{"id":19493,"date":"2026-07-08T09:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=19493"},"modified":"2026-10-04T15:11:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:11:52","slug":"archery-western-vs-eastern-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=19493","title":{"rendered":"Bow drawing variations (Archery)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<th>Variation<\/th>\n<th>Arrow position<\/th>\n<th>Fingers used to draw<\/th>\n<th>Draw speed<\/th>\n<th>Draw weight<\/th>\n<th>Horse-back?<\/th>\n<th>Add. tool?<\/th>\n<th>Typical bow<\/th>\n<th>Users<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Pinch<\/th>\n<td>Inside of the bow<\/td>\n<td>Thumb and index finger<\/td>\n<td>Moderate<\/td>\n<td>Low<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Primitive self-bows<\/td>\n<td>Early humans and Comanche<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Split Fingers<\/th>\n<td>Inside of the bow<\/td>\n<td>Index, middle and ring finger<\/td>\n<td>Slow<\/td>\n<td>Very high<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Yes, a three finger glove<\/td>\n<td>English longbows<\/td>\n<td>Western europeans and Olympic competitors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Slavic<\/th>\n<td>Outside of the bow<\/td>\n<td>Index, middle and ring finger<\/td>\n<td>Fast<\/td>\n<td>Medium<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>Yes, a three finger glove<\/td>\n<td>Eastern european recurve bows<\/td>\n<td>Eastern europeans<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Thumb<\/th>\n<td>Outside of the bow<\/td>\n<td>Thumb, index (and middle) finger<\/td>\n<td>Very fast<\/td>\n<td>High<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>Yes, a thumb ring<\/td>\n<td>Asiatic composite bows<\/td>\n<td>Mongols, Chinese and Turks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variation Arrow position Fingers used to draw Draw speed Draw weight Horse-back? Add. tool? Typical bow Users Pinch Inside of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19493"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20050,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19493\/revisions\/20050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}