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Morning. What are the underlying intent/philosphies? eg Is the intention that the divisions should be evolutionary or should each division be separate and distinct and thus stand alone? From what you have written you appear to favour both which has the potential to become 'messy'. Whilst you have no...

Evening.

The 5/8 rule is very specific. A reproduction of a 'Mary Rose' bow as it will not comply. An anomaly in a classification termed 'English Longbow'.

Morning.

If you want a true composite Asian bow then be prepared to pay and wait or build your own. Lukas Novotny (Saluki Bows http://www.salukibow.com/)makes true composites.

Caveat - Horn/Wood/Sinew bows have their special requirement. Before purchasing it may be wise to understand them.

Morning. but I still got caught up in it. Me too I was going to post a photo of an F1 car being driven at a substantial rate of knots on the suburban streets of Murwillimbah to illustrate the point/issue but gave up. To much of an annoyance to get the photo up. Scrub that - I finally remembered how ...

Morning. ... This thread is reminding me now of how the semantics of this sort of discussion are of little interest to me ... We communicate/express ideas/etc. by the written word. If people expect you/me to believe what they write (have credibility) it is of significant importance that what they wr...

Afternoon.

Kendaric wrote:... you can't call it a HQ Holden station wagon ...

You could however, it would be a lie and it would fail when compared to the prototype.

Afternoon. You cant take a Formula One, remove the foil and drive it on a suburban street, and call it a family car. You could if it complied with the relevant requirements. Many vehicles which are biased to Motorsport are registered and driven on the road. May not be a pleasant car to drive but you...

Evening All. To be honest I really don't think they are interested anyway. Jeff, I concur. ... If people say XYZ is acceptable as being "Traditional" it follows logically that its contemporaries are "Traditional". There are consequences in what people say/suggest. eg It is illogi...

Evening Bjorn

BowmanBjorn wrote:Pure speculation but I wonder if all of this name distinction is irrelevant. I highly doubt the English shooting English Longbows back in the 1500's called them English Longbows etc. ...

Correct. I suggest you do a search for Paston on this site and read about Margaret Paston.

Evening. I feel a bit foolish now, going on about guidelines for bow distinctions at Trad shoots and sprouting ABA definitions as a potential guide. It seems the TAA had nice, simple, easy to understand and appropriate guidelines for bow types already. You maybe interested in looking at the IFAA sit...

Morning.

Kendaric wrote:... It is just the Trad Events that choose not to exercise these distinctions.

Perhaps it worthwhile asking, "Why"? What was the outcome of the 'Market Research'?

Refer 'Consensus' previous in this topic.

Morning All. The difficulty of having rules/guidelines/whatever is that: True, but the work has already been done. The ABA guidelines work fine. No. What ABA does is ABA thing. However, they represent less than 50% of archers in Australia. ... b) (they are) a consensus agreed upon those (or at least...

Morning. ... additional rules and regulations ... in a perfect competition for me you'd have: ... general rules: - no stabilisers - no sighting aids - no mechanical release aids, clickers, draw checkers etc - no compound bows - no ranging aids or binoculars The difficulty of having rules/guidelines/...

Morning All. Traditional? What is Traditional? (And this topic has been addressed before....) For some people Traditional means whatever rules an assocition puts forward. For others it it is more related to 'stuff' made/used at some stage in the past. I have no issue getting more opportunities to sh...

Evening. I believe it would contravene the following; The English Longbow (ELB) falls into the historical division, which is loosely referred pre 1900's. ... What is an English Longbow? The style/design of bows made and used ln the area called 'England' varies greatly over the last 5000 years (ie fr...

Crecy, ( my favourite) Blanchetaque. English mounted archers charging the ford to cross the Seine shooting as they charged against the Genoese Cossbowmen. Who said you needed a short bow to shoot from a horse. https://historyplanet.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/bibleotech-national-by-jean-froissart-b...

Hi Grant.

It appears that very few people in Oz recognised the significance of the day .... or they don't celebrate it.

You could have a look here how my Club celebrated the occasion .... http://www.archery-forum.com/showthread ... unt-Petrie

Hi Grant

Roadie wrote:Great Day to sling some arrows in memory of our English Ancestors.
October 25th St Crispian Day, The Battle of AGINCOURT 1415. Cheers Roadie.

I/we did. 600 th Anniversary.

Morning Modern longbows should have their own division There are enough categories ... Having more than a passing interest.. Just to give something for people to consider. * If you increase the divisions you need to produce the rules, police the rule divisions, maintain the rules, have effective/tim...

Evening All.

TAA is not an organising body.

It does not organise any events.

It has no mandate to specfy what equipment will be shot or what divisions are shot.

To the best of my knowledge there are no events that are shot to TAA Rules.

Morning Tom.

You may be interested ihis....

Salukihttp://www.ozbow.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.p ... 6&p=105387

Afternoon. I was down at Daryl's this morning and he mentioned this post. To the best of my knowledge the only people who are doing regular electronic scoring is AA. It works, it has advantages, it has its disadvantages. I would suggest that before going down that road that people decide what they a...

Morning Dennis. ... The only thing that I can see from the above is that people’s skins are getting thinner and thinner and fragile enough that a differing opinion strongly put is now childishly hurtful. Nobody’s opinion including my own is sacrosanct against counter-opinion. .... From my viewpoint ...

Morning Scuzz. ... The topic name is 'vanes and recurves.' and I have seen nothing out of topic throughout the thread. It seems as if you wish to eliminate constructive talk Dennis. ... You are correct. Over most of the last decade this has been a friendly all encompassing Traditional Forum. There h...

Afternoon. How is Premiere for co-coordinating sound (ie music) inside the show? Excellent and you can now get Premier Elements at a low price which is more than enough for normal use. It is capable of handling mutiple Video and Audio tracks. So it is feasible to have multiple picture in picture typ...

Morning. I still prefer using a PC over a Mac. I use Premiere - lots of experience/time wasted. Slideshows are easy-ish to do and adding in video is relatively easy. I prefer to shoot photos Video is a Challenge. An example of a Slideshow - built in Premiere Royalty Free soundtrack. http://youtu.be/...

Hi Mick. My observation would be this. There is Trad and there is "Trad". Some people like actual old stuff and some people like pseudo "old stuff". As far as gear goes somewhere you need to draw a line ....... as you have observed drawing exactly where that line goes will result...

Hi Pery A well tuned Bow, with Matched Arrows shot off the Shelf should have no drama's shooting Vanes if you shoot Cock Vane in - try it, if the Van still contacts rotate the Nock until maximum clearance is obtained and try again. Yep. Which is why I commented - ... but fully expected at least some...

Afternoon. .... I have seen footage of the archers paradox several times before, and I suspect the the arrow in the attached video was under-spined to create a more dramatic effect for the camera - for it to pass this far to the side as the footage showed. Having shot the odd few videos of arrows I ...

Hi Perry. ... some years ago Cliff and I amused ourselves when we noted Shiny Bows drew a Crowd and shot Faster. Yes. Shiny bows always get compliments. It is the glint that blinds the lookers. ... He sprayed his Selfbows with a high gloss finish and I used a hand rubbed matt oiled finish. He always...