Training was good again. :)

Career high for 50m! 273/360!! :D :D Although I still have this tendency to land one or two arrows in blue or black just as the score is looking good. Sigh. Oh well. Will improve over time.

Was shooting with Weiquan, Vincent and Nicholas. Just the C-class people minding their own business in our corner of the range. Weiquan had... interesting ideas as to how to get Nic to draw enough so that his clicker would click. They involve a girl from Geylang, exchange of cash and something in return for shooting well. Go figure. -_-

For all you lay-people who don't know what a clicker is:


It's a strip of spring steel attached to the riser. 

How it works is that the arrow is placed under the clicker so that at full draw, the arrow point will be pulled from under the clicker. It will then snap back against the bow making an audible 'click' noise.
At this sound, the archer will release the arrow.
The clicker is thus used as a draw length check. Each arrow can be shot from the exact same draw length; this ensures that the same amount of energy is used to fire each arrow and each arrow has the same amount of energy as it flies.
Before an archer can use a clicker, their draw length must be consistent, otherwise it will be more of a hindrance than a help.

After we'd finished our 6 ends of 6 arrows at 50m, the guys decided to rehearse and take their timing for team event, since the three of them will form one team for this Saturday's competition. And the funniest, most tragic thing happened.

Nic's second arrow scored a 10, but because the centre portion of this board that we were using is a little soft and holey (from all the hits its been taking), the arrow didn't embed itself in anything solid, and it just kinda fell out of the board. But the point snagged on the target sheet itself, leaving the arrow hanging there, lying flat against the board.

Weiquan was the next shooter after Nic, so he stepped up, shot his three arrows, and his last arrow made a very weird metallic noise when it hit the board. I had a bad feeling. It didn't sound like the normal sound that we hear when two arrows just strike against each other when they land close together.

And this was what we saw as they went to collect their arrows.


Weiquan's last arrow split Nic's arrow. 


Here's a close-up; sighted along Weiquan's arrow. 

Carbon arrows. Sigh. Weiquan's promised to pay Nic $10. I wonder what would've happened with aluminium arrows, though. I wonder if they would've split, considering that they're made of solid metal, and not carbon fibres, like ours.

Maybe one day, we'll use a few of the club arrows and see if Weiquan wants to try his luck... heehee.