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Esmeralda Whitlock 

Age: 28

College: Yale

Ranking: SSA Agent and Forensic Psychologist

Specialties: Ph.Ds in Psychology, Forensics, Medicine, and Biology. B.S in Sociology. 

Biography

                 “Walk around me Jesus. Walk arrroound. Walk around me                     Jesus, walk around. Walk around me, Jesus. Walk arooouuuunnd.           Walk around my bedside lord.”

The lullaby introducing Esmeralda to the world was much like most lullabies: candy sweet in sound but with sinister undertones. Behind the smile with the missing tooth Scarlett Whitlock was hiding a secret she never quite came to cope with. It had caused her to attempt to rid herself of the child in her arms three times over the pregnancy and to later drink herself to the point that she no longer was part of her child or husband’s world.

While traveling the streets of the country in his eighteen-wheeler, Caleb Whitlock was surrounded by the greatest vices in the entire world. He gambled, drank copious amounts of alcohol, slept with prostitutes, consuming the worst kinds of food to put one’s body through, and murder. It was only by accident that Caleb managed to get himself tied down to Scarlett. One single night of drinking far too much changed his life from the single man traveling the country to a husband and father. Yet as soon as Caleb realized just exactly what kind of child Esmeralda were to become, he became enraged that his god would curse him with such an appalling life that only caused him to become even more violent.

With rosy cheeks and waterfall curls, the young girl asked questions far above her age group. She never quite got the answers she wanted since her mother hadn’t even finished high school, but asking questions was enough to raise Esmeralda’s interest in the world. Faster than all of her peers Esmeralda picked up books. At first it was non-fiction. Then slowly as the years and her mental health dwindled away fiction books bewitched her.

Angry that Esmeralda was not only a female but also that she was more interested in learning about abstract ideas rather than hunting, Caleb Whitlock’s parenting hand became heavier yet far too friendly too. By the time that she was six years old, Caleb had given Esmeralda her first two broken bones, but he had also stolen her innocence.

With a mother who drank a bottle of vodka before dinner and a father whose contrasting take on how he treated her, Esmeralda still tried to be the best that she could. After reading a set of encyclopedias during the summer after second grade, Esmeralda skipped two grades. Already small and fragile for a third grader, the young girl stood out like a sore thumb.

Slowly, Esmeralda’s affection for books became dependence. With nothing else to lean on for support, the beautiful girl found herself using the books not only to advance herself in the world, but also to hide away into. She’d disappear into the different worlds hoping that one day she’d go so far down the rabbit hole that she’d never have to return.

The longer the combined neglect and abuse continued the worse Esmeralda’s dependence on books got. However, no one ever paid enough attention to realize it was a problem, and they even encouraged her dependence. When in ninth grade she skipped another grade, her principal told her if she continued to read the way she was she’d be in college by the time she was thirteen, and he gave her an award for her achievements.

Tenth grade brought on a host of new problems for Esmeralda that she had never expected. At fourteen years old the worst thing that could have happened to Esmeralda did happen- her father was fired.

Furious and confused what to do with his life, Caleb turned all that energy onto Esmeralda. The beatings got worse, the assaults got more frequent, and he started to become more vindictive than ever.

                    One hot day in June Esmeralda had had enough.

                                                          And bathed in his blood.

There was no one there to save Caleb as Esmeralda smashed his head into the wooden floor. Her mother was drunk watching Looney Toons in her room, and no one listened to the screams that came from the Whitlock home anymore.

Only when Esmeralda’s mother called 911 did anyone pay any attention to the Whitlocks. The police tried to get Esmeralda to say something about why she attacked her father, but for some reason she had completely gone quiet. They assumed that she had done it completely in cold blood, and threw her in jail.

It was only when her Child Advocate Lawyer started to ask questions that they began to question that narrative. After discovering the bruises and scars on Esmeralda’s body along with stories from neighbors and teachers about Esmeralda showing up to school with unexplained injuries that her lawyer put together all of the pieces. The lawyer even busted open a case on her father that eventually proved that her father had been murdering prostitutes across states while in his truck.

