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Old 07-26-2007, 08:28 AM
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DannyD
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Default RE: Critique my form

ORIGINAL: mauser06

RobVT is right on. i seen it both shots. and it WILL effect your arrow flight and placement.

gotta work on following through and the grip. although it appears you try to relax your grip, your hand doesnt look fully relaxed(could be the gloves making it look that way...but it looks like you open up your fingers, but dont relax them. the best way to describe a proper grip ive heard was "dead spider" think of how a dead spiders legs would relax...dont move your fingers at all...put the bow in your hand and let your fingers hang naturally. moving them at all, in any way causes some form of torque)

to cure the follow through try a wrist sling if you dont have one...its all mental...but a wrist sling helped me...but its really all mindset. gotta think and follow through. when i fired my arrow i immediatly squeezed and jerked the bow..arrows flew where i jerked them to. it was bad. i cured it by focusing on not doing it last year. this year i got a sling and focused and stopped.

really cant tell where your drawing arm comes, but it sould come straight back behind the arrow...from what i can see it looks ok.

the bow arm should also be pretty relaxed. teaching my buddy to shoot for the first time i noticed he locked his elbow and was tense as heck.

i think if you work on the follow through and grip you should be good and shooting better. good luck


Thanks Mauser,
When i looked at that video i realized that i try and catch my bow right after the shot also. So last night i went home and had the " Dead Spider" thought in my head. MAN my hand felt relaxed with that thought. my groups tightened up immediately.
I just have to practice with it more so it becomes automatic. When my thought drifted to something else about my form i grabbed the bow again.

Thanks again

Oh and thank you too Sideways for posting the video
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