Some Archery Tips & Answering Viewer's Questions 

There are 2 reasons to nocking high: 1) they don't know what they are doing. 2) poor bow hand technique, pushing the bottom of the grip, which result in the nock diving and crashing into the hand, so the nock high is a workaround at the expense of damaging the bow. High nock results in top limb overloading and the bottom limb underloading. Nock height is not something you set based on shooting distance. Nock height is based on making both limb contribute equally so that the arrow launches perfectly straight with maximum efficiency. I have the YMG Hwarang and it shoots just like any normal bow. No need for high nock.

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True. But if you have it around, it works 😂 I used sports tape but wanted to find something better. Thanks for the video, bro! I always appreciate insight like this. Hope you are doing well!

No, I don't have any interest in a warbow. Higher poundage don't really improve arrow speed. In fact, excessively high poundage have decreased efficiency. In this region, it used to be that majority of male archers seek high poundage but over the years, almost everyone realized there's just no benefit to that. Nowadays, everyone here goes for 30-40# which are the sweet spot. Only in western countries that I still get the higher poundage requests.

@@bambooarchery Interesting. Lets say you have Arrow A at 350 grains from non-war bow shooting 180 fps vs Arrow B from a war bow going the same speed but with a 1000 grain arrow; Would the heavier arrow be less prone to wind resistance and be more consistent? I'm sure no one has to go extreme and pull medieval but they could pull 50-70 pounds to get the advantage to move a heavier arrow.

@@JonWickkk-cn1iv the heavy arrow is not necessarily more resistant to wind. To get the arrow heavier, you used a bigger diameter shaft, which has more drag and more surface area to catch the wind. Additionally, to control such arrow weight, you also needed more fletching which also increases your drag and wind drift significantly. To make it even more complicated, you are struggling for control of the bow and burning through stamina rapidly. That's why high poundage bow often result in poor accuracy and consistency. The key to reducing drag and wind drift is not arrow weight, but arrow diameter and fletching size. By shrinking down, you can increase the density of the arrow and make it more wind resistant. If you simply size up, you are only increasing weight, but not density.

@@bambooarchery I guess that is what you meant by decrease efficiency

@@JonWickkk-cn1iv not only that, but the bow itself too. For the same reason why an ant can carry 50 times its own weight, but humans can't. When you scale up, the material characteristics itself didn't get scaled, you simply use more of it. So when poundage goes higher, the material itself doesn't become stronger, just more material is used and the material is stressed more. But the limitations of the material such as strength and strain limit remains unchanged. At some point, you cannot just scale up the poundage without thickening the limb's laminate layer or siyah wood significantly. When that happens the increase in bow's limb mass is more than the increase in bow poundage, reducing the power to mass ratio, thus losing some efficiency.