Today was Eric's craziest day of shooting yet. His release head (the device he buckles his bow into, and what holds the string until he's ready to release it with his mouth cable) wouldn't hold any weight on it. That means that every time Eric would go to shoot, he didn't know if the bow string would stay in place while he aimed at the target. He told me the bow misfired at least once on every end (there are six arrows shot in every end). Fortunately there weren't any misses, but he did have a much lower score than he's used to. He's in 7th place going into the elimination rounds on Thursday. He should still do well in the eliminations as long as his equipment is working. Luckily, a local guy is helping him get a new release head and since Eric doesn't have to compete tomorrow, he'll have time to set it up and get it read for Thursday.
I told Eric these last two competitions have been all about getting all the kinks worked out of everything possible so that he'll be 100% ready for London. When he was at the Endeavor Games in Oklahoma the first of the month, his mouth tab broke and he discovered he had a twisted bow limb. He got both of those things fixed, and now he's going to be able to fix his release head. There won't be anything else left to go wrong in London!
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