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As someone who is a professional instructional designer (for 25 years or so), I can comment that this is one of the best instructional videos I have ever seen. Brilliant use of the technology to achieve the desired outcomes. Perfect.
I started archery a year ago and I always wondered: How do I aim? I searched for a guide that shows, what the archer sees, when he aims. And how to. Your guide shows exactly that and I love it! I tried that technique just after watching your video. A few adjustments to my scope and the result was amazing. I would like to say: 100 x Thank you for this guide!!! 🥰
That is the most succinct and informative instructional video I have ever seen on yt. Excellent instruction, no repetition or "um's" and "er's" , or waffling or showboating from a love of one's own voice. And the graphics are spot on also. All in all very professional.
Please make a video about aiming without a pin sight! I loved everything about this one - the clear instructions, helpful animations, and proven approach.. Hoping you have vid just like this for instinctive aiming.
Thankyou so much sir, I`m a disabled old Dad, and i bought a couple of bows a few years ago to have something affordable to spend my time. I had a guy come out to teach me said he knew how to shoot a bow, i quickly learned he was wrong so i tried in vain to find a video on archery, even went to sports stores and asked to no avail, so i gave up. Recently i learned how to work a computer a bit and this is so nice to see. I brought my bows out and in a bit im going to try again
Had the bow set up at a pro shop. It performed just fine ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxQEKUoxLWwayEDZR0NKB-5limn4MBU-2L . And I would say this is a good starting now that I could pass down to my son when he is older.But the package was missing the release and a nock was missing from one arrow.Dealing with customer support was terrible. They suggested I buy a new release rather than correct their own quality control issue because it’s to expensive for the. to ship it out from China.Update: manufacturer got back to me and resolved the issue. I retract the above statement.
I was sent a link to this video from a barebow FB group... If I understood it correctly, replace your tip of the arrow with the pin sight in this video and you should have an idea :)
Yeah, I thought this was going to be an instructional video on instinctive shooting. For hunting, If i'm gonna use sights, it'll be a compound, crossbow or rifle. For target shooting, unless the goal is to kill an animal or in battle, it's basically for vanity.
How to properly aim a recurve bow, ditch the sight pins, aim like you're pointing your finger at the target and keep both eyes open. Half a second hesitation at anchor and release...
I must confess, growing up in archery in the late 60’s and through the mid 70’s I have never heard of any of this. We shot in the TAA, Tennessee Archery Association, My mom won multiple State championship tournaments. Her and Dad won many State club tournaments. Competitor’s from across the state, different tournaments every weekend, lasting friendships. You guys remember to have fun and don’t be so serious, you’ll enjoy it a lot more.
Thank you for this video! I am a retired mechanical engineer and have only started shooting the last two years. I was shooting, concentrating on the target and my set position, but ignoring the alignment of the bow string... just as you have pointed out! I saw your video last night and couldn't wait to get to the range this morning. After my first group of arrows, the results were striking and consistent! What a great tip! Thanks Again.
I watched this when I first started shooting about 3 months ago. Didn't mean much to me. Now, however, with more experience and current trouble aiming and deciding where to align the string, this video is super helpful. Thank you!
I've been shooting for years and I've always closed one eye. (Like you said in the tutorial, "nobody ever told me",) Within one hour of practice your tips have made an immediate improvement. Remarkable! Thank you.
Just started learning about archery. Have seen many videos but this was the first video that talked about shooting with both eyes open and makes since! Excellent video!!
This is the most useful video I found about archery after many hours looking for, thank you! Extremely well guided and commented, thank you for the amazing work!
As a rifle shooter, i can appreciate the amount of variables an archer has to deal with : The daylight, the wind, not to mention the wear on the muscles after each shot.
I've been having issues with my aiming since I got my new bow and sight, hopefully, with a clear head and those points, I'll get some on my struggles fixed. Thank you !
When I was shooting Portsmouth's and scoring around 520 I started to have eye dominance issues, my left eye started to take over. So about six months ago I started closing the left eye. Slowly I improved, a point or two at a time, still with that eye closed, last week shooting a PB of 543. Went shooting today and someone showed me this video. Immediately shot a 555 Portsmouth with both eyes open and added 12 onto my PB, this biggest jump since I started scoring over 500. Thanks!
