Sara your amazing....... Target panic is such a struggle..... I can hold off the gold and be fine..... the minute i see gold i hiit my trigger and jerk the shot. Such a pain. Your inspiring
Thanks for talking about this. In barebow, Target Panic is regularly a topic of discussion, and while I'm glad we talk about it, I think we often discuss it in vague and all encompassing ways, to the point where any form problem is attributed to target panic. Sara's story really does a great job of describing the lasting emotional aspect on and off the line coming from a singular intense incident. I got it myself a little while ago, and have spent about a year working through it. Thanks for sharing this.
Been there! Target panic happens when your ability to hold on the target is less than your expectations to do so or doubt of your ability which turns into fear. ( Fear of failure or embarrassment or whatever) that's why it happens more in high pressure situations. That fear manifests into target panic.
There are many forms of target panic this one is routed in timing the shot execution movement in the pin being at the center of the target. Switching to a release where you are unable to time the shot will help retrain your brain. To teach it that it’s not supposed to be timing the pin being in the center with the shot execution movement.
Very nice video. I got target panic, while I was shooting recurve - it just came out of nowhere, no pressure at all. But with the olympic recurve, the sight ended in red maybe, below the yellow and I couldn't by all means get it up in the center. Then I started to shoot barebow and that went fine for a few years. Then I got target panic again (and still get it if I try to shoot barebow) - here it shows up in this way: I can't get to full draw and anchor - I freeze an inch or two from my face. Then I started to shoot compound with back tension release / resistance activated release and have done ever since.
One thing that I feel like Dennis help me to walk away from the end and start shooting a thumb button I said my trigger super heavy so I can really wrap my thumb around there not cool pretty hard to but at the same time I make sure I don't pull too hard where the pin don't start dancing a whole lot
Yes, everyone will enter this point. If you ever reach the ability that you are able to hit the center every time you like your brain fools you. You recognize if something will not fit and hinders you to release the arrow. This results finally in a disaster. At this point in time you only have two choices, quit archery or switch essantial things. E.q. switch the trigger witch a back tension.
Boi, don't I remember my time with target panic! It was a bit before I decided to train with the clicker that I could not hold an anchor for more than 2 seconds!
Idk what it is about archery but I've always wanted to do it from like 9 when i first tried it I felt this but i thought it was only bc i was now(only tried it once things cost too much here(
I'm not surprised Sara got a bit of target panic after those horrendous shooting conditions, they'd make club level archers cry. There's two types of archers those that have had target panic and those that will get it. First time I got target panic, as soon as my pin hit the gold I'd release, I couldn't stop doing it. Started doing things to try and work around it. After realizing it was target panic I spent a few weeks at blank bale working on timing and rhythm. That was all I needed, after that shot a PB and club record a week later. Now when I feel it might be creeping back in I spend more time at blank bale than I normally would. A mentor told me that recognising that you're getting it and jumping on it early helps, I follow that advice.
🙄 Sara Lopez currently holds eleven world records and of her 79 medals in archery, 57 are gold. She’s also one of only 5 women to shoot a 900 in the Vegas shoot. She’s 27 and if she retired tomorrow she’d likely remain one of the most successful archers in the history of the sport. It is very likely she will never see someone surpass her accomplishments in her lifetime. I PROMISE you she did not film this to protect her ego.
