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Originally Posted by teddybear  if you do in door long bow i have found the best way is to draw and shoot,
to do this put a box over the bit of the target you need to aim at in your minde and darw as soon as the bow is at fall draw and your arm is still losses it gets your scores higer than trying to do it looking at a small piont on the traget |
I realise that you are dyslexic, and that spelling is difficult to you, but you also need to have patience with others as your posts are as hard for the rest of us to read as they are for you to read. I know that it won't help with all of the words, but have you tried running your posts through a spell checker before you post them? As I say it's not a magic cure but it could help with some of your posts and mean that we find them easier to read. No offence meant, I know what it's like suffering from dyslexia as a close member of my family has this problem. Anyway onto the point of the post.
I guess that you mean
"If you shoot a longbow indoors the best way is to draw and shoot
To do this imagine a small box over the centre of the target and just draw and shoot. Loose as soon as you get to full draw and the arrow will hit where you imagined the box to be?"
Or did you mean
"Imagine a box where you have to aim the arrow for it to hit the target, draw and as soon as you are at full draw and the arrow is pointed at that box loose and the arrow will hit the target?"
Either way I don't agree with you.
The first is a form of visualisation. Visualisation can work very well, Darrel Pace imagined a tunnel in the air leading to the gold, all he had to do was shoot the arrows down this tunnel and he couldn't miss. Obviously the tunnel doesn't exist, but if an archer can make himself believe that it does it can help the scores. I imagine shooting an arrow into the centre of the target, and then clear my mind, and try to just let my body do that. Sometimes it even works! I think that imagining a box could be counter productive to some people as it can keep things out just as easily as keeping them in. Still it's what works for you, and I'm not going to say that you're wrong, just that I wouldn't advise this method to any archer that I coached
If you are talking about picking a point to aim at and imagining it to be a box then I have less problems relating to your idea, but I would recommend that if you are going to shoot point of aim like this then try to find something to actually aim at, even if you focus on a blade of grass or a small piece of the target. Focus on that point and then bring the arrow into view until it touches or covers that spot (the choice is yours) and when it's there and you're at full draw then loose.
I do agree with what you've implied in that you shouldn't hold a longbow at full draw.
Daniel