Fenrir's Mayhem, Installation 1/n

The first of many installations of Fenrir's Mayhem pictures... this one has a few of me doing WOD 1: Blood Eagle. As an SX person, I did the following: 21 jumping pull-ups, chin to bar, 9 snatches, 18 jumping pull-ups, 7 snatches, 15 jumping pull-ups, 5 snatches, with the snatches at 55 lbs.

 

Pre-Fenrir Fun: The Bench Press

I went 65-85-95 lbs on it, with 95 lbs being what I had to reach for the SX division. The only other event I did for pre-Fenrir's Mayhem was the 225 lb yoke carry for 50 meters, which I forgot to get a photographer to do for me.

This below is my ID number for Fenrir's Mayhem... I'm in the SX (scaled) division but Ragnarok promises to be extremely challenging! Time to invoke the strength of the wolf!

DRAGON-Flies

I really have a soft spot for dragonflies and Easton-Newberry has no shortage of them. They weren't quite as bold this time around but there were some really amazing ones. For some reason I got the imagery of Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea books with these dragonflies, especially the character Orm-Irian, whose use-name is Dragonfly.

And Another One Bites the Dust!

Pine board, meet thy doom! Hand included in the picture to give an approximate scale. Any guesses as to how this board met its eternal fate?

I had way too much fun demonstrating Taeguk Yuk-Jang, variations on roundhouse kicks, knife-hand high section blocks, reverse outside high section blocks, punches, and ultimately destroying the above-displayed pine board with a spinning roundhouse kick. At first I didn't even feel anything when my foot made contact with the board... then I was convinced that I kicked the entire board out of the instructor's hands and sent it flying almost to the mirrors from about 4 meters away... then I saw the other piece in the instructor's hand and then that's when I realized I *did* break the board on the first shot. All in a good day's demonstration among friends!

Post Gator Cup 70 meter fun

 Here's what I was able to get with my super-awesome zoom in on my camera... doesn't look too bad from the shooting line!

And here's what my group of 9 looked like up close and personal. All 9 of my shots were literally red or better. If I can do this and better in competition, I'll be pretty well set, even if I would still have to maintain a 9+ average per arrow over the entire event (qualification plus elimination) to even stand a chance of being recognized as an adult!

Courtesy of Davina's Photography

I guess the photographer DID catch me at some point as I'm getting ready to expand through my  clicker. This was during my first elimination match apparently judging from the pink shirt next to me, where I barely squeaked past B. Phillips of Georgia with my 6-4 match score.

The rest of her photographs from Gator Cup can be found here: http://www.davinasphotography.com/p821441498

One of my Pictures from Gator Cup...

One of my pictures made it onto The Infinite Recurve: http://theinfinitecurve.com/2014/05/21/picture-roundup/ - It was a picture I took of the amazing Canadian archer Crispin Duenas on his way to a killer victory over Jake Kaminski, Brady Ellison, and many otherstrong archers at Gator Cup earlier this month.

More of my own pictures should be showing up at some point once I actually get to take them!

Photographer Caught In Action

Besides doing archery, I also like to shoot the camera, as one of my friends was able to catch... picture courtesy of M. Levanduski, whose son is one heck of an archer and just overall tough kid.

Gator Cup 2014

Gator Cup 2014 was a real blast! I had the honor of shooting on the same target as Khatuna Lorig and Jenny Hardy for my qualifier round, where I finished 37/49 with a score of 468/720.  Pretty darned good for a recurve newbie (well... late February...) with extensive longbow training!

Here's a list of my footage from Gator Cup: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz5OzYz3v1I8F8bg8qEt5jl16W0FjTnmm

Also here is the full suite of pictures: http://s1281.photobucket.com/user/GuenhwyvarAnCrosaire/library/DUNHEASA/Gator%20Cup%202014

 My best round of the day... 50/60with my first shot being a 4 and then the rest just fell into place!

 There I am with my 50/60! I think my head shrunk in the heat though!

 Qualification round with J. Grellner (left) and L. Stephens (right). Gotta love action at 70 meters!

Approaching full draw... yes, I have the cute stabilizer that weighs next to nothing but it works!

 Let's drill that target again!

 Follow-through! I may need a bit more weight in the front of my stabilizer though but I like the way it feels.

 My qualification round group... from left to right: me, K. Lorig, J. Hardy, J. Grellner. We were one kick-butt group!

 Me and K. Johnson. Yes, she's THAT tall. I'm 5'2". She's stooping over a fair amount too for this picture... One of our Wounded Warriors who's done some serious butt-kicking in the world of archery.

 My first elimination match against B. Phillips (right) and H. Koehl (left) warming up. Setting up for action...

 Here goes!

 Time to own that gold ring!

 Firewolf vs human... who shall win?

 Firewolf emerged victorious from her first battle and must now face H. Koehl, a well-seasoned young archer despite her seemingly harmless appearance!

 Here goes! Let's see who will emerge victorious...

 Getting set up...

 Setting up some more...

 Full draw... transferring and expanding...

 And POW!!!!

 Re-loading...

 Concentrating...

 And another ready to go...

Transfer... hold...

POW!!!!

 Analysis time...

And we're done with that end!! My opponent ultimately won this match but it was a real blast shooting with her!!

 Female recurve winners (1st-3rd): J. Hardy, L. Pritchard, and M. Brown.

 Male recurve winners (1st-3rd): C. Duenas, J. Kaminski, B. Ellison.

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