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Ian.:

--- Quote from: CraigMBeckett on July 31, 2011, 02:29:28 am ---I has to be taken into account though that every second you hold the bow at full draw you are loosing distance, so you cant spend to long dancing around.


Which reminds me of something  that has been niggling the back of my mind. I seem to remember a few years ago those who practiced the rolling release spoke of the process of constantly drawing the bow so that they only came to full draw just before the release, which to me sounds reasonable as the bow is only held at full draw for a fraction of a second. But watching the current top shooters and this instructional video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyEIk_INOaY
The current idea seems to be to reach full draw and lock it in while the bow is horizontal or lower, then rotate upwards to the release.

So it seems to me that the technique has altered.

Craig.

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I don't really think it has altered, its minor improvements that happens over a few years. The archer their matched the current Livery record of 272 yards at our last shoot in bad weather.  The pictures are somewhere.

Phil Rees:
The whole "rolling loose"  thing doesn't make sence to me. Why would you want to come to full draw with the arrow pointing to the ground. From an efficient biomechanical perspective it's a pretty poor technique?

Ian.:
Its doesn't seem to make sense but you cant argue with the results.

CraigMBeckett:

--- Quote from: peasant1381 on July 31, 2011, 05:43:03 am ---Are you in touch with any of the Warbows Australia people Craig? They seem to be mostly in Victoria and I think there is a Queensland contingent too.

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No, I am not, as you say they are in Victoria, even have a Warbow society, attached to one of the major reenactment clubs I believe, probably based close into Melbourne, quite a drive for me, something of the order of 8 hours dependent on traffic through Gippsland etc.

Craig.

peasant1381:
The rolling loose does look weird and growing up reading books on the 100YW I wondered why the archer illustrations sometimes looked so strange until I saw some of the modern English blokes doing rolling looses. Have a look at the bloke on the left.

Doesn't mean that the bloke is rolling up neccessarily but some people draw up a relly heavy bow from that position

I use a conventional loose when accuracy is required however. Here I am shooting at a mark 180 yards away.


and after the loose



Craig. Leongatha is where the medieval group is based and some of them are members of Warbows Australia. Do you have anyone who shoots near you? If you ever come over to NZ you're welcome to come along and have have a shoot with us.

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