Reflection 2 - Bow shooting

The first weekend of the bow shooting course has already finished. We are around 9 students in the class, most of them older than I am. However, we cooperate very well in order to help each other out. Archery is certainly very interesting and am already very passionate about it! It is very tough. nevertheless. This is because when you are about to shoot you have to have an enormous amount of details in your head and complete all of them like if it was a checklist. Turn your wrist, look sideways, the back must be straight, both feet parallel to each other at both sides of the shooting line, don't hold the bowwith your hand, hold the bow still by the tension with the string, relax, breathe, let your front shoulder go up and the back shoulder down, pull the string until it reaches your nose, hold still, dont hold the arrow too strongly... And the list goes on! I think I am liking this sport because it is very mechanical. My teacher has told me how in Korea, home of archery elite, children are taught this sport since a very young age in P.E class and during the first three years, they never even get to shoot an arrow. The children only practice how to get the position right, how to stand, how to pull the string, etc... I am particularly motivated now because during the course you always use the same bow which the club lends you. Upon starting each class the teacher lets you add another piece of equipment to your bow such as a sight or a horizontal or vertical balancing iron bar. Moreover, I feel very good with my performance up until now. I have obviously an infinite room for improvement but I am the only one in the rookie grop which is capable of now holding the bow will shooting and when I shoot, the bow just falls and swings, Korean-style. Below I have posted a link to a video so you can see what I mean with this.

Minute 1:60: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M4-hB9t3kY