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Old 02-19-2002 | 10:27 PM
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55#recurve
 
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Default RE: finger release

With a compound, I always loved using a Black Widow tab, They are thin but very smooth, and releases become very consistant. Later on I moved to a cavalier tab with a chin plate, as I always shot with an under the chin anchor. This made me even more consistant, and I got to the point with a compound that I had a static release, where my fingers let go and my hand stayed glued to the anchor point. I now shoot Olympic style, with a clicker and I always practice for a fluid release. I think your best bet, is to do a little bit of blind shooting, the finger release is not something that should be forced. What should go on in a shot sequence is constant back-tension, put the sight on the mark, keep up the tenion in the shoulders, and relax the back of the hand and the string will rip out of your fingers and your hand and arm will travel back along your face or neck. Try to keep as much of, if not all of the tension away from any part of your arm, as arm tension is a killer and causes rotten releases, because tension in the arm travels up and down the arm and into the hands. The tension in the hands makes it very hard for you to relax them, and can cause hang ups on the string. Trash that glove and get a tab, I tried a glove once and I got alot of hang ups do to grooves created by the string. Don't shoot from the tips of your fingers. Always let the string hook in your first joints, reason for this is to take tension off of the hands that would be there if you are shooting the string off of the tips. One finger is always a straggling on the string so the way you have allowed the bottom finger to relax out is good, it will cause the release to be cleaner, and can be done the other way around with the two bottom fingers on the string and the top one relaxed off. I prefer to have my bottom of the three relaxed though.
Good luck, and good shooting.
Dylan

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