I gotta work on my form...

[martelvonc]

Maybe if I practice with a 1 lb weight tied to my elbow I'll learn to get in alignment.
I'm also taking too long to aim. I already know where the target is I just need to concentrate on what I'm doing.

But I have learned some things at practice since "On Target". Thanks to Gustav, Janyn, Robert, Godai, Katarzyna and Seamus these lessons finally stuck in my head and have improved my shooting-
1) if an arrow comes out of your quiver you don't like it, let fall to the ground and grab another. Don't futz with it.
2) in speed rounds don't worry about shooting a lot of arrows. Shoot fewer arrows but make them count. It does you no good to loose a lot of arrows and not score with any of them.
3) for distance, raise your bow by bending your body at the hip, stay in alignment and do not raise your arms to raise your bow.

I have not been wearing an arm guard every time I shoot. I'm learning to keep my inner arm and elbow out of the way.

Either way I'm shooting better and getting better scores. I'm no great shakes yet but I am improving measurably.

Comments

[cozit.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's always my favorite shot to watch... yeah, number one reason is that you can actually *see* it from the pavillion... but a close number two is that you then get to watch someone go paddling around out there, retrieving arrows afterward :-)

And of *course* there was a canoe available... there's no way that they want all those arrows lost - I've always been surprised just *how* many get recovered - and how relatively few disappear forever with that shot.

What was out on the island? The new knight on horseback, or something else? (that's the only re-done target I saw - everything but a portion of the painting on that had been done by the time I got there... and I know the old one has been out on the water shot before)

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

The big knight was not on the "island" but on a little butt out from the shore then on the lower butt-out were some small targets of rodents like ground hogs/muskrats I think it was. The other large target next to the shark was that beserker or wildman.

I didn't even try to shoot at the floating shark. I knew I'd have been full of fail at that. :-)

For such a small area they had a lot of difficult targets for us.