Is a recurve a traditional bow?

It can be, within each federation's limits. A recurve with a wooden or wood-laminated riser, shot off the shelf, can fit the traditional classes of World Archery, the NFAA and the IBO if the rest of the setup complies, though NFAA Traditional allows no laminations on the face of the bow or in the sight window. IFAA Traditional Recurve also requires wood-cored limbs and a Mediterranean loose. A metal-riser recurve with a plunger is shot in Barebow or Recurve under World Archery rules. Check the rulebook for your event.

What is the difference between a longbow and a traditional recurve?

A recurve's limb tips bend away from the archer, so the braced string lies along them. A longbow's do not: under World Archery, NFAA and IBO rules the braced string may touch the bow only at the string nocks, and World Archery also sets a minimum length of 150 cm. World Archery, the NFAA, the IFAA and the IBO each class longbows separately.

Tradiční lukostřelba

Traditional archery is shooting a longbow, a traditional recurve or another bow of historical design with the fingers, without a sight, usually off the shelf or a simple rest. As a competition term it has no single definition: World Archery, the NFAA, the IFAA and the IBO each set their own Traditional and Longbow equipment rules.

Detaily

Outside competition, traditional archery is less a rulebook than a way of shooting. The bows are usually longbows and recurves of wood or with wooden laminates, the arrows often carry feather fletching, and the archer aims by feel, by a gap between the arrow point and the target, or by a fixed picture of the arrow against the target. Many traditional archers shoot 3D and field courses, and many hunt.

World Archery has two such divisions, Traditional and Longbow, both shot in 3D and run archery. A Traditional bow needs a riser of wood or with wooden laminates, must be bare apart from a non-adjustable rest or the shelf, and its string may carry no lip or nose mark. The archer may use a single anchor or face walk but may not string walk, and the tab may carry no marks or anchor plate. A Longbow must be at least 150 cm long, its string may touch the bow only at the string nocks, the arrows must be wooden with natural feathers, and neither string nor face walking is allowed.

In the NFAA, Traditional is a style for recurves and longbows with no sighting device, no clicker, one anchor point and the index finger against the nock, and it allows one straight stabiliser up to 12 inches; a separate Longbow style allows no stabiliser. The IBO's traditional classes include Bare Bow, Longbow and Traditional, and its Traditional class requires shooting off the shelf with no stabilisers or weights and no string or face walking. The IFAA has Longbow, Historical Bow and Traditional Recurve styles, and its Traditional Recurve must be built from wood, with glass or carbon laminates allowed, and shot off the hand or the shelf.

Those differences decide which class a bow fits. A recurve with a stick-on rest is legal in World Archery Traditional but not in IFAA Traditional Recurve, which allows no arrow rest at all, and a string walker who is legal in barebow cannot string walk in the traditional classes of World Archery or the IBO. Check the rulebook for your event.

Because traditional shooting leans on feel, a repeatable routine matters more than equipment: the same draw, the same anchor and the same release on every shot. Close-range form work builds the routine, and scoring a few ends at the distances you shoot on a course shows whether it holds.

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Is a recurve a traditional bow?: It can be, within each federation's limits. A recurve with a wooden or wood-laminated riser, shot off the shelf, can fit the traditional classes of World Archery, the NFAA and the IBO if the rest of the setup complies, though NFAA Traditional allows no laminations on the face of the bow or in the sight window. IFAA Traditional Recurve also requires wood-cored limbs and a Mediterranean loose. A metal-riser recurve with a plunger is shot in Barebow or Recurve under World Archery rules. Check the rulebook for your event.
What is the difference between a longbow and a traditional recurve?: A recurve's limb tips bend away from the archer, so the braced string lies along them. A longbow's do not: under World Archery, NFAA and IBO rules the braced string may touch the bow only at the string nocks, and World Archery also sets a minimum length of 150 cm. World Archery, the NFAA, the IFAA and the IBO each class longbows separately.