Video and Pic Critique
 

Below is a pic and small shooting video (camera was handheld). Please feel free to critique it. To me, it looks like my bow arm is a little low. Good and bad please. :D:(

Click on link for video:

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v166/BobCo/More%20Stuff/?action=view&current=000_0033.flv&refPage= &imgAnch=imgAnch2

RE: Video and Pic Critique
 

[ol][*]Poor choice to shoot from, you are not able to see someone walking in from your left while at full draw because of the bump out in your house.[*]Look at the lower limb tip, you are rock solid for the first 2 seconds at full draw and then as you hold it longer you start to wiggle it around a bit. You do seem to quiet it down, but I'd either recommend getting on target faster or if you intend to aim that long take a breath pause to regain that steadiness for the shot.[*]Your head.. you adjust your head to fit your string. Bring your bow up to you where your head feels most comfortable, part of your time to settle into the shot comes from you trying to position your head right onto your bow.[*]Watch your elbow closely, and you'll see that you start to drop it before you release the string[*]I like the agressive stance, but the fact you have your kneesbent so much and add the cant and other factors that can affect consistency, I'd try a slightly less knee bend and see if you get better consistency from shootingsession to shooting session.[/ol]

RE: Video and Pic Critique
 

Thanks MA, you pointed some things out that I never saw before on the video. FWIW, this is not normally where I shoot, however, on this property there is a 6' locked chain link that runs the perimter of the yard, there is also a 8'x8' solid backstop with nothing behind it. This shot was taken at 25 yards.

Keep the ctritique coming.

RE: Video and Pic Critique
 

Yeah , what he says,and I for one do not sink my head like that, I draw so that my drawing hand is to my cheek right below my eye ,not below the mouth as you have.
And yes you do need more stability when you are drawing ,otherwise you loose time adjusting to aim.

RE: Video and Pic Critique
 

if you're hitting what you're looking at consistantly, forget everything everyone else is saying about your form

some of the best golfers, basketball players, QB's, pitchers etc etc have poor form

some of the best archers have ugly form too - tis all about consistancy

RE: Video and Pic Critique
 

Bob - I wasn't implying you were not safe, just critiquing the picture!

You asked for the feedback, but just so you know I think you have pretty good form.

Your fingers in the pic seem to be grabbing a lot of string. You can tell this on your release pretty easily. To see what I am talking about place your cursor on the knuckle of your index hand in your photobucket movie clip, and watch where your hand goes when you dump the string. It drops a bit before falling backwards. This may be a result of your elbowdropping slightly, but watching the video gave me the impression that as a strong guy you are using your shoulder and arm a bit more than pulling through the shot with your back muscles. If you either drop the 3rd finger or used it less in holding the weight and really focus on the elbow being pulled straight back on a string with your back muscles you "may" find more consistency.

As I said, this is good form. Watch enough olympicstyleshooters release and you can see some areas that you can try.

RE: Video and Pic Critique
 

I never actually saw myself shoot before. It's actually pretty fascinating. I'm going to have to do this more often in my practice.

MA, what you just mentioned about the release is something that I noticed first time I saw the video. I am also putting the cursor on my elbow on the initial frame before starting the video and am noticing that the elbow is not coming straight back as it should, but is angling downward upon release.

There seems to be a pretty"explosive" release though. But, it also appears that the bow arm seems to be dropping somewhat upon the release.The forawrd movement in the bow arm seems to be good, but as with the draw elbow, it is angling downward (put the cursor just under my bow hand before starting the video).

Porkers, I agree with you 100%.