Testing arrows

My all arrows starts to be old arrows and can be used only in practice. So Yesterday I was testing my arrows, are there any okey arrows anymore. Lots of feathers were not so good shape, so changed some of those. Now I have like 10 okey arrows and 3-4 only in practice arrows. I shot to the 60cm field target, and some point lost one arrow more, hit the knock and lost the shaft also :(. Shot 99 arrows.

In the end shot shot 2 arrows through apple. Just wanted to see what happends. Arrow went nicely through apple leaving nice mercedes mark :). The arrow was little sticky after that..

Xmas game

After coulpe weeks of not shooting, we had yesterday a nice club competition.

The goal was to shoot odd score with 1-3 arrows. The distance was 25m to 60cm target.

With three even scores you were out. You couln't use the binoculars, and with the compound

the outshot was 10..

That was great fun, maybe it helped because I won it :). Here some pictures from it...

http://timppa.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Tapanilan_Era_pudotuskisat/2010/?n=50

Everybody have a very merry Christmas

Competition in Turku and Seinäjoki

555 !!!

In both competitions. Week ago I had some bad 3 arrow targets, but still I had some 30 points targets.. During the week changed Winact limbs to my golden bow and got some more power to the bow. Week ago the bad shots were in left 8, but now the bad shot was still in the yellow. The X7 arrows are little stiff for the bow, so needed some more power..
Yesterday all of the 3 arrows scores were between 27-29, one set was 26, but the shooting level was like average. No peaks and no lows, that was okey.
I had a chance to make a new national record for the barebow with the last arrow, but like normal I put it into 8, leaving me again one point behind the record 556...
Week and a half to go to F2F. So just have to take it easy and do some fine tuning to the shooting and to the bow..

Competition in Kurikka

First competition in this indoor season in Finland and the hopes was little better about the score than I got. Goal was like 560, like I have shot this week in the practices. But like many other times the real score started with 53. Shooting starts was nice, but in some point just the arrows started again go around. And in the first half end I miss the 5ring target complitely. Strugling little bit with the lights, cause in the hall the light was not enough, it was little dark.
We had also the F2F elimination rounds and it started also very badly, I was allready after two ends 4-0 losing, but then I started to shoot good again, took the three next round and won the set 6 - 4. Started the next set very good leading 2-0 and the next two arrows was in ten, but then put the normal 8.. and lots the game.. Also lost then the set 2-6.. but have to be happy to shoot two matches and took some point from the winner :).
I was shooting in the recurve class and my final position was 8th from 17 shooters.
Next week next competition in Turku, hope to shoot better there and tease more the recurve shooters ;=).

GreenHorn Sirius

Shooting with the new riser :)

http://picasaweb.google.com/timp2a/Halli_Lyhtytie_03102010#

900-competition

Shooting the first time 900-competition. It is 60m, 50m and 40m to the 122cm 10face target. My goal was to get some new finnish record. Tomi Knuutila had the former records and my goal was the get 3/4 of those. Last scores was 257 (60m, tuff), 239 (50m) and 274 (40m).
The 60m score was supprice that I broke the score by two points 259. Second was easier to brake,
got 269. Last should have been easy to brake, but the arrows just were going around yellow. To last two round just tuned the bow and found the 10 again, but too late. Shot there 273 :(. Well now I have some goal in the next 900-competition. But together score 801 was also new finnish record :). So 3/4, I'm happy. That was the last outdoor competition in here, so now just tuning the bow for F2F :)).
Just have to lower the arrowrest and take the X7 arrows to use..

SM-gold

During the weekend we had the best Archery finals in the finnish history. We were shooting middle of the town Espoo in Tapiola the field finals. The local club Robin Hood were made tuff job to brought the archery in the town. The 8 final targets were safe and all the people could see them :). Here is some pictures about that first from Hood then some pic from my sponsor Sami.
Really we had some awsome time in the finals.. I was little scared when Markku was leading after the first 20m target with 2 points.. After second targed I took the lead from the 10m bunny with 1 point.. Then 40m I did 6,4,4 and Markku counl'd follow, and I had a easy job in the final target (50m) to make also 6,4,4 and win the gold medal :)

But, still have to say that the Robin Hood club made a were nice jos to take the field archery to the town to everybody to see :)

Now next ompetition 900 round in finland and then concentrate to the F2F ;)

Next weekend

We have a national field championchip during next weekend, but don't tell anybody that I haven't got time to practice :). I'm working Virrat in local power company and there has been starting last Wednesday so much work, also some night, cause there has been so BIG thunderstorms and downburst that half of the county has been without power in some point. My work days has been like 13h, like today..
I have my marks and shooting style good in my memory from the Hungary :)))

Now to sleep and morning again 7.30 to work, repair some power lines..

