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The meaning of life... target archer worries
by , 06-02-12 at 01:15 PM (390 Views)
The leading philosophy in our club is about leading the members to improving their performance if they want. But... Even those who had started looking for a fine hobby tends to try to look in a world of competitions. Many of them just wants to meet with another fans of this sport making it a social event. They will probably find a mate to talk about it occasionally and sooner or later they will tend to talk about the scoring achieved last time. The scoring could easilly slip to become a measure of progress and once there, one starts to think about how to progress even further... This was also my kind of story... Everyone knows the shape of the curve of progress - big and easy steps with big impact at the beginning and the harder and smaller ones somewhere in the future... as one is working through the easy steps, the thoughts about the small and hard ones starts to pop out more oftenly.
What is your goal actually? What is your peak form? Will you be able to get even higher scores without loosing your job or family? (or shool?)
I did this kind of choice once in the past when I had left the air pistol career for the sake of my college education. There was painful conflict between the brain and the heart. The warm and emotional heart will never forgive the cold logic brain for giving the higher priority to that hard and boring studies of something I´m actually not really good at over the joy of doing something I´was good at. I hate the system for forcing people to do the choices like that. But since one is not playing footbal or ice hockey this won´t change in the world of sport...
Even with my training volumes getting closer to the likes of the national team I´m still considering my archery "just" a hobby. I know I can train a lot more and harder, taking the sport really seriously. But all that will happen will be that the moment I reach the point where the personal sacrifices will be necessary to progress further will come close even faster
...At the weekend I moved the clicker under the supervision of highly skilled coach even further. That few milimetres had kicked the shooting at the target training over the mountain once again and I will have to work through the series of drills If I want to get there too... considering that I´m reaching the small steps phase in the future I´m looking for the proper riser to accompany me on the journey... I´m afraid (another word for "sure") that at the current state, having job and social/family life, there will certainly be a mountain too high for me. I just hope to be strong enough at the moment to rise a remarkable flag there at least
But it is in fact about a hundred years too early to fall in this kind of depression. The upcoming outdoor season will show me a whole new range of mountains to climb for sure as I get an invitation from our club member to join the occasional trips for the field archery events. Also I´m thinking about trying the barebow set-up in the future. And if there will be a piece of my lifetime left, maybe I will even collaborate with the dark side at the end ... I hope that I´m grown-up enough to differ if my real hoby is the archery or getting fine scoring. Time will tell... but I think it´s the archery itself and nobody has said that reaching the olympic level is the only way to do it if I won´t be able to get there as a hobbyist for some reason... At the end I´m enjoying it a lot at the moment and that matters, doesn´t it?
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