I've always said if you can sit down in a chair or a stool and draw your bow back smoothly with no contortioned movement, (having to pick the bow arm up or down to draw it back etc.) just a nice smooth draw back to your anchor, that is the correct draw weight for you. I also see a lot of people drawing with their elbows down, like their elbow is sweeping below their armpit instead of above the shoulder. This places all of the draw tension on your smaller hand, forearm, arm and shoulder muscles and you really want it on your much larger and stronger back muscles. You want to draw with your back muscles as much as possible trying to squeeze a tennis ball or golf ball between your shoulder blades. We all envision pulling back to draw; however, really the force vector should be (for a RH) archer from right to left with your back muscles (your two shoulder blades coming together) with little to no tension in your draw hand and arm. At full draw, your hand should be relaxed and your vector is moving toward your spine or perpendicular to how the string moves as you draw the bow back. When you pretend to draw a bow, if you're just pulling the string and do not feel the compression of your shoulder blades each time you draw, you are most likely drawing the wrong way. I learned this the hard way and I am still working on my form.
