#target archery

[blumineck]

Would you ever consider/have you ever competed at the olympics for archery?

I have not, and the simple reason for that is that I'm not good enough!

The longer reason is that while I practice several styles of archery that are designed to optimise several things (speed, versatility, ability to shoot from upside down on a pole), none of them are the quite specific style that Olympic archers use to optimise for extreme accuracy at long distance (which is, after all, what the event of Olympic Archer is about).

But even if I did train Olympic style, I almost certainly would not be good enough!

[nimthirielrinon]

First arrow of the day :)

[thatsbelievable]

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

I was scrolling through The Double tag and someone was complaining that Xue Fangfei never learned self-defence even though she was attacked so often and I was like, "No, I loved that they didn't pretend that a tiny stick of a woman could take on men twice her size because as much as I understand this genre isn't terribly complaint with physics (or biology), it would have been ridiculous."

We had two women who knew how to fight, Poison Princess and Arrow Friend (Lui?) so it wasn't like all women were portrayed as 100% helpless. But since a lot of Fangfei's revenge quests were about injustices that happen to women, who are generally weaker than men, her only have "soft" tools felt in keeping with the themes.

(We shall ignore that Fangfei managed to shoot Shen at like, 60 meters in the hand with a bow. That was for catharsis. There is no way that woman could shoot someone IN THE HAND, a super small target, after five minutes of sexy archery lessons.)

But back to my point, Fangfei's weapons are self-control, quin-playing, intelligence, diplomacy, and suicidal-risk taking. When attacked, she either is helped by an alliance she has formed (with Duke Su or her cousin), or by her words. She talks her half-sister into hitting her one attacker with a rock, which was great! It wouldn't have been half so satisfying if she just started pulling out martial arts moves that she'd learned in the like, six months max that this series happens over? Especially since many of the men have clearly been practising martial arts/sword-fighting their entire lives and have um, muscle tone and at least a foot of height on this tiny, tiny woman. There is a reason professional sports have weight classes.

I mean obviously it's not a bad idea to learn self defence, but if you learn it from a genuine expert the advice is, "Break out of their grip and run like hell" which wouldn't have worked in about half of the situations where Fangfei finds herself in danger. She was better served by sticking to what she was good at and delegating the physical fighting to people who knew what they were doing. It doesn't make her pathetic, it just means she knows her strengths.

[foursidecity]

Thinking about them... designs... silly..

[thunderstruck9]

Allan Balisi (Filipino, 1982), Avenue of Litanies, 2023. Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in.

[eternalsnowfan02]

A friend sent me a video of a girl doing archery with her feet and... yeah. I could absolutely believe this is a thing Rook could/would do.

[tj-crochets]

So I was thinking about my recent realization that I am ambidextrous and that it's not something everybody can just naturally do (like I thought it was) and I have another "can everyone do this or is my family just weird" question for y'all: Can most people consistently hit the target with ranged weaponry the first time they try it? wait okay unrelated follow up question: can most people (if they do not have an injury or condition that prevents it) sit on the ground cross-legged and lean forward until their torso is like flat on the ground? editing again: I am trying to come up with more things I thought everybody could do but that, in retrospect, might just be my family. High kicks? I guess? I know not everyone can do like head-height kicks, but can most people kick like chest high?

[tianalaurence1]

Archery Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence.

[for-onedoor]

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멍캣이 쏘는 대로 엑스텐🎯

비주얼 금메달🏅 케미 금메달🏅 매력 금메달🏅

이게 바로 요즘 엠카 최애 아이돌의 정석

ZEROSE&ONEDOOR's preference aim💘 As soon as MeongCat shoots, X-ten*🎯 Visual gold medal🏅 Chemistry gold medal🏅 Charm gold medal🏅 This is the standard for the best idols on MCOUNTDOWN these days

#ZEROBASEONE #성한빈

#BOYNEXTDOOR #명재현

#샤인멍또캣

[liamthemarowak]

Skylar is teaching Liam and Jack how to do archery training.

Liam The Marowak and Jack The Cubone Belongs to me

Skylar the Tiger Belongs to @wafflethelittlefox

Pokemon Belongs to Nintendo and Game Freak

[raycatz]

Caaaaamp! It's been good. Probably the easiest start and integration into the group at the beginning of the summer training that I've had. I was flitting between tables and saying hello to everyone returning and new. Jumping into conversations. Sharing compliments, asking about the year we've been away. Easily reuniting with friends and peers. At like 8pm I ran out of energy to show emotions on my face bUT LIKE we okay. It's fine.

TODAAAY got up early, ate good food, planned a dinner cookout with my cabin, walked, did low ropes, tower, canoes, lunch, practiced guitar, walked some more, got the pool spiel, did archery and arts and crafts and nature museum, did said cookout with coals on a grill (we made foil packets with rice and it turned out really good?! Also banana boats,) and then campfire and we sang and I played my guitar and we have a real fire this year wow!, and now we're back in the dining hall with wifi and playing cards and one of the old time staff are playing guitar, and I'm coated in a thin layer of dirt and sunscreen and sleepy tired and it's good. -v-

[stickbug-made-entirely-of-spite]

Out practicing my bow skills, I couldn't ask for better company ^-^🧡

[jjsanguine]

Kongthap: hits shuttlecocks the way Ashitaka fires arrows

Atom: what the hell you said you haven't played badminton since primary school >:/ !

Kongthap: yes. As you can see, my form is terrible.

[iwanttobepersephone]

Hihihihi I wanna see your bow preeeetttty please?

Oh, sure! It's a pretty basic one, just black with nothing on it loll

As a bonus, cause my friends find this cool, here's my homemade target!

[cosmogenous]

i'll deal with it like an adult by staying in bed all day or maybe practicing some knife throwing