Agreed with the even playing field comment and I'll add to that.

One factor that is seriously overlooked by the guys backing the Target Shooters is the all mighty dollar.

I'll bet serious money that there are guys/women out there that if handed the high end type of equipment the top shooters use would clean house.

I think we all tendto forget that when many of us started out we had very cheap rigs. And to be good with those rigs we practiced hour upon hour. Some people just can not afford the type of equipment needed to compete. So, they shoot within the limits of the equipment they have.

Here's an example: A kid gets acheap bow for Christmaswith a glueon Flipper rest and steel pin sights. He goes out and shoots almost every day. Within a year he can consistently hit a 1/4" piece of paper at 35 yds. (He rarely shoots past that distance due to the length of the place he shoots). A few years later he shoots out to 45 and on a bet he shoots the end of a cigarette at 45 yds off his knees 2 times in a row. If that same kid was given a top shooting rig, opportunityandmoney to enter events he'd probably clean house in any competition.

If you do not think so it's your own arrogance and belief that only the best compete.

And as for the form required. I'll use golf as an example. Look at Jim Furyk's or Jim Brown's swing some time and tell me that if you saw him at a local golf course you'd thinkthey could win with the swings they have?

Archery like everything anymore has developed an elitist attitude that only the best in the world compete and there just couldn't be anyone better than the people that compete.