| How about this one.
18 arrows at 18m on a 40cm face.
Two archers are tied on 170.
Which archer is the "better" archer? the one with more or less 10's.
OK.
Now I say that one of the archers missed and so scored 17 10's and a miss. The other archer at the very most scored 8 10's and 10 9's.
Now which is the "better" archer?
This really happened (as I'm sure some of you know) at the recent European Indoors champs.
Rivollta (sp?) did this in an early H2H round and went on to win the gold medal.
It's a funny one this debate. All the text books say "just shoot one arrow", "shoot a perfect shot", "the arrow before and the arrow after don't matter".
So, we try and shoot a 10 and then repeat this n times.
Then, people want to tell you that the better archer is the one who shoots lots of less than perfect shots.
Hmmmm. I for one would rather count my 10's (or 9's in English scoring) as a measure of how well I'm shooting.
Simon |