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Black Moshannon:
Thanks for the replies. Pat,I will be going with fifty and under bow weights from now on. Thanks Jimmi for the book recommendation I’ll check it out. Stick mark, I’ve seen that video Clum put out. It came out the same time I realized I was having a problem.

Additionally I go around once a week to train in submission grappling and yesterday my shoulder was feeling fine until I went and then afterwards it was back to pain again so I guess I’ll have to cut that out for now too, or maybe just go watch to learn. I think I will also see the doctor.

Black Moshannon:
Just adding an update. I will be seeing the doctor. It’s feeling better but I want to make sure I do the right thing to heal it. For me the problem was the angle of my drawing arm and elbow and the alignment with the shoulders. I have a pretty long neck so raising the drawing hand up higher was putting my arm out of alignment with shoulders and bow hand. I know this is the reason because I was having some discomfort immediately when I starting using the higher anchor ( I didn’t want to accept that because I really wanted to shoot that way) and when I would play with the old lower anchor everything felt ok again. Also, while my right shoulder has been resting I messed around with shooting left handed. My left shoulder started hurting immediately. I can even make the drawing motion without actually drawing the bow and anchoring higher than the lower jaw area causes my shoulder to feel pinched and uncomfortable. I will have to adjust to my bodies demands and just anchor lower and figure it out from there…

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