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HACKING THE DARKSIDE

Vanessa Lee is a former Canadian national team member for recurve, and also works as a commentator for World Archery. When Bow found out she had decided to turn to 'the dark side', we decided to ask her - how, and why?

It wasn’t easy when I had to come clean. I couldn’t deny my honest feelings. I spent my mornings thinking about them, my afternoons wondering what they would feel like, and my evenings trying to learn everything about them. I had been faithful for so many years but when I looked at my computer search history, I knew it was time to admit my true feelings. I was truly, madly, deeply in love with compound. I ended up having the difficult conversation with my recurve bow, I even took back some of the accessories I had given it and decided

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