Yes we cant! My first motive for canting is view clearance and eye alignment. That's how I set up my form for instinctive shooting. Now I see there is more to it. Nice.
Trevor - I'm an Osteopath in Scotland 🏴 Why do we naturally Cant a Bow ? It's Biomechanics - if you hold your arm out to your front, as you do when drawing your Bow, your hand will naturally be at an angle between 25 and 35 degrees to vertical. It's at the natural, neutral position, everything is relaxed. If you hold your hand vertically, the hand/elbow/shoulder/neck muscles will become tense. Frankly, it's not a natural posture to maintain. Secondly, when canting a Bow, your eye is over the arrow and your visual field is greatly improved.
With this type of bows, whether you cant or not, its not gonna make any difference. Because the bow is cut to the center! In fact you shouldn't cant this bow, thats why they make it cut to the center (so you don't need to worry about it). Proof? olympic archers shoot with 0 canting. I think you cant because of historical influence. With medieval bows, archer needs to cant (to prevent archer's paradox).
The discussion centers around body alignment. Canting the bow is simply a side effect of proper alignment. I can tell you if you shoot this type of bow straight up vs 2 O'Clock it will impact a little different. At least for me or anyone I have shot with
Hi Scott i may have not done the best job of explaining but if you look at olympic archers you will see their bow wrist is parallel to the ground or very close. The grips they use allow full rotation while still holding the bow vertical.
For me, canting opens up the sight window and gives me more stability. Like you are saying.
Yes we cant!
My first motive for canting is view clearance and eye alignment. That's how I set up my form for instinctive shooting. Now I see there is more to it. Nice.
Tom Clum also does a good job of explaining this. Great video. I have heard a lot about your strings, but I didn't know you had a youtube as well.
Trying to help out where i can!
This was an awesome explanation Trevor. Thank you!
My pleasure!
Perhaps it allows one to focus on the target better but not so apparent the trade off being accuracy
I have a 50lb Toelke sslr coming in the next two weeks, been excited for months. Glad to see other fellas shooting them!!
Great explanation and demonstration!
Excellent info thank you very much instant sub! Cheers bud😊
Trevor - I'm an Osteopath in Scotland 🏴
Why do we naturally Cant a Bow ?
It's Biomechanics - if you hold your arm out to your front, as you do when drawing your Bow, your hand will naturally be at an angle between 25 and 35 degrees to vertical.
It's at the natural, neutral position, everything is relaxed.
If you hold your hand vertically, the hand/elbow/shoulder/neck muscles will become tense.
Frankly, it's not a natural posture to maintain.
Secondly, when canting a Bow, your eye is over the arrow and your visual field is greatly improved.
The man has spooky knowledge!
I cant the bow just to stop the arrow from falling off the rest, no other reason for me personally..
Great explanation. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Good video. Thank you.
So, there's nothing to the explanations I've heard that canting is just a means of keeping the riser from obstructing our view of the target?
Wow! Very informative!
Glad it was helpful!
Bio Mechanical? Hmmm 🤔?
I cant a bit for a clear view...for the rest,well everybody does it his or her own way..
With this type of bows, whether you cant or not, its not gonna make any difference. Because the bow is cut to the center! In fact you shouldn't cant this bow, thats why they make it cut to the center (so you don't need to worry about it). Proof? olympic archers shoot with 0 canting. I think you cant because of historical influence. With medieval bows, archer needs to cant (to prevent archer's paradox).
They shoot off a rest. @4:55 watch how the target/ sighting opens up and aligns with the targets.
The discussion centers around body alignment. Canting the bow is simply a side effect of proper alignment. I can tell you if you shoot this type of bow straight up vs 2 O'Clock it will impact a little different. At least for me or anyone I have shot with
Perhaps you are not familiar with Trevors accolades. He knows what he is talking about
But that explanation conflicts with Olympians shooting better than most everyone else without canting the bow
Hi Scott i may have not done the best job of explaining but if you look at olympic archers you will see their bow wrist is parallel to the ground or very close. The grips they use allow full rotation while still holding the bow vertical.