So..

Some article in the local newspaper in Virrat.

But I had a great week in Hungary. What a team we had, and what a personal score.
TWO GOLD medals from the games..
Really no time to write, like now. I have been so busy after coming back to Finland.
Next day I stayed to Helsinki and started to look some houses to move, cause all the family
is pack in Finland and we needed to place to live. And I was also working and during the evenings
just dealing the moving and practical moving stuff..
I had one week brake from the shooting and now started to shoot again for the national field competitions. They are in 14-15.8. Firs day in the woods and the second day we have the finals in the middle of the town in Tapiola, Espoo.

But big thats to all from the support :).

ps. anyone has Micks (Australia) address?

Field WC - 2010 - Hungary

Thanks to all for the support :).
More words later, when some more time..

Picture by Dean Alberga/ dutchtarget.com

Hot Hot Hot

Really hot here, like 33 and rising to Thursday.
The trip went okey for everyone and all the stuff came to Hungary :).
Waiting for the opening seremony, I heard the we are going for a boat trip to Dune :)

Ready set GO

All stuff packed and ready to GO :).
I will take the train from Parkano to Tikkurila and then bus to the airport,
where I meet rest of the team. Then flite to Budabest and some buss again to the hotel.

I have trained like 100 arrows a day last month or so, so the rest is up to my head..
We have a good chance with the team also, so hope to shoot on Saturday also the team finals.

This week

Every day like 100 arrows. Very similar weather here like in Hungary, so nice practice weather..
Looking good. Some distancies check during weekend and thats it, ready for WC.

This week

Looking good, uphill 41m :)

Nice group from the 18m :)

208 arrows today.. Almost lost a saft, the nock was blown up..

2 weeks to go

Started to ease up the shooting. Last week and a half just shooting lots of arrows (10 at a time). The arrows has been all over the yellow, maybe cause it just has been shooting. Yesterday started to shoot like 3-4 arrows at the time, and with a though. Also yesterday made the skillshootingtest, where is 12 longest targets, like 80cm, 40m 45m 50m... 60cm, 30m 35m 35m.. Score 177 was really promising and raised my confidence to the shooting a lot. Also todays shooting showed that I'm going in the right direction :). (165arrows today, down and uphills)

Arrows

Monday 212, Tuesday 120, Thursday 120, today 170..

Tab and 191 arrows

Yesterdays spare tab just not fit to my hand, so changed it to new one (little used), and it felt mutch better. The spare string was streched a little so couple turn more to it.
Yesterday 208 and today 191 arrows.

Spare things..

Today starting to mole the spare tab and put also spare string to the bow. This point 208 arrows, and also some physical training. First the tab felt little stiff, but after while it started to feel softer and better. Also grouping was mutch better after like 100 arrows.

288

Todays arrow score 288, in 3 shooting times.
More confidence and more arrows in yellow :),
even there was lots of mosquitos..

Cadier en Keer

It was raining first 6 targets or so, so the mood for shooting was not the best. But after the rain stopped it was very nice weather to shoot, even my shooting was not so good in the first or the second day till target 17. The arrows just couldn't hit the yellow, all 15m or longer targets the arrows just went all over the target.. Second day after 17 target I found my problem. The release was not in the right direction, it was like forward and sideways, but not back, where it should be..
After figure that out the last 7 targets were really good, like 40m/60cm (15p) couple 30m/60cm (16-17p) and so.
After that also the training has been very good and the aiming has been more easier than before.
Now 3 weeks to go before Hungary. Now it's looking good and I'm more confident about my shooting :).
Today 204 arrows, and maybe moore..

Last weekend in Rumst this year..

This weekend was the last weekend before summer vacation in Finland and moving back for good to Finland (never say never). Maybe next Wednesday the last training in there.
But two good training days in there, very nice weather saturday +29 and today +22, also some inline skating after both shooting.
Startting to hit yellow more and more, now when the bow is tuned right :). Yesterday 130 arrows, and today 170. Just shooting all the distancies and hitting nice..

