03/02/2022
This is very much the truth.
Archery Algorithm—>. Indoor training is tedious, it’s repetitive but it’s needed to imprint the archery code in your brain that runs your system all year long. Indoor training limits outside forces and distraction, while simultaneously forcing you to focus while having the distractions of repetitive action. Likewise though it focuses on the importance of repeating yourself over and over again, the correct way. The paper doesn’t lie and you can physically see how you are doing. Mistakes show themselves in an instant but are close enough that they aren’t too hard to live with. It can show if you’re on a roll or just going through the motions. Indoor training was always hard for me until I approached it with the mentality of making it a goal to be repetitive and re-writing the code of shot process in my mind over and over again for the new year. It’s my system restart, it’s my antivirus scan and delete. I’ve told people that the brain is constantly writing it’s own Algortythm and the information you enter starts it on a path. If you keep entering in mistakes it will write a code filled with continual error,wheels of death and frustration. But when you program it with good information that is accurate it will make you something great and run seamless. Practice shouldn’t be about just numbers. It should be about good numbers! Accurate numbers, good code. Focus on the quality and then let the quantity take care of itself when you begin to shoot well. I’m a big believer in letting your code accuracy determine how much you are writing it. In other words, when I’m shooting well, making good shots, having a good cadence- then I practice a lot and longer in time too keep engraining good shots. When I’m not practicing well and all I’m doing is repeating poor code, then I will stop. I rarely enter the dojo saying, I’m going to shoot 1 hour today, or 100 arrows. I enter there knowing if I’m shooting awesome then I may be awhile. If I’m shooting like crap, well then Ill stop. Practice with a propose and you will break through plateaus. If your only focused on practicing to just get it in then chances are you are doing more damage than good.
