Form feedback for archers without a coach.

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. The shot is built on a statue — this number is how statue-like you were.

Seen from behind, how wide your shoulder line looks at full draw. Aligned shoulders point straight at the target and almost vanish — width here is the line rotated open.

Whether your shoulders and hips agree at full draw. The shoulders aim, the hips stay home — daylight between those two lines is the T twisting.

Stand three to five meters from a bare target butt - no target face, nothing to score. With nowhere to aim, the shot cycle itself becomes the target, and your body finally gets to feel a clean shot without the pressure of hitting anything.

With a stretch band instead of the bow, draw to anchor against a wall or mirror, settle for three seconds, then let down slowly. The band lets you rehearse a high, behind-the-arrow elbow a hundred times a week without fatigue or arrows.

Draw a stretch band facing a mirror and watch only your head: it should stay tall and still while your hand travels to it. The string comes to your face - your face never goes hunting for the string.

Draw, anchor, and simply hold for five to eight seconds without shooting - feel the shoulders settle into one line toward the target, elbow behind the arrow - then let down under control. Holding without shooting teaches the position that shooting rushes past.