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Jake Kaminski

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“Well, and this also relates to the inner monologue. So when you're at anchor, okay, so you've got you're at the strings fully pulled back again for people listening or not familiar with Archery, your hand is glued to your face or under the jaw in the case of Olympic archery. Okay, now at this point, what are you saying to yourself or what do you sometimes say to yourself?”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, imagine just for a visual for folks, if you had like a Theraband or a giant rubber band and you got into an archery position and you're holding that rubber band at max tension the way that it would simulate holding the string of a bow. And then you closed your eyes and somebody walked up and just cut the rubber band. Correct. What would happen? And the arms kept going. Obviously, you didn't expect it. And that would be. What you then have to do consciously on some level, it should take care of itself if you're using”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Very similar. Yeah. Similar to dry firing, which you should never do with a bow. We talked about that in our video. Unless you want your bow to explode, literally. Don't do that. And I'm trying to think in the early stages what, because it was a detective process. And my mind is a little unusual at times, and I process things a little differently. Do you recall like what some of the early most important things were that we focused on in training?”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And maintain any type of performance in the beginning. So a lot of what I found so valuable with your coaching was the layering. When do you choose to introduce certain things? And I also really liked the focus on biomechanics. So the blank bill you could think of in a way as if, let's just say you're, I don't even know if they do this, but I'm making it up. Let's just say you're a major league pitcher. And it's like, all right, you're trying to focus on some aspect of your throw without the distraction of trying to put it right into the sweet spot of a catcher's myth. Then let's just say you had a very, very large net hanging. It's like 20 feet just hanging down and you were just throwing the ball into this net and working on the biomechanics.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My blank bill. That's going to be my most important cue, particularly in the beginning because if you try to incorporate too much too quickly, you're going to get the MAC ball of death beach ball, right? You're not going to be able to divide your attention.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Whatever it may be. Exactly. So I could use it for warming up in the beginning of a session, let's say the beginning of the first session. And then towards the end, I'd be like, okay, look, I got as anyone competitive as likely to do overly fixated on the scoring and the aiming, the performance. Let me end on a good rep. And so ending the training practices with blank bail just allowed me to settle the snow globe a bit, focus on the biomechanics, particularly something, I mean, at least I took this approach in the training session. If I notice, oh, you know what? I am collapsing a little bit, meaning losing back tension in the following way, A, B, or C is happening, or maybe I'm not pulling my bow hand pinky back enough, and therefore I'm landing right or whatever. I'm just going to focus on that.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that took a bunch of different forms, including rather than trying to whack out, we ultimately got to the point when we were training in person at least that we were doing, what, 200 plus arrows on some days? Yeah. And there were many aspects to that. And then we can talk about some of the technical stuff, but just from the physical workaround perspective, when I started practicing, there were a few things that I would do. And all of this we talked about, and I was building off of your advice. So rather than doing one session, break it into two sessions. And also start and end your sessions with blank bail practice. Do you want to explain what blank bill is? Because this avoids the target panic that you mentioned earlier. And I think is an incredible tool. I found it very, very helpful. What is blank bill practice?”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was the cause, yeah, yeah. So there's a lot of detective work. And for instance, in the left shoulder, you have two titanium screws, had the whole arm ripped out doing some combat sports stuff a million years ago. And my arm ended up sticking out of my chest, basically. And I won't get into all the gory details, but suffice to say when you tack down the shoulder with these screws, you create some limitations. And as a consequence of that, I had a lot of tendinosis in rotator cuff muscles infraspinatus, superspinnatis. They were a mess. Really, really tangled up. So what that means is like, okay, how do we work around this rather than do I need to stop? I mean, look, there are times we need to stop like right now with this elbow that requires surgery. I'm probably going to have to take a break from the hard stuff for a little while, two to three months. But outside of that, it's like, okay, how do we work around this?”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which is just in fairness in my own defense, really common. Go to a range and watch, especially guys who have a little bit of muscle shooting these things. And it's like, whoa. Okay. This guy's like trying to hulk his own shirt off.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I was living out of four. Yeah, I was basically doing like a Mr. Olympia pose down every time I was trying to shoot the arrow. So there was a lot more tension in the system than was necessary.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sequence and blueprinting your best shots. Really having a script for your checklist, like your pre-flight checklist as you're going through your entire shooting motion and having, for instance, positive affirmation, where do you put that? You want to put in the same place every single time. And then I would say also recognizing that given some of the physical limitations is like, okay, I can't do 500 hours a day forget it.