1:23 I keep telling people they gotta use this angle for every shot. I want to see the arrow flight, not just the impact and a close up of a face! For people who aren’t that familiar with the sport to see how much the arrow arcs is a gamechanger. This is by far the best angle for spectating, I can’t put into words how jarring it is to be watching the target zoomed in and then suddenly an arrow appears and you’ve robbed the audience of the flight of the arrow (the most beautiful part visually).

I started archery at the age of 11, over 40 years ago. Never knew, until I saw videos like this on KZfaq, how an arrow warps when it's released. Amazing! (And there are some terrific shots in this video. Very cool.)

It seems like a bad idea to install a camera in the bullseye.

at 1:24, why is that not the angle they give us all the time! I can't stand how NBC covers live archery. Close up of face, cut close up of target. What idiots, producers, directors, think this is a good way to show the sport? Show the entire flight path of the arrow... duh!

I can’t imagine how much practice goes in to being so good at this sport.

Amazing.

I totally loved this. A great shot! But I think the best and greatest archery shot was the opening shot at the Barcelona Olympics, hands down.

Just starting my archery adventure and loving every minute of it

Seriously, they put a camera in the middle. So you get right in the centre and your arrow falls out.

The gear you see looks fancy but only helps stabilize the bow a little while aiming and help keep it twisting on release. The skills involved are just like shooting a regular recurve or longbow. People who complete without sights actually use sighting tricks, like counting the wrappings on their strings and looking at spots on the woodgrain of their bows, and are in fact sighting, they just don't have a physical sight. These archers are also only using a front sight and aren't allowed a rear sight or a level. Try shooting a gun without a rear sight. So it depends on them learning to hold their bow absolutely consistently and level every time or the front sight does them no good. This is not like unlimited compounds where a peep sight in the bowstring is allowed. I don't know why people expect archery to be primitive but don't expect Olympic firearms to be black powder muskets without sights. These are the most ignorant comments I've ever seen on a video. People watch track and field and accept pole vaulters using poles that catapult them over the bar, they don't demand wooden poles or barefoot runners on dirt tracks. All this equipment does is ensure that it is the SKILLS that separate the archers from one another. Wooden bows and especially wooden arrows (far more important than the bows) give random results so they leave a great deal up to chance where the arrow goes. This video also does not give a good impression of how really far away the target is. When they show a full shot note how long it actually takes for the arrow to get to the target. The handles of the bows look really fancy and sexy, but the middle part of the bow is just supposed to be as stiff as possible, it could just as well be a plain bar. All the high-tech look is just marketing and doesn't do anything. The best bows, by Hoyt, in fact, use bamboo cores on their top bow limbs with a carbon fiber overlay. Their basic shape hasn't changed in decades. Those stabilizers help steady the bow but also make it heavier making the sport more athletic. The stronger and fitter you are the better your chances in the sport. Today's archers are pulling stronger bows than 20 years ago and getting better results, it's because of fitness, not gear. All the improvements in archery gear have made further physical demands on the shooters so it is a more athletic contest than it used to be, not less.

The denmark girls shot was total perfection, the middle of the middle :O

The outer ring is so useless in the Olympic archery!

They're all so good - it seems like they should add another smaller circle in the middle...

Hey bro can I start archery at the age of 25 but I am expert in centre point and I want to play from our country in Olympics 🤸‍♀️🥇🏆 and proud India 🇮🇳 in the world

amazing shoot..

Cool video!

It's good to see that even at this level they hit blue occasionally :-)

I was a champion javelin catcher in college. Anybody can throw javelin or shoot arrows. Catching them is the true test of ability

I remember my lessons in middle school with coach Shane 😂💯

I have this beautiful field behind my house that I shoot. I've been enjoying archery for over 50 years, both longbow and compound. Every archer knows how I feel when they are outside and become one with the arrow. I use this time to meditate and be at peace. I know that some people will never understand how you can find peace with a weapon that can kill but, it is the most wonder time in my day to try to shoot the perfect bulls eye.Thinking about how the bow has changed in composition but, not the basic way that it works. Sorry for the rambling but, I just wanted to say something. Good shooting to all fellow archers.

wtf 1:24 is crazy, I had no idea how much gravity and wind they have to account for

Holy Cow, I want one of them in my tree stand during Deer Season. Awesome

So satisfying.

Fantastic music...

The olympic bows are really hard to shoot. Just a recurve, No peep in the string, No optics, just a pin sight. You shoot with a finger tab, no release device. And (here is the hard part) they are shooting at 70 meters (about 231 feet) or 77 yards. I have shot compound, Olympic, and Crossbow, none of it is easy. Remember, the other guy has equipment just as good as yours. In the days when it was shot with long bows and no sights, they did not always even hit the target at all. Sometimes a person with a lower score could win as it was scored Hits, and then score. So if you had 36 hits, but only scored 200 out of a possible 360 and some one else scored 35 hits with a score of 350 (all tens) The guy with the lower score won! I think that little kink has been solved in the rules now, but I do not know.

Like the video, it just works well with the images and the music

There are some beauties there that's for sure.

