Apparently if you're Polish and have the name Karina Lipiarska it's possible. She's the archer who beat Elena Kuznetsova in the quarter-finals of the Women's Recurved Individual Qualification, 107-109.
Very interesting! Especially neat to see the ladies from Iran; I'm always inspired by other modest women who do such arts.
I noticed they weren't using Korean-style targets in these pictures. Was there a Korean section of the competition?
Coincidentally, I've been doing a bit of archery myself. We have a target set up on hay bales just behind the neighbourhood. Someone gave me a compound bow, and someone else gave me a recurve! Fun to compare the two. Are there any international competitions for compound bow?
I noticed one or two of the archers from Malaysia were also wearing hijab during the competition.
This event was for the Archery World Championships so, apart from a pair of booths set up in the spectator entertainment area, there weren't any traditional Korean archery components involved. There's a local festival that takes place near my home which features traditional Korean archery but it was canceled this year due to fears over H1N1. (That, and a very large Daoist festival on the east coast of the country.)
I'm very excited to hear that you have both a compound and recurve bow! This despite not doing any archery myself. The World Championships featured both compound and recurve, and the FITA Archery World Cup also includes both types. How often do you practice?
Yes, the compound and recurve feel in almost every way to be completely different instruments and lead into different mindsets. I have a simple, but huntable, recurve of modest pull, which I can barely hold for 5 seconds at full draw. At 20-30 yards I do occasionally hit the target. :> Practice with this bow is very 一期一會, a practice in observation meditation (when it doesn't plain frustrate and yank my tendons out of whack
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I hadn't seriously considered taking up archery, although now that you've spent some time describing the process it does seem quite interesting. Where did you first learn the various grips and stances?
Last year I attended a festival near my home that included Korean archery targets. However, it was set-up for kids and featured no instruction that I could see; instead it was just a series of bows that the kids could try to use for fun. I'm not sure where someone would go to learn traditional archery here -- in fact, I'm not even sure who to ask about it.
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I know what you're getting at though. ;)
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I noticed they weren't using Korean-style targets in these pictures. Was there a Korean section of the competition?
Coincidentally, I've been doing a bit of archery myself. We have a target set up on hay bales just behind the neighbourhood. Someone gave me a compound bow, and someone else gave me a recurve! Fun to compare the two. Are there any international competitions for compound bow?
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This event was for the Archery World Championships so, apart from a pair of booths set up in the spectator entertainment area, there weren't any traditional Korean archery components involved. There's a local festival that takes place near my home which features traditional Korean archery but it was canceled this year due to fears over H1N1. (That, and a very large Daoist festival on the east coast of the country.)
I'm very excited to hear that you have both a compound and recurve bow! This despite not doing any archery myself. The World Championships featured both compound and recurve, and the FITA Archery World Cup also includes both types. How often do you practice?
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Last year I attended a festival near my home that included Korean archery targets. However, it was set-up for kids and featured no instruction that I could see; instead it was just a series of bows that the kids could try to use for fun. I'm not sure where someone would go to learn traditional archery here -- in fact, I'm not even sure who to ask about it.
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