Flight archery festival, Poland

[Lukasz Nawalny]

https://www.facebook.com/events/954254701332504/


III International Flight Archery Festival
Leczyca Castle, 22-24 April 2016

FRIDAY

16-19     training on tournament field
19 – 21   supper

SATURDAY

8 -10  archery equipment verification
10 30 – 14 first part of tournament
15 - 16 Dinner
16 – 18 thumb ring class and practice by Adam Radziun, tumb ring master (In polish and english)
Flight arrows workshop by Piotr Kosiorek, best polish arrowsmith (In polish and english)
18 – 20 „ The art of shooting short reflexed bow with a tumb ring” – prelection ( In polish and english ) by Adam Swoboda, tumb ring expert
20 – 22 – opening exibitions on Castle, active all weekend :
Orginal bows and arrows from all part of the world, XVI – XVII century, for example chinese, persian bows, turkish flightbows and warbows
Modern art exibition – archery theme

SUNDAY
10 – 13  second part of tournament
13 – 14 sight seeing of old Leczyca prison
14-15 closing Cremony

TOURNAMENT RULES

BOWS
All bows In traditional style, from natural and synthetic materials ( fieberglass etc ).
arrow rest  – allowed
cut to the centershot – allowed

ARROWS
Made of natural materials – Wood, bamboo etc, fletching – feathers, parchment, paper etc
Nocks and points – wood, horn, iron etc
Carbon, fieberglass, alu, plastic not allowed in any part of arrow

CLASSES
35 #   50 #   70#   unlimited
Overdraw class

Overdraw class – shooting with any kind of overdraw devices , for example turkish siper. There is no separate draw weight classes In overdraw class
Length of device – no limits
Length of arrow – no limits

OTHER RULES
- Draw weight of bows will be check before tournament – 1 # error allowed
- Mechanical release not allowed, we shoot with tumb ring or fingers
- Bowstring material – no limits
- Each Archer shoot 12 arrows In 6 series, you can use 1 or 2 bows In any class. If you have 2 bows – 6 arrows on bow.
- measurment methode – steel tape.

REGISTRATION
Name and equipment details on email lukasznawalny@gmail.com

REGISTRATION FEE
20 Euro. Payment on account after registration

ACCOMODATION
Special offer for all archers – Hotel Chrobry In Leczyca
13 Euro , 2-3 Person rooms

[Lukasz Nawalny]

Registration are closed. We expect about 80 archers from 10 countries - Poland, Great Britan, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, Grecce, Hungary, Turkey, Ukraine. I think it is bigest flight event in Europe for this time.

[Badger]

  That is a big event, might be the biggest in the world. Will it be sanctioned?

[joachimM]

Wow, I'm looking forward to see the results.
Maybe next time I could try to come too. Your last event (the video you posted last year) looked like a really fun tournament.
Heads up!

Joachim

[Badger]

  I like the way you guys are running this, very inclusive! results will be interesting. I am curious as to how many of them will return for future events and how much they improve over the years.

[Lukasz Nawalny]

It is some shock for me number of archers and countries. 2 years ago me and few friends go shoot on field near my village house I see that people in Europe want shoot flight. I think for 90 % from those archers its just fun, something new and interesting, For very few is pure sport competition. What will happen in a few years I realy dont know

[Badger]

   My bet is that it will continue to grow. The Europeans seem more intune to it than they do here for some reason.

[joachimM]

Well, at least for me archery is not about hunting. Hunting is experienced very differently in Europe for a lot of reasons (much less game as there's much less wild nature), and bowhunting is illegal in many countries (the reasons are a bit stupid though).

So people that are into archery are mostly target shooters. And if that's not your cup of tea, there is still flight shooting.
As for bowyers: there's a much bigger challenge (and easier to measure target) in making flight bows than there is to making target bows. There's no class for primitive target bows either in competition (or not that I know of). So I guess the lure of flight shooting is a lot bigger over here.



 

[Lukasz Nawalny]

I know that rules are not classic but I made it for one reason.  I have made primitive bows many years and always I heard that laminated are faster, better then wooden bows or hornbows. There is finally oppurtunity see how it looks. When arrows and bowstring are theseme , bow is only differend factor. It is very exciting for all.  10 years ago primitive archery was in Poland not popular, now it looks much better. We have a lot great selfbow bowyers. In this year comes to us great horbowyer from Itay Francesco Alessi , he cross 300 fps on his hornbows. Im sure be interesting tournament

[mikekeswick]

If I had a decent bow ready I would be tempted to come. My flight bows won't be ready until August.

[Lukasz Nawalny]

Chrono update before tournament. Francesco 316 fps 13 gram arrow turkish bow, Nolbrzak , polish selfbow bowyer and engineer 240 fps 17 gram in 70 lb class

[Badger]

  Very good speeds, 17 grams can travel very well. I wouldn't be surprised to see the 70# self bow go well past the 400 mark.

[Lukasz Nawalny]

Im not so optimistic, maybe bows are good but arrows still not best .

[Lukasz Nawalny]

results












pictures

https://www.ele24.net/wydarzenia/trwa-iii-miedzynarodowy-turniej-strzelania-na-odleglosc-flight-w-leczycy

https://www.ele24.net/wydarzenia/zdjecia-wyniki-iii-miedzynarodowy-turniej-strzelania-na-odleglosc-flight-za-nami


thank you all for good time

[Del the cat]

Are those results metres or yards?
Del