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Good video from Don R. with coach Lee, on the B.E.S.T system.

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#1 ·
John M. Posted this video on the AT FITA forum and I thought it had lots of really good information and visuals.
Since we are always getting form questions that can be difficult to answer in type alone I thought this video was worth posting here on TT as it does a great job of showing and explaining the mechanicals involved with archery and the body.



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#3 ·
Sure thing Joe, I know you understand more about biomechanics then many archers who don't cross over to the weightlifting, cross training side, so thought the video might be beneficial or at least educational for some new and old archers alike.
I hardly ever see trad archers pre drawing, yet the video does a good job of explaining the importance as well as offering a visual of the muscle movement and how it effects correct alignment. Such a simple thing, but it's obviously often missed and easily overlooked.
Again, just thought it was a well done and worth sharing.

Thanks,
GB





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#11 ·
That explains his unusual twist in his draw. I think the author marked the picture backwards though as his bow is clearly pointed to left of target pre draw and being right handed the bow turns from left to right during his alignment. :)
 
#15 ·
I tried the movement in that latter video. Part of it seemed to be mainly to keep the bowsight, stabilizers and sideways bow hand out of the line of sight. Well, I don't use any of those, so I did not need that. What I did find useful was raising both hands up to nose height during the draw. Coach Lee's earlier writing advocated a low draw to engage large back muscles. I found this newer method he has advocated for a year or so places the string side elbow higher than the final position so that during the draw it moves downward as well as back and around. This is somewhat like the elbow movement of Japanese traditional Yumi archery where the draw starts very high, above the head, and moves far down and behind the head.

The first time I tried the nose high draw I was at 20 yards and my arrows went six inches high!! What is up with that?? Well, it was winter and I had been shooting at short range. My draw had become too short.

This has happened to me in other winters, shooting at 20 yards trying to hang with the university team shooting my longbow against their Olympic rigs. (I can sometimes catch one of them with my bare recurve shot instinctively, but with the longbow it is harder.) One day after a couple of weeks of this I stepped over to the 50 yard target and shot my first arrow into the dirt. My draw had gotten short.

The point of this meandering missive is that the nose high draw helps get the scapula and thus the elbow and all connected to it, into the right position.

I don't do it all the time, but I do it now and then to help me find the feel of correct scapula position. After a several week layoff due to foul weather I used it while warming up last Sunday. Afterwards I was able hit some x rings and 5 spots now and then out to 40 yards despite being out of practice. So, I think the nose high draw is a good training aid and might help some of us all the time. - lbg
 
#17 ·
Great video.

Reminds me of a guy with a self bow that was in a group ahead of my wife and I.(true story)
He bent into a forward squat with a touch of scoliosis and began to lightly bounce from one foot to the other as if he was going to lob the whole bow at the target.
He must of been visualizing throwing a basketball..
I don't have rythm so I use a method.
Good stuff here.
 
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