Target Panic

 Hey everyone!! It’s Kylee back at it again to shed some wisdom. Today’s topic is going to be about target panic. This is something that all archers eventually go through sometime in their careers. It is like the mental block of all mental blocks. Target panic comes in many different forms and whichever form you may have depends on what exactly you are struggling with. One form for example is where you struggle to hold your pin in the middle of the scoring ring you are aiming at. There is going to be movement while aiming, we are human after all. In order to beat this form of target panic, you have to learn to accept this movement. Not every shot is going to be perfect, there are going to be some shots that are off, but this is completely normal. It is being able to trust the shot and not get too upset when a shot does go off. You have to be able to take the good with the bad.

 

I can remember getting target panic really bad before. I had a problem raising my arm at the last second when I would go to shoot. I still shot every single day despite having this issue. I did not let the target panic get to me, I was bound and determined to beat this target panic. It took me 3 months to beat this target panic. This hard work allowed me to get a big win and from that point on I knew that I had what it took to stay on top. I had the drive and determination to continue to shoot even though I did not like where I was shooting at the time score-wise. So my friends the moral of the story is, do not let target panic drive you to quit. There are ways to beat target panic if you take the time and put in the work to beat it. As the saying goes, winners never quit and quitters never win!!