Stand sideways facing the target. Hold the bow with the left hand with your arm guard on it. Get an arrow from the quiver. Place the arrow on the arrow rest. Position the arrow's notch below the notching point. The arrow's fletching should be in the right position. 'Lock' the nock in the string just below the nocking point. Peek at the target using the bow sight. Pull the string using your fingers with the help of the finger tab. Release the arrow when your right hand is below your chin. These are the steps to follow in order to hit target. Taiwan Day 413 happened so fast that it hit me like an arrow. I went to Taiwan and I became an archer. lol (UP Fight!)
Taiwan Getaways organized an archery event last Saturday. It is an online group in meetup.com where people who love adventure gather and do various exciting activities. Cherry Hsu was the organizer of the event and I joined the group using my fb account. The event happened at Zhongzheng Sports Center and it is one of the many public sports center that the Taipei government built to promote a healthy lifestyle for its citizens. It is just beside Chiang-Kai Shek (CKS) Memorial Hall and easily accessed by Exit 5 of the CKS MRT Station.
A lot of people joined the activity who I do not know. There were Taiwanese and some came from other countries. They were my Travel Buddies for this Taiwan Day Adventure.
We first did stretching exercises and then a grandpa taught us some basic archery techniques. Cherry told in the online group that a Coach Lee will taught the group archery and that he is an Olympic trainer. “He must be Coach Lee”, I told myself as the grandpa explained how to use the bow in Chinese! Haha! Cherry just translated what Coach Lee was saying.
He demonstrated the basic steps like putting the arrow with the fletching or the feathers of the arrow in the right position. Our arrows have three feathers. Two must face one side either on the left or right and the other one facing the other side. The single feather facing one side should be perpendicular to the bow's vertical position. The arrow has a nock which should be placed below a metal bead called the nocking point.
I am right handed so I should hold the bow using my left hand and pull the bow string using my right hand. A plastic gear called the arm guard was also given to us and he placed it one by one to each of the group members left arm. It kept my left arm straight while doing archery. Coach Lee also placed a finger tab in my right hand fingers so that I can easily pull the string. He calibrated the bow sight after he taught me how shoot the arrow properly. I should release the arrow when my hand is below my chin.
When Coach Lee left me to assist another person, I got one arrow from the quiver and put in the arrow rest in the bow. It will be my first unsupervised attempt to do archery. I placed the arrow's nock below the metal bead. I pulled the string but the arrow didn't fly! Some people even laughed at me.
I forgot to 'locked' the nock in the string so that when I pulled the string the arrow will also be pulled and be pushed by the string's elastic potential energy when I released the arrow.
But I was determined! I stood sideways facing the target. I held the bow with my left hand with the arm guard on it. I got an arrow from the quiver and I placed the arrow on the arrow rest of the bow. I positioned the arrow's nock below the nocking point. I also made sure that the arrow's fletching should be in the right position. I locked the nock in the string just below the nocking point and I aimed the target using the bow sight. I pulled the string with the help of the finger tab on my right hand fingers. I pulled it until my right hand was below my chin. I closed my left eye. 'Target Locked'. I then released the arrow!
