Thanks Hue, for jumping in.Rock Steady wrote:I have a mate who can pick up a r/h or l/h bow and has an uncanny ability to hit the dot at 10m with both eyes open. He is right eye dominate, so when he shoots the R/H bow he is instinctive but according to your statement when he shots the L/H bow 1 min later he is not instinctive? I confused.3) if you are left-eye dominant and shoot right handed (and vica-versa) - you don't shoot instinctive!
The definition of instinctive is different for everyone, I am not sure why so many people get hung up splitting hairs over their definition being the only true and correct definition.
We are all archers and bowhunter's who probably all shoot at some level instinctively, the brain as someone pointed out is an amazing bit of gear and any of us who pretend to fully understand the human brain that well should probably be putting their knowledge to better use.
Anyway I got to get to work, talk more later.
Michael
Michael gives a good example that I can personally vouch for in my own shooting...the major limiting factors if I swap hands/eyes is my release being untrained, my anchor point not being very familiar and draw weight of the bow needing to be a little lighter to be comfortable but other than that I do not gap, I shoot very much the Fluid Instinctive style..I have not shot left hand beyond maybe 25m so will concede that I would very probably GAP at the greater ranges..partly to check-in on the steadiness of my aim as well.
But I'll take Michael's and Robert's questions even further. Can you explain why you feel that all or any of those peramiters exclude someone from instinctive?
I think that a concrete definition for instinctive is terribly hard but we can try for some generalities. But I will try to find some of the definitions as supplied by some of the more authoritive archers as well as try to located the first use of the term particularly in modern archery. Anyone who has an idea please jump in and help...Graeme A??