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Sempertiger:
I'm curious. These two pictures show archers shooting in completely different parts of the world. The Hadza of Tanzania, and the Inuit of Alaska.





Has anyone done any research on this topic?

JS

Weylin:
I would say they are shooting that way to give themselves a concrete anchor point on shorter draw length bows, but I'm not certain.

bubby:
look like pretty deep anchor point's to me, Bub

Del the cat:
When they wus young there was a meeting with senior management and they wus told. 'Now look son, we've always done it like this' ;)
I agree they look like pretty long draws. What surprises me is the feet together stance.
Personally I tend to have a wide stance and I lean in a bit as if shooting a shotgun, but not as much as these fellahs.
I think the real point of any style is consistence and practice. I expect if you shot for fish all your life standing on one leg in a river you'd get pretty good at it... it works for Herons :).
Bearing in mind they start as young lads, the style is probably optimised for looking cool and impressing the girls.
Del

k-hat:
Anyone else notice the arrow placement?  (crotch!)  I think that explains the "feet together stance"! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:   shall we call that a "crotch quiver"?

Perhaps it's simply a way to level with the target so there's no pointing down with the aim.

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