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They're probably going to require surgery at my right elbow. Yada, yada, yada, yada, yada. It's like, okay, well, we will have to just work around it. And lo and behold, you can work around. You might have to make some compromises. Okay, fine. But it's like if, for instance, as we experienced, if shooting with a particular stance causes my back to seize up and it's producing a lot of incredible pain, okay, well, make a few compromises on that in order to minimize that. And then that's going to trigger a whole chain of other adaptations that we need to make. And like you, I guess as a kid, I very quickly found it meditative. Archery was almost like taking a break from my monkey mind. And particularly when you start to focus on, and this is something we focused on pretty early want to give Joel Turner again credit shot IQ in terms of like the boot up.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Eight feet from you. If you want distraction training, that's a great way to do it. So we had some things to work around. The forcing function was for me, and this is always the case, the magic of a deadline. And having a competition on the books, which I wasn't 100% committed to, but I was like, let me behave as if, let me train as if I'm going to compete. It's like, I don't want to embarrass myself. I don't want to embarrass you. Let's see how it goes. But I remember probably a few months out, like paying the registration fee. And I'm like, okay, now my name is online for everybody to see. That probably means I should go. And then the question is, all right, what do you do if you have six months to train? And few things come to mind immediately. Number one is you're always going to have things to work around. So it could be logistics, could be, in my case, my left shoulder, which was reconstructed in 2004. And it was a real limiter. Had many different physiological limiters. Right now, I have a bunch of torn extensors.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Pickleball course, tennis courts, tennis courts, batting cages right where you have like kids whacking balls with aluminum bats and screeching.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And often it's just a big cube of foam, and they'd be like, sir, what's in the box? And I'm like, there's nothing in the box. And they'd be like, sir, need you to be serious right now. What's in the cube? I'm like, it's solid foam. And they're like, yeah, but what's inside it? I'm like, foam. This would go on and on and on. Going to Hawaii, going to Canada, going to the UK, where I ended up going on this pilgrimage trail, Cotswald's way. And at every tiny inn, I would have to negotiate, try to pitch my little heart out to shoot in the backyard or anywhere. I ended up shooting from inside a hotel to outside the hotel. I ended up shooting from outside hotel through the living room, through the kitchen, into a laundry room where I had a target, pickled ball called.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I ended up bringing my roller bag, which looks like it's carrying an assault rifle. Customs do not love this bag. Sir, what's in the bag? Sporting a gear. Sporting gear is the answer. That's how you get your bow and arrow through customs. But I traveled all over the place, all over the country in the U.S., certainly. And I would check my targets”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah. And we're doing a lot of virtual training. I travel a lot. So if there are awards for most varied training environments, I think I would win that one hands down for sure.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Level of detail is really unbelievable when you want to start training and performing with precision. Okay, so I find you, we meet up, and then ultimately about six months out from Lancaster decide to take it seriously. Now, there are a few constraints, right? One is you live in Florida. I do not live in Florida. So we have limited in-person training, although I think we did a good job with that. What would you say maybe on average? Is it like a few days a month or like a week every six weeks, something like that?”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Your coaching and what we ended up doing. And all the experiments along the way because you mentioned, for instance, Coach Lee's feeling the leg hair and the movement and you're providing feedback. You're getting familiar with one another's shot cycles. The little things matter. It is hard for me to explain verbally just how many tiny, tiny, tiny details make a huge difference with archery. Just the way you hook your fingers on the string, the exact placement, how far it is from the fold of one joint, the amount of curl of the fingers, how much you use you're using in this case index, middle, and ring finger, the degree to which you can see or not see as a coach. My nail on my ring finger. And the difference that makes, the angle of the back of the hand The difference that makes”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If I can be an inspirational warning tale for these amazing young children with so much promise, I'm in. I'm in for it. I'm in for it. But it's just so endearing. And the guy's a genius. He's really one of a kind. Okay, so those are my coach stories. Thank you, Koch Lee. Let's talk about...”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But they're all 12 years old and shooting by my standards, especially at that point, incredibly well. And I'm off in the corner, like getting some pointers from Coach Lee and just looking like a total remedial case, which is fine. And then at one point, he wants to give like pep talk to the kids. And he's like, Tim, Tim, come over here. Okay. And so we all stand in a circle and he's giving this very coachly motivational talk, which is like 60% inspiration, 40% you need to shape up or ship out, toughen up kids. And at one point, I'm wondering why I'm in this circle. And he points to me and he's like, he's like, look, this is Tim. And he is an old man, a very old man. And he's here training seriously. And I was like, oh, I see.