Thursday 1st October 2009

@ Sefton,

Warm, starting to heat up, no wind to speak of, bright and sunny.

10x 6 arrow ends @ 18m, 40cm 6-10ring spot.

Total 60.

Shot another indoor round, scoring a 527, including a lowest end of 49 and highest of 55.

Not very consistent, had problems bringing the arrows through the clicker, and realised towards the end it was because my head position is creeping forwards.  Most likely due to over-aiming the smaller spot size and not keeping posture up.

527 score comes to a 70 rating, so it is still okay, not the best.

Tuesday 29th September 2009

@ St Pauls,

Warm day, slight odd breeze, not significant.

6x 6 arrow ends @ 30m, 122cm face, no scoring

1x 6 arrow end @ 70m, 122cm face, sight setting

6x 6 arrow ends @ 70m, 122cm face, scoring

6x 6 arrow ends @ 90m, 122cm face, scoring

6x 6 arrow ends @ 50m, 80cm face, scoring

6x 6 arrow ends @ 30m, 80cm face, scoring with fading light.

Total 31x 6 arrow ends = 186 arrows shot.

While I shot a FITA out of order, it was still good to attempt to shoot one.  It took me nearly 5 hours to shoot the whole thing, with a break in between while talking and investigating some strange riser phenomenon on a club bow.

The scores, in FITA order are:

90m: 45 39 39 44 46 42 = 255, average = 42.5, Rating of 78

70m: 41 47 49 49 47 47 = 280, average = 46.7, Rating of 74

50m: 51 48 47 35 44 49 = 274, average = 45.7, Rating of 71

30m: 57 52 56 54 53 55 = 327, average = 54.5, Rating of 75

Total FITA Score = 1136, Rating of 74, 1 point from 75 Rating.

The comments:

At 50m, I was starting to fade in the second half, evident by the terrible 35 point end.  I was struggling strength wise to complete the set of six, and was forcing the shots through, which cost points.  I stopped and slowed down, pulling up the scores in the remaining two ends for the distance.  At this point, I had already shot a FITA equivalent number of arrows, even if I considered warmup into it, thus the entirety of the 30m distance was also very challenging.

A 1136 is only 50 points lower than my competition Personal Best of 1186, so at this point of my shooting and progress, I am quite happy with it, and I was pleasantly surprised at how my 90m score went.  I was expecting more around my usual 210 range for the distance.  70m and 30m were on my expectations, but my 50m was slightly down (for obvious reasons).

I think I am making good progress.

Thursday 24th September 2009

@ Sefton
Bright sunny, slight breeze.

1x 12 arrow end @ 18m warmup, 40cm 7-ring spot.
5x 12 arrow ends @ 18m, 40cm 7-ring spot, scored.

Total 72 arrows.

Shot another Indoor round today, scored a 536. This puts in for a rating of 73, nearly 74 (537).
Last time I shot one I scored a 525 for a rating of a 69, so it shows minor improvement.

Needed to relax and keep head position still as movement forward meant difficulties in engaging the back and bringing the arrow through the clicker. The higher sight mark for the distance meant bow shoulder was having problems in staying down.

Tuesday 22nd September 2009

@ St Pauls
Hot, gusty winds, dark clouds late in the session.

12x 12 arrow ends @ 70m, 122cm face no scoring.

Total 144.

Today, having not shot for a week, I did some 70m with some of the seniors in the club. It was a challenging environment because the wind was being quite gusty at times with no semblance of constant direction or strength.

While I had some poor shots, overall in shooting 12 arrow ends, I was quite satisfied with the results. I was finding that about 1/3-1/4 of the arrows were staying within the gold while the rest were in the red, with perhaps 1 or 2 in the blue. This is quite a good result I feel, especially since if I count that the furthermost outlying arrows were when I was tired at the end, then the better ones in the middle could be more repeatable.

I also found that I have to pay more attention to how I use my right and drawing shoulder when locking down at full draw before expanding, as it changes the quality of my alignment and release drastically.

Tuesday 15th September 2009

@ Sefton,

Very cloudy, slight breeze but not significant

FITA Indoor 18m 600: Total 525 score (60 arrows)

Rating tables equals 69, Rating of 70 is a 526.

Found it quite difficult to bring through the clicker when concentration was on holding on aim and steady, release also suffered considerably and conscious effort was required to keep the bow shoulder down, and bowarm out of the way. Required several let-downs.

Sunday 13th September 2009

@ Sefton

4x 18 arrow ends @ 8m, 60cm spot.

Total 72.

Noted that todays shooting was reasonable but arrows are grouping to the right. Indicates that my arrow spine may be going slightly weaker than the current tuning, which is possible if my release is cleaning up, giving more speed to the arrow. Bareshaft and poor shots are going slightly to the left of fletched shafts. Other than that, I was fairly happy with the shooting.

Thursday 10th September 2009

@ Sefton,

Morning session, cool but starting to warm in the last half of the last set
Afternoon session, also cool

4x 18 arrow ends @ 8m blank
2x 18 arrow ends @ 8m blank

Total 108

Nothing special to report. Shooting for conditioning. Moved clicker back to attempt to find ways of expanding through the clicker better, was able to still shoot with moved clicker. Afternoon session had extra weight on the longrod to compensate for shooting less, follow through bow movements were more controlled with the extra weight.