Archery bruises

"Showing off" my wounds again! Except that these are results of my sillyness.


I must have been not fully awake yet when I was warming up my muscles. Forgot to watch my arm & TWANG, the string struck my arm when I fired the arrow. Of course by then I was fully awake with the pain. :(

Left-handed, right-eyed

I discovered at my 2nd archery class yesterday that I have a right master eye, which means I can aim better with my right eye than my left eye. But i'm left-handed, which theoretically, I should aim with my left eye! So am contemplating if I should continue using the bow for left-handers or change to a right-handed bow. If I use the left-handed bow, I would have to train my left eye to focus. If otherwise, I would need to train my right arm to draw the string.

Hmm...

Dose of Sports

Yesterday, I started my 8-week archery course. It was actually arranged by my organisation as part of some staff recreation initiative, so the committee arranged for instructors from the Kebun Baru Archery Club to teach us.

The 1st lesson was more like a refresher course for me. I'd actually did a one-day course back in JC when I was in my JC's ODAC (yup, some of my peers can't really visualise me as part of that ECA now...haha...don't look the outdoor or adventurous kind). Of course, being the only left-hander at the course, I got to use the same bow almost throughout.

Anyway, it was quite fun. At least I hit the board all the time & not letting the arrow whizz over it & hit the wall behind. However, wasn't quite good at aiming, think the closest I ever got to the bull's eye was the the 3rd ring. Anyway, I couldn't adjust the sight, & I guess there was a parallax error from my end, so ...
Well, the instructor said he will start teaching us how to do targeting next week...how to offset (???) and after that, how to adjust the sight. Hope I'll do better next week!

Did I tell you I'm starting fencing tomorrow? ;P


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