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..