interesting question ?

[Deadeye Doc]

I forgot to add two other useful sources of "wisdom". We all - well, some of us - know Al Henderson's little book. Brilliant! His reframing of various archers' laments to give a positive perspective. "I shot too many nine's" becomes "Well, you shot 70% tens".
Then there's a surprising review article in a book that very few of you will know from, of all places, FITA. Unfortunately the English language in the book is, in many cases, impenetrable. It is called "Sports Medicine and Science in Archery". The article (Chapter) is entitled "Psychological Preparation in Archery" written by two Turkish sports scientists.
The article mentions that "many elite sportsmen (sic) use these techniques [mental training] and a similar number of athletes emphasize that because of time limitations and lack of opportunities they can not use mental training before competition". The article goes on to point out that "beginning" athletes should concentrate on "basic movements".
They outline several techniques, including Visualization (Mental rehearsal), centring, PMR (progressive muscle relaxation) and a long section on Autogenic Training (therapy).

[Murray]

Originally Posted by ASW1973

In both cases the right teaching gets the right results

I would add to that - the right teaching / student combination gets the right results.

At the risk of sounding like GTek -
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig"

[not dead yet]

Originally Posted by Tony_zelah

If you put a badly tuned bow into a Hooter shooter it will put the same arrow in the same hole time after time. So I'd rather have good form any time, even if it did mean I needed six different sight marks each end to make the arrows group!!!!!!

tony sorry mate i read this then moved on thinking he must be a coach looked back and low and behold you are a coach.

think you need to read what you've written.


i love AI
pete

my sense of humour is coming back, been away far too long