potential energy

I'm quite in love with archery. Money and hurting fingers notwithstanding, it's something I'm going to go for as a serious hobby. The feeling of standing up to shoot something -- that infinite moment just before releasing when it's just you, the target and your bow-arrow -- is immensely satisfying. If anything in my life can be zen at all, this moment is it. It's a moment of complete potential and you don't even have to need to want to concentrate, unless the bow is unsuitable for some reason and you aren't comfortable with it. For that one moment verything goes taut -- your arms, the limbs of the bow, the string, your brain. For that one amazing moment you're alone and liberated. And then either you release the arrow or you don't.

A simple recurve bow with a 20-pound draw weight cuts my fingers... I feel like such a wimp. I hear that the average English longbow has a draw weight of about 70-80 pounds, whereas for the famed Mongolian composite bow it can be anything between 100 and 160 pounds. What I need before I can talk about anything is to practice a lot and build up callus. Again, after the A levels.

After the A levels T___T

Now, H3. What am i doing blogging when I'm supposed to be pushing it out. Sigh.