This allows a peripheral view down the arrow’s shaft to the target.Īgain, this is similar to pointing your index finger at the target – you will be replacing your arm with the arrow, and your index finger tip with the arrow point.īoth eyes remain open at all times, but the dominant eye aims, or focuses at what you want to hit – thereby guiding your alignment of the arrow with the target. This is the foundation for consistent shooting You must see the same picture down the arrow each time you draw the arrow back.īy bringing the arrow to anchor at your mouth notice the arrow is under your eye. Use the corner of your mouth to start As you pull the string to your face, touch your index or middle finger to your canine tooth, and hold. There is a straight horizontal line in your posture from arrow point to the tip of your elbow.ĭraw is complete as you bring the string to anchor, no further or shorter.Īnchor is your rear sight for aiming. As you near the rise, your string hand pulls the string back to your face to anchor. Your bow hand resists and pushes against the bow commencing the draw. Start by slowly swinging your arrow point up from the ground into the imagined vertical line on your target. All arrows should align with this path.Īny adjustments will be for high or low errors, but the arrows will not be sprayed around the target using this technique. Imagine a vertical line through the spot you want to hit.

The palm is not used, pressure is resisted with the base of your thumb on the handle.Īs the bow is lifted and pulled, the bow arm will straighten, remember to rotate your elbow out away to avoid the string’s path upon release. Your hand grips the bow handle along the “life line” to guide placement. Use either a grip of three fingers under the arrow nock, or a grip of one finger above the arrow nock and two under to pull the string. The thumb and little finger are locked down out of the way. To start, grasp the string using a “scout salute” of three fingers only, just before the first joint of fingers. The index fletching (different color than other two) faces up towards you. The arrow is snapped on the string under the nock rest with the arrow shaft resting on the bow’s shelf. Handle the arrow by the nock to load when the bow is hanging at your side. If you hold the bow vertically, bring the arrow over the bow to load. The toes are turned very slightly away from shooting line. The feet should be about shoulder width apart. To start, provide a shooting line where the archer will line up with one foot placed on each side of the line as if they were shooting.

The basic “square” stance is used for all beginning archers. These are the steps you take in executing a shot: The eye the hole goes to is the dominant eye. While keeping both eyes open, have them bring the hole back to their face. With both eyes open, raise the hole up in front of their face with arms fully extended and look through the hole at an object in the distance. To know your dominant eye just place your two hands together one on top of the other and and then spread them slightly to create a small golf ball sized hole. There is a small percentage of the population however, that are “cross dominant”. Typically, a person is either right handed and right eye dominant or left handed, left eye dominant.

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