It was decided that, after finding out about her father, that Esmeralda would be sent to a high security mental institution for paranoia, depression, selective mutism, and PTSD. While she spent four years in the institution, Esmeralda graduated from high school, got her Bachelors in Psychology and Biology, and began her Masters in Psychology.

She decided after getting out that she’d become something much more than what had been expected of her in Toccoa, and she joined Yale. She got her Ph.Ds in Psychology, Forensics, Medicine, and Biology along with a B.S in Sociology. 

Esmeralda Whitlock

Born: June 30, 1836

Changed: November 15, 1864

Age When Turned: 28

Created By: Xandar

Species: Vegetarian Vampire

Gender: Female

Height: 5′1″

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Dark Gold

Skin Color: Pale

Abilities: Superhuman speed, superhuman strength, superhuman senses, and superhuman flexibility

Special Abilities: Enhanced Intelligence

Biography

    “Walk around me Jesus. Walk arrroound. Walk around me                     Jesus, walk around. Walk around me, Jesus. Walk arooouuuunnd.           Walk around my bedside lord.”

The lullaby introducing Esmeralda to the world was much like most lullabies: candy sweet in sound but with sinister undertones. Behind the smile with the missing tooth Scarlett Whitlock was hiding a secret she never quite came to cope with. It had caused her to attempt to rid herself of the child in her arms three times over the pregnancy and to later drink herself to the point that she no longer was part of her child or husband’s world.

While traveling the streets of the country in his cart, Caleb Whitlock was surrounded by the greatest vices in the entire world. He gambled, drank copious amounts of alcohol, slept with prostitutes, consuming the worst kinds of food to put one’s body through, and murder. It was only by accident that Caleb managed to get himself tied down to Scarlett. One single night of drinking far too much changed his life from the single man traveling the country to a husband and father. Yet as soon as Caleb realized just exactly what kind of child Esmeralda were to become, he became enraged that his god would curse him with such an appalling life that only caused him to become even more violent.

With rosy cheeks and waterfall curls, the young girl asked questions far above her age group. She never quite got the answers she wanted since her mother hadn’t even finished high school, but asking questions was enough to raise Esmeralda’s interest in the world. Faster than all of her peers Esmeralda picked up books. At first it was non-fiction. Then slowly as the years and her mental health dwindled away fiction books bewitched her.

Angry that Esmeralda was not only a female but also that she was more interested in learning about abstract ideas rather than hunting, Caleb Whitlock’s parenting hand became heavier yet far too friendly too. By the time that she was six years old, Caleb had given Esmeralda her first two broken bones, but he had also stolen her innocence.

With a mother who drank a bottle of vodka before dinner and a father whose contrasting take on how he treated her, Esmeralda still tried to be the best that she could. After reading a set of encyclopedias during the summer after second grade, Esmeralda skipped two grades. Already small and fragile for a third grader, the young girl stood out like a sore thumb.

Slowly, Esmeralda’s affection for books became dependence. With nothing else to lean on for support, the beautiful girl found herself using the books not only to advance herself in the world, but also to hide away into. She’d disappear into the different worlds hoping that one day she’d go so far down the rabbit hole that she’d never have to return.

The longer the combined neglect and abuse continued the worse Esmeralda’s dependence on books got. However, no one ever paid enough attention to realize it was a problem, and they even encouraged her dependence. When in ninth grade she skipped another grade, her principal told her if she continued to read the way she was she’d be in college by the time she was thirteen, and he gave her an award for her achievements.

Tenth grade brought on a host of new problems for Esmeralda that she had never expected. At fourteen years old the worst thing that could have happened to Esmeralda did happen- her father was fired.

Furious and confused what to do with his life, Caleb turned all that energy onto Esmeralda. The beatings got worse, the assaults got more frequent, and he started to become more vindictive than ever.

Finally, in desperation, Esmeralda agreed to marry a man that her father had been bullying her into marrying. The man was twenty years older than her, but Esmeralda was willing to do anything to end the pain. 

It was not a merry wedding day the morn Esmeralda walked down the aisle in her all too expensive dress. Neither Theotis nor Esmeralda truly wanted to be tying themselves to the other. Society demanded that the both do so, though Other than the abuse at home, Esmeralda, also, was starting to get called an ‘old maid’ due to her age, focus on her writing, and unwillingness to tie herself down. Theotis was starting to lose respect around the community due to his older age and money without sharing it with a wife. His house was often a mess, and people constantly reminded him that a wife could manage that for him. So they both mutually agreed to share a life together. He promised to allow her to sell books under his name, and she promised to pretend to be the happiest and most successful wife possible. 

