My son started shooting on his high school archery team last fall. The school provides the bows as it is a National Archery in the Schools Program.
I wasn't sure how well he would do as he's not very competitive by nature.
I didn't want to buy him a bow right away as I didn't know how long he would stick with it.
I made sure he made every practice and got him to as many tournaments as I could.
The team had the state tournament in the end of March and his team took 3rd place. He place 60th overall with a score of 253. Which wasnt bad. It was right in line with where he had been scoring during practices.
As a team, they scored well above the 3100 points required to get invited to nationals. This is determined by adding the scores of the top four boys, the top four girls, and the next top four shooters.
Along the way I told him that if he shot a 270, I would buy him his own bow.
Last night, he shot two flights at practice. The first one a 266. Hot damn the boys on fire! I could tell that he wanted me to say that a 266 was good enough and he wanted me to buy him that new bow. And as much as I wanted to, I couldn't give in and stuck to my guns.
There was a parent meeting after practice so I told him to take advantage of the situation and shoot another flight.
My wife and I got up to talk to him after the meeting and there he is in all his glory, a young man that just shot a 273!
Hot damn! All the practice paid off and he knows it! It was awesome to see him walk with some pride in his step.
He's already got his bow picked out and we'll probably pick it up at Nationals as I hear they sell them for a decent price.
Long thread, but I had to gloat a little bit!
I wasn't sure how well he would do as he's not very competitive by nature.
I didn't want to buy him a bow right away as I didn't know how long he would stick with it.
I made sure he made every practice and got him to as many tournaments as I could.
The team had the state tournament in the end of March and his team took 3rd place. He place 60th overall with a score of 253. Which wasnt bad. It was right in line with where he had been scoring during practices.
As a team, they scored well above the 3100 points required to get invited to nationals. This is determined by adding the scores of the top four boys, the top four girls, and the next top four shooters.
Along the way I told him that if he shot a 270, I would buy him his own bow.
Last night, he shot two flights at practice. The first one a 266. Hot damn the boys on fire! I could tell that he wanted me to say that a 266 was good enough and he wanted me to buy him that new bow. And as much as I wanted to, I couldn't give in and stuck to my guns.
There was a parent meeting after practice so I told him to take advantage of the situation and shoot another flight.
My wife and I got up to talk to him after the meeting and there he is in all his glory, a young man that just shot a 273!
Hot damn! All the practice paid off and he knows it! It was awesome to see him walk with some pride in his step.
He's already got his bow picked out and we'll probably pick it up at Nationals as I hear they sell them for a decent price.
Long thread, but I had to gloat a little bit!
