NYC Asiatic Archery

9/6/2025 shoot at Floyd Bennett Field

See ya around Jacob!! Enjoy London and say hi to ThumbshootersUK for us!

Please message us for our Discord server link!

Happy New Year. 🎉 Our first gathering.
May 2024 be a strong year of archery skill improvement. 🙏🏹

Hello all! My name is Dennis and I will be managing this page from now on! Changing the name to Asiatic Archery to be a bit more inclusive, but our focus is still going to be on Hanfu and Chinese Archery. I hope to bring more traditional archery enjoyers together and shoot at gotham one day.

Since I'm new to the group, feel free to post an introduction for me to get to know y'all better. The introduction can include your name, pronouns(optional), what style/bow do you shoot the most often, and how long you have been shooting asiatic for.

An example would be:

Hi! My name is Dennis, and I go by He/Him. I shoot Gao Ying Style and I have been shooting asiatic for a little less than a year.

Chinese Archery in NYC is alive.🏹

Beginners are welcome to our community. Archers from other countries or states are welcome to contact us. If we can, let's meet. 😊

Do join the NYC Asiatic Archery Group discord server which has lots of resources and discussions.👍
https://discord.gg/6eSnrtSM

We do respond to private messages when we can. Thank you for your interest and patience. ❤️

Gotham Archery is so quiet today. Only me and another archer at the adults section. Usually there would be 2x to 5x more people. Coronavirus has landed on American soil, and is affecting all businesses. Please take care, thumb ring archers. ❤️

We had a very good time when we were there! I only wish it required less travel time... 😆

Today's shoot. We had one new guy join us, and he was very good for his first time!

An excellent reference for us!

NEW ARTICLE: Blake Cole and Justin Ma have written "Beyond Strength: Why Technique Matters for Using Thumb Draw to Shoot Asiatic War Bows".

This is a tutorial on how to shoot heavy bows in the Asiatic/Chinese style with the thumb ring, as well as a chronicle of their journey reaching higher draw weight milestones. We hope you will find the information useful on your own journey for developing heavy bow technique (and for shooting your current draw weight more comfortably).

Link: https://sites.google.com/view/beyond-strength/home