International federation of shooting to the arc

The FITA is the siglme international federation of shooting to the arc.

Two federations

FITAa be founded the September 4th 1931 in Poland. the 7 states founders are the France, the Czechoslovakia, the Sweden, the Poland, the the United States, the Hungary, and the Italy. the goal of the arganisation was to create championships to trir with the arc regular and to obtain that the shooting with the arc becomes again Olympic discipline (it was not it any more since 1920). This objective was achieved at the time of the Olympic Games of summer of 1972.

FITA began holding Target World Championship S in 1931. They were held every year until 1959, when the Championships became Biennial vents. 1959 was also the first year that FITA held the World Field Championship.

There exist two federations of shooting to the arc with the international level FITA (International federation of Shooting to the Arc) and IFAA (International Field Archery Association) which has rules of different competitions and the same materials at the time of the competitions do not authorize. These rules are in constant evolution.

In all the practices of the FITA and affiliated enumerated below, the candidate must draw his flight in an assigned time. During the shootings in team (3 gunners), time is timed whereas the gunners follow one another on the launching pad. In the same way, the distances and the sizes from blazons are worth only for certain categories of archers: juniors, juniors, seniors, veterans and super-veterans. Time assigned to strip a flight of 6 arrows in shooting FITA is 4 minutes. The categories of arcs authorized vary according to the competition.

The IFAA practices especially natural shooting, but with a double marking. The majority of the competitions are made unbounded time, but timed courses can be integrated in a competition. There are categories of shooting for all the types of arcs: compound with or without sight, with or without decochor, recurve (traditional arc) with or without sight, for these categories the length * of a possible stabilizer is limited and longbow - always without sight and stabilizer. Another characteristic: there is no preselection for the international championships, any archer is accepted within the limit of the places available. A one day contest contains usually 2 courses of 14 targets with a maximum of 560 points for the day.

The shooting in room

A. - international Discipline, FITA

In competition, the shooting in room is practiced with 18 m on blazons of 40 cm or on “trispots” (three aligned blazons, equivalent to the central zones of the blazon of 40 cm), in two series of 30 arrows by flights of three arrows (on the trispots, an arrow by spot). For the young people of the tiny category, youngest child in traditional arc and the youngest children, tiny and juniors in " arc nu" they are blazons or trispots of 60 cm of diameter. Since 2007, the young people " poussins" can contribute and must draw on blazons from 80 cm of diameter.

B. - Discipline Olympic

Shooting on target in the open air, flat ground (e.g. a sports ground). It is about the Olympic discipline . The shooting is practiced with distances from 70,50 and 30 Mr. the distance is limited to 50 for the tiny ones and 30 for the youngest children, on Blason of 1,22 m (of 90 and 70 m), and 80 cm (of 50 and 30 m). 144 arrows are drawn of 24 flights from six arrows, 6 flights per distance.

Currently (in France only) the FITA draws for the adults with 70 m, in two series of 6 flights of 6 arrows, in accordance with the Olympic payment, this is why it is sometimes also called Tir 2x70m . The four distances, 90,70,50 and 30 m are not practiced any more but during one shooting named FITA STAR .

With the Olympic Games, one draws only with the distance of 70 meters, on targets of 122 cm and only with one traditional arc.

C. Federal Shooting, FFTA

Discipline purely French, practiced a long time in two shootings (or distances) from 50 and 30 meters, it is now copied on the FITA 2x70m and draws only in two series from 36 arrows to 50 meters on blazons from 122 centimetres. Since, this shooting is called Tir External 2x50 Mr. official Appellation of the FFTA (Guide source of the Referee).

D. Shooting in room, IFAA

A “ Flint indoor round ” draws on targets field: 56 arrows at distances between 10 and 30 yards. In “ standard indoor ”, one draws 60 arrows on round targets white and blue from 40 cm diameter at a fixed distance 20 yards.

Shootings in nature

One draws in wood and meadows where it is necessary to take account of the ground.

A. Shooting countryside, FITA

Discipline international, which is practiced in rough ground with discovered or underwood, on a course of 24 targets of which the half is remotely known and the other remotely unknown, or 24 unknown factors.

The known distances go from 5 to 60 m, unknown distances from 5 with 55 m for the traditional ones and arc with pulley. The archer draws a flight from three arrows per target, that is to say a total of 72 arrows. He has 4 minutes to draw his three arrows. Recently, the archers are not any more stop watches safe in the event of " bouchon" (more than 3 groups on standby on a target).

One finds 4 types of blazons in shooting countryside: " birdies" who are trispots of 20 cm of diameter. One finds of them four per target, one by archer of the peleton they are used for the very short distances. " gazinières" of 40 cm of diameter make it possible to draw at short distances. One also finds four per target of them. Lastly, " 60" and " 80" permettetent to draw with long distance. Their name indicate the diameter of the blazons.

There exist 3 categories in the international payment:

traditional Arc;
Arc with pulley;
naked Arc (bare-bow, i.e. without sight).

The “ Longbow ” is not a category recognized by the FITA (international payment) nor by the FFTA (§ -3A6 of the payment of December 2005).

In shooting by team, a team is made up of an archer of each of the three weapons (international payment).

B. the natural shooting, FITA

The natural shooting is a course of 21 targets placed at variable distances (5 with 40m) which is practiced in full nature. The targets are animalist images comprising a killed zone and a wounded zone. On each target the archer must evaluate the distance and draw 2 arrows in 30 seconds, each arrow being drawn from a step of different shooting. An official contest proceeds on 2 courses of 21 targets in the course of the day. The sought-after goal is to recreate an environment “drives out”. It happens regularly that the position of the gunner is complex to have a good firing angle. The points are counted in the following way:

1st arrow: killed zone 20 points, wounded zone 15 points.

2nd arrow: killed zone 15 points, wounded zone 10 points.

C. Course Field and Hunter, IFAA

Course of 14 round targets “ field ” or “ hunter ” at distances known between 80 yards (73,1 m) and 15 yards (13,7 m). It is necessary to draw 4 arrows from 4 different stakes. The maximum distance for the juniors is 50 yards (45,7 m), for juniors 30 yards (27,4 m). There is no limit of time.

D. Animal Round, IFAA

A course of 14 targets of animalist charts. There are competitions with known distances and others at unknown distances. The distances vary from 15 to 60 yards (13,70 m with 56,40 m).

External bonds

International federation of shooting to arc (FITA)
International Field Archery Association (IFAA)

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