Basic Rules of Games and Sports - Couverture souple

Jyoti, Dr Dhama Prakash

 
9781387620913: Basic Rules of Games and Sports

Synopsis

Archery skill was of vital importance for thousands of years. It literally provided means of survival. It is generally agreed that man started using crude archery tackle some ten to twenty thousand years ago. Archery became a sport in America after a group of Philadelphia gentlemen founded the United Bowmen in 1828. The National Archery Association was founded in 1879. Archery became a gold medal sport in the 1972 Olympic Games. The recurve bow is used by Olympic Archers .An arrow shot by this bow travels at more than 150 mph.

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