I am going to school for secondary-education mathematics with a minor in physics. My bow usually gives me a way to relate what I'm learning to the real world...

anyways, for one of my education classes, I have to do some interactive web, about a topic of my choice, which will be archery.

Basicially, what I'm curious about is what fields do you guys, the biggest archery community I know, consider important, here's what I have so far.


History (from indians and stickbows to today's current compounds)

Equipment (which covers the different types of bows, arrows, releases, quivers, sights, rests, etc.)

Form (which I really don't know much about "correct" form [I know how to shoot properly, I just don't know how to explain it, I could use some help with this also]).

Reasons (such as why someone would use a bow and arrow, anything from hunting to recreational shooting to competition shooting)

The Science of Shooting (archers paradox, arrow spining, cam styles, string types, etc.)

I would like to cover as much as possible. The more the better. Pour everything in here to my guys, even if you take it as common knowledge. Remember I'm covering a lot of stuff, and I may overlook some very incredibly basic things. Thanks guys.

I would stay away from anything that could get you into a philosipoical or political p1ssing contest with your professor/instructor, I would concentrate on the cut and dry things such as the history or evoloution of the bow, Form and Science of Shooting.

Stay away from those topics that are open to ones opinion or viewpoint or something that could put you on the other side of the fence from your professor (not always but often bleeding heart liberals).

While I am certainly not saying that you should have to hide the fact that you are an avid bowhunter, but in the pure interest of grades, why push the issue.

Good point redline.

I'm not so much getting into the hunting parts of it, or much of that (mainly since I just do it for the 3-D shooting anyways.)

Let's put it this way, the instructor knows nothing of the subject, and he doesn't care much about anything.

What it's mainly going to be is a tutorial about the History of it, how/why a compound (i'm mainly adressing compounds in my presentation) works, mostly the basics but leaving enough information for a good follow up presentation (that will come later in the semester.)

I'm a major in mathematics with a minor in physics, so the science of it won't be too hard for me, I just don't want to overlook anything. Mainly my objective is to give everyone a basic knowledge of the compound bow world (withoutshowing my bias to Parker bows to the rest of the crowd.)

Thanks for the response!