bluelake wrote:In those photos, if you measured from where the back of the point is to where the archer's thumb ring is, you would have what you need.
Thank you Hun and Thomas,
This is the kind of photos that attracted me towards Korean archery; very "emblematic" for me.
I'm happy to see those photos and to notice again the bent draw wrist, the very low position of the draw elbow. Korean traditional archers can achieve that, Kyudo archers also, but few westeners actually do it, even with a KTB. I'm wondering why.
Anyway, I try again an evaluation from those photos and I find again that my draw length would be somewhere between 35" and 37" [everybody said me months ago that this is way too much].
So, from this kind of photos you get a too imprecise and exagerated evaluation. And that's not astonishing because of parallax errors, the impossibility to measure the degree to which the bow shoulder is pushed inward or the bow arm extended or bent, etc. As Thomas said me some months ago, as we have more or less the same height (and I've an ordinary draw length with western bows), we should have the ~same draw length with KTB (32", if I remember well). [35" is said to be the limit of my bow, 34" the limit of my muscles :-) and also the limit of my arrows].
Another possibility would be to take photos of oneself and measure the draw length corresponding to an attitude similar to that of the Korean archer model. Assuming that one can achieve the correct form with one's KTB. I've already tried that, 4 months ago, and couldn't reach very clear conclusions (I should try again).
For now, the only thing I see really helpful would be a drawing of this kind : http://www.kyudo.com/arrow-length.gif. (but this one is valid for the arrow length with Kyudo/Yumi).
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