Archery for Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to Shooting Recurve and Compound Bows

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Archery for Beginners
Archery is a sport that requires a variety of talents, including a steady hand, strong shoulders, flexible muscles, a keen eye, and a calm demeanor. Archery is a fun and social activity that also has a lot of health and fitness benefits.
Since its humble beginnings, archery equipment has advanced in technology, but the sport has remained virtually constant. Modern bows are made of wood that has been coated with carbon fiber, fiberglass, or ceramic.

Types of archery
Archery is now divided into two target and field. Target archery requires archers to shoot a certain number of arrows at predetermined targets with predetermined values, such as a bullseye worth 10 points.
Field archery consists of an open-field target range where archers shoot arrows at various targets or distances along a course. This mimics the type of shooting encountered while hunting.
Target archery appeared at the Olympic Games four times between 1900 and 1920, but it did not reappear until 1972 in Munich and has remained a fixture ever since. Individual archers or teams of archers play in single elimination head-to-head contests. The semi-finals winners decide the gold and silver medals in the final, and the semi-finals losers shoot for the bronze.

Health and Fitness Benefits of Archery
Archery offers a lot of health benefits, some of which includedeveloping arm muscles and upper body strengthboosting hand-eye coordination skillimproving mental strength and concentrationhoning the flexibility of hands and fingersfreeing the mind from everyday distractions by focusing it.This book teaches the fundamentals of archery and how to get started from armature to professional level. It is a must-to-get if you love the game of archery and wants to become the best.