Amit Dror is ready to go: His bow is cocked and so are his arms, tense and taut, veins about to burst, elbow vibrating with violent energy. If archery, like all forms of sport and art, is an expression of self, the bow is an extension of self. The bow “becomes a part of you,” Dror’s coach Yehuda Efrati explains, and Dror says, “You are the gunpowder.”

It is an intensely personal sport, and not only because Dror, who arrived in Beijing this week with the Israeli delegation to compete in the Paralympic Games, is the only high-level archer in the country, but because a bow is rigorously tailored to the measurements and mannerisms of its owner, interlocked in a mutually exclusive relationship.

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