Find someone who knows about shooting barebow recurve and then spend six months or so getting your technique consistent with this (Don't learn the 'under chin' anchor point that the archers with sights use, but get comfortable with anchoring in a sensible place for barebow shooting) Then do a few of the target competitions barebow (will raise a few eyebrows, but I think now in the uk it is a little more accepted than it has been ) and also get off to the field archery club as soon as you can - is it just the
gnas field or is it 3d etc? Don't be afraid to talk to anybody and everybody about what you want to know - most barebow archers are quite different from the standard recurve archers and are happy to tell you anything to help.
Listen to them all, read a lot, (magazines, internet, etc) and then think hard and decide for yourself and experiment with it all. Whatever suits you then stick with it - then you apply the same thinking to a change of bow style. Do your homework and it will repay you.
Good luck - and if you're ever in France come and shoot with us - we shoot four different disciplines of field shooting here - 3d, 3d international, Tir nature(paper animal faces) and tir Campagne (targets in the field like in the uk ) ALL under the umbrella of the fita-affiliated FFTA, our equivalent of the
GNAS.
Maybe the
GNAS is missing something here ?