11th week

Activity

Continues to attend weekly training and try to learn new things every week. Hoping that i would be able to attend any upcoming competition.

Outcome

Went there as usual, set up bow and practiced shooting. Had a small competition with a friend and i lost. Score- 289 : 292. Not to worry, i'll not give up and continue practicing. Hope to make lesser careless mistake as time passes. Below are some pictures too during my BAC. Sorry for the slow upload as i just took it from a friend who took my picture for me.

10th week

Activity
Continue to attend the weekly training schedule, strive to improve instinctive shots so as to prepare for furthering my archery into competition of shooting range 80metre to 120metre where by u cant even see the target.

Outcome
Attended training as usual, fired the target board as if it owes me a thousand or so. This training i tried closing my eye and aim but it went out of the board and went into the grassland behind it. Poor me, i had to go for "treasure hunting" but was fun ;) Coach says that if i want to train for far range shooting, i would just have to switch to a small target sheet. That would significantly increase my skills needed to aim properly and i'll be forced to do instinctive shots. But he continued, before that, i'll NEED to change to a better bow that suits myself. *Still trying to save up for a bow*.

9th week

Activity
Since i passed my BAC, i should be allowed to train at the schduled time with my mates and seniors. I should get some advice from them as they had been in archery earlier then me. Hoping to learn something new this week.

Outcome
This week's practice we were allowed to go early and resume our practice wher we stopped last week. Thus, i went half an hour earlier and had 3hours to practice. For the half an hour, i helped to get the target boards out and also set-up the club's bow.
I also learnt from coach the pricing of bows and it's as posted below

ØBow Set
•For the beginner archers,
$300 - $ 700 ++
•For advanced archers,
$800 to $1500++
•For expert archers,
$1800 to $5000++

ØArrows:
$8 - $100 ++
Prices stated are in per arrows

8th week

Activity
I plan to receive my BAC Certificate this week and hope that Coach would give me some advice on how to improve my instinctive shots and also, whether or not i should get a personal bow. If yes, should i get a wooden one, or a metal one.

Outcome
I received my BAC Certificate one week earlier, which is last week. For this week, we trained for the front 2 hours and coach took our measurement which is needed for personal bow for the last half an hour. Coach mentioned that we should get our bow if we wanted to carry on archery especially if we chose to be on competitive side. He mentioned that club's bow is shared bow, which means the size or weight of the bow is not made to match our body, thus shots are not that accurate.

7th week.

7th
Activity
I should receive the certificate 1 week earlier thn planned. This is due to the bringing forward of BAC (Basic Archery Course) by the higher-ups. I am still deciding whether to buy a bow or not as Coach Jaffar has not yet recommend me to buy or own a bow.
Outcome
i received my BAC Certificate on Wednesday 27th May. I chose the competitive side of archery but kept it as my way of relieving stress after studies or completing projects. To the left is a picture of my senior's bow taken during practices.

4th, 5th and 6th weeks.

4th

Activity
To attend the 1st practical lesson; 2nd week of course. i hope to learn to shoot with proper stances by this lesson. I hope to be able to practice fire at least 40 arrows in this week's practical.
Outcome
Attended lesson on Monday. Did not managed to shoot 40 arrows but at least 30+ arrows due to lots of introductions by coach and overwhelming responds on Monday. The shooting wasn't as smoothly as i thought it would. Especially the 10 steps we have to follow. It seems unnatural at first but got used to it after umpteenth shots. It ended with a debrief from coach.


5th

Activity
To attend the 2nd practical lesson; 3rd week of course. Hoping to perfect my skill with the distance of 10m though the test would be using the distance of 15m. Hope to achieve my target of geting 10 points for every shot.
Outcome
Almost every shots was near 10 points. Unfortunately, not all. Achieved 276 points with 30 shots. It was near my target of 300 points for 30 shots.

6th
Activity
To attend the last practical lesson of the course. In this practical i wish to get at least 80% for 15m distance shooting. Thou 70% is the passing mark but i would like to aim for something higher.
Outcome
I managed to get 246/300 which is 82% of overall result. This score is quite to my expectation and i could say that i had tried my best, thus satisfactory.

Hi Mr Puru, this is my new blog for Personal Development.
I had choosen Archery as my SMART plan.
I would like to post my 1st to 3rd week's activity and outcome in this post.

1st
Activity
For the first week, i would like to try finding informations on archery on the internet. Hoping this would be useful when i can join school's Archery Club.
Outcomes
I found a few useful basic steps in setting up a bow or even stances that i would need to position myself before any shooting could be made. This would be useful when i get to join the Archery Club in the school. I would be getting a headstart before others and therefore half a battle won.
Toward the end of week 1, i found out that there is a Archery Club in NYP that i could join.
2nd
Activity
There is a CCA Carnival held in this week and therefore i decided to grab this choice and join the school's Archery Club.
Outcomes
During the CCA Carnival, I was told to attend the Orientation(On Saturday) before deciding on my final decision ; whether or not to join the school's Archery Club.
Attended the Orientation and had a whale of our time. We had games like protecting an egg with newspapers and straws from breaking when dropping from the 3rd storey. After all the fun, it was time for decisions. Some of the participants withdrew from Archery as they found it boring but most of us stayed. During the Orientation i found out that there is a "4week training and 5th week test" course to get a basic archery certificate and took part in it.
3rd
Activity
Attend the first lesson of the 5 week course. Which would be a Theory course. This would enable us to learn alot of basic stuffs and precautions when using a bow. Therefore a pretty important lesson.
Outcomes
During the course, i saw some familiar steps which i read beforehand in while surfing the internet. We also learn a few interesting facts. An example would be Question: "What is the term used when an arrow directly hit through another arrow?" Answer: "RobinHood".