The Best Archers

[ASW1973]

Archery is a "closed" skill: This means it is a well learnt skill which is not affected by outside stimulus, to this end you can use the term that it must be done "subconciously" although this is a mis-nomer. What is the case however is if you can achieve this level of automaticity you will perform excellently and so it is worth learning the cues to get you there.
These in all skills begin as concious positioning and running through a method (think how you learnt to park a car).
They then become cue recognition (think how you park a car now).
Any automatic skill has an optimal number of steps (cue recognitions) rarely/never more than 7 (Vittorio Frangill will claim that michele and others on italian team have more than this but it is proven in psycho physiological studies to be unwise to go above 7).

[Merlin Archery]

Originally Posted by Old Bloke

........trying to get out of bed to get to a shoot......trying to remember where all the archery kit was put the week before.....did i do the new sight marks on the a new piece of tape.....did I remember to fletch that duff arrow....trying to straighten your back to shoot....trying to rid yourself of carpal tunnel in the wrist caused by just driving to the shoot........just ask you Dad, Ben, I'm sure that the above is HIS shoot preparation routine!!!!

We have the EFAA nationals this weekend, and he has actually been practising. Can you believe it?

[Old Bloke]

Your Mum probably had a load of "housework" in the garden lined up!