| Compound Bow TechniqueThe Compound Bow is | | | | combat armor and use padded sports weapons all |
| a technique intended to lessen the amount of | | | | in the attempt to simulate battlefields.Although |
| force the archer must use and to increase the | | | | most war games use guns, some systems allow |
| total energy that is held by the bow. A lot of | | | | the use of real bows and arrows. These are |
| compound bows use cams at the end of the | | | | however regulated by limiting the bow draw |
| limbs to make the most of the leverage given by | | | | weight from twenty to forty-five pounds and by |
| the archer while minimizing the holding force of | | | | using blunt, coin-tipped arrows whose heads are |
| the bow. The smaller the force needed to hold | | | | wrapped and secured in an open-cell foam |
| the compound bow, the lesser the strain is on the | | | | padding. These are called 'safety arrows'. Unlike |
| archer's back muscles while drawing the string. | | | | the traditional bow techniques, the use of 'safety |
| This gives the muscles more time to rest and the | | | | arrows' or the 'foam archers' have to deal with |
| archer more time and energy to concentrate on | | | | releasing weighted arrows resulting in a more |
| his aim. Archers often use a release aid to help | | | | awkward projectile with a maximum effective |
| keep the string and the arrow steady and to | | | | range of only about fifty or sixty feet. The |
| release it accurately. This release aid has a trigger | | | | players in the Padded-arrow sport should always |
| and is attached to the bowstring. This allows the | | | | remember that even though they are padded, |
| archer to pull and release the string using the | | | | actual bows and arrows are still used. With this, |
| trigger.Because of the lesser demands of the | | | | precautions should be taken like frequent |
| compound bow, it is often reduced to a | | | | equipment checks.In addition to the clumsiness of |
| 'training-wheel bow.' Usually, an archer with a solid | | | | the bow and the padded arrows, archers need to |
| recurve bow technique has a good compound | | | | keep moving around to stay clear of the |
| bow technique. However, the compound bow | | | | hundreds of other opponents. This makes the |
| must be altered to the limits of the archer like his | | | | sport even more challenging and appealing. In the |
| limit in draw length. The correct draw length of an | | | | battlefield, players are up against people who are |
| archer is determined mostly by the arm length | | | | charging against them, hiding and using tactics to |
| and shoulder width of the archer.The Padded | | | | bring a person or a team down. Because of this, |
| Arrow SportThe Padded Arrow Sport is an | | | | archers have to master the skill in aiming, proper |
| activity practiced by a small but growing | | | | positioning and calculating range, distance and |
| subculture for a period of over 50 years. It has | | | | projectile in order to make an effective hit while |
| developed into an organized sport for some while | | | | running from the enemy. Each player must learn |
| it is a form of live action combat with an unclear | | | | strategy and tactics as well to avoid being |
| system for others. Live Action War Games are | | | | attacked or removed from the game due to and |
| made up of individuals or groups of fifty to a | | | | injury point system or an actual physical injury. |
| hundred people that are dressed in authentic | | | | |