This may be come a rant about a whole range of things which are connected to our sport and have started to wind me up lately.
So heres my list of gripes,in no paricular order.
Dont carry knives (as you will probably run riot)
Dont drink (anything except water)
Dont talk to juniors (as you may be accused of being some sort of pervert)
Dont enjoy yourself at a tournament (raised voices and people having a good time will upset someone)
Dont like anything to do with the GNAS (especially the rounds, dont you know FITA's are much better)
Dont eat normally, Bananas, dried meat, nuts, Jaffa Cakes and more Bananas oh and fruit gums are the best shooting foods (oh and you will be pretty regular)
Dont try to improve over time, with practice and good advice (no just go spend a grand at your local retailer for the fastest kit in the land and just miss faster)
Do be obsessed with scoring (yep at every opportunity, dont forget to score in practise when trying new things out so that if they do not gel after 10 minutes you can easily identify this and revert to your old method)
Do ask a coach or more experienced archer for help (oh and dont forget to listen to everyone elses opinions as well,even people who dont know what they are on about)
Do become a coach......but only after you have been shooting for a couple of years at least, oh and dont rush theought the levels, it would ne nice if you practised you newly aquired skills for a couple of years before progressing up.
We all started archery as a hobby and for the vast majority of us that is what is, a hobby, some thing we do for fun, there are some talented people who can now just about scrape a living a archers but they are few in number.
Dont forget you have to be super fit many hours in the gym will help your shooting have I mentioed that water and bananas are key to this.
Dont try to master 1 discipline in archery, the best thing to do is to start on recurve than get a longbow or AFB or a mongolian sinew bow and then a compound as well, you are so good you will easily master all at the same time.
Erm, thats enough ranting, this is my HOBBY, I will have fun, I will enjoy myself, I will understand that I cannot shoot records and PB's at every tournament, oh yeh I will try bloody hard when I an stood on the shooting line, but I will also remember it is supposed to be FUN, my HOBBY.
.......erm as a afterthought could any of the above contribute to the frighteningly high drop out rate in our sport?
So heres my list of gripes,in no paricular order.
Dont carry knives (as you will probably run riot)
Dont drink (anything except water)
Dont talk to juniors (as you may be accused of being some sort of pervert)
Dont enjoy yourself at a tournament (raised voices and people having a good time will upset someone)
Dont like anything to do with the GNAS (especially the rounds, dont you know FITA's are much better)
Dont eat normally, Bananas, dried meat, nuts, Jaffa Cakes and more Bananas oh and fruit gums are the best shooting foods (oh and you will be pretty regular)
Dont try to improve over time, with practice and good advice (no just go spend a grand at your local retailer for the fastest kit in the land and just miss faster)
Do be obsessed with scoring (yep at every opportunity, dont forget to score in practise when trying new things out so that if they do not gel after 10 minutes you can easily identify this and revert to your old method)
Do ask a coach or more experienced archer for help (oh and dont forget to listen to everyone elses opinions as well,even people who dont know what they are on about)
Do become a coach......but only after you have been shooting for a couple of years at least, oh and dont rush theought the levels, it would ne nice if you practised you newly aquired skills for a couple of years before progressing up.
We all started archery as a hobby and for the vast majority of us that is what is, a hobby, some thing we do for fun, there are some talented people who can now just about scrape a living a archers but they are few in number.
Dont forget you have to be super fit many hours in the gym will help your shooting have I mentioed that water and bananas are key to this.
Dont try to master 1 discipline in archery, the best thing to do is to start on recurve than get a longbow or AFB or a mongolian sinew bow and then a compound as well, you are so good you will easily master all at the same time.
Erm, thats enough ranting, this is my HOBBY, I will have fun, I will enjoy myself, I will understand that I cannot shoot records and PB's at every tournament, oh yeh I will try bloody hard when I an stood on the shooting line, but I will also remember it is supposed to be FUN, my HOBBY.
.......erm as a afterthought could any of the above contribute to the frighteningly high drop out rate in our sport?