S3 Archery - Why Do I Miss Left? Joe from S3 Archery goes over the topic of missing left, and describes his checklist for helping with identifying the true cause of the "lefts" at that time.
great advise, i used the technique of moving my right foot back, closing my stance and have seen a lot of improvement in my shot placement. thanks and keep the videos coming they're very informative. i look forward to watching them.
Awesome video. Thanks for the tips! I personally find shot collapsing, or like you mentioned, short drawing, more often to be the culprit of left shots. Short drawing for half inch on a not so forgiving bow or even 1/4 of an inch is going to make me miss left, sometimes by a lot. Not because though of the alignment because I gap shoot (so the arrow is always aligned), but more because the bow gives less kick to the arrow and the arrow would appear stiffer for the same bow (because the draw is weaker).
These technique(s) insights are fantastic for new archers since we simply do not have the shooting experience to work out common shooting errors- thank you! The feet alignment (very much like golf) and linking with the target helped huge! I also realized the I have been over-compensating for avoiding string-slap and shots were being pulled left.. Thanks again!
That was really helpful. Thanks. I've been having this problem...big time coming from ILF recurve to traditional. Now learning to shoot a Bear 59 Kodiak. I'll go thru the check list for sure.
Thank you, thank you oh thank you !!!!! I have struggled for months trying to stop my arrows shooting left with my new american flat bow. I have sought advice from numerous good archers of many year experience to no avail. Your video did it! Changed my grip and stance and what do you know? No more shooting left. Thank you again.
New archer, this video helped more than any of the many others I watched. Tights groups but left. It was a bit of grip and canting at the hips. Thank you so much!
Great video! I actually just started shooting instinctive and a lot of my shots were left. Actually low and left so I will give these tips a try. Thnx!
Great video. I've recently got back into shooting again after many years. I have found that I am shooting left regularly (only by couple inches). I think I will take some video of myself and try some of your tips. I think I will look at my stance first, as you say I stand open but maybe need to just turn in the hips. Thanks for the pointers.
Thanks for talking about the detail regarding the tips. Most of these tips have never been mentioned by my instructor even though I have always shot to the right (left hander). I plan to review your video a few times and see if I can solve my problem.
best veido i have ever seen. i have been shooting componds fo 38 years and started trad 6 years ago and never had anyone to help me. but i cant wait to shoot tomorow to try this out. thanks my brother
Thanks for the tip. I agree with the (too) open stance. Accuracy can b achieved but you must have a solid bow arm, and #2 for me shooting with a too open of a stance can lead to shoulder impingement on your bow arm! Practice both ways for hunting scenarios but close your stance a bit more for long term shooting.
My second target, I shoot another 30 arrows with a lower score by 20-30 points. I thought the second target would be better with practice, but I was feeling fatigue. The arrows were low and left. Also, concentration is a big deal for me. I get on a roll of hitting gold and my wife interrupts with a question in the middle of a shot. Next thing I know, I'm hitting the blue zone and my mental game is finished from there. Great tips! Edit: I shoot left when I have a shallow anchor, but when I anchor deep in my face, I hit center.
Out of all the tips,the " spine angle" thing made the most sense for my shooting. I have a 45lbs samac sage recurve and a 50lbs bear montana long bow. I dont get the random left side miss with the long bow like i do with the recurve. My form seems to be my problem here because i cant my bow more than my back. Great video
These tips sound pretty useful, but you leave out one really important thing and that's arrow spine. Too flexible or too stiff of an arrow will cause accuracy problems. The factors that determine what arrow spinage you need is the draw weight of the bow at your actual draw length, and whether your bow has an arrow shelf or not and how deep the shelf is cut (for example a shoot off the hand style bow whether it be a self bow or a laminated bow needs a little more flexible of an arrow than a cut to or past center recurve bow with draw weight being equal)
Going along with the fatigue item, it isn't just the duration of the overall activity, it can also be not enough time between successive shots. I catch my self drawing arrow after arrow from my back quiver, never breaking my focus on the target. And the worse I'm shooting the faster I get to try to make that next good shot. Recently, I've started breaking focus after each shot, looking around and behind me and waiting at least one minute before the next shot. Sometimes, I'll even only shoot one arrow and then go retrieve it to allow my muscles to relax and regroup.
I'm new to archery, still in my lessons. My problem is my release, but may have to try some of the other tips like the canter of the bow. My instructor tells me my hand moves to the side a bit too much when I release instead of a straight back follow through. I'm amazed at how much the tiniest things can effect everything else. Nonetheless, I have been enjoying it, and see myself doing it for a long while. Buying my first recurve this week.
Great video. Shooting left is a problem that I have been trying to work on for some time.You have given me a few things to think about.Can't wait to get back on the range and give them a try., Thanks
Sam Ballowe Glad I could help Sam - If you try these tips, and you still cannot track down the culprit, send me a message, and we can work together to figure it out. Good luck!
