what is a clean release and how can a
phone teach you how to achieve it
achieving a clean release is one of the
challenges which faces every Archer with
a new or experienced you may have come
across the phrase plucking the string
and while this may not be as bad in your
case you may find that when you come to
full draw you just don't know what to do
of your hands so you end up doing weird
things like and you may be copying the
picture-perfect releases which some
artists do something like and look many
of these releases actually might be fine
the straighter ones the hair comes
straight back even with the gestures the
finger pointing or the painting the
other cheek many of these things will
help accomplish the right goal of
getting the arrow on target so often
even if the follow-through is cosmetic
and photogenic it doesn't necessarily
affect the shot but other releases are
going to be a lot more graddic however
it is important to pay attention to how
you're released in the string and how
you are following through because as one
of two contact points with the bow if
this part of the process is not
consistent it's going to throw the arrow
off and a big hallmark of this problem
is the arrow moving left or right as you
pluck the string and move the hand
sideways or off to your diagonally and
therefore you induce a lateral motion in
the string therefore the error is going
to be flying out in a different way so
what is a clean release when people see
and sometimes try to explain the release
in the process they think of it as
opening up the fingers this usually
makes sense but in terms of the movement
which the archer does opening the
fingers is actually not what you want to
do to put things simply you don't want
to open up the fingers to let the string
come out you want the string to mu-2
fingers out of the way another way to
visualize this is for looking at the way
your fingers a place on the string when
you hook the string the fingers should
be parallel on release the fingers
should maintain the same position in
other words when you were drawing her
back and releasing it if your hand and
fingers open up then this may be a sign
of a forced release illustrate this in
one more way and this is an anecdote
with our HKC clay when I was only seven
at the other week I was sitting in the
front row and he was explaining the
expansion and follow three steps and
we're talking about the release and what
he did was he picked up my phone from my
table he held it in his fingers and he
said while holding a mock plastic bow
that if he was to release this correctly
the firm would not drop from his hand to
the concrete floor so as I was watching
in a very petrified way he pulled the
bow back and he released it and the
phone of course stays in the fingers now
at the time I was kind of freaking out
because well I guess my release is a
people flamboyant so I would imagine you
but drop the phone right away but in his
explanation a clean release means that
when you get the food raw it doesn't
drop the the fingers maintain that
position because your course already
squeezing the finger spacer here but if
the fingers don't open up there is no
reason for the phone to drop whereas if
you force to release so you force a more
cosmetic release and obviously it's
going to create that drop and this was
such a simple demonstration but it
really highlights the habits that a lot
of people have even the picture-perfect
follow through such people are to copy
also result in the phone being dropped
and it just makes absolute sense to me
when you have an extra talk or rotation
in your follow-through that must come
from a point previous to that so if you
are doing this with the straw
that you must be playing some kind of
lateral force or torque to achieve it
follow through it so again if you were
doing this and you're forced to follow
through it then the phone dropping is a
sign that you are making it too
conscious and plucking the string or
opening your fingers up whereas with the
relaxed clean release when you let it go
and that shouldn't change so with the
bow if I'm overthinking what I'm doing
and I force the release I can achieve
that beautiful picturesque
follow-through but it isn't necessarily
a clean one all right those of you
seeing some more recent videos may have
noticed a very short compact movement
very simple very short it goes straight
back
not up left right down or whatever
straight back again many people will
shoot fire with a more flamboyant
follow-through but that is the
fundamental movement or the result of
movement that you need to accomplish
again you will see some successful
shooters have very dynamic and explosive
releases and they should find the wind
champs and so on and again I'm not
saying that this is the own release that
works and you certainly shouldn't copy
meets as I'm doing it not definitely not
but I understand that people who have
slightly inefficient processes or
slightly inconsistent processes may have
other ways overcome them elsewhere in
their shot process and it works all fine
until it starts breaking down so that's
one way to look at how to accomplish a
clean release I want to in this video by
including a few extra tips which people
might find helpful in booting up the
process to get to the point on having
their clean release pay attention to
where your fingers are placed on the
string if the hook is too deep and I
mean it's like a second joint deep which
you might see in some diagrams then this
forces you to open your fingers up a lot
more to get the string to come off the
fingers whereas if they clean a release
you find many archers who have the
string someone across the fingertips not
on the tips themselves not too deep but
on all around the first joint to put it
simply you'll see different actually
different Albert distributions but by
having the fingers slightly off the
first joint and the string you see that
when it comes to full draw then it's
much simpler to accomplish that release
without excess movement check your wrist
position when you draw if the wrist is
bent inwards like that then again it's
gonna be very hard to get that release
because the hand is extended in a
strange way a full draw the wrist should
be straight so straight wrist means a
straighter release watch
Alber position a lot of people have this
problem in general when you're drawing
if your elbows too far off to the side
then it's outside the align of the arrow
by doing this you have to kind of come
around like that which forces more of a
lateral motion in the release the most
important tip is not to consciously
focus
on the release and this is a mistake I
think about people make them in teaching
release to blue I'll observe that for
example you are opening up too much and
parking it so to say focus on relaxing
how's that work really like how do you
focus on relaxing but it's relaxing it's
when you aren't focus you're just not
thinking of anything right so if you're
going here and go focus on relaxing
fingers it's kind of a contradictory
order so what you should instead do is
focus on something else in the process
don't think about the release just let
the release happen so in the case of a
shot cycle you would be focusing on the
expansion so by having the bow arm go
forward and the adroit arm go backward
that 50/50 forward motion and back
motion if you focus on that the release
is going to happen by itself whereas if
you think too hard by the release you
often lose back tension you don't expand
and you think about opening your fingers
up so focus on the process expand and
let the release happen by itself
I hope you found these tips helpful
while the sister rated at Olympic style
shooting mostly if you're shooting off
two fingers in any form you may find
many of these things to be relevant and
helpful to you what do you think guys
how do you accomplish your release push
your thoughts below this is Lou sensei
thank you for watching and I'll see you
next time