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Viet-Tam Luu
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Professional code wrangler. Retired race car driver. Late-blooming Olympic recurve archer. Unapologetic Canadian.
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Outdoor #archery at 70m: good for getting those steps in! 😂
Screenshot from the Strava fitness app showing GPS tracks from a 3h28m "Archery practice" session, with a total distance walked of 4.76 km and an average heart rate of 99 bpm.
January 30, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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Best shot of the day. More like these, please.
#olympicrecurve #archery
January 25, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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On April 1 last year I shot my first ever all-gold (9s and 10s) end at the standard 70m Olympic distance. Almost 8 long months passed before I did it again. Then, 5 weeks passed before I did it a third time. Today I did it again, less than 3 weeks later. Progress!
#olympicrecurve #archery
Collage of 4 photos, selfies of myself taken in front of an archery target with 6 of 6 arrows in the inner gold (yellow) center of the target face.
January 23, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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Shoot $60 arrows, they said. It'll be fun, they said. Shot out nocks and damaged (destroyed) two X10s this weekend. First one, doing a drill at 30m, admittedly that was asking for it. Second one at the full 70m. (Yes, I could get pin nocks, but that would add 3gn of weight!)
#olympicrecurve #archery
Close-up photo of an arrow sticking out of a target, with the nock shot off and the carbon fiber material splintered and the aluminum core underneath bent and torn. Close-up photo of an arrow sticking out of a target next to some others, including the one that hit it, with the nock partly broken off, and the carbon fiber material splintered and the aluminum core underneath bent.
January 21, 2026 at 7:35 AM
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One of my #archery goals for 2025 was to shoot 300+/360 at 70m. And I got close, with a 297 last month. Well, at my first practice of 2026, this happened: 300, on the dot.
Screenshot of an archery scorecard showing a total score of 300/360.
January 2, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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POV: shooting a 10 at 70m in the rain (okay, a slight drizzle). #olympicrecurve #archery
December 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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$1.25 Beiter nock: RIP.
$42 Easton X10 arrow shaft: OK... just.
Whew.
#olympicrecurve #archery
Close-up photo of arrows protruding out of an archery target. Two arrows are in focus, protruding out of the target's second-innermost gold 9-ring, parallel to each other and spaced about 2cm apart. The orange-coloured plastic nock on the lower arrow is broken, with the rearmost part of the nock missing, as the arrow was struck by the arrow next to it.
December 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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The curse of the last arrow strikes again! 😅
#olympicrecurve #archery
Photo of an archery target featuring two arrows in the innermost gold 10-ring, three in the gold 9-ring, and an outlier sixth arrow far to the left in the blue 6-ring.
December 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Happened to be in town while the Club de Tir-à-l'Arc de Montréal (CTAM) is having their garage sale so I went to check it out.

I'm envious of their indoor 70m range--a necessity given the climate, I suppose.

#archery #olympicrecurve
Selfie taken at CTAM archery club. Behind me in the distance can be seen racks of bows, next to green-painted pillars that divide up the large underground space into separate indoor archery ranges. White arrow curtains hang from the ceiling to partition the space. Photo of a vacant archery range, with green-painted shooting lanes numbered 1 through 4, blocked off by a metal gate, stretching into the distance. At the opposite end of the space can be seen large grey square archery target butts, one at the end of each lane and an extra one on the left. Behind the targets hangs a white arrow curtain. Large pipes run along the high concrete ceiling above.
December 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Archery comedy. 😂
Came so tantalizingly close to my goal of my first 300+/360 score at 70m today, only to be thwarted by not one but three wild fliers. 297/360 with three shots in the black. If any one of those had been better that would have sealed the deal. 😭
Next time!
#olympicrecurve #archery
Screenshot of an archery score sheet showing a total score of 297/360, and with all but three shots in the gold or red, and the three shots in the black.
December 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Now that I've stopped habitually looking through my scope after each shot, I just tell myself "Focus on making a good shot and sooner or later I'll go down to the target and find all arrows in the gold." And today it happened (again).
#olympicrecurve #archery
Photo of myself posing with a thumbs up gesture in front of an archery target with six arrows in the inner "gold" rings, with three in the center 10-ring and three in the 9. I'm dressed in my archery practice outfit, with a white T-shirt, black chest guard, white bucket hat.
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Cold foggy morning at the #archery range today... Perfect weather for setting a new personal best! Shot a 282, 282, 280, 289, for a new personal record of 1133/1440. 💪
#olympicrecurve
Photo taken at the archery range, with a spotting scope and Olympic-style recurve bow on its stand in the foreground, a target barely visible some 70m away in the distance under fairly foggy conditions.
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Shot over 300 arrows today, working with my video delay setup to clean up my release and follow-through. Things looked typically rough at first but a couple hundred arrows later I was happy to see a much cleaner and consistent shot: youtu.be/JDI95uogEBI?...

