Form feedback for archers without a coach.
Film one shot from behind. Get an honest read on your alignment, draw elbow, anchor and follow-through: your form, never your gear. Stance width and your lean at anchor are a front-side read; film that angle another day.
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What the coach measures
One clip, one angle. Here's what each angle can read. Film the other angle another day for the rest.
How much your torso angle wanders from raise to release. Read it as a check rather than a grade: a big number is a real wander, but a small one is not a certificate. You can rock at the ankles with a rigid torso and barely move this number, and every published study that tells steadier archers from shakier ones measured body sway as travel, never as an angle.
From behind, how far your draw elbow sits out to the side of your shoulder line at anchor. A good elbow all but disappears behind you. Sideways daylight is the wing.
Where your draw elbow rides against your shoulder at anchor. Level or a touch high is the strong slot.
How long the string takes from the raise to your anchor. Smooth beats fast. This only flags a draw that’s a yank or a war.
How long you lived at anchor before the shot. Long enough to settle is the whole requirement. Compound archers park here, snap shooters visit. The bottom edge is the one the evidence sets: across 576 filmed arrows from a state squad, no archer aimed for under 0.56s, and the better half of that squad held about 0.7s longer than the worse half. The top edge stays wide because nobody has published how long a compound archer aims.
How planted your head stayed during the hold. The face is the anchor point. It doesn’t travel, the hand does.
Your feet compared to your shoulders during the hold. Around shoulder width, a touch open if that’s your stance: the same base every arrow.
How straight your legs stay through the shot. A settled archer’s knees barely move. A dip here means the base is working too hard.
How far your torso tilts from tall at the middle of your hold. A quiet couple of degrees is normal. A real lean usually means the bow is winning today.
How much your torso angle wanders from raise to release. Read it as a check rather than a grade: a big number is a real wander, but a small one is not a certificate. You can rock at the ankles with a rigid torso and barely move this number, and every published study that tells steadier archers from shakier ones measured body sway as travel, never as an angle.
Where your draw elbow rides against your shoulder at anchor. Level or a touch high is the strong slot.
How long the string takes from the raise to your anchor. Smooth beats fast. This only flags a draw that’s a yank or a war.
A category the clip can't show clearly comes back blank rather than guessed.
The report, start to finish
Explore it: this is the layout you get. The numbers below are a worked example, not a recording of someone's clip.
Practice you can choose
With a suitable practice band and finger sling in a safe direction, rehearse the shot cycle you were taught. Do not use a bow or arrow.
How to film it
- ✓ Film only at a proper range with a safe backstop, from behind the shooting line
- ✓ Phone on a tripod, portrait, close enough that you stand about a third of the frame tall, head to feet - below a sixth the clip is usually rejected
- ✓ Whole body in frame, head to feet, for the entire shot. ONE arrow per clip - the analysis reads a single shot cycle best
- ✓ Only the archer in frame. We follow one person per clip and pick the biggest one in it, so a coach or a shooter on the next lane can be tracked instead of you - especially if they stand where more of them is visible
- ✓ Start recording before you raise the bow and keep rolling through the follow-through
- ✓ A fixed camera reads your body far better than a handheld one, and head stillness and bow-arm drop are skipped entirely if the phone moves
- ✓ Normal frame rate at normal playback speed - no slow-motion export. We read the shot at 30 frames a second, so 60fps adds nothing, and a slowed-down clip reads as a slow release
Fix your archery
- Bow Arm Dropping at Release? Hold the Finish
- Creeping at Full Draw: the Leak You Can't Feel
- Your First Month of Archery: a Practice Plan That Builds Form First
- The Follow-Through: Your Shot's Receipt
- Head to String? Let the String Come to You
- Hip Sag: the Posture Leak Under Your Shot
- Leaning Away From the Bow: What Your Posture Is Telling You
- Plucking the String: Fix the Fling in Your Release
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