Why do my arrows not fly straight?

Hey folks, so today I wanted to talk to you guys a little bit about a subject that I've been kind of discussing with some of my KTA friends on and off, and that's about the issue of the arrow flying sideways. Now, what do I mean by that? If the arrow is basically bouncing off of your bow, well, accuracy also becomes quite difficult at long range, right? Now, that might seem kind of like a no-duh, but you would be surprised. As a right-handed archer, when I release, the string is going to want to recover towards where its original position was, which means the string ends up moving right to left slightly, okay? It may not be a lot, but it's just enough, especially with wargo poundages, where it causes basically the nock to move inwards towards the bow, further aggravating the archer's paradox. Now, even if you have the arrow straight, the arrow is still going to oscillate. It's still going to do the archer's paradox thing, but this right-to-left movement of the string makes it worse, and when that happens, the arrow ends up flexing more, and especially if you're running a low brace height. Okay, by the way, if you're going to shoot warbows, you want to air towards a little bit on the higher side of the brace height to give yourself more clearance room. This flexing of the arrow, like, now you have to somehow get the bow out of the way of the arrow when it's bent this much, and I'm like, good luck with that. When you're shooting Korean warbow poundage bows, like, good luck with that, because the arrow is traveling way too fast at this point, which is why when people try to do more and more and more katra, it doesn't really help. And the root cause was the fact that I wasn't pointing my arrow straight. Why? Because my form was bad. That's basically what it boiled down to. Back in the day, when I first got into warbows, I kind of used some sort of weird amalgamation of what some of my friends kind of told me about English warbow archery, combined with a time when I was shooting kind of mainstream KTA form. But as I've kind of mentioned and alluded to a number of times already in past videos, Korean warbow form is very specific, the more and more I research it. And I realized that you can't, you got to shoot the Korean bows the way it was meant to be shot. And one of those elements is making sure that you're using this triangular alignment, and what I call type 1 or type 2, but I prefer type 1. And one of the reasons why I prefer it is because how well it ensures that the point, the shaft, and the nock are in a straight line, and that the string is bisecting that line. So that when I do release, the string is going straight into the back of the nock at a perpendicular angle. And because the string is essentially straight in line with the shaft, all the force is going straight, which ensures that the arrow flies like this. And you will be surprised that if you actually do this well, then you don't really need that much torque. The truth of the matter is, is that trying to throw more goja chagi when your arrow is crooked actually will aggravate the arrow flying weird. Because really what you're doing is you're trying to, you're already shooting with the arrow pointing at a weird angle, and then you're trying to suddenly torque the bow to try to correct that at the moment of release. That just adds so many complications. So one example that I often give to friends when I give them advice, or to students I work with in real life, is that if you don't have the arrow aligned properly, and then you release, over-relying on goja chagi or katra to try to correct that is almost like if you're shooting a sport pistol. Think like Olympic sport shooting. If you have the gun pointed sideways, charging, and then you squeeze the trigger, and then at the moment the bullet launches, basically the hammer drops and the bullet fires, you snap the gun towards your target, that's a very convoluted way. Why wouldn't you just point your sights and your barrel straight at what you want to hit, and then hold it there and squeeze the trigger? That's so much simpler. The same issue is true with the over-reliance on goja chagi or katra to try to correct for bad shots. If you don't have the arrow pointing straight from the beginning, and you just try to snap or torque at the bow to try to correct it, it's not a very good way of going about it. You'll get lucky sometimes, and yeah, the arrow will correct occasionally, but it's hard to be consistent like that, guys. It really, really is. And while I am a big advocate for the use of goja chagi when done properly and in the right amount, I'm a big, also, advocate against over-katraing. There's no reason to try to torque the bow to oblivion, because it's just A, not necessary, and B, the higher the poundage gets, the harder it actually gets to do that, because it's just the inherent tension on the limbs and the string when you're at full draw. And you know what? I want to be clear about something. It is true that using alignment type 1 or learning how to shoot this way is not the easier thing to do. Alignment type 3 or 4 is easier to do, but it also has a lot of disadvantages, which is why I don't recommend shooting that way. Of course, one of them being that lining up the arrow straight is much more difficult. Is it still possible to line up the straight shooting like with alignment type 4 or 3? Yes. Oftentimes, though, you have to make some sort of other compensation, and a lot of times people will, for example, shorten the draw length in order to do that, or they'll move their head at a weird angle to do that, which also introduces other problems. So when you build compensations on top of compensations, again, it gets convoluted. It makes it difficult to be consistent, and remember, consistency is super important for accuracy in archery. So rather than doing the thing that at surface level is easier but ultimately makes your life harder when you're actually trying to shoot well, I tend to recommend people to learn to do the technique that may be harder to master. Yes, it takes more time, more discipline, more slow and steady development of strength and flexibility and neuromuscular control and all this kind of stuff to do it safely, right? Because we want to do it safe. We don't want to get injured, right? But with that slow, safe, gradual buildup, eventually when you get to the point where you can do it well, you will reap the rewards and the benefits, right? So anyways, yeah, make sure that your arrows are pointing straight.