{"id":137,"date":"2009-07-19T13:35:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T04:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.audreyy.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2009-07-24T19:22:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T10:22:48","slug":"archery-%ef%bc%9dwaiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.audreyy.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Archery \u00ef\u00bc\u009dwaiting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last Sunday was the eighteenth annual Tokyo area one near-far target shooting competition. \u00c2\u00a0You\u00c2\u00a0get eight arrows at each at a 60m(far) and 28m(near) target.<\/p>\n

Having never shot further than 28m before, my fellow archers were a little concerned for my score (read: their safety). \u00c2\u00a0They kept saying stuff like “Oh, you need to raise the bow more so that your arrow reaches the target. \u00c2\u00a0Maybe you should raise it extra high just in case.”<\/p>\n

It was kind of cool, because the tournament was at the Tokyo Budokan, which is a big complex hosting tons of Japanese martial arts. \u00c2\u00a0As we waited for the venue to open at 9am, there was apparently also a junior high karate competition. \u00c2\u00a0 Another bonus of using the Budokan was … air conditioning! \u00c2\u00a0Made the waiting and watching so much more pleasant.<\/p>\n

In Japanese martial art-time, everything starts ten minutes earlier than they say it will. \u00c2\u00a0You might think things start at 9:30, but really…you’ve forgotten to factor in the time it takes to line up before the 9:30 bow-in and announcements. \u00c2\u00a0 After scrambling to get my stuff (bow strung, arrows in the arrow box) in gear a few times, I’d learned to (gasp) be early. \u00c2\u00a0 “Hurry up and wait,” floats through the mind quite often. \u00c2\u00a0Goodness knows it never actually starts late.<\/em><\/p>\n

Anyhow, at the end of the day, I hit a record of ZERO arrows out of 16. \u00c2\u00a0A personal low. \u00c2\u00a0But I was air conditioned and hadn’t really expected to hit any of my long distance arrows, so I ended in a surprisingly unflustered state of mind. \u00c2\u00a0 The awesome rationalization machine that is my brain even said I did rather decently, considering my arrows were nicely clustering together rather than scattering, like they sometimes do. \u00c2\u00a0Duplicability is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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