First Training Session

The dates on the posts won't actually match because it depends on entirely when I actually get around to blogging the stuff in my training diary, but I don't think it's that important about the dates but rather the content.

The only issue is that I can't include diagrams easily. I can draw them, but I don't have a really decent stable server space to upload and link to ~shrug~. I'll probably get around to it.

As a first post, the purpose of this blog.

When I started archery, it was for enjoyment. To this day, I still enjoy it and I dedicate a very large portion of my time, finances and mental capacity to it. It is actually one of the two sports that I have done for a long period of time, and unlike Fencing, it looks like I will be able to and quite happily continue for a time to come yet.

Last year, I was fortunate to finally find myself a coach. My coach is one of the nations best archers with consistent placings on the state ranking table, and also consistent placings on the national ranking table in the higher echelons. I really appreciate that he has taken the time for me to provide me with opportunity and support to grow. In a way, it is beneficial for me and him as I learn and grow with his knowledge and experience and he reinforces his own training and gets to work on new techniques in his own bank of skills. I personally think he actually quite enjoys coaching because I know he also really likes to help people out as long as they make it worth his time. Since I travel to see him, it doesn't put him out of his way, and our training method enables him to do his own training without me disrupting as I shoot on the same target as him, and he just watches me between his shots, and makes comments and adjustments as we go.

In order to actually get anywhere, a goal was required, so, we set me a goal to achieve. Goals must be something realistic, achievable in a realistic timeframe.

My original goal was to score 1200 in April 2007 at the 2007 Archery Australia Open National Championships. However, this blog is called the road to 1220 because my goal has been upgraded to 1220 since then, and I figured that it should probably start there. So, with that goal in mind, everything has been geared accordingly to that goal.

I hope you enjoy the journey of how far I get towards that 1220.