#olympicrecurve #archery
Viet Tam Luu video delay recording 2025-11-23
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November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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This close! 🤏
#olympicrecurve #archery
Photo of an archery target with five arrows in the gold 9-ring and a sixth arrow in the red 8-ring barely outside below the gold.
November 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Atmospheric river! A bit of a soggy and gusty session at the #archery range today.
#olympicrecurve
November 14, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Brought all my bows out and did a bit of A/B testing at the range yesterday. An embarrassment of riches: Win&Win TFT-G riser + Uukha SX+ limbs, Win&Win TFT-G riser + Win&Win MXT-10 limbs, Win&Win ATF-DX riser + Win&Win NS-G limbs. #olympicrecurve #archery
A photo of three Olympic recurve bows, without stabilizers attached, set down side by side on a picnic table.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Scoring a 56/60 at 70m despite pretty terrible form... (Lol that third shot, I'm shaking my head "What even was that?") imagine how high my scores will be when my form is good? #olympicrecurve #archery

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Viet-Tam Luu Archery Video Coaching Review video 2025-11-03
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November 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..." #NoKings #SanJose
October 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Between running the event and getting back into shooting shape after 2 weeks' vacation, today's Vegas round club shoot was just about having fun. After shooting all 6s and up in the first half, I switched to 3-spot target and immediately shot a 5 (miss) 😅. Still, I did manage one good end. #archery
Photo of a 3-spot 40cm archery target. The lower left and upper spots have arrows in the innermost X-ring, and the lower right spot has an arrow in the 10-ring.
October 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Yep, X10s fly real good. The way these things fly dead-straight to the target when I make a good shot is soooo satisfying. I'm hoping most of the effect is mental, but either way, I shot my highest single-round 70m score in over two months today, 280/360. Onwards! #OlympicRecurve #archery
Photo of an archery target with six Easton X10 arrows in it. The target face is a partial World Archery 10-ring 122cm face, cropped partway through the inner black 4-ring. There are three arrows in the inner X ring within the inner 10 ring, one in the 9, one in the 8, and one in the 7, for an end score of 54/60. The arrows have yellow vanes and yellow-orange nocks.
September 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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First end shot with X10s. Don't get too excited, this was 30m on an 80cm face, but so far, so good. Next, 50m, then 60 and 70. Since these are about 30gn heavier than my VAPs I'm working my way back small steps at a time to figure out the new sight marks. #OlympicRecurve #archery
Photo of an archery target with six Easton X10 arrows in it. The target face is a World Archery 10-ring 80cm face. There is one arrow in the inner 10 ring, three in the 9, and two in the 8. The arrows have yellow vanes and yellow-orange nocks.
September 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Despite a string of disappointing tournament results this month, I've decided I'm finally ready to switch over to Easton X10s. #OlympicRecurve #archery
Photo of six arrows protruding out of an archery belt quiver resting on a wooden bench. The arrows have yellow "JET6" vanes and translucent yellow/orange Beiter out-nocks fitted over the ends of the arrow shafts. The "Easton X10" label in the middle of the arrow shaft is visible on most of the arrows near the quiver. On some arrows, a white single-digit arrow number label can be seen just forward of the vane; on others, the initials "VTL" are neatly written on the shaft opposite the arrow number label can be seen.
September 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Go to an #archery tournament in Sacramento in August, they said. It'll be fun, they said.
August 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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I'm trying out a new finger tab in an effort to straighten out my draw hand. It looks a bit like a cyberpunk-styled medieval torture device. Feels a bit like one too. 😅
#archery
Collage of two photos of my right hand "wearing" a Fivics Saker Plus EPR archery finger tab, which features a black anodized aluminum palm rest with a notable rear protruding section that ends into my palm towards my wrist.
August 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Finally took all my bowstring making supplies out of the big cardboard box they were haphazardly piled into and organized my small fortune's worth of serving thread and string material into some custom organizer trays I whipped up in TinkerCAD.
#archery
Photo showing blue, yellow, and white storage bins each containing an organizer divided into compartments of various sizes, most filled with spools of bowstring material, others with tools and supplies related to bowstring making.
August 7, 2025 at 6:29 AM