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Later, I ended up driving to his house behind which he has all these targets set up. And basically I was the only non-Asian there, absolutely, 100% the only non-Asian, which is fine. It was just Korean army and tons of Korean kids, also some like Taiwanese kids and Chinese kids.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Tonight's Korean barbecue. And so we go out to dinner and end up having an amazing time training with him. And he's really one of a kind. And also the reason I was mentioning the shocked look on the faces of the Korean media is you do not worry. About Coach Lee speaking his mind. Oh no, he is so direct. You do not have to worry about him. Sure coding things. And to give you an example.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Be there explicitly to train with him. And so at some point, I'm like a bit crest fallen. I'm like, oh man, letting my head hang like Eeyore. I'm like, well, fuck. I do feel like I need more help. And we start talking about somehow we get talking about firearms and guns. And he is very interested in marksmanship and all things firearms. And so he gets more excited. And we're chatting. We're talking about this, that, and the other thing. And then he asks me, so what brings you to San Diego? And I was like, well, maybe this sounds strange, but I flew here to train with you. He's like, oh, okay.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. And so in San Diego and a few things that are, I think, fun to share. So the first is we meet at this outdoor range and I'm going to be shooting mostly at 20 yards, so 60 feet, let's just call it roughly. And we hang out for 45 minutes. I'm taking copious notes. He's giving me some pointers. And then we stop and he's like, okay, I think you have plenty to work with and I don't think you need my help anymore. And I was like, because I've flown down planning to be there for a week or something, five days, something along those lines.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“An incredible story. That's crazy. I've never heard a bunch of these. This is wild. Like, in all the time we've spent together, it's nuts. Just for comedic relief, because you mentioned the Korean media interviews and them looking shocked talking to Coach Lee. So I'll just share a sidebar on Coach Lee. So I've had a little bit of interaction. So flew to San Diego because we did a little bit of training together and I wanted to meet this famous coach lately. Why not?”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, a couple of questions then, because I guess to even me listening, I'm like, well, it's still kind of an individual thing. I used to wrestle way back in the day. And it's like, okay, yeah, you're a team and you want to be supportive. The backup bow using someone else's primary as your backup is super interesting. This is the first time I'm hearing of it. Are there any other strategies where let's just say I'm making this up, but okay, it's like the wind is gusting and the first person up is going to have to deal with the brunt of it, you think. So you pick the person who seems to be best in high winds. I'm making that up. I have no idea. But is there any other strategy? that you can build around the team”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Anyway, you guys can look it up, but it's just your physical proportions are not the same. And at that level, certainly everything is.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Hold on a second. Yeah, so How similar are your draw lengths and like your ape index, right? In terms of like, not at all.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let me just say so let down for people who may not get that. If you pull back and you make a mistake or you didn't set up properly doesn't feel right, you can choose if you're practicing, let's just say, to let down, which means slowly bring the string back to the bow and start over.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's also a lot I would also for sure I didn't really think about this because I guess on the one hand you could say, well, wait a second, they've been shooting 700 arrows a day since they were a fetus. Why can't they handle the pressure? But at the same time, you told me, I can't remember who it was. You don't need to mention them. But what did someone say to you to calm you down before one competition? I can cue you. Do you remember what I'm talking about? Yeah. What is it? Yeah.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so just to put that in perspective, like if we take could be the women's team or the men's team, how dominant, if you look at their metal record over time, what does it look like?”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You have the positive affirmations, you've developed maybe fine-tuned your shot sequence, right? You're no longer just staring at the middle of the target and waiting until the clicker clicks. When does it all come together?”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And for people listening, this is not the first time that affirmations have come up on this podcast with people who are top performers. It can be a really powerful tool. And to this day, I mean, I'm still kind of like chasing the dream here, but my best ever day of shooting was a day early on when I started using affirmations. And for me, it was I am a top Lancaster competitor, right? And it was every single shot. And we'll talk about practice scores versus competition scores at some point. It is remarkable what that can contribute to, like what it can do. All right, so you're rebuilding or rebuilding three to four years. Good God. I mean, it's an entire college experience, basically. Talk about brutal, but you've made all these decisions. You've had all this training. You've got Coach Lee's input.