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Offline ToxophilitePastor

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Shooting Form Comments
« on: March 21, 2025, 07:40:22 PM »
If you don’t mind, I would appreciate some insight on my form.





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Re: Shooting Form Comments
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2025, 11:32:08 PM »
You have a good followthrough, and end every shot with your fingers brushing your face.

I see two areas you could work on.  The most obvious is that you are raising your shoulders as you raise the bow.  Practice raising your arms without raising your shoulders.  Your shoulders should stay in the same back and down neutral position they are in before you begin to draw the bow during the whole shot.

The second is your alignment.  You release the shot before you get into really good alignment.  This means you are holding the shot too much with your arm muscles, which requires too much effort.  If you rotated your drawing elbow a little more behind the arrow and engaged your back muscles more, you would achieve better bone on bone alignment, and would be more stable at full draw.

You have probably trained yourself to release the arrow as soon as you touch your anchor. There is nothing wrong with that, but you are touching your anchor before achieving full draw and expansion, and so are releasing a little prematurely.  If you learned to use the rotational draw instead of the straight back draw you're using now, it would help you to get into your back muscles more, and enable you to hold your drawing hand just off your face until you reach full draw.  You could still trigger your release with your anchor.  It's just that you wouldn't touch your anchor until you reach full draw.

If you are interested in the rotational draw, look up Arne Moe on YouTube.  Hopefully his videos are still there even though he is no longer with us.  He helped a lot of people on TradGang over the years.  Arne used the rotational draw with a short hold, but that's not necessary if you prefer to snap shoot.
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Re: Shooting Form Comments
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2025, 03:10:54 PM »
Thank you for your input. I have been working on the changes.
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