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My hat is still officially undefeated
Tournament report: Desert Open 2007
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There's a strange impression that I'm starting to get about archery people, at least the Powers That Be: they seem to fetishize The Rules, even moreso than most of the fetishists I know. As such, the USC star that put on a surprisingly good show at the olympic trials last week was not considered a college division archer.
He was a hundred points ahead of me, while I was another hundred points ahead of the official second-place finisher.
Despite the silly little belt buckle I now have (belt buckle? the hell?), I don't want to consider this a competive victory. Rather, I hit some important personal milestones, and hardly noticed them until they'd passed. I opened up scoring with an X at 90 meters, anchoring a 51, and followed that up with a 48. Things were downhill from there, but the resulting 250 will be my new standard for that distance. 70 started off iffy, but I pulled it together at the end. The next day I set my goals high and nearly had them: only one point from my personal best prat 50, and five at thirty. Grand total came to 1148, only twelve points below the personal best that felt so astounding at the time and that I'd previously not come close to matching. If that doesn't even feel like a spectacular day anymore, I must be getting better without really noticing. From here it's a matter of:
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Single FITA
There's a strange impression that I'm starting to get about archery people, at least the Powers That Be: they seem to fetishize The Rules, even moreso than most of the fetishists I know. As such, the USC star that put on a surprisingly good show at the olympic trials last week was not considered a college division archer.
He was a hundred points ahead of me, while I was another hundred points ahead of the official second-place finisher.
Despite the silly little belt buckle I now have (belt buckle? the hell?), I don't want to consider this a competive victory. Rather, I hit some important personal milestones, and hardly noticed them until they'd passed. I opened up scoring with an X at 90 meters, anchoring a 51, and followed that up with a 48. Things were downhill from there, but the resulting 250 will be my new standard for that distance. 70 started off iffy, but I pulled it together at the end. The next day I set my goals high and nearly had them: only one point from my personal best prat 50, and five at thirty. Grand total came to 1148, only twelve points below the personal best that felt so astounding at the time and that I'd previously not come close to matching. If that doesn't even feel like a spectacular day anymore, I must be getting better without really noticing. From here it's a matter of:
- Equipment upgrades. I need a new cushion tip on my plunger at the very least, and probably a new v-bar block. New strings would be nice; I've also been offered a new riser, which would be the ultimate big change.
- Wind practice. This is awkward, because it's going on winter season, and starting to snow in Utah.
- Fine-tuning my grip. Since I stopped shooting with a glove, there's been a spot on my handle that can press into my palm painfully. I either need to file that off, or just get that new riser.
- Poundage increase. This will also help with wind.
- More tournaments. The next one in SoCal is November 10th, in Van Nuys, which is not particularly accessible from anywhere I've previously stayed. From there it's solidly into indoor season, with the Utah Open in December.
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