Keep cool under all circumstances, no matter how vexatious. An excited archer never shoots into the mark. When your arrow hits the target try to repeat the method by which you have secured such a result. It is only by repeated trials that you can succeed. Archery as an art is more like music than anything else.
Intelligent training is everything.
The race is to the diligent. Patience and intelligent labor form the royal road to success. When you begin practicing in the York Round keep a book in which you record every score, poor or good, that you make. It is a very pleasant thing to look through such a volume at the end of the season. Record all the aspects of the weather each day, so that your book will show under what circumstances each score was made.