Wills reached the last 16 of the men's individual competition in Beijing
British archer Alan Wills is going into this week's world indoor championships in Poland in confident mood having won the national indoor title last month.
The Cumbrian is part of a six-strong squad, which includes women's national indoor winner - Manchester's Charlotte Burgess - competing in Rzeszow.
"I'm chuffed to bits," Wills told BBC Sport after his win at Lilleshall.
"It's a fantastic start to the year for me, and I can't wait to get out to Poland now."
Wills, who reached the last 16 in the individual competition at the Beijing Olympics, clinched his first victory in the national indoors, by beating fellow Olympian Simon Terry 118-117 in the final, while Michael Paert took the third place play-off.
"Simon is one of the best archers in the world and with him and Michael shooting so well, it all bodes really well for the worlds, not just individually, but also for the three of us in the men's team event," Wills added.
It's very intense and as there are no external factors like the weather conditions, you lose a bit of finesse
Alan Wills
"If everything goes to plan, we should do well as we are one of the strongest teams in the world."
In the women's competition at the world indoors, Burgess is joined by Emma Downing and Vladlena Priestman, who competed for Britain at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
Qualifiers take place on Thursday, with the elimination rounds, leading up to the quarter-finals the following day.
The individual finals and the team events - with each archer shooting just eight arrows over four ends - take place on Sunday.
Wills admitted that he had not expected to win the national title after enduring a winter of personal problems.
"In January I could barely hit a target," he said.
"So I was planning to use the national indoors for head-to-head practice, but I won and that has given me a huge confidence boost."
The indoor version of the sport differs from its outdoor cousin in several ways.
The target is just 18m from the archer, as opposed to 70m outdoors and the gold, which scores the maximum 10, is the size of a 10 pence piece, whereas outdoors it is as big as a grapefruit.
In fact, the whole target is only 40cm across, which is one-third the size of an outdoor target.
Competitors shoot 12 arrows across four ends, with two minutes per end, so the maximum score is 120.
"It's very intense and as you are indoors there are no external factors like the weather conditions, so you lose a bit of finesse," Wills explained.
"You really are only competing against yourself as every shot is exactly the same and most archers use the indoor season as practice for the rest of the year.
"There will be about 150 competitors in the preliminary round with the top 32 qualifying for the head-to-head knockouts.
"I competed in the finals two years ago and shot a mediocre score in qualifying, several points below my average, but qualified easily.
"But then I was knocked out despite scoring 118; just one tiny error can really cost you.
"The plan is to take as much as we can out of the event though and get ourselves ready for the start of the outdoor World Cup in the Dominican Republic at the end of March."
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