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in this video phil and i are going to
bring you six tips
to make you a better archer but we're
going to do it in a little different way
we're each going to give you our three
personal most impactful tips that have
helped us
progress as a shooter so let's get right
into it my first tip has to do with
anchor points
you want to make sure that you have more
than one anchor point and you want to be
able to find it naturally
so what i like to do is i draw the ball
of the bow back
and i bring the bow to my face and i
find the anchor point
which is my fist on my chin the my jaw
bone right at the back
and i touch my nose to the string and
when you do that the peep sight should
be centered
on your around your site
your head should be upright and you
should be in a natural comfortable
relaxed
state you should practice that
even with your eyes closed to draw back
close your eyes anchor
touch your nose to the string open your
eyes
peepsite should be centered on that site
every time
that'll help you to make sure that
you've got a consistent starting point
for every shot the second tip is
actually in executing the shot itself
and what you want to focus on
when you're executing the shot for the
longest time i was always looking at my
pin and then trying to find
get the pin on where i want to hit but
what you should be doing
is keeping both eyes open focusing on
the target itself and what you want to
hit on the target
and then allowing your pin to come to
that and
it's it's very similar to shooting a
shotgun where you want your hands to
come to where your eyes are looking and
you don't want your eyes constantly
chasing around that pin
and so when you go to make that switch
sometimes you have to
close your non-dominant eye to make sure
the sight doesn't move
but once you get used to it you can draw
back
find your anchor points keeping both
eyes open
focusing on your target
and executing the shot so
that will allow you to that will allow
you to
increase your accuracy especially on
long shots
the last tip was something that i really
started getting into last year
but you want to force yourself to shoot
outside
of your comfort zone so for me
for the longest time like 30 35 yards
was my max shot
and i still am probably not going to
take a shot beyond that unless it's
perfect situation
in the woods but you want to practice
shots that are longer than that and i
will shoot up to 65 yards and the reason
that i will do that
is because once you shoot 65 yards
when that shot comes in that deer walks
out at 20 yards
it's going to look like a chip shot but
if you're shooting 30 yards or you're
shooting 20 yards and that's your max
distance and that's
all the further that you shoot then
you're constantly shooting at
exactly what the maximum amount of your
comfort zone is
and by shooting longer distances it
makes your comfort zone
even though your max distance doesn't
change it makes it way more comfortable
executing that shot and the tips that i
provided for you
beforehand and finding your anchor
points keeping both eyes open
focusing on the target and executing
your shot
all come into play all right well hey
guys i hope you found those tips from
riley helpful
i'm going to spend a few minutes talking
to you about the top three things that i
pay attention to
but i'm surprised riley didn't point out
his new matthews bow
so throw it in there new matthews bow
maybe he'll do a review on it soon but
i got my old psc still so anyway one of
the first things that i have to always
be checking when i get into shooting
again
is my grip and so there are plenty of
times where
my grip is either too tight
death grip or too loose and it my
bow to the left
so when i get in the habit
of drawing again
so yeah right there i tend to stay loose
and and that to the left i've got
to keep my arm pretty straight
but not grip the bow let it rest right
in that pocket there
and make sure that i do not grab the bow
when i release the shot so i'll talk to
you about that in a sec
all right so second tip for me is my
my draw and my anchor points and my hold
so kind of all those things in one my
draw
is something that i just naturally want
to do
my anchor point is something i found
where if i put my thumb up against my
jawbone right there
that's the perfect distance for me to
know that i'm in the right spot
and then i'll touch my nose to the
string and that's my second anchor point
but what i'll tend to do is even though
i'm i'm anchored and my nose is touching
i'm concentrating so much on pulling
against that string so when i
slowly release that trigger i pull back
right
and helps me hold that shot firm
i will it against my uh face a
little too much and i'll
pull the bow back and i'll kind of pull
my shoulders together too far
so i've got to pay attention that when i
draw
that i'm anchored and and when my nose
touches
and i'm in good shape and part of what
helps me do that is i pull back with my
i kind of pull back like a tricep
exercise pull my
elbow back and down slightly
because sometimes what i'll do is i'll
pull across slightly and you can see
how that brings the bow across my chest
good position for me
that's poor position and that's a little
over exaggerated because i can even feel
that against my chest but
what will happen is when i when i pull
that bow
back and i'm aimed if i'm pulling too
hard i'll pull this against my face
and i'll feel too much against my chin
so that's the
if i'm going left i know that's one
thing that i'm doing and one thing to
check for so make sure that when you're
pulling back you're pulling straight
back you're in good good position
and you're pulling through that shot but
you're not overdoing okay the last thing
that plagues me
is my follow through so you heard me
talk about my grip in the beginning
once i get my grip correct i still have
a tendency to catch the bow
after i shoot which will jerk the shot
and then i also once i shoot if i
if i grip it or not i will have a
tendency to pull the bow down and to the
left
because i want i'm getting it out of the
way so i can see where my arrow went
and i have to really concentrate on
continuing to look through the site
look through the site and through the
site you see the arrow hit the target
and that's one thing that is a habit for
me that
is probably should have been my number
one tip because it's it's the thing that
plagues me
um the most consistently repeatedly i've
got to talk myself through that
pretty shock every time when i go to
release
watch the arrow through the site i have
to tell myself that
in my head so let's see if we can put it
all together here for you
in one shot
good grip
tight pull with the anchors
slow release and hold
good grip
tight pull with the anchors
slow release and hold
on target well those are my three tips
maybe there were four or five in there
altogether but ultimately between
uh the troubles that riley and i run
into and things we have to think about
hopefully this was helpful to you
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