I will say this to clarify my earlier post... i don't think lack of handshock is a bad thing... but i also don't want something that is so sterile to shoot that i can barely tell whats goin on with it... now, if i have to consciously keep the bow from jumping out of my hand then that is a problem for sure... but i do agree that the emphasis on it is overkill... pretty much all of the parallel designs are pretty much shock free designs... especially when you compare them to the old style D shaped bows of ten years ago... at this point on current bows we're talkin about hair splitting differences, which is why it is way overhyped... when the first parallel bows came out, ya, not overhyped, but now they pretty much are all that way so its not an issue in my eyes...