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long draw length thumb ring anchoring, shooting
Urufu_Shinjiro:
I've noticed that this type of shooting is pretty sensitive to the arrows, when I got the right set of arrows it was night and day with my shooting. I now use bamboo arrows at 35" because of my long draw (I don't draw a full 35" but I noticed on my 33" arrows that if the tip of the arrow was too close to the bow at release it shot worse than if I had an inch or two in front of the bow). With the forgiving spine of bamboo and the proper length these arrows are like guided missiles compared to others. Search the popular auction site for "bamboo yumi arrow" and you'l see what I use, at a dozen for $53 you can't beat them with a stick (is that an arrow pun?).
loon:
niice. Still gotta try the 33" chinese bamboo arrows and some bamboo flu flus I got made. Hopefully not too short. The chinese arrows aren't all very straight, but they were pretty cheap. they're finished but I might try heat straightening them anyway.
Maybe I'll end up with over a hundred arrows if I keep this up... I should get some meter long bamboo shafts, cut, spine them and put some nice bulbous hard wood nocks on them
How does your bow arm elbow look when you draw?
Urufu_Shinjiro:
This is not quite full draw but close enough:
Olanigw (Pekane):
For traditional korean shooting, your "anchor" is the back of the point touching your thumb.
See Mr. Er
Mr. Er draws until the target point touches his thumb, and touches the arrow to his jaw.
Of the many complex factors that come into play preventing Mr. Er's face being stripped off by the string, how the bow is gripped is the biggest. It's much easier to show than to tell.
When I shoot with a thumb draw, I tend to draw until my fingers brush my clavicle.
Then again, as you've discovered there's nothing at all wrong with a shorter draw length and anchoring to your face.
Urufu_Shinjiro:
Do you know the length of Mw. Er's arrow?
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