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Main Boards => The Shooters FORM Board => Topic started by: Mike.s on November 17, 2011, 02:40:00 PM
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Here is a video of 3 shots from above could you all give me some pointers on what to clean up I do have a formaster that I use on occasion to get me tracking again and I usually shoot around a dozen or more arrows a day when time permits thanks for any help dont hold back.
Mike
(http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k547/talakito/th_IMG_0203.jpg) (http://s1115.photobucket.com/albums/k547/talakito/?action=view¤t=IMG_0203.mp4)
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Mike, Congratulations on your retirement and thanks for your service!
What I see in this angle is a very slight collapse at the moment of release. Carefully watch your string elbow as you approach release. See how it moves forward (towards you right knee) on your leg? It results in your bow hand movement. See how it jumps sharply to the right? I believe that what may be happening is in your desire to hold the string hand still on your face after release, you are loosing back tension at the very last moment. Another way of saying this is when your reach anchor, you are stopping all motion to the rear rather than continuing to increase back tension. If you do this during form master use, you will probably experience the FM moving your elbow forward rather than staying solidly braced inside the FM.
For what it is worth, you have pretty good alignment at full draw, but with your straight line from the target draw, you may struggle some with really getting and keeping back tension.
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Looks pretty darn good.
I'll just mention one thing that stand out a bit which is a creep (collapse).
Try to pull through the string and maintain back tension for a few seconds into the followthough.
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I agree.....you are in pretty near perfect alignment at full craw...then you see your elbow come forward and around to the right....this is robbing you from accuracy and performance.
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To me your bow hand jumps to the right on release. To me this indicates your alignment is off between your elbow, bow hand and point of aim. Although, I may be totally off. Just my observation.
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Thanks guys thats what I needed will work on those areas. I was putting a dozen arrows in a 4" circle at 20 yds no problem then just in the last few days I'm only at about 75% in there and the ones that are out are normally to the left. I knew something was happening to form was just having a hard time figuring out what I was doing wrong.
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Al....you are correct....I call them 'power points'...the wrist and the elbow....I talk about that in the Bowhunters of TradGang DVD in one of the shooting segments....the power points need to be aligned so the energy goes directly toward and away from the target.....
The form clock thread featured at the top has 3 parallel lines....and one of them is from wrist to elbow...
And there's a few seconds on the DVD Trailer showing the 3 lines and the shot....its toward the end of the trailer....
DVD Trailer (http://www.tradgang.com/videos/firstwmv.wmv)