Shooting the Recurve Bow (Beginners) with Iris Canterbury.wmv

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hi I'm Irish Canterbury from the top rider school and today I'm going to shoot a short video about shooting a recurve bow the bow that I have is a Martin rebel recurve and what signifies it this bow is a recurve bows the limbs go out and the string touches the limb right here I want to talk to you about the anatomy of a bow so you understand the terminology and when you're looking at the bow the foot the side that is facing you is the belly of the bow I thought the outside of it is called the back of the bow and the part where you put your hand where the arrow shelf is that is called the riser okay the area between your riser and your string is called the brace height and right above where your arrow goes your brace height should be from the bottom of your fist to the top of your thumb when you need to buy a string for your bow you need to know the amo links and the amo length of mine is 50 inches it's from this dock for my strings and this not for my string not that link to the bow the link between the Norfolk the Dro weight on bows is marked 28 inches if you pull farther than 28 inches your bow is going to be heavier if you pull less than 28 inches it's going to be lighter when you put an arrow into a bow it's called knocking your arrow the normal safety equipment for shooting a bow as an armed guard and some type of finger protection whether it be a glove or a tab like this a tab simply wraps around the string and protects your fingers from the bow there are two styles of shooting a traditional bow you can go three fingers under which is what I do or you can go split and that's why there's a split in the tab which is like that then the nock point is placed on the string so that when you put your arrow on your bow and you pull your bow back it is going to be in a straight line on your shelf the nock point is set 1/8 of an inch high for normal arrow flight when you're drawing your bow you need to push forward and draw back at the same time to shoot consistently your mechanics have to be the exact same every time when you draw your bow back pick an anchor point on your face my anchor point is the corner of my mouth draw back put your index finger on the anchor point once you get to that anchor point that's not enough you get to your anchor point elbow up shoulder blades together and then you're ready to shoot okay let's talk about aiming the arrow you're not really aiming the air arrow you're picking a spot on the target and that is instinctive shooting you're not looking at the end of the arrow you're not looking at your bow you're picking a spot on the target you're keeping your eyes on that spot the whole time that you're drawing your bow back and getting your mechanics and shooting the target a level target you don't have to worry about adjustment just look at the target look at the spot that you've picked if you know how far your bow will shoot flat that on level ground you can shoot straight at the target if your target is farther away then your bow will shoot flat then you need to adjust your elevation so that your arrow will are into the target in this example we have a downhill target and on a downhill target you tend to shoot high there are two ways that you can adjust for a downhill shoot you can bend it the way or you can just aim lower on this example our target is high so you need to adjust you're going to tend to shoot low so you need to adjust and aim high

my name is Irish Canterbury from the Pathfinder school thank you for watching and thank you for your support