Archery Challenge: 30 metres without sights and stabilisers! | Win&Win AFR
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2015
- Brady Ellison, Jean-Charles Valladont and Juan Rene Serrano strip their bows of sights and stabilisers and see who can shoot the most arrows into the gold at 30 metres in 20 seconds. (With no practice!)
Who wins? Watch and find out!
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Athletes: Brady Ellison, Juan Rene Serrano, Jean-Charles Valladont
Event: 14102
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Oddly enough, this was actually more fun to watch than the actual competition.
Because they were not competing, just having fun
@Brett Yarborough wow, if you don't like it, don't watch it
@Brett Yarborough do want me to change it back....
@Brett Yarborough xd y'all really like it, ok
@Brett Yarborough your welcome
"Win&win presents".... All archers using Hoyt stuff, lol.
Hahahaha... You got that... 😅
I think they need to censor those brand if they don't use W&W product... 😅😅😅
MK on Juan Rene: Am I a joke to you lol
They could censor it, but anybody who knows about brady, KNOWS for a FACT that he only uses Hoyt.
I watch the video and I see three really good archers having fun.
I read the comments and I see all these pointless comments. These archers are great at the sport because they're very aware of what they are doing.
Does anyone know what is going to happen if they have a few bare bow practices? They may begin to shoot better than everyone else on the youtube comments who claim to be better than them.
I know I have offended someone somewhere very much so allow me the pleasure of adding a little more to it. Archery is about technique and developing that technique. It's about form and referencing the aspects of that form which consistently reproduce results. These world class archers understand the dynamics of this far more than anyone on youtube who claims to be better than them. They have learned to applied this concept to the sport of target archery and has continued to do the same. As such, many of you will be very displeased to see they kind of progress any of these guys would have if they applied the very methods of learning to shoot a recurve bow to instinctive archery.
Please be informed that I will not be replying to the misinformed.
Have a nice day and do remember that the chances of your insults actually getting a trace of attention from these three archers in this video are slim to none.
This might just be a difference in oppinion but I dont see barebow archery as instinctive archery since you are among other things allowed to stringwalk.
Other thant that I totaly agree with you. Given a little time they will be able to compete with the best barebow archers in the world
Lex Slr I totally agree.... I thought "gosh I can hit a paper plate at thirty yards fairly consistently". Then I remembered "oh those guys probably have impeccable form and constant setup.... yup give them a week and they'll hand my ass to me."
Lex Slr A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK PLEASE
If they were that great they would have put them in the gold.
BennyCFD poor small minded child....
To me these guys were great.Give them an afternoon at this and with the times we are allowed in IFAA and 3 D,they would wipe us out. They are totally consistent compared to us.
The impression I get from the video is that Olympic archers who shoot using modern equipment, even with their accomplishments, are humble and know their limitations. Meanwhile, the impression I get from the comments is that traditional archers are arrogant pricks who don't know what they talk about. Maybe it's just a small percentage of bad eggs, but man do you people make traditional archers look bad.
Funny as a bowyer I find the opposite to be true
yea its usuelly people who need all these aids that dont know how to shoot archry with out them, if you give these aids to a traditional archer they wont need them but it may help them. understand now?
i shoot better then these "olypic" shooters do with their sights cmon meow.. i have video of bullseyes nonstop at 200+ feet this is ridiculous
@@WillBlueAnimalTraining Yeah but has you try it with a Olympic bow without glove?
@@bluefable3416 i do it no glove no sight no arrow shelf, primitive shooting infact his is childplay..
Lol Brady is the only one who even remotely looked like he was trying to maintain his usual form :P
he is the only one with the Hunting experience. So what I mean he has tried different distances with different bows and had to do it fast to be able to hunt some game.
Watching these guys shoot, now I don’t feel so bad. 😂
They need to do this with the compound shooters... Although I wonder how that would go... XD
i mean i will try bare compound bow, i mean i dont even look at the sights anyways.
Brady is also a compound archer😂😂😂
It's my way of life
Great video...more please!
Looks like they had some fun.
AWESOME Idea! Thanks!
You know it's actually quite interesting how they change their stance to compensate for the lack of sights. With sights, you usually hold the bow vertically. But without, you can see them canting their bow similar to how an instinctive/bare bow archer would.
Don’t take this as being hard on these guys, they have put in a lot of time and work, but they sure do nock the arrow REALLY slow.
