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Originally Posted by Normsky I am sure you posted this in good faith and beleive me I read it twice. But an honest answer to your last sentence is NO. I'm sorry it didn't help one bit.
I just put your post through a babel fish engine and it still didn't work. I'm really sorry but I have no clue whatsoever what you have contributed to my question. In fact you have left me totally bewildered. I am a beginner.
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Um... The Ferrari/Focus analogy is a fairly good one. Picture beginner's kit like wooden trainers and the Surprise as the Perodua Nippa of the archery world. It will get you from place to place. Now take a Lexus. You can drive the Nippa to the same places and at the same speed as the Lexus (within reason). Which one will feel better?
Most people, even not long off a beginner's course, will be able to feel the difference between a training bow and a tournament quality bow. That tends to be what makes the sales. And having that better feeling can translate to confidence, which in turn translates to performance.
In absolute terms, training bows will still outperform a good proportion of archers. Most people upgrade long before they reach the limits of the equipment. Looking back, I moved from a club bow to something which wasn't a great deal different in quality fairly quickly and kept that for about a year. I upgraded to a fairly decent bow, when one came up secondhand, and kept that for several years. The upgrade didn't give me immediately better scores, though it may have given me more 'headroom'. Moving from the club bow to my own, in the first place
did give me better scores, though. Why? Because I controlled the quality of the kit - I fitted a button, bought arrows which matched etc.