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Thank you! Let's dive into that! How does G Fred Asbell show?
Funny thing is that I'm basically instinctive (imagine where I need to align vertically based on what my mind says the trajectory will be) out to 20yds. Then at 20 I start to use an actual aiming method from there to 30yds. At 20yds, the tip of my arrow equates to point of impact. After 20 though I have to institute a holdover with a gap that progresses as I walk backward.
He advocates doing it like throwing a baseball, meaning do it over and over until a fluid thing becomes precise.
burn a hole in the target
ignore the arrow
do a swing draw from the hip
bend knees and bend forward as you draw
use a very open stance so you can't hit your arm and with a light arm bend
bend head down as you come to anchor (you're kind of crunching everything up like a tiger pouncing....knees, hips, neck, etc...directing all that energy and focus at the target)
cant the bow heavily
do not hold anchor but snap shoot
I've never seen him recorded by a 3rd party shooting past 20 yards, so I he might have the type of raw athleticism or decades of practice to pull that off. But the vast majority of archers cannot shoot like that and be accurate past 20 yards (more like 15 really). It's enticing though because if something works at 15 then it should at 30 if you try enough, right? But it just breaks down and usually can't be fixed.
When it's all said and done, you do end up shooting about as accurately as you can throw a baseball, but for mos people that isn't good enough to hunt past 20 yards. So maybe, it is the perfect analogy "with this method you will be able to shoot an arrow through the inside of a tire at the distance from the pitcher's mound to home plate".