THINGS TO DO IN TAIPEI
Sakura Series - Taiwan
2024 Forecast
Taipei 101 first flowers
Tianyuan Palace backyard
Taipei Flower Test Center
Pingjing St. Lane 42
Broadwood Park
Sunshine Sports Park kawazu sakura
Wuling Farm (武陵農場)
SYS kawazu sakura
Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village
CKS Memorial Hall
Shibafen Yoshino Sakura
Hope River
Dongfang Temple
Tianyuan Palace
Neicou Stream Trail
Orange Garden Cafe
Yangming Park Visitor Information Center
Yangming Park Service Center Bus Stop
Huashan Road
Qianshan Park
Zhongshan Hall Entrance
Tenglong Sakura Farm
Flower Test Center Shōwa Sakura
Neihu Creek Trail
Shulin Land Office
Xióng Kōng Cherry Blossom Forest
Lung Yen Sakura Forest
Yangming Park cherry stream
Yangming Park fountain
CKS Memorial Hall Tairyō sakura
Wugu District Tianyi Road
CKS Memorial Hall yaesakura
Loving Farm
Yong Long Farm
Zhongbaling Sakura Road
Sun Link Sea
Tai'an Police Station
Cherry Hill Slope
Hsinchu Park
Taipei 101
Kāng Gào Kēng Creek
New Garden City
Broadwood Park
Tianyuan Palace backyard
Pingjing St. Lane 42
Alishan Ranger Station
Alishan House
Alishan Police Station
Alishan Forest Railway
Alishan Station
Alishan Entrance
Alishan Gou Hotel
Alishan Magnolia Garden
Wulai tour
Wun Chang Elementary School
Bishanyan
Sanzhi Sansei Trail
Sakura Series - Taiwan
Nei Cuo Stream
Orange Garden Cafe
Sansei Trail
Tenglong Sakura Farm
Yangming Park Cherry Stream
Yangming Park Fountain
Flower Test Center
Broadwood Park
New Garden City
Yinghua Park
Pingjing St. Lane 42
Yangmingshan Visitor Center
Taipei 101
Tianyuan Palace backyard
Sakura Series - Japan
Kamonyama Park
Near the Nippon Maru Memorial Park
Shinko Park
Minato-mirai 21 area
Tokyo Tech Suzukakedai Campus
Onda River
Tenryuji
Byodoin
Kiyomizudera
Himuro shrine and Yakushi-ji Temple
Hōryū-ji Temple
Nara Park attractions
Tokyo Tech Ookayama Campus
Sumida River
Tsuruma Park
Gion
Maple Series
Taipei Aowanda
Shimen Dam
Alishan
Aowanda
Shanlinxi
Taoyuan Valley Garden
Fushoushan Farm
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Always in my heart
MRT birdman
Valentine's Day
Tulips Festival
2018 Taipei Lantern Festival
City of Azaleas
Linji Huguo Temple
Nanjichang Night Market
Gudetama Chef restaurant
Dalongdong Bao'an Temple
Shilin hollyhocks
Ningxia Night Market
Ximending graffiti
Discovery Center of Taipei
Chunghwa Postal Museum
Double-Decker Bus
Shilin Cold Balls
Jingimoo
GomanMango
mud volcanic ice
Fire and Ice Dumpling
Opium Fen-Yuan
Ichiran Ramen
Liu Shandong Beef Noodles
hydrangea flowers
National Palace Museum
Other attractions in Taipei
Taipei on a budget
Japanese buildings
Dāoxiāomiàn beef noodles
Presidential Office Building
Yongkang St. and Elephant Mountain
CKS and SYS Hall
City tour
Beitou ramen
MRT Monopoly Game
Winter city tour
Zhicheng Park
Shilin Plum Blossom
Art museums
Shopping in Taipei
Summer desserts
Qingtiangang
Qixingshan hiking
2015 Calla lily
2016 Calla lily
Beitou tour
Beitou-Zhuzihu tour
NTU
Confucius Temple
2015 Dadaocheng Festival
Puppet Museum
Fantasy Ice World
2016 Bread Show
Strawberry picking
2015 Rose Garden
Modern Toilet
Shilin Night Market
NASA Exhibit
Raohe Night Market
Longshan Temple
2013 Taipei Zoo
Maokong Gondola
Lupin flowers
Taipei 101 day visit
Taipei 101 night visit
Tiger Mountain
Din Tai Fung
Taipei Story House
2014 Flower Show
Chrysanthemum Show
Miramar Ferris wheel
Miniatures Museum
Archery
1600 Pandas
Wulaoguo hot pot
Upside Down House
2016 101 Fireworks
New Taipei
Tamsui Pumpkin Tunnel
Shifen Waterfall
2017 Sand Sculpture
Dragon Caves
New Taipei tour
2016 Kite Festival
Pingxi Crags
Bitou Cape
2016 Sand Sculpture
2015 Christmasland
Juming - Jinshan
Houtong - Pingxi
Sandiaoling Waterfall
Jiufen foodtrip
Guanyinshan hike
Yehliu Ocean World
2014 Kite Festival
Pingxi Rail tour
Jinguashi tour
Vigor Kobo Pineapple
British Consulate
Yehliu Geopark
2014 Sand Sculpture
Paragliding
2014 Christmasland
2014 Pingxi Lantern
firefly watching
Yingge Ceramics Street
Jiufen tour
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