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I'm into Zen Archery. It's becoming one with the bow and arrow. It's a perfect harmony of left and right brain activity, physical balance and breathing as well. In Zen Archery you slow your brain activity from 25 cycles per second or more to 10 1/2 cycles which is the strongest Alpha state. If you slow your brain activity to Theta at 7 1/2 cycles you essentially become one with the bow. Now remember these states Alpha and Theta happen normally when you are sleeping and your blood pressure is lowered so it takes time to reach these levels awake, for you certainly don't wanna' fall asleep in public! The state in which we do normal awake things is around 25 cycles per second. If you want to zoom in on this concept, you can buy a bio feedback machine at Radio Shack for under$20.00. The machine guides you to a lower state, it emits a siren like sound that gets lower and slows to a put-put sound as you reach alpha/theta range. I like using a compound bow as appose to a Recurve Bow which you shoot instinctively. The compound is a marvel of technology it has two wheels or cams, which allow the bow to become easier to hold as you pull back to full draw shooting position. It also has a front and rear sight like a rifle. The rear sight is called a peep sight, its placed right in the bow string, as you pull back it aligns to your eye. It's cool because it allows you to pull back say 55 pounds and it gets reduced to 17 pounds pull, makes it easy to hold for a period of time. its called let off. Some bows have as much as 75-80 % let off. In the past fifteen years I've seen the technology grow exponentially for the Compound Bow and it continues. I recommend anyone trying the sport. If you call any archery club, someone will help you with trying the sport and setting you up with a loaner bow that fits your arm length for a nominal fee. Enjoy! Wayne St. John
Play a Jingle Wayne wrote for Bermuda Bermuda below as seen from the space Shuttle.
Rewriting and making History in Bermuda - On June 14, 2002 a diverse group of First Nation's people from Turtle Island (USA) reconnected with some of their distant ancestors that were confirmed to have been tucked away on St. David's Island in Bermuda since the mid sixteen hundreds. Bermuda is made up of three hundred and sixty Islands. It turns out that people from many native tribes from north to south America and from the Caribbean (Carib) ended up on the Island of St. David's. Remember in those days that segregation was in with all it's torture, terror and rituals, so the English who only saw them in terms of being obsequious, gave this group from many nations, the nickname of Mohawks' which now and forever has been dispelled and history changed forever.
St. David's didn't have a bridge to the main island until 1939. Many natives were brought there as slaves and some were boatmen who left North America in search of new beginnings. Some were exiled to Bermuda when the ruling forces forbid them from telling people who they were or even speak their own language, they faced beheading and even worst, torture. Wayne St. John is on the trail tracing his Bermuda genealogy line of ancestors through his Bermudian grandmother Minnie Minors back to 1676, to Metacom or as the English nicknamed him King Philip from the Connecticut area to Jacob Minors in Bermuda. The story goes that after the Pequot Wars they assassinated Metacom, and stuck his head on a pole, his wife and son were forced to witness this gruesome site, their lives were spared and were exiled to St. David's, Bermuda which is six hundred and twenty miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Bermuda in those days had many ominous stories about the roaming pirates on land and the wild Cahow birds squealed at night leaving an erie sound that echoed for miles, they say it sounded like women being tortured. The following Cape Cod Times articles are by Paula Peters a journalist who attended the 4 day event in June, 2002 and she penned these stories for posterity.
In the Bermuda archives hangs this official picture in a small area magnified 23 thousand times revealed this watermark; Jacobdapequot Paula Peters wrote:
The official logo of the Bermuda Re-connection event designed by Splitting Arrow Productions ©06/03
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Hello
there! You see the animation to left with the arrow striking the
target? In archery It's called a Robinhood. What you are looking
at is four arrows in the center of a real target and the fourth
arrow with the white tip or knock is being split down the middle
with my fifth arrow. It was shot from a distance of 18m or 20 yards.
When shooting you often follow the last arrow that hit the center
circle. I took different angles of this picture when I was up at
my old archery club, 
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