I've started shooting with my recurve a little under two months ago. Before watching this video my grouping was twenty-five inches at twenty yards. After watching this video my grouping is at twelve inches at twenty yards consistently. Anyone watching this should use the information; I believe it'll improve grouping. Thank you very much ArcheryWinchester.
That is nice information to know and I have to remember that information for when I get my bow and train aiming my arrow according to how they land after shooting the bow a few times and adjusting my aim until it is where I want it.
Thank you. I try to be respectful, but still get my point across. I recognize that it any one technique won't always work for everyone, but I try to give a well founded point that others can consider and learn from, even if they don't use it.
Thank you for this. No one at my club has pointed out that one of my eyes is always closed and therefore hindering me (to be fair, people don't stand in front of me when I shoot). I always just found it less confusing and more comfortable with the one eye, but now I see I obviously need to get a little uncomfortable and let my second eye join the fun! I'm genuinely a bit mind blown that human eyes have evolved to be such a great tool for aiming. (and sad I haven't used it to my advantage)
I have no intention of either competing or hunting yet I found this video extremely helpful. For what you might ask? To increase my pleasure when striving to make smaller and smaller groups. Thank-you John@Winchester.
I'm glad you liked the video. This is exactly why I made the video, because people often neglect certain things and we just assume everyone 'picks it up'. Unfortunately, some things just get missed. Than you again.
Excellent, been watching lots of tuto and this may be the very best one. Especially the string alignement, which my bow sensei mentioned yesterday and haven't seen mentioned on other vids
Thank You. I’m an absolute beginner and just bought my first bow and arrows from a reputable dealer. I definitely think they gave me some fine instruction with my purchase, but this is very helpful for me as I’m left eye dominate, yet right handed. I’ll simply start with both of my eyes open and learn from there how to target.
I'm left handed and right eye dominant. I just shoot right handed. Left was immediately more comfortable for me but I learnt to shoot right handed instead and I improved.
Where was this video before! It just popped up first in my suggestions, and I didn't check archery videos for weeks. Precious info! Thanks! ...and kudos to the Algorithm.
I m Deaf myself, I m not very good with aims until i found one i actually shoot by using my both eyes looking at targets assuming its an instinctively shooting but never knew and learned something with this video i ll try it with this one thank you for sharing👌!
Great video I'm left eye dominant. I write and eat and other things lefty. But I shoot throw a ball righty. My Drill sergeant pick up on it when he saw me leaning over the rifle. He saved my career. I spent 30 years 20 years in the Ranger regiment. That's how I learned how to shoot with both eyes open.. Thanks.and when not deployed I always found time for archery.
Thank you so much for this video, you have helped me understand what I, am doing wrong, you explained it in such a way that it was simple to understand completely what your explaining. I, am so glad I found your advice thank you again
I'm part time shooter for around 2 years. There are many valuable tips here for me that I was never aware of. Thank you for a very helpfull and clear video.
Thank you very much for making & posting this video. I am not a club archer, just a backyard hack with a sports store recurve bow(Geologic Intech if you know it). It has sights & a plunger button but I wouldn't dare walk into a serious archery club with it. After weeks & months of no improvement, randomly landing arrows anywhere within the blue ring I was getting frustrated & about to give it up as a bad joke. However, doing everything you said in your video, within a couple of hours, I now consistently land them into the gold. I now am enjoying the challenge of improving further, maybe landing them all in the 10 ring, who knows? I just wanted you to know you made a difference to someone with your video. Thanks again - Andrew
Sir, thank for a great video. I love doing archery and I want to improve my performance. I found your video extremely interesting, and I will try to apply this tomorrow when I go to my archery club. I will update then on the results.
All so true. Fine instruction. Much same in bullseye 1 hand pistol target competition. But i lost most vision in left eye, not my dominent eye- especially now. Central gone. So back to one eye for me in all shooting by pistol or bow. Karl
Hi, thanks for the prompt reply, very impressed. I’m very strongly left eye dominate. The problem is I can shoot left handed. It doesn’t feel intuitive though. My coach from my old club advised me to buy right handed gear and close the left eye or use a patch. Definitely, closing the eye is hit and miss, often I forget. Also, I find I’m Concentrating on remembering to keep the eye closed, and not on the shot. With both eyes open I shoot consistently a foot to the left on the target.