+24 in Rumst

Nice afternoon for training, like +24 and little wind. Some point shot without shirt, hope that nobody saw me :). Started to check every distance that they were grouping. Put the 80cm target and started from 30 to 50m by 2,5m steps.. Those were pritty okey. Then I had also 60cm target next to it and shot from 15m to 40m.. Went back to 30m/80cm to check the grouping, and notised that all the arrows was all over the X. Changed the string hight up and down, nothing worked?!?
Then tooked a stiff plunger and 3 normal arrow and naked arrow. Even then those 3 arrows didn't group from 18m, and the naked arrow was one ring to the left. So, just tuned the riser half round stiffer. After that the normal arrows started to group, but still the naked arrow in left. So another half round more and the naked arrow started to be next to the normal arrows. So changed back the normal plunger, and the grouping from all distancies was mutch better...
224 arrows with tuning. (2,5h) + 45min of rollerskating after the shooting :).
And also changed during the tuning the arrowrest and the nocking point little higher,
but all the marks stayed the same..

Theux

Nice field, very technical. Not so deep up and down hills, but had to be very carefull about that the bow was straight. Some very bad targets like couple times 20m 4face uphill. Like 4,4,3's.. Don't know what happened?!? Have to check the 20m next time in the practice field.
I think the best target was today 50m quite level, but normally I have shot the like 11 points, but today it was better, 6,5,5 there and veery happy..
So, more practice and have to practice the uphills, when back in Virrat..
And today was like 15 target uphill and some 2-3 in level, rest 5 maybe downhill. Somethink like that, but defenetly mostly uphill today.

And the score was 326.. with no 1's or 2's, but with 11 of 3's. Only 14 6's, 5's 21.. and rest was 4's like 26..

Shooting

Went to shoot some arrows, stopped in 176.. It was raining all the time a little, but that was not the reason. Tomorrow a competition in Theux. Never been there, so I wanted to try it, like the other competitions in Germany.. Looking okey, just have to focus to the shooting, so it will be okey.. Lets see tomorrow.
In Finland the second competition of the years, here the result from Riihimäki, thanks to them.
Finnish recurve team won the bronce metal from the Target EC, nice..
Some finnish shooter thinks that there is only one real bow, the one that is used in Olympics. I don't understand that?!? I think I will put sight to my bow and gonna go and mix the bag ;).
Its so easy to shoot with the sight, try without it :))...

Paris

No shooting this week, some sightseeing..

Second day

Even better weather.. We started to clime to the 1st shooting place from the warming up place. When we get to the 1st pole, I was all wet from the inside, so still have to practice fysics :). But up in the hill I could only see the red pole.. Going closer to the pole and still couldn't se the target.. When I was standing next the red pole I foound the target... It was like 40degree angle down and 45m. No idea witch mark to take. started with 40m mark and it was up.. Took of more and shot like 37,5m mark. still only like 11 points... Very nice target, and the next one was uphill 40m/60cm.
Veery nice start :). So, my shooting was better and I had learned something from the Saturdays shooting, I got the score 337. I'm almost happy to that (okey U are never happy to the scores that U get) but anyway have to be happy to that in that kind of field.
Thanks to Martin Koini, they had put a very nice REAL field up, like Peter Lange in Siegburg, it was a pleasure to shoot :).
Some picture from my camera, there is a final score also to Barebow and Compound..
Last recurve shooters came like 1 hour later that the others..

I think that we are going to have some pictures also in their web page, hope so :).
Two weeks and Theux, next week vacation in France, going to see the Eiffel tower.

First day in Altenkirchener

Woke up at 5 and drove to Altenkirchen like 2,5h (280km). Both days nice weather. It was rained a little on friday, so the field was little wet, but not so slippery that it could be. When I found the place and I looked around I knew that it's not gonna be an easy ride :). Middle of the both hills (red and yellow track) went a nice river what I could hear almost in every target, very nice place. I was put in a 1st group both days so we started the first half with the known distancies. Lyckily after 12 targets, when we shot the unknown targets, the field leveled a bit (thak god).
316 first day. Nice warming, but still it tooked like 12 targets to lear how to shoot the up- and downhills. And also I got some nice tips from Josef Mayer (thanks to him, that second day shot better). Also the weather warmed after midday, so it was mutch nicer to shoot. First half 149, and second 167. Not so happy to that, but learnd a lot how to shoot up and down.
First day score 316. Better than in two week ago, so that was okey..

