Ow, my back, my legs
I ache so much right now. My legs, thighs, back, arms, fingers. All over.
It's great :)
So what exactly have I been doing to make myself ache this much? Well, I shall tell you. Horse archery. It was fantastic. I do some archery but have been quite out of practice, but I don't ride horses; the closest I have done was being led about on the back of one as a kid. We were using the thumb draw for the archery as well, which I had looked into a bit but hadn't really done much with, so that was another thing to learn.
So, from humble beginnings, by the end of the one day course I had gone from out of practice with a bow and being used to mediteranian draw on a bow (with two or three fingers just below the knocked arrow) and no horseriding experience to speak of, to taking and knocking and drawing and shooting an arrow all basically without looking, while doing a fast trot on a horse while the horse was not on a guide rope and managing to shoot off three arrows before the track ran out.
This was so awesome, I may want to try it again now. the website for the guys I went to is http://www.horsebackcombat.co.uk/.
Now, I wonder if Tornament Stud could be persuaded to let us have a go with their horses... :p
It's great :)
So what exactly have I been doing to make myself ache this much? Well, I shall tell you. Horse archery. It was fantastic. I do some archery but have been quite out of practice, but I don't ride horses; the closest I have done was being led about on the back of one as a kid. We were using the thumb draw for the archery as well, which I had looked into a bit but hadn't really done much with, so that was another thing to learn.
So, from humble beginnings, by the end of the one day course I had gone from out of practice with a bow and being used to mediteranian draw on a bow (with two or three fingers just below the knocked arrow) and no horseriding experience to speak of, to taking and knocking and drawing and shooting an arrow all basically without looking, while doing a fast trot on a horse while the horse was not on a guide rope and managing to shoot off three arrows before the track ran out.
This was so awesome, I may want to try it again now. the website for the guys I went to is http://www.horsebackcombat.co.uk/.
Now, I wonder if Tornament Stud could be persuaded to let us have a go with their horses... :p