In the beginning, there were self bows - bows made from a single piece of wood - longbows and the improved but still primitive recurve bows to sustain millennia of wild-animal-eating humans and their ...

Thirty archers armed with bamboo bows and arrows sit on a platform awaiting instruction. Then they take aim at a straw cylinder 60 feet away. They each have 34 arrows to shoot in four minutes. They ...

An ancient form of Indonesian archery, known as jemparingan, has been played for centuries around the ancient kingdom of Yogyakarta YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia – Sitting cross-legged, 68-year-old Supadmi ...

ANKARA, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Wearing their old-fashioned Turkish nomadic war outfits with pride, students of a sports club in suburban Ankara tried hard to practice their archery skills as the ...

It is about as far from the Olympic sport of archery as it can get. The bow is taller than the person shooting it, and, to the uninitiated, it appears lopsided and unbalanced. There are no sights, no ...

Archery fraternity: The Jemparingan tournament that The Jakarta Post Travel attended was a celebration of the anniversary of the Langenastro archery fraternity, which fell on May 3. Archery fraternity ...

The recurve bow, featuring limbs that curve away from the archer to increase power is the only type of bow allowed in Olympic competition. The lever effect created from a recurve bow can propel arrows ...

Today’s casual archery enthusiast may not realize it, but every time they nock an arrow, they’re taking part in a practice that once helped ensure mankind’s survival. The sport of archery started ages ...

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What was once a necessary skill for warfare and hunting food, horse archery, is seeing a revival as a hobby and a sport through ancient and medieval enthusiasts. Nestled behind a forest on a property ...