Alan Wills is Great Britain’s leading archer and a medal prospect for the Beijing Olympics should he be selected.

Over the coming months on 606 Alan will be providing an insight into his preparations for the Games.

Hi - I’ve just got back from a 10-day warm-weather training camp in Australia with the British team.

There was also an invitation competition for the top eight archery nations including the likes of Korea, India, China America, Australia and France.

It took place at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra and used the same format as for the Olympics – it was outdoor and you fire 72 arrows at a target 70m away in qualifying and then 12 arrows in the knockout stages – your qualifying score determines who you meet in the knockout stage – if you qualify 64th out of 64 for example you will face the archer who qualified best, 63rd takes on second and so on.

The facilities were brilliant – better than what we have in Britain – because they have their own shooting venue and there are high-speed cameras in place.

Where we train in Britain, at Lilleshall, is great, but the downside is it is not available all the time to us.

It was a good eye-opener as it has shown me just how much work I need to do. I had a bit of a break over Christmas and New Year with a bit of a cough and a cold so I was a little out of practice.

The Koreans, who are regarded as the best in the world, dominated, but the event proved they are not as good as everyone thinks and they are beatable.

The standard was high though and I didn’t do as well as I wanted to.

I finished about halfway down a field of around 40 after qualifying about 27th – that was partly due to it being our off-season while the US and Australian teams are in the middle of theirs.

In two months time though, as my training increases, my expectations will be higher.

There wasn’t a great deal else to do on the trip though as Canberra is a bit of a quiet place – I ended up going to the cinema three times to watch Juno, Clover Field and Alien vs Predator – I thought they were all rubbish.

In fact the only real highlight was the winter sun which is great to wake up with and I managed to squeeze nine holes of golf in with Larry Godfrey (GB archer), Peter Suke (GB coach) and an Australian coach as well as a bit of pitch ‘n’ putt.

Next up for me is the start of Olympic qualifying. The GB team has qualified six places for Beijing, three men and three women, but we don’t know who is going yet and there will be nine of us competing for three places.

The event should have been taking place the weekend before Easter at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, but they double-booked us with an athletics meet and apparently that takes precedent over our Olympic qualifying so we’ve been booted out.

It’s really annoying because it is Olympic year and this is an Olympic shoot-off and I literally have every day planned out between now and the Games, but now we have to go to RAF Cosford over Easter weekend instead.

Anyway, the competition is the first of three that will decide who goes to Beijing – at the end of the first day of the first meet, one archer is knocked out, and then two more will go the following day.

Six go through to the second meet in May/June time and two more will be knocked out leaving four for the final meet.

The top two in the final meet are guaranteed a spot while GB coach Peter Suke will pick the final archer from the other two.

I’ve also got the first World Cup competition of the season the week after round one of the Olympic shoot-off in the Dominican Republic, but I’ll try and let you know before I go to that how the Olympic qualifying went.

In the meantime, if you have any questions on anything to do with the sport, please leave them below and I’ll answer them when I can.

Cheers

Alan Wills was talking to BBC Sport's Peter Scrivener during a training session at Lord's cricket ground, the London 2012 archery venue.