AIMING MADE EASY PRIMITIVE ENGLISH LONGBOW
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HERE I DESCRIBE WHAT IS ESSENTIAL TO HITTING THE TARGET NO MATTER WHAT STYLE. 1 PUSH HARD ON THE CENTER LINE. 2 DRAW TO THE EYE IRREGARDLESS OF THE TOUCH, 3 WITH A RELAXED ARM THAT FEELS LIKE IT IS JUST HANGING FROM THE STRING. AFTER THAT IS REALIZED YOU CAN ADOPT ANY STANCE, CANT OR POSTURE AND GET GOOD HITS. HAVE FUN GARE
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AI GeneratedThe speaker emphasizes that the core fundamentals of archery—pushing hard toward the target on the center line, drawing straight to the eye, and maintaining a relaxed drawing arm—are far more critical than rigid adherence to a specific stance, foot placement, or bow angle.
Okay, what's important? Push towards the target hard as you can. Draw to your eye
with a relaxed arm. Nothing else really matters. For instance, if I want to stand sideways to the
target like a target archer and hold my bow vertical, I can do that. As long as I push
towards the target, draw to my eye, I can open up my stance, quite open, about two feet apart.
Nice. So that was completely different. Now I can hold my bow at, let's say, 45 degrees
and again we get a hit. So what I'm trying to tell you is that it is not necessary
to have a permanent spot on your face or to stand with your feet a certain way every time.
What is important every time is that you push it on as hard as you can on that center line.
Nowhere else on the center line. You draw straight to your eye, no matter what angle your head is
at. As long as it comes straight to the eye, wherever it touches is okay. The other thing
is to have that completely relaxed right arm. And if you do that, you will find that it gives
you much more advantage than any particular stance or putting your feet anywhere or bending your knee
or doing all these things. It just will. Take my word for it. And when you do it, you'll find
that you'll start to get fairly good hits, no matter where you put your feet or how you hold
the bow, what your stance is, what your cant is. Push onto the center line, draw to your eye
with a relaxed arm. And I will get into each of those steps a little bit more in depth,
just how to push and how to relax that arm. But for now, I think you get the idea.
Okay you guys, go have some fun. Take care.