Left Hand When Loosing an Arrow
Question: it has been said that if your left hand technique or bow grasping hand is good then once the arrow is loosed the arrow shall not braze and cut the skin around the thumb.
So what exactly allows this anyway? Does it have to do with appropriate Khatra or some other dynamic? What is involved to make this go right exactly?
Its funny too because I have been almost solely a practitioner of the thumb draw now for the past 5 or 6 years and learned good left hand technique by just feeling my way through and being aware of the concept of Khatra. But when I discuss the technique with people and get asked why my left hand doesn't get torn up I can only refer to the concept of Khatra but am not really able to articulate deeper why the arrow does not braze or am sure if its strictly due to Khatra. I'd imagine the relevance of appropriate nock height on the bow string comes into play here but am really trying to get an appropriate working vocabulary as to explain the totality of the event.
So what exactly allows this anyway? Does it have to do with appropriate Khatra or some other dynamic? What is involved to make this go right exactly?
Its funny too because I have been almost solely a practitioner of the thumb draw now for the past 5 or 6 years and learned good left hand technique by just feeling my way through and being aware of the concept of Khatra. But when I discuss the technique with people and get asked why my left hand doesn't get torn up I can only refer to the concept of Khatra but am not really able to articulate deeper why the arrow does not braze or am sure if its strictly due to Khatra. I'd imagine the relevance of appropriate nock height on the bow string comes into play here but am really trying to get an appropriate working vocabulary as to explain the totality of the event.
Simply raising the nock point can eliminate that problem altogether. The same approach is used to eliminate fletching cutting the hand with "western"-style shooting, in which any bow hand movement ("khatra") is actually considered a severe form fault. For that matter, having appropriate nock height is important for avoiding the back end of the arrow striking the rest on more modern bows.