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Training

A training session is one athlete, one setup, one visit to the shooting line. It fixes what was being shot — the bow, the distance, the target face, how many arrows to an end, indoors or out, and where — and then collects the ends as they are shot. What comes out is a score, a set of averages, and a row in that athlete’s history that can be read next to every other session they have shot.

Training is not scored against anybody. There is no field, no ranking and no result to publish: a session is a record of practice, which is exactly what makes a run of them worth reading.

Who records a session

Section titled “Who records a session”

Two hands, one record.

Staff record on the web. A coach or an administrator sets a session up in Velos, scores it end by end as it happens, or enters it afterwards from a paper scorecard. That is what the rest of this section covers.

Athletes record on the phone. Where the athlete surface is switched on, an archer sets up and scores their own session in the Velos mobile app, tapping each arrow onto a target face at the line. Those sessions arrive in the same list as everything else, and carry something a web-entered session cannot: the position of every arrow. That is what makes the arrow plot possible.

Where your federation, club or academy runs a review step, sessions an athlete submitted from the app are held for approval — first by their club coach, and where a second stage is configured, by a federation reviewer afterwards. Sessions created by staff are never held.

The training list

Section titled “The training list”

Archery → Training is every session recorded, newest first.

The Training list in Velos: a search box and two dropdowns reading All Statuses and All Bow Types above a table with columns Athlete, Configuration, Total Score, Status and Date. Rows show athletes with their club underneath, configurations such as Recurve | 50m | 80cm, scores with an arrows-and-ends line under them, and Completed or In Progress badges. A Start Session button sits at the top right.The Training list in Velos: a search box and two dropdowns reading All Statuses and All Bow Types above a table with columns Athlete, Configuration, Total Score, Status and Date. Rows show athletes with their club underneath, configurations such as Recurve | 50m | 80cm, scores with an arrows-and-ends line under them, and Completed or In Progress badges. A Start Session button sits at the top right.
  • Search by athlete name… narrows to one archer.
  • All Statuses picks between In Progress, Completed and Abandoned.
  • All Bow Types picks between Recurve, Compound, Barebow, Longbow and Traditional.
  • Configuration is the session’s setup in one line — bow, distance, target face. Where conditions were captured for an outdoor session, the wind reading appears here too.
  • Total Score carries the arrow and end counts underneath it, which is what tells a short session from an abandoned one.

Opening a row goes where the session is. A completed session opens its detail page; a session still in progress opens straight into the live screen so scoring can carry on.

Start Session creates one, covered in Recording a session.

One athlete’s training

Section titled “One athlete’s training”

The same sessions gather on the athlete. Open an athlete under Archery → Athletes and pick the Training tab.

The Training tab of an athlete's record in Velos, showing four tiles — Total Sessions 29, Total Arrows 1,404, Avg / End 46.0 and X Count 226 — above a Recent Sessions list with one row per session giving its bow and distance, date, target face, score and arrow count.The Training tab of an athlete's record in Velos, showing four tiles — Total Sessions 29, Total Arrows 1,404, Avg / End 46.0 and X Count 226 — above a Recent Sessions list with one row per session giving its bow and distance, date, target face, score and arrow count.
Four running totals across everything the athlete has shot, and the most recent sessions under them.
  • Total Sessions counts every session, with how many of them finished.
  • Total Arrows counts the arrows, with the number of ends they came in.
  • Avg / End is the average end score, with the per-arrow average under it.
  • X Count counts the Xs, with the 10s and 9s under it.

Recent Sessions lists the latest few; View All opens the full training list filtered to this athlete.

Conditions

Section titled “Conditions”

Where weather capture is switched on, an outdoor session also carries the conditions it was shot in — temperature, wind and its direction, sky, humidity and the direction of shooting — captured at setup on the phone and refreshable during the session. Velos shows them as a read-only Conditions card on the session, and puts the wind reading beside the configuration in the list above.

The pages in this section

Section titled “The pages in this section”

Next

Section titled “Next”

Sessions and results only become a picture once there are enough of them. Performance covers what Velos makes of them — the totals on every athlete record, and the suite that reads a whole squad at once.

Updated for v1.36.0