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In modern archery, a compound bow is a bow that uses a levering system, usually of cables and pulleys, to bend the limbs. [1] The compound bow was first developed in 1966 by Holless Wilbur Allen in North Kansas City, Missouri , and a US patent was granted in 1969.
The World Archery Rankings is a ranking system developed by the World Archery Federation for international competitive archery. It is calculated using a points system and published following major World Archery tournaments. The ranking system was first developed in 2001, and calculation method updated in 2010. At present, rankings are ...
Allen was born July 12, 1909, in Stilwell, Kansas.In the 1960s, he sawed the ends off a conventional recurve bow and then added pulleys to each end. [1] Allen experimented with a number of designs to apply for a patent on June 23, 1966, [2] and U.S. patent 3,486,495 was granted to him in December 1969.
Marines demonstrate MCMAP in Times Square for Fleet Week 2010 2 MCMAP instructors with General James L. Jones in January 2002 at MCRD San Diego. The MCMAP was officially created by Marine Corps Order 1500.54, published in 2002, as a "revolutionary step in the development of martial arts skills for Marines and replaces all other close-combat related systems preceding its introduction."
The binary cam is a design for the pulley system of a compound bow. Craig Yehle, director of research and development at Bowtech Archery, received a patent [ 1 ] for the design on December 11, 2007. Bowtech started equipping its bows with the new cam design in the 2005 model year.
Mike Schloesser (born 15 january 1994 [3] in Heerlen, Netherlands) is a compound archer from the Netherlands.In 2015, he was the first person to hit a perfect 600/600, hence his nickname Mister Perfect.