posted Aug 11, 2008

animel_13 (U11945283)

"...especially battle for Bronze between France and England)." Ermm , excuse me!

I hardly ever watch Archery but isn't a pot belly - our grey haired representative - a disadvantage when twanging a bow?

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posted Aug 11, 2008

iwilltellyouthis
Yep, I can see you don't watch Archery very much.
I presume that you are referring to Simon Terry
with your remark, well, IF you had watched Archery more, you would know that Simon never was the epitomy of sleek, but that didn't stop him winning 2 Bronze medals, and hasn't stoped him from being the top mens archer in Britain.
Archery is more about technique than anything else, but if you shoot some of the British rounds such as the YORK round, you would have to shoot 144 arrows at varying distances throughout the day. Some ofthe top Archers have a bow weight of around 40 - 50 pounds, that's not the physical weight of the bow, that's how much weight you pull on the 3 drawing fingers of the drawing hand. so you multiply 144 by 40lbs and you can see, you have to have some stamina to get a decent score.
So Simon may not look the athlete,but the effort he has to put into his sport to stay at the top,is no less than the other participants at the Games.

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posted Aug 11, 2008

Ha ha Goggle-de-gook. Yes I think the Native Americans (or Amer-Indians as I believe they are now supposed to be called) are awesome at archery. But I reckon they turned their backs on it when all the contraptions were were added to the bow. Cause they have integrity.

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posted Aug 11, 2008

How did we lose to france in the archery? all I can say is that it would not have happened 200 years ago.

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posted Aug 11, 2008

Iwilltellyouthis (U11004471)

You evidently weren't watching. I didn't see a grey haired member on the women's team (unless you were talking about the men's team - who didn't compete against France).

It was still a great final, and I don't watch much archery either.

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posted Aug 11, 2008

About missing the target - as a former competitive target archer, yes, I know archers, including myself, do occasionally miss, even at top level. I doubt, though, you'll see it now at international level because all competitors shoot at 70m, whereas in the past the men shot at 90m over 12 dozen arrows, a test of stamina as well as technique. Now it's a penalty shoot out every arrow!! The nerveless win!!!

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posted Aug 11, 2008

Disagree,

I came home bladdred on Sunday very early am and switched on to see a womens archery match against China or something.

Now all they have to do is hit the middle, if that was your sport you played professionally and you fired thousands of practice arrows you should be hitting 9 or 10 every time, i think the 7s and 8s are very poor. Thats all you have to do for god sake, must do better.

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posted Aug 12, 2008

Try this:

http://www.officegamespot.com/officegames/appleshooter.htm

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posted Aug 13, 2008

Well, three years ago a young archer missed at the team round at the World Championship and the team lost. Anyone who has done head to head competitions experienced the play of nerves and confidence.

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posted Aug 19, 2008

At least you got to watch a final (never mind who was competing), unlike the hundreds of thousands of hockey fans who will be unable to witness the womens hockey final on the BBC!!

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