When they had little Alexandra, things got much better between the both of them. They fell in love with the little ball of light. Theotis tried to stay home more often, and Esmeralda actually became dedicated to homemaking (along with her writing). 

During the civil war, Sherman burned through Atlanta, where her family lived. His men murdered her ailing and old husband, raped her, and hung her daughter out on the porch. 

While Esmeralda was out, Xander, an older vampire traveling with the Union for the chaos, bodies to feed on, and bodies to make newborns for his war for property, bit into her and decided to make her part of his war. He helped her kill a bunch of soldiers, and then she joined him. 

The war wore on her though, and eventually she escaped him and went to live with the Volturi to learn about the species. They mostly ignored her, and she left without a problem to eventually find a home for herself to become a vegetarian vampire. 

Esmeralda Whitlock

Age: 28

Species:½ Human and ½ Betazoid

Affiliation: Federation Starfleet

Rank: Commander

Occupation: Counselor 

Biography

                “Walk around me Jesus. Walk arrroound. Walk around me                     Jesus, walk around. Walk around me, Jesus. Walk arooouuuunnd.           Walk around my bedside lord.”

The lullaby introducing Esmeralda to the world was much like most lullabies: candy sweet in sound but with sinister undertones. Behind the smile with the missing tooth Scarlett Whitlock was hiding a secret she never quite came to cope with. It had caused her to attempt to rid herself of the child in her arms three times over the pregnancy and to later drink herself to the point that she no longer was part of her child or husband’s world.

While traveling the streets of the country in his eighteen-wheeler, Caleb Whitlock was surrounded by the greatest vices in the entire world. He gambled, drank copious amounts of alcohol, slept with prostitutes, consuming the worst kinds of food to put one’s body through, and murder. It was only by accident that Caleb managed to get himself tied down to Scarlett. One single night of drinking far too much changed his life from the single man traveling the country to a husband and father. Yet as soon as Caleb realized just exactly what kind of child Esmeralda were to become, he became enraged that his god would curse him with such an appalling life that only caused him to become even more violent.

With rosy cheeks and waterfall curls, the young girl asked questions far above her age group. She never quite got the answers she wanted since her mother hadn’t even finished high school, but asking questions was enough to raise Esmeralda’s interest in the world. Faster than all of her peers Esmeralda picked up books. At first it was non-fiction. Then slowly as the years and her mental health dwindled away fiction books bewitched her.

Angry that Esmeralda was not only a female but also that she was more interested in learning about abstract ideas rather than hunting, Caleb Whitlock’s parenting hand became heavier yet far too friendly too. By the time that she was six years old, Caleb had given Esmeralda her first two broken bones, but he had also stolen her innocence.

With a mother who drank a bottle of vodka before dinner and a father whose contrasting take on how he treated her, Esmeralda still tried to be the best that she could. After reading a set of encyclopedias during the summer after second grade, Esmeralda skipped two grades. Already small and fragile for a third grader, the young girl stood out like a sore thumb.

Slowly, Esmeralda’s affection for books became dependence. With nothing else to lean on for support, the beautiful girl found herself using the books not only to advance herself in the world, but also to hide away into. She’d disappear into the different worlds hoping that one day she’d go so far down the rabbit hole that she’d never have to return.

The longer the combined neglect and abuse continued the worse Esmeralda’s dependence on books got. However, no one ever paid enough attention to realize it was a problem, and they even encouraged her dependence. When in ninth grade she skipped another grade, her principal told her if she continued to read the way she was she’d be in college by the time she was thirteen, and he gave her an award for her achievements.

Tenth grade brought on a host of new problems for Esmeralda that she had never expected. At fourteen years old the worst thing that could have happened to Esmeralda did happen- her father was fired.

Furious and confused what to do with his life, Caleb turned all that energy onto Esmeralda. The beatings got worse, the assaults got more frequent, and he started to become more vindictive than ever.

                   One hot day in June Esmeralda had had enough.

