If aarcher buys a speed bow but does not practice then its the archers fault not the technology if his shot goes astray. My son got an 82nd last year and he is deadly with it, our main problem is finding the arrows after the shot as they don't seem to slow down at all.

I was warned that the short brace height would cause him problems but I think the brace height issue was more pronounced on early compounds that where basically longbows with wheels on them, the newer parallel limb bows with the long riser and short braceseem to be not as sensitive to form error as I was lead to believe. Either that or he has perfect form.

The main thing I like about the new technology is that I can put my 70lb luncker away and shot 60lb and end up with the same or greater arrow speeds and energy with the same arrow specs, so I would not be buying the speed bow for greater speed but so I can shoot a lower poundage bow and achieve my existing speeds. Due to the lower poundageI can hold the bow steadier resulting ina more accurate shot placement.

The speeds I am talking about are 500g arrow at around 275-280fps.

My motto is accuracy before all else.