So finally I got my act together and did a course in Kyudo: japanese bow and arrow. It was really cool! It was so japanese, in the way every movement must be precise and perfect, the hand just so, the legs at a certain distance: movements calm and controlled, more focus on the preparation than hitting dead center...And at the same time my brain was going: "This is sooo cool! Just like Robin Hood!"

It was an intensive course, 5 hours, and we got to shoot twice, and our instructor informed us that normally you spend months perfecting ever one of the 8 movements before actually shooting off an arrow. My Robin-Hood-wannabe-part finds that annoying. But the perfectionist part of me understands that completely. It got a bit meditative, and it requires conciousness of every piece of the body. I LIKE!