This anorexia promotion disguised as fashion photography has some major issues with archery as well. On to the mistakes:
1. The Mediterranean draw uses three fingers to draw the bowstring, not four like here. A beginners mistake.
2. The arm should point backwards from the direction of the arrow. Lifting the elbow too high wastes a lot of energy. A beginners mistake.
3. This arrow is way too long for this woman. All the arrowshaft coming in front of the bow in a full draw is wasted material. Overly long arrows were in fact used, but only in hunting, and usually fishing, by some native tribes, for example in Amazonian rainforest. Which is by the way burning at the moment. Horrible! But to this European medieval shooting style overly long arrows do not belong.
4. Arching her back like this is not a good form for archery, or anything else than looking sexy in a photograph. Archers did indeed lean forward in the middle ages, but it involves hip hinging, and the back should be straight, not arched like you had a lumbar lordosis. Even when doing archery, the back is not supposed to be arched!
5. No other arrows anywhere to be seen tells that this model has just been given a bow and one arrow and she has never held a bow in her hand before.
By the way, the faux leather can't cover the fact that this bow is entirely modern in its construction.
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