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The Intelligent Sport of Archery Archery requires impeccable hand-eye coordination and a steady hand.

In this sit uation, a steady hand does not come from not drinking alcohol, but by being so s trong that the archer is not straining to draw the string and hold it whilst tak ing aim. Rapid fire archery necessitates fast reflexes You can say that these qualities a re required for other objectives in general life and that may be true, but arche ry is the one sport that requires them all. Shooting a gun accurately requires some of these skills as well, but it does not need immense strength and rapid fire is just a question of pulling the trigger or even holding it back. It is a fact that when guns were developed, archers loo ked down on riflemen, because they did not need the same degree of training to b ecome good shots. This is one of the main reasons why guns took over from bows. It took 10-15 year s to train a long bowman, but only a couple of weeks to train a rifleman. It was mandatory in England and Wales for all men and boys to practice with their long bows at the village butts on a Sunday where they were supervised and taught by t he local sheriff's militia. The long bowman was a respected figure, because everyone knew the dedication and skill it took to be an accurate archer. This was not merely true in Great Brita in, but in each country in the world (except Australia) as far as we know. Evidence of archery, but not the longbow, has been found everywhere from Europe to Asia and some of it goes back 12,000 years, which is a long time for a bit of wood to last, particularly when a fractured bow would frequently have been a ho usehold item which could be burned on the fire as fuel. Prior to the proliferation of the bow, huntsmen and warriors used the atlatl (or woomera, in Aborigine Australian), which is a long, grooved stick used to launc h a one-metre long dart at almost 100 mph. There is proof that the atlatl was be ing used by Homo heidelbergensis 400,000 years ago in modern day Germany. The longbow and the flat bow were most commonly used in northern Europe where th e majority of soldiers walked into battle as only knights (nobility) had horses. However, in most other countries, where a lot of the fighting was carried out f rom horseback or from chariots, a shorter bow was used as it was less unwieldy a nd easier to move across the horse's neck to fire left and right. The longbow and the flat bow were around six feet in length and had a typical dr aw weight of over 60 lbs but up to 100 lbs, which would fire a three-foot arrow up to 1,000 yards. The shorter bows were recurve bows and although lighter to draw, it took a signi ficant amount of skill to hit a target when travelling at speed on the back of a horse or bouncing chariot. There are two ways of aiming any bow: by sight and by intuition. In sight shooti ng, the archer aims down the arrow and lines it up with the target allowing for distance, wind, movement etc, but in intuitive shooting, the archer just concent rates on the target. Intuitive shooting may come after lots of sight shooting pr actice. Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a variety of topics, but is now involved with the <a href="http://smarttoysforkids.com/nerf-n-strike-stampedeblaster.html">Nerf n-Strike Stampede Blaster</a>. If you would like to know mor

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