Got a day of tomorrow and fancy going down the field for a quick round.
Not sure but thinking I might do a St George, Half FITA or Long Metric. The weather will be a factor and how tierd Laura is as well.
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Sunday, 27 September 2009
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)
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)
The Young Pretender Vs The Old Guard
Today is my first real tournament and it's the club champs.
So can I upset the apple cart and take at least one of the established compound archers down. The answer is probably no but I'm not going to go down with out a fight. I've put the poundage up, and also cut my arrows down.
It's going to be interesting at the end of the day to see how far I'm off the pace with the other club compound archers.
So can I upset the apple cart and take at least one of the established compound archers down. The answer is probably no but I'm not going to go down with out a fight. I've put the poundage up, and also cut my arrows down.
It's going to be interesting at the end of the day to see how far I'm off the pace with the other club compound archers.
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Arrows in the Shop
The ACE's have gone to Archery Link to be cut down, I now feel happy with my draw length so hopefully they can be done before tomorrow evening so I can get sight marks for the club champs.
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
The Start
Sunday was my last tournament for a long time with my Recurve. The occasion was the Grand Western Inter-counties. A selection only tournament for archers of the region.
I prior to the day I didn't really want to go I was scared that I would be last out of the mens recurve within DCAS. I shot on Target 5 thus showing my ranking inside the county for this season. For the last 3yrs I've shot on target two. I wasn't encouraged by the fact that our top Recurve archer wasn't going to be present or one of our best compounders. I decided that I would go purely because it would be my last with a recurve for some time, perhaps ever.
So to the reason of this Blog, it's going to be a journal for me and anyone else who wants to comment on my ventures with a compound bow. Tomorrow I will be down the field setting up my compound for the club championships having just increased the weight by a turn and a half. I've shot one tournament with my compound and scored 1206, a very respectable score for a recurve, I've set myself at this moment in time two targets for 2010 a 1300 FITA and a 1200 york, I'm not really sure about the york target at this moment in time but I want a 1300, this blog is going to be struggles and adventures in achieving this and hopefully more.
Phil
I prior to the day I didn't really want to go I was scared that I would be last out of the mens recurve within DCAS. I shot on Target 5 thus showing my ranking inside the county for this season. For the last 3yrs I've shot on target two. I wasn't encouraged by the fact that our top Recurve archer wasn't going to be present or one of our best compounders. I decided that I would go purely because it would be my last with a recurve for some time, perhaps ever.
So to the reason of this Blog, it's going to be a journal for me and anyone else who wants to comment on my ventures with a compound bow. Tomorrow I will be down the field setting up my compound for the club championships having just increased the weight by a turn and a half. I've shot one tournament with my compound and scored 1206, a very respectable score for a recurve, I've set myself at this moment in time two targets for 2010 a 1300 FITA and a 1200 york, I'm not really sure about the york target at this moment in time but I want a 1300, this blog is going to be struggles and adventures in achieving this and hopefully more.
Phil
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