Please establish a tenouchi grip on the stave hand pad. Your going to need to push much harder to the target with the bow holding hand. Harder than you might first imagine. Perhaps a yugaki glove [ or facsimile ] for the string hold would help. Tenouchi is much like the eagle claw grip for the yahar. The forward push is most important in connection with tenouchi. A yugaki will help with string twist leverage as the arrow is pulled near the cheek at the corner of the mouth. Your very good form: shoulders down and elbow back promotes shot to shot stability. Living in Georgia there is no problem with humidity I surmise. Laminated yumi suffer from dehydration which can lead to catastrophic delamination. On a personal note my yahar shooting has greatly improved from studying your excellent video content :).
awesome info. thank you. also thanks for the kind words. yes, i realize eagle claw has similar feeling with Yumi grip. even more - a lot extreme level on Yumi bow for sure. it's such a different feeling now i want to try more. again, thanks for the good info. ^_^
You have to do Yugaeri to not feel the shock. Basically you hold the bow at a slight angle before drawing, then when you draw you create torque in your bow hand, then on release you quickly open and close your hand you use that torque and the shock itself to spin the bow 180, this prevents your wrist being slapped and you don't really feel the shock. This is why you have that wrapping above the handle, because when you open the hand, the bow slips down and you grab that second wrapping.
What you describe here, is rather “yugaeshi”, a fake yugaeri. You are not supposed to open and close the bow hand at all and the bow is not supposed to drop in the hand, or just minimally.
Modern kyudo seems highly formal/ritualised. I wonder if the same emphasis was placed on this during its use as a weapon. In videos I've seen demonstrating battlefield archery (Koshiya Kumiyumi) there seems to be less or no spinning of the bow. Although admittedly I believe such demonstrations are themselves reconstructions of techniques that have been re-discovered and may also be more systematised than historical archery may have been.
@@anachronisticonI highly doubt so, Kyudo seems like a form of Kata for archery. If youre in the battlefield no one has the time to think about all these technicality. Its not efficient for the bows to be spinning cause that will slow dowm the nocking process.
That looks really fun! I couldn’t trust myself to string one of these, if I shot it I’d have to double check it reaches my draw length. I am 6ft 3”, but it probably would though being the longest type of bow in the world. I do shoot around that poundage, but I need thumb rings. I can only get away with shooting around half that poundage with no glove or thumb support. Driving it there in a small car must be a nightmare though lol
Stringing the bow isn't hard. Usually there is a notched piece off wood affixed on the wall that you put the tip into. You can even use another person's hands or they make rubber stoppers. The proper way to shoot a traditional yumi requires a special glove (kake). Yumi come in different sizes depending on the length of the arrows you use. Most readily available arrows tend to be long (33~41in).
8:48 lol~ I've always wanted to shoot one of these bows! But, as a very lazy and clumsy person, I would be so scared of owning one since, price aside, I've read that like with the Korean gakgung, that if such is made entirely from natural materials, it requires careful handling and expert maintenance every now and then to keep its shape. Did you guys eventually use the kyudo gloves, and if so, how do they compare to your thumb ring?
As an Englishman I'm afraid I must agree, but then our family own a WW2 katana. My grandad acquired it whilst "on holiday" in Burma. Rabid nationalism doesn't get far very far these days. ;)
