Archery and Engineering

Two members of the UC Berkeley archery team explain why archery is so popular among engineering students

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Education

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• archery
• target
• engineering
• UC
• Berkeley
• lieu
• chu
• gray

[922jcook]

Using those high speed mechanical advantage cheater bows...

Instinctive Longbow came, saw, and conquered.

[4myfirstbow]

@roythearcher

I use a six-sigma approach to analyze my shots; figure out what are the contributing factors for variance, then try to minimize the effect of varable one at a time.

[flintstone9812]

I like the take down feature of the recurve. It can easily be stored in a backpack.

[flintstone9812]

An engineer can truly appreciate the transfer of energy when using a compound bow. They provide a great mechanical advantage over the re-curve but I much prefer the re-curve design as that is what I first learned archery with in school many years ago.

Archery can be very relaxing as one must put all other thoughts out of mind and breathe and focus on only one thing.

[markthreemillion]

@archeryghost ... good for you .. fucking blow me

[archeryghost]

:D i'm from Egypt...and the engineers totally hate archery xD

[archeryghost]

@markthreemillion plz STFU -.-

[archeryghost]

@markthreemillion plz STFU -.-

[roythearcher]

You can always anylise the mechanics of a bad shot but it takes a coach to tell you what you are doing wrong and to help sort out the physical and mental aspect of the sport!

[4myfirstbow]

I too am a Mechanical Engineer, I started archery 3 years ago and I just love it. Archery is especially suitable for engineer because one can analyze and explain about a bad shot. A good engineer does not quaranteer a great archer tho.