At full draw, what are you working towards?

[geoffretired]

In advanced driving, a situation arises, similar to the one that precedes the release. It is called,"Working towards an overtake." You set up the car etc etc and when the situation is "right" the overtake is started.
Loosing an arrow is the same in many respects. When certain criteria are met, the loose leads to the follow through.
When the driver is working towards the overtake, there is a variable period of time when some form of waiting has to endured.
When full draw has been reached and the criteria have not yet been met, there is a variable period of time when "waiting" has to be endured. ( if you use a clicker there are times when ENDURED can seem to be just the right word)
With a driver, the overtake can be visualised just ahead of the actual overtake.
In archery, the follow through can be visualised, just ahead of the real thing.
As the imagined and the real happen close together in time, it is easier to compare the two. I have been trying this recently and the two seem to match very well, as if the first affects the second. It also seems that the waiting is reduced.
I was wondering if other archers visualise the follow through, just before the real one, as part of their normal shot routine. I visualise the whole shot before the shot is started, but I haven't visualised the follow through so late i the sequence until recently.
I would appreciate your comments, specially if you do this regularly or have tried it and found that it helps/ doesn't help.
Thanks in advance.

[Rik]

I was reading through your post and waiting for something revelatory.... When I go to the end I thought 'but doesn't everyone do it that way?'. The Comprehension Gap, once again.

In your 'overtaking analogy' which bit is the loose? I would see it as the decision point (the go/no-go cusp). The actual overtaking is the follow-through.

[geoffretired]

Thanks for the reply,Rik.
I don't know how many people visualise the follow through while at full draw. So far yours is the only reply. I have read lots of posts on other threads that make me guess that "when is the clicker going?" is their main focus.
You were right about the loose, it is the decision to overtake with the follow through being the actual manoeuvre.
You are in the group who visualise the follow through just prior to it happening.Perhaps you can help me further? I find(compound) that visualising it almost seems to create it. I mean, when I think that way it goes very soon after. When I think of, just looking at the gold for example,it seems to get held up in the works. If you ever released without that visualisation, do you experience a delay?

[Murray]

Never had time to visualise the follow through, and personally I doubt if it would work for me. My primary attention at full draw is staying focussed on the gold and committed to finishing the shot - nothing more complex than that.

[geoffretired]

Thanks for that Murray. I knew you had "things to do" when you were close to the loose as you had said so in another thread. Being committed to finishing the shot,I had translated, from your other input, into "working towards the follow through". Could I be a pest and ask about the nature of your commitment to finishing the shot, I've obviously misunderstood? It seems that different people are running different programs at this stage. Some are panicking over the clicker not going.Some feel the muscles working harder. Yet others keep the drawing elbow moving. There will be others no doubt.
Thanks again.
Geoff

[David Needham]

The driving analogy strikes a cord with me - I coach of mine used to always say on the subject of drawing and releasing "Drive it in, and drive it out"!