I remember shooting a bow in BSA summer camp, and refusing to use the leather inside forearm guard. I paid the price for that by not holding the contraption correctly and removed some serious bark. It was ‘colorful’.
“The right breast of the young girls was bound or removed so that it did not hinder them from being excellent archers. The left breast was left intact for their future babies. By folk etymology, this practice is where the name “Amazon” (Greek, a- meaning “without” and mazos meaning “breast”) comes from”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampedo
HARDCORE!