Hi Rita......Obviously I failed to get my point across.

I have been active in archery for more than 40 years. In my youth winning was everything. I competed in the NFAA, NAA, PAA, and finally the IBO. I shot a LB at first...then curves....then wheels starting with the old Jennings Model I and ran the gammit through all the high tech equipment I could get my hands on until archery was no longer fun. When it became mentally more draining than the worse day at work it was then the competition fires went out for me and I turned my back on archery all together for almost 4 years.

I knew I needed to get back to shooting arrows again but I also knew that I wanted it to be fun. I looked back at when I enjoyed shooting the most and found it was in my youth with my old Bear longbow. When I returned it was with a Longbow in hand with no desire to compete ever again. This path I have chosen has been the most fun I can ever recall in my years with a bow and an arrow.

My point of this topic was to basically ask why organization which are supposed to represent us....don't! Club shoots show the real heart of the archers who prefer to shoot sticks. More and more I see archer enjoying this sport using techniques and equipment deemed illegal in classes set up for these shooters to shoot in by organizations who are attempting to define the sport for its users rather than the other way around. The cart shouldn't push the team of horses! IMO it is and at the expence of allowing the archers to maximize their personal accuracy potentials and ultimately their enjoyment of the sport.

Less rules and less classes will cut down the whining and really eliminate the cheating. For cheating is breaking the rules....with fewer rules there are less to break thus less cheating.

To say all we care about is winning.....couldn't be further from the truth for myself and those I share my shooting times with.