If Kellie Leonard was aiming for me from 50 metres away she would have succeeded in hitting my heart 63 times out of 72 shots - the other nine would have rendered me rendered incapacitated
The 33-year-old Co Meath archer uses a PSE Perform X Compound Bow and looking over her relationship with it, and with the target I’m examining, something is very clear.
Paralympian Leonard had initially tried archery but only fell hook, line and arrow for the discipline after meeting her current coach, two-time Olympic archer Jim Conroy. Archery, surprisingly, wasn’t an original Greek Olympics sport despite the bow being the weapon of Artemis, the hunter goddess of war and Odysseus — hero of the Odyssey — being a master bowman.The discipline was first brought in for the Paris 1900 Olympic Games at a time when its use in battle had been supplanted by modern technology although, to this day, our relationship with the bow and arrow remains one of wonder, admiration and appreciation.
“I don’t have a name for it but then I am very bad at personifying things, my car doesn’t have a name or anything else either.“Maybe I am proportionally missing that part of my emotions, I don’t connect and personalise things! “This one here with us today is not an Olympic bow, it is a Compound Bow so these strings here are ones that I’ll be pulling in Paris.”
“I’ve performed extremely well and have represented Ireland in a way that others might not have in the past and all of that, in hindsight, was good for me but you need to step away and that is something I can say quite confidently that I have done. For now though, the focus has been on Paris and a sport for which she trains outdoors at home from March to October on a tarmac driveway and with a simulator that can be used indoors.
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