recurve video resources

[Murray]

All I can suggest are these "walkarounds"

YouTube - Park Sung Hyun
YouTube - Yun Mi Jin


Especially the first one, which has a nice section from directly behind the archer where you can reasonably easily see the string path. These are of course available elsewhere at better quality.

[Rhys]

I can pm you links to a couple of vids of me shooting from above, but i just thought i do have some photos of some of my students from above and I can show you some awful examples of alignment against some good ones?

[geoffretired]

Murray, those vids certainly show a much straighter string path than the one I described. The drawing elbow is outside the line of string travel until right at the end of the draw/release. I wonder if that's because it's more natural or more deliberate for some other reason.

[Murray]

Note sure what you mean. It looks like a standard "draw in a straight line" then "develop the line and transfer the load" approach.

It's very definitely deliberate (as is all things Korean-archery-related).

If you look at a bunch of UK club archers then I'm pretty sure most (if not all) of them will draw differently to this - most of them breaking the line then coming back in again.

[geoffretired]

Hi Murray, what I ws getting at, is, that with a totally relaxed elbow, all through the draw, the draw hand will tend to follow the curve traced by the elbow, but closer to the line of sight.The straight draw has always made me wonder about the reasons behind it

[pHz]

further clarification as to what got me interested in this

my recent thread and concerns with the back elbow have led me to change the way i draw to finish with a lower elbow and more horizontal arm (but still starting with a highish elbow as i find it easier to feel it on my back this way) - having made this change i notice that i suddenly seem to have a smoother draw in terms of nock travel to my reference (despite currently focussing more on the arm / back action than on TRYING to get a smooth straight draw as i was before)

(although this change might just be as a result of nothing more than my draw hand / wrist being straighter and more relaxed now ? )

so i wonder out of pure curiosity what the relationship is between the vectors of draw arm and nock

slainte : rob