Jersey City Archery — Attraction in Jersey City

Disclaimer: This is my second time going to archery class so I am nobody in the archery community.

Come on guys.

I have a principle in life. Whatever you do in life, go the extra mile. You can do 1 thing perfectly, do that thing. You can do 3 things perfectly in life, do those 3 things. Don't though do 6 things just barely well. You will be bad in all 6 things and you will do nobody a favor.

6 bad practices that made the experience a horrible one:

1. There was no aim in the bow. I asked the poor employee where is the aim and they told me that they removed it because the clients kept damaging them. In Soho that i went archery for the first time, did have aims. What kind of business model are they following and they are able to afford bows with aims? So without an aim, what's the purpose of this whole exercise you will ask me? E-x-a-c-t-l-y. You have a bow and you have a few arrows. What I am supposed to do? Basically throw arrows. No purpose to hit the target. When I asked the poor employee, what I am doing here, they basically said that you need to adjust your aim manually. So basically I have to recreate the aim in my mind. Which never worked. After the second round, both me and my partner basically lost interest because we were just throwing arrows.

2. You hold the arrow on top of a small plastic line, in the bow, that wasn't steady. I am pretty sure that's not the way to hold the arrow.

3. There were no challenges. In Soho (second disclaimer, I have 0 affinity with that archery place) we had a few rounds that helped us get comfortable. After a few rounds, we would play a game where we assumed there were zombies and we had to win points by aiming in specific parts of the target. There was a game where the first person who hit the balloons, gets an award. There was a game to hit the letters above the target. In this, there were zero challenges. Just hit arrows for 50 mins straight.

4. The employee spent limited time on trying to improve us. They would make recommendations that weren't helpful and at the end they just sat in a chair with their smartphone. My partner would not use her fingers correctly when holding the arrow and she said nothing. The guy in Soho would go around every single person trying to see what was wrong and improve it. His advice actually improved my aim within the game. He would actually teach us a way to take off the arrows

5. The employee simply made no effort to make this an enjoyable experience. In Soho, the guy would have jokes every other sentence. Obviously he rehearsed the jokes and are the same every time but he actually tried

6. The employee didn't pay proper attention to us, to follow the proper safety guidelines. My partner was too close to me and I had to say to her to stay away. My partner would sometimes point at me and I would tell her to watch out. My partner would not be along the lines and she wouldn't say anything. The guy in Soho would repeat the safety procedures. He even taught us to have the hands in front of us in case an arrow would stab us.

Look, I am nobody in archery, I know nothing on the sport but please come with me and let's take two archery classes. One here and one in the Soho place. And let's compare the attitude of these two places.

Bad places are everywhere man; I don' t care to write a feedback for them. But man I was excited to come to archery tonight because this is a hobby that I might have a talent in. And I got really disappointed by...

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