@maxtoll8290 Agreed!! I can get 6 arrows in a 4" diameter gold at 50 yards and that's with a proper Longbow, English Longbow. These are flatbows. If you can blow up my profile pic you will see my 52# Yew selfbow in use. Dave.
As a long-time Longbowman, shooting with a 70 lbs yew bow, linen string and appropriately weighted arrows, I immediately noticed Alessia Milo's very dirty release that led to her defeat. Lena, despite using an under-nock grip, not exactly suited to a longbow, has a decidedly better posture and release. Well done Lena!
When I look at some competitions it seems clear that the level of coaching varies widely. These archers are talented enough and would benefit from proper instruction that many countries have.
The girl in the pink sweater is not talented at all. I was shooting better than her with a longbow 2-3 months after learning archery. Her form is very strange and inconsistent. Also both of them are squinting their left eye which is...strange. Seems they were coached for olympic barebow style.
Alessia is gorgeous...but she needs more practice...or a new coach. The Mediterranian Style is not working for her. On her release, she has a strange twitch happening ?? Lena's 3 fingers under technique & Practice , is showing well in her shooting.
FYI from the World Archery rules on Longbows rulebook 4 22.5.7.1. An anchor plate or similar device attached to the finger protection (tab) for the purpose of anchoring is not permitted. The bow must be shot using the "Mediterranean" loose (one finger above the arrow nock) or fingers directly below the arrow nock (index finger no more than 2 mm below nock), with one fixed anchor point. The athlete must choose either Mediterranean or fingers under nock, but may not use both. Finger protection when shooting with fingers under the nock must have a continuous surface or connected surface, with no ability to shoot split finger. When using the Mediterranean loose, a separator between the fingers to prevent pinching the arrow may be used. So both types of finger placement are allowed. Your national archery rules may differ from the international rules in this regard 😊
More impressive than you think this is actually archery no sights, no stabilizer, no mechanical release, no clicker. Even with a shelf like they are using everything depends on the archer not the equipment.
@@-fazik-3713 unfortunately , yes the scores are not so good. But iceland is a country were archery is probably not well developped. And bows are probably expensive and difficult to buy. Coaching is probably not well developped too. So its completly excusable. The essential thing is that they have fun. What makes me cringe is that they aim with tradbows, wich is a sacrilege for me...
For god sake,stop using longbow as barebows... If you want to aim and shoot three under, shoot in barebow division... Longbows are made to shoot instinctive.
@@SomeGuyFromOK if you look,you will see that she aim with the point. Shooting three under help to do that. Thumb release and index release are different, some federations dont allow to use one or the other in the same category. And if almost every target compound archer use thumb release it's not by a conicidence... In my country, shooting a horse bow with thumb ring will make you considered as a compound shooter. But you can use a recurve in longbow category as long as the string doesnt touch the limbs at brace... The last rule that they invented is allowing face walking in longbow and hunting recurve division...
@@aliendoggy1 allowing point aiming and facewalking in trad bow division is dumb. Allowing reflex deflex in longbow division as long as the string dont touch the limbs is dumb... Limiting compound poundage is also dumb... They condider thumb ring as mechanical reseale ==> compound... The real problem is that people who make rules dont know and even less understand archery... There is a magazine on archery made by federation related to WA in my country, you can read thing like " there is no such thing like instictive archery, it doesnt exists. In fact, instictive archers have always an aiming point, they just refuse to say it or it's uncouscious..." It's people who think they are great experts because they are well paid thanks to subscriptions and they practice olympic archery ( wich is the only true archery). And they just continiously talk shit and take dumb decisions... The last thing was to rename "hunting parcours" in " nature parcours" , switch from 40 to 24 targets ( officially, it's to be more accessible, but in fact, it's to permit to make two starts on the same day and make people pay twice). And now,for the federation, bow is not a weapon anymore. It's a weapon if it's in camouflage (so it's forbidden in tournaments) or if you are hunting with it... My bows are now schizophrenic, in tournaments they are "sporting articles" and definitly not a weapon and the next morning on hunting session, they are weapons... Makes sens...
@@benji280792 They shoot the way they shoot because these bow are extremely lightweight. The up-right, aim with the arrow, chin anchor point (or any anchor point at all), one eye closed position (as well as the bow window) comes from the reinvention of archery as a formalized sport at the end of the Victorian era. The Olympic style of shooting is a direct inheritor of this style of archery. Despite the name that has pretty much nothing to do with traditional hunting or war archery, that's a sport with a set of rules ; rules that are made in order to make the competition as fair as possible. These kind of bows are no more weapons than the Olympic air pistols.
