Skip to main content

Tips on my hook

Hi,

Got my new Yost tab and want to make sure I'm using it properly :)

Here is my hook:

https://i.ibb.co/0D1k58m/116434438-785633645574971-6205959198711250145-n.jpg

Don't mind my strange wrist position and thumb/pinky. I was trying to keep the bow away from my body and extra fingers out of the way for the image :)

What im interested in is that is my hook fingers acceptable?

So my top hook finger is hooked right at the first joint and at about 90 degree angle with my palm pointing at my face.
My middle finger is more wrapped around the string.
And the tip of my bottom finger is just resting on the string.

This leaves my hand at an small angle away from my body. This is because if my head is parallel to my body and i anchor with my top finger to the corenr of my mouth and also push the rest of the top finger against my cheek its kind of impossible to still keep the whole hand parallel to my head and body.

Does that sound about correct or am i doing something really wrong? :)

submitted by /u/donaldTBD
[link] [comments]

from newest submissions : Archery https://ift.tt/3f4fBsY
via

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Happy St. Crispin's Day!

Battle of Agincourt From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ​ Part of the Hundred Years' War Date 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day) Location Azincourt, County of Saint-Pol (now Pas-de-Calais) Result English victory ​ The Battle of Agincourt French: Azincourt was an English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place on 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day) near Azincourt, in northern France.[b] The unexpected English victory against the numerically superior French army boosted English morale and prestige, crippled France and started a new period of English dominance in the war. ​ After several decades of relative peace, the English had resumed the war in 1415 amid the failure of negotiations with the French. In the ensuing campaign, many soldiers died from disease, and the English numbers dwindled; they tried to withdraw to English-held Calais but found their path blocked by a considerably larger French army. Despite the numerical disadvantage, the ba...

New Archers: What information do you need to know, and how do you find it?

One thing that I love about this community compared to other online archery forums is that it's got a good mix of experience. It's also where a lot of new archers seem to come for advice when starting out. That's great! However, it can be frustrating to give good advice without the correct information. Every body is different, and so every archer's setup and starting point is going to be a little different too. Eye dominance: For any shooting sport, it's important to know which eye is dominant because that's the eye that you will naturally aim with. There are several different tests that you can do, but the one that I've found to be most simple is to hold your hands up with your fingers and thumbs extended and overlap them so that they make a triangle. Look at an object in the distance through that triangle. Then you can either close each eye (one at a time) or bring your hands back to your face while continuing to look at the object. The eye that keeps ...

A Historical Defense of Lars Anderson

If you've been on an archery forum in the last few years, you've seen the discussions about Lars Anderson and his speed shooting videos. The comments across the internet about his videos are almost universally negative. You wouldn't believe the hate this guy gets. In a way, it's understandable. In his videos, Lars essentially claims that modern archers have lost many of the techniques that made ancient archers so formidable, and that through his readings of ancient archery manuals, he was able to rediscover some of those techniques. He then demonstrates that by using those techniques, he has become the fastest speed shooter alive today. And oh my god, those claims set the archery world on fire. The amount of hate he got then, and continues to get, is insane.These are VERY bold claims, and it's only natural to be skeptical. However, I find most of his critics to be disingenuous. And through my own readings of the early archery writings, I find that Lars is a lot c...