Micky
New member
I was wondering if anyone can help me with a small problem?
No matter how hard I concentrate, or try to focus "through" the gold, I know when my bow is going to go off and I either flinch (I dry fired my compound a couple of years back and made a mess of my arm with the cables) which is a disaster and makes me miss completely, or I jerk the bow out of the gold (left, right, down - doesn't matter, just out of the gold).
I have tried practising on a blank boss - that doesn't work. I don't jerk the bow on a blank boss. Put the pretty coloured circles back in front of me, and off it goes again.
I have tried working on the release - squeezing the shot instead of triggering the release aid - that helps slightly, but not much, but I soon go back to my old way of shooting and I guess I manage about 20 good shots a round.
The best solution so far has been a Cascade release aid, but I can even anticipate that if I start thinking about it.
So - with the combined wisdom of AIUK - what do I do? Back tension release aid? Practise more? Mental coaching? Go recurve?
Any (and I mean ANY) advice would be very welcome.
Mx
No matter how hard I concentrate, or try to focus "through" the gold, I know when my bow is going to go off and I either flinch (I dry fired my compound a couple of years back and made a mess of my arm with the cables) which is a disaster and makes me miss completely, or I jerk the bow out of the gold (left, right, down - doesn't matter, just out of the gold).
I have tried practising on a blank boss - that doesn't work. I don't jerk the bow on a blank boss. Put the pretty coloured circles back in front of me, and off it goes again.
I have tried working on the release - squeezing the shot instead of triggering the release aid - that helps slightly, but not much, but I soon go back to my old way of shooting and I guess I manage about 20 good shots a round.
The best solution so far has been a Cascade release aid, but I can even anticipate that if I start thinking about it.
So - with the combined wisdom of AIUK - what do I do? Back tension release aid? Practise more? Mental coaching? Go recurve?
Any (and I mean ANY) advice would be very welcome.
Mx