Well I have a static release they call it , instead of a follow thru style. Maybe there is a little follow through , does anyone else have this style of rerelease ? It is consistent for me .i heard people say , oh you have to do it this way or else. Don't know been shooting traditional archery maybe 50 years , don't snap shoot and shoot Mediterranean . Got a solid anchor point .
Static release is more stable during follow through.
Yes I have shot that way most of my life :archer:
In the static release, or dead release, there is no movement of the body leading up to the release. Proponents, such as Rick Welch, feel that this lack of movement is an aid to accuracy, like firing a rifle, where every effort is made to keep still until the shot goes off. Rick has won many championships and taught many students using this method.
However, many more championships have been won and many more students have been taught using the dynamic release. The dynamic release has the advantage of adding power to the shot because the back muscles are actively moving until the shot goes off. In hand eye coordination sports like baseball, people learn to be accurate while moving as a necessity.
In the end, this is not a numbers game. All that matters is what works best for you, not what works best for "most people." Traditional archery is not like baseball, in that there is no necessity to keep moving, and it is not like shooting a rifle, because the only thing that makes the arrow go is the force of your muscles bending the bow, not gun powder. Don't be afraid to try new things, because the results might surprise you.
That makes sense to me , this my opinion you know how that goes, but I feel people are trying maybe to add Olympic archery form into their shot ?
Pure Olympic archery form works very well for what it is designed for: shooting arrows from long known distances over flat ground at a bullseye target. Long recurves and stabilizers, upright posture, and long hold times is not a good recipe for hunting.
Traditional archery hunting form was not designed by anyone. It evolved over many years before recorded history, using shorter heavier draw weight bows unburdened by a lot of gadgets, heavy arrows, and short to non-existent hold times to be optimal for hunting game in rough terrain at short distances where hunting skills can be substituted for long-distance shooting skills.
We can learn from Olympic archery style, as long as we don't become frozen into the parts of it that were designed specifically for shooting with upright posture at long distance targets over flat ground. For example, Terry Green has taken what is good Olympic alignment and adapted it to the needs of traditional hunting. I don't know whether Terry invented the expression "Archery happens from the waist up," but this is definitely not something that is taught in Olympic archery training, or in training to hunt with compound bows. It is a concept that is particularly applicable to hunting with a traditional bow in situations where uptight posture just doesn't work, and it may be necessary to bend, twist, squat and cant the bow. I have also used this concept to teach disabled people to shoot from wheelchairs.
It's always a good idea to keep an open mind and use what works and reject what doesn't.
If you are happy..you are doing it right. If you find yourself unhappy, you might first try shooting less. If on the other hand you enjoy unhappiness try lots of other archers ideas and shoot several different bows weekly or even daily if you aren't unhappy enough..if this becomes tiring maybe go back to what you think you originally were doing , if you can still remember and if you haven't entirely lost the magic. :o
I fluidly snapshoot. Kinda like Howard Hill....
Sorry this is an old video that needs updating, and I'll have to get Rob on it. You can turn your phone sideways to make the screen bigger....
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