Three Arrows
A simple lesson, remembered from time spend shooting with John Schulz... Three Arrows. During instruction in John's classes I took, he would instruct me to put three arrows in my quiver. He always said "three arrows". I'd brought a pile of arrows to shoot, not knowing what would be required. "Why only three, John?" I asked. "One arrow is a good number to practice with for hunting, but never gets you into the flow of shooting a fluid, rhythmic style. Two just doesn't get there either and any more than three will cause you to start anticipating the shot." Later, when thinking over his words and philosophy, it sure made sense. Part of the Hill style of shooting is being fluid and rhythmic and ingraining the process of smoothly withdrawing arrows from a backquiver without undue fuss. Three arrows is just about right for that, but anticipation of the shot? What could he mean? Some time later, during practice se
