Post match evaluation

Today was the club championships. The smallest turn out I’ve ever seen, there were three of us shooting compounds.
The run up to the champs I cut my arrows and also increased the poundage, in the short term this wasn’t a good idea, As my draw length has changed slightly and found it difficult to get rotation. In the long term it's best to push myself now and bring out the bad habits I know I could have scored more today if i didn't make the changes but I’m not thinking short term the increased poundage comse with an increase in speed and a greater responsibility to execute a better shot. The changes have shown floors in my shootting, I spent time today working on my hand position as the grip is very different to that of a recurve therefore I have to “delearn” too some extent everything I know from my recurve days Geoff one of the club archers talked me through a routine and I found that this helped me.
Every time I go and shoot my compound I’m learning something new it does feel like this is a step learning curve at this moment in time but I’m under no illusions that I will get this right with more arrows under my belt.
Well I came 3rd out of 3 but only a point behind 2nd place I had a miss at 50yds when I didn’t clip release aid on correctly and half way through my draw my hand came off and I punched myself in the face (my god it hurt). But I kept plodding away all day and brought it back to 1point in front. But in the last dozen I accidently punched two arrows in to the six ring leaving me 1 point behind. I’m just happy that I managed to keep within a reasonable amount of points.

At the end of the day I shot an extra couple of ends, under the watch full eye of Geoff and have re adjusted my peep sight giving me a lot better sight mark also making it a lot more stable on aim for me.

Next year with a season behind me I they will won’t have to look behind them to see where I am they will be looking in front trying to catch me up :0)