Reply To: Target Panic

[Hiram]

#9144

One thing I forgot to mention. It is very important that you do not associate the release as the last thing you do! The release is only part of the sequence that leads to your hand recoiling a certain distance back and away from the face after the shot HAPPENS, and I say happens because it should be sub-consciuos after the sequence is imbedded in your mind. That is why you can now add aiming into your sequence, because that is what your primary focus will be after you have reached ‘PROPER FORM” through the use of the bale. Yes you will be able to work on your form consciuosly once you have gained the sequencial control of the shot. I would recomend that you establish the finality of the shot with the arrow hitting the target. The finality of the release with the release hand touching a point of the shoulder or neck, or just the position of the hand after it stops in the recoil of the shot. Which remember that the release hand will always recoil a distance reward if you are using back tension. Yes this distance may different with higher or lower poundage Bows being shot by the same Archer. I did not incorporate release in the sequence because it should “just happen” during expansion. The fingers should just let go during the expansion of the back muscles and be somewhat like picking up a a bucket by the bail and just dropping it by releasing the fingers. Part of the pull of the Bow string will allow the fingers to have the rolling off the string effect, but not to a great degree. Think of the drawing hand as a hook which is being pulled back by a pulley and rope system and relax the back of the hand as you are drawing the Bow. A tense drawing hand will cause you problems as you let go of the string and also contort the Bow string causing un-equal pressure which leads to sore fingers and string oscillations beyond that of a relaxed hand. More contorted string leads to exageratted paradox which leads to more tuning problems and bigger arrow groups.