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Originally Posted by timujin
I had a look at the Formaster and I apologise in advance for this but how is it supposed to work?  |
Agreed and the simple but useless advice is to try it, I took mine down to my club and it has helped a few of our intermediate archers to stop using their arms and start shooting using thier back.
However here goes
Initially I would set up the foremaster with the rigid cord, you fix this to the bow string making sure that the length of the cord will enable you to pull your bow string back to your initial anchor point,not with your fingers but the harness on the elbow, this way you negate the ability to use your arms to pull the string back. It takes a bit of getting used to but you will find that when you are at full drawer it is your back holding the draw not your arms. It also helps to improve your line.
If you use the elastic instead and fix it in the same way to the string shoot an arrow (using your fingers as you normally shoot) into a boss at 5 Yrds, (most of the energy is absorbed by the elastic) if you are not using your back then you will feel all the forces in your arms collaping the shot.
Hope that is not as clear as mud, the instructions with the aid take 4 pages to answer the same and I don't have access to a scanner .