{"id":43730,"date":"2026-04-02T23:11:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/43730\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:11:05","slug":"indian-traditional-bow-gifted-as-coaches-complete-level-2-course-in-lausanne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/43730\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian traditional bow gifted as coaches complete level 2 course in Lausanne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarcherycentre.org\/en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Archery Excellence Centre<\/a> in Lausanne hosted a group of coaches as part of a Level 2 coaching course from 23 to 27 March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen participants (four women and 11 men), including 14 from India and one from Chinese Taipei, successfully completed the programme. The course was led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/athlete\/54829\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Swane<\/a> (Great Britain), supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/athlete\/7511\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bernardo Oliveira<\/a> (Brazil).<\/p>\n<p>During the session, delegates presented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/athlete\/4646\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Siret Luik<\/a>, World Archery head of education, with a traditional Indian bow. Crafted by Ganesh Vishwakarma, one of the participating coaches, who also successfully completed the course, it will now be displayed at the Excellence Centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy to add a bamboo bow from India to the display in the World Archery Excellence Centre,\u201d said Luik. \u201cWe already have a collection of ancient bows and arrows from Peru, previously gifted by one of our members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The traditional Indian bow plays a central role in grassroots archery development in India. While it performs similarly to a recurve bow, it can be produced at a significantly lower cost, making the sport more accessible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot deny that high-level archery equipment can be expensive, especially when it needs to be imported,\u201d said Luik. \u201cThis bow is an excellent example that, in a lack of resources, we need to be more creative \u2013 a symbol of seeing a solution instead of a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that bamboo bows contribute significantly to grassroots development and the popularisation of archery in India.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a coaching level, these bows are a great way to teach good recurve technique at a really affordable price,\u201d said Swane. \u201cThey behave like a high-performance recurve but allow for much greater participation of children where families are on a tight budget.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The World Archery Excellence Centre in Lausanne hosted a group of coaches as part of a Level 2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[2818,2819,3070,94,25264],"class_list":["post-43730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lausanne","tag-coaching","tag-development-projects","tag-excellence-centre","tag-lausanne","tag-traditional-archery"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116337644968805089","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}