I have downloaded Joel Turner's online course. It is helping me cure my problems. It's the only one that makes sense when you listen. I retake the course all the time. You keep the course for life and I keep returning to it. However I think you might have hit on what started me down the shot anticipation path.. Many years ago I had a 65lb English longbow break at full draw while I was in my zone. It hit me across the the forehead and dam near knocked me out. I was after that taking up field shooting in the UK. I found going through small tree gaps very difficult and my arrows would always strike the trees and break. It was after this I discovered that I had been given the wrong advice regarding arrow spine. This was all 45 years ago. I now think this was the trigger. Determination and concentration through spoken thoughts is the way forward
Thank you for sharing… that sounds like a big physical trauma. And I am glad you have a path forward. Sometimes songs and picturing other arches (or videos of myself) shooting really help me keep the words I tell myself meaningful with every arrow. It wasn’t till later last year that I finally started to enjoy tournaments again to the point that I am looking forward to them. If there is a specific Joel Turner course you recommend, please share. I’d love to update and add more topics that I rarely hear people talk about… I am reading “Breath” for the next episode about breathing and presence… and I have to redo the arrow spine video (footage wasn’t good enough to use)…
@@bobbynishi PS there is no cure. Once you have target panic it will never go away. This is how to deal with it every single time you draw back your bow
Great commentary on the mental health rollercoaster of archery. While I don’t participate in competition archery, hearing you talk about the exact same things that I go through in my archery is very uplifting. Your openness about your journey can really help other people along as well. Thanks!
Thank you for the kind comment. I hope some of this sticks so we can keep the conversation going and provide better words and tools to work with when we get stuck in these mental spaces…
I have downloaded Joel Turner's online course. It is helping me cure my problems. It's the only one that makes sense when you listen. I retake the course all the time. You keep the course for life and I keep returning to it.
However I think you might have hit on what started me down the shot anticipation path..
Many years ago I had a 65lb English longbow break at full draw while I was in my zone. It hit me across the the forehead and dam near knocked me out.
I was after that taking up field shooting in the UK. I found going through small tree gaps very difficult and my arrows would always strike the trees and break.
It was after this I discovered that I had been given the wrong advice regarding arrow spine.
This was all 45 years ago. I now think this was the trigger.
Determination and concentration through spoken thoughts is the way forward
Thank you for sharing… that sounds like a big physical trauma. And I am glad you have a path forward. Sometimes songs and picturing other arches (or videos of myself) shooting really help me keep the words I tell myself meaningful with every arrow.
It wasn’t till later last year that I finally started to enjoy tournaments again to the point that I am looking forward to them.
If there is a specific Joel Turner course you recommend, please share. I’d love to update and add more topics that I rarely hear people talk about… I am reading “Breath” for the next episode about breathing and presence… and I have to redo the arrow spine video (footage wasn’t good enough to use)…
@@bobbynishi PS there is no cure. Once you have target panic it will never go away. This is how to deal with it every single time you draw back your bow
Great commentary on the mental health rollercoaster of archery. While I don’t participate in competition archery, hearing you talk about the exact same things that I go through in my archery is very uplifting. Your openness about your journey can really help other people along as well. Thanks!
Thank you for the kind comment. I hope some of this sticks so we can keep the conversation going and provide better words and tools to work with when we get stuck in these mental spaces…