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Old 01-07-2002 | 12:35 PM
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55#recurve
 
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From: calgary alberta canada
Default RE: Shooting form

First thing my coaches would say is why the heck are you leaning are you shooting 90metres or something, Try standing up straight and normal, and letting your bow arm out a little, it should have a slight bend in it but it looks kind of extreme. Im gonna make a guess against everyone elses that your drawlenght is fine, you just need to fine tune your form. Put a little bit more of your weight on your front leg, it will cause the lean to disapait.
First things first, grab one of your arrows, stand up straight, wrap your hands around the arrow index fingers touching, know bring your hands up to your chin, elbows out like you are drawing your bow, with back tension, after you feel you have a good back tension drop your bow arm down like you have a bow in your hand now, do this in front of a mirror if possible, it should give you a good Idea of what your form should look like. Is your anchor solid bone to joint? If not then you may need to shorten your drawlength, but I am thinking you may not have to once you stand up a little straighter, expand a little more. Your torso is also twisted up a little which can't be good for you or your shooting. This is how my coach remedies me of this, get a person you know like your wife kids if old enough, friend, Take an arrow with feild tip, put the feild tip in your stomache, in the middle somewhere, now get the other person to hold the arrow in their stomache standing up straight and facing parrallel to you. If you twist out of straight form, you will feel the feild point dig in, if you don't you won't. Its not lethal, but it does hurt like heck, sounds kind of cruel but I don't have any scar's ahaha. Ive seen, teens that shoot with me do the lean once and a while without even knowing it, I probably do to, Just remember to shift the weight of your body foward. Expand a little more because that is what compounds are good for. I would think about getting a wrist or finger sling as well, I don't know how relaxed your hand is on the grip. Anyways, for now, good shooting, hope we haven't overloaded you with ton's of info.
Good shooting.
Dylan

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