Ikr they are so used to having time in between
It make sense though because usually you are waiting for your turn so they nock right when their turn begins so yeah
Video...Pros having fun. Comments...assholes who think too highly of themselves. Fun video, I enjoyed it, and like Barebow over Olympic.
These remarks are very interesting. These three friends and competitors spend their every waking practice minute shooting at 70 meters. If you think that switching to a target 40 meters closer doesn't totally mess with your muscle memory and your innate balance, then you are not an athlete. They have to be subconsciously WARRING with their instincts to make those shots, under a clock, with no practice. Come on, they are JUST HAVING FUN and showing how much they enjoy the sport. Those of you thinking you could do better, then why aren't you representing your country at the world cup? Sheesh....
in addition theyre also used to having time to line up their shots, in this little friendly competition theyre focused more on speed than precision...in the world they come from you cant miss fast enough to win
I'm a traditional shooter and I LOVE shooting at distance. Super jealous of these bows though and wonder what they feel like. Seems so effortless! I'm aiming at the sky with my 45# Bear.
really? whats your draw length?
@@starliner3065 I actually don’t know
@@starliner3065 I can measure my arrows tonight
Are you shooting with thumb draw style?
@@MinhTran-sl7kc nope. 3 fingers. One above, two below
That was interesting. As a bare bow recurve and longbow shooter, where my game is bowhunting [targets not furry things] I think if they had no time restrictions they would have performed a lot better. After their 1st arrow, given time, they would've adjusted ... I think they did ok [real hunting of course you dont a second chance - but this is not hunting]
I think, though, that it wasn't from 30m. Most likely between 15 and 20.
man 20s to get as many arrows down range is crazy hard. I'm shocked they got as many on target as they did.
y'all need to do a rematch of this!!
Lots of angry trad shooters here
I would no more touch a "Trad" bow than I would a Compound.
trad bow shooters have a grandpa mentality: "the old ways are always better"
they fail to understand that difference is okay.
ah, o clima de descontração estava ótimo, divertido!!!
Nice challenge, very fun ;)
Barebow is always the true art of archery imho.
That might be right but they had a time limit that made it a lot harder and the fact that they don't have any finger protection makes it hard to pull their 50lb ish bows, try to do that in your free time!
I've killed a lot of gophers at 20-25m shooting traditional... I've also lost a lot of arrows doing it.
Them gophers are stealing bastards!
Broken tips is my problem ...
Keep it up !!
Made me eel better about my own bare bow archery at 50 yards. Thanks
Thank you for the video.This makes me feel I'm not the worst in the world. 😊
Did they just shot without finger tab?
For 3 arrows its really not going to do any damage.
huh, i challange all of you the barebow shoter, to shot olympic style recurve bow at 70m, without practice. Like that three olympic shoter, shoting barebow with no preparation.
Don't be silly. Do you have any idea how many of us can do both?
Bring it. Did it. With sights? 75yards nailing a 6 inch circle. Very little training. Am I just gifted? I thought this was normal.
@@Muzsolutions wow really?? then you must be really really good if you need just little training. pretty sure you will get gold in the next olympics then. i'll be rooting for you.
@@bruneiprs4854 the sarcasm from you is strong. But the facts don't care about your feelings......
@@Muzsolutions nope this has nothing to do with feeling. the FACT is that Olympic archers have trained and dedicated all their lives so they will be able to hit gold at least 80% of the time at 70m. If, as you claim that you can do the same with "Very little training", imagine what you can do with full time training??. I am merely stating that fact. Unless you can't hit gold more than 80% of time then you should sit down boy.
I’m new to learning archery and have been taught to have one finger above the and arrow and two below, why is this different here?
They are trying a technique called "3 fingers under". This would make the arrow closer to their eyes for easier aiming
It is a technique called string walking, they keep their fingers on a certain point on the string to hit the target
I started a year ago, like many archers, with a club bow, 18lbs draw weight, no sights, stabilisers etc and I missed, but, I soon hit gold, the boss moved back to 30m and with practice, I hit gold, now, a year later, I have a full recurve setup, with sights, stabilisers, the lot and just shot my 1st WA1440, I did try, a few weeks ago, this same thing, I didn't have just 20 seconds and my 1st arrow missed, but, within 6 shots, I was on gold again, that was at 30m too. I think it's always good to try mixing it up a little, I have to admit, my bow felt all wrong without all the bits on, no balance, the way it felt on release/loose, I was glad to get all the bits back on. Also at the WA1440 shoot, there were barebow archers shooting the same round and doing well, takes some skill to shoot a barebow at a target 90m away and hit gold.
