Yeah it’s pretty crazy. You don’t notice how far away the target is on tv. But when you see it like this it makes it crazy impressive.
70 metres !
That’s nuts
Some of those camera angles are so decieving too. Everytime they show a shot from the back I’m convinced it was too high and is on its way to kill some poor soul not paying attention 30 yards beyond the targets.
Reminds me of the other post showing the targets for the shooting competition. They seem like they are 6” wide but in reality they are like 2” wide. Insane. Guess I won’t be rolling up in a white t-shirt and no equipment to own the field like the homie from Türkiye. Almost like these guys are the best in the world
Feel like they should start doing drone shots from the air that show the whole distance. Makes you realize how impressive it is!
Thank you, this is immense!
Yeah see, they fail to provide overall shots like this and it’s annoying because it makes what they’re doing much more impressive.
Yeah see, they fail to provide overall shots like this and it’s annoying because it makes what they’re doing much more impressive.
Watching it on TV gives the impression it is half the distance between the coach and the TV 😂
Kudos to all those practicing this noble sport.
😮That’s really far. I can’t even see the target clearly in such distance.
That makes it even crazier what that legally blind archer a few Olympics ago did
I wish they would show regular aerial shots of the shooting range on TV
Holy shit
Haha I was discussing this with my friend and we reached the conclusion that the targets had to be so much further than they appeared because with a contraption/bow like that how are you not hitting perfect 10s otherwise. Also could see the arrow curving and falling down to the target. Absolutely insane to see the view like this! Even farther than we thought!
70 metres to be precise
Omg
It’s actually quite infuriating that they don’t show this kind of angle. Been watching as much archery as i can, and no angle they’ve shown has put the distance into perspective like this.
Oh okay I think my hours of wii sports resort is not enough training to pull this off actually
Yeah I watched and I was hoping they would show how far it was, but they never did.
I’m a super casual and only watch shooting/archery whenever the olympics come around forgive me for sounding dumb. But, could someone explaint to me why archery has farther distances than with a pistol/rifle? The most common distances I see for shooting are 10m to 25m. Wouldn’t a gun be more accurate than a bow? There’s obviously something I’m missing, but if archery is 70m, I would expect the gun distances to be like 100 to 300m or something.
Wasn’t Jeffery both ?
Archer here, its 70m. Or about ~76 yards in Yeehaw units
Actually even in real life, at first it doesn’t feel that far, but once you get settled and aim at the target, it does feel minuscule.
Then when you fire your bow, see how high the arrow arcs (especially since you’re not shooting a high-poundage bow like olympic athletes), and how long it takes to land, you feel it even more.
And then you can’t even see where it landed!
(still, archery is a lot of fun)
It’s crazy how little the camera direction sells this. Even with replays you really get a sense of the scale. They could capture so many casual viewers flicking between sports just with better direction.
The center of the target is about the size of the tip of a pen or pencil. That’s how my archery coach used to describe the distance. Twitch your arm a little, pluck the bow string and the arrows can fly off the middle.
It is incredibly difficult to keep a tight grouping and land all your arrows within 9 and 10 rings. It may look easy when you see these archers drawing their bows but their bows are pretty heavy, and I’m sure at their level, all of their bows have pretty high draw weights. An average untrained person probably can’t even fully draw these archers’ bow.
yeah, okay….whoever directed the camera crew for this event needs to be fired. The telecast made it look like a child’s play.
this is the 70meters one right? last time I did archery, even the 40-50m targets seems a lot farther than how this is shown lol
WEAVE RICKON, WEAVE!
I wouldn’t be able to see it, much less hit it.
I always imagined like 50 yards, sheesh
Woah.
Let’s be real. For that distance, I don’t think a noob would be able to even hit anywhere on the target given 10 tries. This is really insane.
But then you have all the internet experts talking about being able to do remotely the same thing as these athletes who do this for a living, because well, it’s only 20m in their opinion.
Facts just don’t matter to some people. Fucking morons.
