ULTIMATE FIX TO BOWSTRING SLAP "ARM AND FACE"

when shooting traditional archery I have encountered two problems that keep reoccurring one is the wrist lap and the second one is I slap my cheek with the tab today we're going to deal with those two problems and talk about the symptom and no and not talk about the symptom but talk about the problem I've made my first bow a long time ago at my parents house and it took like three or four bows to make before I got one that was workable and could shoot and I was extremely excited one second I was extremely excited to show my dad uh you know as a child I wanted him to be proud of me and so I had him come out and I wanted him to shoot the bow and he was like okay yeah you know I'll shoot the bow and so I think he was a barehanded shooting the bow and he drew back and shot and slapped the string whacked his wrist and he like tried to shake it off you know and he shot again and whacked his wrist and after three or four shots he's like you know I think that's enough and his wrist turned like purple and there was a huge lump there and I still kind of feel bad about that today because it was my fault and not actually his the reason being my brace I was too shallow problem number one with wrist laughs is brace height being too short what happens often when a beginner starts to shoot archery they may get this wrist slap and then it makes them not want to shoot so I think they need to get an arm guard immediately when often that's not the case lots of times your brace height might just be too short the question is how do you change your brace height and actually it's very simple all you've got to do is twist your string a couple twists and it'll make your brace eye taller because what's happening when you twist the string up tighter the strings getting shorter because it's a tighter twist it's fairly simple and I tend to fail on the side of not having a large enough bracelet with all of my self bows now if you have a bow that you bought from somewhere there's gonna be a recommended bracelet and normally it's a fairly high range like six and a half to eight and a half inch brace itit'll be recommended in the specs and so you want to try those different brace Heights and find the one that works best for you what happens is you may have your brace height at six and a half inches and that's slapping your arm so move it up closer to the eight eight and a half inches and that may solve your problem of wrist slap the second reason we slap our arm when we shoot a bow is because we grip the bow tightly and when you grip the bow tightly it brings your arm in closer to the string and with a lot of people it'll slap your wrist if you grip it right in the palm of your hand and don't wrap your fingers around the bow and just gently lay them down it brings your arm out away from the bowstring and this is the main reason that anybody would slap their wrist when shooting a bow so if you're slapping your wrist when you shoot your bow deal with the problem not the symptom because the problem is normally your form or if it's not your form your brace I might be too looked so I've shot a glove my entire archery life that's what I started with my grandpa had a couple gloves that he let me use and I started with those and I kept continue to use those for a long time until I lost the gloves I left them at the previous house that we lived at and I was never able to get them back so I needed to get a new glove or something and Garrett at that point was starting to make these awesome archery tabs and so he said he'd make me a quiver and a tab and I wouldn't make him above when we made this deal as you guys know how that turned out not so good so just let's keep that on the deal anyway so Garrett gave me this tab and so I started shooting with this tab and as I shot I kept slapping my face and I had no clue while I was slapping my face and it was annoying me because I was just like man I really do not like to shoot with the tab because with the glove it felt smooth my face wasn't slapping it and you know I mean the less pain when you shoot the better and more enjoyable your experience is gonna be and I had the tab all the way to the tip of my fingers because I didn't want the string to slap off on my the tips of my fingers when I released but I decided to try to change it up and try to figure out what was happening so I moved the tab back as far as I could in my hand and left all my finger tips exposed when I gripped the bow string I grip it really deep though and so I was hoping maybe it wouldn't hit my finger tips and it did not hit my finger tips and I didn't slap my face with the tab so if you're slapping your face with the tab maybe try moving that tab back in your hand and shoot it that way and it will not slap your face that's my experience if you guys have any ideas why else I was slapping my face let me know but that's my experience while I was slapping my face oh that's a good shot everybody thank you for joining me today my name is Kramer Amin's if you are new here I make bows what we're gonna do is we're gonna take these bows bring them into the field and take them hunting and see if we can be successful with traditional equipment we make ourselves I hope this tip video was beneficial to you if your slapping your face or slapping your wrist let me know any more tips you have because I still fall into these problems every once in a while and you can help anybody else in the comments thank you everybody who have subscribed and if you haven't yet it's up to you we'll see you guys later [Music] think that's what vision there's something in the woods top power another cause of wrist slap is your form grip the bow tight slap your arm hard at my parents house and when I had finished it I was super excited to show my dad please I'm gonna trade my bow for that as you guys know and well you know I 79 yard shot through the woods [Music] bullseye [Music] you