Since we have been thinking a little bit about bow speeds - check this out.

Think: an average ATA bow, but only a 3-4" brace height, using 2 STS stoppers to keep the string over-travel from slamming your wrist. Cables pulled to the side via roller guard.

By stepping down from a traditional 7" brace height, you'd be adding another 3-4" to the effective draw, and a MUCH longer force-draw curve. Conventional thinking says that by cutting out that much brace height, and replacing it with effective draw length, you could add 30+ feet per second, right?

The riser would just reach 3-4 more inches forward, pulling the strings and cables that much closer to the grip.

I guess, looking at my 5 minute redneckcrude drawing, it's a little off, and the strings/cable would be fed through a roller guard that would most likely be offset right at the grip itself. (Closer to the riser than it actually appears in the picture). But that's me nitpicking.

Anyway, why wouldn't it work?

Really, there are enough "crutches" available to make up for a bad shooter (string loop, dropaway, etc..), that something like this might be "shootable." I mean, there are newbs out there as we speak shooting lights-out with 6" bh X-forces.