Bull shit.
lol which bit?
THEY ARE MISSING THE CLICKER... not so much the sight, definitely not the stabilizers. Clicker maintains their shot movement.
hey that's the stadium in Shanghai where they have the prelims. I live right across the road from there!
That's sick
For their arrows sake I hope was without the clickers haha
Never understand why there is no olympic challenge for bare bows?
The competitive field is very small and, honestly, not very competitive. There's little appeal in hosting events specifically for barebow. Not even compound bows are in the Olympic schedule, and that's the most common discipline.
@NUSensei : say to koreans that compound is the most common archery discipline... it may be true in Australia and USA, but it's not the case everywhere. here in france you have twice more olympic archers than compound archers.
There's a lot less open, free hunting space in France than there is in the US and Australia. Hunting is primarily what compound shooters do, not target practice. So the open space is why you have more in those areas..
cz it will be annoying collecting all the missing arrows on the ground mate
@@NUSensei Compounds aren't in the Olympics because back in the 70's when archery came back to the Olypmics compounds were not available world wide. Which has changed and is no longer a hold back.
I think it would be fun to have competition based around rate of fire
I’m confused, are these guys archers? How is it they can’t hit 30m barebow with a 122 cm target face which is typically at 70 yards?
Well I should give you guys a hard time about it but it takes me five seconds to nock and another five to come to full draw and aim, so maybe I could get two shots off in the allotted time not allowing for dropping an arrow, twirling it looking at the fletching, only to have it drop off the rest, let down, start over FML :)
Im just starting archery and have yet to do a competition and I was just curious: do u need to stabilizers and sights to compete? are back quivers illegal? whats the standard target distance (or does it vary?) what happens if u drop an arrow during competition? and how many arrows x rounds are there? 144? 12x12?
1) Sights and stabs are not required. They are permitted in the open freestyle classification (which is what the recurve classification is by default). There are barebow classifications.
2) Back quivers are not illegal in the rules. They tend to be less practical in competition.
3) For the Olympic round, 70m on a 122cm face is the standard. Local competition rounds will vary.
4) There is a 3m line in front of the shooting line. An arrow that falls in front of this line is not considered "shot".
5) Depends on the round. The standard ranking round for the knockout format is a 72-arrow round, which then proceeds to the 1v1 set point system. Again, local competitions will have different formats.
Whoa! thanks for replying! love your channel watch it all the time! Could u, or do u already have a video on replacing serving? I've seen u do it, but was wondering if you had a more in-depth one out, like on the different thickness of serving and whatever tools I may need. Love your videos, keep up the good work!
No, but if you don't have such things they will put you into a separate category from recurve called barebow.
Do you guys think a sniper with no scope and bipod would have the same level of difficulty hitting the target as archers?
no because with a sniper you don't need to worry about your release and follow through, snipers can shoot in many different positions whereas if an olympic archer changed the shot would be completely off target
out of context....
They would shoot much better if they tried a little harder. One can see that they are having fun and utilising some trad bow techniques in a wacky way.
Yep, barebow is a tough game and a really really really HARD game for the Oly recurve pros. :)
Witgout side and stab 🤔🤔🤔
Isn't that called as bare bow?
I am just a little surprised is all that these guys have never really tried bare bow before.
For all the "traditional" archery shooters. How many olympic medals do you have? Even the Greeks knew that advances in weaponry were a good thing. Come out of the dark and join the rest of us. As Lex mentions these were competitors having fun. Get over it!
the Greeks knew that advances in weaponry were a good thing?
Then why are they shooting bows? Why not rifles?!
@@davidsalman8362 this is the most moronic comment here. You try, with 0 knowledge of gun pounder, and riflery, to build a rifle hundreds of years before they where built
@@ferret1252 Yes my dear Dweeb, Yes indeed :|
you shin above the est of us history teacher mrdon't make any scence
Without a time limitation and a normal form they could have shoot quite well. 20 seconds is too short of a time for a new style shooter that doesn't know where the anchor point is,what's the best stance or even how to make the difference between his other style.
