"Archery is meant to be fun and all, but sometimes you just want to be better than the person next to you." So true...

“Consistency leads to accuracy“ great quote.

Thanks. Great advice on back muscle tension. Apart from "having fun", the most important thing is to keep having fun. Archery has given me that for 40 years. You are a good teacher, this old dog has learnt some new tricks.

How to impress the instructor on your first session: Arrive early. Do what you can to help set up and put away.

Every beginning archer should watch this video. I am getting back into archery after 40 years. Thank you for all the beneficial process steps.

Good presentation , I learn alot thank you

This is the video I recommend people start with. Stuff I'd add: 1) Keep your toes in line with the target, bow shoulder toward target. 2) Keep both eyes open. 3) Dynamic release. You did mention "proper follow through", which I guess is dynamic release. But by the time I figured that out, and started trying to understand what it is, I had some static release to unlearn. I wonder if I'll ever feel up for making a similar video.

Your explanations are so good for a beginner like me. Thank you Nguyen Sensei

The beginner friendly video I've been looking for, thanks a lot.

I have to remember those tips and hope to become a good archer with practice. Thanks for sharing this information with us and I enjoy your information and plan to use it when I get my bow put together and find the arrows I want.

Great advice. Thanks for posting!

Got to say, back tension is vital and sadly, something I wasn't taught at all, I was taught to imagine I wanted to elbow someone behind me. I'm just starting my third year of archery and currently the county champion, have county records, and finished 6th in my countries (Wales, UK) rankings last year and my 1st year outdoors, all good you may say, but all done with pulling throught the clicker with my arm and not using expansion (W&W AXT with 46lb EX Powers) I was never taught how to get it onto your back and expand. As a result, I'm resting a right shoulder injury, tight biceps only, no rotator cuff tear fortunately and having sports massage therapy. I believe that correct form should be taught right from the start, sadly, it's not always taught from day one, nor are warming up methods, many a time, I see archers arrive at a competition, set up and get onto the line having never warmed up, but that's another topic.

If you want to shoot well on your first session these are great points as always. From my lot I'd rather they paid more attention to safety on lesson 1 - I've just told you not to do that so stop doing it!

Wow this video was extremely helpful for a beginner archer. Thank you so much!

Anchor point. Okay. Sense of touch on the alignment of the arrow. Cool, cheers.

Can’t wait ! We go to our first beginners course in a month

Thinking of trying archery out as the inevitable Zombie apocalypse approaches.

I bought a Samick Sage bow and started shooting for the very first time this afternoon. I love the way you give instruction, very clear, easy to understand and 3 people that watched me shoot today asked, is this really your first time shooting? Thank you nusensei!

but sometimes... you just wanna be better than the person next to you me: lmao so true

When I practice, it's a thing of intense concentration. To train myself to detach from the the world, I have a special collection of high poundage bows that I dry fire. I keep at it, meditatingly until, one by one, each bow explodes in my hands or my face. I do not flinch. If I flinch, I lose.

Great video! You're a video pro Man!

I needed this. Thank you.

This is awesome!

Great info, ty!!

NUSensei's Ompf law :D thanks for the tip!

Focus on trusting your instructor and listening to what they say. ;) The main issue I had on my opening lessons (and still have to a certain extent) is caused by the fact that my draw arm has a torn rotator cuff -- I can't raise my elbow high enough to show full/proper position, and as a result I'm compensating a lot with strength.

THANK YOU!

Great tips

Excellent.

Damn, so helpful💜👌

I love your videos keap on

This is just an idea, but if you fitted a laser pointer to the arrow, (just for instructional purposes) this may highlight the trajectory of the arrow. Just a mad thought. Thank you.

Thanks sir

First lesson tomorrow so thanks

Hello mate, you are excellent whatever tutorials you have made so far I have seen. I have a question for you ,how many times we can use or shoot 1 arrow?

