Compound bows allow archers to shoot higher poundage bows because the draw weight peaks and then decreases, making them easier to hold at full draw and enabling greater accuracy and longer distances due to more stored energy, compared to recurve bows where the weight continuously increases.

“and it's a little bit easier to hold it at full draw but because of that you're also able to shoot much more poundage at the beginning of that pull cycle so in other words in the Olympics a heavy recurve shooter would be shooting about fifty pounds because as he pulls that bow back every inch he pulls it back further that weight continually increases as he pulls it back so once he gets a full draw that in no way gets easier whereas ours we could shoot a 70 pound bow and as we start to pull it it'll peak at 70 pounds fairly soon and then it gets easier and easier and easier and kind of it drops back you can be much more accurate with the compound bow and you can also achieve much longer distances because the energy stored is greater”