Why don't they make videos like this anymore?? :(
Oh my gosh I can totally relate this is hard but well seeing them a hard time makes me feel better jk! HAHAHAHA oh my gosh Jean-Charles Valladont :D
I think they need practice with that style shooting. It's entirely possible to get a better group than that at that range
Captain obvious to the rescue eh
@@Daylon91 says the guy who feels the need to respond
@@dominic6634 well come on! With a comment like that
@@Daylon91 haha ok. If your interested checkout bare bow championships they don't use sights.
Dominic they still use their arrows as reference points, pretty similar imp
I cannot believe they aren't good at instinctive. Never woulda thunk.
k
try freestyle olympic recurve at 70 m for me will ya.
@@muzankibutsuji7603 I do with Barebow. It's hard but I'm no competition archer.
Funny thing is I usually take these things after practice to lighten the bow a bit and have some fun. The first few shots are always crappy, but it got better really quick. Sometimes I even shoot better without these aids, cause I don't have to think about the bow as much and can concentrate just on the target.
they only had 20 seconds.. thats why they didnt hit
Give a decent English longbow field archer 20 seconds they'd have no problem.
Del Cat give that archer a fully equipped Olympic bow and they will miss every single arrow since he isn’t used to it, imbecile.
good trad archer can group 6 arrows to 3" circle in that time frame without much sweat
@@neitherlink6612 lol dude you have a sight to look through lol.
Fun
Can they get Sara López to do this challenge? 😂
She can try shooting bare compound bow.
A very rare footage of olympian medalists missing shots from 30m distance.
Marcus Young it is because they are speed shooting
It's obvious when you try to shoot as many arrows you can in 20 seconds with a barebow for the first time. Everything needs practice.
Y'all know that was a joke right?
All thise comments hurts to read remember they only had 20 seconds to shoot i bet most of you would screw up
It would be good if the World Archery channel could devote a little more time to covering actual Barebow shooters and their tournaments. There is a lot of other archery out there that would provide a nice contrast to the freestyle recurve and compound that we usually watch here.
The equipment manufacturers are the sponsors...
Presented by win&win but shooting with hoyt XD
Ragazzi ..almeno qui'..vi batto ..😄😄😄
The video was entertaining but the comments are the real draw here. Some of the vilest, most offensive people on YT. Way to go archers.
even I can get yellow at 30m hahahaha its all good fun , which is why its a lovely sport ...Brady Ellison 599 the other day awesome, well done
um oh a nevermind
give them wooden long bows :-D
They did not even take the time to try to aim xD
20 seconds really is not a lot of time
Give a man a bow and he can fish for a day.
Give a man some stabilizers, sights, and clickers and he can complete in the Olympics.
Give a compound bow and he can brag about how good he is after 1 day.
😂
What a pitty that there are no olympic bow games with trad bows. I mean compound and take downs without stabilizer and sights. I know there are a lot of archers who shoot traditional for example 3d tournaments. Its nothing against all those technical helpers but there are no reasons why there are no games made for traditional bow shooters.
Wonder how many all you naysayers would get if you put sights and stabilisers on with no practice in 20 seconds.
I could. Sights are easier to use than no sights. Which is why they use them. It's easy.
nah.....life is harder than you think my child......just because you get a sight docent mean you automatically start hitting X's
the only x your gonna be hitting is you own!
At least they dont take a hour per shot now
this is a speed test
The only thing toxic about the comments is all the pretentious neck bearded soy boys who have never even held a bow before criticising people who actually do archery.
hahaha good one
So funny
Thats the hard thing for sight shooters: they can't just switch to instinctive in a heartbeat. It takes a lot of effort, experience and time to become a good instinctive archer whereas with a sight you can become really good really fast if you train a lot. I know 18 year old sight shooters that shoot for 4 years and are already better than many guys that shoot for 10+ years, just because they train a lot more. Instinctive shooting comes with time and experience and it progresses a lot slower than shooting with a sight. despite that, it is a style not really meant for target/tournament archery.
TheDayne they can, in 10 arrows WITHOUT the timing stuff, they will shoot well enough pretty soon. they have their form proper already, just need to find a point of aim
mathijs175 well, yes, but then they'll be gap shooting, not a lot of differnce to sight shooting. To shoot purely instinctive you'll need a lot more time because it is based mostly on experience and subconcious memories of arrow flight etc.