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Yeah it’s pretty crazy. You don’t notice how far away the target is on tv. But when you see it like this it makes it crazy impressive.
70 metres !
That’s nuts
Some of those camera angles are so decieving too. Everytime they show a shot from the back I’m convinced it was too high and is on its way to kill some poor soul not paying attention 30 yards beyond the targets.
Reminds me of the other post showing the targets for the shooting competition. They seem like they are 6” wide but in reality they are like 2” wide. Insane. Guess I won’t be rolling up in a white t-shirt and no equipment to own the field like the homie from Türkiye. Almost like these guys are the best in the world
Feel like they should start doing drone shots from the air that show the whole distance. Makes you realize how impressive it is!
Thank you, this is immense!
Yeah see, they fail to provide overall shots like this and it’s annoying because it makes what they’re doing much more impressive.
Yeah see, they fail to provide overall shots like this and it’s annoying because it makes what they’re doing much more impressive.
Watching it on TV gives the impression it is half the distance between the coach and the TV 😂
Kudos to all those practicing this noble sport.
😮That’s really far. I can’t even see the target clearly in such distance.
That makes it even crazier what that legally blind archer a few Olympics ago did
I wish they would show regular aerial shots of the shooting range on TV
Holy shit
Haha I was discussing this with my friend and we reached the conclusion that the targets had to be so much further than they appeared because with a contraption/bow like that how are you not hitting perfect 10s otherwise. Also could see the arrow curving and falling down to the target. Absolutely insane to see the view like this! Even farther than we thought!
70 metres to be precise
Omg
It’s actually quite infuriating that they don’t show this kind of angle. Been watching as much archery as i can, and no angle they’ve shown has put the distance into perspective like this.
Oh okay I think my hours of wii sports resort is not enough training to pull this off actually
Yeah I watched and I was hoping they would show how far it was, but they never did.
I’m a super casual and only watch shooting/archery whenever the olympics come around forgive me for sounding dumb. But, could someone explaint to me why archery has farther distances than with a pistol/rifle? The most common distances I see for shooting are 10m to 25m. Wouldn’t a gun be more accurate than a bow? There’s obviously something I’m missing, but if archery is 70m, I would expect the gun distances to be like 100 to 300m or something.
Wasn’t Jeffery both ?
Archer here, its 70m. Or about ~76 yards in Yeehaw units
Actually even in real life, at first it doesn’t feel that far, but once you get settled and aim at the target, it does feel minuscule.
Then when you fire your bow, see how high the arrow arcs (especially since you’re not shooting a high-poundage bow like olympic athletes), and how long it takes to land, you feel it even more.
And then you can’t even see where it landed!
(still, archery is a lot of fun)
It’s crazy how little the camera direction sells this. Even with replays you really get a sense of the scale. They could capture so many casual viewers flicking between sports just with better direction.
The center of the target is about the size of the tip of a pen or pencil. That’s how my archery coach used to describe the distance. Twitch your arm a little, pluck the bow string and the arrows can fly off the middle.
It is incredibly difficult to keep a tight grouping and land all your arrows within 9 and 10 rings. It may look easy when you see these archers drawing their bows but their bows are pretty heavy, and I’m sure at their level, all of their bows have pretty high draw weights. An average untrained person probably can’t even fully draw these archers’ bow.
yeah, okay….whoever directed the camera crew for this event needs to be fired. The telecast made it look like a child’s play.
this is the 70meters one right? last time I did archery, even the 40-50m targets seems a lot farther than how this is shown lol
WEAVE RICKON, WEAVE!
I wouldn’t be able to see it, much less hit it.
I always imagined like 50 yards, sheesh
Woah.
Let’s be real. For that distance, I don’t think a noob would be able to even hit anywhere on the target given 10 tries. This is really insane.
But then you have all the internet experts talking about being able to do remotely the same thing as these athletes who do this for a living, because well, it’s only 20m in their opinion.
Facts just don’t matter to some people. Fucking morons.
THEY NEED TO HAVE A CAMERA ANGLE EMPHASIZING THIS