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Sephodwyrm
http://www.atarn.org/letters/ltr_oct03.htm


Poster

Various Bows on display

KORYO!

The ZANG (Tibetan) archery

What do you as a Zang after hitting a target? Celebrate man...

Warring States crossbow body.
Courtesy of the website.
Liang Jieming
Ah but I've been to the Archery Traditions of Asia exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defense. I also have that book by Sephen Selby in the picture. smile.gif
Yun
There's already lots of mentions of ATARN's website on this thread:

http://www.chinahistoryforum.com/index.php...opic=2332&st=15
Sephodwyrm
Dang...people like pictures and you should post pictures. Do you think we should start archery in Singapore? I mean, get special permit from the government so that we can shoot.... tongue.gif tongue.gif
Liang Jieming
Seph, I already shoot regularly in Singapore but using my modern recurve. What I need to do is to get my hands on an original chinese traditional bow and learn how to shoot that.
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