BUSA outdoors 2007 FITA or not...

[Wrexham Exile]

to all the student archers out there (mainly)

do you think busa 2007 should be a fita.

for:
gives people who need the qualifying scores an extra chance

against:
will stop novice and senior archers competing on the same platform (like at the indoors)
possibly not as much fun???


discuss.

[Kellog]

FITA

Without any doubts or question.
In every other country student archers shoot an adult round, and usually its a FITA. We need to grow up and join the rest of the world.

Personally I'm insulted by being told I have to shoot 40yrds, (and slightly scared of putting that many arrows into the middle, I was lucky this year.. there were only 3 of the 5 that were meant to be on my boss), and having to shoot a childrens round seems silly, when my bow is heavier than pretty much every male in our club.

My only real concerns are that if there are still going to have to be upto 5 per boss I don't know whether I'll be able to afford to shoot 30m. And that if the field party is as small as it was this year (tho don't get me wrong, they did a VERY good job!) I think the longer distances will be REALLY hard work. Given that it took 7hours to shoot Albion/Windsor I think we could be looking at a 10hour shoot. Which will separate the serious archers from the uni shooters.
And I'm not convinced that BUSA is the place that should be done.

[Kae]

The biggest problem I can see, are the limitations of the uni clubs themselves.
I know our club doesn't have any outdoor facilities (I only coach them so doesn't affect me), and that other clubs only have very limited facilities. Quite often sight marks are taken just before a comp, therefore the more distances the harder it would be.

[Shirt]

Immaterial whether it should or shouldn't be, it is going to be and they'll see how it goes.

People are only getting sceptical about it because it's a change - if it had always been a FITA you'd not have any of these issues. Like if all an archer saw indoors was a 40cm face - none of this 60cm Portsmouth stuff - they wouldn't think trispots were scary.

And don't worry about 30m, I think the average score for that distance is going to be about 300 and that's not really enough to endanger arrows except on the same fluky luck that breaks them at 90.

[Murray]

Why don't they just use a pair of 6-ring 80cm faces at 30m? That would significantly reduce the potential for damage.

I can't figure out why we don't do more of that in this country, although I suppose it does save changing all the faces after 50m.

7 hours to shoot an Albion??? Jeez...

[Kellog]

Originally Posted by Murray

Why don't they just use a pair of 6-ring 80cm faces at 30m? That would significantly reduce the potential for damage.

I can't figure out why we don't do more of that in this country, although I suppose it does save changing all the faces after 50m.

Because the novices will need the rest of the face as well.

[Murray]

Originally Posted by Kellog

Because the novices will need the rest of the face as well.

In which case, they shouldn't be shooting a Gents/Ladies FITA...

[Kellog]

That a little harsh! If you were to AVERAGE 6 over a full ladies FITA you get a comfortable first class score!

(and yes I know that would never happen, and that they should be much closer in by the time you get to 30m.)

[Murray]

Fair enough... continue enjoying your 7 hour Albions (or 10 hour FITAs )

[sky_high30]

About it taking longer...don't forget that it's timed ends. Some of the ends were stupidly long at BUSA this year so some time will be saved there. And if it's run to FITA rules then the judges can legitimately call a halt to searching for arrows after a few minutes.

FITA's are more fun.