ORIGINAL: Rick James
ORIGINAL: gibblet
someone told me that whenthe koreansstart - very young - they study archery for 2 years before getting to touch a bow - any truth to this?
I don't know about 2 years before touching a bow, but I know it's a significant amount of time before they are allowed to both aim and execute an arrow at the same time. Their training style forces them to perfect each piece of it before putting them together. Kisik Lee (long time Korean Olympic Coach) has some great stuff published that shows how they were such a dominating force for so long in the Olympics. He's now the US coach......
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Zen in archery is a very long process. I don't know if the Koreans practice this however.
In Zen, for years they learn to simply draw a bow without shooting it, proper drawing.
Then after mastering drawing the bow, they get to shoot it but only in complete darkness so there is no regards to actually aiming but learning to release properly. .
Finally after years of drawing and releasing do they finally get to actually aim the bow.
Very diciplined.