Yesterday and today

Yesterday was really tuff to practice. I don't know why, but after like 20 arrows my shoulders were so tired from the shooting?!? Maybe because last week I started to skate with the stick and started to practice little more than before.. But anyway had to concentrate really good to get the arrows to somewhere.. Nice training, 154 arrows and got my distancies to the weekend. It was like +7 and little rain..

Today mutch better training and I wasn't so tired after arrows. Checking my distancies and measuring for the weekends competition in Alterkirchen. Everything is looking mutch better than two weeks ago in Siegburg, where just got 303.. Now really good grouping, after tuning the the grouping :).
Now just wake up at 5 at Saturday morning and nice warmup and shoot a very nicely. I would be happy round 330 score in both days. I think it's gonna be a real fíeld like in Siegbourg (thanks Peter, see U next yeard).

New arrows

I got new arrows on Thursday, thanks to FatArchery again :). I knew that there was something else wrong than the man. I just got too old arrows, now complete different grouping than with the old ones..
Started today with 12 bare safted arrows. Got 11 of them to nice group from 18m. One was flying more to the left (stiffer) than the others, why? Well, no wonder the point was in the wrong end. And ACE is stiffer if you put the point to the other end. So chanced that to the same end than the others and it started to work :). After that fletched 3 arrows and shot 3 fletched arrows and 3 bare arrows. Arrows seemed to be little stiff, with the stiff plunger test, so turned one round more pounds to the bow. Now got all arrows to the same group. After that started to shoot nice groups to the yellow in every distance ;). So no need to tune the Beiter plunger. Should have bought the new arrows little bit earlier. Also I got a new strings that Riku made me, and that was working also very nice..
But no worries, next weekend very nice competition on Altenkirchener and the seasons main goal is in July in Hungary..

Practice on Saturday and competition on Sunday in Germany

Boys came from Finland (Timo And Riku), for competition in Germany, Siegburg.
Saturday we were shooting in my club in Rumst. Very nice weather, like +20 and sun was shining.
Sunday wes even better, like +25 in Siegburg. Very tuff field in there, lots of deep angles of up and down. Score 303 says that not enough practice on up and downs.
We liked the field veeery mutch, promesed to go the next year also.

Timo tooked some pictures of that trip.

Todays practice

Very nice weather today, I shot with shorts and t-shirt, +20 and sun was shining :).
Shot 152 arrows from 25, 40 and 50 meters. Went quite nicely, when remembered to keep the hip staple. Next goal on Sunday in Germany, Siegburg. They have promesed a real field, ups and downs. Couple friends from Finland is also coming to shoot it, if the planes can fly on Friday, hope so..

Second day

Little better 340 ;). Half way today founded the reason, why there has not been grouping day and a half. Have to keep the hip stable. After I figured that out, last 12 targets 176. Now have to put all in paper, and check the list everytime before shooting.

No pain, no gain

Meaning no practice, no score....
Today 322
Maybe tomorrow better, have to ...

Short ones

Found the reason why all short distances were little left. Bow was working fine, but I lined the string in wrong position. Little bit too mutch right. I shot first in 20cm.. 5, 7,5, 10, 15. Then 40cm.. 10, 12,5, 15, 17,5, 20 25.. and so on.. ended to 80cm 40m.. After that I had 139 arrows shot.. Okey weather +10 and little sun.

Results Ossendrecht

Finally got the result from Ossendrecht to net.
Results Ossendrecht

Maybe today some arrows in Rumst. Plan is to check the bow and practice bunnies. They were so bad in Ossendrecht, never shot so badly..

Vekkari

Local newspaper Vekkari made a story about me ;))
Click this to see it, only in finnish..

Second day

Little bit better shooting than Saturday. Somehow all the bunnyes were little left, so lost like atleast 10 points to those. Have to tune the bow.. But that was the first field in good conditions.
Second day score 340, together 329 +340 = 669. First place, but only 7 point to Hans Van Hout..

First day in Ossendrecht

First 10 targets were really "bad". Half way 158 point only. But it was a start of the field season, so I'm very happy that second half was little better (171), and the total score today was 329. Aiming tomorow like over 345...

Last Thursday

Just making sure that all the distancies was right. Like 120 arrows. Still fealing was good..

Last weekend

I was shooting (practising) both day like 130 arrows.. Just taking the distancies and seeing are all the distancies right in my tab. Nice feeling in both day, ant the weather was also nice..

Hrrrr....

It was a cold and windy afternoon in Rumst... +2celsius
And I shot 86 arrows and headed back home,
too cold to shoot outside ;)..

