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The outdoor range has started their league nights. Luckily it wasn’t super warm tonight (unlike on Monday which was unnaturally hot for Canada in early May) so at least I didn’t have to deal with heat headaches!
I’m glad that I’ve made progress with the longer distances, considering I’ve been mostly shooting indoors for the past five months. I guess that proves that better technique helps at any distance!
I can't wait until my custom manchu bow arrives because I haven't been shooting outside of my usual class time for the past two weeks since I got back from provincials. guess I'm in a bit of a slump at the moment. hopefully a new bow will help me get motivation to shoot for fun again.
my yips recovery at the moment is a bit slow but every time I get disappointed in myself I try to say something along the lines of:
"hey isn't it so crazy that we're even able to do this prehistoric sport? that we can use technology to transfer our energy into a projectile? who cares if we're not perfect it's still insane that it's happening"
The whole reason why I started stressing about scores is because I wasn't having fun doing archery anymore, so I'm trying to bring that wonder back. will it work? I have no clue, but I'll keep trying.
still trying to improve my aim but this was so much better than the past two weeks - I was scared I was getting the yips since I kept pausing and forgetting things - of course now the grouping is off but we can't have everything go 100% how we want
me when my coaches are supportive of me doing archery competitions and also understand why I didn't tell them about it for a month and also promised not to tell the senior archers at our school (because I'm worried they will think I'm not good enough to compete) and would be willing to take extra time to help me improve
making upward progress with the 18m distance, but still have a lot of progress to make to increase my scores
also chatted with another very experienced archer today (top 15 in the country for female recurve?!) who was super humble and also asked me some questions about shooting traditional which was nice because I am used to people thinking I don't know what I'm doing (like folks thinking I left my quiver, bow sling and finger tab at home when I just don't use those)
I tested out my new arrows for an indoor 3d since I thought they wouldn't work well for 3Ds... and I proved myself wrong because the higher spine was just what I needed
now this means that I can't really use my old arrows from now since I have just showed myself how much of a drawback for me they were (maybe if I'm shooting outside in the rain or whatever I can use them since it won't matter, but now I don't see a use for them anymore)
the urge to show up at a competition full of olympic recurves and compound bows with a reconstructed traditional chinese bow... but unfortunately my instructor doesn't know how to teach me that style so I'm not sure how good I would be.
(but I'm really picky and I don't really want something mass manufactured especially if it's supposed to be traditional...)
