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History

Since its beginning perhaps more than thousands of years ago, the discipline of archery has fed mankind, dramatically changing world politics. Archery has been practiced by Kings as a sport (hunting) and practiced by their armies against invading forces . Nearly every culture in the world developed bows, and used them for hunting, combat, and competition. Archery teaches form, precision, relaxation, and strength. This improves the archer's skill at his sport, and also improves the personality of the archer as a person.

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Eagle Archery Academy, Its vision is that It will produced a Archer who will Represent INDIA in 2016 OLYMPIC ,and WIN A GOLD MEDAL, The Academy is to inaugurated at D.B.JAIN college for Men &Women in Toraipakkam ,Chennai from the 15h of July. In this academy Archers will be trained by professional coaches to participate in the National Championships. It is also our earnest desire to promote this sport as a recreational activity for Corporate houses as it has proven to be a great stress reliever and team builder too.

Eagle Archery Academy will in the process after training Archers identify participants who excel in the game and provide advanced training to such archers in order to make them competent enough to participate in international championships and also represent India in the Olympic arena.

Beginners can learn from our experienced archers, coaches, and advisors. They may also use our equipment while learning to shoot and decide if archery is for them. All archers can take advantage of our training camps, audio visual seminars, our equipment storage room, and our tools and technicians for maintaining bows and making arrows

Target Archery

This is the only type of archery shot in the Olympic Games. The international governing body that represents over a hundred countries is the Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc (F.I.T.A)

Target archery involves shooting a set number of arrows for the round that you are shooting, at the distances that are set for that round. For example, a 'Warwick' round consists of two dozen arrows at 60yards, followed by two dozen arrows shot at 50 yards. The longer distance is always shot first, to copy the way that archers would historically have fired on an advancing enemy.

Field Archery. This is a type of archery where the competitors shoot in wooded or hilly countryside at 3D foam plastic animals or 2D animal faces. Distances can be marked, but are often down to the skill and judgment of the archer. Targets will be set up around the course and archers will shoot from coloured pegs. After an unsuccessful shot missing the target, the archer moves forward to the next peg. Some of the animal targets will be small or at a long distance, and each target is marked with a "kill" zone which scores higher than the "wound" zone.

A first shot which lands within the kill zone may be scored as 20 points, a hit outside the zone only scoring 16 points. If the archer misses the target animal, he will move forward and take a second shot with points being reduced, and if he still misses, move forward again for a third shot which will score lower still.

Any type of bow may be used, as there are normally different classifications for each type of bow.

Clout Archery. Clout archery is not such a popular discipline because of the amount of space required to shoot safely. Clout archery is derived from medieval warfare where archers would fire arrows onto the advancing army some distance away. A target measuring 15 metres is diameter is marked on the ground, with a triangular marker flag at its centre. The archer's task is to shoot arrows towards this target from distances up to 180 metres, trying to get as close as possible to the target flag.

Bow types

Today, there are three main types of bow - the traditional longbow, the recurve bow, and the modern compound bow.

Longbows:

In the late 13th century the longbow evolved. This new weapon typically had a draw weight of 100 to 120 pounds. Originally the bow came from southern Wales, where there are records recording its use from around 1150. The first battle where it was widely used was the battle of Falkirk in 1298. It was quickly adopted across England as the weapon of choice, and dominated the battlefield until the middle of the sixteenth century. The longbow was regarded as such an important weapon, that at some battles longbowmen formed as much as 85 percent of the fighting force.

The normal practice range for bowmen was 220 yards, with most archers able to loose 8 - 10 well aimed arrows per minute. Some archers were even able to fire 20 arrows per minute. The maximum range for longbows was more than 220 yards, but their shortcoming was that they lacked penetrating power against armour at this range. A mounted knight could cover this distance in about 15 seconds, so the longbowmen's rate of fire was very important. Armoured footsoldiers would take about a minute and a half to cover the same distance. For the last 50 yards, the arrows could punch through the finest armour.

It has been estimated that at the battle of Agincourt, there were about 5,000 English archers. Assuming a rate of fire of 8 arrows a minute, 40,000 arrows could be loosed each minute, which is almost 700 arrows a second! Clearly, it was difficult to survive such an onslaught and this explains the dominance and battle success of the longbow.

In order to make sure that there were the necessary numbers of archers for the armies, all men from the ages of 12 up to 65 had to practice weekly by law. The game of football was banned, to prevent people being injured so that they could not practice. Continued daily practice led to the skeletons of archers becoming slightly deformed due to the power of the bows.

The preferred wood for longbows was traditionally yew, but today they may be made of several other woods, e.g. hickory or lemonwood.

Longbows do not put as much energy into the arrow as other bows, which is why they have to be more powerful. Today longbows generally do not exceed 50lb draw weight. They are less accurate and more difficult to shoot than a modern bow, but more and more archers are changing to them today because they are fun to shoot, and you know that you are shooting in the traditional way. You don't use any arrow rests with a longbow, as you support the arrow on your forefinger when shooting.

Recurve bows:

A recurve bow is so called because of the side-view profile; in contrast to the simple longbow a recurve bow has tips that curve away from the archer when the bow is unstrung. This style of bow stores more energy than an equivalent straight-limbed bow, and therefore gives a greater amount of 'cast' to the arrow. By contrast, the traditional straight longbow tends to "stack" - that is, as the string is drawn further back, the required draw force increases rapidly .

Recurved limbs also put greater strain on the materials used to make the bow, and they may make more noise as they are shot. Many beginners are confused by the shape that the bow should be before being strung - it should look like the bow pictured on the right.

A typical modern recurve bow, as used by archers in the Olympics and many other competitive events, will employ advanced technologies and materials and will have been made by a professional company such as Hoyt, or Win and Win. The limbs are usually made from layers of fibreglass, carbon and/or wood on a core of carbon foam or wood. Carbon limbs will shoot the arrow faster for a given draw weight when compared with wooden limbs, but they are much more expensive. The riser (the handle section of the bow) is generally separate and is normally constructed from aluminium or magnesium alloy. (Risers for beginners are usually made of wood or plastic). An Italian manufacturer now also produces a very lightweight but expensive carbon fibre riser. The limbs of the bow will fit into pockets on the ends of the riser, and will be held in place by the tension of the bowstring.

The high-technology materials of a modern bow allow predictable manufacture for consistent high performance, and also permit the easy attachment of modern aids to accuracy, such as stabilisers. The greater weight of a modern bow is in itself an aid to stability in the grip, and therefore to accuracy.

The modern recurve is the only form of bow allowed in the Olympic Games, and is the type most widely used by European and Asian archers.

Recurve archers often have many other pieces of equipment attached to their recurve bows, such as stabilisers, (for balancing the bow and absorbing some of the vibration) sights (for improving accuracy), and pressure buttons (for fine tuning the arrow's flight). A piece of leather called a tab is worn when shooting to ensure a smooth release and save wear on the fingers.

Compound bows:

A compound bow is a modern development of the bow which uses a lever system of cables, wheels and cams to draw the limbs back.

The limbs of a compound bow are usually much stiffer than those of a recurve bow or longbow. This limb stiffness makes the compound bow more energy-efficient than other bows, but the limbs are too stiff to be drawn comfortably with a string attached directly to them. The compound bow has the string attached to the pulleys, one or both of which has one or more cables attached to the opposite limb. When the string is drawn back, the string causes the pulleys to turn. This causes the pulleys to pull the cables, which in turn causes the limbs to bend and thus store energy.

The use of this levering system gives the compound bow a characteristic draw-force curve which rises to a peak weight and then "lets off" to a lower holding weight. Compound bows often have a peak weight of up to 60lbs, but may only need 15-20lbs to hold the arrow before firing it.

The compound bow is little-affected by changes of temperature and humidity and gives superior accuracy, speed, and distance in comparison with other bows. The compound bow was first developed and patented in Missouri in 1967 and has become increasingly popular. In the United States, the compound is now the dominant type of bow.

Instead of standard sights, magnifying scopes are used in conjunction with a 'peep' sight in the string, and the arrows are shot with a release aid, similar to a trigger, rather than with the fingers. It is recommended that you learn to shoot a recurve bow before attempting to move on to a compound bow.

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