HONOLULU (KHON2) — A rare piece of living history is returning to Oahu next month. Yabusame, traditional Japanese archery, ...

Thirty archers armed with bamboo bows and arrows sit on a platform awaiting instruction. Then they take aim at a straw cylinder 60 feet away. They each have 34 arrows to shoot in four minutes. They ...

In the beginning, there were self bows - bows made from a single piece of wood - longbows and the improved but still primitive recurve bows to sustain millennia of wild-animal-eating humans and their ...

The recurve bow, featuring limbs that curve away from the archer to increase power is the only type of bow allowed in Olympic competition. The lever effect created from a recurve bow can propel arrows ...

ANKARA, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Wearing their old-fashioned Turkish nomadic war outfits with pride, students of a sports club in suburban Ankara tried hard to practice their archery skills as the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A young archer in traditional outfit takes aim during practice of the centuries-old Indonesian sport of 'Jemparingan', prior to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archery fraternity: The Jemparingan tournament that The Jakarta Post Travel attended was a celebration of the anniversary of the ...

ANKARA－Traditional Turkish archery dates back to the period of the early Turkic tribes in Central Asia. But today young athletes are fascinated by this ancient martial art. In December, traditional ...

Riding a galloping horse under the blazing sun, Malaysian archer Zaharudin Rastam Yeop Mahidin fires an arrow at a target as a crowd cheers. This is horseback archery, which was common for thousands ...

Today’s casual archery enthusiast may not realize it, but every time they nock an arrow, they’re taking part in a practice that once helped ensure mankind’s survival. The sport of archery started ages ...

“We have launched ‘Create your own adventure’, where guests get to create their own micro event,” said Micah Spicer, Ancient Lore Village sales manager. “We are not a (typical) resort or a hotel, so ...

A local Indonesian archery practice known as jemparingan has been played for centuries and is now seeing a revival. Ancient, traditional but above all... precise. The local Indonesian archery practice ...