TheDayne i think they would still be gapping there ;) nowhere it is stated that they shot instinctivly, they probably just gapped.
"Instinctive shooting", the most pathetic excuse for not trying to shoot accurately
you are completely wrong there nanorisk. instinctive, or as i like to call it, Intuitive shooting, is completely trusting your body on an accurate shot, whereas with any other method you need other material aspects to shoot accurately.
give me any bow and i can shoot fairly accurate with it, with any arrow safe enough to shoot. cant do that with any other style of aiming
To be honest, I was expecting them to do a little better. I'm shooting sights as well, but 30m, on a big 122cm target face? That's quite easy without a sight really, even if you're not used to barebow shooting.
try it
Yes it is. I am an olympic recurve archer and even though I am shooting with a sight 99% of the time, I can hit a 30cm target easily at 30m without a sight.
I am a barebow archer, and I guarantee you that it is not so easy as it looks.
I've seen some olympic archer trying to shot as I do (I shot 3d, thus at variable distances between 5 and 55 meters), and they struggle in hitting the animal, not only in doing an heart or lung shot.
Hit the target it's easy if you are used to shot in that way. If you change your shooting method is not so easy.
If you do not have the reference points to gap, or the reference points on the string to crawl, maybe at 30m you will hit the target, but hit the gold is another story.
martin,martin,martin your clearly missing the point!
Got to say it guys, Jake Kaminski is definitely better at barebow! 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄🤔😊
Modern Archery Guy: Oh, you shoot traditional? Thats pretty cool!
Traditional Archery Guy: Oh, you are using sights? You are pathetic!
Hey now, my traditional is more traditional then your traditional!!!!!!
Modern Archery Guy: Oh, you shoot traditional? That´s pretty cool!
Traditional Archery Guy: Oh, you are using sights? You are pathetic!
Me: You guys bought your bows? I only shoot bows I made myself!
I´m more traditional than any of the two sports, that doesn't make me better, it's just a different competition.
@john Mullholand good for you! I don't know what your point is, but it's a commendable feat.
grew up shooting barebow at 60 meters in my states barebow association, walking the string, then included stablizers and counterbalance.I shot with people deadly accurate at 65 yards no sights.
your point?
i just started shooting with a bow. and i started at 30 meters and are hitting at least 4 out 6 in the yellow. i'm guessing these people are also new at shooting?
Nicolas they are not used to this style of shooting m8
They have a 20s timer
Silly
Get a proper bow, kids.
That's hard at that close range. with the bows they use. cause at that short a distance, your aiming on the ground in front of the target. which seems very weird when you try it. I shoot a 32 pound recurve and can reach 70m barebow (not accurately) and then I'm only just aiming on the target.
lol this comment section is awful
(also i feel that people are completely ignoring the fact that they had 30 SECONDS??? What did y'all expect)
With a selfbow, without rushing, nice and steady, shooting off the hand, 12 hits in a minute....
Rod Parsons jfc they're professional recurve archers, not whatever you shoot... Congratulations on your talent, I'm super proud of you, you're amazing, but this isn't what they fucking train for. You can't say that a professional swimmer sucks because they can't play basketball. It's a different type of archery. That's it.
+ ooboobeedoo A professional should be more consistent even with an unfamiliar bow. Clearly you know very little about archery if you think 12 in a minute at such a close distance as 30 yards would be something special.
These blokes are Olympic archers and that is amateur status.
Only professionals get paid to shoot, in case you didn't know.
It does raise the question of how dumb we might have to be to not just maintain a consistent form (which they did not) and just quickly register the first arrow and then adjust as necessary.
Clearly the American, coming from a country where bowhunting is quite common and is even on TV, had a slight advantage.
A Korean Olympic archery coach, when asked the reason for his nation's success once said that whereas the Western philosophy was to build a better bow, the Korean philosophy was to build a better archer. :-)
I'm going to have to agree with Rod. This was pretty pathetic. I'm nailing tennis balls at 40 yards shooting off hand, 541gr arrows from my 45lb recurve. ~180fps. And I'm just a really casual bow hunter. Not a professional like these guys.
Muz Solutions theyre professionals with an olympic recurve, they practice almost exclusively with olympic recurves. you cant expect them to js pick up a different discipline without any practice
There are so many traditional shooters that could with medals here, I wonder why no one is going and winning them?
