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| Bows and Arrows! | (Entered Jan. 08, 2009) | When in Tokyo... | |||||||
Remember doing archery back in summer camp, or maybe from your school days? They gave you those red plastic bows and cheap arrows and let you fire them into styrofoam targets and for the first time in your young life you felt like a MAN! (or a woman of course if you were a girl, no sexism on this site). Fond memories indeed, and since I remember always being quite good at archery (no modesty on this site either) I've always been keen to do it again, but never seemed to have the time...
On the range at last! We had to start out on the beginner targets (10 meters) to warm up because we were, well, beginners. However I eventually moved up to the 30 and then 50 meter targets due to managing to get four arrows out of five into the yellow bullseye. I did ok on the 30 meter target but 50 meters proved a little challenging... In other words most of my arrows buried themselves in the dirt.
Here's the grouping that allowed me to advance. Not sure what happened with that one arrow in the blue, guess I let my zen-like concentration slip.
Kumi and Aya did quite well considering they've never done archery before.
This place was full of archery fanatics, all with their own super expensive and fancy bows decked out with futuristic equipment which seemed to do everything for you except pull back the string. Where's the fun in that? Our bows were pretty plain, but having an old-fashioned long bow would have been even better.
Clear skies, fresh air, friendly people, a bow in one hand an an arrow in the other, what more could one ask for? Will we be back again for more arching? Don't doubt it! |
Harajuku to Tokyo, Park Photowalk |
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