Last end, best end (of practice, anyway). #GatorCup #archery

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Clannad - Theme from Harry's Game (Official HD Video) YouTube video by ClannadVEVO

Her voice and her music carried me through some of the most turbulent and transformative years of my life, and remain as true and beautiful to me all these years later. RIP, Moya Brennan.
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Nice. I love my 46# Uukha SX+ limbs.

And in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly,
Scarce heard amidst the guns below.

Photo of an archery target in the near distance,. surrounded by green grass and a verdant hillside beyond the chain link fence behind it. In the foreground, in front of the target are three turkeys; the left ones with its tail feathers flared out in display.

Today's distraction training. #olympicrecurve #archery

You can customize and print your own by going to the page on Thingiverse: www.thingiverse.com/thing:7308453
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Photo of arrows arranged in an archery tube, with the arrows evenly spaced and separated.

Photo of the components of the arrow spacer, including 3D-printed lower "plate" and upper "cup" components, which have holes for the drinking straws that act as guides for individual arrow shafts.

Photo of the assembled arrow spacer assembly.

Photo of the spacer assembly in place inside an arrow storage tube.

I designed a spacer for my arrow storage tubes to keep my arrows neatly spaced apart. (With taped-on spin vanes, letting arrows rattle around together in a tube invariably ends up with them stuck together and needing to be delicately separated to avoid damaging the vanes.)
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Photo showing the tops of 9 separate tubes containing sets of arrows, each tube labeled with my name and the type of arrow contained within.

I think I may be overdue for an arrow purge... (That's not even all of them.)
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I build my own arrows and that part I enjoy.

Paying US$500 for a dozen new X10 shafts, $150 for new points, $15 for new vanes, $15 for new nocks, not as much. 💸💸💸

In before @reckless.bsky.social with (Brendan Carr) "He's such a dummy!"

Soggy session at the range this morning...
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Nice, congrats! 🎉

Photo of me shooting my Olympic recurve bow at practice, a green archery range and hillside in front of me, the target off in the distance. The photo is taken just after the arrow was released and the arrow can be seen in midair a short distance in front of me.

Love #archery photos that show the arrow in flight. Thanks to visiting photographer Amanda Newlove (IG: @amanda.newlove) for capturing this one of me this past Saturday!
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New bow (Win&Win Meta DX riser) feels good. Bumped up draw weight a couple pounds to get the same tune on the MXT-10 limbs as on my Uukha SX+s. Between that and the heavier bow mass (3.7kg) it'll be a few sessions before my shooting catches up, but I'm liking it so far.
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Screenshot from the Strava fitness app showing GPS tracks from a 3h28m "Archery practice" session, with a total distance walked of 4.76 km and an average heart rate of 99 bpm.

Outdoor #archery at 70m: good for getting those steps in! 😂

Viet-Tam Luu Archery Video Coaching Review video 2026-01-24 YouTube video by Viet-Tam Luu

Rest of the end was pretty solid too: youtu.be/Y1DSRMoI-OA

Best shot of the day. More like these, please.
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Collage of 4 photos, selfies of myself taken in front of an archery target with 6 of 6 arrows in the inner gold (yellow) center of the target face.

On April 1 last year I shot my first ever all-gold (9s and 10s) end at the standard 70m Olympic distance. Almost 8 long months passed before I did it again. Then, 5 weeks passed before I did it a third time. Today I did it again, less than 3 weeks later. Progress!
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Close-up photo of an arrow sticking out of a target, with the nock shot off and the carbon fiber material splintered and the aluminum core underneath bent and torn.

Close-up photo of an arrow sticking out of a target next to some others, including the one that hit it, with the nock partly broken off, and the carbon fiber material splintered and the aluminum core underneath bent.

Shoot $60 arrows, they said. It'll be fun, they said. Shot out nocks and damaged (destroyed) two X10s this weekend. First one, doing a drill at 30m, admittedly that was asking for it. Second one at the full 70m. (Yes, I could get pin nocks, but that would add 3gn of weight!)
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Happy birthday, such as it is. 🍻

Yikes. I always figured it'd be way more dangerous here in car-crazy California, compared to the Netherlands of all places? Just goes to show nowhere is without risk... Sending him my best wishes as a fellow bike commuter. 🫶

Also, that's hardly in keeping with the revised Food Pyramid... /s

Screenshot of an archery scorecard showing a total score of 304/360.

Photo of me (dressed in black sweatpants and long sleeve shirt, and a black archery chest guard) standing in front of an archery target, giving a thumbs up gesture. Six arrows can be seen in the middle of the archery target, specifically all on the second-innermost yellow 9-ring. In the background, behind a chain link fence is a green hillside, a large deciduous tree bare of leaves, a blue sky dotted with clouds.

And a short while later, with the wind starting to gust as the latest winter storm picks up again, I did it again: 304/360
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Screenshot of an archery scorecard showing a total score of 300/360.

One of my #archery goals for 2025 was to shoot 300+/360 at 70m. And I got close, with a 297 last month. Well, at my first practice of 2026, this happened: 300, on the dot.

POV: shooting a 10 at 70m in the rain (okay, a slight drizzle). #olympicrecurve #archery

Time to work on visualization exercises I guess... I hope you're all healed up and shooting again soon!

Close-up photo of arrows protruding out of an archery target. Two arrows are in focus, protruding out of the target's second-innermost gold 9-ring, parallel to each other and spaced about 2cm apart. The orange-coloured plastic nock on the lower arrow is broken, with the rearmost part of the nock missing, as the arrow was struck by the arrow next to it.

$1.25 Beiter nock: RIP.
$42 Easton X10 arrow shaft: OK... just.
Whew.
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Huzzah for awesome coaches! 👍🫶

Photo of an archery target featuring two arrows in the innermost gold 10-ring, three in the gold 9-ring, and an outlier sixth arrow far to the left in the blue 6-ring.

The curse of the last arrow strikes again! 😅
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