Marz5 ,
I agree with you, logically the "rolling Loose" should add next to nothing to the forces driving the arrow, but as I understand it all the current EWBS record holders use the method and believe they gain distance using it, so either the method does indeed work or something in the process permits a smoother loose and by doing so permits longer distances to be shot.
Craig.
No they don't, it depends what you mean when you say rolling loose many people push off with their back leg not everyone does a rolling loose, you don't gain anything by just pushing forward other than the 1-2 mile per hour that you pushed off by its all about getting a clean loose, namely pushing the bow forwards I cant go into to much detail as its not fair to the people that have told me thing in confidence. Only one of the guys who gets big distances uses the rolling loose the others just follow the bow.
Ian, I presume you know better than I but I think you will have to explain the difference.
I cannot find videos of Alistair Aston, Glennan Carnie (I'm sure I have seen him shooting but cannot find it) or the Welsh Class holder Ian Sturgess, however the holder of 8 of the 12 records, Joe Gibb, seems to use the rolling loose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q8q6da68g0&feature=relatedNow to me that means as a minimum 50% of the records were gained by the use of the rolling loose so while it may be true the majority of the record holders don't use the rolling loose it is also true that the the majority of the distance records were gained using it. So back to my assumption that "either the method does indeed work or something in the process permits a smoother loose and by doing so permits longer distances to be shot".
Craig.