VIDEO: These Women Are Incredibly Talented! They Are the Best at Traditional Archery

Even in this day and age there are some people that do not believe in the equality between men and women, but women can do everything a man can do. This also applies to archery that seems more like an activity for a man than for a woman, but these women can do it flawlessly.

According to wikipedia.org, modern competitive archery involves shooting arrows at a target for accuracy from a set distance or distances.

This is the most popular form of competitive archery worldwide and is called target archery.

A form particularly popular in Europe and America is field archery, shot at targets generally set at various distances in a wooded setting.

There are also several other lesser-known and historical forms, as well as archery novelty games.

The World Archery Federation (WA, also and formerly known as FITA from the French Fédération Internationale de Tir à l’Arc), composed of 156 national federations and other archery associations, is the governing body recognized by the International Olympic Committee.

Various other large organizations exist with different rules.

Modern competitive target archery is often governed by the World Archery Federation, abbreviated as WA (sometimes also referred to as FITA, from its former French name of Fédération Internationale de Tir à l’Arc). Olympic rules are derived from WA rules.

Target archery competitions may be held indoors or outdoors. Indoor distances are 18 m. Outdoor distances range from 25 m to 90 m. Competition is divided into endsof 3 or 6 arrows.

After each end, the competitors walk to the target to score and retrieve their arrows.

Archers have a set time limit in which to shoot their arrows. 3 arrows are shot in 2 minutes, and 6 in 4 minutes.

Targets are marked with 10 evenly spaced concentric rings, which have score values from 1 through 10 assigned to them.

In addition, there is an inner 10 ring, sometimes called the X ring. This becomes the 10 ring at indoor compound competitions.

Outdoors, it serves as a tiebreaker with the archer scoring the most X’s winning. Archers score each end by summing the scores for their arrows.

Line breakers, an arrow just touching a scoring boundary line, will be awarded the higher score.

In the past, most targets in competitive archery use some kind of stalks of grain or grass and may be constructed of marsh grass woven into a rope then wrapped around into a target.

However, in modern times, most archery targets are made of synthetic foam, or woven plastic bags stuffed with cloth.

Different rounds and distances use different size target faces. These range from 40 cm (18 m WA Indoor) to 122 cm(70 m and 90 m WA, used in Olympic competition).

Field archery involves shooting at targets of varying (and sometimes unmarked) distance, often in rough terrain.

Three common types of rounds (in the NFAA) are the field, hunter, and animal.

A round consists of 28 targets in two units of 14 (until the early 60’s two rounds of 28 were shot for 56 targets).