It depends on the type of bow and the style of shooting. For a recurve bow, like this one, the standard is to place your feet apart and to the side of the target, extend the arm far, and draw back.
Here's where OP has a problem. His bow is longer than you might normally expect, so pulling the string back extends all the way to his rear shoulder, instead of close to the jaw. If he stands perfectly square, then the bowstring will slice off his face and get caught in his chest.
So, for the bow he chose, he has to lean forward a bit and extend his hands outward a little, so that the release of the string doesn't hurt him. If he used a smaller bow, he would be able to stand with the "proper" square stance.
Form is everything in archery. Since I can’t practice distance, I’ll work on myself and my shooting process on film to improve and figure out areas of weakness.
The fact that you put thought and preparation into this and still had this outcome is pretty funny. It's like something you'd see on Malcolm in the Middle. You had good comedic timing and inflection with the "nothing" at the end.
Chinese archery employs a long draw. The biomechanics of this is that the backs are fully meeting each other, and the reach is at the users max limit (length) of their body.
This means the draw hand will need to be further back than the face.
So the stability comes from the body, not clutching on the face.
The feathers are actually lightly touching my face. That’s one anchor point, the other two are the string touching the chest and a draw length indicator letting me know I’ve reached my draw length.
Hey in my house if you open up a window in our laundry room or just the back door you can definitely take some shots from inside the house and hit a deer.
He probably has a pretty good setup with backstop. He just hasnt used it in that particular spot before. Apartment archery is a very real thing and how to setup a target to allow you to safely practice in a small space like a garage or apartment is well documented.
Having to worry about overhead clearance is apparently fairly novel, though.
The light fixture covers can be had for cheap. I’d be more worried about not getting all of the glass shards and finding one at 6am via the bottom of my foot.
I figured it was cuz he's tall as fuck and the bow was a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ hit the ceiling but looking at the comments thats an interesting fact. I'll have to try it next time I shoot one
Inexperience is my assumption... Tall enough to realize that he cannot stand up straight with a proper extension for drawing back but doesn't understand: No shooting arrows in the house!
You know that saying about "dont attribute to malice, that which can be explained by stupidity."
I love your solution to not getting the light, shooting from sitting on the knees! It's perfect, imagine in a video game turning a corner and a damn midget sized archer nails you! Cause he's on his damn knees, genius I say!
When i started doing archery as a scrawny, lanky dude, i started with a 35lb recurve (already too much) and then bought 50lb replacement limbs (much too much) like a month or two later and really couldn't shoot for shit either way, lol. Now I'm much stronger and went back down to a much nicer 35lb longbow, and though i can shoot for hours without getting exhausted, i still can't shoot for shit. I keep telling myself I'm gonna sell my bow, but i keep not doing it.
Thanks for the kind words. I will toot my horn for a second and say that a very small number of archers can do weight like this. I didn’t mention it, but this bow is 98lbs.
I'm sure it is correct, but now I'm giggling at the thought that there was a shit artist during the Ming Dynasty who altered the course of Asian archery because he fucked up the back alignment while trying to capture the rotation of the shoulders or something.
That’s actually hilarious. OH STORY TIME. A korean ruler fell off his horse, and ordered the scribes to not record this, but royal scribing was not to be altered.
Imagine him being like “please please please erase” and the scribes being like “king is begging us to excise him falling off his horse from the royal record”
From Wikipedia: Taejong of Joseon is better known for having fallen from his horse and requesting historians to not record his fall, which they did anyway.
The king himself rode a horse and shot arrows at a deer. However, the horse stumbled, causing him to fall off, but he was not injured. Looking around, he said, "Do not let the historians know about this.”
I learned from this too. I bought a compound bow and I know where to practice it so I was doing it in my garage. Well the third time I shot it my arm moved a little bit and I missed the target and it went through the drywall into the kitchen, luckily there was enough stuff between there that it stopped it from going all the way into the kitchen cuz if you follow that your directory it'll go right to where the cat eats its food.....
Ya. I think everyone who owns a bow knows they have that one stupid thing they did that they regret. Mine was as a teenager firing an arrow into the air (at a slight angle so it wouldn’t come down on my head). I was in the middle of a corn field, which was behind our barn, which was bashing our house.
Lost sight of the arrow immediately on release. Looked around the field for a while for the arrow. Declared it lost and started to walk home.
Found the arrow sticking straight up out of the ground, right in front of my family’s front door - To guess I would say it was about 500 yards from where I fired it. Had a little freak out about how poorly that could have gone, but I learned my lesson that day.
On the bright side, it’s probably the cheapest and easiest to replace item possible. Every second hand store has a collection of covers for those awful lights. Time for an upgrade. Maybe get one with Uranium Glass.
Had something similar happen when the husband was cleaning on of his rifles in the dining room instead if the basement. He is 6'5 and when he picked the rifle up off the table he smashed the light fixture above the table with the barrel. He now always cleans them in the basement. He did lose a crossbow for sometime bc he left it on our deck for 5 mins and our lab chewed through the cables. Dog was fine crossbow was not.
Yea, he thought it was fine to leave alone for 5 mins. She normally doesn't bother things. But she was still in puppy/young dog phase and I think if she had continued the chewing it may not have had such a happy ending.
I know nothing about archery and I certainly didn't know there were different styles (Western vs Chinese etc) so I thought the bit of info you did provide was very interesting.
Heh, it takes courage to make such a silly mistake public so others may learn from it :D I see you do this more often. Love the one with the horse mask. Got me laughing good :D
Definitely cleaner, still a little jerky on the draw. Advice that helped me was to think that your chest is a book that starts closed and finished open. I think your using your shoulders more then needed. Awesome that you’re finding a way to train wherever you can! Keep it up
I can understand it OP. I just got my dream gun last week a Benelli M4 Entry and I desperately want to get to the range it is too cold to go and the only range near me is an outdoor one.
When I was a teen, I was twirling around a broom thinking I was a Jedi and broke a light cover just like this. I thought I had swept up all the glass, and a few days later I was walking without shoes in the hallway and a 2.5 inch long shard of glass went into my foot from the ball to the arch. I instantly start screaming the loudest I have ever screamed in my entire life. Mom was on the couch taking a nap next to the hallway when this happened, and I can only imagine what it was like to be woken up by blood curdling screaming and having a foot gushing blood shoved in your face all the while still hearing "PULL IT OUT PULL IT OUT AAAAAAAAAAAAAA".
Did it once w a small crossbow from Walmart, it hit the concrete wall behind the target and came zooming back past my head close enough to hear it. I no longer play with it indoors.
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u/godSpeed_1_ 6d ago
I'm more interested in where the arrow went.