Learning to shoot the bow is hard

I am glad that my classmates are so active and they are one of the reasons why I am active too. My classmate Delija has proposed that we join her in a bow shooting practice and learn to do it ourselves. I had wanted to do some sport’s activity for a while, thus I accepted her proposal and joined other classmates in this great introductory to archery.

                We went to the archery club Delija is going to, where we met her coaches and other students that are having practice at the same time. One of the coaches has explained to us all the basics of the right way to shoot the bow and gave us the equipment and we started our practice. For me it was really hard at the start and there was one compromise that made even harder. Since it’s indoors club (well of course it is, it is winter right now), the ceiling height is low and when you look at the track to the shooting target, as closer you get to the target, the height decreases. Since, I am a quite tall person and the tallest from my group I had the longest bow that was chosen to match my height (somehow the bows length is proportional to the person’s height and arm length). We were beginners and everyone went really close near the target, something like 5-6 meters near, so that they could actually hit something. It wasn’t the case for me since my height and the length of the bow meant that it was too narrow for me to shoot from that place, since I couldn’t extend my arm fully without hitting the ceiling. For that reason, I was shooting twice as far as others from the line that people who do this sport professionally shoot from. You could even imagine that my shoots were so off the target. However, after a few tries I tried to really focus and progressed a little. I learned that my accuracy could be off most of the times but if I really try, then I would actually hit the target. When I actually hit the center that one time, I couldn’t believe myself, but it was only for once. Too bad for me, but I liked the challenge. It really made me try my best and that’s why I learned something new and even developed some accuracy.

                This activity was great and everyone should try this. When you shoot the bow you feel really great and it just look badass. I will somehow try to organize a second practice and I hope that I will succeed.