Draw Elbow

[Kingwill]

Hi

I'm a bit round shouldered and find it hard to get my draw elbow in-line. It sticks out a good three or four inches. I'm going to try lengthening my draw length (I shoot a compound) to see if that helps but I think it's more to do with my round shoulders than anything else.

My question is if I can't get the elbow back is there anything I can do to make it lessen any effect it might have on my release ( I shoot fingers).

[arrowshooter]

I am going to assume that you are having a problem with correct follow through with your draw hand after the shot. I invision that your hand is pulling out away from your face instead of straight back. Might I suggest that when you release you keep your hand stuck to the side of you face. This will help you keep from "plucking" the string when allowing your hand to travel back.

[grimsby archer]

I usually find (though I am not saying that this is so in your case, necessarily) that "sticking out draw elbow" syndrome is often due to the archer not discovering the correct use of the shoulder muscles.
Use of the shoulder and back muscles will tend to draw the elbow further round without necessarily moving the position of the hand.

Find a good coach who can analyse your shooting, or alternatively, do what most archers do and struggle on for years.

[TWIW]

Could you get us some pictures, maybe. Just we can see what you are describing?

Ta!!

[Jerry Tee]

Your draw lenght may be too short. This would mean that you are hitting the back wall before the elbow has a chance to come round into line. We need more information, where do you anchor, are you using a peep sight.

[Nightimer]

When you draw is your bow arm extended properly(not bent but not locked out).
When you are at full draw were is the arrow nock in relation to your eye(in an ideal world it should be under your eye).
If the nock of the arrow is forward of your eye your draw length is too short.
Are you using a release aid or fingers?
D loop or shooting off string?
Pictures would be a great help,taken from behind,front,above and side view.
Without them we are batting in the dark.

Nightimer

[Mistake]

Originally Posted by Kingwill

My question is if I can't get the elbow back is there anything I can do to make it lessen any effect it might have on my release ( I shoot fingers).

(This assume's your plucking)

I'm not up on finger shooting compound (or shooting compound in general) but it shouldn't too differant from recurve shooting.

If so, then try this..

get an old tin of paint and fill it with anything you can find so that it's reasonable heavy. Hold it on your string fingers, and just practise relaxing your fingers. Do this until the fingers relax subcounsiously.. then get your bow out and try doing this at short range balank boss, and move back untill you're at the normal distance you practise at.

(This is where this bit falls down unfortunatly due to my lack of compound shooting)

The natural relaxation of the bow fingers (for me at least) gives me a follow through that is perfectly natural, and goes behind the neck, but i'm not sure if this would happen on a Limited Compound because they still have let off (i think)