Journals.

[Old Bloke]

Just been told about the journals so I had a shufftie. I have been to those pages before but everytime I have a "page not available" pops up. Tried three times in quick succession and got in. Very interesting to see archers bare their soul. Some similar threads running through the posts so:

Which one are you?

Unconscious - Incompetent
Conscious - Incompetent
Conscious - Competent
Unconscious - Competent

Beginners start at the top.

If you need these 4 stages of your archery career explaining, just ask.

[TJ Mason]

Currently I'd say I'm Conscious Competent, with the odd lapse into Muppet. As long as enough practice opportunities exist and I'm not tempted to muck around with my form, I should progress to Unconscious Competent.

[Rik]

I'd probably put myself in the 'con/incomp' category... because I know I do things wrong.
But then I'd probably put 'conscious competent' as mid 1200s on a FITA...

The trouble with these things, is how you rate yourself depends on your skill level. If you fit into 'unconscious incompetent' you won't know it...

[MikeD]

I suspect I am conscious/incompetent, with ever increasing moments of competent.

[Kae]

I'm a muppet

(hovering Concious Competent, but mostly a muppet)

[joetapley]

Very Rumsfeldian

Unconscious - Incompetent: sizeable minority - includes many coaches
Conscious - Incompetent: the great majority - including me
Conscious - Competent: People standing on podia with medals round their necks
Unconscious - Competent: A non existant species

[Mufti]

Nice one OB, time for me to come clean :-
Lots of moments of unconsciousness, rarely to do with archery so I put myself into the 3rd bracket which should also include the description "delusions of competency".

Not sure I wholly agree with Joe's definition though.

[Shirt]

Quite definitely consciously incompetent. There are moments of unconscious competence where I forget what I'm doing and shoot a blinder, then at some point it catches up with me. (E.G. Lose a head to head 101-97, because I missed...)

[Old Bloke]

Excellent response guys. I will explain the stages a little later as a few PM's show that some arn't aware at what position in archery they are at and what the 4 stages mean to them.

Jo' I disagree with your last statement...non existant species. Those that are on their top form arrive at this door and open it. They then close it behind them and leave the rest on the outside, wondering where the key went.

[Old Bloke]

Forgot to say, that we loose the majority of archers (they find something else to do) when they get stuck in stage two, which for many arrives at 18 months and they depart in 36.

If the powers that be concentrated on the membership at this stage of the proceedings, then instead of a 25,000 membership we would have 52,000.!

Moan, moan, grumble,,grumble.