My Experience

Last week I talked about the archery competition double fitas.  This week I was supposed to talk about the regular Fita but this weekend I competed in long beach called the duel in the desert.  This tournament was a mix of the fita and the 900 round.  This weekend (10/24/15) California's top 6 picked archers competed against Arizona and Baja California (Mexico).  During the tournament I shot a score of 306 out of 360 on the first round, which put me in second place.  Then on the second round I shot a 314 which is a total of 620.  This put me in first to bring California's victory for day 1 of the tournament.

Compatitions

There are six basic types of tournaments.  The double fita, fita, 1200 round, and the 900 round.  These types of tournaments are the tournament where its the archer vs. every other archer.  The other two types of tournaments are team rounds and OR's (Olympic Rounds).   These are the tournaments where one or a group archers go head to head with another.  Lets start with the one vs. all tournaments.  The double fita is a scoring system where each archer shoots six arrows six times, each once at one of the four distances you shoot.  Lets break this down a little more.  Each arrow has a max value of 10 points, which after six arrows accumulates to 60 points.  There are then six ends in every round so you can get a max score of 360.  You shoot this at your to farthest distances the first day.  The second day, you shoot three arrows twelve time, which accumulates also to 360.  Again you shoot this twice the second day.  If you do the math or 360 times four is 1440.  This double fita round is also referred to as a fourteen forty round, because of the max possible score.  Come back next week to learn about the next type of tournament the regular fita. 

Barebows

This week I will be telling you all about the Barebow.  While the Recurve and Compounds have sights and stability systems, Barebow shooters aren't allowed to have accessories.  Barebow means bare with no attachments, It's the kind of bow you think Indians use, and the one where people say, "archery is easy its a stick and a string." 

The old fashion bow, a stick and a string, now people use it for traditional shooting.  But you can still use a Barebow in a competitions.  The bow has to fit between a 12" ring unstrung (without the string).  Why the 12" ring, well if u put the accessory that stabilizes the bow it can only be 5" or the bow is considered Recurve. If u have a sight marking anywhere on the bow then it is also considered Recurve.  If you want to shoot traditionally this is the bow for you. 

P.S. Archery is not as easy as it looks.