565

Score 565 yesterday in Virrat Sporthall... But got a better feeling a in my own finals.. After the normal round I have started to shoot finals to 6 points.. First round, 27 point even, less 0 points and 28 or more 2 points... Second and third round is 28 point even, less 0 and 29 or 30, 2 points..

It's very good practice to shoot high scores :)...

One part

There is something missing in my shooting... It's so close to be very good. Now shooting like scores 550 - 565.. Goal is to go over 570.. I think the bow is ok, or could be that I need little more bounds, that the X7 starts to work.. Need new limbs to get it, now riser turned to full... or just have to buy new arrows.. Just have to find the missing part of the shooting ;)

Some more indoor

Just waiting the Kaya K5 limbs to come, or even some word about them.. Looks like that one Italian and one British has already kaya limbs, and I don't...

yesterday shooting was just a little like wondering how to shoot... Started with ace arrows witch I can shoot more for warming up, then change to X7 that I only have 4 arrows... Some midway I started to worder how it's possible that the bows didn't look the same.. Measured it with Riku and because I had changed the limbs that the tiller (the different between limbs) was like 10mm.. So lot of time went to wonder how it's possible and how o fix it.. Got it to like 2,5mm..
Tomorrow more shooting...

Indoor

So... I thought that I keep some brake after the EC, but no.... Just wanted to go and start shooting indoor straight a way :).... The "bad" result in Italy gave me a boost to keep going..
Now the X7 arrows are tuned to the "red devil" (GreenHorn, Sirius, red) and they are working good, only the man sometimes says can't shoot good.. Like yesterday I started to shoot some 30 arrows scores.. First 5-6 set (3arrows) started like 10,10,8... 10,8,10 and so on.. very good from me, but still could have shot like 10,10,9 even :)... Well, we always hope more than we get...

Competition season in inside is very close, the first one is 15.10, just before two weeks. Starting again to go to the Recurve class with my barebow. I need more tuff competitions and after basic round we have qualification round and the finals.. Very good practice.. Hope to kick some recurve ass also in this season ;)...

European Championships in Italy

So... the main goal in this year is over, with nice results. With the team we won silver medal and in individual class I was inside 8, what was very good result in that kind of weather. We had all week and everyday the temperature like near +40.
I started the tuesday unknown targets with a unsure fealing, that what is going to happend. But after couple targets I was going in the right direction. From that day 345 points and 5th place.
Second day we had given distancies and I had a better feeling, that the shooting was going to bee better. But I think because of the heat like that and some unsure fealing to my shooting the days score was 314 and drop to the 6th place.
To Wednesdays shooting found little better style to shoot and the scores rised up from yesterday.
Was a tuff morning for all, because from the top group dropped out 2 shooters. So went to the next round with 157 point. Afternoon I think that heat was in the top point of the week and It was too much for me, I think that I melted and just couln't shoot normaly anymore. So after that day 8th place, and I'm happy to that.
Friday then the team finals. We started from the 4th place and shot against Austria. We had 8 tuff targets, but we managed to put specially to the 20cm targes very good point, so that we won that match. Next we shot agains Italy, that we had dropped out from the gold medal also year ago in Hungary, so we had a good fealing again of this match. It was only 4 targets and after 3 targets we were level. We started the last 20cm target and put the pressure to Italian with 16 nice point :). they couln't take it and we won.
In the team finals I melted again, like in many other earlier days, and couln't managed to shoot good arrows again. So Germany won by one point..

Happy to last week, Silver and 8th place.
Allready I have a hunger to go and shoot the next year WC, and beat everybody :=)

Bear-competition in Pori

I had practiced all week on 50m to this competition and in practice got nice scores above 660, so the expectation was to brake my own National Record.

The weather forcast did not promesed anything good, like heavy rain and thunderstorm. Allready in warming arrows there was some thunder sounds far away, but they were coming closer and closer.. Weather was like +24, no wind and no rain, so perfect. We managed to shoot almost all round except two (12arrows) when it hit.. Lighning like 500m away and everybody in. Waited like 1h and and after that we could continue the competition. Shot 322 and 326, that's a new National Record from 50m with barebow :). Happy to that. Next time have to strat from the beginning to shoot hard. Many times the arrows stayed low 8, so not a full draw.. Good to continue to Italy. Changed the arrowrest today and tested all the distancies and they stayed in the yellow :). So bow, arrows and man is in shape..

Thanks guys, 60 would be nice start and then rest 12 is extra :).
Always mixing how many errows.. ups arrows we are shooitn and which distance..
But today nice practise, 138 arrows and have to remember to release backwards..