First, stop calling it that bollocks title. It does not deserve such status. I like to call it shot choke. After a lot of reading and studying, I conclude that most episodes or cases of shot choke arise from too much involvement of the frontal cortex of the brain (analogous to the "RAM" in a computer). When a person's desire to perform is ruled by the FC, it cannot help but be unsmooth, overcontrolled, discombobulated, and just plain painful. The sports where very concise movements under duress are required seem more prone: A catcher in baseball cannot return the ball to the pitcher. A golfer cannot smoothly putt in a 6-foot sure-fire stroke. A tennis player cannot hit an overhead, or a second serve. THE FC/MIND LITERALLY GETS IN THE WAY of a motion that through practice has evolved into something that can be performed entirely subconsciously with a high degree of accuracy and reproducibility.
There. It's now well defined. How does that help you and thousands of other archers? Not hardly one whit.
I do not believe there is any one, single solution to Shot Choke. The inability to execute on demand, as desired, seems to come more to those who have developed more function rather than to newbies. Having had an archer who developed shot choke in about 2006, I've exhaustively searched for solutions and subjected her to many.
SC, shot choke, is like alcoholism - the vast majority are afflicted for life butt learn to function whilst a few can "cure" themselves and never betray it again, and some number in between simply surrender the sport.
One may try a variety of methods to alleviate the pain and psychic discomfort of being ruled by an inanimate object. If I ever get good enough to develop SC, I'll certainly try them all. Hopefully my awareness will mitigate it, but if you do have some element of SC, you need to try *anything* that strikes your fancy.
If you can, watch the movie "Tin Cup" with Kevin Costner and Cheech Marin (of Cheech and Chong fame). Golfers' Shot Choke is commonly referred to as the "yips" or the "shanks", and their method of dealing with it makes just as much sense as going to the "Target P***c Doctor". CHANGE something you are doing as a means of distracting the stupid part of your brain that insists on overruling your subconscious, so that your subc. can sneak in and do what it does best. Keep you upright on two feet. Scratch whereever. Throw a ball accurately.... SHOOT a bow and have the arrow go where, yes, your subconscious, envisions it going.
The best solution for my best archer was a book by
Jay Kidwell, Instinctive Archery Insights, and I rush to say that much of the book is NOT useful to me, but the figure 8, infinity, drawings and such were the best solution of a dozen or more I tried with that archer. Ultimately, she defeated most of the shot choke, but the head coach she served under did more damage than I thought possible. Anyway, that's spilt milk under the bridge.
Try anything that sounds to YOU like it might help with shot choke. Understanding FLOW can help, and belief in yourself is never a bad thing. But do not place more faith in anyone else(including me) than you do in yourself. Ultimately, you are the one left holding the bow and your confidence in yourself is not misplaced, merely doubted. And don't panic!