I got there early and there generally wasn’t a  queue at the range which meant that I got to shoot more arrows than usual. Ended up at 108 arrows before it was time to close and go home. My score was

Round 1: 183 (30 arrows)

Round 2: 172 (30 arrows)

Round 3: 178 (30 arrows)

Round 4: 101 (18 arrows)

I am quite happy with that as it means my average total has gone up.

First good shot of the day.

Second good shot of the day.

They could obviously be better but I don’t have nearly as many freak shots that are way off target.

Time to put into practice what I had learned from the seminar. I wrote about changing my foot position because of my arrows going to the left, while I have decided to leave them as it is as I found out why; I had completely forgotten to use the bowstring as a rear sight marker. That fixed the arrows going to the left.

I did have two good rounds, but right now, there are too many things to think of to get consistent good results. I have to

1: Make sure the bowstring is in the same place each time.

2: shoot with a low shoulder

3: make double sure I don’t over grip with my bow hand.

The two rounds, 30 arrows each, I scored for were 203 points. Which is just 1 point short of a tie with my best indoor score, and 171 points. Not too bad but I could definitely see my score drop towards the end with a miss and several arrows in the black and white lines.

Oh and I adjusted my nock point so that took some getting used to.

I had been looking forward to today as today is the day when the seminar which one the clubs archers won earlier this year was taking place, and it was a great. The price was to have two national level archers and trainers come and coach us. The two were Martin Damsbo and Patrick Laursen, as a bonus Erica Anear also came along to help out.

All of us had our form looking over and recorded and was giving things to work with. Hopefully I will have those videos soon so I can share them with you.

I found out I need to work with relaxing my bow hand as it was way too tight. I had a tendency to grip it immediately after release, which isn’t  a bad thing if it always happened after release, but sometimes it happened after. Since I am using a finger sling I might as well learn to relax the whole time and let the sling catch the bow.  On the plus side my back tension and release was fine.

After I had adjusted my bow hand my groupings were immediately better. but unfortunately they now had a tendency to go left. I learned that the reason for this was my foot position. Playing around with my foot position I found out I could adjust it so the the arrows wasn’t going so far to the left. I also learned you can have too wide a position as my arrows started to go right at one point.

Overall I think it was a great experience and I learned quite a few things I probably wouldn’t have noticed on my own, and if I remember to do things properly I will hit the center.

Today was quite interesting. I got 3 decent rounds and found out why I sometimes hit my elbow joint with the string. What I learned is that my shoulder is too high which causes the elbow joint to get in the way, not to mention leading to a less than optimal setup as there is also decreased back tension.

I shot a few arrows but unfortunately by the time I had learned how to correct this it was almost time to head home. The new and better setup still feels incredible awkward, but I am sure that will change with the repetitions and training.

The scoring for the rounds were. round 1: 182, round 2: 155, round 3: 175, round 4: 60 (I only shot 12 arrows in round 4). Round 1-3 was shot with 30 arrows. As you can see my score dropped in round 2, but that is to be expected as I was working on the new technique there. Near the end of round 3 I was starting to have it down.

One of my better series. I did take out the x but unfortunately I didn’t take a picture of that.