Sports (Athletes)

This ebook, An Alexander Technique Approach to Competitive Archery, is published on this website in a PDF format. It is very detailed and practical, and it will give you the physical tools you need to take the limits off of your ability to create an extraordinarily accurate archery technique.
This ebook is also for sale on all AMAZON websites in a KINDLE format.
Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. (MOVEMENT THERAPY)

This ebook is written to give specific and practical suggestions to help the archer stop causing any wear or tear or pain or injury to the archer’s neck, elbows, back, and shoulders.

If your archery technique is causing you to hurt, then you are doing something wrong, and this doesn’t have to happen. Too many archers assume that at some point they will get into physical trouble, and that this is unavoidable. This is not true! In many cases an archer who has gotten into physical trouble doesn’t know why. The archer may be pulling the bow with too much tension and trying too hard to control the placement of the arrow by immobilizing the body. In this ebook I explain how to do less work to create a more effortless technique and posture, and still hit the bull’s eye with great precision, ease, and trust.

Posturally, so many archers hunker down when they lift their arms to shoot, and they immobilize their shoulders. This does not have to be! In this ebook I explain how you can be fully upright when you support the bow, and how you can be fully upright using less muscle, than when you are hunkered down supporting the bow and your arms.

I also talk about shooting with a free neck, and how to shoot with accuracy without locking the neck, when you pull the bow string. There is truly no need to lock a single muscle anywhere in the body as you shoot. When you shoot you are in continuous movement throughout the whole body. Being absolutely still is an illusion, so hitting the bull’s eye is a matter of trust. If you try to hold a static position, you will cause your neck, back, and shoulders to hurt.

By using this ebook to find a way to make your technique continuously flow on a torso that is upright and available for hitting the bull’s eye, then the pain and injuries will begin to disappear. You’ll finally realize that you don’t have a pay a physical price to be an incredibly accurate archer.

In this ebook, An Alexander Technique Approach to Archery, I talk about the legs supporting the torso, and that you never need to immobilize the musculature of the legs to stand and shoot. It is possible to stand and shoot for hours and not pay a price physically in your legs, feet, and lower back. Again, you do not have to lock a single muscle in the whole body to be fully and dynamically upright for long periods of target practice.

I also bring to this ebook my three year training as an Alexander Technique teacher. An Alexander Technique teacher taught me how to play the classical guitar without any discomfort and healed the carpal tunnel pain in my left wrist. I bring my experience of hurting and healing on the guitar, and my training in the Alexander Technique to this ebook, to make you aware that the archer can shoot for hours without sacrificing your body or the accuracy of your shots in any way.