It sounds like you are strongly biased with both your hand and your eye, and they conflict. That's a tricky situation. My general approach is to start a student with hand dominance, and only in the case of a strongly biased eye dominance, do I switch them to the alternate hand and let eye dominance be the decider. You have tried this and, apparently, it feels very unnatural. This indicates that you are strongly biased to your dominant hand also. I have two suggestions. One follows your eye dominance and the other follows your hand dominance. EYE DOINANCE - Cross eye dominant shooters using dominant eye end up pulling the bow back with the less dominant hand. There is an advantage, however. These archers end up holding their bow out front with their strongest and most coordinated hand. That can be a powerful advantage... if you base your mental process around that thought. It will require that you develop a thought process that is different. I have used this technique before with archers and it has worked very well. I suggest a sport like air pistol as a training aid. With air pistol, you will hold the pistol out with just your right hand, and, by turning it ever so slightly, you can use your left eye just as easily. If you ever shot rubber bands, as a kid, with your hand as a finger pistol, I trust this is what you did. These are one handed activities but they get you used to the idea. Focus upon the advantage, not the disadvantage. Then, using this concept, develop a mental procedure that builds upon this idea. For instance, rather than thinking - bring bow up - draw hand back - anchor - etc... think - bring bow up , and set my strongest arm solid - draw back, while keeping my arm solid and firm - etc. This becomes, what we would call in the engineering world, a software modification. It will take some thought to change your mental game, but you will benefit in two ways. First, you will solve your cross-dominance problem, and second, you will develop a rock solid mental procedure. HAND DOMINANCE - I have an idea here which saw a cross-dominant archer use once, and he shot very well with it. This technique works best if you are only shooting at 1 or 2 distances. Thus it can be used by an archer who shoots only indoor, or who shoots indoor and a 70 meters outdoor, but it would be very tricky for an archer who shoots 3D, or other multiple distance events. You'll have to make your own pin, with a very long threaded rod - 2-3 inches longer than the normal., or you will have to attach an additional length of threaded rod to your existing sight pin. All of the parts to do this can be found at Ace Hardware. With your long sight pin, you set it into your sight with the sight pin about 1-2 inches farther out than normal. Now you have a sight pin that, while holding the bow as a right hander, you can aim with your left eye. The shooter I saw using this technique only shot at indoor distances (18 m) and he was quite good. It is a bit unconventional, but it works. However, I'm sure you can see how, at varying distances, it requires lateral as well as vertical adjustments, and is therefor, less than optimal. Hopefully, I have given you some ideas to work with. If I had you here in front of me we could probably come up with more and would be able to tailor it specifically to you. But these general ideas can give you a good direction. Think them over and give them a try. Let me know which one you settle upon. If you want to take this to my website email so we can discuss it in even more detail, contact me at: John@QWrcheryWinchester.com
Great video. I have a watched a few of your videos and they always seem to have little nuggets of information that are either missed or assumed in the instructional books i read or by some coaches. The bit about the changing of lighting both artificial and natural causing apparent movement in the string picture. Even if you figure out what is happening it causes a delay in your shot process which inevitably leads to poor shots. The fact I can now be prepared for that is great. The tip of moving the string picture to counter left or rights on the barebow is something that is actually obvious when you think about it but i ve never seen being taught anywhere. Keep up the good work! And thanks.
thanks for your video. I started last september (twice a week with coach) and practice at home. now I played with both eyes and I know why my arrow were all time on right (I'm left handed) I didn 't know about the alignment of the bow string... just as you have pointed out! thanks a lot Master
Great information thank you. I thought I knew everything there was to learn but nope always keypad learning. Thank you so much for explaing these tips. peace
Thank you very much. Now I know why I can shoot good groupings while on form shooting and having trouble during target shooting. I change my focus from target to the pin then I can't see my target clearly and started to panic.
As someone who is a professional instructional designer (for 25 years or so), I can comment that this is one of the best instructional videos I have ever seen. Brilliant use of the technology to achieve the desired outcomes. Perfect.
Probably the most important lesson here is never to assume someone knows something without either asking them or telling them. Great video.
"It shows the power of the mind to ignore what it doesn't want to deal with." This applies with SO much more than archery. Brilliant remark.
I started archery a year ago and I always wondered: How do I aim? I searched for a guide that shows, what the archer sees, when he aims. And how to. Your guide shows exactly that and I love it! I tried that technique just after watching your video. A few adjustments to my scope and the result was amazing.
I would like to say: 100 x Thank you for this guide!!! 🥰
That is the most succinct and informative instructional video I have ever seen on yt. Excellent instruction, no repetition or "um's" and "er's" , or waffling or showboating from a love of one's own voice. And the graphics are spot on also. All in all very professional.
