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Old 02-05-2004 | 09:09 AM
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Default RE: What is back tension?

Zak, this may help you a little: try to mimic yourself holding your bow at full draw ......without the bow, just using your arms. Now try and imagine a pencil or something laying vertically right between you shoulder blades. Now for your shot/release, your gonna try and pinch that imaginary pencil between your shoulder blades by squeezing them together using you back muscles, almost trying to make them touch. Your basically pulling the release off the string, using your back, not your arms. What does it do for you? It teaches you not to "punch" the trigger on your release along with proper follow through and learning to hold that sight on the target until the release goes off itself, not when you punch it. When you learn to shoot a back tension properly and the release goes off naturally, you will "explode" out of your shot, right into a good follow through. Accuracy will come later on with practice.... your form, technique, grip and follow through are what comes first.
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