Hi Joe. Thanks for the video. It's really good and covers a lot of topics. I was wondering, what effect does the brace hight have on accuracy? And in general, I'd like to see more videos covering instinctive archery topics. Keep up the good work! Regards, Dor.
Excellent tips and I struggle with this especially since I recently began shooting traditional equipment. Just as a question, what is the longbow you have in this video?
This video has two major points: focus without eyes moving from the target and focusing on something else: canting the bow with the spine angle in the same line and closing the stance a little..KUDOS
I have a problem that's crept up in my shooting, and it's not missing left. I've actually never had that problem. My problem is shooting high and right. I've tried different spines, different bows, and I seem to always hit very right and slightly high. I've adjusted stance, tried different draws. If my target would conveniently move into the path of my projectile, I'd be getting tight groups, but that never seems to happen for some reason, haha. I've been sport shooting and hunting with iron sighted rifles for years, and that was the problem I had in the beginning there too. High and right. I was surprised to be having the same problem in my transition to archery. I'm new to the sport, only a few months in. Might help to mention that I'm left handed, but since I'm right eye dominate, I feel more natural shooting bows, and long guns right handed, but I would swing a bat, or shoot a handgun left handed. Don't know if that's important information or not. If anyone could give me some advice, that'd be awesome.
great vids sub here!I need advice, I keep nipping my nose sometimes till I bleed.i since switched from 3 under middle finger corner of mouth anchor to split finger corner of mouth but still hitting .Even went from brass to tying my nock ....ugh thanks
But did you miss spine? If you think about the archers paradox, you might find this a good explanation for missing left, too. Because the arrow gets bend by the bow to the left, it doesnt flex back enough to bypass the obstacle and "rebounds" to the left.
This video was really useful. The concentrating on the target (your first point), may seem obvious but it helped me a lot. I tried blanking off the target and just using a small dot - it worked! In hind sight I guess other stuff in my head was taking priority (anchor point, grip etc.). Once concentrating on the target took priority, other thoughts are blanked out. Great video - many thanks.
I bought new arrows and tried shoot with these arrows.. 5 from 6 go to left for very far from where I`m actually aimed diameter and weight was same as all my another arrows )))) and doesn't matter how many times I shoot same arrows, they always moved much to left then I aimed )))) I took knife and cut off feathers .. without feathers it stated hit target in exactly point where I aimed.. now I`m going put new feathers on my arrows...
Dear S3, I'm fairly new to traditional archery. Everyday after school I put hours of work in my backyard shooting. And I've been doing vast researches on new techniques because I'm still trying to find a technique that works for me. Right now I'm using a 40 lbs fiberglass recurve that is God only knows how old it is. but it seems to me that it gets weaker and weaker almost on a daily basis. But my real reason why I'm writing this is to ask you a question. My question is: How do I stop my arrows from whipping up and down and left to right? I've seem to tried everything but nothing is working. Could you please help asap?
Ethan - first, welcome to traditional archery! I know you will get years and years of enjoyment out of this amazing skill. Secondly, about your arrows moving side to side and up and down, that is because your nock set is incorrect (up and down arrow movement) or the arrow is out of tune (left and right arrow movement). I made a video on Bareshaft tuning - watch this video and that should help you eliminate the issues. Cheers ~ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IGOPiriLbcM.html
recently started shooting a 55lb bear grizzly. so far so good, but when I miss i miss right. I watched your video about missing left....what about missing right. I am a right handed shooter. left hand is bow hand, right hand is used to draw. thanks.
+Alex K Alex - typically, when an experienced right-handed shooter misses, it is to the left for the reasons listed in the video. When a person misses right, typically it is one of the following reasons: 1) your head is too "over" the string, placing the nock of the arrow inside your right eye 2)You changed equipment recently (arrows or bow) and need to get acclimated to the new setup 3) the shooter is new to archery and has not learned how to aim yet Everyone misses to the right on occasion, but it is very rare that anyone misses consistently to the right shot after shot if an experienced archer. Hope that helps ~
Thank you. I'm not a new archer entirely but have recently committed to go trad only and put the compound away. I miss to the right here and there not consistently. I'll continue to work on my form and aim
+Alex K stick with it. Be sure to get a consistent anchor, and just keep shooting. It will come faster than you think. Let us know if there is anything we can do to help!
Right handed. Spine too stiff. Forces not in balance, bow arm too strong or drawing side too weak. Bad loose, don't throw out. Don't look at the left edge. You probably think too much. Learn how to create a less divergent set-up. Talk less, practice more. Expect it to go where you're looking and be careful where you look. Relax. It's not about avoiding missing. It's about hitting the mark. Think about that.
