Monthly Archives: October 2012  Plucking. Really?  It is common
for archers to release the string with a “flair” of the hand
moving to the side, away from the neck instead of a flow
straight back.  A very common sight seen after arrow release
Too often the coach says, “you are letting go of the string. 
Don’t let go, let it slip out by relaxing your fingers.”  Agree.
SOME archers have too much flair of the string hand.  After
studying more than a thousand archers with high speed
photography, I conclude there is a different cause than
“actively letting go of the string”.  As with most of the NTS
method, doing one thing wrong leads to other things “wrong” and
you must correct the original cause, not the symptom. Do that,
and the symptom vanishes.  I feel that “overgripping” coupled
with “failure to align” causes most of the “flaired straight
fingers upon release” archers make instead of them actually
“actively opening” their fingers.   If the bow has 30 pounds at
click, the archer should be using 30.1 pounds t