Awesome

Actually some of the best shots are not when they just hit a 10, but where they adjust for wind, sometimes in different directions all the way down to the target and still hit a 9 or better.

Man that looks easy as hell... 1:23 Oh... Never mind...

nice shot

Just curious...Does a shot count if it bounces off the camera lens in the middle of the bull?

A pin whole camera. That’s why they didn’t stick in the center.

Where was MAAAAAARRRRRRRKKKKKKK NNUUUUUUTTTTTT. Classic Achievement Hunter

Ultimate.

omg so exciting

Wow I remember when spin wings first came out putting them on my ace's in Lake placid.

I’m drunk, but can do this with my eyes closed. Beer my hold and learn and watch.

impressive👍

Best shot I even made was by accident at a 3D tournament. It was getting late and the target was at 45yrds. My buddy told me “ you see my knock...just aim for it.” “Robin Hooded” it. I think he was shooting 20-something-or-others, I was shooting 2013’s (I think) and just buried my arrow into his. I tried for a week after that, at 20 yards , not sure how many arrows I shot, and finally split, shredded one of mine.

lol when theyre so good their arrows bounce off the micro camera in the center

1:39 Skyrim in real life

Good shooting but what happens when the arrow doesn't stick? Does it count?

Damn those are some shooters

And then John Rambo stepped up with Bo and Luke Duke. All three fired dynamite arrows and blew the competition away

To all of you who are trying to win the competition for the truest form of archery, consider those who do not care which form it comes from. Only that the chance has come to compete. For others the chance will never come for reasons they will never know or that have been taken away. In other words, is it really necessary to bicker over the bow instead of enjoy the ability to shoot?

Did the woman’s bullseye count even though it fell out..? Incredible shot.

What happens when the arrow bounces out? That last lady hit the X and it popped out ... how does that score?

Damn, i didn't know they have to shoot with such a curve, so high.

I aim to be this good when I am older. I have a bow and arrow and absolutely love archery. 🤞🤞

Does the last one count even though it's not stuck?

does her shot count since it did not stick in?

40-50 pound bow at a target 70 meters away, and they make hitting bullseyes look easy, go try archery before you judge them for using a bow with stabilizers and sights.

i hand build all these targets for this 2012 olympics :)

What is dostanie in this competition ?

¿Por qué dejan caer los arcos después de tirar? ¿hace falta? ¿le dan a la flecha algún efecto con éso?

hanzo mains sigh

No one ever: "Bet you can't shoot an arrow 70m with a 50lb bow and get a bouncer" Khatuna at 01:40: "Watch and learn"

The Camera in the bullseye has left the chat.

I don't know? Does a arrow have to stick in and stay too score?

Do another video for rio 2016 pls !!

*Looks at comment section. Rolls eyes.* Olympic shooting should be done with muskets and flintlocks. Anyone can hit a target with an accurate gun, it takes no skill.

Anyone else thinks the Arrows look like beautiful fish swimming in the air ❤

Does it count if it doesn’t stick?

They all look like the sort of guys you'd cast as archers in a movie too 😆

'He split robin's arrow in twain!' Name that movie 😁

Does it count if it bounces off?

Logical.Bow is in East London!

Me:I hit a pig 200 blocks away with my arrow

best shots ever!(2012 London Olympics only) lol

Does it count if it hits bullseye and falls out?

Can someone please tell me if the arrow falls out of the target does it still count ?

The best shot ever was when Robin Hood split Phillips arrow, obviously.

Me : Hmmmm...pretty good Hawkeye: Hold my bow..

Why doe it take KZfaq to release so many years after events to release these clips ...sort of s8its me and many others

Why do the bows rock forward after the shot?

1:15

MARK NUTT!!!

0:30 what's that clip and its use? the object above his left hand that "snaps" before the Archer releases it. I'm new at watching this sport and every Bow has it (I've seen so far)

is no one interested in that fine music ? ;-) it is greatful ! does anybody know it ? Shazam founds nothing :-( so sad

why does the bow drop down like that?

....ban all assault bows with high capacity arrows #safespaceenchroachedupon

I completely agree with the last person’s comments.

And from Sherwood, we have Robin Hood in disguise !

Hu, how come that bull-s-eye shot didn't go in?

Geez these guys saying "real archers" can shoot only wooden bows 😂 Yeah, whatever... get back to your Lord of the Rings movies and your medieval conventions (however you call them).

and that's how I shoot in my phone. bullseye everytime.

So does she get points even though the camera kept it from sticking?

What about Lars Anderson?

That flip of the bow they all do after the shot is oddly bothersome.

If it bounces off the bullseye does it count

Great video and great shots, but I expected at least two Robin Hoods.

those are ALL VERY common shots in an archery competition. this video is a click bait

The equipment is absurd. How about using a simple, uniform wooden bow- something like one design racing in sailing- then we could find out who is the best archer? How about moving targets?

What a target shot by the players. This is not an easy game when your target was too far from you. I think I should try practicing this sport.

Tell me the name of that woman who shot in the camera?

Look at all the gadgets they use for help. They should do an instinctive archery shoot. That'll show who's really top dog.

All right, but...I prefer Lars Andersen.

what is name of the music?

What is the point of that racket?