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 ...

Target archery is one of the oldest sports in the world. For the Third City Archers, there is no truer aim than to bring the ancient art of archery to the next generation. To accomplish that, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed! ach afternoon, a middle ...

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 ...

Riding a galloping horse under the blazing sun, Malaysian archer Zaharudin Rastam Yeop Mahidin fires an arrow at a target as a crowd cheers. This is horseback archery, which was common for thousands ...

“We have launched ‘Create your own adventure’, where guests get to create their own micro event,” said Micah Spicer, Ancient Lore Village sales manager. “We are not a (typical) resort or a hotel, so ...