How do you shoot?

[Barry C]

What is your major focus in your shot sequence?

[TJ Mason]

I've been an expander for quite a while, but I'm now switching to being a pusher after reading chapter 4.13 of "The Heretic Archer". Vittorio simply presents a brilliant argument in favour of pushing, much more convincing than the arguments I've seen for pulling or expanding.

[Bald Eagle]

Push and pull, good strong release.

[Little Miss Purple]

focus is on the GOLD of course

[tel]

Always leant toward the push, but found it hard work - results are good, but difficult to sustain. (for me!)

[Kevinf2349]

I try to focus on punching to the gold, the arrow however seems to focus on going where ever it likes

[Barry C]

I always believed in expanding too, however my coach is teaching me pushing and now I see why its so good, just very difficult to do it right everytime, my coordination is shot.

[Marcus26]

I pull and use my front arm as an solid object that braces the bow into position.
By pushing I would be trying to use muscles in my bow arm which is a bad thing to do.

[Barry C]

The pushing i am learning comes from the shoulder area, the idea is not to moce the arm at all. Thats why im having such big trouble learning it.

[JohnK]

I just don't understand how the push from the shoulder works[1], so I don't try to replicate it as I'm sure that doing it the wrong way is pointless (and potentially damaging).

At the moment I'm trying to do pretty much what Marcus says.

[1] N.B. I'm not saying it doesn't work, as it clearly does for some (Frangilli, Im Dong Hyun, etc.). I just mean that as I don't understand how it should be done properly I'm wary of trying it for myself.