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Why don't we see him in Olympics or somewhere?

by blahgeek 4y ago

tharkun__ 4y ago
The Olympics have a completely different style of archery than Lars practices. Just look at the bow and compare. Also distances that come with it. You won't even see compound bows at the Olympics, only Recurves but with stabilizers, a sight and such. Lars mostly does Traditional Archery, meaning a stick with some string and "trick/stunt archery" on top of that (see his other videos). There are of course also recurves that aren't all highly engineered pieces of metal. But still, completely different worlds. The closest you get to that is "Barebow" and that's not Olympic but "Lancaster Archery" does a competition that includes a Barebow category. But even that allows for too much "modern" stuff (small stabilizer) and it's all modern recurves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUmD80K-pOw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUmD80K-pOw
- nibbleshifter 4y ago
  I used to compete at college level in barebow archery. The draw weight of the bows Lars tends to use is around 15-20 pounds tops, really low draw weight, low power, for extremely fast stunt/trick shooting. The draw on the bows I'd use to compete with were 30-35 pounds usually - at 18 meters with no sights and whatever low profile stabiliser/weight you could get away with, anything heavier is a waste of time. Olympic style recurve shooters usually go around the same in draw weight, there's a tradeoff between better flight characteristics of heavier draw/heavier arrows and the amount of time you can sustain holding back that amount if weight/force. As an aside, there is a fun niche market for "within the rules" bow weights in barebow - the main function of the weight is to pull the bow "down" out of recoil/the path of the arrow as fast as possible after release so it doesn't kick back and impact the arrows trajectory. I made a few prototype ones back then out of brass, steel, etc. Good fun.

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Why don't we see him in Olympics or somewhere?

by blahgeek 4y ago

Why don't we see him in Olympics or somewhere?

tharkun__ 4y ago
The Olympics have a completely different style of archery than Lars practices. Just look at the bow and compare. Also distances that come with it. You won't even see compound bows at the Olympics, only Recurves but with stabilizers, a sight and such. Lars mostly does Traditional Archery, meaning a stick with some string and "trick/stunt archery" on top of that (see his other videos). There are of course also recurves that aren't all highly engineered pieces of metal. But still, completely different worlds. The closest you get to that is "Barebow" and that's not Olympic but "Lancaster Archery" does a competition that includes a Barebow category. But even that allows for too much "modern" stuff (small stabilizer) and it's all modern recurves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUmD80K-pOw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUmD80K-pOw
- nibbleshifter 4y ago
  I used to compete at college level in barebow archery. The draw weight of the bows Lars tends to use is around 15-20 pounds tops, really low draw weight, low power, for extremely fast stunt/trick shooting. The draw on the bows I'd use to compete with were 30-35 pounds usually - at 18 meters with no sights and whatever low profile stabiliser/weight you could get away with, anything heavier is a waste of time. Olympic style recurve shooters usually go around the same in draw weight, there's a tradeoff between better flight characteristics of heavier draw/heavier arrows and the amount of time you can sustain holding back that amount if weight/force. As an aside, there is a fun niche market for "within the rules" bow weights in barebow - the main function of the weight is to pull the bow "down" out of recoil/the path of the arrow as fast as possible after release so it doesn't kick back and impact the arrows trajectory. I made a few prototype ones back then out of brass, steel, etc. Good fun.