How to Shoot Barebow Archery

Hi, my name is Jessica Nilsson. I'm a barebow archer from Great Britain. Previously been on the Swedish squad and shot for them a couple of years, but I've been shooting for Team GB for about two years now. I think I chose barebow mainly because Sweden is very barebow orientated and I've really enjoyed it. So with barebow archery you're not allowed sights or stabilizers like with compound or anything that could help you in your shooting, so like a clicker for example. For barebow archery you'd have a finger tab, a plunger, an arrow rest, weights on the bottom within a certain limit and that's about it. With barebow archery you use the point of the arrow and aim it in the gold at the target. To change the equivalent of the sight for a barebow you tab them for different distances. So you move up and down on the string and this is called a string walking. So the closer the target is the further down the string we would have to hold it. The further away the closer up to the nock of the arrow we would have to hold it. And normally you would have to count your stitches and you would find your sight mark before shooting. For me 50 meters is three down, three stitches down. I think the most difficult is being consistent without having a clicker and knowing your draw length. Also especially with barebow archery it's a lot harder than compounder and recaps as a lot of archers suffer from target panic. Obviously shooting and doing that perfect shot and landing in the middle there's nothing, it's nothing, it's not even describable. With recurves and compounders you can still do a dodgy shot and it will still go in the middle but with barebow archery you just need to do this perfect shot and it'll feel absolutely amazing just go in the middle. According to some barebowers seen as more traditional than compound and recurve I could see where people were coming from no sights and stabilizers back to the natural like Lombo with Robin Hood but really it's a modern bow which I'm shooting for points I think Lombo is seen as more traditional rather than barebow. There are loads of different choices I mean we've got everything from Lombo to barebow, recurve and compound. Choose what you enjoy to do but obviously barebow is the best.