Gibblet is right on. Back tension is difficult to master. I just broke the surface with it and am in the learning process. My troubles right now are that I have a tendency to lose my back tension and have to let down, or just pull the shot off and start over. That and I have to think too much about the back tension park, and not about aiming. Its coming around, just slowly.

Cabage, basically, what it amounts to is this. You draw your bow back and normal, only this time, try to use your back muscles to pull it back, squeezing your right shouldar blade (if your right handed) toward your spine. Once at full draw and settled in, you begin squeezing the right shouldar blade toward your spine. Its important to relaxe your shouldar and arm to allow them to move as one unit when you contract you back muscles. What this does, is move your elbow around the back of your head. It a very unnoticable amount to you, but when it happens, pow, the release comes off without you knowing it. Your only focus should be on the X in the target during this whole process.

Its very unnerving at first, but you get accustomed to the surprise the longer you shoot.

I use my fingers for backtension release cause I shoot a recurve. Here is a pic I saw posted on AT.

Jaws Is one awesome Archer!

Oops! left out the pic

I'm still trying to figure out what the heck is going on in that pic... Two brass nocks inside a string loop, and what's holding back the release... does he have it attached to some sort of back brace or something?

OK, you put up the second pic while I was typing up above... I thought something like that might be going on... Kudos to him for overcoming to accomplish being able to do something he loves!

My compliments to him as well. It's great to see someone as determined as him.

However, that set-up/form is, IMPO, wrong for hunting. While it may work well for tournament archery, it would be detrimental for hunting. This was a subject that I covered at one of my last ATA seminars.

Now, let the questions/slams begin. I'll be back probably tomorrow. So have at it.

you'd rather him have the exploding carbon tech arrows?

Another point to note is that you can use back tension to set off trigger style releases. There are pro's that use back tension with both styles of releases and I am sure it would be a heated debate as to which is better. IMHO what is better is what works for you.

To really mix things up I know of a World ranked FITA shooter that uses a trigger style release for competition and a back tension for hunting. Go figure.

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