Thank you for this video....I have an AR15 Rifle and a Beretta 92X but now am interested in getting into ARCHERY since pullets are so very expansive and I feel like I want another weapon for protection, but where can I learn everything that I need to know? Can anyone tell me where to go, please! where should I buy my first Bow?

'How can you make your friends look bad' lol

I know some people that don't use a sight whose anchor point is next to their eye instead of their mouth. Is that a good practice? They say that you can aim to the middle instead of below, but their accuracy isn't that great (note that none of us are professionals) I use a sight, so I don't know if they're right or not...

What if you start by using a D loop and a release ring?

What do you think about face crawling vs gaping off the riser? What is the best way for pinpoint accuracy on the first shot without a sight?

When I had my first 9 hour session of archer in the span of 3 days, The instructors were telling me to anchor below my chin instead of anchoring to my cheek, beside my mouth. They also didn't teach me or even remotely mention anything about back tension. I remember after the first 3 hours my bow forearm and shoulders were starting to get tired by the end of it. At the time I hadn't done enough research about archery, but in hindsight that was a clear indication I was using my bow arm more. The fact that I was artificially adding a follow through I think reinforces that. I'm pretty tall. 5ft11, very heavy set and was given a 16 pound bow with flimsy sights that needed adjusting every 20 shots or so. What's the difference if I anchored the arrow underneath my chin or anchor it on the cheek beside my lips instead? How would the 2 different anchors affect where the arrow lands? Will I still feel the back tension clearly even when draw weights are as low as 16 pounds?

I'm using back tension but there's no follow through?... is it the low draw weight?

what is the bow/draw weight on the bow you used in this vid? it looks like a mandarin duck bow with a 20lb draw.

Can I hope to learn this when I have a dominant eye? I am not seeing depth, so in my mind I need to just build experience with different lengths, but is there a tutorial vid on youtube that attempt to figure out a problem like mine? Also... Should I alternate which arm to use?

How to aim my target?

What was the brand of takedown you were using in this video?

Nice bleeding cowboy font shirt you got there

as a brand new beginner, my biggest concerns are not fucking up my shoulder, breaking arrows, or missing the target.

Where do you get your arrows

is it ok if i want to do archery bc of Oliver queen

Can you teach me how to aim without sight device?

When aiming did you say the further you are from.the target the higher you aim ? Or other way around

Is it the same when it comes to traditional archery?

I'm not sure if you still answer these comments, but here goes. I learned archery in Boy Scouts. I still have my bow. Now I'm well beyond those fun years and I will be doing archery with my high school students. When I draw my string back, I think that my thumb anchors on my face, next to the lips. Is that an OK anchor point?

"you should feel a very satisfying OOMPF"

Bow name :D?

First maybe

Why do a lot of archer have a big stomach?

No archery proshops where I live, I had found the bow I wanted and had it sent to basspro store. Went to pick it up and the clerk was setting up the bow while I used the pay machine. I looked up to see him step on the bottom tip and hand bend the upper limb to seat the string. Needless to say I didn't purchase the bow.

only using back tension is bad as well

What amazon arrows do you recomend? I went to the local place and the instructors want me to get expensive arrows...

Will repainting my limbs affect the performance in any way?

what do you mean " another hole"? 8-)

"How can you make your friends look bad" - LOL...

You can train your back tension by taking an arrow in your hands and pulling it apart

I'm here after watching "All of us are Dead"

back tension on day one? right...

So all I really need to concentrate on is being better than the fellow next to me....hmmmmmmm. Sounds like a teacher who wants to keep it real.

im watching this because oliver queen happened

Subtitles please.

Are you an Aussie NuSensei????

Right, and i started archery with a 40 pound hunting bow... bad... idea...

There's already 4 holes there...

lol

Want then war thunder vids ;3

'Make another hole' oops

please translate Indonesia leaguege

Hey Nu, your belly is getting kinda big... just helping a brother out. Btw good form though