Hey everyone!! It’s Kylee back at it again with another blog post. Today I just want to talk about my compound and how much of a big transition it has been going from a little bow to a big bow. When I was in high school, I shot a 20-pound bow called a Matthews Genesis bow. It had zero sights and everyone that shot in this league had to shoot this bow. I got the form with this bow down to a science to where I was pretty good at shooting it. When I made the transition over to college, I had to change my whole setup because archery became a lot more expensive with what you had to have. I now have a Matthews TRX 34 and it is blue with blue and florescent purple strings. I also had to get a fancy sight for it and had to get stabilizers to help level out the bow with all of the weight that it had on it. Then you had to get arrows and they were not cheap at all, there was also the quiver to hold the arrows, and binoculars so you could see where you were hitting. I also had to get a range finder so that way I was not losing arrows, and a release so I could shoot my bow. This list of items is only the essential stuff. There is so much more you can get, it just at that point becomes how much do you want to spend.
Going from high school to archery was a huge awakening because the competition got a lot steeper with people having sights. In my class I have to shoot, you basically have to shoot close to perfect if not perfect to win. This is so hard to do, but the people who are winning have figured out the method that has helped them get to that level. I am still continuing to work very hard to get up to that level because one of my goals is to win a big tournament. I know that I will get there someday because I am not going to give up and I will figure out the best way to shoot my bow to where I can be at the same level as the rest of those good archers. This just goes to show you guys that good archers only win because they work hard for it and do not quit when the going gets tough.
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