korean style

[Uli]

Hi everybody !

I would like to ask the korean style archers among us 2 questions:

1- I watched 2 short videos on Prof.Duvernays site "amgakij"+ "sugakij"
One can see that they nock their arrow high on the bowstring, so it
would point down at an ankle of 20-30? (!): is that a correct observation?
should one practise this with western style arrows, too ?

2- one ATARN member meant that one has to "twist the grip" ?

My problem is that my wooden arrows (spine 75-85) almost always do some fishtailing shortly after relase when using my strongest magyar bow (80-90lbs). The result is that I hit targets at 80m better than the center of the target at 15m. With aluminium arrows (spine 80-90) the fishtailing is much less evident but still occurs.

[Thomas Duvernay]

Hi everybody !

I would like to ask the korean style archers among us 2 questions:

1- I watched 2 short videos on Prof.Duvernays site "amgakij"+ "sugakij"
One can see that they nock their arrow high on the bowstring, so it
would point down at an ankle of 20-30? (!): is that a correct observation?
should one practise this with western style arrows, too ?

Yes, the arrows are nocked high. It is done due to the way the bow is gripped (at a diagonal, with power at the lower part of the grip).

2- one ATARN member meant that one has to "twist the grip" ?

Although I didn't say it, I understand the meaning. Many archers will grip the bow and then push in with the heel of their palms, thus putting torque (CCW for RH archers and CW for LH archers) on the grip. The effect is, upon release the string will have a tendency to go out away from the bow arm (it tends to do that anyway, due to the side the arrow sits on when using a thumb ring).


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[Uli]

Thomas, thank you very much for your hints !

One more question:

I tried using the sugakji-style ring (the one with the nose),
and I can do a nice and deep draw (90+lbs, 32 inch), and find it a bit more comfortable than the ring without nose.

But in order not to hurt my thumb I fold the middle finger, not the index finger over the nose of the ring and the index finger over the thumb - just like with the ring without nose - as this is not the way shown in the video, is it adwisable to do like this or not ?

[Thomas Duvernay]

That's fine, Uli. Some people even use both their index and middle fingers.


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