| Tough question.
I'm chairman of a disabled club, we do whatever we can to make sure people can shoot. Which often means going to other targets and scoring/pulling other peoples arrows. At club level that's part of the deal of being a disabled club and making reasonable adjustments to allow people to shoot.
I have energy issues that mean I sometimes find it quite tough shooting, let alone the 200 yard walk to score/pull my own arrows. If I don't feel up to it I don't shoot.
At competition level is it fair for me to ask someone else to score/pull for me? Equally I could argue that it's not fair for me to have to find someone else to come along and do it for me as a helper (in fact it's against the law of the disability discrimination act to require me to do so). If you want to argue the disability discrimination act then it's the event holders responsibility to cater for disabled archers and make reasonable adjustment to allow them to compete, scoring and pulling arrows being one of those adjustments.
I would like to think people are human enough to help each other out, but then in competition I also recognise the needs of others to concentrate on themselves and their own shooting.
In my case I shoot a 38lb bow at 100/80 yards, my arrows are easy to pull and I've not bent/damaged one in the past year, but is that relevant?  |