Negative personal achievements...

[whiz]

Well, yesterday was a day that will remain in memory for some time...
After lying in bed listening to ABC news for an hour, I managed to realise that now I was too late to check to see that my significant other's horse had been fed.
So, a mach run to the club was in order.
Arrived in time to throw my bow together, decide what I was going to shoot, settle on shooting a non gender specific length challenged FITA because I still don't have any sight marks for 90m with the new riser..
(That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.)

Managed then to realise that I'd lost my fingertab in time to hear it be announced that one had been found.

Things just got worse from then on. I don't know what happened to the first arrow at 70m. I think that it's still out there somewhere. At least I refletched some the night before so I had spares.

Finding that your form has degraded to the point where you can't figure out what is going on can be a puzzling experience. In the last few months I've started having trouble with all sorts of things.

And now I find that after having an extremely embarrassing 70 m score, I now have to bring the trusty Shibuya back to 60 metres.
I don't have any sight marks for 60 metres.... Doesn't 30, 50 and 70 cover everything except 90m?
Guesstimation can't really hurt my scores any more than my complete lack of technique at the moment. So why not?

At least I found the first 60m arrow.... eventually and didn't delay things too much.
Finding it was the high point of the day.
Things just managed to spiral downwards from mediocrity to looking for a sharp object with which to spill my intestines on the ground.

The thought of giving up had clouded my judgement a few times.
Unfortunately, I still have spare arrows and there are too many people who know I have a spare string, so chewing through mine at full draw will accomplish little other than making an interesting topic of conversation to scare new archers with. Current synthetics aren't affected by moisture, so my tears won't affect it either.
It's not quite hot enough for heatstroke and I'm not on call this weekend.
Maybe one of my legs will fall off if I wish hard enough.
Where is a meteor strike on my target butt when I want one?

Unfortunately, I've already made my opinion on quitting public.
Live by the forum post, die by the forum post.

So when you have revelations about what you're doing wrong in anything, the law is that you have to do it at least two thirds of the way through a procedure to prevent you recovering anything like a reasonable performance.

Shame MUST be allowed to prevail.



And so I twigged at 30m that I've been standing too straight and have reduced my string clearance, my shoulder is out which is making everything shake and arrows go everywhere and worst of all my anchor has crept to the side slightly and isn't coming up to my chin.

All of a sudden, I'm back to something approaching reasonable.
Today is a day that I haven't made a bet with either Semra or Alex(andra) and for that I'm extremely happy as by now I'd be wearing my pants on my head for quite some time.
At least they've both seen me shoot a lot better before this.

Highlight of the day was seeing Alex score 1198 for her very first competition.

So at least it was a good day for someone.

And I managed to get some good photos of Lexie for the Hoyt website....

[ReG_C]

Ouch, I know the feeling of having a day go to S**t without realising the cause, thankfully -Chris- was on hand to watch my 5th and 6th arrow go, and then proceed to tell me 5 seperate issues that are causing my grief :thumb: once fixed, all was as it should be :P Marginally better at best

[2Dogs]

...Such is recurve archery :thumb:

[ReG_C]

...Such is recurve archery :thumb:

LOL mine was compound :s

[rmw]

Glad I wasn't the only one having a weekend to forget! Thought I'd settle in for a few ends at a comfortable 50m and was hunting for arrows all morning! :o

The next time will be better (or so I tell myself). :beer_drink:

[whiz]

It's a lesson in what will happen without constant form checks..

Guess I should go looking for my arrow....

[tropicalshot]

...Such is recurve archery :thumb:


yes my 90m nemisis came out of the blue and bit me on the ARS# all sunday morning,
i am sure they will can the 90m soon, heard a big rumour that the compounders are going to have to shoot eh 9om on a 80cm face because too many of you getting over 1400 now :rofl:

[GuyDawg9]

baaaahhhhhhhh i like 90m how it is thank you very much

[flyboy_su27]

baaaahhhhhhhh i like 90m how it is thank you very much

As easy as 30m?...80cm for compounders all the way haha!

I've had some crap days for no apparent reason, you really have to be at 100% (or 75% for compounders) to do well.

[whiz]

I really must say though, after having a few days to think about it and get the disappointment out of my system, I have a new resolve to get a real FITA score on the board.
It's fine to feel disappointed, but the telling move next is to see how it makes you act.

[Marcus]

yes my 90m nemisis came out of the blue and bit me on the ARS# all sunday morning,
i am sure they will can the 90m soon, heard a big rumour that the compounders are going to have to shoot eh 9om on a 80cm face because too many of you getting over 1400 now :rofl:
Yep, I think everyone has done it now. It's easy.

[tropicalshot]

Yep, I think everyone has done it now. It's easy.

Clint makes it look too easy, but big kudos to the hard work and practice he puts in,

As easy as 30m?...80cm for compounders all the way haha!

was thinking more along the lines of
90m and 70m = 80cm face
50m and 30m = 60cm face
that would give the compounders a round rightly for themselves as a stand alone ,thoughts????

[Marcus]

Why does archery constantly try and ruin itself?
Do that and people will leave FITA in droves. Would be a boom for field archery, no wait, that's been ruined as well.

Here is an example. In the NBA it's pretty routine now for players to be able to dunk and get above the basket. Much much more than even 20 years ago. Some have suggested that the ring needs to be moved to 11 feet from 10 feet. The NBA refuses to because it would take away EXACTLY what makes the game great to watch. It would be suicide for basketball to take away what has made them a success. Luckily the NBA is not run by retards so they don't do these kind of things.
When I played we would spend time trying to dunk. We would get close (and a few of us got one in the end) and that kept us motivated and trying. If the basket was 11ft then there would be no chance. We wouldn't have bothered.

Sadly archery seems obsessed with trying to bring their elite players down a step. 1400's are creating a HUGE amount of interest. I personally aint getting close to one, but love hearing about them and better yet, witnessing it happen. It's our version of hitting 100 in cricket, scoring 50 in basketball, breaking a huge run in rugby or hitting 10 under par in Golf. How popular would those sports be without those achievements?

[tropicalshot]

i agree with what you are saying, the top archers should be able to stay at the top and not be made to suffer because they are close to nailing the near pefect score,

have heard talk that compounders would like a separate round dedicated to themselves, this was one suggestion and i did not mean to imply in getting rid of or instead of the F90.

[Marcus]

I seriously doubt any compounders would want to make the round harder than it is. Never heard of it in serious discussions. Usually it's recurvers who raise it.

[GuyDawg9]

I seriously doubt any compounders would want to make the round harder than it is. Never heard of it in serious discussions. Usually it's recurvers who raise it.

Thats cos recurves want to be even in score with us, they don't understand that compound archery is like a hole different ball game. in a way.

[The One]

Thats cos recurves want to be even in score with us

You generalise ;)

[whiz]

Thats cos recurves want to be even in score with us, they don't understand that compound archery is like a hole different ball game. in a way.

Golf is a hole different ball game..

The day that recurve shooters start cracking the 1400's is a day that the compounders will hope that those recurve shooters stay with recurves...