Can't believe I had been ignoring string alignment this whole time... Thank you.
@@shootmcrunfast my anchor point from where I used to be was further back than my eyes if I recall correctly I wouldn't even see the string
Please make a video about aiming without a pin sight! I loved everything about this one - the clear instructions, helpful animations, and proven approach.. Hoping you have vid just like this for instinctive aiming.
I've been shooting for years and never noticed the string alignment. Great tip! Thanks!
i shoot traditional without a sight. lol. but the concept still apples
String knock setting
Thank you so much coach. This is by far the best tutorial among the tons of videos I have seen until now
Thankyou so much sir, I`m a disabled old Dad, and i bought a couple of bows a few years ago to have something affordable to spend my time. I had a guy come out to teach me said he knew how to shoot a bow, i quickly learned he was wrong so i tried in vain to find a video on archery, even went to sports stores and asked to no avail, so i gave up. Recently i learned how to work a computer a bit and this is so nice to see. I brought my bows out and in a bit im going to try again
Had the bow set up at a pro shop. It performed just fine ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxQEKUoxLWwayEDZR0NKB-5limn4MBU-2L . And I would say this is a good starting now that I could pass down to my son when he is older.But the package was missing the release and a nock was missing from one arrow.Dealing with customer support was terrible. They suggested I buy a new release rather than correct their own quality control issue because it’s to expensive for the. to ship it out from China.Update: manufacturer got back to me and resolved the issue. I retract the above statement.
Was looking for tips on how to aim a recurve bow. I got a how to use a pin sight.
Starwars is Dead Yea, I don't use sights so this was kinda useless
I was sent a link to this video from a barebow FB group...
If I understood it correctly, replace your tip of the arrow with the pin sight in this video and you should have an idea :)
Yeah, I thought this was going to be an instructional video on instinctive shooting. For hunting, If i'm gonna use sights, it'll be a compound, crossbow or rifle. For target shooting, unless the goal is to kill an animal or in battle, it's basically for vanity.
How to properly aim a recurve bow, ditch the sight pins, aim like you're pointing your finger at the target and keep both eyes open. Half a second hesitation at anchor and release...
@@ScottWConvid19 Wow listen to you! You must be such fun.
I must confess, growing up in archery in the late 60’s and through the mid 70’s I have never heard of any of this. We shot in the TAA, Tennessee Archery Association, My mom won multiple State championship tournaments. Her and Dad won many State club tournaments. Competitor’s from across the state, different tournaments every weekend, lasting friendships. You guys remember to have fun and don’t be so serious, you’ll enjoy it a lot more.
Thank you for this video! I am a retired mechanical engineer and have only started shooting the last two years. I was shooting, concentrating on the target and my set position, but ignoring the alignment of the bow string... just as you have pointed out! I saw your video last night and couldn't wait to get to the range this morning. After my first group of arrows, the results were striking and consistent! What a great tip! Thanks Again.
I watched this when I first started shooting about 3 months ago. Didn't mean much to me. Now, however, with more experience and current trouble aiming and deciding where to align the string, this video is super helpful. Thank you!
I've been shooting for years and I've always closed one eye. (Like you said in the tutorial, "nobody ever told me",)
Within one hour of practice your tips have made an immediate improvement.
Remarkable!
Thank you.
Same here. During my regional competition years, I always closed one eye. I was taught to do it like that.
Thank you thank you. As someone who is just getting into this sport, I found all of your advice extremely helpful.
Just started learning about archery. Have seen many videos but this was the first video that talked about shooting with both eyes open and makes since! Excellent video!!
So far, this is the best instructional video I have ever found. Thank yo sir
Maybe the best aiming tutorial up to date!
I have been shooting my Compound bow for a while and bought a Recurve to use as a more traditional bow, and this helps me a ton, thank you.
thar was the most useful teaching iv ever had in archery!!!!! thank you
I’ve been shooting a compound bow for 25 years and I think I just learned a couple things that will make me a better shot.
I'm glad to hear it.
Thank you a lot!!! It took me about 20 videos on "aming topics" before you were the first, who startet from the really basics on aming.
Thank you
This is the most useful video I found about archery after many hours looking for, thank you! Extremely well guided and commented, thank you for the amazing work!
