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Allyn T:
Your shot is a lot more complex than mine. I make sure I have a hook, relaxed grip comes easy because it's the same way I gripped my compound. Then I just focus on the target while exhaling and drawing. Once my finger finds the corner of my mouth I keep bringing my elbow back until it is lined up properly and then either hold trying to get the feel for full draw or I release as soon as I get to full draw. My release is always way cleaner when I don't hold.
Black Moshannon:
--- Quote from: Allyn T on September 30, 2022, 07:55:38 pm ---Your shot is a lot more complex than mine. I make sure I have a hook, relaxed grip comes easy because it's the same way I gripped my compound. Then I just focus on the target while exhaling and drawing. Once my finger finds the corner of my mouth I keep bringing my elbow back until it is lined up properly and then either hold trying to get the feel for full draw or I release as soon as I get to full draw. My release is always way cleaner when I don't hold.
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Release cleaner with no hold only makes sense. That is why my release was poor up until recently. Because with no hold, you have an open loop shot where you drive tension through the shot with no pause and the release is triggered by the sight picture looking correct to your subconscious (or so I would imagine). So with my hold and aim my release was happening with poor tension and I would guess I was collapsing a little. But now that I have linked driving back tension with the tab touch the release is beautiful and my draw hand ends up behind my shoulder in that classic motion you see pros seem to have. In fact I would just give up the tab touch. But I would go right down the target panic rabbit hole without it. Sometimes I practice without it to discipline myself and make sure I’m in control of the shot. I take a breath in then allow the release to occur.
Another interesting difference in our shots is that you are drawing to anchor then getting yourself into full alignment, whereas I am getting into full alignment and then lifting up slightly into anchor. Different ways of doing it. I have to be careful because I gave myself an impingement drawing into a high anchor last year and I was out of back tension. My poor shoulder took a beating. So I am way more fussy with getting into that back scapular engagement right away. Some don’t seem to ever have to deal with this issue.
Allyn T:
I never thought of drawing low and then bringing it up. I might have to try that.
Black Moshannon:
--- Quote from: Allyn T on October 02, 2022, 01:06:51 pm ---I never thought of drawing low and then bringing it up. I might have to try that.
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Yea when I first started doing that I drew pretty far under my anchor point and had a pretty big lift to get into anchor. I learned to just draw to right under anchor and then a slight lift into anchor so it’s all one seamless motion. Back tension has been great. Love it all so far. Also my anchor isn’t all that high. My index finger knuckle tucks just under/behind my cheekbone and my thumb knuckle goes under my jawbone. My index and middle finger tips go just behind corner of mouth. I shoot three under the arrow to get arrow closer under my eye. Any higher of an anchor than that and I feel like it’s hard to keep the load In my back
bradsmith2010:
watch byron ferguson, draw and anchor,,
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