How to find your correct recurve draw length 

Awesome! Glad you found it helpful!

Ooh, maybe give it a try just by a few mm at longer distance :) Thanks, I appreciate it :)

Too much blah blah and no useful info waste of time and I watched 2 of your videos and still don’t know which bow size I should buy !!

Thanks!

Awesome, sound like great progress! Glad the videos can help out :)

I guess I'm a bit slow to reply, but there is a bow shoulder video now that should help with this - you may have seen it already....

Sounds great! Glad the videos are helpful :) try thinking about locating the draw hand against the neck, rather than up to the jaw, it can help get a better anchor position and prevent moving the head as you come to anchor :)

There are several ways to approach this, but from the descriptions you make, back arch at end, hard getting hand to anchor/jaw suggest to me that you might be overdrawn that is to say drawing too much weight for your conditioning and experience. Are you involved in a strength training program? Strength and flexibility training are foundational to athletic success. I'm not a pro. I simply speak from a life of experience. I am a 74 year old lifelong athlete currently invested in indoor rock climbing and archery. They'll probably be my principal involvements to the grave. I have been shooting with a purpose these past 10 months applying the understanding I gained over the first two years and it's working. I recently reached a 900 round scoring average that was the goal I set to justify getting a well-engineered bow as compared to the off-the-shelf I've been shooting. Have you met the 11 steps of the shot process? If you have, cool, there's your framework. If you haven't, you must. Now to RU-vid to find coaches who present that process in a manner that makes sense to you as you understand it presently. Now shoot some arrows! Have fun! There are prodigies but for most of us it takes consistent application.

I just measured my draw length Ashe. I expect to shoot my 1st 300 tomorrow 🙃😂

Thanks Maharshi!

And after watching the video I'm thinking of checking my longer distance shoot processes

Absolutely :) Normally only a small amount but for sure!

I'll add it to the future video list :)

Online Archery Academy fantastic. Thanks !!!

Nice! It does help :)

Clever!

That's a good question! I don't know is the honest answer, but if I had to make a guess I'd say a longer draw length would have a higher arrow speed providing everything else is the same.

@@OnlineArcheryAcademy Basic physics says you're correct. Energy available to accelerate the arrow+string+limbs is the integral of force-of-draw over draw distance (or, if you prefer geometry, the area under the curve of draw weight plotted against draw distance). Adding an increment to that draw distance will increase the energy, and that will almost always increase the kinetic energy of the arrow as it leaves the bow. With arrow mass unchanged, that means more velocity.

Well...for Barebow you can't use a clicker, so you could add it in training but can't use it in competition...

Ideally you shouldn’t have to change based on temperature - I would make sure you’re properly warmed up each day. The colder it is the more thoroughly you need to warm up beforehand. When it’s a hot day you might need only a small amount of jogging, but when it’s really cold you might need as much as 10min before you then do the rest of your warm up :)

If you've never thought of something, trust me, you're not a master

@meazy451 I guess you did not understood what I meant by masters archer, but I don't mind explaining, I am a masters archer in terms of age, I am 64, I shoot 60 meters in our national's championship and I was 4 times national champion in the last 7 years before covid. For any reason I never moved the clicker when changing from 18 meters to 60 meters, but that's OK, you will remind me next time. Cheers!

@@paulocastro9293 you don't get to be a master archer by age lmao. I bet you love participation trophies too.

@meazy451 Last call, because I don't want to waste time with someone, trust me, that again does not understand, or don't want to understand. WA rules divides archers by age, cadet (women, men) up to age 17 , junior ( womem, men) up to age 20 , seniors (women, men), and masters or veterans (women, man) aged 50 or more. So, I am a master or veteran archer shooting 60 meters in my country outdoor championship, and shooting 18 meters in the indoor championship. Again, for any reason, I never thought of moving the clicker when changing from 18 meters shooting to 60 meters shooting. If this is such a big issue for you, so be it. Get lost and don't waste my time. Cheers!

@@paulocastro9293 LOL

It is hard to say without seeing it, but if those techniques didn't work, it could be because your finger strength is not good enough and you are sliding too much. It could also be because of the tab shape/leather cut away. But see about your finger strength first. Here are some exercises to consider regarding finger strength: www.onlinearcheryacademy.com/importance-grip-strength-recurve-archery-2/

@@OnlineArcheryAcademy Definitely it can be related to finger strength. Many times I felt like the string is sliding while I'm anchoring. I just read the link you shared. It's really helpful, I'll do that drills. Thank you so much :)

Technically yes, but only a very small amount :)

Awesome - haha yeah definitely move it for different arrows!

With target I would say that we tend to tilt at the shoulder but in field we tend to use the T draw and tilt from the hips as the variation is often far greater.

So for target most of the angle change should be from moving the arm, as the angle isn't too large and it allows better posture and to keep the feeling of the technique. But as Roger says, in field it's more necessary :)

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Interesting! I'll have to chat to Oliver next time I'd see him, I'd love to hear his thoughts on it!

@@OnlineArcheryAcademy I had a seminar with him last september and he advised me not to do so. I´m excited to hear about your chat with him concerning this topic.

I'm the same :)

Thanks for sharing :)

So the arrow can sit on the rest without any fear of falling off

Fair point!

For target, it's generally better to try and maintain the posture and move the arm more :) For large angles (perhaps 90m with a light bow or in field) then some movement of the body angle can help :)

You won't need a clicker yet in that case :) I'd definitely suggest registering at the soonest beginners course if you're new to the sport and haven't shot before, as there are a few safety aspects that are really important to make sure you shoot safely. In terms of finding draw length, this exercise is something good to begin with. www.esdf.org/draw-length I know joining a course at a club is unlikely with current restrictions though. I've recently also made a comprehensive beginners course on my website. courses.onlinearcheryacademy.com That might be a good starting point for you, and then when clubs reopen I would suggest taking an in-person course too :)