WHY YOU CANNOT GET BACK TENSION

You cannot get proper back tension and here is why. In this video we're going to cover what is back tension and how to achieve it. My name is Kazdin with Shire Proof Archery. Let's get to the point. There are two main reasons that people can't achieve back tension. Number one is that they're not physically able to. Number two is they have a broken wrist. Let's get into the first one. If you cannot get your elbow in line with your arm then you can't get back tension. Maybe you're not flexible enough. You can test this by lying down on the ground and if your arms, if your elbows can't touch the ground then you're not flexible enough and you need to do stretches. Maybe laying on a bench. Doing this stretch, oh it's so good. Just laying on the ground or laying on a bench and it'll stretch out your chest so that you're able to get proper back tension. Oh wow that's a great stretch. Reason number two is you have a broken wrist on your shot. What I like to say is a broken wrist equals a broken shot. So a broken wrist, by that I mean your wrist is like this as you're drawing back. It's really easy to do. When you do that it forces your elbow to go back this way. It won't allow you to get to full back tension. So this is what a broken wrist looks like. My wrist is like this. To fix this we want to create a proper hook. So that's a high wrist. You're kind of creating a hook like an eagle's claw. Keep a high wrist and that forces your elbow to go back around behind you. Fix the wrist, fix the shot. A good way to test and see if you have skeletal alignment is hold up your arms like you're about to shoot a bow and then have someone push on your bow arm and pull on your drawing arm. If you fold in like that easily you don't have skeletal alignment. But if you're locked in place you will not move because you got skeletal alignment. So when they're pushing in like this like a bow's pressure would be it shouldn't be an easy fold. If you're working on getting a high wrist or getting to full extension, full back tension, pushing your elbow behind you, I would say just doing that when you're not aiming. So don't worry about aiming. Get really close to the target. Just focus on that or don't even shoot an arrow. Just draw and just get in reps. High wrist, get into your anchor. Just do that over and over. That way you don't have to worry about aiming while working on form. I hope this is helpful for you guys. The high wrist flexibility can help you get skeletal alignment. Stay shatter proof and I'll see you on the next video.