As a rifle shooter, i can appreciate the amount of variables an archer has to deal with :
The daylight, the wind, not to mention the wear on the muscles after each shot.
Thank you for making this video! I used to aim with only my right eye, because I thought it was logical. But your video really cleared things up!
Those graphics are clever. Still the best on youtube to date. Thanks for the effort in producing this.
Iv always aimed with my left eye closed
I'm definitely doing this Saturday when I go to practice!
Thanks for the tips!
WOW
What a clear explanation! Great images, helped me realize a lot of things about aiming!
I'm glad you found my video helpful.
I shoot barebow and am glad you talked about string alignment. This is something to which I will have to pay attention to improve my consistency.
I've been having issues with my aiming since I got my new bow and sight, hopefully, with a clear head and those points, I'll get some on my struggles fixed. Thank you !
This is the most important video I’ve watched since I began archery. I wish I watched this video even before I ordered my Bow. Thank you!!!
Best beginner guide that most other video didn’t cover. Many thanks
My goodness this was a gem! I just started archery yesterday and been watching a lot of videos. This one helped the most 👏🏽
When I was shooting Portsmouth's and scoring around 520 I started to have eye dominance issues, my left eye started to take over. So about six months ago I started closing the left eye.
Slowly I improved, a point or two at a time, still with that eye closed, last week shooting a PB of 543.
Went shooting today and someone showed me this video. Immediately shot a 555 Portsmouth with both eyes open and added 12 onto my PB, this biggest jump since I started scoring over 500.
Thanks!
Great video, love the animations and how concise this was put together, massive help to any budding archer!
GREAT visuals and explanation. Thank you!!
This tutorial was excellent!,,And invaluable..Thank you!
I've started shooting with my recurve a little under two months ago. Before watching this video my grouping was twenty-five inches at twenty yards. After watching this video my grouping is at twelve inches at twenty yards consistently. Anyone watching this should use the information; I believe it'll improve grouping. Thank you very much ArcheryWinchester.
Thank you. Just started using sight and will use your tips. Never knew which eye to close xx
What a difference! In one day I improved my cluster at 20 meters hugely. I had no idea until this video.
Excellent explanation, thank you. A very good reminder, after not shooting competitively for a few years. I was forgetting to alight the bow string
Amazing tutorial. I wish I had such explanations few years back when I was doing archery.
Excellent video. Great instructions given in a very understandable way. Great job.
That is nice information to know and I have to remember that information for when I get my bow and train aiming my arrow according to how they land after shooting the bow a few times and adjusting my aim until it is where I want it.
well explained,,I'm starting out. THANK YOU for the great info
Great video!! Thank you!! I really appreciate how classy you are when you reply to others who have contrary views.
Thank you. I try to be respectful, but still get my point across. I recognize that it any one technique won't always work for everyone, but I try to give a well founded point that others can consider and learn from, even if they don't use it.
Thank you for this. No one at my club has pointed out that one of my eyes is always closed and therefore hindering me (to be fair, people don't stand in front of me when I shoot). I always just found it less confusing and more comfortable with the one eye, but now I see I obviously need to get a little uncomfortable and let my second eye join the fun!
I'm genuinely a bit mind blown that human eyes have evolved to be such a great tool for aiming. (and sad I haven't used it to my advantage)
I have no intention of either competing or hunting yet I found this video extremely helpful. For what you might ask? To increase my pleasure when striving to make smaller and smaller groups. Thank-you John@Winchester.
I am a beginner shooting trad/instinctive and even so your tips give me insights on how to see the target. Thanks very much!
Great! Am about to start up again with traditional this helps a lot.
This is a great, wonderful tutorial! All the steps my instructor missed and nobody tell you. THANK YOU!
I'm glad you liked the video. This is exactly why I made the video, because people often neglect certain things and we just assume everyone 'picks it up'. Unfortunately, some things just get missed. Than you again.
Excellent, been watching lots of tuto and this may be the very best one. Especially the string alignement, which my bow sensei mentioned yesterday and haven't seen mentioned on other vids
Hey, I actually learned about how lighting effects the string as well as a little about string alignment and why to aim with both eyes.
Quite short and extremely useful info. Thank's a lot!
What a well produced and insightful video. I don't even do archery and yet I've learned so much in under 7 minutes haha
This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!
Thank you sir for this amazingly helpful tutorial !
40 years ago we used a string pinhole so the string always setup in the same position. Thanks for the video.
