Praca pleców (back tension)

Szczegóły

At full draw the bow's holding weight has to be carried somewhere. If the biceps and forearm of the drawing arm carry it, the hand tends to creep forward, pluck sideways or tense up as the shot goes off. When the drawing elbow is aligned behind the arrow and the shoulder blade keeps moving toward the spine, the load sits in the larger muscles of the back, the hand and forearm can stay relaxed, and the release comes out of a continuous motion rather than a deliberate act of the fingers.

For finger shooters, back tension is what carries the draw through the clicker in recurve and keeps the expansion going after anchor in barebow and traditional shooting. The fingers relax off the string while the back keeps working, so the drawing hand moves back along the neck as the string leaves: the follow-through coaches look for.

Compound archers meet the term twice. As technique, it is the same idea: after settling against the wall, the archer keeps pulling through with the back. As equipment, a back-tension release, often called a hinge, has no trigger; it fires when the handle rotates past a set point, which happens as the archer keeps pulling and relaxes the hand. Because the archer cannot time the exact moment, hinge releases are a common tool for working on target panic, and some archers use one in practice to check that their trigger-release shot is still driven by the back.

Back tension is easiest to learn without the target. Coaches commonly start with a stretch band or a light bow, often with a hand on the archer's shoulder blade so the archer can feel it move. Close-range blank-bale shooting then lets the archer feel the release happen out of the pull, before aiming is added back.