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Watching this with a huge bruise on my arm lol. Very helpful for the next time. At first I shot with a posture that wasn't necessarily right but it felt comfortable for me and I could aim fairly well, but I also wanted to listen to the coaches and practice the right posture...that's when the string started hitting my arm. I thought I was doing something wrong but turns out it was just my overbending joints. The couch told me to bend my arm a little but that felt awkward and I started to miss a lot of shots. This is helpful. 🫡

When i was younger, i really wanted to do archery and had an opportunity to do so, but my instructor didnt explain anything about hyper mobility and so i hit my arm so much it bruised fast and i took it as a sign to never do it again lest i want to get more injuries.

Recently, almost 10 years later i finally pushed through that fear and got a recurve bow. I hit my arm often still but pushed through. I have a real issue of my arms not wanting to stay in that position and constantly flexing and moving while having the bow drawn, and it makes my arm hurt really bad, but hopefully if i practice more i can finally continue the dream of being the coolest person ever! This video helped a lot thank you so much!!

Thanks so much! My 12-year-old daughter has hypermobility and has been shooting very well (8 medals last year, 6 gold, and two national championships). She has been keeping her bow arm slightly bent and her coach had her straighten her arm while lowering her shoulder. Now I understand why!!  She still has a lot of work to do to shoot with a straight arm without string slapping, but this video explained so much. I also appreciate your injury mitigation strategy explained point-by-point.  Great video!

I remember once as a teenager going to the ER for a nasty cut on my hand and I was asked to help hold my finger out of the way so the nurse could do something and she freaked out when she saw my finger bend and was asking if I was sure I hadn’t broken any bones and than came too and realized I was hyper mobile and explained it to me. I didn’t even realize it and never had issues with it until an archery instructor at my range told me my elbow is hyper mobile too. I’m glad I found this video as most other people explaining it are either not Olympic recurve focused or not hyper mobile themselves. Still have not gotten over how weird the elbow rotation thing looks.

Thanks much. I got hyper mobility and slapped my elbow frequently. I'll try this technique for sure.

Thank you very much for this video!🎯

And NOW it all makes sense 🤯🥳
Thank you! 🎯

Thank you. I have 2 young archers that I could not properly assist with this. ❤

Thank you very much.

Thank you so much for this video, I got super injured on my first archery lesson yesterday, then found out my arm has this problem, I learned how to adjust my arms in the video, hope I don’t jet injured on my next one, thank you so much!

Good refresh for me.
Thank you very much.

Another great video even 2 years after it’s posting 👍🏹

thank you!!! i got told i wouldnt be able to practice archery, glad i didnt lose hope

Thank you!!!!

Yesterday I asked a coach why I always get hit despite the arm guard and he helped me understand my arm extends past the  normal amount and said I should get a longer arm brace. I still wanted to practice, however, and kept hitting the spot to the point of some internal bleeding. Another well meaning archer (not coach) said I should have a bent arm and pointed out someone else’s form that was good. It made me feel so frustrated but I didn’t know why. When I was bending, my shots were so bad and completely off from where I was aiming. This video has helped me find the right adjustment and I’m hopeful it’ll help along with a longer guard. This has also emotionally helped me understand why the archer pointing out another archer’s form made me so upset. Thank you infinitely.

This is so helpful! I was originally taught to bend my arm a bit to avoid string slaps, but with a 40lb longbow it wasn't possible to get any sort of consistency with that, I'd tire way too quickly, and I wasn't able to shoot with the correct draw length. After trying shooting with my arm straight I was doing much better, but also giving myself a super gnarly bruise. When I tried looking it up a lot of (very well meaning) men with wives/daughters with hypermobility kept telling each other it's to do with grip, etc, and I felt like this was probably not the case especially because none of these men has hypermobility themselves. Thank you so much for posting this and thanks especially for including the safety tips.

Thanks for this period I teach mostly children and beginning archers and this is the clearest explanation of how to help them with hypermobility of the elbow that I've ever seen.

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Thank you so much for this video!!!❤ And of course thank you for all the invaluable content! You have a gift for sharing your vast knowledge in a way that is both thorough and easy to comprehend!😊

Thnku soo much for this video