                                                         And bathed in his blood.

There was no one there to save Caleb as Esmeralda smashed his head into the wooden floor. Her mother was drunk watching Looney Toons in her room, and no one listened to the screams that came from the Whitlock home anymore.

Only when Esmeralda’s mother called 911 did anyone pay any attention to the Whitlocks. The police tried to get Esmeralda to say something about why she attacked her father, but for some reason she had completely gone quiet. They assumed that she had done it completely in cold blood, and threw her in jail.

It was only when her Child Advocate Lawyer started to ask questions that they began to question that narrative. After discovering the bruises and scars on Esmeralda’s body along with stories from neighbors and teachers about Esmeralda showing up to school with unexplained injuries that her lawyer put together all of the pieces. The lawyer even busted open a case on her father that eventually proved that her father had been murdering prostitutes across states while in his truck.

It was decided that, after finding out about her father, that Esmeralda would be sent to a high security mental institution for paranoia, depression, selective mutism, and PTSD. While she spent four years in the institution, Esmeralda graduated from high school, got her Bachelors in Psychology and Biology, and began her Masters in Psychology.

Esmeralda Whitlock 

House: Ravenclaw

Blood: Mudblood

Patronus/Animagus: Fox

Amortentia: Lavender, Honeysuckle, and Old Books

Strengths: Potions, Herbology, and Defence Against the Dark Arts

Weaknesses: Flying, Astronomy, and Divination

Biography

Pre-Hogwarts

                 “Walk around me Jesus. Walk arrroound. Walk around me                     Jesus, walk around. Walk around me, Jesus. Walk arooouuuunnd.           Walk around my bedside lord.”

The lullaby introducing Esmeralda to the world was much like most lullabies: candy sweet in sound but with sinister undertones. Behind the smile with the missing tooth Scarlett Whitlock was hiding a secret she never quite came to cope with. It had caused her to attempt to rid herself of the child in her arms three times over the pregnancy and to later drink herself to the point that she no longer was part of her child or husband’s world.

While traveling the streets of the country in his eighteen-wheeler, Caleb Whitlock was surrounded by the greatest vices in the entire world. He gambled, drank copious amounts of alcohol, slept with prostitutes, consuming the worst kinds of food to put one’s body through, and murder. It was only by accident that Caleb managed to get himself tied down to Scarlett. One single night of drinking far too much changed his life from the single man traveling the country to a husband and father. Yet as soon as Caleb realized just exactly what kind of child Esmeralda were to become, he became enraged that his god would curse him with such an appalling life that only caused him to become even more violent.

With rosy cheeks and waterfall curls, the young girl asked questions far above her age group. She never quite got the answers she wanted since her mother hadn’t even finished high school, but asking questions was enough to raise Esmeralda’s interest in the world. Faster than all of her peers Esmeralda picked up books. At first it was non-fiction. Then slowly as the years and her mental health dwindled away fiction books bewitched her.

Angry that Esmeralda was not only a female but also that she was more interested in learning about abstract ideas rather than hunting, Caleb Whitlock’s parenting hand became heavier yet far too friendly too. By the time that she was six years old, Caleb had given Esmeralda her first two broken bones, but he had also stolen her innocence.

With a mother who drank a bottle of vodka before dinner and a father whose contrasting take on how he treated her, Esmeralda still tried to be the best that she could. After reading a set of encyclopedias during the summer after second grade, Esmeralda skipped two grades. Already small and fragile for a third grader, the young girl stood out like a sore thumb.

Slowly, Esmeralda’s affection for books became dependence. With nothing else to lean on for support, the beautiful girl found herself using the books not only to advance herself in the world, but also to hide away into. She’d disappear into the different worlds hoping that one day she’d go so far down the rabbit hole that she’d never have to return.

The longer the combined neglect and abuse continued the worse Esmeralda’s dependence on books got. However, no one ever paid enough attention to realize it was a problem, and they even encouraged her dependence. 

Eventually, Esmeralda had enough and assaulted her father. She got to move in with her Uncle Ted, and in his house Esmeralda got a letter from Hogwarts. 

