The Steps of Archery

If you are doing archery, archery is a very challenging and interesting sport. This is a sport that has almost no age limit and does not require high physical fitness. You can make more friends, find fun, exercise and strengthen your willpower in sports. However, if some common archery steps are not done well, it will affect your shooting accuracy. Therefore, we will explain to you how to make your shooting more accurate through the improvement of three steps.

1. Solid standing

When archers shoot arrows, they often inadvertently move their standing feet unconsciously between each arrow and each arrow. This is an acceptable bad habit. What's more, moving your feet during the archery action. Changing the position, angle, and center of gravity will affect your shooting for archery. Imagine that after a long period of practice and the memory of the muscle for the technical action, your next technical action will subconsciously try to complete it according to the previous time. Then the change in your standing will naturally destroy your overall sense. The accuracy of the arrow shot will also decrease accordingly.

If you have participated in the archery teaching L1, L2, and L3 given by the instructor of the International Archery Federation, the relevant issues of standing are often mentioned. To stand stably, you must first learn how to stand. Rather than standing casually and without strength.

After completing your own suitable standing posture, after your two feet divide the weight of your body equally, try to tiptoe, and then slowly drop until your heels touch the ground lightly to stop. At this time, your calves will feel tight and feel very solid. This also completes a perfect standing link.

After you have tried many times and can master this standing action, you don’t need to tiptoe. Otherwise, it will be up and down like this on the field. Doesn’t it feel strange?

At the same time, you must always pay attention to whether your feet move. When shooting each arrow, you must maintain a suitable standing posture and fix it.

2. The fixed position of the support point is consistent

The support point after opening the bow needs to be highly consistent. After drawing the bow, whether you are using a compound bow and your hand is resting on your face, or a recurve bow and your hand is resting on your chin, remember that the height of the rest position must be consistent! Find your rest position and practice repeatedly. Any height, front and back of the rest position can greatly affect your accurate shooting.

Although everyone has their own style of rest position and technical movements, the rest position is also different. But after finding your rest position, practice diligently and find these points, such as the tip of the nose, the corners of the mouth, the chin, the face, the roots of the ears and other parts. Do everything possible to use the organs of the face to help you find the rest position.

You can ask your coach or teammates to make some marks on your face, so that the other party can easily see whether each rest position is accurate.

3. Focus

Whether you are a rookie or a veteran, one thing you often forget is that you lose your attention to technical movements. Whether your attention is focused or not, it also greatly affects the ring value of the target surface. Archery is a sport that requires you to concentrate on each arrow, and it has very high requirements for thinking, attention, and maintaining your natural state. These are also very effective in helping you in your daily life.

Being nervous or pursuing the ring value on the target is a big reason that affects your concentration after you draw the bow. So archery requires keeping a "normal mind". Only by doing the technical movements well can you shoot each arrow more accurately.

We can try to take a deep breath before raising the bow to calm our minds and focus on the most accurate technical movements we need to complete, rather than the colorful ring values ​​on the target. Concentrate on doing your own technical movements. You can take a deep breath when raising the bow, and transfer the air downward when drawing the bow to the position, and feel that the air sinks into the dantian. When you are in a fixed position, the air is like drawing a thread, calmly, and focus on your own technical movements to release each arrow.

If you can concentrate on shooting each arrow well, instead of focusing on the ring value on the target, I guarantee that the results of such a game will surprise you and you will be more confident in shooting arrows well.