I think it’s cool that you’re into archery :) Now there’s a fellow geek that I can share my enthusiasm with..

Oh yea, I wanted to add you on LinkedIn, but I don’t have your email addy… Care to add me? (you have mine or can easily get it on my contact page)…

I know, practice makes perfect, and I do need to work on my strength in general, but hopefully, I’ll be able to join the same workshop somewhere in November. Perhaps I’ll have found some of my former strength lying around by then.

I completely agree about the “garage door opener” type of bow, but it was the first one that I could actually shoot for more than an hour. Perhaps I should just head to gym and do more physical work in general, but I’m still very afraid that I’ll damage my back again. A two hour driving lesson taught me that it’s far from over, even though I didn’t have any problems for three weeks (no driving lessons then)…

* Recurve: very easy and this is what I used for my first X lessons. Didn’t shoot anything over 20lbs.
* Flatbow: also quite easy, though more challenging than a recurve. This’s been my mainstay for most of my shooting days. This one was 25lbs. Still a bit of a Jr. bow, but it came cheap.
* Longbow: hard, but fscking awesome :D This was my first heavy bow, weighing in at around 38lbs.

I had a longbow custom made by Wim “Monkey” Gibbon of Gouda. We took all the measurements and chose three very nice types of wood for the bow. Thanks to the choice in woods, the bow isn’t very powerful, but it is very fast. Of course, it’s also a beauty to look at ^_^

I never shot compound and I doubt that I’ll ever will. Because of my days in the SCA and my love for traditional bows I’ve always had a prejudiced dislike of these “garage door opener” bows.

I shot for about two years, around my 20th… Still have my flatbow and longbow lying around. I’d love to pick up archery again, but right now we can’t afford it.

Congrats on finishing your course :)