Getting people to understand the difference between tension and engagement is always challenging. Also, there can be a great deal of misperception when using terms like 'hips' and 'rotation'. Tell someone to put their hands on their hips, and they will often put them on the iliac crest of the pelvis, or even on their waist. Telling someone to rotate their LEGS will be perceived as rotating their FEET, but to get the engagement you're looking for, it needs to come from the hip socket/iliopsoas as well as glutes, abducters, etc. Difficult concept to teach because of the subtlety. One of those 'less is more' internal physical awareness skills.
Nice!!! I started using the hips engagedment thanks to the advice of a fellow archer. The hips engagedment itself I learned it years ago while I was practicing yoga. But in yoga we build it up from feet to waist. You feel you feet rooted to the floor and from there you tense your tights up while you try to rotate your legs, that motion while engage the hips making them tuck in forward.
This is brilliant. Of course I knew to keep hips stable, but I'll be real, I haven't been keeping tension and I know my quiver jiggles around as I draw. I've got something new to work on!
Jake, I absolutely love your channel and have learned a lot from you. Have you ever talked with Fawn Girard or Dewayne Martin about their bare bow “single string” boot camp? It would be great to see you come in as a mentor or at least attend as a celebrity.
Thanks Coach! Excellent tips. Repeatability is the name of the game!!!! It starts with the stance and progressively moves upward. Not sure if you have done a video as of yet, but would like to hear you talk about the psychology of shooting as well as tuning your bow???? Just joined so your information is remarkable! Thanks Coach and as always please stay safe......
I remember learning about the locked knees causing blood flow issues when a friend was making a mould of his legs to create a creature costume, locked his knees while plaster was being applied....and lets just say that mould was abandoned.
Just watched a video on postural stability presented by a British Olympic archer. He used the example of Korean women archers too One problem with western archers is that very many of us move our head immediately upon release
I agree that movement in the quiver can be a good indication of a lack of engagement, especially on release. However, I'm not sure I agree about the movement while drawing the bow in every case. I deliberately turn my hips during the draw in order to allow better engagement and alignment, so that movement is actually a sign I'm engaging correctly
Hmmmmmm I want to try both and see which feels better overall... I think I have stability issues. It's always worth learning and trying more I reckon 😁
I was a little triggered by the fact that the colors of the bars on the charts did not match the names of the colors... made my eye twitch haha. Aside from that more excellent content!
