hands-on demo for university students

I practice archery w/ the club at the university where I work. For outreach, the club teaches an archery course for credit, and this weekend they invited me to lead a hands-on demo about Asian archery. I set up two rows of ping-pong balls on the grass at 3 m and 6 m (an idea from Stephen's videos), as well as a bail at 10 m. When each subgroup had their turn with me, I had three lines of folks shoot at the ping-pong balls at partial draw, as well as the bail at full draw. Since I had 20 minutes with each group, I had to give very quick explanations to leave more time for the students to shoot. (But I did give them printouts with diagrams to study on their own time: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jtma/chines ... yFlyer.pdf )

A number of people were visibly hesitant because this was a very different style. However, 30--40% of the people took to it naturally and were able to shoot near the balls and hit the bail (though more often, people shot over the bail :). In the end, some people thought the style was very unusual. But others actually felt it was rather intuitive. The highpoint was when a few people from one group asked whether I'd be back next weekend to let them shoot Asian-style. Fortunately (or unfortunately) for them, I have to come back again next weekend since a few groups didn't get to shoot with me.

Ideally, I'd work with each group for a longer period of time, but I won't always have that luxury. This is my first time trying to lead a larger group, so the experience was valuable. I've noticed some common mistakes first-timers make, so I'll have to adjust my explanations accordingly. At the very least, I hope to have sparked some of their interest in Asian archery.