Bare bow
The bare bow is a bow without bow sights and stabilizers . According to the rules of the largest association of archers , the World Archery Federation (WA) , the bare bow is an archery class .
Differentiation (set of rules WA)
Bare bows are Olympic recurve bows and compound bows without visors and without stabilizers , which are strictly forbidden in this bow class. Only the attachment of weights for greater stabilization when shooting directly on the handle is allowed. The weight should ensure that the bow does not tilt towards the shooter after the shot has been released, but rather remains in a stable, upright position. With bare bows, unlike the Olympic recurve bow, the center of gravity is behind the pressure point of the hand, so that these bows tend to tip backwards without additional weights. The relaxed bare bow including attached additional weights must still be able to be pushed through a ring with a diameter of 12.2 cm. The compound bow, used as a blank bow, does not meet this rule due to its design, so that this bow is not a blank bow in the sense of the rules of the WA. The German Archery Association and the German Archery Association, however, recognize bare compound bows. Also Longbow and hunting bow fall theoretically under this class, but who due to poorer shot results by archaic materials special classes.
In the overall shooting result, the bare bow is not significantly inferior to an Olympic recurve. There is a technical demarcation to this only in the competitions, whereby shorter distances apply for the bare arcs in the target disciplines of the WA (up to 18 m indoors, 50 m outdoors, during the Olympic recurve outdoors up to 70 and 90 m shot becomes).
Olympic recurve and the bare bow differ, with the exception of technical details, also in the handling during the shot setup. Instead of the missing sight, the inaccurate arrowhead is aimed at (thus also the shorter shooting distances). In particular, special pull-out and anchor techniques such as string walking or face walking are used in contrast to the Mediterranean pull-out / anchor, which is predominant in the Olympic recurve. The archer understands anchoring to be the exact positioning and location of the drawing hand at a certain point on the head. In contrast, there is the bow hand , which holds the bow and enables it to be pulled out.
Compared to the emotional shooting (intuitive shooting) with the heavy longbow or the light hunting bow, one practices precision. The technical equipment is otherwise identical to the Olympic recurve.
- A bare bow consists of
- a recurve bow middle part (handle made of light metal , wood, or carbon )
- two limbs
- a tendon to which up to two nocking points may be attached
- Arrow rest
- Button
- Possibly additional weights (Attention: the bow must fit with mounted weights through a ring with 122 mm inner diameter in order to comply with the rules).
- May be shot
- with shooting glove
- or tab (piece of leather / finger protection for pulling the string)
- with any arrow material (wood, aluminum, fiberglass, carbon, etc.) that is also permitted for Olympic recurve bows.
Any marking on the bow that the archer can use to estimate a distance or serve as a target aid is prohibited. These include markings, bulges, grains , notches or scratches in the arched window as well as on the back of the upper limb, and it is also prohibited to use pull-out controls (clickers).
Spectacular was a ban on the use of a recurve middle section from the manufacturer Spigarelli ( Italy ) on the “Spigarelli Revolution” model. For reasons of material technology, the middle part was provided with two bulges in the arrow window , through which the individual metal parts were screwed. This was rated as a target aid and the middle section was not allowed to be used as a blank arch in the field area.
Shooting technique
A bare bow is the ideal introduction to precision shooting, as it requires the correct shooting position without technical correction options. Of course, a bare bow can also be shot intuitively, but its draw weight is optimally matched to the shooter and can thus be kept tense for a while. The eye on which the pulling hand lies is aimed over the arrowhead into the gold .
The shot structure
The bow shot from each bow follows a typical course for the bow type, which is always the same. The success of the shooter lies in the precision of repeatability and that is immense training. Details of this process change from shooter to shooter and also depend on the material used and the environment (bow, arrows, target, weather, terrain, time of day). In a rough sketch, the process is as follows:
- Take a stand
- Insert arrow
- Eyes to the goal
- Estimating and tapping distance
- Three fingers at the tapping point of the tendon
- Take the bow up and align it straight to the target
- Align the front shoulder straight to the target and straighten the bow arm and "click into place"
- Slowly pull the bowstring with the arrow to the anchor and anchor it
- Final target corrections, while continuing to build tension over the back muscles until the final pull-out
- The fingers loosen in a flash when the maximum tension is reached. Keep the bow arm stable
- follow the arrow flight motionless
- → ideally this is then a “10” or in “gold”.
If the arrow has missed its target, there are several possible explanations. It depends on where the arrow hit the target , provided the technical conditions were correct and no gross targeting errors were made. The most common causes besides improper loosening are:
- To the left of the target: The pulling hand was not anchored precisely and was not drawn out precisely. Otherwise, the back tension was lost forward (crawling) or the head was turned / tilted to the right.
- To the right of the goal: Too much back tension still unset. The head was moved to the left from the target.
- Vertical deviation: the height of the pulling hand must be corrected. This is done on the tendon (string walking ) or through the anchor point on the face (face walking ).
String walking
The most widely used technique is that of string walking. It is typical for “ string walkers ” that the pulling hand lies below the nocking point of the tendon. The lower the three pulling fingers are on the string, the higher the end of the arrow and the lower (shorter) you shoot. The closer the pulling hand reaches to the end of the arrow (nocking point), the lower the arrow is behind and you shoot higher (= further). Each shooter selects his distance between the upper edge of the tab and the nocking point for each shooting distance, which he achieves by sliding the tab down. With the thumbnail pressed against the tendon in front of a certain point on the tab, this distance can be measured and then shot, i.e. empirically determined how far the tab is placed from the nocking point to the tendon in order to hit.
Please note: It is strictly forbidden to put tags on the string before the tournament. During a tournament it is allowed to mark a distance on the tendon with a fingernail impression on the tendon center winding. Professional shooters have long had this distance mentally available. The ban on markings in the blank sheet tab was lifted in 2008 in the WA rules (at that time still FITA rules).
Facewalking
Face walking is similar to string walking. The difference is that the tap on the tendon is always the same, but the pulling hand is anchored at a position below the aiming eye. This technique can be used to shoot very long distances with accuracy. The reproducibility of the shooting results is, however, much more difficult than with string walking. If string walking over the arrow would be necessary at long distances, which makes aiming and triggering difficult, face walking is preferable.
literature
- Traditional archery . Specialist magazine for longbow & recurve. Angelika Hörnig publishing house, Ludwigshafen, ISSN 1432-4954
- Clemens Richter : Archery - The Occidental Way . Edition NATURE LIFE in DSV-Verlag GmbH, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-88412-346-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ Halle mode. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Outdoor mode. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Since April 1, 2008, markings that can be used as sighting aids may also be attached.
- ↑ In the meantime, some bow manufacturers have switched to printing the manufacturer's logo on the traditionally single-colored back of the upper limb, and even this equipment, which was contrary to the original design, is no longer objected to in competitions.
- ↑ Spigarelli has now adapted the middle section to the requirements.
- ^ Deutscher Schützenbund e. V. (PDF file of February 21, 2008; 42 kB)