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's exactly the same thing. So he has I am tattooed on basically, let's just say the back of the hand, the webbing between the index finger and the thumb on the left hand, which you're going to check every time. Correct.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Would have, I would think, moments of doubt. And I'm curious what kept you going and how you kept yourself going during that period of time because, I mean, look, I think I'm a glutton for punishment and have pretty good pain tolerance, physical and mental. But I don't know if I could do that.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh my god. So what are you saying to yourself mentally over that period of time? Because I would imagine. That could be incredibly demoralizing. Yes. And”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Physically. It's like a physical recipe. Yes. Right. In a sense. Just like someone who's, let's just say an Olympic diver, right? They're like, they're going to have their routine, never deviates. They're probably toweling off in the same way. They're putting things in the same place.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Course, that's not every archery range. No. But in Brooklyn, Gotham Archery, great spot. You see everything. And those people will be right next to a dyed in the wool hunter who was born and raised in Montana, who's getting ready for hunting season. And everybody's cool. So that's part of what I really have enjoyed about it. All right. So Austin Powers fade back to KSL. So you get to the training center and technically you're perfect and he's just like letter rips on just move forth, be bold and prosper? Or was there more to it?”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, it's like, okay, like there's some dude in a kilt. Okay, whatever, and then there's like some normal emo check with a mohawk. Yeah, okay, whatever. And everybody's just doing their thing shooting. And it's”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, totally Want to, this is as good a point as any, to say that part of what got me excited about Archery was realizing how welcoming the communities are. And there are different personalities, right? It's like compound crew is different from the Olympic crew, which is different from the Bear Pro Crew, which is very different from the Horace Bow crew. They're all different Burning Man camps with super different personalities. But broadly speaking, incredibly welcoming. People are happy to give you advice, give you pointers, help you out. And I mean this in the best way possible. It's also kind of like Weirdo Palooza. I mean, it's like, and it doesn't matter.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, so we're going to pick up there in a minute, but I want to just pause because you're already doing very, very well. So you mentioned a few things that influence that, right? You found it appealing, easy to use archery as maybe an escape, right? A meditation. You made training as difficult as possible. Do any other things come to mind that were decisions you made or things you did differently that you think contributed to those successes prior to moving out to the training center?”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Flips past the very front of that arrow point. This is not the perfect analogy, but it works and clicks onto another piece of metal. That's when you let go. Whether you think you're ready or not. And what that's going to do is standardize how much you pull it back. And it also takes away the decision to let go.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. Let me give people a visual that might help you imagine what a clicker is. It's a flat piece of metal that goes on the outside of the arrow. I actually used one for the first time today. And holy God, is it challenging to figure out? But if you were to imagine, let's say you're using a slingshot. Most people know a slingshot. But let's say instead of shooting a ball bearing, you're shooting an arrow out of this slingshot. And there's a piece of metal that is leaning against the arrow as you pull it back in the slingshot. Once it...”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
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2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
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2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Didn't grab it anymore. That's so intense. And it worked. Look, I'm not recommending people do that with their kids. But also supplement to our conversation. We're going to put a number of videos up on my YouTube page, and we'll link to Jake's YouTube page with Archery 101, both Archery Gear 101, just laying out the anatomy of a bow, and then technical 101. So you have a couple of pointers, which you may not get at some ranges so that when you have your first, second, and subsequent lessons, you'll have some really good solid fundamentals, at least to use.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, it's very much an echo of the more you sweat and training, the less you bleed in combat. Sure. You want to try to make your training harder if possible than your competition. There are limits to what you can do sometimes. Sure. We'll talk about that.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You've been cut 100%. So, what are some maybe good decisions or habits that you made early on, let's just say before you ended up in San Diego, that you think helped you to perform the way you performed in those early stages. I think I can think of one example, but I'll hold it for now, which is where you're placing yourself in the gym and how you're training.”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, they are obscenely, obscenely good You said to me before if you or I were scouted and assessed early on, we wouldn't have made the early cuts. No,”
2025-05-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #811: 2x Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski — Lessons Learned and Mantras Used After 1,000,000 Arrows · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT