League Report – Chinook 122811
by Chris on Jan.01, 2012, under Shooting Journal
We left late and arrived while they were scoring their second end. I put my stuff together while they were shooting their third end, so I started cold on End 4. I shot three pretty good shots to start, but my second target was barely in at 11 o’clock. The other two were X’s.
I struggled most of the evening to put together many good shots in a row. The first several ends followed a very similar pattern: First shot good, second shot bad, third shot good. I did that for the first 4-5 ends, dropping three points in the process.
Towards the end I really focused on hitting the second arrow, and I started getting some X’s on that target, but I was still having a hard time keeping things together. My form was just off. I kept feeling like I was pulling through strong, but when the shot went my release hand popped out and away instead of coming back to my shoulder like its supposed to. Sometimes I think that I just tense my muscles instead of actually pulling. I’ll have to investigate that in the future.
Ends 5-6 were six solid X’s on pretty good shots, although one of them I held a long time. End 7 was a 2X with the third arrow just barely out left. I was thinking about wanting to finish out with all X’s and that is probably where I went wrong.
I shot pretty well for the rest of the time until the last end. I wanted to finish with a three X. I always want to finish strong, I think it is important. First arrow was a solid X, right in the hole I’d been in all day. Two was inside out. Three was tough. I pulled up, tried to pull through but it wasn’t there so I let it down. I came back up, kept telling myself to hit my form, to bring my hand back to my shoulder, but instead my release hand jumped straight out behind me and my bow arm shot straight up. The arrow was middle nine at 9 o’clock.
The last arrow was very frustrating because the only reason I missed it was because I was nervous because it was the last arrow. That’s a big fail in my book, and something that I always try to avoid. I hate missing my last arrow more than anything else. Even more upsetting, I was telling myself to hit my form, and in practice it was probably the worst shot of the whole night.
I finished up with a 296 and 21X. The score was disappointing, but the X’s were OK. My take away from today is that I need to keep working on my form and make sure that I always hit my form, that my hand comes back to my shoulder and the bow arm pops straight forward. When I do that, I nail X’s all day.
After I got back I discovered a neat new program from arrow plotting and scoring called iArcheryScores. It pretty much does everything that TargetMate does, but it has one feature that I really want: it tracks individual arrow performance. Below you can see there are arrow plots for each of the arrows that I shot tonight. I switched out Arrow 3 because it felt like it was going high, so that is why there is only one mark on that target.
So far it seems pretty neat.
Arrow Order: 4-(3)-6-5
| League Chinook Dec 28, 2011 |
|---|
| round: 1 20yd |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | arrows | sum | balance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X(4) | X(3) | 10(5) | 30 | 59 | 59 |
| X(4) | X(3) | 9(5) | 29 | ||
| X(4) | X(6) | 9(5) | 29 | 58 | 117 |
| X(4) | 10(6) | 9(5) | 29 | ||
| X(4) | X(6) | 10(5) | 30 | 60 | 177 |
| X(4) | X(6) | X(5) | 30 | ||
| X(4) | X(6) | X(5) | 30 | 60 | 237 |
| X(4) | X(6) | 10(5) | 30 | ||
| X(4) | X(6) | 10(5) | 30 | 59 | 296 |
| X(4) | X(6) | 9(5) | 29 |
| nines: 4 | tens+X: 26 | X: 21 | average: 9.87 |
| arrow statistics |
|---|
| arrow | nines | tens+X | X | average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10.00 |
| 4 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 10.00 |
| 5 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 9.90 |
| 6 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 9.67 |
