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George Ryals

George Ryals

Legendary archery coach "GRIV" (George Ryals IV), head coach of the Hornets archery team in Snellville, GA, founder of ImproveMyArchery.com, and 2014 USOC National Developmental Coach of the Year.

Sep 9, 2026

9:56
We'll have to short form these guys, but all right.
9:58
Yeah, I can kinda short form that.
9:59
And adjusting the stabilizers doesn't really affect the bow that much.
10:05
And, uh, I'll preface this by saying the stabilizers are there to keep the bow still.
10:13
While the bow is changing shape and launching an arrow, the stabilizer's real job happens as soon as the d- the release aid lets go of the D loop and you no longer have any control over the bow whatsoever.
10:28
The moment of inertia that the stabilizers provide keep the bow dead still while the l- limbs are springing upwards and the cams are spinning and the arrow is sliding forward.
10:42
The whole center of gravity of your bow changes as soon as you let it go.

57 MINS LATER

67:30
Yep
35:20
y'all reckon we ought to start a team?
35:23
And they're like, yeah, that would be cool.
35:26
And back then, there were only a couple of teams around the country.
35:30
What were some of those teams, Rhonda? Was it like Halls Archery, Shooting Stars were over in Arizona? There were a couple of teams, but you didn't see them everywhere.
35:42
So I got them together and I said, what are we going to call our team? And we went through this whole discussion, ex-killers.
35:48
I said, we don't want to be killers.
35:49
We want to be approachable, you know.

1 HR 14 MINS LATER

110:11
that elephant,

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