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Kyudo - Solo Garage Practice August 5th

Tonight I tried to work in my findings from yesterday. Not too many arrows though. I was a bit fatigued from the day before still and I already have some bad practices that I need to unlearn.

The primary ones I was looking at today were where my DAISAN was ending before starting progressing the rest of the way into KAI and a bit on my release and TENOUCHI.

The DAISAN point really seems to have improved a lot of things. By extending too far out with my YUNDE at DAISAN I'm pulling the METE in further along which creates a lot of problems. Some of them I may have been able to force my way through with the 10kg bow from before, but with the 14kg, I'm forced to engage other muscles to bring things back on track. On top of that... they may have never been right in the first place.

By leaving myself more room in that extension the METE ends up still above my head, and I have room to bring the YUNDE into my body as I draw. It also means I can open more or less evenly with both hands, and in the right direction.

There is one piece still tripping me up and it could be me posture breaking. The TSURU is slapping my hard in the left pec. And I don't love it.

As for release, I've realized that I'm pretty good at faking it sometimes, but I AM definitely faking it most of the time. Even when I think I'm not. The tell? I blink before the release. It is clear in the video. The 2 "natural" releases I had tonight were different, you can see in the footage that the blink and shock come after the release. 

For TENOUCHI, it wasn't a major focus. I didn't shoot many arrows tonight and was focused on bigger things. But I did want to make sure I was still stopping myself from adjusting the grip periodically. YUGAERI is still pretty good a decent chunk of the time.

Next time I get out there to practice I want to continue to focus on these things. As well as working on my posture or otherwise figuring out why I keep bruising myself. This one is pretty recent. 
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