If it is at all practical, this would be the time to join anarchery club. By doing this, you will have access to a rangeand targets; what is more important, you will be associatingwith people some of whom will know the language and willbe willing to give you a helping hand. One picks up archeryin this way just as an old character I used to know said that hegot the itch, by "Rubbing up against them that's got it."
Start practicing on a target about 20 yards away. If onecan refrain from concentrating on score and devotes one'sattention to form, one will make faster progress. When all
the processes of shooting become more or less automatic, thatis when you can shoot an arrow without thinking everymotion through, you can then begin to concentrate on group-ing the arrows as closely as possible in the target. Like learn-ing to drive a car, one will reach a point of confidence; onewill have a subconscious feeling of mastery. When a personshoots a wild arrow he knows what causes it.
