Rod Jenkins class

[moebow]

Greg,  I guess that I'm have always shot with the same/similar approach to Rod (BUT certainly not in his league).  I, too, have been aware of the theory of sub conscious aiming and conscious shot execution but never really understood it well enough to do much with it.  Over the last few months though, I have started playing with it mostly by accident.  I do a LOT of instructing and am usually thinking and talking about each step of the shot to folks. So my conscious mind is always stepping through the shot sequence.  I have found that while I'm doing that if I can keep my visual focus on the "spot", my arrow goes there.

So what I THINK I've discovered is that if I can point the bow hand at the target and keep a sharp visual focus on it, I am free to think through each step of the shot.  Kind of like the feel you get when blind baling -- you can think about and feel each little part with out the mental distraction of "burning a hole".  To me burning a hole or what ever implies that your conscious mind is thinking of nothing else.

It could also be that those that claim to be pure "instinctive shooters" have already made that transition.  I certainly have more homework to do on this concept but it does seem to have merit.

I'm no psychologist (by a long shot) and would really like to get Jay Kidwell's take on this.  I also am not trying to necessarily advocate for or against this -- just exploring.

[SHOOTO8S]

Originally posted by moebow:

So what I THINK I've discovered is that if I can point the bow hand at the target and keep a sharp visual focus on it, I am free to think through each step of the shot.  

Arne, this is something Ive been discussing with a couple of the higher level BEST coaches....if the target is in sharp visual focus, is the conscious mind actually doing the aiming? The standard thinking is that the conscious mind can not handle but one task at a time...now some are questioning that logic.

[moebow]

Good point!  I guess that I'm still on the "one thing at a time camp" for the conscious mind.  I'll probably say this wrong but ... I THINK (no proof) that I can look at something, point at it, then as long as I do not let my vision shift from the point I can reach down and un buckle my belt buckle and re buckle it thinking about that action and my POINT stays on the item and pretty steadily too.  Is this "multi-tasking the conscious? Or is it giving the sub conscious the job of holding the point and freeing the conscious to do something else?

OH the mind games!!!!  

[b.glass]

Rod, is there a link to a list of your upcoming seminars?

Bona

[Kevin Winkler]

That would be great if Rod had a list of upcoming seminars, I missed out on the one at Ojibwa bowhunters here in WI because of a nephews wedding. But I still want to attend one............soon!