The word 'traditional' came to be used to define a competition classification other than the then new compound bows. So it simply meant a bow that was "not a compound", and the method by which it was generally shot. By hand and eye, as had been done for thousands of years. It is not about what the bow is made from, or what the archer is wearing. As implied in one post above, you could hand a modern high tech recurve bow and arrows to Oetzi the Iceman, Ishi, a caveman, or to Robin Hood, Genghis Khan, Henry the Eighth, Cochise, Howard Hill, Ben Pearson, Fred Bear and they could shoot them just fine in their usual manner. It is not the materials or how they are made, not the clothing, the hairstyle or the attitude. It is just bows and arrows shot by hand and eye. - lbg
