Get Archery Lessons in Toronto

Ever wanted to try archery but don't know if you will be serious about the sport?

Get archery lessons in Toronto!

Visit http://www.cardiotrek.ca/p/archery-lessons.html

This way you can try out the sport, see if you like it, and then you can decide whether you want to buy a bow / arrows / fingergloves / etc.

Toronto Public Archery Range

Want to learn more about the Toronto Public Archery Range? Go visit http://www.facebook.com/torontoarchery to learn more about the Toronto Public Archery Range.

Archery Inspired Workout in NYC

A New York health club has created an archery inspired workout based off the movie "Brave".

But if you want real archery practice nothing beats the local archery range.

Get archery lessons in Toronto from CardioTrek.

Centennial Park to host Pan Am Games in 2015

The archery venue for the 2015 Pan Am Games has been moved from E. T. Seton Park (home of the Toronto Public Archery Range) to Centennial Park in the west end of Toronto.

The location is so far west it isn't really in Toronto. It is in Etobicoke, which been named one of seven "core destinations" for sporting events at the upcoming Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games.


Ian Troop, CEO of the Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan Am Games Organizing Committee (TO2015), on Friday, May 11 that the Etobicoke Pan Am Complex will see Centennial Park serve as the site of the BMX cycling and archery events, while the bowling competition will be held 'nearby.'

However the new archery range will only be temporary. After the 2015 games it will be dismantled.

The BMX site however will be permanent, despite protests from locals who are against the proposed $15-million, seven-acre BMX facility in the northern edge of the 500-acre park, near what's known as Toboggan Hill, becoming a permanent feature of the park.

But that you see is a huge difference in setup.

A BMX track is tarmac. Once that $15 million is spent and the place is finished, it would be a fundamental huge waste of money to rip up a BMX track and remove it entirely. It can't just be picked up and moved to another location. Its pavement. Once it goes in it would be silly to remove it.

In contrast an archery range is really just a line in the grass and targets plunked down 90 yards away. An archery range can be built almost anywhere... including an empty parking lot... and just as easily removed the very next day.

And an archery range can be built relatively cheaply. The only real cost is from maintenance of the target butts and mowing the grass once per week.

The Onna-bugeisha

The Onna-bugeisha were a caste of Japanese female warriors. They were said to have such legendary combat prowess in sword, bow, spear, horseback riding, that a single unit of the Onna-bugeisha could match any three male units.

Some credit this to skill, others credit it to the Onna-bugeisha's reputed vicious approach to combat tactics.

The Onna-bugeisha were also trained in the literary arts and statescraft, suggesting they were also leaders and thinkers.

Historically the Onna-bugeisha were overshadowed by the more numerous and corrupt samurai caste.

Their existence in Japanese culture later led to women’s right to inherit and bequeath property. Prominent Onna-bugeisha were the Empress Jingu, Tomoe Gozen, and Hōjō Masako, and Nakano Takeko. Their influence later diminished significantly as Japan's culture switched from war to bureaucracy - and bureaucrats forced women out of roles of power - and the role of women once again became restricted to child-bearing.

However the history and myth of Onna-bugeisha warriors lives in Japanese popular culture - often showing up in popular manga and anime series.