Sunday, 31 July 2011

Saturday 30th July 2011

@ Easton Yankton
Hot, not too humid, light breeze, clear skies and sunny.

2x 8 arrow ends @ 70m, 122cm unscored warmup on unofficial practice range
3x 3 arrow ends @ 70m, 122cm  warmup
6x 3 arrow ends @ 70m, 122cm Matchplay (2 matches of 3 ends)
4x 6 arrow ends @ 30m and 70m, shooting new clicker and fingertab.

Total 67

Today was the Hoyt World Open matchplay event.  I was seeded 27th after the qualifying FITA90 yesterday.  My first match was against gt, one of the engineers involved in developing the Easton X10 arrow.  I won the match, and was then put up against Dan Schuller, who came 6th in the FITA90, so when I lost, it wasn't really a big deal.  In terms of execution, I did fine against gt, but lost it completely against Schuller.  I think it is because in the matchplay format there is such a long wait delay while other matches in other divisions happen and it was hard to stay 'warm' and concentration was pretty challenging.

Got to work on bowarm, hand pressure, finger pressure, and confident bringing through the clicker.

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