Well guys I WON
The weather in Wales was bad, two weeks before the tourney they had constant rain, it did rain on/off during the week but the damage had already been done in previous weeks and Wednesdays rain and two days of churning the courses just made it too slippery and the organizers decided to cancel that days shooting so they could make the course safer.. The courses were very steep in places and not only were the up/downs tough but a lot were at left/right angles then the Compounds shot the middle out of all the targets so the faces where put on the edges of the Targets makes it hard and intimidating for Longbows.
Think I had my normal first day jitters and after living in flat Estonia I had to learn again how to calculate my up/down shots so first arrow shots tended to be a feeler to figure out how to shoot it, most of the shots I missed during the week were just lack of confidence on how to shoot the angle, I was very pleased with my shooting form overall.
The second day 361 European record was a great confidence builder it was a very tough course and cant imagine what the score might have been on a flat course, both myself and Andy Soars were on great form, Roger Pallet was very twitchy as it was his first international tourney but he was his normal upbeat personality and it was a pleasure shooting with him all week and he had moments of great shooting during the week (at Sept08 English Nationals he shot a 384 and has won NAFAC in the past with great scores).
The last day was the hardest for me, although I had a good lead over Andy Soars from UK he was very much on form, at one point during the last days round I had a run of 5 targets where I was only scoring two arrows and Andy was scoring all four arrows 15’s plus and I very nearly lost my nerve because I was pretty sure he had caught me up but I dug very deep and regained my composure and pulled back again, Andy told me afterwards at that point he got within 7 points of me but I pulled away again at the end.
I pick up a new double carbon Zeta from Andy (he’s shooting one at the moment) I have to say it’s the best performing and most stable Bow I’ve ever shot, just wish I had one before this tourney. I’m looking forward to shooting it in future weeks and seeing what scores I can get.
http://www.ifaa-archery.org/results/200 ... result.pdf
