Grip?

[old bucky]

Can different style grips cause pain in bow arm.

Thanks Sam

[McDave]

I suppose it's possible, because you're holding your wrist at a different angle with different grips. However, I think it's more likely that hand shock from shooting the bow is causing pain in your bow arm.

[old bucky]

Thanks McDave I have been shooting a Das Recurve, for the last 5 months, decided to shoot my custom made recurve and that is when the pain,started in bow arm and shoulder.They are close to same pounds at my draw.

Thanks Sam

[McDave]

It might be interesting to take alternating shots with the DAS and the new bow, and see if you can feel any increased hand shock when shooting the new bow.  It doesn't take much hand shock to inflame the tendons, if a motion like shooting the bow is repeated many times.  I had a bad bout with tennis elbow in my bow arm elbow several years ago that I attribute, rightly or wrongly, to a very fine bow I was shooting at the time.  Since then, I passed the bow on to a friend, and now he's complaining about pain in his bow arm elbow.  (I guess with a friend like me, you don't need any enemies, huh?).  

I made the mistake of trying to live with it too long, and it got out of control.  Now, whenever anything like that flares up for more than a day or so, I lay off shooting the bow and take Advil until it goes away.

[old bucky]

Thanks again McDave

Sam

[Shane H]

Good info, I actually notice more pain with high wrist risers. If I shoot something with a low wrist even more poundage it goes away. just my 2 cents.

[Paul_R]

Originally posted by Shane H:
Good info, I actually notice more pain with high wrist risers. If I shoot something with a low wrist even more poundage it goes away. just my 2 cents.

I've noticed the same thing. I can pull up to about 40# with a high wrist riser. Any more than that and it's not fun pretty quick.

[Bowwild]

I've only shot one longbow in my life. Now that LB might have been poorly designed, I might have had the brace height wrong, etc.  That bow rattled my bow arm. I had a sore elbow after just a dozen or so shots.

That bow is in Alaska now.

I'm sure there are recurves that have more bow arm shock than others as well. I like mass in my risers -- Cocobolo, Ebony, Snakewood, Phenolic, and even metal.

[Ravenhood]

High wrist = more pain in elbow for me.

[TomatoLane]

Since I got my staghorn tempest,which has a high/standard wrist hand grip, which i was getting bad pain in my elbow.

Until i started to actually hold in the proper high wrist hand position.

I had been fighting the bow grip with my usual low wrist bow grip.

I was like DUH, hold it like it supposed to be for the wrist style LOL    

I also noticed my arrows became more consistent.

I was amazed by how much I improved accuracy, and my arm pain improved, when I quit trying to force a grip that was not designed for  the grip of the bow .