Thank You. I’m an absolute beginner and just bought my first bow and arrows from a reputable dealer. I definitely think they gave me some fine instruction with my purchase, but this is very helpful for me as I’m left eye dominate, yet right handed. I’ll simply start with both of my eyes open and learn from there how to target.
I'm left handed and right eye dominant. I just shoot right handed. Left was immediately more comfortable for me but I learnt to shoot right handed instead and I improved.
Where was this video before! It just popped up first in my suggestions, and I didn't check archery videos for weeks.
Precious info! Thanks! ...and kudos to the Algorithm.
I'm glad you liked the video. Please subscribe and you will see when my new videos come up.
I m Deaf myself, I m not very good with aims until i found one i actually shoot by using my both eyes looking at targets assuming its an instinctively shooting but never knew and learned something with this video i ll try it with this one thank you for sharing👌!
Great video I'm left eye dominant. I write and eat and other things lefty. But I shoot throw a ball righty.
My Drill sergeant pick up on it when he saw me leaning over the rifle. He saved my career. I spent 30 years 20 years in the Ranger regiment. That's how I learned how to shoot with both eyes open.. Thanks.and when not deployed I always found time for archery.
I shoot with both eyes closed
hahahahahaha
Please teach me this technique!!!
😜
😂😂
For some of my students, it could only cause an improvement :o) :)
Thank you so much for this video, you have helped me understand what I, am doing wrong, you explained it in such a way that it was simple to understand completely what your explaining. I, am so glad I found your advice thank you again
Brand new to the sport, great info, thanks, the visuals really helped, and could have used a lot of the same info when i got into rifles
Awesome video. Help me improve my shooting. Thank you. Hope you make more.
Thank you, I’m going to try these tips.
This video is gold. Thank you so much for sharing
Thank you for this video. Putting this to practice tonight!
This is the best and independent about aiming. Thank you.
Wow, this video has amazing information!! Glad I checked it out now rather than later... Thanks for posting it!
Thank you for your comment. I'm glad the video was helpful.
I'm part time shooter for around 2 years. There are many valuable tips here for me that I was never aware of. Thank you for a very helpfull and clear video.
Brilliant. We are starting our tuition course Saturday and I shall use all the tips here; very well explained.
I have not shot an arrow yet but that video was a great lesson, clear and precise. Thank you.
Beautifully presented and explained. Superb, thank you.
Awesome. You put In a lot of effort making this video. Appreciate it
beautiful demonstration of sight, congrats!
Thank you. It's good to know that my efforts are appreciated.
Thank you very much for making & posting this video. I am not a club archer, just a backyard hack with a sports store recurve bow(Geologic Intech if you know it). It has sights & a plunger button but I wouldn't dare walk into a serious archery club with it. After weeks & months of no improvement, randomly landing arrows anywhere within the blue ring I was getting frustrated & about to give it up as a bad joke. However, doing everything you said in your video, within a couple of hours, I now consistently land them into the gold. I now am enjoying the challenge of improving further, maybe landing them all in the 10 ring, who knows? I just wanted you to know you made a difference to someone with your video. Thanks again - Andrew
Just picked up a longbow, far different than my compound. These tips helped greatly in learning my trad bow, and I’m sure useful with compound. Thanks
Thanks for the encouraging comment. Good luck with the longbow. It's a lot of fun shooting traditional and barebow.
This is why compound is so nice..but agree more skill is needed for the recurve/longbow
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2:05 That's interesting since I have been told to focus on the ironsights and make them align with the target in rifle shooting.
thank you. i'm going to go try these techniques right now...
Sir, thank for a great video. I love doing archery and I want to improve my performance. I found your video extremely interesting, and I will try to apply this tomorrow when I go to my archery club. I will update then on the results.
thanks for this video!😎 hopefully it will help me improve in bare bow archery! God bless you!
All so true. Fine instruction. Much same in bullseye 1 hand pistol target competition. But i lost most vision in left eye, not my dominent eye- especially now. Central gone. So back to one eye for me in all shooting by pistol or bow. Karl
Thank you, great advice that makes a whole lotta sense. Cheers!
Thank you .
Thank you. I start my archery journey today aged 50!
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Beautifully explained. Thanks.
