WSAA MultiColor Day 2 « The Think Tank

WSAA MultiColor Day 2

by Chris on Jan.25, 2012, under Shooting Journal

Mom has it written down that I was feeling sick to my stomach, but I don’t remember that. I’m writing this a couple of weeks late, so its easy that I just forgot.

I was disappointed in my performance the night before, but I also knew that I had it in my to shoot well. I’d shot pretty well in Bow the week before, and a couple of times in practice. Above all, I did a very good job of keeping my focus on my form.

I remember fighting through a few shots, but I did a good job of letting down when I could and pushing through when I had to. I also did a much better job of holding my form after each shot than I had the night before. I was pretty much right on it. Around the 8th end I started getting a little nervous. On 9 was I really starting to feel it, but I managed to pull out three solid X’s by telling myself to stay strong, hit my form, and hold it afterward.

Between ends 9 and 10, I went into the back room and practiced my form, telling myself to just hit my form like I had been all day and everything would be fine. But I was nervous. Really nervous. This would be first 300 of the year, and I really wanted it!

By the time I got to the line, my heart rate was way up and thumping away in my neck in the manner that usually means bad news for my shooting. My first arrow was bouncing all over the target, so I let it down. I came back up, told myself just to pull and hit my form and the rest would take care of itself. The shot went off in about the right amount of time, and I drained a solid X. I thought I had it at that point. My second arrow was more wiggly than the first, my dot was bouncing all over the gold. I kept pulling, but I was starting to feel like I couldn’t pull it off if I was going to be this nervous. I let down once, came back up quickly, and shot a less than perfect shot which caught a ten line at 9 o’clock. Now my heart was really thumping. I took a deep breath, checked the clock, and pulled up at 24 seconds. I knew this was my last chance at this arrow, there would be no let downs. My dot was all over the place, I was struggling just to keep it in the gold. I told myself that I could hit it if I just held my form after the shot, but I didn’t really believe that. I held it a long time, struggled through the shot, and forced myself into proper form after the shot, but it missed and I wasn’t surprised at all.

I was disappointed about missing the clean score, but it wasn’t like I shot a bad arrow, I was just way too worked up to hit three in a row. That wasn’t good, I knew, but it was good enough for the day. 299 / 22x was my best score and had a lot of things to build on, so I called it a win and moved on.

My two day total was 596 / 38x.

When the scores came in, I wound up in 3rd behind Sean Elza (598/39x) and Jon Huevel (599/50x).

WSAA Multi Jan 13, 2012
Day Two 20yd

1	2	3	arrows	sum	balance
X(6)	10(4)	10(5)	30	60	60
X(4)	X(5)	X(6)	30	60	60
X(4)	X(5)	10(6)	30	60	120
X(4)	X(5)	10(6)	30	60	120
X(5)	X(6)	10(4)	30	60	180
X(4)	X(5)	X(6)	30	60	180
X(4)	X(5)	X(6)	30	60	240
X(4)	X(6)	10(5)	30	60	240
X(4)	X(5)	X(6)	30	59	299
X(5)	10(4)	9(6)	29	59	299