[Arcus]

Look at the second photo of Karen Scavatto on this link. Does the bow arm look a little out of the ordinary or is this an optical illusion?

http://texasarchery.org/Photos/NAANat/2006/Day1/P2/Day1P2.htm

 

[MacOfNiagara]

Arm

Look at the second photo of Karen Scavatto on this link. Does the bow arm look a little out of the ordinary or is this an optical illusion?

http://texasarchery.org/Photos/NAANat/2006/Day1/P2/Day1P2.htm

Well I am a novice at archery so I can't comment on her form, but my wife has the same elbow thing. In helping her to golf I noticed her arm does the exact same hyper extension movement. In her case it is when she addresses the ball her left elbow turns a bit counter clockwise and the angle of the elbow joint goes past 180% by about 5% or 10%. Looks painful to me, but my wife says her elbow has always been like that.

I assume this is a similar thing for Karen. I will reveal my ingnorance and say I don't know who she is, but if she is in a national I would assume it causes her no major problem, although I will hold off on trying to mimic that type of follow through. Ouch.

 

[Hoytusa84]

Such hyper extended elbow is biomechanically beneficial for archery. Eg of such elbow is Jang Yong Ho of Korea. I have an elbow that is the opposite of hyper extended, which means when I fully extent my arm, it is still slightly bent, and this is extremely bad. I have to use alot of my tricep muscle to keep it straight at full draw.