The Best Way To Nock An Arrow - Archery 101 for Beginners

When you first start archery, putting the arrow in the bow can feel clumsy. Here's the best way to do it.
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In this video I describe how to correctly nock an arrow in the most efficient way. As a beginner, this is a simple tip that can save you messing around and dropping your arrows all the time.
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[@narf1070]

This is very cool! Thank you for making videos like this. We don’t have a lot of archery ranges or anything like that nearby, so I really appreciate the tips. These videos have been crazy helpful for a beginner like me. Thanks again!

[@stephandelarue9379]

Very simple very useful and a most common challenge at the shooting line ...thanks for sharing Ashe

[@anthonylubic]

Very basic but very helpful tips....thanks for sharing 🏹

[@Toxicfox63]

Super helpful, thank you!

[@1970howl]

Another good quality and useful tutorial, thanks Ashe.

[@OnlineArcheryAcademy]

Cheers Chris :)

[@deufrai1]

thanks ! I'd like to see that technique in use with a finger tab, though.

[@fahlvfaust677]

The way hold the nock n insert an arrow same like i use, not hold that shaft.so this is best way..tq sir...I like the way jake kaminski is about inserting an arrow into his bow, i love his style..thanks a lot for this vid..👍👍🎯

[@musictime4550]

Thank you

[@ToyotaTacomaOfficial]

Brilliant

[@jeanlefranc3817]

Very useful. Why don’t we all learn that in the first two lessons in archery ?

[@duncanriding3030]

Hello Ashe, keep up the great work. In this demonstration, you were not wearing a finger tab ..... having tried this technique with parallel finger tabs - both 3 finger below & Mediterranean styles - it is very challenging, the tab is between the fingers and the arrow. Any comments & suggestions greatly appreciated .....

[@Juan2Wheels]

I've been into archery for a year now and I've tried to copy different approaches but they all feel awkward for a left hand shooter, I will try this method seems to be easier. (I'm right hand in normal life, but my dominant eye is the left so I had to do all of this loading my left hand that is not as precise as my fight hand). Thanks for sharing.

[@PatricYuen]

Do you have any tips on how to grab the nock for arrows in a field quiver that is pointing back? Or how to transition from grabbing the shaft to moving to the nock? Particularly at longer arrow lengths (31 inches) where it is difficult to reach for the nock. Thank you.

[@iAllenEverest]

i kinda miss quivers like this since i moved to a field quiver, and getting the arrow feels so different but it took me just a day to get used to it. for field quiver I usually get the middle part of the arrow with my index and thumb with palm facing backward, then raising the arrow off the quiver then let the nock part pass below my armpits. I let the arrow fall/slide down my fingers until i'm almost at the fletch, rest the arrow on the rest and clicker then i grab the nock to nock it. it just feels more efficient for me. i guess part of it depends on how we rest our bow :) Thanks for the tip!! cheers

[@OnlineArcheryAcademy]

Good point! It's very different for field quivers - sounds like you've got it down though

[@jessedoesarchery]

This is interesting. I did this for a while until I did my coaching course where was told by the person examining me that it "isn't correct", "very few people” can do it, and it "wouldn't be allowed in competition" (I'd been doing it in competition for a couple of years so I disagreed, but wasn't going to argue over something so minor). (ranting part over) However, she made a very interesting point about dexterity. Some people (especially kids and beginners) struggle with holding the arrow by the nock with the finger and thumb and feeding it onto the bow. She suggested an alternative method, which is very similar, but you pinch the arrow between the thumb and one or two fingers just the other side of the fletchings, lift it over the top limb of the bow, press it back until the nock clicks onto the string, and then lift the clicker and put it on the rest. It's a few extra movements, but from my tests it's only about 1/2 a second slower, and could be easier for people who struggle with this one. After having tried and tested various methods of nocking the arrows, I'm a convert to that one, if only for ease (and my own lack of dexterity). I wouldn't say that one method is right or wrong, but different ones have different advantages and disadvantages, and I think it's good for an archer to try different techniques and find what works for them. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this and what drew you to using this technique rather than another?

[@OnlineArcheryAcademy]

As long as the arrow is in the bow that's the main thing, so as you say different people might have different approaches. Saying that I would definitely recommend this method instead of the one you mention. For me there are far too many things to go wrong in that method and the extra time eats into a team round situation (I understand this might not be a consideration for many archers). I just like to make it as simple as possible. P.S. It's definitely not illegal in competition.

[@polycrase]

I find that my sling prevents my index finger from reaching the clicker.

[@RonaldPutraFajar]

It means the sling is too short.

[@christophermccutcheon2143]

Hi, I was wondering if you or anyone else in the comments could actually give me some advice here as I cannot find the answer to my question. I think this video is the closest I have come as you have actually addressed my issue a little during the video, which is regarding the orientation of the fletches when loading the arrow. So, I am a left-handed archer, and getting left-handed advice is kind of difficult as 80% of archers are right-handed. I am still a beginner, and I was told that you often have 2 fletches of one colour and 1 of another colour. I was told that this single fletch of a different colour is supposed to face you, BUT today I actually noticed that because I am left-handed, the fletches are upside down (I think?) when this one faces me. You showed here that the fletches should always be in the orientation of one fletch on top, and two on the bottom (I guess on the bottom-left and bottom-right if you think of these as a forming a triangle). Is this true of all archers? I feel like it it, but I would appreciate some confirmation. Maybe another way to think of it is when you load, this fletch of one colour should always be facing to the left if you hold the bow in front of you?

[@OnlineArcheryAcademy]

The best way to think of it is related to the bow. So the single, different colour fletch should be facing away from the riser and then the two other fletches should be symmetrical against the riser. If you watch back again you'll see that one fletch is directly pointing away from the bow, and this is true for LH and RH archers.

[@christophermccutcheon2143]

@@OnlineArcheryAcademy Ah okay! So it doesn't really matter if this "triangle" formation is upside down for left handed archers? I was just thinking that if I use rubber veins then the vein on the bottom may cause the arrow to bounce as it leaves the shelf. Perhaps not such a problem with feathers? What's the reasoning for having one facing away and two towards the riser as well? Just consistency between shots or will this affect the flight in some negative way if done differently? Thanks for your time!

[@RonaldPutraFajar]

​@@christophermccutcheon2143if you face the single different color one toward the riser, it will hit the arrow rest and plunger.

[@Ayan-cr7xt]

I want to ask that I am a right handed person and I want to learn archery but in every video I see that if we take the bow in left hand so the sight is in left but it's very uncomfortable for me can I change the sight place from left to right..?

[@stephandelarue9379]

Hi you should make a simple test to find out your eye dominance, For a right hand shooter the sigh pin is on the left side of the riser...maybe you could switch to the other side ...left hand der shooter .

[@Ayan-cr7xt]

@@stephandelarue9379 thanks man 🥰

[@TesterChannel1]

nice one, ive just started, and its felt super awkward