first horseback archery EPONARC meeting in Toulouse(France)

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Katie Stearns "the flying Duchess"

arows in bowhand:a french method

in Bayeux tapissry you can see a french soldier holding arrows in bowhand with points up...it was during year 1066 at the Hasting battle

sur la tapisserie de Bayeux on peut voir un soldat français tenir les flèches avec la main d'arc et les pointes en l'air : c'est a la bataille de Hasting en 1066

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jak during ECHOA 2008

hungarian course with damascus saluki bow

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mounted archery girls 1930 équipe féminine d'archerie équestre

at Del Monte :in california Douglas shool girls practising mounted archery while galloping and jumping year 1930

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ancient archery vs easier archery

in ancient archery bows cannot be coumpounds nor have mechanical triggers or sights.They

have to be of ancient style such as asian,midle eastern(or native american) with simple handles

and without shooting windows. Ancient archery beguin at least at mesolithic era and may be at

upper paleolithic era until today all around the world ;horseback archery is ancient archery

At end of XIX century and beginning of XX century bows where modified (shooting windows,....)

to make archery easier so the way of shooting have changed developping "traditional" ,"classical"

and coumponds archery

it is funny that this news bows are called "traditional" or "classical"

differents way to hold a traditionnal bow clik on pic to enlarge

differentes façon de tenir un arc traditionnel(cliker sur l'image)