Archery Queen

[airedale]

She can do some pretty fair shooting, love her backstop.

 

[Pygmy]

Her backSIDE isn't bad, either.....<<GRIN>>...

[Doc]

I have seen some pretty amazing trick archery shooting, and it really makes me wonder just how good any person could get if they really dedicate themselves to trick shooting. First of all it requires a commitment to pure instinctive shooting.

Most of us are hunters and automatically get into the defined sight-style of draw-anchor-aim-release. We have automatically been conditioned to rely on all the crutches of tournament style of shooting. Instead of letting our eyes and brain do the yardage calculations and the drawing and execution of the shot. We rely on fancy arrow rests and jillion dollar sights and rigid archery form that we have been taught. I watched Stacy Groscup knocking  wooden discs, hand-thrown out of the air holding the bow sideways with his feet. That breaks every kind of archery style rule known.

The human brain is an amazing machine when you let it do its thing. Take for example a quarterback firing a touch-down pass at a crossing receiver whose distance and direction is ever changing and while a gang of goons are running at him intent on tearing him apart. And how about an outfielder throwing the baseball toward home-plate. Where is the sight on the ball?

So, has anyone tried to see exactly what they could do using pure instinctive shooting. Not gap shooting or any of the other "sighting" tricks, but pure instinctive. I never did, but I find the idea of it all quite fascinating.

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[airedale]

I shoot mostly recurves but also a couple of compounds instinctive with a glove, I can shoot halfway decent but nothing like this gal, not even close, she is in a league of her own.

Al

[jperch]

Aside from her obvious archery skills she must have great vision and coordination, just amazing.

[grampy]

What a great shot she is!!! That video was cool!

[airedale]

Been watching some archery videos, always looking for a tip that will help me improve. I know I am an old dog but I think I can learn new tricks.

Jennifer, the gal in these videos stresses holding your draw arm elbow up high when at full draw. Another thing I am going to give a shot for the heck of it is using the three finger draw below the arrow instead of the traditional split with the arrow drawn between the index and second finger.

Al

[airedale]