[Archers] BBC: English Olympic Archers

[Bill Tait]

Ummm,

No. The Olympics have only, always used recurve. At an international level,
the Big Tournaments that have a compound class is World Championships and
the World Cup series.

Over the past couple years, FITA compound rules have changed, in an effort
to have a shoot that could be included in the Olympics. It has to be
spectator-friendly, and different enough from the recurve shoot. Last year
they tried a hit / miss at 50m. That didn't go over well at all, and was
scrapped for this year. Compounds in the Olympics is still a ways off.

For your (all y'all's) information, Olympic archery allows:
Stabilizers and weights
Single, adjustable sight. No magnification or levels at all
Plunger button
Flipper (pivoting) arrow rests
Clicker
_finger release only_ (no mechanical triggers)
No electronics, lasers, or other things many people assume are there.

William Arwemakere
An Tir

mka Bill Tait
Silver Medal, BC Indoor Championship, Sr M Recurve

ask me about my GMX :)




On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:05 PM, barysears <barysears at verizon.net> wrote:

> I thought the Olympics used compound bows - isn't this person shooting a
> recurve?  Is there a traditional division?
>
> barre
>
>
> On 5/26/2011 7:06 AM, Garth G. Groff wrote:
>
>> Noble Friends of the Bow,
>>
>> Here is a brief BBC story about English Olympic archers:
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-13548318 . Seems they
>> brought in school children to get the archers used to crowd chatter.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>>
>> Lord Mungo Napier, Shire of Isenfir TA Marshal
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