Archery in Action - DVD by Simon Needham

[SimonW]

I decided on Saturday to spend the time to properly (well, as best I could) set my bow up (I haven't bothered with doing this up 'till now but now my technique is coming together, watching the DVD had motivated me to, so I thought I'd give it a go).

Using the beiter limb gauges the top limb was about 3mm out of line.

I decided to try to align to the true centre of the bow (I think from the book/video that I understand what this is). Anyway, this meant that the long rod was pointing off centre (to the right - by about the width of the LR at it's tip).

I was a a bit dubious about this (I've normally focussed on having the LR dead centre).

I did think about filing the LR bush (as per the book) but then thought better of this - once done there's no way back

I practiced (blank boss and 25m) on Saturday night and the arrows were flying very nicely (I moved up to 2214's recently with big 4" shield feathers - these are nice but do punish a bad tune or heavy handed shot).

I shot a portsmouth today (friendly shoot with another club) and scored 573 with 39 10's (which given I only scored 108 for the first dozen I was very pleased with - it's an equal PB unless you go back to the early 1990's or before).

The arrows were pulling to the left for the first 2 dozen or so (I had a black hole developing 9pm in the 10/9 area).

I'm going to re-align through the LR and see what the difference is (I'll shoot on Tuesday next).

So, does tuning matter?

Of course it does (it tells your bow & arrows you care about them - in turn they'll reward you by going where you shot them )

Simon

[easy]

I have finally had a chance to watch the DVD. As a basic bow set up and tuning guide i thought it was great, but i was a little disappointed that there wasn't more about fine tuning. After reading his book i was very impressed at his level of knowledge so i guess i was expecting more of that on the DVD.

He says that his string has 11 strands! Anyone know what material this might be??

[pelican]

Bought ours from Quicks last week, it's great, and is about to do the rounds of club members.

[MikeD]

Another great thing about the DVD is to be able to watch Lana shooting. NLP and Mental Management both suggest you can improve a lot by just watching. Simon's commentary is good but possibly not the best (in NLP terms) for reinforcing what Lana is doing well as he is pointing out where others go wrong. So it's probably best to watch with the sound turned down.

[easy]

Originally Posted by MikeD

Another great thing about the DVD is to be able to watch Lana shooting.

It's quite noticeable that she pulls through the clicker with a continuous movement.

[canjapan2003]

Originally Posted by MikeD

Another great thing about the DVD is to be able to watch Lana shooting. NLP and Mental Management both suggest you can improve a lot by just watching. Simon's commentary is good but possibly not the best (in NLP terms) for reinforcing what Lana is doing well as he is pointing out where others go wrong. So it's probably best to watch with the sound turned down.

NLP??

I Also got the DVD tuned up as per and tried shooting with the SIGHT ON STRING picture as oposed to the way I have been shooting up till now with a SIGHT ON RISER picture. Is there a special way to set up for S.O.R ?? Or can I just use the SOS alignment and adjust my sight as needed?

A thought...If you set up for SOS and tune your button for it will you need to retune your button for SOR??

[Hidden Hippo]

NLP - Neruo-linguistic programming. Using words and commentaries to reinforce and teach an idea.

[canjapan2003]

Originally Posted by Hidden Hippo

NLP - Neruo-linguistic programming. Using words and commentaries to reinforce and teach an idea.

In other words, teaching?

I thought that's what was being refered to. I have an aqauintance who has been to some seminars in the states on that program. I'll have to ask him to be my archery coach.