Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows — Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski
Tim Ferriss Show episode with no sponsor read, in which Tim Ferriss talks with Jake Kaminski, two-time Olympic archery medalist and his own coach, about what a million arrows teach about high performance - a conversation Ferriss insists transcends archery for anyone who will never fling one. Kaminski defines the sport as hyper precision: working with a machine to produce the exact same result every time at seventy meters, where the arrow arcs twelve feet in the air, there is no magnification or rear sight, and the ten ring is a CD-sized circle whose repeatable margin of error is the ball of a ballpoint pen. His training stories are pure old school: coach Harry Stabbel flinging a metal ashtray onto concrete at full draw to teach composure, and holding an open pocket knife under his bow arm to cure dropping it. He has even hit the ten ring from three-quarters of a football field while balancing on an Indo board. PARTIAL COVERAGE: this summary highlights the performance lessons; the technique detail is not covered. These are Kaminski's own views and experiences, not independently verified.
Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Tim Ferriss Show episode with no sponsor read, in which Tim Ferriss talks with Jake Kaminski, two-time Olympic archery medalist and his own coach, about what a million arrows teach about high performance - a conversation Ferriss insists transcends archery for anyone who will never fling one. Kaminski defines the sport as hyper precision: working with a machine to produce the exact same result every time at seventy meters, where the arrow arcs twelve feet in the air, there is no magnification or rear sight, and the ten ring is a CD-sized circle whose repeatable margin of error is the ball of a ballpoint pen. His training stories are pure old school: coach Harry Stabbel flinging a metal ashtray onto concrete at full draw to teach composure, and holding an open pocket knife under his bow arm to cure dropping it. He has even hit the ten ring from three-quarters of a football field while balancing on an Indo board. PARTIAL COVERAGE: this summary highlights the performance lessons; the technique detail is not covered. These are Kaminski's own views and experiences, not independently verified.