Not many go on to do the real thing, but Bayfield High School siblings Fikri and Nasifah Abdul-Razak have - and they are pretty good at it too.
The duo both placed in their classes at a national secondary schools archery competition earlier this year.
Fikri, competing in his first competition, finished second in the boys' limited recurve.
He had shot a score of 156, edging out fellow Dunedin competitor Cameron Hall, of
Kaikorai Valley College, who was third on 154.
It was a result that pleased the 17-year-old, who had been doing archery for one year.
He had followed Nafisah (15) into the sport. Nafisah took it up in 2014 and experienced success while in Malaysia, where the family came from.
She added to that success with a third place in the girls' limited recurve at the same competition.
Shooting a score of 132, she finished one point ahead of both the fourth and fifth-placed competitors.
The competition was run throughout the country with competitors shooting at targets at the same distance and same size.
That allowed them to compete in Dunedin and spared the difficulty of getting everyone together in the same place at the same time.
Both were members of the Dunedin Archery Club and practised every weekend.
They both enjoyed it, although it could take a lot of practice to get good at.
''Just practising the form, that's it, actually,'' Fikri said when asked the keys to becoming good at archery.
''Everything's in the form, from elbow height, to not using your arms, using your back muscles, to putting your finger on the string at the same exact spot and having the string on the same spot on your face.
''So how I do it is I align my string to my nose and my chin and so I get the same spot on my release, so there's no variation. A lot of practice.''
Nafisah added that posture was important.
''Posture is key. You have to be standing straight; you can't be slanting, or your arrow will follow your body.''
They said numbers in the sport had risen and they hoped more people took it up.
