Archery, For Sports Or For Hunting?
One of the most interesting type of sports is archery. Unlike other sports where competitors usually tire themselves running on fields and being guarded by the opposing team, archery is a sport of discipline, accuracy and skill. Archers use bows or crossbows to shoot arrows on a specific target.
There are different many types of competition for archery. The most famous competitions are Target archery and field archery. Other types are are 3D archery, Clout archery, Flight archery, Ski archery, Beursault, Popinjay, Roving Marks and Wand Shoot.
Target archery involves shooting arrows at a target for precision and accuracy from a given distance or several distances. This kind of archery competition is the most popular of all. Competitions in target archery may be done indoors and outdoors.
The distance for targets in indoor competitions varies from 18 to 25 meters while outdoor competitions range from 30 to 90 meters. The competition is divided into ends of 3 or 6 arrows. After each end finishes, the archer gets their arrows and tally their scores.
There is also allotted time for the archers to shoot their arrows. The targets are marked with 10 equal concentric rings which have equal scores from 1-10 for each ring. There is also an inner 10 ring, known also as the X ring.
This X ring has a different objective for indoor and outdoor games. This serves as the 10 ring in indoor games. For outdoor games, it serves as a tiebreaker.
The player who scores the most number of X wins. A line breaker is where an arrow hits the boundary lines for the scores. When this happens, the higher point is awarded to the archer.
Field archery, on the other hand, involves shooting targets in various distances, mostly in rough territory. There are three different rounds for this type competition. It is the field, hunter and animal rounds. Each round is made of 28 targets divided in two sets of 14.
Field rounds are set at even distance up to 80 yards. Scoring consists of targets with a black bullseye (worth 5 points), white center (4 points) and black outer ring (3). Hunter rounds use different distances up to 70 yards.
The scoring system is almost the same as field round, only with black faced targets with a white bullseye. Animal rounds use 2D models of animals with different distances like the hunter round.
The differences here are the rules and the means of scoring. The archer starts at the first station of the target and shoots his first arrow. If it hits the target, it is not necessary to shoot again. If he misses, he advances to station two and shoots a second arrow, then to station three for a third if needed.
Scoring areas are critical (20, 16, or 12) and non critical (18, 14, or 10) with points awarded depending on which arrow scored first. For children or young people competing for this type of competition, the distance given to them are much closer than the standard rules.
There are some techniques that we need to practice when holding a bow and arrow. You must hold the bow in the hand opposite to the archer’s dominant eye, though others hold the bow in the dominant hand side.
This hand is called the bow hand and its arm the bow arm. The opposite hand is called the drawing hand or string hand. Terms such as bow shoulder or string elbow follow the same principle.
In conclusion, right-eye-dominant archers hold the bow with their left hand, have their left side facing the target, their sight towards the target with their right eye and handle the arrow and string with their right hand.
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