I’ve seen a few posts on different forums recently from new archers asking advice on how to keep twists in their bowstring when they take the string off the bow.
If you are a traditional archery shooting a one piece bow, you tend not to remove your bowstring from your bow, but if you are shooting a take down recurve, then when you take the bow down, you will remove the string. At this point it is very easy to drop the string and thereby lose the twists in it.
I know many people use a simple clip to hold them together, but I’ve always used a technique shown to me by my coach years ago. I’ve recorded this showing the technique I’ve used for years.
As always enjoy your archery. Thanks for watching.
In this episode I recount how the start of December has floored my completely due to ill health and resulting in a trip to Accident and Emergency. I would like to offer a huge heartfelt thanks to all the staff there who looked after me. Thank you.
I talk about the damage storm Darragh has caused to the clubs archery woodland, with several trees down.
Lastly and somewhat seasonally I invite you all to consider an archery themed New Year resolution for 2025. I am not normally a big fan of New year resolutions. I have the view if you want to change something in your life then why wait to the New Year. this year though I would like to propose one for all to consider and think about for 2025. As the new year approach can we as an archery community should think about how we can open up to other classes and styles. Lets be even more friendly, reduce the animosity sometimes seen, reduce the them verse us mentality some have, reduce the gap v instinctive, compound v trad. Many of us don’t care and are happy to be out shooting whether others are using a longbow, recurve, crossbow, compound or whatever. We are all archers. So lets try and make 2025 more about the fun of archery, no matter what we shoot.
Thanks for all the support that has been offered to me over the past 12 months and may I take this opportunity to wish you all safe travels over the festive period, along with a very Happy Christmas and all the very best for the New year.
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