Tuesday, 7 June 2011

Tuesday 7th June 2011

@ St Pauls
Cool, windy gusts coming from behind and right->left, sunny.

4x 12 arrow ends @ 70m, 122cm unscored
12x 6 arrow ends @ 70m, 122cm scored.

Total 120

Just put down some 70m today, working on trying to control my bow hand to be more straight forward on the release and helping with expansion.  In my 12 arrow ends, I had a lot of solid groups, a little shifted to the left from the wind at times, but a good half in the gold kind of thing.

In scoring, the ends opened up some in the first six, leaving me with a low 268, but concentrating more on the second half, and also watching the wind conditions better, I scored a 279.  The first three ends being 49, 52, 52, but conditions got a bit blustery and my shooting fell apart somewhat, ending on a 39.  Total coming only to a 547, not particularly good.

That said, process wise, things felt a bit more together, and shooting in windy conditions isn't a strong indicator really, though I need to develop better timing and faster expansion without losing my control.  I feel that I have good control but it is so slow that I have no timing and it is too energy consumptive.  Consistency is probably the biggest issue at hand.

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