Viet-Tam Luu

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Professional code wrangler. Retired race car driver. Late-blooming Olympic recurve archer. Unapologetic Canadian.

Photo of myself in front of an archery target with my arrows almost all in middle gold rings
Photo of three archery tournament stickers, CA Beach Cup, Salt Lake Summit, and the larger sticker, 2026 Santa Teresa Cup.
Photo looking down the archery shooting line with a number of Olympic recurve archers in the view
Photo of black sphynx cat Ash with his brother Appa, sitting side by side.
Photo of rectangular signs roughly the size of a sheet of paper, each sign bearing a large target number, "01", "03", "05", etc. Each sign has two wire legs sticking out the bottom.
Short clip of simultaneous left and right views of me making a shot with my olympic recurve bow, while a hummingbird buzzes around my arrows and behind my draw arm as I prepare for the shot.
Selfie with me at a bus stop with a bus stop sign indicating route 104.
Screenshot of an archery scoring app, showing arrow totals from a single round, 6 ends of 6 arrows, with end scores of 49, 54, 51, 46, 55, 49, for a total score of 304/360.
Photo of a black and white NFAA field archery target face full of arrow holes, pinned to a straw target bale. On the target, written in pen, is "DANGER! RATTLE SNAKE lives under the bail (sic)".
Photo of an archery target in the near distance,. surrounded by green grass and a verdant hillside beyond the chain link fence behind it. In the foreground, in front of the target are three turkeys; the left ones with its tail feathers flared out in display.
Photo of arrows arranged in an archery tube, with the arrows evenly spaced and separated.
Photo showing the tops of 9 separate tubes containing sets of arrows, each tube labeled with my name and the type of arrow contained within.
Photo of me shooting my Olympic recurve bow at practice, a green archery range and hillside in front of me, the target off in the distance. The photo is taken just after the arrow was released and the arrow can be seen in midair a short distance in front of me.
Screenshot from the Strava fitness app showing GPS tracks from a 3h28m "Archery practice" session, with a total distance walked of 4.76 km and an average heart rate of 99 bpm.
Collage of 4 photos, selfies of myself taken in front of an archery target with 6 of 6 arrows in the inner gold (yellow) center of the target face.
Close-up photo of an arrow sticking out of a target, with the nock shot off and the carbon fiber material splintered and the aluminum core underneath bent and torn.
Screenshot of an archery scorecard showing a total score of 304/360.
Screenshot of an archery scorecard showing a total score of 300/360.
Close-up photo of arrows protruding out of an archery target. Two arrows are in focus, protruding out of the target's second-innermost gold 9-ring, parallel to each other and spaced about 2cm apart. The orange-coloured plastic nock on the lower arrow is broken, with the rearmost part of the nock missing, as the arrow was struck by the arrow next to it.
Photo of an archery target featuring two arrows in the innermost gold 10-ring, three in the gold 9-ring, and an outlier sixth arrow far to the left in the blue 6-ring.
Selfie taken at CTAM archery club. Behind me in the distance can be seen racks of bows, next to green-painted pillars that divide up the large underground space into separate indoor archery ranges. White arrow curtains hang from the ceiling to partition the space.
Screenshot of an archery score sheet showing a total score of 297/360, and with all but three shots in the gold or red, and the three shots in the black.
Photo of myself posing with a thumbs up gesture in front of an archery target with six arrows in the inner "gold" rings, with three in the center 10-ring and three in the 9. I'm dressed in my archery practice outfit, with a white T-shirt, black chest guard, white bucket hat.
Photo taken at the archery range, with a spotting scope and Olympic-style recurve bow on its stand in the foreground, a target barely visible some 70m away in the distance under fairly foggy conditions.
Photo of an archery target with five arrows in the gold 9-ring and a sixth arrow in the red 8-ring barely outside below the gold.
Short video showing an Olympic recurve bow in the foreground, an archery target in the distance, and heavy rain and windy conditions.
A photo of three Olympic recurve bows, without stabilizers attached, set down side by side on a picnic table.
