Watch the Open Pro Final at the 2020 Lancaster Archery Classic where Tim Hanley, Reo Wilde, Chance Beaubouef, Kyle Douglas, Robert Householder, James Lutz, Stephan Hansen, and Mike Schloesser compete for the title!
Excellent coverage. I think that the quality or confidence of the first three contenders was above of the latest ones until Schloesser appeared and for sure tireness did affect Wilde and Kyle, but Mike earned the first place and the right to shoot fresh, so no complaints.Very interesting display of recent archery: 3 Supra Focus XL, three TRX 40, a Rezult and a Invicta...
@@sitka8461 it's mostly deer, wild chicken and wild boar, don't know the exact races. Unfortunately we are not allowed to bowhunt in germany, so we have to travel to hungary or france.
Just got into it this last month. Super fun but God damn does it get expensive fast. I started with recurve which is a ton of fun and so far settled on compound. Both can be expensive but compound is much more. I enjoy doing both though.
Great tournament but you have to ditch the interviews during the matches. It feels so awkward and not fair on the competitors to expect them to make chit chat when under this much pressure. Imagine dragging Tiger Woods off the course for an interview before a pressure putt. Ruins the intensity of the situation.
That's true however i feel watching two people shoot is as boring as watching paint dry, i enjoy getting little facts about the archers their gear etc... makes it a watchable video not an hour and a half of silent shooting, people also don't realise watching videos from World Archery for example that the time spent collecting arrows is cut out and to have some funny commentary is very refreshing especially if you were there in person.
part of the reason they do it is to fill the dead air ( like radio you don't want silence for to long people lose interest ) while they score the shots and recover the arrows
I was a serious competitor way back in the late 60s as a kid, (PAA) and a hunter in the 70s. Got my left arm crushed in an oilfield accident in the late 70s..but I hung onto my bows and 10 yrs later..started shooting again. The stroke after heart surgery in 2009 did me in for a year..and Ive been plunking arrows downrange ever since. Now Im teaching the grand kids archery. Bows can be had from free to $50..a hundred bucks will put you back out in the field again. Never say you are done..ever.
Damn these guys are laying em in there...I been thinking about getting into this side of archery. Just left the great outdoorsmen show in harrisonburg with a new mathews vxr for my hunting bow. Guess I'm gonna need a target bow now....💵💵💵💵🏹
The way the bracketing is set up feels biased to whomever shot better earlier in the day. What ever happened to the classic single elimination tournament bracket?
One of the arrows was a provisional 11. Meaning the judges have to go down and verify if the arrow actually broke the integrity of the inner scoring ring or not. They call the initial score but the judges have the final say.
The constant interruptions from the commentator do the shooters no favour or the audience for that matter. Question" So what rig you running? Then proceeds to answer the question himself. On a previous year I heard him ask how you finding your first time here the answer was I have participated every year the competition has been running.
I'm knew to archery, I bought my very first bow a couple years ago, an inexpensive compound bow, I wanted to shoot wild hogs in Texas, I've killed 3 so far one in total darkness @ 15 yards the pressure is enormous because of their sense of smell, however I think this kind of pressure would rival that, and maybe something to be considered since I'm only going on 60 years young, don't be surprised to see ole RootRRiddR in them finals
@@subcomandantemarcos3666 east Texas, around Lake Fork, I live in this area, I am only 10 minutes away from my feeder, I only kill wild hogs and coyote, no deer or bobcats
Hanley’s release is VIOLENT. It looks like he’s trying to rip the bow apart, but is using a thumb button (I think). It’s a little excessive but hits that stereotype. 😂
Think of darts, you get 25 points inside the bigger circle and 50 points in the smaller circle. Here its 10/11 points instead of 25/50. As you can see most of these guys can hit 10s all day, they need that inner 11 otherwise it'd be ties almost every time.
Hes always been awkward too, for years hes been doing this but still very awkward and unsure of what to say. He should speak at the start of each tournament and then let someone else take over.
it's really just reminding the archer what to hold, cause when u see the yellow from that scope, you'll forget everything abt ur form (usually) frl frl
It's a bit unfair how someone can beat other competitors multiple times and then get beaten once and his out then someone comes in and can win by winning one round.
