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Flight Archery, Is the art of shooting for distance and speed. The essence of flight shooting, is to see how far the arrow can be fired. Flight archery is a sport with many different classes and catergories.
Popularity
Flight shooting is one of the oldest archery sports, it has declined in importance and popularity in recent years, in favour of the target disaplines.
Location
Outdoor venues.
Age
There are many sanctioned classes provided within flight shooting so that virtually any type bow will fit into a class. It’s further broken down into draw weights within classes, plus men’s, ladies, and youth, intermediate, juniors, and cadet classes
Description
In a flight tournament, each archer shoots four “ends” (number of arrows shot before the score is taken) of six arrows. Each end may be in a different class. A different bow can be used for each class or the archer may shoot the same bow for all four classes. Bow classes include standard recurve and compound bows, crossbows, flight bows that have an extended handle and a large overdraw, "primitive" bows and the "foot bow". Two types of arrows can be used, regular flight and broadhead.
Dedication
Competion classes are sanctioned by the National Archery Association's (NAA) Flight Committee. And records kept for each combination of bow, arrow and shooter.
Potential
There is a world's record for the “foot bow” of over one mile in distance.
Closely
Related Activities
Crossbow 165, Field Archery 14, Target Archery 15, Clout Archery 676, Golf Archery 998, Popinjay 1010, Kyudo 1011, Field Sports 247.
Cost
A complete kit consisting of absolutely all of the necessary Flight Archery equipment can be purchased at costs starting from around £85.00
A typical kit consists of;
* 1 x full size recurve bow.
* 3 x arrows.
* 1 x Dacron string.
* 2 x arrow rests.
* 2 x brass nock sets (These are crimped on to the bow string to mark the nocking point of the arrow).
* 1 x Basic bracer.(Fits around the forearm).
* 1 x Basic tab.(to protect from sore fingers).
* An Introduction to Archery' DVD.
Level of Demand
The table below shows the maximum levels of demand that this activity requires. NOTE: These are not entry levels or levels of requirement and has nothing to do with ability.
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Arms
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Legs
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Sight
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Hearing
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Speech |
Learning |
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