inner 10 FITA ARCHER
Question:
Here is my opinion about new rules and inner ten: I have not seen a problem to rank shootters with the inner ten. Sometimes in a Round out of 12 arrows the result could give surprises, but the round does the same!!. The compound bow is a different bow and seems to be more accurate than recurve. Then we must stop the possibility to compare scores between recurves and compound by mading different way of scoring. Because if not this will be like two brothers fighting aginst the other. We must think about a system who take care both of recurve and compound, and bare bow also. May be different target sizes, I do not beleive inside out to be a good thing because all shootting are based on the cutting line principe. May be the inner ten count 11. Because this will allow mistakes no body is perfect. The big ten will allow poor shotters to win: in FITA Field scores will be very close up the 350 or 355 may be few 360. We can imagine a score of 355 with 35 inner 5 beatten by 356 with 20 inner five. Is this fair?? here is my opinion, I beleive we must speak about that. Keep in mind that FITA target archers are tired with all theses last year changes. Please ask the archer before changing the rules!!. Philippe HUMEZ
Response:
Here in GB we have longbow, recurve and compound all in the same tournament, but competing for different prizes. To most people it does not matter as they are not in the same class, and even though shooting the same round they do not try to compare scores. However there are some clubs who are against copound shooters and say alsorts of stupid things like they damage the targets too much and you need too long a safety over shoot for their ground, none of which is true. P.S. I shoot recurve
