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Question

im going to be just starting to shoot competitively and i want to go to the olympics so what bow set up do you recommend i start out with riser limbs brands everything thanks alot your helping me out alot haha ill call people at stores to and ask around i wanted to know what you think i should get

Answer 1

You are going to need a fair bit of money.You will be looking at $1500 for the bow,$300 a dozen for arrows. You will need to join a club, find a coach,etc.It is a very demanding sport. Good luck.

Answer 2

You know what, don't pay attention to the people who are discouraging. I say go for it!!!

Take for instance the US girl for the pole vault she just decided to take it up 4 years ago and look at her she made it to the Olympics and won a silver metal. Although I can't suggest what type of bow you should buy. I think I would do some research on line for that part of it maybe check out some sporting magazines and make a few phone calls to some professional people.

Remember trying something and not succeeding is not failure. It's failure when you don't try at all.

Answer 3

If I were you I wouldn't bother. It's doubtful you will become truely competetive and you are more then likely going to be setting yourself up for a big dissapointment.

Answer 4

I'm not sure what country you're from Tommy, hopefully not South Korea =].  But judging from the fact that you can start on your own I'd guess you're not from South Korea.  Anyhoo, welcome to the sport.  If you're in the US, the best thing to do is to head on to www.usarchery.org.  Find a range near you, they might even have ranges near you with equipment you can use...for free.  I'll tell you this, any riser costing more than $300 is more than capable of sending you to the Olympics, the question becomes, do you like the riser?  To find that out, the only thing you can do is either head out to the range and see if you can handle some equipment belonging to other shooters there.  Most archers will even let you shoot their bow, as long as you ask first.  Archers are very particular about their equipment, so make sure you ask them before even touching their equipment.  Another option is to go to a store, but keep in mind the clerk's advice will always be skewed to which ever riser give them the greater margin to some extent.  Another bad thing with stores is, at least when you're in the US, there are very few stores that actually know what Olympic style archery is, and those that do know sometimes don't have the risers in stock.

If money is no object, then you can go ahead and buy the top of the line.  If not, I'd suggest buying a nice riser if you're sure you want to dedicate your time into this sport, and a cheap pair of limbs to start with.  Some limbs go for about $80 a pair, these are good enough to use for leap frogging your limb weight up to your target weight.  Target weight for olympic style archery is about 42-50 pounds for men.  Me, I've settled in at about 43pounds.  But at the beginning I started at 28 pounds, which was a mistake.  I should've started with lower weight, I didn't know anything back then, so I spent the next few years hitting a plateau, then I had to relearn how to shoot properly and getting rid of bad habits I had picked up while overbowed.

Some nice but cheap risers, include the good old Hoyt Gold Medalist(out of production), this is the riser used by Rick McKinney to shoot his 1352 back in the late 80's.  That score today is still a world class score.  Another out of production riser from Hoyt is the Matrix, you can sometimes get these from ebay etc.  A good quality used Matrix runs for about $250.  Win & Win makes the Winstar that is a good beginner level riser and the Winact, an intermediate level riser.