Archery

General Rules

Equipment

The equipment used in the international level competitions must adhere to the rules of the federation. Any athlete who is found contravening to the rules shall stand disqualified. Kindly refer to the equipage section of archery for detailed information upon the equipment used in archery.

 

Shooting

• The athlete must not compromise with safety and must shoot and stand or kneel at the shooting peg.

 

• The athletes who are waiting for their turn shall wait behind the athletes in the shooting position.

 

• Athletes should use binoculars in 3D rounds.

 

• An arrow shall not be re-shot under any circumstances.

 

Shooting & Timing Control In 3D Rounds

 

Groups shall be assigned simultaneously during the qualification and elimination round-

 

• The athlete’s number must be displayed prominently on his/her quiver at all times

 

• The order of shooting may be changed in case of an athlete’s equipment failure

 

• No extra time shall be awarded in the final round for equipment failure.

 

• When an athlete, or a group of athletes, cause an unnecessary delay for that group or for other groups during the Qualification and Elimination Rounds, the judge will observe and time the athletes. If the athletes exceed the time limit, they shall warn the athlete or group with a first written warning on the scorecard

 

• Time warnings shall not be carried over from one stage to the next in the competition

 

• In the semifinals Round, whenever a Judge accompanies a group, he shall start and stop the shooting verbally.

 

Scoring

 

Scoring shall take place after all athletes in the group have shot their arrows-

 

• An arrow shall be scored according to the position of the shaft in the target

 

• Scorecards shall be signed by the scorer and the athlete, denoting that the athlete agrees with the value of each arrow, the sum total (identical on both scorecards), the number of 5's and 6's in the case of Field rounds (10’s and 11’s for 3D rounds).

 

• The scorer's scorecard shall be signed by another athlete of the same group but of a different Member Association.

 

• At the end of the tournament, the organising committee shall publish complete result lists.

 

Disqualifications

 

• An athlete found guilty of breaking any qualification rule may be barred from the competition and shall lose any position he may have gained.

 

• An athlete is not eligible to compete in World Archery Championships if his Member Association does not meet the requirements.

 

• Athletes' gear of which he does not fulfil the requirements, shall be excluded from the competition and lose any position gained.

 

• An athlete found to have overruled the Anti-Doping Rules shall be subject to sanctions.

 

• Any athlete found to be using equipment violating World Archery Rules may have his or her scores disqualified.

 

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Officials

1. Judges

They are the technical officials in the sport of archery who are responsible for fair competition on the field. Fair performance of athletes and fair conduction of the competition are also the duties of the judges that they need to take care of.

 

2. Line, Target & Scoring Judges

The line judge calls out when an arrow has been shot out of sequence or out of time.

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Events

Following are the events in which male and female athletes participate:-

 

• Target archery (Indoor, Outdoor)

 

• Para archery ( Indoor, Outdoor )

 

• Field archery (Laid out in open area)

 

• 3D archery (Laid out in open area)

 

• Flight and clout archery (Laid out in open area)

 

• Ski and run archery (Laid out in open area)

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Techniques

Stance

• The archer should choose the correct stance in order to shoot the arrow correctly. They should place their body in a perpendicular direction to the target and shooting line along with the feet apart at shoulder-width distance.

 

Improve Archery Technique

• The very important point to remember while improving your technique is the development of a consistent form.

 

• The professional archers have the ability to replicate the same technique and form that they have gained shot after shot.

 

• The more you practice the better the technique is going to get formed.

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Playing Area

The playing field must comply with the following:-

 

• It shall be organized with corners of 90-degree angles. Each distance shall be precisely measured from a point vertically under the gold of each target face to the shooting line.

 

• A waiting line shall be marked at least 5m behind the shooting line outdoors and at least 3m indoors. The media line shall be marked 1m in front of the waiting line.

 

• Each target butt outdoors must be fixed up at an angle of between 10 and 15 degrees from upright and between 0 and 10 degrees indoors, but a line of target butts shall be set up all at the same angle.

 

• The length of the centres of the target faces in a line of target butts should look straight every time.

 

• All athletes in a category shall be assigned to one field of play.

 

• There shall be an identification mark on the shooting line directly opposite each target butt. There shall also be a number corresponding to that target butt between 1m and 2m in front of the shooting line. If two or more athletes are shooting at the same target butt at the same time, the shooting positions shall be marked on the shooting line.

 

• The field of play shall be divided into shooting lanes comprising one to four butts. These lanes shall be marked by lines stretching at right angles from the shooting line to the target line.

 

• A line correspondence to the shooting line shall be marked 3m in front of the shooting line.

 

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Participants

Both male and female participants can compete in the sport in individual, mixed and team competitions.

General History

Archery is one of the most seasoned sports cum recreational activity still rehearsed. Proof of old archery has been found throughout the world.

 

Although bows and arrows most likely dates to the Stone Age (around 20,000 BC), the soonest individuals are known to have utilised bows and arrows were the antiquated Egyptians, who adopted bows and arrows somewhere around 5,000 years back for reasons for chasing and fighting.

 

In China, arrow-based weaponry goes back to the Shang line (1766-1027 BC). A war chariot of that time conveyed a three-person group: Driver, Lancer and Bowman. Amid the following Zhou (Chou) tradition (1027-256 BC) nobles at court went to arrow based weaponry competitions that were joined by music and sprinkled with greetings.

 

Advancement in Asia

 

At the point when the Chinese acquainted toxophilism with Japan in the 16th century, it had an abrogating effect on later behaviour and methods. One of Japan's hand to hand fighting was initially known as kyujutsu (the art of the bow), presently known as kyudo (way for the bow).

 

Present day Kyudo is rehearsed essentially as a strategy for physical, moral, and spiritual advancement. After certain ceremonial developments, the Bowman moves to the shooting line and shoots from a separation of 28 meters at an objective 36 cm in width set in a bank of sand that is roofed over. The bow utilised is 2.21 meters long and made of covered segments of bamboo and wood.

 

In the Greco-Roman period, the bow was increasingly utilised for individual endeavours or chasing or hunting, as opposed to fighting.

 

Bowmen are regularly observed on earthenware of that time. The Parthians were horsemen who built up the aptitude of swivelling around in the seat and could shoot in reverse at a full dash.

 

Center Eastern prevalence in bows and arrows gear and procedure proceeded for a considerable length of time. With bows like those of the Assyrians and Parthians, Attila the Hun and his Mongols defeated quite a bit of Europe and Asia, and Turkish bowmen tossed back the Crusaders. The Asian and Turkish bows were exceptionally productive, and the record shot with a composite Turkish flight bow was near 900 yards, a long ways past the ability of an English yew bow.

 

The primary known organised competition in arrow based weaponry was held at Finsbury, England in 1583 and included 3,000 members!

 

From that point forward, archery has been regarded as a recreational and professional game.

General Variants

Traditional archery: The first and foremost basic version of today's archery sports in which a shooter shoots an arrow from a bow without using any tuning equipment, stabilisers, etc. the bows and arrows are also usually made up of natural materials like wood etc.

 

Target archery: The type of archery generally played in the Olympics in which the target is placed 18 meters away (in case of indoor games) and 30-90 meters away (in case of outdoor games).

 

Field archery: A variant of archery well suited for nature lovers in which a roving course that is set through woods and some paper targets are put  20 to 80 yards away.

 

3D archery: A type of archery where a shooter shoots 3D animal shapes situated at different lengths.

 

Bow hunting: A kind of archery that is only done after getting a license/permission from the government that allows you to do so. It is only permitted during some seasons and players use their archery skills to hunt animals for food.