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Archery coaching day 1

Just started to shoot on the weekends, and loving it, which led me to lookout for archery lessons. I am have been seeking to improve and learn proper recurve bow archery through online search and youtube, and was finding it was not enough. I stumbled upon coach Harvey via localgymsandfitness.com and decided to give it a try. Its good that I am familiar with most of the terms during the sessions, and was able to visualise his explainations.

The place is an indoor 3 lane place for coaching. My concern was the targets that had glass windows behind it. The targets were large, but if I missed, the windows will surely be damaged. Brought along my 30lb bow and arrows. Following are what I picked up today, besides having a chance to do a few shots.

Lessons

  1. Stance. The way of my feet placement to be at right angle to the shooting target is known as the Square stance.
  2. Posture.  Body should be straight up, and torso rotation when moving towards anchor position.
  3. Bow arm. This is the arm that grip the bow handle. Strength is achieved when doing rotation  of elbow. Simple exercise is to rest hands on the wall and rotate the elbow.
  4. Draw arm. The arm that pulls the bow string. The hands need to be in an outwards C curve. 
  5. Proper setup. Can't recall details on this part. Holding the bow string, the arrow should be between pointer and middle finger. Keep pinky and thumb tucked away.
  6. Anchor 3 key components. Nose, lips touch string. Chin, touch index finger. 
  7. Release. The bow string moves faster than finger can release. Adjustment of how the release is done will reduce the  amount of pivoting.


Things I also found out

  1. Did a simple exercise and found that I am Right eye dominant. Looks like current situation thate I am doing a right hand draw, and using my right eye to find the target is suited for this dominant.
  2. Plunger helps to reduce the bow clearance. Which will also help prolong lifespan of the arrow feathers/vanes.
  3. When using the eye sight, start pin hole at the blue ring, above the yellow. Its natural for the draw to move the pin hole to bottom of the target, and as it anchors, the pin hole will move back up. During this time, take a peek to reference the bow string is at middle of riser.
  4. My arrows have knocks that are size 'L', which is why it keeps slipping from the string. Coach Harvey offered to do something to my bow string so that the arrows don't keep falling off.


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