The best archery shots ever! Olympics, London 2012 (Max Green edition) vol.1

Olympic archery! The highest level! Extraordinary shots!

Diameter of target face: 122 cm
Diameter of "10": 12,2 cm
Diameter of pinhole camera: less than 1 cm
Distance: 70 m

[anonymous]

1:23 I keep telling people they gotta use this angle for every shot. I want to see the arrow flight, not just the impact and a close up of a face! For people who aren’t that familiar with the sport to see how much the arrow arcs is a gamechanger. This is by far the best angle for spectating, I can’t put into words how jarring it is to be watching the target zoomed in and then suddenly an arrow appears and you’ve robbed the audience of the flight of the arrow (the most beautiful part visually).

[magistrumartium]

I started archery at the age of 11, over 40 years ago. Never knew, until I saw videos like this on YouTube, how an arrow warps when it's released. Amazing! (And there are some terrific shots in this video. Very cool.)

[neuvocastezero]

It seems like a bad idea to install a camera in the bullseye.

[cubefarmerhkc]

I can’t imagine how much practice goes in to being so good at this sport.

[davidmdyer]

The gear you see looks fancy but only helps stabilize the bow a little while aiming and help keep it twisting on release. The skills involved are just like shooting a regular recurve or longbow. People who complete without sights actually use sighting tricks, like counting the wrappings on their strings and looking at spots on the woodgrain of their bows, and are in fact sighting, they just don't have a physical sight. These archers are also only using a front sight and aren't allowed a rear sight or a level. Try shooting a gun without a rear sight. So it depends on them learning to hold their bow absolutely consistently and level every time or the front sight does them no good. This is not like unlimited compounds where a peep sight in the bowstring is allowed.

I don't know why people expect archery to be primitive but don't expect Olympic firearms to be black powder muskets without sights. These are the most ignorant comments I've ever seen on a video. People watch track and field and accept pole vaulters using poles that catapult them over the bar, they don't demand wooden poles or barefoot runners on dirt tracks. All this equipment does is ensure that it is the SKILLS that separate the archers from one another. Wooden bows and especially wooden arrows (far more important than the bows) give random results so they leave a great deal up to chance where the arrow goes. This video also does not give a good impression of how really far away the target is. When they show a full shot note how long it actually takes for the arrow to get to the target. The handles of the bows look really fancy and sexy, but the middle part of the bow is just supposed to be as stiff as possible, it could just as well be a plain bar. All the high-tech look is just marketing and doesn't do anything. The best bows, by Hoyt, in fact, use bamboo cores on their top bow limbs with a carbon fiber overlay. Their basic shape hasn't changed in decades. Those stabilizers help steady the bow but also make it heavier making the sport more athletic. The stronger and fitter you are the better your chances in the sport. Today's archers are pulling stronger bows than 20 years ago and getting better results, it's because of fitness, not gear. All the improvements in archery gear have made further physical demands on the shooters so it is a more athletic contest than it used to be, not less.

[lintelle]

They're all so good - it seems like they should add another smaller circle in the middle...

[katanakeith]

I have this beautiful field behind my house that I shoot. I've been enjoying archery for over 50 years, both longbow and compound. Every archer knows how I feel when they are outside and become one with the arrow. I use this time to meditate and be at peace. I know that some people will never understand how you can find peace with a weapon that can kill but, it is the most wonder time in my day to try to shoot the perfect bulls eye.Thinking about how the bow has changed in composition but, not the basic way that it works. Sorry for the rambling but, I just wanted to say something. Good shooting to all fellow archers.

[randyyoung]

I totally loved this. A great shot! But I think the best and greatest archery shot was the opening shot at the Barcelona Olympics, hands down.

[SimonAmazingClarke]

Seriously, they put a camera in the middle. So you get right in the centre and your arrow falls out.

[joeskis]

at 1:24, why is that not the angle they give us all the time! I can't stand how NBC covers live archery. Close up of face, cut close up of target. What idiots, producers, directors, think this is a good way to show the sport? Show the entire flight path of the arrow... duh!

[Slade]

wtf 1:24 is crazy, I had no idea how much gravity and wind they have to account for

[capricornmagic]

It's good to see that even at this level they hit blue occasionally :-)

[OhNoNotAgain]

I was a champion javelin catcher in college. Anybody can throw javelin or shoot arrows. Catching them is the true test of ability

[paul_k_]

Actually some of the best shots are not when they just hit a 10, but where they adjust for wind, sometimes in different directions all the way down to the target and still hit a 9 or better.

[MrZhenxing]

The outer ring is so useless in the Olympic archery!

[ayushaggarwal]

Hey bro can I start archery at the age of 25 but I am expert in centre point and I want to play from our country in Olympics 🤸‍♀️🥇🏆 and proud India 🇮🇳 in the world

[dwightbrown]

The olympic bows are really hard to shoot. Just a recurve, No peep in the string, No optics, just a pin sight. You shoot with a finger tab, no release device. And (here is the hard part) they are shooting at 70 meters (about 231 feet) or 77 yards. I have shot compound, Olympic, and Crossbow, none of it is easy. Remember, the other guy has equipment just as good as yours. In the days when it was shot with long bows and no sights, they did not always even hit the target at all. Sometimes a person with a lower score could win as it was scored Hits, and then score. So if you had 36 hits, but only scored 200 out of a possible 360 and some one else scored 35 hits with a score of 350 (all tens) The guy with the lower score won! I think that little kink has been solved in the rules now, but I do not know.

[Domino]

The denmark girls shot was total perfection, the middle of the middle :O

[OnlineArcheryAcademy]

No one ever: "Bet you can't shoot an arrow 70m with a 50lb bow and get a bouncer"
Khatuna at 01:40: "Watch and learn"

[katanakeith]

A man like Byron Ferguson can make amazing shots and all he has is a longbow and an arrow. No stabilizers, sights, clickers, space age created riser and limbs. I'm not knocking their skills but, traditional archery is the true test of an archers skills.