I have been asked so many times, how I was able to shoot arrow after arrow during the Gold Medal match and not be aware of the score. The answer is simple. Each shot is its own shot, you can't focus on the previous shot, either to beat yourself up for a poor shot, or predict your future score if you kept it going. The conditions are different, the arrow is different. The challenge is to focus on the process, stay in the here and now, and make each shot its own master.
Simon Fairweather, 2000 Olympic Gold Medallist-Archery |