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Originally Posted by Murray

IMO, FWIW, etc. Yes, your elbow is too high. The wrist is bent which is not a good idea and suggests too much tension in the hand and wrist - ideally you want this to be as relaxed as possible. If anything you'll notice the archers in the photos you show have the wrist bent *slightly* the opposite direction, but this is just a result of being pretty relaxed and pulling from the elbow/back (Dola Banerjee - the indian lady - is a bit excessive in this regard, but then she's not the best of archers - yes, she won the final in Dover, but IMO she was plain lucky and the ladies recurve scoring was pretty poor)
If you're going to keep this high and elbow, I believe you need to sort the wrist out as a priority.
Just my 2 cents

thanks murray (and everyone else whos replied) - interesting you mention tension in the hand / wrist - presumably then you would agree (in principle - obviously not having seen me shoot) that dropping the elbow more into line with the red line might help ?

(thinking out loud - i suppose the other option might be to raise / straighten the wrist while keeping the elbow where it is - but would that then put too much (relative) weight on the indexfinger of the draw hand ? EDIT - i see the pictures youve added now so presumably this probably isnt necessarily an issue)

slainte : rob