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dogface:
First, settle an arguement, I patiaking in a shooting activety not mentioned here with a good friend. The weight was 85 lbs, and 90 on what we were shooting. and the distance was FAR ! Ant way english long bows came up the there weight was discussed. When I sed they pilled 90 to 100+ pounds I was told that I was crazy and that pulling that more then once by a man would cause injurey and most folks could only do that with wheels on there bow.  Sacond, Pilling the weight I am on the "not mentioned" I injured myself. I am trying to work up into the war bow weights so that I may build and shoot them with you guys. I watched a fellow who was fetured in a historey channel show and (no offence) he diddent look like a huge buff guy, and he was flinging lots of arrows off of what looked like a big heavy bow. Are there videos or books that show the process of building the body for shooting big heavy bows ? I just cant wait to show up with my warbow and scaile and fling one after the other for thees guys, and the muscle building and toneing wont hert the other facets of archery I enjoy. Thanks much in advance for the input.

stevesjem:
Hi Dogface
My name is Steve Stratton and I was the archer featured on the warriors program on the history channel, I am not a big man, I only weigh in at 11.5stone but I have practiced to the point where I can comfortably shoot bows of 120lb and over, if is not about being really strong, it is all about technique.
Where do you live? If I can help you please pm me
Cheers
Steve

african man:
Dogface     PM  Heavybow  ( Marlon ) he has some realy good training programs that will help you get into heavy war bows

Chris  ;)

alanesq:
My experience is that pulling a heavy bow is loading your bones/tendons/joints etc. in a way which it has not had to deal with before so it takes a good while for your body to get used to this
so at first its not so much about your strength as it is about getting your body to get used to this

when I first started trying to pull bows over 100lb I could really feel my collar bone and joints were being loaded close to breaking point and I had to be very careful not to over do it but now after many, many months building up I can try to pull a bow too heavy for me and put every drop of strength I can find into trying to get it back and my joints etc. dont complain at all

Also, other forms of archer they expect to draw a bow back with ease and so the idea of really putting a lot of effort into drawing a bow is totally alien.  Once you get over this and realise that drawing a warbow is more like weight training than a relaxing afternoon out, then you find you can draw a much heavier bow than you though :-)

jb.68:

--- Quote from: alanesq on April 09, 2009, 06:44:39 am ---

Also, other forms of archer they expect to draw a bow back with ease and so the idea of really putting a lot of effort into drawing a bow is totally alien.  Once you get over this and realise that drawing a warbow is more like weight training than a relaxing afternoon out, then you find you can draw a much heavier bow than you though :-)


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I think you are quite right there Alan. It is very hard for some of them to understand why anyone would want to shoot anything over 40lb.... Oh well, each to their own eh?

jb

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