Friday Archery Joke

A Fine Shot
A duke was hunting in the forest with his men-at-arms and servants; he came across a tree. 

Upon it, archery targets were painted and smack in the middle of each was an arrow. 

'Who is this incredibly fine archer?' cried the duke.'I must find him!' 

After continuing through the forest for a few miles he came across a small boy carrying a bow and arrow. 

Eventually the boy admitted that it was he who shot the arrows plumb in the center of all the targets.
 
'You didn't just walk up to the targets and hammer the arrows into the middle, did you?' asked the duke worriedly. 

'No my lord. I shot them from a hundred paces. I swear it by all that I hold holy.' 

'That is truly astonishing,' said the duke. 'I hereby admit you into my service.' 

The boy thanked him profusely. 

'But I must ask one favor in return,' the duke continued. 'You must tell me how you came to be such an outstanding shot.' 

'Well,' said the boy, 'first I fire the arrow at the tree, and then I paint the target around it.'

30 Archery Quotes of the day 4

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself.

You can ruin it all.

Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

Geena Davis

Schools and Universities Archery Team Start Up

It is hard for Private Schools and Private Universities to build up a team in the sport of Archery not because they don't have the means or the talent.
It is just they are lacking in the skills needed to succeed and win in a competition which not only would increase the reputation of the school or University.

This is one of the reasons why Pro Ace Archery is form to not only the make known of the sport of Archery but to build up talents and sportsman for this sport to compete on the national platform.

Pro ace archery aim is to establish more archery club or team at university level, to build more qualities athlete, and compete competition among universities(SUKIPT), national level and international as well.

Why there is a need to build up or start up a Team in the Sport of Archery?

A research was undertaken by The Sports Industry Research Centre (from Sheffield Hallam University) proclaimed that sport has a positive impact on graduates employability through learning and practicing key skills and behaviors like teamwork, leadership qualities, collaboration and communication.

Beneficial to the student 

In Archery, players are fighting for a common goal with other players. 
It teaches one how to build a collective team synergy and effective communication skills to achieve or even solve problems en route to a victory. 
This will be very helpful in life when encountering problems at work, at home, or in any arena.

Helps Promote the University

Each and every sport that are involve in a competition. 

They are not just competing in the competition, as an individual, but they are representing their University. 
Indirectly, this also promotes their university to the public and improves the image of the University.  

The three top universities in Malaysia are UPM, UITM and UnizSa. In Archery, these three universities are well known in the field of Archery.

We Provide a variety of programs. 

For more details 

Kindly email us at proacearchery@gmail.com 
(state your name, position and university or school ) 

30 Archery Quotes of that day 3

Whether you are a beginning, intermediate, or even advanced archer, Archery will give you something that's almost impossible to find elsewhere.     

Usa Archery

Brief History about Archery

The word comes from the Latin arcus.

Archery is the sport, practice or skill of using a bow to propel arrows, with the intention of hitting a target.

Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat.

Archery probably dates back to the Stone Age – around 20,000BC. It can be said to be one of the oldest arts still practised today.

The bow and arrow seems to have been invented in the later Paleolithic or early Mesolithic periods. The arrows were made of pine and consisted of a mainshaft and a 15–20 centimetres (5.9–7.9 inches) long fore shaft with a flint point. There are no definite earlier bows; previous pointed shafts are known, but may have been launched by spear throwers rather than bows. 

The oldest bow known so far come from the Holmegard swamp in Denmark.

Bows eventually replaced the spear thrower as the predominant means for launching shafted projectiles, on every continent, though spear-throwers persisted alongside the bow in parts of the Americas, notably Mexico and among the Inuit.

Bows and arrows have been present in Egyptian culture since its predynastic origins. The Egyptian regularly used bows and arrows were the Ancient Egyptians, who adopted archery around 3,000BC for hunting and warfare.

Archery was highly developed in Asia. When Chinese people introduced Japan to archery in the sixth century it had an overwhelming influence on culture.

The Sanskrit term for archery, dhanurveda, came to refer to martial arts in general. In East Asia, Goguryeo, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea was well known for its regiments of exceptionally skilled archers.

The advent of firearms eventually rendered bows obsolete in warfare. 
Despite the high social status, ongoing utility, and widespread pleasure of archery, almost every culture that gained access to even early firearms used them widely, to the relative neglect of archery.

The British initiated a major revival of archery as an upper-class pursuit from about 1780-1840.
Early recreational archery societies included the Finsbury Archers and the Kilwinning Papingo, established in 1688. 
The latter held competitions in which the archers had to dislodge a wooden parrot from the top of an abbey tower. 
The Company of Scottish Archers was formed in 1676 and is one of the oldest sporting bodies in the world. It remained a small and scattered pastime, however, until the late 18th century when it experienced a fashionable revival among the aristocracy.

The 1840s saw the first attempts at turning the recreation into a modern sport. 
The first Grand National Archery Society meeting was held in York in 1844 and over the next decade the extravagant and festive practices of the past were gradually whittled away and the rules were standardised as the 'York Round' - a series of shoots at 60, 80, and 100 yards. 

Towards the end of the 19th century, the sport experienced declining participation as alternative sports became more popular among the middle class. 
By 1889, just 50 archery clubs were left in Britain, but it was still included as a sport at the Paris Olympics 1900.

From the 1920s, professional engineers took an interest in archery, previously the exclusive field of traditional craft experts.They led the commercial development of new forms of bow including the modern recurve and compound bow. 

These modern forms are now dominant in modern Western archery; traditional bows are in a minority. In the 1980s, the skills of traditional archery were revived by American enthusiasts, and combined with the new scientific understanding. 

Much of this expertise is available in the Traditional Bowyer's Bibles (see Additional reading)

Modern game archery, in recent times has become more commonly used as a competitive sport and for recreation.

30 Archery Quotes of the day 2

A good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim.

Thomas Fuller

30 Archery Quotes of the Day 1

"There is no excellence in archery without 

great labour."

Maurice Thompson