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RE: When archery isn't archery any more?
archery is in the mind of the shooter
take a gun hunter, a never before archery hunter, and that first week using his new $1500 compound he'll feel like he's getting a tremendous challenge, he'll FEEL different take a compound hunter, a never before trad hunter, and and that first week using his new $500trad setuphe'll feel like he's getting a tremendous challenge, he'll FEEL different its never easy, regardless of whether you're shooting a compound, a recurve, a crossbow or a self bow. self bows are the most challenging bow to use, followed but recurves, longbows, crossbows and the compounds being the easiest |
RE: When archery isn't archery any more?
From Dean Torges. The entire article is at http://www.bowyersedge.com/elements.html
There are a peck of dangers in dividing the world into two camps. Liberal and conservative, hunter/gatherer and farmer, male and female, up and down, black and white, etcetera, and so on. Still, it serves a purpose, so I will risk it: Insofar as the world divides into optimists and pessimists, those with the dark view which focuses upon our inadequacies become mechanists. Their suspicions require them to seek out compensations for human shortcomings, inventing contrivances and devices that fill in where Man falls short physically or emotionally. Their solutions to the problems of human experience find technological expressions that smooth us out. Nowhere in my life is this war of attitudes more apparent than in archery, which diverges like a fork in the road into traditionalists and mechanists. Plucking the string and getting erratic arrow flight when you loose an arrow? Is practice, to achieve a smooth loose, the answer? Or is the invention of a mechanical string release the solution? Upon such simple choices attitudes are firmed up, and from such attitudes a webwork grows and a coherent cosmos gets built. You end up with a stick and a string and a firm resolve, or a titanium/graphite riser for lightness and strength to compensate for a 3 pound stabilizer which absorbs the shock of cam actuated cables which allow for heavier drawing weights with limbs which, in turn, require ... because you didn't believe that you contained satisfactory solutions to shooting problems within yourself. The purely mechanistic way must necessarily erode the spirit and the soul. No escaping it, is there? Its fundamental pessimism rests upon an assumption about inadequacy that corrodes the ethic of aspiration. It may place the risks for failure and the responsibilities that attach to them outside ourselves, but at the cost of depriving us of personal successes and the causes for celebrating triumphs, too. The mechanistic world becomes the construct of a resourceful brain that parts us off from our heart and muscle. We become divided and diminished in such a world, unlit puppeteers tugging at grandiose schemes which dance about in an increasingly complicated and rickety universe. Instinctive archery is all about possibilities. Mechanist archery is all about alternatives. |
RE: When archery isn't archery any more?
Dean is a great guy (and smart) and makes some real nice self-bows. If anyone gets the chance to meet with Gary Davis, I'd also suggest doing it. He travels a lot to most of the bigger shoots and sets up his shops for making your own self-bow. My son and I made one with Gary in 2006 at the club I belong to (for my son), I wanted to make one for myself this year, but I got kitchen duty :(. He is an incredible shot with his self bows as can be seen in masters of the barebow volume 2. Dean is on volume 1. They both share a lot of their insights to self-bowsin the series.
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