The Think Tank

This was sort of an up and down day for me, but on the whole I did not feel very solid.  At times I felt like I shot some good arrows, but I never strong together many in a row.  I did not feel like I was aiming well, and that was affecting my pull-through as well.  After a while I was starting to second guess most everything: my release hand position, how hard I needed to pull on the stops… everything.

When it came to the eliminations, I was feeling fairly confident that I could win if I shot well, but I was concerned that adding nerves to my already sketchy shooting would equal nines.  And I was right.  When I got nervous, my dot was bouncing all over the place.  However, I did a good job of just pulling through the shot even though my dot was bouncing, and mostly shot pretty well.  What I noticed was that I was a bit stiff, and that seemed to translate into high shots.  I shot three nines in the elims, which is a lot more than I’d like, but the shots weren’t that bad and they all missed high.

In the end, my mistakes weren’t too costly.  I won my first two rounds and wound up shooting for the Championship against Sean Elza.  I shot a 59 and 2x and lost to his 59 and 4x.  Even with the low X count, it was another example that 10’s are good enough.  If I’d a shot 60, I would have won.  Also, if I’d shot a three hundred in any of the last three legs of the shoot off, I would have wound up in first for the whole thing.