To Train or Not to Train

[intheten]

Who out there in the Archery world find that there are Archers who train (shooting) all week and shoot GMB scores and then there are Archers who don't train and still shoot GMB scores.

What I want to know is who out there is in one of these catagories or who knows someone, how much they shoot.

[Marcus]

I can varify this.

About 4 years ago I was only shooting weekly at my indoor club and shooting well. Better than I am at th moment by a long shot. As a junior I went 4 months and only pulled the bow out for tournameents entering seniors in them all and won or finished in the top 5 in all of them.

Maybe I should shoot less again.

2 noticables on this one is Jarrad Alston from DVA who rocks up when he can be bothered and shot a 297 indoor earlier this year and a 1300 at the DVA FITA shoot, we had not seen him ;leading up to either of these.
Another is Trevor Weston. I've seen him 3 times in 2 years since coming back, he won the first shoot (Waverley, I finished 4th), shot 1324(?) at the day one of last years State Target and yesterday finished 5th.
Some people have just got it!

[foo]

Does it only hold for compound? Any recurve GMB's who got there without training? :(

[James Park]

For compound: I think that once you have a good basic technique and are using your release device properly 1300 is pretty easy and could be maintained without a lot of practice. 1350 is not so straight forward and does require quite a bit of effort to maintain the finesse. However, most archers do not have their basic technique in order, and do not use their release device as they should. Just about all of my coaching ends up being aimed at those two things rather than the finesse needed to get the very high scores.

[grantwomack]

I am within about 15 points of an Australian GMB (about 100 points from a British one) and I shoot once a week for about 4 hours. I used to shoot about three times a week for about 6 hours at a time but that was up until about Sept last year. And my scores have improved since then. Go figure!

[intheten]

Foo, it was in general, It also dosn't have to be GMB I mean Over all.

To me training means: To reduce fatigue at the later end of a tournament, being phisical and mental, which to Jim's post keeps your Technique in form all day.