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CraigMBeckett:
nickf ,

I suggest you look at both the post by adb and the photo offered by ryoon again.

1, Adb says that ryoon is pulling with all his hand not that he himself does so. As you can see from this quote: "You're also drawing the string with your entire hand (all four fingers), not the normal three of modern times, or just two fingers of medieval archers"

2. the still on post 47 clearly shows a 4 finger hold, look closely you can count the knuckles. Ryoon has put up a new video on utube, in this he is holding using 3 fingers but that was not what he was doing in the previous video.

Craig

RyanY:
Ok guys I get it! 4 fingers bad 3 fingers good! Geez! Can a guy get a break?  ::) I watched my other videos and I'm drawing with 3 fingers in them. You can clearly see that my pinky finger is outside of the moccasin. That pic must have been a freak occurrence. I got the arrows Jim sent me today so I'll probably make a video sometime this week showing me drawing with them (no shooting till the weekend). Not right now though. I'm a little sore.  ;D

Yewboy:
I have been looking at this post with some interest and there has been some interesting things said for and against it.
I think that it would be great to see what a single piece of Hickory could withstand in a bow and good luck with making it, I look forward to seeing it.

With regards shooting it...well I doubt there is anyone who could draw it to the full 32", The compressive forces on the body would be immense and could be harmfull if the person had not trained specifically for it.

With regards getting the draw length up to 32", well that on its own would be good to see, I am very good friends with Mark Stretton and drawing thatr 200# bow nearly killed him and very nearly stopped him shooting full stop.

Ryoon...To you I would say take it slowly, you may have the muscle strength to move a 120 bow to your chin with just the strength in your arms, but that is where things get difficult as unless you are 4' wide at the shoulders you will need to rotate your shoulder to gain the 32" draw length, this puts massive stress on the shoulder joint, Also the bow arm, You suggested that you need to straighten your arm to get the draw length...well I'm afraid that is the worst thing you can do as you are then in a situation where you are placing all of the load on the elbow joint on your bow arm and you will destroy your elbow joint very quickly...result never shoot again.
The other thing you need to take into consideration is your wrist tendon strength, you may have strong arm muscles but the tendons in your wrist on the drawing hand will need many years of repeated practice to strengthen to the point you dont snap them.
I'm not trying to be too negative here but just wanted to point out that these heavy bows can do a lot of damage to your body if you dont take it slow.

Here is a picture of me shooting a 120# bow, you will see the bow arm is not straight and I am drawing to 32", as I am not wide across the shoulders I have to rotate my shoulder blade to the extreme. Anyway I wish you luck with your attempts and be careful.

adb:

--- Quote from: nickf on February 08, 2010, 06:58:30 pm ---adb, I read your post on the last page. You said you draw the bow with your entire hand, all 4 fingers (sounded kinda funny when I read it first, lol :p)





No mate, you read my post wrong! I said that ryoon was drawing the bow in the picture he posted with all four fingers, which is incorrect. Today, we use mostly 3 fingers to draw, and in medieval times, I believe they just used 2.
--- End quote ---

adb:
Thanks, Steve, for making your reply. I sure hope ryoon will listen to you. It's been rather frustrating trying to convince him that eventally, if he continues on his present course, he will injure himself.

ryoon... you listening? Take Steve's advice... he knows what he's talking about.

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