1 Topic by geoarcher (edited by geoarcher 2016-11-24 17:49:38)

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Topic: Wrist Position of Drawing Hand

I've noticed some things when I draw my bow after video tapping and try to correct and one thing is that my wrist isn't straight.  Matter of fact it stays in a position sort of like this guy's at about the 2 second mark of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpXeM3bhfFY

But as you can clearly see he resolves this and the wrist straightens out when he comes to full draw.  What must one be conscious of when trying to achieve this?  I noticed just about all thumb-ring archers eventually get their hand so the knuckles always are at a more slanted downward angle rather that mine which are almost always up turned.  Also does this help lock in the draw/provide more stability?

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2 Reply by Pedro C (edited by Pedro C 2016-11-24 23:22:30)

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Re: Wrist Position of Drawing Hand

what do you mean by straight? It's definitely always collapsed or low.
You should hold the bow 'canted' at about a 1 o'clock angle. Also, grip the bow askew. Your knuckles should be in a 45 degree angle to the ground I guess, but the bow not as much?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L2m0U5pxr0
I find the grip feels weird for me when trying to apply torque though.

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Re: Wrist Position of Drawing Hand

Oh whoops I was talking about the drawing hand.

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4 Reply by Pedro C (edited by Pedro C 2016-11-25 00:01:52)

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Re: Wrist Position of Drawing Hand

oh
i don't know..
maybe draw further and/or try moving the draw hand up or down? But he has it so low which I think would result in more angle..
Or drawing more.. but bluelake also has a straight wrist even though his draw is relatively short (not much past his ear)
I likely have the same problem haha

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5 Reply by geoarcher (edited by geoarcher 2016-11-25 01:35:13)

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Re: Wrist Position of Drawing Hand

yeah exactly its something I noticed when watching Korean archers they always achieve.  I think it helps the release be more clean.  This is how my drawing hand wrist looks:

http://i.imgur.com/LXfpaXp.png

Its really not that straight nor do the knuckles face downward like I usually see.  So my release looks like this:

http://i.imgur.com/clUd1U6.png

The elbow does go back but the hand goes outward too much.  Even with my longer Kaiyuan bow with 36 inch draw the result is the same and does not look correct but of course there are no schools for Korean archery around to receive proper guidance or know for sure what is wrong or right or even why for that matter.

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6 Reply by geoarcher (edited by geoarcher 2016-11-25 02:28:41)

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Re: Wrist Position of Drawing Hand

This Korean archer has a very straight-hand-back release:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEhRpYR … KHok_HVF4g

Then again on this vid his hand goes outward more and he's not using a tonga:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcMTGGi … p;index=55

And finally one very straight release by a different Korean archer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP6XZMNfe7k

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