I have not written on the blog for a very long time.
Too long in fact.
So where am I up to?
Well work is hard but fulfilling with a client list of nearly 100 after 6 months in business ranging throughout the uk and Europe. I have just returned from a very fruitful coaching trip to Luxembourg and even managed to slip in a competition at the end of it. I always enjoy the double FITA at Libramont shot indoors, this is an excellent competition to go to at the start of the outdoor season and see how things are going. For me things went alright (2736) and I finished third but was well beaten by two excellent gents compounds ho were both on for in excess of 1400 come 30m on the Sunday.
Several of my clients shot well, Andrew O’connor shot back to back 1300’s in this his first ever 90m round shot with a compound, and Alex Lamb is showing that he is moving in the right direction with a 293 at 90m on the Sunday and finishing 4th in the recurve division. Also from Edinburgh university (but this time the Alumni) Claudine Jennings won the ladies compound shooting 1366 and 1348.
Like myself she is faced with the difficulty of balancing her professional commitments with her sport and felt that the biggest let down to her scoring (especially on the second day) was fitness. To this end an effort must be made by us both to get fit enough to compete for to days over the next month.
This time (April May) is the ideal to look at fitness, especially if you are based in the UK where the weather is just too horrible to even practice effectively at this time outside. I have stated in print that any level of archer must be fit enough to shoot 3 times the number of arrows required in competition and so I had better apply this to myself 
Becky Gridley shot well at the Dearne valley field championships in the same weekend I was away. Becky should be a member of the world students games team in summer and counts herself as almost exclusively a target shooter so it as nice to see her going out to an early field competition. Her 640 score was respectable enough and gave her boyfriend (Tim Keppie, another client) a scare on the second day.
On the work side I have nearly finished a series of “tutorials” on aspects of compound and recurve archery that will be posted to the site in May. This is to replace the idea of a dvd that I have been playing with over the last 9 months. I prefer tis method of production as it is more flexible and allows me to update each section as i want to without the complex production values of a dvd. The areas covered ill include several tutorials on posture, alignment, and anchor point as well as a compound specific series including release aid execution. These tutorials are a mixture of live footage and training footage mixed with poer point slides to give a seminar feeling. I hope that they will tie up with the articles available on the website which I have written for various magazines.