This has helped my consistency with compound
Hi, thanks for the prompt reply, very impressed. I’m very strongly left eye dominate. The problem is I can shoot left handed. It doesn’t feel intuitive though. My coach from my old club advised me to buy right handed gear and close the left eye or use a patch. Definitely, closing the eye is hit and miss, often I forget. Also, I find I’m Concentrating on remembering to keep the eye closed, and not on the shot. With both eyes open I shoot consistently a foot to the left on the target.
It sounds like you are strongly biased with both your hand and your eye, and they conflict. That's a tricky situation.
My general approach is to start a student with hand dominance, and only in the case of a strongly biased eye dominance, do I switch them to the alternate hand and let eye dominance be the decider. You have tried this and, apparently, it feels very unnatural. This indicates that you are strongly biased to your dominant hand also.
I have two suggestions. One follows your eye dominance and the other follows your hand dominance.
EYE DOINANCE - Cross eye dominant shooters using dominant eye end up pulling the bow back with the less dominant hand. There is an advantage, however. These archers end up holding their bow out front with their strongest and most coordinated hand. That can be a powerful advantage... if you base your mental process around that thought. It will require that you develop a thought process that is different. I have used this technique before with archers and it has worked very well. I suggest a sport like air pistol as a training aid. With air pistol, you will hold the pistol out with just your right hand, and, by turning it ever so slightly, you can use your left eye just as easily. If you ever shot rubber bands, as a kid, with your hand as a finger pistol, I trust this is what you did. These are one handed activities but they get you used to the idea. Focus upon the advantage, not the disadvantage.
Then, using this concept, develop a mental procedure that builds upon this idea. For instance, rather than thinking - bring bow up - draw hand back - anchor - etc... think - bring bow up , and set my strongest arm solid - draw back, while keeping my arm solid and firm - etc.
This becomes, what we would call in the engineering world, a software modification. It will take some thought to change your mental game, but you will benefit in two ways. First, you will solve your cross-dominance problem, and second, you will develop a rock solid mental procedure.
HAND DOMINANCE - I have an idea here which saw a cross-dominant archer use once, and he shot very well with it. This technique works best if you are only shooting at 1 or 2 distances. Thus it can be used by an archer who shoots only indoor, or who shoots indoor and a 70 meters outdoor, but it would be very tricky for an archer who shoots 3D, or other multiple distance events.
You'll have to make your own pin, with a very long threaded rod - 2-3 inches longer than the normal., or you will have to attach an additional length of threaded rod to your existing sight pin. All of the parts to do this can be found at Ace Hardware.
With your long sight pin, you set it into your sight with the sight pin about 1-2 inches farther out than normal. Now you have a sight pin that, while holding the bow as a right hander, you can aim with your left eye.
The shooter I saw using this technique only shot at indoor distances (18 m) and he was quite good. It is a bit unconventional, but it works. However, I'm sure you can see how, at varying distances, it requires lateral as well as vertical adjustments, and is therefor, less than optimal.
Hopefully, I have given you some ideas to work with. If I had you here in front of me we could probably come up with more and would be able to tailor it specifically to you. But these general ideas can give you a good direction. Think them over and give them a try. Let me know which one you settle upon.
If you want to take this to my website email so we can discuss it in even more detail, contact me at:
John@QWrcheryWinchester.com
Thank you very much for this movie.
Great video. I have a watched a few of your videos and they always seem to have little nuggets of information that are either missed or assumed in the instructional books i read or by some coaches. The bit about the changing of lighting both artificial and natural causing apparent movement in the string picture. Even if you figure out what is happening it causes a delay in your shot process which inevitably leads to poor shots. The fact I can now be prepared for that is great. The tip of moving the string picture to counter left or rights on the barebow is something that is actually obvious when you think about it but i ve never seen being taught anywhere. Keep up the good work! And thanks.
Thank you. I'm glad my videos have been helpful. let me know if you have any ideas for future videos.
thanks for your video. I started last september (twice a week with coach) and practice at home. now I played with both eyes and I know why my arrow were all time on right (I'm left handed) I didn 't know about the alignment of the bow string... just as you have pointed out! thanks a lot Master
This was very eye opening
Great information thank you. I thought I knew everything there was to learn but nope always keypad learning. Thank you so much for explaing these tips. peace
I'm glad you liked the video. Thanks for your kind comment.
Thank you very much. Now I know why I can shoot good groupings while on form shooting and having trouble during target shooting. I change my focus from target to the pin then I can't see my target clearly and started to panic.
This man just blew my mind
I'm new to the sport so this was a useful tutorial