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Power lams
avcase:
The rules documents on usflightarchery.com are the most comprehensive. There is some overlap with the WorldArchery rules, but the Primitive Divisions are USA Archery only. The closest World Archery has to primitive is the English Longbow, which I feel is an odd blend of an idealized Victorian English recreational design with natural and synthetic materials.
There are no materials restrictions for the Modern American Longbow. The omission is an error that we can have corrected.
A “powerlam” or double wedge in the handle between the belly and backing layer risks reclassification as a Complex-Composite.
Alan
avcase:
--- Quote from: willie on March 10, 2018, 03:18:40 pm --- documentation or rules or instructions are not easy to write. sometimes the writer is too close to the subject, and assumes what is obvious to him does not need to be written down.
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I am always looking for ways to make the rules easier to follow. One thing I wish to avoid as much as possible is for someone to travel halfway around the world to our flight shoot, only to find themselves caught up in a rule controversy. The equipment divisions based on traditional forms are the most challenging, but we have been making progress. The primitive divisions are pretty clean and inclusive since they mostly regulate the way the materials can be used.
Selfbowman:
Alan is a three piece Longbow considered leagal in the American Longbow class? Arvin
avcase:
--- Quote from: Selfbowman on March 16, 2018, 01:57:50 am ---Alan is a three piece Longbow considered leagal in the American Longbow class? Arvin
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No, 3-piece is excluded from the Modern American Longbow. It must be single piece or two-piece breakdown. My daughter’s record shot in 2005 triggered the rules committee to reclassify her three-piece Modern American Longbow as a Field recurve. The rules were then updated to specifically state that the bow must be single piece or two piece takedown.
This is kind of why I discourage creating rules or new classifications for “traditional” types of equipment. Traditional definitions tend to evolve over time and there is rarely agreement over what the definition should be. 30 years ago, the Modern American Longbow flight rules required the bow resemble something like a glass backed Howard Hill bow with a 68” minimum length, very short handle, and non-centershot cut in arrow shelf, but that rapidly changed to allowing shorter reflex/deflex centershot bows. Now, it is common (outside of Flight) to see even shorter metal riser ILF 3-piece takedowns with elevated rests called Longbows.
Alan
Selfbowman:
Ok Alan I'll leave that one home. Thanks Arvin
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