Jake Kaminski
American · YouTube education — Olympic recurve · b. 1988-08-11
Jake Kaminski stood on the Olympic podium twice — team silver in London 2012 and again in Rio 2016 alongside Brady Ellison — then traded the podium for a camera. His YouTube channel breaks down recurve form, tuning, and equipment with the kind of detail you only get from someone who has logged over a million arrows under coach Kisik Lee. These days he also designs strings and accessories through his Kaminski Archery brand and wrote the Training for Archery guide with his wife Heather.
Status
Retired from elite international competition (last Olympic medal 2016); active full-time as YouTube educator, coach, and gear designer
Equipment
Olympic recurve background; now designs and sells his own gear via Kaminski Archery (custom bowstrings, stabilizer accessories, training materials). Competition bow setup not verified from fetched sources.
Official profiles: Jake Kaminski Archery — YouTube channel · Kaminski Archery — official store and blog · Jake Kaminski — Wikipedia
Major achievements
- Olympic silver medal, men's team recurve, London 2012 (with Brady Ellison and Jacob Wukie)
- Olympic silver medal, men's team recurve, Rio 2016 (with Brady Ellison and Zach Garrett)
- World Archery Championships team gold, Belek 2013
- Pan American Games team gold, Guadalajara 2011
- Runs the Jake Kaminski Archery YouTube channel — roughly 126K subscribers and ~19M total views as of mid-2026 (third-party tracker figures vary)
- Authored the 'Training for Archery' guide with wife Heather, founded the Kaminski Archery gear brand, created the Backyard Championship online tournament, and appeared on The Tim Ferriss Show episode #811 (May 2025)