Friday 18th February 2011

Run Time
1.4km 5:57

@ St Pauls
Sunny and warm, not really any winds of note.

2x 6 arrow ends @ 90m, 122cm, warmup
2x 36 arrow round @ 90m, 122cm scored
1x 36 arrow round @ 70m, 122cm scored

Total 120.

Scores for the distances were: 196, 250 and 284.  The 90m was still very flakey, good ends, bad ends, terrible ends.  Still need to brush up on consistency, and warming up faster so that after two practice ends, I can really get into swing since at competitions, 30m of practice gets at least 2 ends, but sometimes not more.

Thursday 17th February 2011

Run times

6:23 1.4km (split)

10:44 2.35km.

Improvement~

@ SOPA

Hot, humid, sunny, slight breeze at end of 50m, through 30m distance.

2x 6 arrow ends @ 90m, 122cm, warmup

FITA90

Total 156.

So, with the Metropolitan Championships coming up this weekend, and it being a double FITA90 for my category, I continued with the FITA90 practice.  As I shot a 1111 on Monday, I hoped to improve on that today, especially in hoping that I wasn't going to suffer double vision related problems.

Thankfully today I didn't, so I was much more comfortable in shooting my usual way.

Score wise, the distances were reasonable with the exception of my 90m score, to which I am still suffering greatly on.

90m: 228, average 38, rating of 70

70m: 285, average 47.5, rating of 76

50m: 292, average 48.6, rating of 78

30m: 333, average 55.5, rating of 86

Total 1138, rating of 75 (I'm hoping to shoot a 82 for Nationals at least).  

If we play with the ratings, on average, then it is 70+76+78+86 = 310/4 = 77.5, which equals a 1157.

In regards to QRE's, the combined 70m and 50m scores can be submitted, from sanctioned FITA90 events so for this, I would have a 577, which the required is 565, which means I would have another submittable score.

So, I really need to find a way to solid up my 90m score, and hopefully that might also translate to some few extra points at all other distances.

Tuesday 15th February 2011

It's raining, so I'm not shooting.  Good rest day anyway.

Went for a run in the brief non-rain period.

6:33 for the 1.4km run.

Monday 14th February 2011

Run Times

450m, Helen to Hector, 1:38

450m: Hector to Helen, 1:53.

Improvement.

@ SOPA

Overcast, some winds towards end of session.

2x 6 arrow ends @ 90m, 122cm, unscored

FITA90

Total 156 arrows.

It wasn't the best of sessions, for some reason today, and experienced on Saturday also, my eye dominance is going strange.  I'm having difficulty in maintaining right eye dominance and end up seeing the target to my right.  To counter this, I put a bit of folded paper over my left lens and continued to shoot with the patch.

I scored a total of 1111, with a 520 first half, and a 591 second half.  It wasn't crash hot shooting, but considering I shot through with virtually no breaks for anything except to score and change distances, I think it was alright.  I've been hitting my arm heaps and am turning my left forarm into shredded meat, so I need to fix that somehow, besides putting on an arm guard.  As far as benchmarks go though, the overall score is reasonable for how I felt it went.

Sunday 13th February 2011

@ Sydney Bowmen

Overcast, low winds to strong winds.

12x 6 arrow ends @ 60m, 122cm, unscored

Total 72.

I was still pretty worn out from yesterdays shoot at the Waringah Open, took me 5 ends to warm up properly and feel like I was shooting to any proper degree.  My releases were pretty poor, and I didn't rotate my arm out properly, resulting in hitting my arm a lot to the point where I took a bit of skin off my forarm.

After warming up, it was much better, and my release cleaned up, a nice relaxed starting point through the shot cycle, and trying to remember to maintain posture to ensure solid rotation through.

I was busy today so didn't shoot more, but spent a brief period working with Odette on her shooting before I had to leave.

Saturday 12th February 2011

@ Inman Park, Waringah Archers

Overcast, periods of light to medium rain, windy in gusts from behind with slight fishtail but not crosswinds...

3x 6 arrow ends @ 60m, 122cm, practice no scoring

FITA 900 round

5x 3 arrow ends @ 40m, 122cm, elimination matchplay novelty event

Total 123

I was trying to use the higher elbow and expansion, but it was pretty challenging today as I didn't get enough sleep as I had liked to.  The weather conditions weren't the best either and so for what I did manage to shoot I was pretty happy.  I put down a 263, 267, and 276 for a total of 806, a new personal best for the FITA900/Canberra round.  My sight settings were decent enough though the winds were causing quite a bit of vertical variation, though my releases and shoulder alignment were fairly controlled today.  Only had one bad shot into the blue, the rest were red or better.  I nearly had a perfect end at 50m, with 5 10's but my I clipped my shirt and it ended up in the 7 for a 57, which for me was a bit sad since I haven't clipped my shirt in years, since I don't wear a guest guard, so it annoyed me a little.

Afterwards while they were compiling the scores to find placings and so on, they ran an elimination matchplay at 40m (122cm face, 3 arrow ends, 1min timer).  I made it through 3 rounds into the finals, where I lost 27 (10,9,8) to 26 (9,9, 8), to come in second.  Unfortunately only first place got a medal for it.  Speaking of medals, my 806 was good enough to take first place in Open Mens Recurve. :)

No running today, it's raining -_-;

Metro Champs next week, need to get cracking on some 90m scores to boost up my FITA90.

Friday 11th February 2011

@ St Pauls

Warm, not too hot, sunny, turning overcast later.

18x 6 arrow ends @60m, 122cm face, unscored.

Total 108.

Continued to work on the form suggested by Ricci, it does work, had some solid groups but finding the consistency in managing to get the form to work is the challenge.