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Bow & Arrow BullsEye If you love bows and arrows, you’re a toxophilite. “Toxophilite” originates from the Greek words “toxon” for “bow and arrow” and “philos” for “loving.”
In 1457, King James II banned golf in Scotland because they were wasting too much time playing golf instead of training with the bow and arrow.
According to the National Safety Council archery is safer than bowling.
U.S. Paralympian archer Matt Stutzman was born without arms. He uses his feet to hold and aim his bow, and he set the Guinness World Record for longest shot by hitting the target that was 210 meters away.
The innermost circle on an Olympic-style 10ring target measures about 12.2 centimeters across. That’s roughly the size of a CD or grapefruit. Now add three-quarters of a football field between you and the target.
Archery is a national sport of Bhutan to the extent that nearly every village has its own archery
range.
In most archer competitions, competitors must engrave their initials on their arrows.
Although by the mid-17th century archery was completely wiped out and replaced by firearms in most armies, China had an archery brigade until 1904. Archery was the first Olympic sport in which women were allowed to compete. Eliza Pollack, a one-time gold and two-time bronze medalist in archery, is the oldest female Olympic medalist, having won in 1904 when she was 63 years old.
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The contestants are told to hit the target in the distance.
into the hat of another judge, carrying it off into
The guy wearing the eye patch picks up his bow, pulls back
the wind. The second judge gets really mad, but
an arrow, and releases it. The arrow completely misses the
the other judges calm him down, and they tell the
target, goes in a totally different direction, and buries it-
archer wearing the eye patch to go again. He picks up his
self in the hat of one of the judges. The judge jumps up,
bow yet again and releases another arrow.
shocked, and starts shouting at the archer. The other judges calm the angry judge and tell the archer to go again.
This one also completely misses the target and lands in the hat of the last judge, who starts shouting at the archer, “What are you doing?! Are you trying to kill us?!”
He picks up the bow again, pulls back another arrow,
The archer flips his eye patch onto his other eye and
and lets it fly. Again, it misses the target, this time flying
says, “Oops! Must’ve had the eye patch over my good eye.”
