I really enjoyed
recurve. Had some good results with it too.
Then I changed jobs.
Training time went down, all the other stuff I was doing to support my shooting (like going to the gym, long term season planning, etc) went out the window, and as a result the scores went down.
So I 'tried harder' which just gave a greater gap between my resultant expectations and what I could achieve at that time.
Vicious cycle results, where even weekends where I'd go and end up with a medal from a shoot had me being grumpy as hell on the drive home.
That lasted two to three years.
Then I had a weekend where the score was just horrendous, my execution was awful, and I just didn't want to be there.
I've always had compounds kicking around as toys to play with, but nobody ever thought I was serious about it.
I turned up the next weekend with a ten year old
Hoyt, a
Carter Evolution, and came middle of the pack off two days practice.
I still have all my
recurve stuff, and do actually use it occasionally (postal Portsmouth rounds over winter, because it's just an awful thing to do with a
compound) with results that I'm happy with given I don't bother practicing with it. But I do OK with
compound, and more importantly I don't take it as personally when I have a bad day. There's five minutes of grumpiness rather than a full week.