Popinjay
Popinjay is otherwise known as 'Papingo' and is a type of archery that originated from shooting birds that sat on church steeples. This sport is quite known in Belgium but not outside it. In Popinjay, archers stand within twelve feet from the bottom of a mast that is as tall as ninety feet. The archers shoot 'blunts' which are arrows with rubber caps for tips almost vertically upwards. Their target is to remove any of the wooden birds on top of the mast. These wooden birds are different and have their own value. On top of the mast is one Cock worth five points, four hens worth three points each and a minimum of twenty-four chicks worth one point each. A point is scored when the wooden bird is knocked off its perch.
Scoring:
Points are scored for each bird knocked off. Typically, the archer scores 5 points for the cock, 3 points for a hen and 1 point for a chick.
Flight archery
is a competition wherein the winner is declared as the one with the farthest arrow because the score is determined by the sheer distance of the arrow from the shooting line. Archers shoot a number of arrows from a set shooting line. After all arrows are released, the archers go out to find their arrow that went the farthest and mark it with a distinct marker. At the end of each round, the archers sit or stand near their marked arrows while assigned judges measure the distance from the shooting line. There are many classes that an archer can participate in and they vary according to the bow technique used and its draw force.
Roving Marks
Roving Marks is perhaps the oldest form of archery competition and was practiced by Henry VIII. In this type of archery, the archers shoot to a certain mark, which is usually a post or a flag that is used as the target. From this particular mark, the archer will again shoot to another mark and again to another. Similar to Clout Archery, ropes or ribbons are used to score the arrows. The scoring system in the Finsbury Mark awards twenty points to arrows that hit the mark exactly, twelve points for arrows that hit within three feet of the mark, seven points for arrows that fall within the next six feet from the three-foot mark and then three points for arrows that fall within the next nine feet off the six-foot mark. The archer with the most points at the end of the marks is declared the winner.
Trap
20 arrows to be shot at 30 cm diameter targets which will be thrown in front of archer. Directions of the targets to be changed in such a way, that equal number of targets would be thrown in one direction (15 arrows to be shot). Archer stands at the ready with nocked arrow. He gives signal to the thrower, which stands 5 meters aside from archer. Throwing zone is marked with three parallel lines to throwing direction. The archer stands on the first line, next line is 3 m from him and the third – 5 m from him. Hits are counted when arrow stacks into the target. Rebounded arrows are counted as hits as well (this exception is introduced because bows of woman are usually of lesser poundage and do not provide necessary energy to stack into harder or energy absorbing target). Due to safety reasons it is recommended to use Flu-Flu arrows. Each hit scores 1 point.
