Went to the club this evening to get the bow all set for 50 meters in preparation for World Cup #3 in Ogden(USA) where will once again be trying out the new compound 50mtr round and the hit/miss system.
Practice went well and the bow is feeling great.... happy with it all at this stage.
I shot 59-59-59-58-58-59 = 352
Friday, July 9, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
NAMED IN COMM GAMES TOP 4 MENS COMPOUND SQUAD
Received the email today naming me in the next stage for selection into the Comm Games Team.
Now I head to Canberra for a camp before the entire squad goes to the USA for World Cup #3 from which they will select the top 3 shooters from each division to compete at the Commonwealth Games.
There are 4 parts to the next selection... each part will have each archer ranked 1 to 4, so at the end of the 4 part selection the 3 archers with the lowest points totals will be selected for the Comm Games.
This will be exciting, looking forward to it.
Now I head to Canberra for a camp before the entire squad goes to the USA for World Cup #3 from which they will select the top 3 shooters from each division to compete at the Commonwealth Games.
There are 4 parts to the next selection... each part will have each archer ranked 1 to 4, so at the end of the 4 part selection the 3 archers with the lowest points totals will be selected for the Comm Games.
This will be exciting, looking forward to it.
Monday, July 5, 2010
COMM GAMES TRIAL - AIS CANBERRA 02-04 JULY
This trial was the second part of stage two in the selection process. The selectors will now make their judgements as to who will proceed to the next stage by selecting the top 4 from the top 5 that attended camps #1 and #2.... archers will be notified on wednesday 6th July
Before camp #2, I had spent the last two weeks working on my structure changes from camp #1... even though this change had improved my shooting, I was still getting body movement as if too much tension was running through my muscles. For camp #2, Jim Park had offered to take some photos so I could get a better understanding of how things looked from different angles... it was one of these angles that showed that my draw arm elbow was situated behind the line of the arrow. This was saying that the draw length was a fraction long (on the release end, not the bows draw length).... so from this, I reduced the length of the d-loop from 18mm to 10.5mm but when Jim had looked once again it was still showing my elbow being slightly behind the arrow line. Now going back 8 years, my elbow was slightly in front on the arrow line... the only difference from then to now was that back then I was shooting with the release aid(Carter Atension-4 finger) up in the webbing past the second knuckle and now I was shooting the release between the 1st and 2nd knuckles. The reason I changed was that I started shooting a different model release aid(Scott-4 finger and 2 finger) and I could not shoot that model up in the webbing as it would dig into the side of my finger causing a lot of discomfort and eventually blood. Now however since going back to the Carter Atension(2 finger) at the start of the year I had kept the positioning between 1st and 2nd knuckles as I was using with the other model...... anyways, after Jim saying I was still slightly behind, I made the change back to holding the Atension up near the webbing and straight away I noticed less tension through my muscles and my aiming had improved.
The only thing now I have to work on is the refining of the release timing as by changing the holding position in the hand has changed the head position of the release and made it a fraction too long to activate the shot.....
Its all very exciting and it is great being able to hold steady once again..... hopefully big scores will follow
Before camp #2, I had spent the last two weeks working on my structure changes from camp #1... even though this change had improved my shooting, I was still getting body movement as if too much tension was running through my muscles. For camp #2, Jim Park had offered to take some photos so I could get a better understanding of how things looked from different angles... it was one of these angles that showed that my draw arm elbow was situated behind the line of the arrow. This was saying that the draw length was a fraction long (on the release end, not the bows draw length).... so from this, I reduced the length of the d-loop from 18mm to 10.5mm but when Jim had looked once again it was still showing my elbow being slightly behind the arrow line. Now going back 8 years, my elbow was slightly in front on the arrow line... the only difference from then to now was that back then I was shooting with the release aid(Carter Atension-4 finger) up in the webbing past the second knuckle and now I was shooting the release between the 1st and 2nd knuckles. The reason I changed was that I started shooting a different model release aid(Scott-4 finger and 2 finger) and I could not shoot that model up in the webbing as it would dig into the side of my finger causing a lot of discomfort and eventually blood. Now however since going back to the Carter Atension(2 finger) at the start of the year I had kept the positioning between 1st and 2nd knuckles as I was using with the other model...... anyways, after Jim saying I was still slightly behind, I made the change back to holding the Atension up near the webbing and straight away I noticed less tension through my muscles and my aiming had improved.
The only thing now I have to work on is the refining of the release timing as by changing the holding position in the hand has changed the head position of the release and made it a fraction too long to activate the shot.....
Its all very exciting and it is great being able to hold steady once again..... hopefully big scores will follow
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