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Archery World Cup 2010 – 1st Stage in Porec, Croatia

Tilman — Sun, 23 May 2010 09:20:44 +0000

ArcheryTV just uploaded a bunch of new videos on Youtube and so started the World Cup Season of 2010 online. The first stage took place in the beautiful city of Porec from 4th to 8th of May. As you are used to, there is a TV magazine produced by ArcheryTV and you are able to watch the most important matches in full length.
With the year 2010, there is quite a change in the rules of international competition: The old match system by 12 arrows has been replaced by a so called “Best out of Five” format. The competitiors are still shooting ends of three arrows each but now points are given after each end. Two points are given to the winning archer, one point each is given if the end is tied. If one competitor wins three ends in a row, the match is already over. If the score is tied after five ends, one arrow will be shot as tiebreak. The shoot-off rule has changed also because now, there is no second arrow beeing shot after a tie in the shoot-off. The first arrow counts, who is closer to the center, wins the match.
Additionally to the changes in the competition format, there is something technical: ArcherTV just started uploading some videos in 720p HDTV. The TV Magazine about the World Cup Stage in Croatia is already available in High Definition:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=swvtFP0DaDU

See all videos on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/archerytv

See pictures of the first worldcup event in the ai gallery.

Prince William’s Blind Archery Lesson

Tilman — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:37:24 +0000

Prince William of Wales (2007)

As you may remember, I already wrote a little bit about disabled archery in January. It is possible to do archery with several different types of handicaps and as seen at the Para Archery World Championships 2009, blind archery is getting more common among the different types of disabled archery. Yesterday, the British BBC just published some pictures of Prince William of Wales having an archery lesson – also blind.

During a visit to the new specialist centre for blind ex-service men and women “St Dunstan’s” in Llandudno, he took the time to try this advanced level of archery. To simulate blindness, he put on a blindfold that was given by the former private hospital as part of the lesson. Even though Prince William got instructions by blind archer Clive Jones, he apparently was not able to hit the target.

I am not allowed to publish any of the pictures on archeryimages, so here is a link to the BBC:

View the pictures on news.bbc.co.uk

Disabled Archery

Tilman — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:29:13 +0000

This blog post is inspired by a touching video on YouTube that I found via Twitter a few days ago. It shows a 27 years old man shooting a Bear Compound Bow at an indoor archery range. To this point, there is nothing special with that, except the fact that this guy has no arms!

Archery is a very open sport when it comes to disabled persons. As far as I know, it is the only Olympic Sport where disabled persons can (successfully) compete with “normal” athletes. This is valid for physically disabled persons as well as for mentally disabled ones. A good example for such a disabled athlete is the German Mario Oehme, who won the Paralympic Games 1996 and 2004. He has been in a wheelchair after a mining accident in the 1980s and is in the German Paralympic National Team since 1993. But he is one of the archers that is actually able to compete against non-disabled archers and defeat them on a very high level. He proved that on several German Championships in the past.

Even though those positive examples can be role models for others, it should not distract us from the fact that disabled archers have often a lot of problems to struggle with. Archers in wheelchairs are quite common nowadays, but some archers have to deal with more difficult handicaps like blindness or absent extremities either from birth defects or accidents. There are some good examples of how these people deal with their handicap and doing archery anyway. These pictures are taken at the World Archery Para Championships 2009 in Nymburk (CZE):

Finally, the video of the armless archer. In my opinion, it is an extreme example of what is possible if there is a will. I have never seen somebody doing archery with a comparable handicap and moreover, this guy here is doing quite good.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZLW7Ri3eM4

Edit: Yesterday, at January 12th, Andrew Leibs published a good article called “Archery for the Blind”. If you are interested in such things and if you want to learn more about the possibilities for disabled persons to do archery, this might be a good start for you:

http://accessibletravel.suite101.com/article.cfm/archery_for_the_blind

Archeryimages.net goes FITA TV

Tilman — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:24:09 +0000

About one year ago, the FITA closed it’s website archery.tv, the official broadcasting channel of their TV producers FITA TV. Now, the team is hosting all the videos in their Youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/archerytv. This is a fantastic situation, because you can watch hundreds of videos of many different events ( mostly the worldcup ) for free. I really appreciate what the FITA has done here and I am visiting their channel regularily.

To make the videos accessible for you via archeryimages.net I started adding videos to the image galley some time ago. I now managed to integrate them into the gallery and will bring up more the next days. Just watch out for this blue “Play Button” you see on the right. It shows you, whether there is a movie available or not. This is also possible in the “Event Overview”: The button here is a lot smaller, it looks like this:.

Mostly, I added the “TV Magazine” that is produced by the Team of Archery TV. This magazines are about 30 minutes long and are very good summaries of the competition. If you like to see some matches in full length, visit the Archery TV Youtube channel, there is always a lot more to see.

Some Videos as example: