Archery Coaching Case Study #6 | Refining Set-up and Pre-draw 

Fantastic! What did you learn from this video?

@@RogueArcheryTV I ve been tilting back because I putting too much empasis on the draw without balancing with a push. That's born out of my blending of the pre-draw, draw and the rotation to alignment. Based on your basic steps you've kindly posted here on YT I seperate the pre-draw from the draw and make sure I have my alignment first before proceeding further, avoiding a cascade of errors. This has cleaned up my left/rights as my draw length variations are less and there is less muscle mass involved to fatigue (no clicker, shooting Barebow). Your coaching is very clear and concise in all your case studies and the level your archers are at after such a short time frame is amazing! Now I need to focus more on loading and then keeping expansion going while aiming. That's my big issue going forward. Avoing the stop start of expansion when the float of the aim moves outside of where I m happy with it being. Thanks again for your YT channel and case studies!

I am doing similar things to the archer in this video. Too much on the draw not enough balance between push and pull causing me to put more weight on the back foot. The sight picture raises and I have to force the pin back down, compromising my bow shoulder. I ve also lost a bit of alignment and that core rotation power. I switched to a square stance after shooting open stance. I did not do foot placement consistently which caused changes to draw length.

@@skysurferboy I'm glad you got so much value out of this, I'm glad I shared it! These are pretty normal things to work through, so keep up the good work!

Excellent! What did you take away from this form review?

Thank you! What did you find most helpful?

The stance and the position of the head during the shooting circle are things that I should correct. It is difficult sometimes to see yourself. You made very precise observations, your “diagnosis “ was excellent. Wish to see more.👏👍🏹

Dartfish

Yes, this does take some training to get constitent shoulder alignment in Pre-draw. There are a number of drills that we do to train consistency in shoulder alignment using this method, as any variance will basically destroy your ability to have good clicker control! Rotation of the shoulders should be completed by Pre-draw, and looking at many shooting styles, there are very few exceptions to this. One of the things to keep in mind that affects the degree of rotation through the core (thoracic rotation) is: - Upper body mobility, and - Shoulder width to arm length ratio Even within the Korean team, you can see this variance. Archers like Choi Misun and Lee WooSeok have longer arms and good upper body mobility, but Kang Chae Yeong and Kim Woojin have broader shoulders and core rotation is more pronounced. Nevertheless, they all achieve shoulder alignment from Raise to Pre-draw. P.S. Michelle Frangilli is another exception to head movement... as well as various other things! 😉

Just watched lim in vegas during the gold medal match for indoor World Series and you can see she has no rotation. And her solders are aligned at the beginning of the draw

@@yanglai524 I just posted a clip of Lim on Facebook where you can see how she does align her shoulders to achieve Pre-draw position. She's a perfect example of this. Have a look at the clip and let me know if you can't see it as I can do a little breakdown.

Thanks James! Glad you're loving the vids.

@@RogueArcheryTV would all the technique be the same for barebow? Slightly higher anchor so would the loading phase still be the same? Elbow position etc.

@@jamesGT78 mostly the same process. Differences in anchor and aiming obviously.