Archery for a 6yo - advice - help

[Jeff Hail]

6 year olds?

Large Trebuchet. In fact a few so the all the neighborhood kids can play. It teaches eye to hand coordination, thinking on the fly, algebra and ballistics, plotting, mindful breathing. When they run out of projectiles they can sit in the sling, launch each other into the next block and learn basic flight characteristics as well as exercises in gravity.

Hugh Latimer Dryden would agree. He graduated college at 14 years of age and won an award. Earned his MS in Physics by 18 years of age and wrote his thesis. "Airplanes: An Introduction to the Physical Principles Embodied in their Use." He kept a model Trebuchet on his desk.

Its safe as it does not involve fire.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

I'm not letting FB III use a sight yet. He's learning the old fashioned way.

Exactly, no sights for us either. Just be consistent in execution. Tight groups is what we're looking for.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Jeff Hail

6 year olds?

Large Trebuchet. In fact a few so the all the neighborhood kids can play. It teaches eye to hand coordination, thinking on the fly, algebra and ballistics, plotting, mindful breathing. When they run out of projectiles they can sit in the sling, launch each other into the next block and learn basic flight characteristics as well as exercises in gravity.

Hugh Latimer Dryden would agree. He graduated college at 14 years of age and won an award. Earned his MS in Physics by 18 years of age and wrote his thesis. "Airplanes: An Introduction to the Physical Principles Embodied in their Use." He kept a model Trebuchet on his desk.

Its safe as it does not involve fire.

LOL! Punkin' chunkin'!

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by masraum

Exactly, no sights for us either. Just be consistent in execution. Tight groups is what we're looking for.

He was shooting with precision but lacking accuracy wrt the bullseye. I'm trying to figure out why he is always high right.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

He was shooting with precision but lacking accuracy wrt the bullseye. I'm trying to figure out why he is always high right.

That's great! Precision is goal #1, with accuracy as goal #2 once you've got #1.

I know that you can tune your bow and arrows and form. It can get VERY complicated.

First you need the correct spline arrows, and it may take experimentation. Then you can also tune them with tips of various weight. I think there's a half a dozen other aspects that can affect where the arrow goes. And then since he's not using a sight, it may just be that where he thinks the arrow will go based on what he's seeing is incorrect and he needs to learn to always aim a bit low and left from his natural instinct.

I think this guy is an olympian, and some of his videos seem pretty good.




I don't know anything about this guy, but this is interesting.

[masraum]

This is probably deeper than you want to go. I'm not ready for it.



The Olympian's wife is a cutie too, here they are tuning her arrows.


And there's a guy that does a bunch of videos. I watched a bunch of them last spring. He went and visited a guy that does traditional Ottoman archery. One of the instructors was really impressive.

This is IMO, super impressive, the "Maydaan" instructor shoots an unfletched arrow ~50 meters and hits dead center in the middle of the target. It's just mind bending. I had no idea that arrows would even work without fletching, but apparently they work essentially "just fine."

[masraum]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

He was shooting with precision but lacking accuracy wrt the bullseye. I'm trying to figure out why he is always high right.

Everyone on the archery board recommends getting a coach or taking a course so you get coaching. That would be great, but I'm not going to drive an 1-1.5 hours. Maybe eventually if I get to a point and hit a wall. But for now, I'm going to keep watching videos, I also got the book "Shooting the Stickbow" by one of the guys on the archery board that I linked to above, practicing, and trying other techniques.