Photo of a 3-spot 40cm archery target. The lower left and upper spots have arrows in the innermost X-ring, and the lower right spot has an arrow in the 10-ring.
Photo of an archery target with six Easton X10 arrows in it. The target face is a partial World Archery 10-ring 122cm face, cropped partway through the inner black 4-ring. There are three arrows in the inner X ring within the inner 10 ring, one in the 9, one in the 8, and one in the 7, for an end score of 54/60. The arrows have yellow vanes and yellow-orange nocks.
Photo of an archery target with six Easton X10 arrows in it. The target face is a World Archery 10-ring 80cm face. There is one arrow in the inner 10 ring, three in the 9, and two in the 8. The arrows have yellow vanes and yellow-orange nocks.
Photo of six arrows protruding out of an archery belt quiver resting on a wooden bench. The arrows have yellow "JET6" vanes and translucent yellow/orange Beiter out-nocks fitted over the ends of the arrow shafts. The "Easton X10" label in the middle of the arrow shaft is visible on most of the arrows near the quiver. On some arrows, a white single-digit arrow number label can be seen just forward of the vane; on others, the initials "VTL" are neatly written on the shaft opposite the arrow number label can be seen.
Collage of two photos of my right hand "wearing" a Fivics Saker Plus EPR archery finger tab, which features a black anodized aluminum palm rest with a notable rear protruding section that ends into my palm towards my wrist.
Photo showing blue, yellow, and white storage bins each containing an organizer divided into compartments of various sizes, most filled with spools of bowstring material, others with tools and supplies related to bowstring making.
Screenshot of an archery Round 3, showing six ends of six arrows. End 2 has five of six arrows in the gold, with scores of X, X, 9, 9, 9, 4, and End 3 is even better with scores of 10, 9, 9, 9, 9, 8. Subsequent ends have considerably lower scores.
Photo of the back half of nine arrows laying parallel on a concrete floor. Eight of the arrows have nearly identical damage to the bottom of three pink vanes, with a chunk torn out of the front of the vane.
Close up photo of the back of a foam archery target, with six arrows each protruding about 8 cm out of the back of the target.
Close up sidelong view of arrows protruding from a black foam archery target. The arrows have thin black shafts, three pink vanes, and yellow-green nocks. Several arrows are visibly missing a piece off of the front one of the vanes.
Photo taken in my garage, with a vintage compound bow with modern Olympic recurve bow stabilizers and sight attached, sitting on a bow stand on the garage floor in the foreground. In the far corner of the garage is a grey recycling bin with a black foam archery target sitting atop it and six arrows sticking out of it. Also in the background are other contents of the garage: a water softener unit, a yellow welding machine, toolboxes, and other stuff sitting on shelves attached to the garage wall.
Selfie taken with a green archery field behind me, and some San Francisco streets visible in the distance. I'm wearing a white Waterloo bucket hat and my Olympic recurve bow and spotting scope tripod are behind me.
Photo of an archery target with five arrows in the inner gold ring and one in the outer black.
Photo of a 40cm 10-ring archery target, with three bareshaft (without any vanes) arrows in the gold, two fletched arrows left of gold in the red, and one fletched arrow high-left in the blue.
A closeup of some Easton X10 arrow shafts with only the middle label portions visible, resting on a dark wooden surface.
Selfie against a green archery field with target bales visible in the distance.
Selfie taken next to the archery target, with me, dressed in my blue archery club jersey and white University of Waterloo bucket hat, pointing at my arrows which are in the middle of the target.
Photo of an archery field, with my Olympic recurve bow and spotting scope in the foreground and targets at the far end of the field in the distance. In the background, palm trees can be seen, under a blue cloudless sky.
Wide view of the Easton Center archery field, with targets set up at various distances on the far end of the field, underneath an orange-glowing post-sunset sky.
Photo of my wrist and smartwatch with a counter app showing a count of 336 arrows shot today. In the background a green grass archery field and targets in the distance.