Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: jayman448 on August 10, 2015, 01:17:11 am
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I tbink thats what the name of the article was any ways. Well i discovered my own mental mind game tonight. So while taking my last bi-daily practice shots, i stumbled upon something that has improved me immediately. (I just hope it works like this all the time now....) i was finding no matter what i tried i pluck the strng while still achieving reasonable accuracy. Id set a distinct pattern in my head (pull to my shoulder (back tension that is), one, two, three tomy ear). Still pluck. So i tried a different "second anchor" that really ends in the same place... stay with me. Mentally, i changed it to " 1,2,3 to my jaw". My fingers slide gently off the string, follows my face back right to that bottom of theear i was hoping for. So i did it again, and again. And so far its leaps and bounds... just with a simple change of themental destination... i hope this has all made sense... just thought it was quite a testimony to the mental aspect archery relies on. Anyone else have something silly like this that was an ah ha! Moment for them?
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Yes the mental part is very important, sometimes I am in the zone and sometimes not. What I find that helps my release more than anything is to make sure I am pushing to the target with my bow arm, Asbell talks a lot about it and it has more to do with back tension than any thing. When I concentrate on pushing to the target and the follow thru my shooting is much better with out a bunch of dropped shoulder and sinking release issues. Good luck. Kenneth