Pick a style to shoot

Archery has many styles. If you want to compete in the Olympics, then you can go Olympic style recurve, or compound where bows and equipment will run in the thousands... or you can go as basic as possible, recreational modern traditional, that is traditional style equipment made from/with modren technology, where a god bow and arrow, well perhaps 1/2 a thousand each year, including club membership, excluding gas. Transportation, as it turns out can be more costly than the sport, running all over to shoots, to watch, talk, listen, learn. Or you can shoot in your back yard. Just depends.

Now the learning begins. Well take lessons, and use the club equipment is a easy place to start. What ever style they are teaching. Then you can start experiment with equipment and style, yet those basic steps remain the same. Form is only slightly dependent on the equipment. Well, slightly is possible understatement. Stretch you bow arm to towards the target, draw to anchor, aim, release. But never dry fire a bow, that is release without an arrow. That can damage the archer and the equipment. So the step list can grow.

There can be somewhere between 4 and 10-12 to 18 steps in archery, depending on style, and who you are.

1. Stance 
2. Noch your Notch below the Nock 
3. Form
4. Bow grip
5. String grip
6. select your target
7. raise the bow
8. draw
9. aim
10. check form, adjust
11. setup
12. expand
13. loose
14. follow through
15. reflect