This years Norwegian indoor national champs are done and dusted, and I came away with silver in barebow and some valuable lessons...
I havnt really shot that much the last 12 months, and it really has shown in my form, but a few weeks intensive training before the nationals and I was ready as I was going to be with so little time....
Day one Saturday, 7 barebow shooters lined up.... A couple of new faces which was great to see! One who has switched from sighted recurve... Good stuff.
During warm up one guy was shootingb10,10,10, and 10,9,9 series the whole way... I was like WHAT? Where YOU come from! But once the start buzzer went...so did his form... Just amazing to see,,,, I ended up beating him with well over 100 points.... Now that said, my shooting was not up to par at all... I should really shoot at least 500... But ended in first pace with 477, 7 points over the next man... Last year I beat him by 50 points.. Any how... On to Sunday, today and finals... The cut is made at 4... So straight to semi finals.... I win the first two sets and I need one set to win... At this point the guy I was shooting against ( mr perfect in warm up) has obviously decided that he has lost.... And proceeds to shoot 10,9,9 winning a set.... I stil need a set... Next set I shot 28,,, the begger shot 29!!!! Then we were at match point... Either of us needed one set to win... Pressure on... I nailed it... He went to pieces... Through to finals after an amazing battle of wills....
Then the TV people decide to come late.... So the finals are put on hold... In total an hour between semis and finals and in true FITA style.... No warm up...
To be honest I have never shot so badly in my life...(and luckily true to form, the tv crew only filmed the wheelie finals ) I won the first set, but after that I just fell apart... Literally... I even missed! I should have nailed it... But the pressure got to me... I missed on the next found with one arrow too... (anything less than 6 is miss in finals on triple 40cm face) final set was a fiasco too...so that was that... Looking at the scores I should have easily taken the gold... But that old enemy adrenaline got me big time... Not enough high pressure practice... Last finals round I shot was at indoor nationals last year! How bad did I shoot... 66 with 12 arrows? :sbrug:
What did I learn?
The power of the mind is not to be underestimated...
More competition practice is needed.
More competition practice is needed.
I need to work as hard on my mental game as I do with other aspects.
So sitting in hotel room thinking over my mistakes.... And looking forward to setting up my 3D rig
I havnt really shot that much the last 12 months, and it really has shown in my form, but a few weeks intensive training before the nationals and I was ready as I was going to be with so little time....
Day one Saturday, 7 barebow shooters lined up.... A couple of new faces which was great to see! One who has switched from sighted recurve... Good stuff.
During warm up one guy was shootingb10,10,10, and 10,9,9 series the whole way... I was like WHAT? Where YOU come from! But once the start buzzer went...so did his form... Just amazing to see,,,, I ended up beating him with well over 100 points.... Now that said, my shooting was not up to par at all... I should really shoot at least 500... But ended in first pace with 477, 7 points over the next man... Last year I beat him by 50 points.. Any how... On to Sunday, today and finals... The cut is made at 4... So straight to semi finals.... I win the first two sets and I need one set to win... At this point the guy I was shooting against ( mr perfect in warm up) has obviously decided that he has lost.... And proceeds to shoot 10,9,9 winning a set.... I stil need a set... Next set I shot 28,,, the begger shot 29!!!! Then we were at match point... Either of us needed one set to win... Pressure on... I nailed it... He went to pieces... Through to finals after an amazing battle of wills....
Then the TV people decide to come late.... So the finals are put on hold... In total an hour between semis and finals and in true FITA style.... No warm up...
To be honest I have never shot so badly in my life...(and luckily true to form, the tv crew only filmed the wheelie finals ) I won the first set, but after that I just fell apart... Literally... I even missed! I should have nailed it... But the pressure got to me... I missed on the next found with one arrow too... (anything less than 6 is miss in finals on triple 40cm face) final set was a fiasco too...so that was that... Looking at the scores I should have easily taken the gold... But that old enemy adrenaline got me big time... Not enough high pressure practice... Last finals round I shot was at indoor nationals last year! How bad did I shoot... 66 with 12 arrows? :sbrug:
What did I learn?
The power of the mind is not to be underestimated...
More competition practice is needed.
More competition practice is needed.
I need to work as hard on my mental game as I do with other aspects.
So sitting in hotel room thinking over my mistakes.... And looking forward to setting up my 3D rig