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Okay everybody. We'll back again. About halfway through this last sheet here, so this is pretty much the continuation from that last podcast 43.

So we're going to pick up with a question here from Sergio Mafia and he's asking, John,

can you please talk about how to get match ready and improve your score during competition?

What's the best training schedule and advice?

So for me, when it came to being tournament ready, it was all about practicing how you play

and regardless of whether I was shooting 3D or field or target or it really didn't matter.

The main thing is I would always set up and really focus on practicing on that exact format.

In the last podcast, I talked about the importance of if you really want to become a great 3D shooter

and competitor, then you really have to go ahead and make that investment of buying those

targets and getting out there and making sure you've invested in having the range exactly

how you're going to shoot in the same stream for field as well as FITA.

When I started shooting FITA, I bought a big 120 centimeter face so that I could have the

big, big target face and practice at that at 90 meters, 70, 90 meters.

Then eventually, in order to up my repetition more, I ended up getting two of them.

I built a FITA range where I would shoot 90 meters down to one target.

I could pull my arrows and then I would shoot 90 meters down to the other target.

I really wasn't doing much walking back down and back.

I would just walk down, pull arrows, shoot right back the other direction.

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