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Training for heavy bow shooting
outcaste:
Hi Guys,
I am yet another cast adrift since the demise of EWB. So it's good that I found somewhere else to hang out (Thanks Marlon for getting in touch).
Just thought you lot might want to know that Yeomanbowman and I have trained together (gym etc) over a number of years and we have taken the same analytical and sustained approach to improving our draw weights. As you can see with the 'Bowerciser' it allows improvement in manageable increments, to the extent that I have put over 50lbs on my draw weight and with a strong coffee and a few words of encouragement from my 'buddy' I can draw up this fine bow. Back in Blighty there seems to be some resistance to mechanical forms of training, maybe they see it as not sportsmanlike?
Cheers, Outcaste
duffontap:
Welcome Outcast--we're still missing a lot of people. If someone could get ahold of Nick, perhaps he would be willing to let people know we're here?
If my memory serves correctly, Steve Stratton didn't like the mechanical bow?
J. D. Duff
sagitarius boemoru:
I sont like a special conditioning for heavy bow shooting, because the moment you cease training and diet your ability to shoot goes to hell.
But any hard work which actually strenghtens tendons is advisable.
Most of men who weight around 80 kilos is quite capable of shooting 100# on spot, but they wont shoot any well.
Good technique is more important than brute strenght.
I m in crappiest physical shape I was in last 10 years and I still do well with that new bow of mine which is like 92# and I only use 2 fingers for draw (flemish).
This is because my form is relaxed and gives equal share of strain to lots of big muscles.
People with massive joints have advantage in terms of less body compression and also the sinew joints are more massive.
I made a 65# yew bow for my shooting buddy here, hes got it since autumn, didnt even pulled it yet. I even gave him an ash strenght bow for training.
But I asked him "You do 50 pul ups every evening as I told you?" "You eat raw cereals to build up the mass?"
Answer was "No" in both cases - he knows better, he will train with bows to get there. He does not realise that hard physical work is original conditioning he needs.
Raw cereals are also good for strenght and mass. Most people things its meat, but its quatch. Mind you, you wont get nice body eating this like "fitnes style" (well unles your genetics works in you favor", but as a diet it builds up the strenght as tuna and other things.
Again its not much of worth if you need to keep lift the weights to be able to shoot your bow.
Jaro
heavybow:
Jaro diet is important and rest. Outcast get the others here marlon ;D
sagitarius boemoru:
Marlon, the archers at campaigns eat what they could and they were often forced to shoot afte rmany days of long march, or after a period of very poor nutrition, hard physical labour, with disenteria, without sleep etc.....
Off course they fought literary for lives, but as I said if you cannot do it without special training, which you have to sustain, its not worth it.
Jaro
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