6th World Traditional Archery Festival

[GrahameA]

Hi All

6th World Traditional Archery Festival
Note for Perry: The range is getting out there.
Note: No ILF fitted bows were visible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMagnMPZWtE

[Bent Stick]

Looks like fun, wonder if they do a mead chugging race for the night events. Lol

[littlejohn59]

Interesting to watch Grahame.

You know what caught me eye? How lucky we are to have real grass and walk the fields away from skyscrapers.

[longbowinfected]

Hard to make out what distances they are shooting, how big the targets are and what is considered to be a good score/hit ratio out of x number of arrows. Mainly horsebows, not many longbows even if adding in Yumis as longbows.

Are there any printed English version rules/outlines of objectives of the shooting aspect that you know of?

You only get to see a few archers celebrating and very few pix of targets with arrows in them.

Thanks for posting that.

[asparky]

Another great video from Grahame.. saw a couple of Aussies be nice to know the rules.. and it looked like there were 2 piece bows there

[GrahameA]

Morning All.

... saw a couple of Aussies be nice to know the rules.. and it looked like there were 2 piece bows there

Bede Dwyer from Sydney has been a presenter there a couple of times. I get the impression that it is not so much 'rules' but rather a 'Traditional Shoot/Expo/Convention.

I will see if I can find an flyer/invitation for the event.
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Have a read here http://traditionalarchery.yuku.com/topi ... YAw-8pFK3p

Here is and article on the event from a few years ago: http://www.iau-crossbow.org/iau/stories ... f_2007.pdf

Here is a read on 'Traditional Archery' with gives a hint towards the style of 'stuff' at the event. http://taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xitem=9346 ... =1343&mp=9

[longbowinfected]

I think Bede is the Sth Pacific representative on their governing body. We were chatting about the last shoot. I think Bede set a world trad clout record. He has a beautifully set up horse bow, bow quiver and arrow quiver. Great guy, very knowledgeable. He pops down to the City of Sydney shoot in December every year.

Kevin