I am shooting a Kramer longbow at this time. The "Hill Style" is all I want to shoot. I am looking forward to getting my string follow bow back from that bowyer dude in Idaho.
I modified the grip on the Kramer to be more of a "wedge-style" of grip. I have rebuilt my form, from the ground up! Going back to the basics of the method taught in the John Schulz video and the help of Nate Steen on the "bug" thread. I was taught this as a teen and "clutterd up" my form over the years.
For me, I know that this style and sticking to a disciplined method is the best way to really have a "conditioned instinct" that will perform in the prescence of adrenaline, ie: shooting at critters!
Video has been a big part of the key for me. If you can invest in a FLIP camera, it is great to really look at how you are shooting. You can slow it down and break down your form.
You can feel like you are doing something one way and it is not that way. I have put more bend in my bowarm, heeling the bow properly (I thought I was shooting the right way and I was wrapped "around the side of the bow, proper is in the center of the bow), more relaxed in the drawing arm (still working on this) and use of the back muscles to hold theelbow back.
In watching the John Schulz video and mine I critique my form vs. his. Hill videos are great and in watching his form, I discovered how I was extending way to much instead of maintaining a low bow shoulder and a bent bow-arm.
I am more accurate and in control with the low bow shoulder and heel the grip. I also do not have to grip the bow handle as tight. I can just wrap around with lite pressure on the fingers.
I know that working on my form and sticking to the "Hill style" and working to avoid diversion is leading to clarity of focus, and concentration. Muscle memory is important and I am still in the first learning stages and will regress back into old habits but, then go and shoot real close and blank bale to reinforce the "new" aspect of the form.
Discipline and proper practice is key.
I am in no way where I want to be, and have a long ways to go to improve and really get grooved in.
For me it is the Hill Style all the way...
Topic: how many switched to a Hill style bow exculsivly??? (Read 768 times)
