[Artemisia] Arts and Science Questions

[Michael the Loud]

> It is just pure fact of the progress of technology:
> it reduces the amount of skill required to attain
> and maintain a high level of prowess.

You are again confusing score with skill.  You simply
cannot make the comparision because you are comparing
apples to oranges.  It's not fair to either class of
bow.

To make a proper comparision, I could shoot my
Internature recurve and the scores would be very
compariable to what I would be shoot with my Olympic
recurve minus all of the assessories.  Maybe a point
here or there but not a significant enough difference
to cause any concern.  As I start adding assessories
everybody knows the scores would improve
significantly.  This results would be the same
regardless of what order you did the experiment and by
doing so you would remove skill of the archer from the
equation.

One misperception that many in the SCA have is that
the technology subtracts from skill instead of
enhancing it.  This may be true for the recreation
user of modern archery equipment but for the
competative shooter it greatly enhances the archer's
skill.  

When I practice, I work on form not score.  Good score
is the result of good shooting one arrow at a time and
that is true whether I am shooting my compeition
equipment or plunking around with something else.

Michael



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