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okay so i've had a lot of people ask me

to explain my personal shooting

technique

to them um on youtube

uh most of my videos have always been

for instagram and they were under a

minute

so this is a new concept for me so

bear with me and again for for the first

time i should say

this is my personal shooting technique

i'm not saying it's the best i'm not

saying it's correct

i'm just saying that after years of

shooting this is how i found

the most efficient way for me to be

accurate

so that being said

let's get to shooting uh this is a long

bow

i shoot carbon arrows i like the

consistency of them

i shoot with a tab and

i tend to shoot with a closed stance

the more open your stance is the shorter

your draw length is going to become

so if you have a lot of problem with arm

slap

because your stance is so close to see

where my string is you can open up your

stance and that will get your string

away from your arm

but i tend to use a more of a closed

stance i like a tab and i use a deep

hook

so i'm putting it there and i'm

hooking that up so i'm doing that i'm

not trying to hold the bow with the tips

of my fingers i have it in here

the concept of a clean release to me is

the same as like dropping a bucket if

you had a

bucket in your hand and you wanted to

drop it cleanly you would just open your

hand

so with that being said

i probably studied all the shooting

techniques that you can

um i probably use a little bit of

everything

in my subconscious or i'm not really

thinking about it

but generally my aiming technique is

instinctive i'm looking for a very

specific

place to hit um i'm aiming for like a

hole that's already in that apple i'm

not just aiming at the apple

um that's why i'm always saying

aim small but with that being said what

i do

like i said closed stance deep hook

i hold the bow fairly loosely i have all

my fingers on it but

it's still a fairly loose grip i'm not

holding it for my life at all

the best thing that i've found is try to

make your initial

pull back like this at an

angle your shoulders will appreciate

that

after years and years of pulling back so

what i do is i imagine that there's a

laser

coming out of the front of this bow this

this arrow

and i put the bow where i think that

laser

needs to be in order to hit it so when i

practice most of my practice is around

14-15 yards i'm not compensating for the

arrow going down it's all

completely instinctive and i'm just

acting like there's a laser coming out

of the tip of this arrow

so when i come to full draw

let me back up and say that i found when

shooting at

short distances at smaller targets

i like the arrow as close to my dominant

eye as possible

again i find this works best for

shooting at

small objects a very close situation so

under 15 yards so when i'm coming to

full draw i put this

arrow as close as i can to my dominant

eye

what i also do is i essentially have two

anchor points

so when i come back and i don't like to

think of it as an anchor point don't

think of it as a place to come to rest

what you want to do is come i come to my

first anchor point

it's about here and i'm doing all my

aiming and i'm getting ready to release

the arrow

and as you can see that feather is only

about an

eighth of an inch from my nose but once

i've done my aiming and i'm ready to rip

i'll just pull straight back until that

feather touches my nose

and then i try to make a clean release

the only thought in my head when i'm

making the release

is once that feather touches my nose

i try to imagine a golf ball dropping

off my shoulder

and i want to bring my hand back to

catch it

so i'm getting lost in my whole train of

thought i'm gonna do a uh

take a shot show it to you and

we'll just kind of call it call it a day

the only other thing that i would

recommend is when you're aiming

try not to worry about holding your bow

dead center the thing is always going to

float it's always going to bounce around

the harder you try to keep it still

the more it's going to float around so

just let the bow float

um do your aiming and

whether you're using a trigger or the

feather touching your nose

when you release it all that floating is

gonna take care of itself don't even

worry about it um

but the last thing that i want you to

think of is when you're at full draw

imagine you're shooting a rifle and your

back elbow

is the back sights of that rifle and the

tip of this arrow is the front sight of

the rifle so in your mind

if you can get that all to line up

and then when you release if you're

using that

aiming technique of thinking of a laser

coming out of that

arrow things should hopefully work out

for you if you have that back elbow

lined up with that front

it's almost hard to miss so anyway i'll

take a

couple shots show you my form i don't

know if i'll leave the comments open on

this

because people tend to chime in with

nasty stuff but

we'll see if you have questions hit me

up and i'll just take a couple shots and

we'll go from there so first my stance

deep hook and then i'm focusing on

exactly where i want to hit

so let's just say for instance i want to

hit that apple

pull back this way from the full draw

settle in pull back till that

feather touches your nose and grab that

golf ball

that's what i got for you if you have

any questions

hit me up i hope this explains

some things to certain people if it

helps you

good for you uh if i can help somebody

out there that's awesome

y'all have a great day and i'll just

finish up the show

all right you all have a great day aim

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