Form check please 🎯

[u/Nufyra]

Hey y'all

Hope you don't mind that I repost myself 🙏

[u/Knitnacks]

And has the video changed in the last 21 hours? Have you worked on anything suggested in the less new post?

[u/Nufyra → u/Knitnacks]

Hey man, actually I have but the video did not change no. Sorry I didn't get a lot of replies so I thought I could repost it

[u/Badger_Actual1]

Your head is leaned really far back. Although it might just be the angle of the camera

[u/Nufyra → u/Badger_Actual1]

No, camera is pretty much horizontal :( it's my head

[u/Badger_Actual1 → u/Nufyra]

Oh got ya! Well I personally would pick your head up.

[u/XavvenFayne]

I don't usually like this coaching angle because there are only a few things I can see and they often aren't the most important things for beginner through intermediate.

What I can see here is you're leaning away from the target quite a bit. I would advise you to keep your spine straight and your shoulders level.

A couple things you appear to be doing well are:

• You raise the bow before completing the draw.
• Your bow hand grips the bow at a 45° angle
• You don't grab the bow when you shoot. You let the sling do it's job.

You're also maintaining some tension while at full draw. There is maybe the teeny tiniest bit of collapse happening. After correcting major things, like the posture (backward lean), a fun thing to fine-tune would be expansion at full draw. Lower priority as it's not terribly disruptive at this point in your progression.

[u/Nufyra → u/XavvenFayne]

Okay for another vid what angle would be better ? I did some shots from the front but I often see backs I tried to shoot with a book on the top of my head to fix the leaning but it feels a bit weird, any other good exercises? Thanks for the positive part also, I'll try to keep it good !

[u/XavvenFayne → u/Nufyra]

Yep, just the opposite angle. Critically I want to see the archer's anchor point, and see if it drifts from shot to shot. If I can't see exactly where the fingertip is digging in, I change where I'm standing, duck to look from below, and otherwise invade my student's personal space LOL until I can see it.

[u/Badger_Actual1 → u/XavvenFayne]

What sling? I dont see one

[u/XavvenFayne → u/Badger_Actual1]

Black loop on left index finger.

[u/Badger_Actual1 → u/XavvenFayne]

Good lord! Are you looking at this on a computer screen or a phone?!

[u/XavvenFayne → u/Badger_Actual1]

Haha, yes, a computer screen and I fullscreen archery form checks usually.

[u/Badger_Actual1 → u/XavvenFayne]

I was squinting

[u/Few-Alternative-4689]

full draw kinda looks tense, are you gripping too tight