Jordan Sequillion – My Quest for Archery Gold has been a great opportunity for me to share my knowledge and experiences as I grow in the sport of archery. I have discussed a lot of topics including equipment, how to’s, tips, tournaments, events, etc… however I would love to hear more from my readers.
Do you have any questions?
Are there any topics you would like me to cover?
Although, I will continue to write articles about my experiences, I want to make sure I am engaging my readers and meeting your needs as archers. Everyone has questions, I would love to hear yours and I love answering them. I also encourage you to leave comments or share additional information on any article on my site. The primary goal of this blog is to share information about archery.
It is a huge honour that I won the best new sports blog for September 2012. However, I just found out that I have also have been nominated for Best Sports Blog of the Year for 2012 by the Canadian Blog Awards.
If you enjoy my blog please visit the voting site and cast your vote for me. Also I would appreciate you telling your friends. Voting closes on November 1st.
It is an honour to share my experiences with everyone and I hope to continue to write from many years to come to help grow archery throughout the world.
Jordan Sequillion 
Perhaps you’ve covered this already and I’ve missed it but I wondered if you could expand on what you do on the mental side of things while you compete?
I just posted a blog, hopefully answering your question…Please check it out.
https://jordansequillion.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/archery-the-mental-game/
Thanks Jordan, great to have your insight on this. C.
As long as you’re looking for questions I’ll throw this one out there. I tend to refrain from asking questions that aren’t related to competition shooting normally, here goes.
This mostly pertains to the hunting side of archery & you may not have ever had to deal with it in competition shooting – i’d be interested in seeing your take on ballistics. specifically focusing on achieving maximum momentum. a lightning fast arrow with the weight of a feather vs a slow moving heavy clunker. are there any equations for calculating the “perfect” arrow for inflicting the most damage on its target? it would have to involve the power of the bow, the weight of the arrow and the relation between the two. is a 400 grain arrow traveling at 300 fps more damaging than a 700 grain arrow at 235 fps? less?
For target shooting faster shots means less drop & better accuracy, but for us archery hunting folks a “perfect” arrow is one that is has the exact weight that will provide the most possible momentum of that arrow. you go into a sporting goods store and you see all the arrows advertising super light weight and giving performance metrics in the amount of energy that they transfer when they strike. that metric is the wrong one to use when looking for a damaging arrow. a damaging arrow doesn’t want to put x amount of kinetic energy into a target over the course of 2 inches, it wants to put x amount of kinetic energy into a target over 3 feet. momentum calculations would provide that.
I understand that you’re not really into the hunting with archery (I think?) and that this topic isn’t really beneficial to competition shooting at all, but for real world applications of archery it’s one of the most important topics around.
David… Please check out my blog “Archery Ballistics”. I hope this answers your question.
https://jordansequillion.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/archery-ballistics/
Congratulations on your well-deserved award! You’ve got my vote! (I hope American votes count, too.)
What kind of rest would you recommend for a beginner recurve shooter? I’m a COMPLETE newbie to archery, so I blindly went with the archery shop guy’s recommendations when buying my first bow. I ended up buying a Samick Polaris that he set up with a rug rest. Is this a bad kind of rest to use? Wouldn’t the two non-index fletches hit the bow on the way out? My arrows tend to hit the target at an angle instead of perpendicular, so I wonder if the rest could be causing it.
Allen .. I posted the following blog to hopefully answer your question…
https://jordansequillion.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/rests/
Thanks for all the great questions; I will try to answer each one over the next couple of blogs.
I’m not sure if you’ve worn glasses before but if so, do you have any suggestions on archers who used glasses and are now switching to contacts? I’ve recently switched from glasses to contacts and my aiming is way off!