The Sport of Archery
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The Sport of Archery
Interviewer: And I understand you have
chosen the sport of archery and you know
I as many other Canadians might say,
how does he do that?
We slowly started learning how and it’s
been a lot of fun learning how to do
archery because it was one thing I never
did when I was a kid. I played many
sports growing up but archery wasn’t one
of them and learning how to do it with no
vision, people would think that I would be
a little crazy to think could pick archery
with no vision but it’s been a lot of fun
learning and showing people how good a
blind guy can shoot the bow and shoot.
I will pretend my cane is my bow but
what happens is I have a, my holder in
front of me with arrows in it and I have
my bow in my hand and I will grab an arrow.
I will feel it. I will put it back in place on
the little holder there and I will hook it up
to the string making sure the fletching’s
are in the right part, the little feathers,
the things that are on the arrow.
And then once I have it all lined up I pull
it forward and I have a stand I use and
I line up my middle knuckle to a screw
that’s on the stand, the head of the
screw and then once the stand is lined up
to the target I know I am lined up to the
target so all I have to do is pull back,
draw back to a certain spot on my face to
know how far the arrow is going to go and
it’s not going to, it’s going to go at a
consistent rate the whole time and then I
let go. And then once we got the stand
lined up I should be on the target and
hit the bull’s eye every time.
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