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Archery is now a very widespread sport and hobby all over the world, but once, long ago, it was even more popular. Every army had archers and men hunted with bows for food. Every country or every region invented its own peculiar design of bow and therefore, even nowadays, there are many different types of archery bows. Modern technology has meant that new types of archery bows are still being developed.
Some bows were developed by people who rode horses a great deal. These bows were shorter, other bows were intended for long range shooting and these bows were longer. I will list some of the main types of archery bows below with a short description of each
The traditional Welsh or English longbow was made from a single piece of yew (or other wood) at least the length of the user, but up to about six feet six inches (two metres). It was 'D' shaped in contour with the flat, bark side, facing away from the string. The rounded inner side followed the natural growth rings of the branch. The timber itself was left to dry for two years.
The draw weight of a longbow was roughly 160-180 pounds, which is difficult to accomplish by modern man. In the days of the longbow, in the Middle Ages, men and boys were required by law to carry out target practice with longbows at the village butts every Sunday. The target range for a man was to be no less than 220 yards by order of king Henry VIII.
The longbow was used to devastating effect as long range (400 yards) artillery by the British army at Crecy in 1346 and Agincourt in 1415, raining deadly three ounce, three foot long arrows down on the enemy. As the armies drew closer the longbow could be used accurately to aim at individual targets. Not long after these great victories, which can be attributed to the archers and their longbows, bows were superseded as military weapons by guns.
Flat bows, just as the longbow, can be over six feet long, are not recurved and can be made out of a single piece of wood. However, they are rectangular in outline, not 'D' shaped.
Short bows are similar to longbows or flat bows in every detail except size and because they are shorter, they do not have the potential or the distance of the other bows. Sort bows are easy to carry and easier to use in confined situations like woods or a forest, so they were used mostly for hunting small animals.
Recurve bows are more powerful that any other bow inch for inch of length. The tips of a recurve point frontward when the bow is unstrung and look odd to the inexperienced. The recurve was very popular from the Mediterranean to the Far East from about 2000 BC until 1700 AD. Nowadays, the recurve is the only kind of bow permitted to be used in the Olympic Games.
Compound bows use quite stiff materials in their construction so have pulleys or cams to help bend or draw the bow. This mechanical assistance to drawing the bow to the best distance means less physical strain on behalf of the archer, which means that the archer con focus on the target more.
Crossbows have the limbs mounted crossways on a length of timber and the draw string is held by mechanical means until it is released with a trigger. The arrow, or bolt, is much shorter. They are well-nigh half-way houses to guns.
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Georges St-Pierre was born May 19, 1981 in Saint-Isidore, Quebec, to Jim and Louise St-Pierre. St-Pierre had a difficult childhood , attending a school where people would steal his clothing and money. He started out studying Kyokushin karate at age seven by his father and later with a Kyokushin Karate Master to help protect himself against a bully at school , Nikolas Mavrikos.
He took up wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu later his karate teacher died and also trained in boxing . Before turning pro as a mixed-martial artist, St-Pierre worked as a bouncer at a Montreal night club in the South Shore known as Fuzzy Brossard and as a garbageman for six months to fund his school costs and also to acquire his Mixed martial arts equipment for example his MMA Shorts and MMA Gloves
St-Pierre has trained with a number of groups in a large variety of gyms throughout his fighting career . Prior to his battle with B.J. Penn at UFC 58, he trained in the Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy in New York City. St-Pierre acquired his brown belt in BJJ from Renzo Gracie on July 21, 2006. In September 2008, St-Pierre earned his black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu below Bruno Fernandes.
St-Pierre started training with Rashad Evans, Nathan Marquardt, Keith Jardine, Donald Cerrone, and other qualified Mixed martial arts scrappers at Greg Jackson's Submission Fighting Gaidojutsu school in New Mexico. Some of Jackson's students accompanied St-Pierre to Montreal to help prepare him for his fight at UFC 94 against B.J. Penn at the Tristar Gym, including Keith Jardine, Nathan Marquardt, Donald Cerrone and Rashad Evans. Georges' strength and conditioning coach is Jonathan Chaimberg of Adrenaline Performance Centre in Montral. Georges' Head Trainer is Firas Zahabi of Zahabi MMA, from the Tristar gym. The pair have cornered all St-Pierre's latest bouts and continue as his close friends. Presently, St-Pierre studies Muay Thai under Phil Nurse at the Wat in New York City .
