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Seems the English Field Archery as voted to return to fixed anchor, many Longbow Archers I've spoken to never wanted facewalking to be allowed and cant figure how it was implimented in the first place, I suspect voted on by IFAA country reps that dont shoot Longbow and never bothered to ask their own members what they thought.

IFAA & FACE-WALKING

The Committee’s thanks are due to the membership for their response to the recent questionnaire in Field Archer. Votes from thirteen archers showed a clear preference (85%) for IFAA to revert to requiring a single anchor point for its Longbow style. This is the style from which the EFAA American Flat Bow and English Longbow rules are drawn. Your Committee has acted upon your vote.

The European IFAA delegates’ meeting takes place at the end of February. EFAA will be there and a proposal has been drafted and placed on the Agenda. This will be an excellent opportunity for our representative to lobby for support in reversing the IFAA change of 2006, which deleted the obligation for this IFAA style to use a single anchor point. Equally, it will be a suitable venue to judge the level of support from other Member National Associations for the proposal - simply because a majority of IFAA members are European based.

It may not be appreciated but our proposal will need a Seconder who is present at World Council before it can even be debated at that forum. Furthermore, if the proposal is to be passed, it will need a two-thirds majority of those attending to be in favour.

So the process of democracy is slow but it does prevail and your Committee can assure you that we have listened and we are acting. Whether we will be successful on your behalf is substantially out of our control. [i][/i]

if it wasn't for these archery orgs - most notably the ifaa curmudgeons - archery tournaments would actually be fun, with increased participation, attendance and worldwide recognition.

Yeah I found Fita 3D a breath of fresh air, 4 shooting divisions of Compound, Longbow with Recurve Trad and Barebow compared to IFAA's 11 shooting divisions.

The Fita Longbow rules are simpler as well.

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Well the IFAA had a European members meeting and all voted to return fixed anchor wording back into Longbow.

It has to be voted on by world members at WFAC in Germany and if passed wont start till 2011. Every Longbow Archer I spoke with had no desire for this rule change in the first place, the IFAA cant/wont give any details as to who or how this change was passed in the first place.

I've asked my country Rep to address this issue and ask the IFAA to be more open about it's business, they have a website and shouldn't be hard to keep it's members up to date with information.