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Chapter 106 Kyudo Department Trial Training (2)

"How strong is Uesugi-san?"

Hideyoshi Sugai questioned this because he knew that Kai Uesugi was a new member of the Kyudo Club.

"May I ask, what is the rank of Uesugi-san?"

He himself is a third-rank. Although the rank does not represent the true strength of the shooter, it can let people know the real lower limit of the shooter.

"No stage." Uesugi Kai said very normally.

"When did you practice archery?"

"One month."

Hearing this, Hideyoshi Sugai showed a shocked and surprised expression on his face.

He looked at the other three.

Masanobu Hirata shrugged helplessly: "Unfortunately, Uesugi is indeed better than me."

"It's better than me." Qing Youya also said.

Sohei Sugita said in a calm tone: "It's not very meaningful to discuss these things. You will know how strong you are after just one round of shooting."

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In the first round, five people stood in a row at the entrance, with bows and arrows in both hands placed at the waist belt.

When it comes to shooting position, they encountered their first problem-inconsistent pace.

"What should I do?" Masanobu Hirata asked.

"Whose problem?"

"I," Hideyoshi Sugai raised his hand, "a bit slower."

"It's okay, let's start over."

Standing at the entrance again, after bowing to the air, Uesugi Uesugi in the forward position took an even pace to the shooting position in front of him.

His call-in has improved a lot lately.

"stop!"

Sohei Sugita, who was seated, suddenly stopped everyone.

Uesugi Kai turned his head and found Hirata Masanobu scratching his head in embarrassment.

"Sorry, sorry, wrong time."

"It's okay, pay attention next time." Sohei Sugita still said the same thing.

In the third attempt, the beats of the five players did not go wrong, and they moved to their respective shooting positions, and they began to get better.

Standing still and turning, looking straight ahead, the five of them kept their straight bodies and took half a step back.

At the same time, he lowered his knees and released the arrow, and then stood the bamboo bow beside him.

The eighth section of shooting method - "preparing the bow".

Grab two of the arrows on the ground, put arrow A on the bowstring, and hold arrow B between your ring finger and little finger.

'The next step is to get up. '

Uesugi Kai said to himself silently, raised his bow and stood up after nodding the arrow.

Then stand apart and place the bow in the middle of the waist girdle.

Taking this as a signal, the second Sugai Hideyoshi behind him repeated his actions, and so on.

Everyone turned their heads, and the five of them all faced the shooting range.

The big forward - Uesugi Kai, took the lead in firing the arrow.

Holding the bow in his left hand and pulling the string in his right hand, he raised the bamboo bow that had been placed in front of his chest high.

The back elbow and arm exert force at the same time.

Big Three—When pulling the string, push the bamboo bow with one-third of the force to achieve a stable effect of pulling the bow evenly from left to right.

At this point there is a short pause.

Uesugi Kaoru breathed steadily, his eyes were absorbed, and the arrow cluster aimed at the bull's-eye.

moment,

Draw the bow, meet, leave——

Ka!

I only heard the high-pitched strings playing in my ears, accompanied by a sharp whistling.

boom.
crisp (di) sound
28 meters away, the arrow with green arrow feathers hit the bull's-eye.

Uesugi Kai calmly placed the bamboo bow in the middle of his waist, turned around, and prepared to nock his arrow again.

"Amazing!"

Seeing his clean and neat shooting, Hideyoshi Sugai couldn't help admiring in his heart.

At the same time, closely following Uesugi Kai's distinct string tone, he also opened his own string.

Eyes level, cover half of the target with the bow's vines, aim with "half moon", and release an arrow.

call out.!

The arrow flew across the lawn and passed the target in the distance.

Hideyoshi Sugai's pupils shrank, and he said in surprise, "Why. Didn't hit?" '

But a miss is a miss, he had to maintain the next movement during the shooting, there was no time for him to be dazed.

Different from the unlimited time in the individual competition, the team competition requires each player to shoot 8 arrows within 4 minutes.

The sound of the big front string is the signal.

From the beginning to the end, a certain rhythm needs to be maintained.

Immediately after Hideyoshi Sugai's missed arrow, two strings sounded one after another.

But after they roared past the green grass, there was no corresponding sound.

——Aoyuya and Hirata Masanobu also missed the target.

Sohei Sugita, who was in the sitting position, remained calm, and shot an arrow in his hand a moment after the string sound in the falling front position disappeared.

No surprises, hit the bullseye.

Then, it was Osamu Uesugi's turn to get ready.

shoot arrows.

Ka!

The high-pitched chord sound passed into the eardrums of everyone in the bow department again, and the second arrow in his hand flew out.

boom.

The sound sounded again, and when I looked closely from the perspective of others, it hit the bull's-eye again, and it was closely adjacent to the arrow just now.

Great!

Hideyoshi Sugai couldn't help admiring, but at the same time doubts arose in his heart.

This...will be a novice who has practiced for a month?
Here, with apprehension in his heart, he raised his bow high and shot the second arrow in his hand.

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After the first round of shooting, everyone couldn't help but relax from the tense state.

"Ahem," Sohei Sugita coughed twice to attract everyone's attention, "Just now, each shot four arrows, twenty shots in total, and thirteen arrows hit the target."

"The first two arrows hit the big front, the second one hits half, the third hits half, the front half hits, and the position hits all."

Remnant means - no hit at all.

"The last two arrows hit the big front, the second half hits, the third hits half, the front half hits, and the position hits all."

Sohei Sugita looked around at the four people holding bows in front of him: "It means that after this round, except for me and Uesugi, everyone still needs to work hard."

"With this result, it is no problem to be shortlisted from the qualifiers, but it is very difficult to be the first."

"Alas," Hideyoshi Sugai sighed, and glanced at the bamboo bow in his hand, "Recently, his strength has declined dramatically, and he hasn't touched a bow for a long time."

"My classmate Uesugi, who hasn't joined the club for a month, is amazing, and I'm ashamed to say it." Qing Youya also shook his head lightly, and he only hit 4 of 2 arrows.

"Haha, I don't even know what I should say, um. Come on." Hirata Masanobu cheerfully gave himself an encouragement.

Sohei Sugita did not mean to blame everyone: "Come on, you must work hard, but you should also pay attention not to be too much influenced by the people around you."

Archery is sometimes very subtle, and being slightly affected by others may cause the current arrow to deviate from the target and miss the target.

"There has been a record in previous competitions. In the finals of a college team, all players scored in the first round of shooting and were in good condition.

"But since the second round, their power forwards have deviated. One arrow has been missed, and the power forward has problems. Different degrees of crooked and missed targets."

Sohei Sugita stretched out his index and middle fingers, making a "two".

"For the second arrow, the power forward shouldn't have made any more mistakes, but the repeated defeats of his teammates made his eagerness to compete even more irritated, so his second arrow also missed the target."

"The power forward missed the target twice in a row, making his teammates even more flustered, and the arrows he shot next missed completely."

(End of this chapter)