Monday and Wednesday

Monday inside 117 arrows, with new settings. New limbs Hoyt 550, new string to them and new Beiter plunger (thanks to Timo). Just put all together and didin't need to tune the riser at all. Just tuned a little the plunger. All distance 5-25 in yellow :). The limbs were more quiet that before, cause I put on them the limbsavers. They are we nice to shoot :).

Today outside shooting 30-50m. Still every distance in yellow. 50m is little right and 30m is little left. But there is time to fine tune the bow before next field 20-21 of March.

Saturday, the couple shooting

We were trying to find the place in Netherland, but the Tom Tom wanted to us go somewhere else?!? They have changed so many road near Eindhoven, so the GPS couldn't follow the real world..
But after we found the place, everybody else were waiting for us. But we made it just in time :).
Shooting was not so good, like in practice. Maybe the change of arrow rest was too mutch for the X7 arrow. But one time I shot full 30 points, even our opponets thought that I was shooting with compound and got only 9,9,9, but we said that no, I was shooting with Barebow those BIG arrows, and the score is 10, 10, 1o ;).
But even I wasn't happy to my shooting, we had fun and we were better than last year :).

Friday 19.2.2010

Had to chance the arrow rest for a change :).
After that the X7 arrows started to go around the yellow.
Don't know why? It was really hard to get 3 yellows.
After 100 arrows, the shooting was little bit like before the change.

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260 arrows today, nothing special...
Aiming for the couple shooting on Saturday :).

Snow

The good weather didn't last long. Now its has been cold again and also snowing here. So shooting inside. I started to shoot with 10 arrows. First three to the three spot and other to 60cm target. So in the same time have to really focus for the three first arrows and then the rest of arrows just shooting more relaxed. Normally all arrows stayed in yellow :). Counting points from the spot target... After 110 arrows changed to X7 arrows and shot to the spot. Shot 30 arrows score with those also. It was better than with ACE's. After that I put 40cm Soma field target (waterproof). It has 4times the target and its made from somekind of fabric or so.. Shot (ace) to those from 15-20m, rest of the 260 arrows.
Very good day.

Smog

Driving to Rumst, and I was wondering how the traffic in the motorway was so calm. Then I saw the reason, speed limit 90km/h, because of Smog. It was very nice to drive compairing the normal speed. Now I could enjoy, normaly its chaos..
Weather was cold -3, so went to inside. Shot 18m 30 arrows score 280. After that shot with the ACE's some more to 60cm target. All together 216 arrows.

Outside

Yes, shooting in Rumst OUTSIDE ;).
It was a nice weather to shoot, +8 and no wind. So I shot to the 80cm field target from 40-50m.
10 arrows at time, and mostly half of the arrows finded the yellow. That is a very good start for the outdoor season. Today 140 arrows.

Back shooting

I was driving to Rumst to shoot inside, but on the way I visit the outdoor field, cause it was very nice day, +5 and the sun was shining a bit. I almost went to shoot outside, but I just didn't had enough shirts on. So shot indoor with my X7 arrows after some warming up arrows, 30 arrows score, what was from the 18m 287. I was very supprised, I haven't shot that good never.
How to move those scores to competitions. I think it's just more practice and some more.
Today 60 arrows. Maybe on Friday out to shoot, if it's a this kind of weather like today :).

Finnish methode by Peter Lange

One more reason, that I shot badly in France (EC).

Winter Field

Today the weather was around +5 but it was raining a little. Still cold. Scoring one point more than yesterday, so the score is 342 + 343 = 685. It's a nice start for the field season in that weather :). Today three times maximum, both days (18 + 22 sixies), that is good, after training ones in a week.
Some pictures from the Winter Shooting.

Winter field

First day shot in a freezing cold weather. okey score 342. Now its a real winter field, we have snow and the weather is like just above zero. Little wind also, so it feals like -5, and fingers was freezed in some point, but having fun :).

25m Competition

Nice competition, got a score 551. That was more than I ordered, so have to be happy.
Now I start to shoot to field targets. Exept the couple competition with Dirk ;).

This week

Nothing special, shooting two times this week. 133 and 125 arrows. The Hoyt 550 limbs are so lound, that I'm not gonna use them before I get some limbsavers on them. Practising 25m, on wednesday I have a 25m competition on Jyväskylä. Goal there is over 550, I think that I'm not in the record condition (561), so that 550 would be realistic goal.
Had to change the string. It was weard out from the upper loop.