If you can reproduce lousy shots effortlessly for hours, it’s just poor formHow do you know if you’re over bowed? Or just have very poor form?
Not so tongue in cheek with me as I will not practice for a couple of days before a shoot because it puts me off. I think it's due to the lighting in our club wood doing weird things with my distance judgement. Whatever it is I can quite easily have a nightmare if I've gone down our own wood.There is tongue in cheek theory that says...
I don't practice, 'cos if I'm I shooting well, I don't want to waste the good shots, and if I'm shooting badly, there's no point in practicing doing it badly.
Del
Did you practice down the wood before the 3Ds?Not so tongue in cheek with me as I will not practice for a couple of days before a shoot because it puts me off. I think it's due to the lighting in our club wood doing weird things with my distance judgement. Whatever it is I can quite easily have a nightmare if I've gone down our own wood.
Neither do I - but needs must.. I’m currently out of UK for a month working so took the bow in the hope of finding somewhere to shoot and lucked out by meeting a really friendly, welcoming club.Maybe you are just going through the motions with no real motivation or shot plan...
I don't shoot target...
Ha. Very good. No, that abysmal performance was entirely my own doing. I probably could have done the second day after my knee went pop but with 6 arrows left and shooting like a tool crab fishing in Brixham harbour was far more appealing.Did you practice down the wood before the 3Ds?
Coming from a lifetime of weights, I reckon that would actually be really darn hard.I read somewhere that if you draw the bow and hold for 10 secs. Relax. Draw again and hold for 10 secs.
If you can repeat this sequence 10 times the draw weight should be OK for you. If not!
I think the idea was to give you some idea of a comfortable weight to draw. Another source suggested sitting on a chair with your feet off the ground. If you could draw the bow without putting your feet on the ground that should also be OK.Coming from a lifetime of weights, I reckon that would actually be really darn hard.
Let's say you have a 50lbs (well 52lbs for me) compound; that's 500lbs of just pulling, around 250lbs drawn weight for a total of 1 minute 40 second and with almost no rest.
I honestly think that would be very tricky yet have no problems pulling that weight in competitions (when I don't get the dreaded wobbles).