It doesn't happen to everyone with every bow, but a significant portion of archers, using the bows they use, have it.
Interesting. I shoot a 33# recurve with no compensation and no sight, and I don't hit myself with my string. I wear a bracer in cold weather to keep from fouling my shots on my long sleeve shirts, but my teacher and most other archers I've shot with tell me that if you're whacking yourself with the string, you've got your elbow hyperextended and your form's off.
I wonder if it has something to do with the grip of any given bow.
But if you're doing things right, it's in the same EXACT place every time.
Because if you're doing things right, your form is exactly the same every time - right. I just protest that one shouldn't be whacking oneself in the arm in the first place.
Especially after I ran the bowstring down my arm when I did hyperextend my elbow at one point. Boy HOWDY did that hurt.
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Date: 2012-08-04 01:32 pm (UTC)Interesting. I shoot a 33# recurve with no compensation and no sight, and I don't hit myself with my string. I wear a bracer in cold weather to keep from fouling my shots on my long sleeve shirts, but my teacher and most other archers I've shot with tell me that if you're whacking yourself with the string, you've got your elbow hyperextended and your form's off.
I wonder if it has something to do with the grip of any given bow.
But if you're doing things right, it's in the same EXACT place every time.
Because if you're doing things right, your form is exactly the same every time - right. I just protest that one shouldn't be whacking oneself in the arm in the first place.
Especially after I ran the bowstring down my arm when I did hyperextend my elbow at one point. Boy HOWDY did that hurt.