The purpose of this blog is to correct all the errors the popular media, movies, videogames and countless drawings depict relating to bows and archery.
Sunday, 27 January 2019
This is a curved stick, not a bow.
This seems like a princess cosplay of sorts. But with a bow. Or rather a stick with a string. It looks sad, sorry to say.
Mistakes:
1. This looks horrible, the elbow of the string arm should point backwards, not sideways like here. This is especially bad technique which results when a person doesn't know she should use more her back muscles for the draw and not just the arms. It would matter if she would have a real bow, with this toy she's not going to break herself, but it's still bad technique.
2. The bending of the elbow of the bow arm is also wrong. Bending it inward like this is a good way to get the arm bruised with the bowstring. It would matter if she had a real bow with actual poundage, not so much with this cosplay prop.
3. Mediterranean grip is done with three fingers, not four.
4. The arrow only has two flethcings, it should have three. They also seem to be too far back since they touch the fingers.
5. And now the bow. This isn't one. This is a stick with something hot glued on it for decorations. Then there's some string hastily tied to it. It wouldn't shoot, it's a curved stick, not a bow. Get a real bow next time please, this is fooling nobody.
Labels:
European archery
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female archer
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photograph
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ridiculous bow
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wrong grip
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This is exactly the problem with self titled artists.
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