Protective Gear for Archers

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is my lovely assistant Teresa. She's going to do a little shooting for us today, and show you some form on her. This is a chest protector. This you want to wear when you're shooting because as that spring comes by it will catch your shirt, or it will hit your chest. It hurts; believe me, so we put on the chest protector. This is an arm guard, same principle. When the string comes by, it runs right along your arm, if you don't wear this you get a big black and blue welt right there, about forty-five pounds of pressure there. This is a finger sling. She wears this to connect that hand to the bow because when you let go of the arrow, the bow jumps out of your hand, you don't want it hitting the ground, you want it staying connected to your hand. This is a finger tab. This is to protect her fingers from the string. Usually two pieces of leather with a kind of rubber buffer in between. When you're shooting two or three hundred arrows a day your fingers would literally get cut off if you weren't using one of these."