Just now been able to read this the whole way through...wireless USB died 2 days ago about 5 minutes out of warrenty..longbowinfected wrote:There are two problems here.
Instinctive is the wrong term.
Not many of us are bio mechanists.
I would have thought that if true "instinctive" shooting is a reality that instinctive shooters could shoot any target static or stationary with any bow at any distance the first day they picked up a bow out of the bag without any coach or adviser telling them anything and without any training.....doesn't happen.
Same skills etc required to drive a car.
From lots of experiences including huge variables our learning transfers from unmastered highly conscious to unconscious highly skilled. In order to maintain the unconscious skill level and mastery you need to keep driving. Somecannotdrive manuals but weare all capable if we practice. If we can drive one type of car wecan drive any car even if it is not set up for us. If we stop regularly driving and reinforcing the learning andleave it for many years with a small amount of time we can reacquire the skills mastery level.
Your learning and skills acquisition is all about repetition, variation and adaption.
You may not beaware of your non conscious skills mastery. It is all incremental.
The unconscious brain calculation function and skills to shoot are not instinctual.....do not try to tell me that you mastered the bow or a car without training, coaching and practice. Talk to any teacher, trainer or coach and try to run that one by them.
The brain uses reference points and makes calculations and controls your body some have had more practice, others have more ability and inherent body sense.
From my experience not too many archers succeed shooting a large number of arrows at longer distances by instinctive means. From 30/40 metres in and gaps are very difficult. At this point the body sense and "instinctive" shooting comes into its own IF there has been a lot of practice over a long time.
Kev
Exactly correct IMO Kev.
Troy