So the deal, however, is that in other more traditional tournament formats, the lower ranked archer would never get a shot at the title. Yes, he has to beat multiple people to get to the top guy, and the top guy only has to shoot against him. But in other formats, the low guy would be stuck finishing 5th or 6th or whatever, and the top match would simply be 1 vs 2. We give every one of the top 8 archers the chance to win it all....the lower ranked archers just have to shoot a lot to get there.
@@LancasterArcherySupply this is a much better format then single elimination... I'm a PBA bowler and have been for 10y. At Opens (IE the US open etc etc) thr bracketing system and 6 game blocks of match play make it nearly impossible for anyone outside the top 6 or so top qualifiers are going to win 99% of the time. The format has been changed as of a few years back and its better now. Just a few years back the top 64 to 32 cut in 10 game match play blocks would cut almost all the lower end Pros out and the creame showed at thr 32 to 16 block... the same guys would fill that 16 block 9 out of 10 events. I was a consistent top 32 and made a great living and loved touring and a few top 16s and a few top 8s yearly. I still made well in to thr 6 figs in earnings and sponsors pretty much matched earnings so the money was there for Elite series pros that made the top 32 consistently. My point in it is the top 4 qualified had pretty much half the blocks to bowl as the rest. Those blocks was a elimination every block. Its 10 game blocks at most events back then (this changed a lot in 2018 the format was changed) and the top 8 qualifiers would bowl around 40 games during the event and the rest around a 100 games on average so just think about that. The tour average leaders would consistently being 238 to 242 and they just owned the tour... I my self carried a career average of 229 on thr Elite series tour. The format was designed to keep the best at the top and make it almost 100% that a mixture of the top 10 in thr world would fill the TV slots every week. Because they didn't have to bowl but one set of the serious blocks meaning one block in the top 32 when everyone else bowled 4. The top 4 of course bowled the bottom 4 of the top 64 then top 32. It was a traditional format that made it easier for the top to stay at the top and impossible for the bottom to climb to the top. Like I said I was a consistent top 32, out of the full tour I would have 2 or 3 top 8s just missing TV by one block (I have made the TV 4 times over my time in the PBA 2 as a wildcard and two as a being 2 and a 3rd place qualifier and finished 2nd and 4th in those events and finishing 5th both times I came in as a wildcard.) So it was a good living for my self and I enjoyed it and made a lot of money enough to retire at 34 and enjoy life with my wife and 3 kids and I still bowl majors but tired of the tour and all thr travel. It worked for me and the format kept me in thr money 95% of the time... the problem is for the tour guys that are consistently in the top 64 cut and make some top 32s... they make some sponsor money but when all is said and done they are breaking even or slightly in the red over a session... they never had a chance to win unless the simply walked in to an event and shot lights out the first two days sitting in the top 4 but that rarely happens as when you shoot lights out with the level of talent that is there the chance of your lights out being better then the the other 10 that shot lights out is rare. There has been events I averaged 260s over thr first day and be sitting 7th or so... The equipment is so good now days and the level of talent is mind numbing that even on the hardest oil patterns like the US opens 40 board flat pattern (thr same amount of oil across the whole lane 45 feet long to a dead dry back end with no buffer thats as hard as it gets) that will humble even the best bowlers... local pros that avg 240s in leagues come in and shot 160s and struggle to do that... the elites walk in and we shoot 250s all day long on it and don't start fighting with it until the lanes start to break down over the games it will start to get tougher as during a block after 5 to 6 games and everyone playing the same line or close to it its ate up after 4 to 5 games and by game 9 or 10 its fucked... but we will still avg high 240s low 250s over a block and 240s over the event. This is a great format that let's even the bottom of the barrel have a chance.
The rods sticking out the bow are stabilisers, they slow down the sway of the sight while aiming by the use of weights the archer customises to their own preference. It works on the same principle of a tightrope walkers pole, moving the weight away from the bow which balances and slows the movement of the bow when the string is released.
That's not necessarily the case. The guy who won this year, was the top qualifier two years ago and he lost to the No.4 seed. The archer who is warmed up often has an advantage over the fresh archer. Two years ago, we had the 8th place qualifier win 7 matches to win the title.
