If you care about the neurology see previous post. And scroll to the heading on that below.
Today for my 10 shots, which I did despite the arm/shoulder injury, I managed to get three on target, so I feel happy. Results below.
Shot 4 was interesting as it went through a piece of bark and a vine on it. I couldn’t pull it out by just pulling on it and I had to use an axe to cut above and below the vine before it would come out.
Neurology lessons
I fired despite the injury, but aware of it and while I do feel some pain, it has moved to further down my arm and is not as bad on the neck/shoulder. This tells me a certain amount of the pain is also due to the recalibration, and reversing of whatever atrophied muscles I have in the shoulder from my previous martial arts training injuries. This process is somewhat lengthy to explain but I cover it in a LOT more depth in my book on Systema , as it was one of the principal discoveries of training in Systema, it healed a lot of injuries I had from my previous decades of training, some of which I thought were permanent.
Other things that I can confirm:
- The rubber fins really do make a bigger difference than they are worth. I need to update the arrows a lot. But they take long to get here so I think I will order another batch, because on this excursion I lost another arrow, not as in lost it, but the notch at the back snapped off and was lost making the arrow pretty much useless now.
- I can probably adapt my hold so I don’t get stung on the arm but I need to practice more to see how this affects my accuracy. Not possible to do now, because the rubber fins throw too much of a variable into that.
- I fired the last shot without a glove and felt a lot more confident of where it washing to go, and it is also the best of the three hits.
- I am more certain than ever that with better arrows and more practice I should be able to get my target of 70% hit rate on a human sized target well within my 1,000 shots to competence.
Total arrows fired to date: 41
This post was originally published on my Substack. Link here