St-Pierre had dreamed to become a UFC champ since observing Royce Gracie fight in 1993 at Ultimate fighting championship 1. St-Pierre had his first recreational bout when he was just 16 years of age. He said, "After i won my first amateur (MMA) fight, I was 16 years old and I defeated a man that was 25. I was only a Kyokushin karate fighter and the guy I fought was a boxer. At the time my ground skills were very poor , I didn't know anything on the ground ." St-Pierre won his fight by KO , going low with several leg kicks and then going high using a head kick.
St-Pierre's pro debut was against Branden Macfadden and the fight ended in the very first round to-knockout win by St-Pierre. In only his second fight, St-Pierre's challenge for the UCC belt against Justin Bruckmann. He won by an arm bar in the first round. He then went on and defended his title two more times . The UCC aka Universal Combat Challenge was then converted to TKO Major League MMA and he was called the champion. He fought on November 29, 2003 against Pete Spratt in a non-title bout at TKO 14. St-Pierre foiled Spratt using a rear naked choke in the first round. Next his second win in the Ultimate fighting championship , he faced Matt Hughes at Ultimate fighting championship 50 for the vacant Ultimate fighting championship Welterweight Championship. Despite a competitive performance against the far more experienced fighter, St-Pierre tapped out to an armbar submission with only 1 second remaining in the very first round. The loss was the first of St-Pierre's career and that he has since admitted he was in awe of Hughes going into the championship bout. Since then he has come to be among the finest fighters on the planet.
As an only recently emerging sport, MMA has seen more than it's fair share of one-sided fights. That's because the sport was underground and many of the best fighters hadn't yet been discovered at the time.
in fact, if you caught Cyborg Santos' demolition of Jan Finney at Strikeforce in San Jose recently, you would have thought that nothing much had changed in Mixed Martial Arts.
Anyway, it is still true that MMA has the ability to spring a surprise result or two and here are my top five shocking mixed martial arts resuls.
Five: Liddell vs Franklin - UFC 115
Chuck Liddell is, definitely, one of the all time greats of UFC. Rich Franklin, while a decent fighter, is, er, not. While Liddell's dominance was waning, the nature of his defeat to Franklin was definitely a shock result. Despite having his arm broken by a Liddell kick right at the start of the fight, Franklin somehow managed to knock Liddell out with punch in the first round. End of Liddell.
4: Georges St-Pierre v Matt Serra at UFC 69
At the time, Georges St-Pierre was almost certainly the best pound for pound fighter in MMA. In fact, he still is. The trouble is, when he faced Matt Serra, he clearly bought into his own hype and didn't prepare properly. The result: Serra, an 11-1 outsider, won by TKO. Thankfully, St-Pierre has upped his game since.
3: Mike Brown vs Urijah Faber at WEC 36
Urijah Faber had dominated the featherweight division in the UFC for a little over two and a half years before this 2008 fight with Mike Brown. No one really gave Brown much of a chance, but a right hook to Faber's jaw soon changed more than a few minds. The referee called a halt in the first round with Brown emerging victorious.
2: Frankie Edgar v B.J Penn - UFC 112
No one - I repeat - no one saw this one coming. BJ Penn had neve been taken down and hadn't lost for 8 years when he was matched with Edgar at UFC 112. By the end of the five rounds, both of those records were no more and Ultimate Fighting Championship had a new lightweight champion.
1: Emelianenko v Werdum, Strikeforce San Jose
It is almost an absolute truth that Fedor Emelianenko is the best mixed martial artist ever. Apart from a single fight in which he had to retire, Fedor had never, ever lost. Until that is, he fought Fabricio Werdum in June 2010. While Fedor dominated the early stages, Werdum's arm bar and triangle choke hold combination meant that the best MMA in the world finally tapped out.
Jim Haines has spent too much time betting on UFC to be fit enough to actually fight, but he is hopefully that there will be a super-super-heavy-overweight category in the UFC sometime soon.
