Sunday, my dad (who is now a registered Coach!) and I decided to put on my new clicker. If you don't know what that is, it's a very simple concept. It's basically a piece of thick wire that attaches toward the front end of the riser, typically near or under the sight. You place the arrow under it, come back to anchor, and stretch your back just a little bit extra until the arrow escapes from underneath the clicker. The clicker then makes a "clicking" noise (which you probably deduced) at which point you know you've reached full draw and you release. In short, when done correctly, it allows the archer to reach the same exact draw EVERY time.
A lot of great things happened on Sunday because my grandfather just finished his level 1 and 2 coaches training. He got a 100 on the first test and a 96 on the second one. He's too smart! My dad is getting ready to go to level 2 training in February, which is great. That means that I'll be allowed to have BOTH my dad and grandfather on the line with me, which will be SUPER cool. I'll have my own little coaches panel or something. Not to mention my grandfather is one of the wisest people I know and my dad knows how to irritate me just enough to get me to listen (I hate it when he does that too).
Now, as simple as that sounds, it is a PAIN to set up and adjust, especially since I had some consistancy issues to start with. It started out with me coming back to full draw and stretching back just a little more (like I'm supposed to) and it not clicking. Then we started to fine tune the placement, once we knew we were somewhere in the ballpark. That is where the problems started. My inconsistancy curse started to rear it's ugly head. It would go off too soon.......or not at all. Then Dad and I started to disagree about what the problem was, which was dumb since he's the registered coach and I'm....well....not. After a while God started smiling down on me and it started to "click" (pun totally intended). I'm defintely starting to get the feel it, I just have to learn to trust it. I also have to strengthen up some, since I went into muscle failure. :)
A lot of great things happened on Sunday because my grandfather just finished his level 1 and 2 coaches training. He got a 100 on the first test and a 96 on the second one. He's too smart! My dad is getting ready to go to level 2 training in February, which is great. That means that I'll be allowed to have BOTH my dad and grandfather on the line with me, which will be SUPER cool. I'll have my own little coaches panel or something. Not to mention my grandfather is one of the wisest people I know and my dad knows how to irritate me just enough to get me to listen (I hate it when he does that too).The future looks bright, my journey's just begun, I can't wait to see what God has in store for me.
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