Kemankesh Turkish Traditional Archery

Puta is the name of the traditional ottoman archery target. Originally made of leather these target are shot from a challenging distance. Originally the discipline requires shots from 165 meters, but this rule has been changed to 70 meters in most competitions.

The Turkish Flight archery discipline is a form of long distence archery where archers are expected to shoot the highest distance. Special Turkish flight bows and flight arrow are used in this discipline.

Traditional horse archery is a discipline involving horse riding and archery. It has two variations such as the target archery and the Qabaq archery. During target archery, the archers are riding in full galloping and shooting at three targets in the course. The Qabaq discipline involves a 50 feet pole where a gourd is placed on top. The archers are suppose to hit the gourd in full galloping when right under the pole.

This form of archery is considered a trick shot where the archer is expected to pierce and very hard piece of metal, or glass. In this form of competition or demonstration the bows are very heavy the and the arrows are used with special piercing points.