What a farce, never imagined that the commenters could be that stupid.
Compond bow challenge ?
Not detracting from them as archers, but shooting a bare bow without all the bells and whistles is a whole different ballgame.
30 meters without sights or stabilizers? That's how we traditional archers always shoot. Isn't it a lot more fun this way?
now, they score look sucks when playing barebow
what?
I shoot in American 900 tournaments, bare bow division ie no sites, stabilizers or mechanical releases. Thirty arrows are shot at 40yds, thirty at 50 yds and thirty at 60 yds. Out of a possible 900 points I've scored close to 699 in practice and 660 in competition and still lost.Real archery
Your comment confuses me
I drive the first ever automobile, no power steering, no hydraulic shocks and a manual wind up engine. "Real driving"
Thats what you sound like
Feel like brady has shoot instinctive for fun for a bit.
Does anyone seriously think Olympic archers who shoot hundreds of arrows a day, have physical training programmes and undergo science based form and coaching from proven experts are crappy archers who are only good because they have a sight and a clicker.
big daddy dodge kets face it, the guys that said this are a retard
lol it's a lot different without sights isn't it? These guys are top notch shooters I'm surprised they didn't do better.
That's the result of zero practice.
NUSensei And that is a professional commenter
and this is just me trying to not die
I shoot nasp archery and we don't have sights and a most competitions we shoot 15 20 then 25 meters within three rounds although we have no time limit have have to to have skill.
hunt-unworthy 🤣
dude chill!
I do that every day , 100 times. !!! and I hit the gold!! I would love to practice at 70 meters but i don't have the room! Also this was timed, and not one of them anchored!
Shortest 30 meters i ever saw.
Perstective
Y'all are slow ....hold three arrows in the hand you pull with to start with plus the one that's loaded....that's 4 arrows that should be shoot in under 10secs...then grab another 4 and shoot those..that's 8 shoots in 30 sec or less.....
Thats what we do here in the southern states ....
Check out 'Saracen Archery' they were fast as hell and on horseback
Looks hard to me....apperantly the rest of you are to lazy to go to the olympics if it's so easy
It wouldn't even piss everyone else off if they were just normal guys.
It's the fact that they have so much fame, wealth and praise for being the best, when they're no better than average.
Yeah he does... with his own weight in sighting equipment.
Johnny Wolfblood what wealth? They may be sponsored by bow companies, but that’s about it. When compared to F1 racers, they are nothing but poor peasants.
I shoot barebow. Much harder than it looks.
Horsebow is superior for that purpose.
its not about .......wait what did you say?
@@muzankibutsuji7603 Yeah, without sights and stabilizers, it means "instinctive" right?
It’s 30 yards with a target as big as my table, even I could do better, even without string hopping.
There used to a different style and it’s a speed contest, lets see you use all the equipment with no practice and shoot at 70 yards
Consistency is key, it’s hard to believe people that actually shoot at 77 yards got a 3 foot group at 30.
They are even string hopping so the tip of their arrow can be used basically as a sight. I really doubt those were real Olympic style archers that have almost perfect form and consistency that can shoot at 77yards.
Unfortunately I cannot tell you weather or not I can shoot at 77 yards as quite pathetically I’ve only shot far enough to not be able to see the target as it is blocked by my grip/hand. But yeah, I am just a random dumbass that knows nothing about distance shooting despite having a better group while aiming at a 35 degree angle.
It was basically a speed shooting challenge, as many arrows they can shoot in 20 seconds. They didn’t even try to aim or anchor properly.
Come on guys. 30 meters.
This how archery should be shot in the Olympics. No accessories, no crutches, just a single string and stick.
thats like saying the tour de france should be done with bmx bikes instead of all those racing bikes
Not really. BMX bikes are a A LOT shorter than road cycles and are a completely different style of bike whereas recurves are recurves.........
sovernsectwarren and bikes are bikes
That's like saying rock climbing should only be done on real mountains, swimming should be done with normal every-day swimsuits etc.. sports evolve and as long as everyone in the competition is doing the same thing I don't see the problem
(also: barebow competitions.... look it up...)
You must have some misconceptions about Olympic archery, they actually don't use guided arrows, nor can the stuff on the bow steer the arrow in mid-air.