Thanks for commenting Bob. Your comment is certainly correct if the archer is using a live, shootable release. But there are devices now that allow archers to draw a bow safely without an arrow in it. There are safe draws, which don't have any kind of release mechanism, so they can't release a bowstring. Also, there are releases that have locks built into them, specifically for training with a release without actually shooting your bow. You draw back an empty bow, go through the shot process, including activating the release, but it doesn't fire. That's what we used here. STAN makes a series of releases with what's called "trainer locks." For our video demonstration here, it would have been more dangerous to have an arrow on the bow. Just like when we check draw length in our shop, we use safe draws, and have customers draw bows without arrows.

Yes....determining draw length is universal. However, as you probably know, a traditional recurve effectively has no finite draw length. You can draw the same bow 25 inches or 32 inches. So determining draw length for a traditional recurve does not need to be quite so precise. It is good to know what your ideal length is, however.

So what draw length did he end up with.

28.5