrow at a greater distance.

Ur T-shirt says "eradicate".....cool

A lot of you archers are under the misconception that flexing occurs because the front of the arrow is heavier than the back. This will increase the amount of flexing, but it is not exactly why flexing occurs. Any length of material will flex to one degree or another when pushed from the back regardless of taper or weight distribution. The amount of weight towards the front is proportional to the amount of flexing.

New to this. But just like golf....no industry standard for shaft stiffness. Luckily, guys like you can translate this stuff into plain english.

very helpful mate cheers

Excellent summary! One question, you explained that too weak of an arrow is bad because all that extra bending absorbs energy and makes it less efficient. Makes sense. You also said that an arrow that's too stiff is bad, but you didn't really specify why. Do you know any of the (basic) physics behind why you shouldn't overspine?

Some Aluminum arrows are starting to now used the Carbon Fiber in the Century/Sentry system, especially cheaper Chinese aluminum arrows that most better cheap aluminum brands use the aluminum number system as well on the arrow but means nothing as the number system dose not match up with the spine weight. I should know with my Musen 1916 better cheap Aluminum arrow should not be a 500 spine but a 550 to 600 spine and flex more like a 400-450 spine. Then some no brand on the aluminum are 450 spine to the Carbon fiber system and they actually easier to flex then the others and arrows are 30 inch shaft for Musen 500 spine brand with only the 450 more flex shaft being 30.125 inches. I have two other arrows that I made myself using red Chinese Aluminum shaft and they are 550-600 and feel about right on for some reason.

"Shot through the roof" *rimshot*

dam good video, but im going to watch it at least once more so I can take in all the info. ps...may be at least twice. rob

Don’t forget about fobs

Great video. The worst thing about modern archery is that the imperial system is all over the place.

Six years later, does this info still apply or have companies or charts made it easier. Not buying, just learning about something I know nothing about. So far, I know the all around best inexpensive bow to buy on Amazon. Very interesting.✌️🦁

Greg, what about Bamboo arrows or River canes? I started this year, to shoot Bamboo arrows, and in my opinion, I miss less. So do you have any experiance of bamboo arrows with a traditional Long bows?

Were you by any chance a gunnery instructor in the armed forces? Perhaps you should have been. Ha Ha. Excellent video, thought I knew a bit about archery but blow me down how wrong can I be. Think I will buy a gun instead.

Hello, I just got a diamond prism bow 5-55 for Christmas and I have no clue what arrows to buy .. I can't see in the manual where it says about centers . do you have any clue about the arrow I would go with ? thanks

Thanks for the vidro!

Everyone gives the same account for arrow tuning/flight. What they fail to mention is the extreme importance of a clean release. If you are "tweaking" the arrow during release, then no amount of bow/arrow tuning will give consistent results.......

I shoot a samick recurve. I shoot 3 feathers off a rest. Basically the stick on tab. Should i be using veins?

you are the best

This is great

Really impressed by this video. I have a one piece recurve and only pulling 32lb, am i correct in thinking i need a 900 spine arrow with my 25" draw length. I have made some but they are only weighing 220grain. Hope someone can help.

okay, so when looking at the spine chart, under draw length, should we look for our draw length or arrow length?

Cool vid. Thanks

Ty great video

I have a Ben Pearson Colt I bought over 50 years ago 43 lbs. Ever hear of it?😜 I want to shoot a fast mini diameter carbon at near full length cause I want to learn how to gap shoot or a-fixed crawl! Would be great if point on could be 25 yards. I have always shot instinctive and killed 9 whitetail but would like to use this bow. What suggestions do you have for arrows? I’m thinking Victory VAPs. Thanks

i learned alot : yup yup yup...

Thank you for the Video, it's very informative, but now I'm even more lost than before. Guess I'll just have to watch this a few more times before I get the answers I'm looking for. Your calculations for Carbon fiber seemed easy to figure out. Do I apply the same logic to Wooden arrows? For instance, I have a 35Lb bow at 28 draw. But I have no rest at all, I rest my arrows on my thumb, yes I know THUMB. I'm learning to shoot eastern style. Do I subtract 5lb for every 1/8th of an inch for it not being center cut? For example, if my arrow is about 1/2 inch from center that would be -20lb ..... making my 35/40(recommended wood arrow) into a 15/20 wood arrow?