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- From: mss@endor.uucp (Marty Sasaki)
- Newsgroups: alt.archery
- Subject: Re: Of Release Aids & Recurves
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.145949.5710@das.harvard.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 14:59:49 GMT
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- Organization: Sasaki Kite Fabrications
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- Many folks believe that the explosive release that people sometimes
- experience while using a release is the "proper" way to release. When
- I was a teenager I took lessons from Chester Seay (he wrote a column
- in Archery World in the late '60s/early '70s). Chester would tie one
- end of a piece of string to a pencil and the other to the bowstring.
- The length of this string was set so that the bowstring would be
- pulled back a few inches when you pulled the pencil back to your
- anchor.
-
- Chester would then cut the string while yo had pulled the pencil to
- your anchor. The result would be a mini-explosion.
-
- Your bow arm would first push directly towards the target, then to the
- left (for right handers) and up slightly. The release hand would be
- directly over the right shoulder.
-
- The theory is that when the arrow is gone before you can react to the
- shot, that the resulting shot will be cleaner.
-
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