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Originally Posted by Kellog  Hi,
The style you're using is "Freestyle", its the most common style used to shoot recurve, and is normally associated with sights, stabilisers and other gadgets.
3 fingers underneath is "Barebow", and its a method used a lot for people shooting without sights etc as it moves the arrow into line with the eye so its a lot easier to aim using the arrow or point.
It doesn't exactly pull unevenly, and the only real affect on the release is to make it easier to be smooth and not affect the arrow (you can't knock the arrow as easily at least) |
Well really for the barebow method you are talking about, the only reason why we use three fingers below is because it the enables us to string walk.
And either way doesn't affect the arrow because if the one finger above, three below affected it then no one would use it because it would not be consistant would it?
However the recurve way is also used for longbow because it puts the same amount of stree on the limbs which is essntial so that one doesn't wear out faster than the other.