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Originally Posted by Rik My personal feeling is that tens are a good indicator of potential if nothing else. The person hitting more tens has more 'headroom' in their score. |
But tens can be misleading too. I'm sure we all know archers who have managed to reach a scoring level despite poor technique, and only admit to having occasional poor shots. But they cannot understand why they cannot get past that level. In fact it is the "poor shots" that are good (showing they have potential) and it is the combination of errors that they have learnt to cope with that gets arrows in the ten, but does not provide a foundation for improvement. (And these archers tend to be the ones who say they don't need a coach, because all the coaches they have worked with in the past have stopped them hitting the ten!)