Hogwarts

Almost instantly when it touched her head, the hat declared, “Ravenclaw!” There was no hesitation, and Esmeralda didn’t ever wonder about belonging anywhere else afterwards. She fit in perfectly with the house of those who cared about making themselves more intelligent. 

Esmeralda did best in potions where her patience and insistence for perfection did her well. She fell in love with that feeling of basically cooking magic, and she became one of the best students in the topic. She took a shining to Herbology too, because she had spent so much time growing plants back at home. She also showed a great talent in Defence against Dark Arts. 

Due to her logic and fear of heights, she didn’t do so well at Astronomy, Divination, and Flying. She cheered on the Ravenclaw team, but she never did all that well in the class. And afterward completely avoided brooms. 

Post-Hogwarts

Esmeralda fell so much in love with Hogwarts that she wanted to stay there forever to learn everything there had to be about magic. Deciding to use all of her time in the library for something, she applied to become the librarian, and she easily got the job. 

THE WAND

→ SPRUCE

Unskilled wandmakers call spruce a difficult wood, but in doing so they reveal their own ineptitude. It is quite true that it requires particular deftness to work with spruce, which produces wands that are ill-matched with cautious or nervous natures, and become positively dangerous in fumbling fingers. The spruce wand requires a firm hand, because it often appears to have its own ideas about what magic it ought to be called upon to produce. However, when a spruce wand meets its match - which, in my experience, is a bold spell-caster with a good sense of humour - it becomes a superb helper, intensely loyal to their owners and capable of producing particularly flamboyant and dramatic effects.

→ PHOENIX

This is the rarest core type. Phoenix feathers are capable of the greatest range of magic, though they may take longer than either unicorn or dragon cores to reveal this. They show the most initiative, sometimes acting of their own accord, a quality that many witches and wizards dislike. Phoenix feather wands are always the pickiest when it comes to potential owners, for the creature from which they are taken is one of the most independent and detached in the world. These wands are the hardest to tame and to personalise, and their allegiance is usually hard won.

→ 10 INCHES

Many wandmakers simply match the wand length to the size of the witch or wizard who will use it, but this is a crude measure, and fails to take into account many other, important considerations. In my experience, longer wands might suit taller wizards, but they tend to be drawn to bigger personalities, and those of a more spacious and dramatic style of magic. Neater wands favour more elegant and refined spell-casting. However, no single aspect of wand composition should be considered in isolation of all the others, and the type of wood, the core and the flexibility may either counterbalance or enhance the attributes of the wand’s length. Most wands will be in the range of between nine and fourteen inches. While I have sold extremely short wands (eight inches and under) and very long wands (over fifteen inches), these are exceptionally rare. In the latter case, a physical peculiarity demanded the excessive wand length. However, abnormally short wands usually select those in whose character something is lacking, rather than because they are physically undersized (many small witches and wizards are chosen by longer wands).

→ UNYIELDING FLEXABILITY

Hey guys! I noticed how many people on this website are learning German or want to learn it. It is my mother tongue and I love German cinema. We all know that movies help to improve language skills, so I made a list about my favorite German films and some must-sees! I hope you enjoy these films!

Keinohrhasen (the main actor is problematic IRL and also in this movie but I still like it, a journalist has to work in a day care center because he fucked up Vladimir Klitschko’s party, he meets the girl he used to bully when he was a teenager and then they fall in love… this movie is so typical for that director lmao)

Zweiohrküken (the same characters as in Keinohrhasen, they move in together and it’s a mess, also the guy’s ex affair wants him back and the woman’s ex boyfriend - whose dick she describes as the eiffel tower - is back in the city and wants to be with her again, drama drama drama, cute, typical German rom-com)

Anatomie (very bloody! about a girl who wants to become a doctor, creepy things happen at her summer med school)

Die wilden Hühner (a kids’ movie based on famous books, a cute girl gang wants to save a few chicken from a member’s granny who wants to kill and freeze them, very cute film)

(T)raumschiff surprise (gay people in space, ICONIC)

Fack ju Göhte (supposed to mean Fuck you Goehte, a criminal pretends to be a teacher, great comedy, sexy main actor, CHANTAL CRY LESS NOISY!)

Good bye, Lenin (iconic movie, a woman was in coma for 8 months and her son makes her believe the GDR still exists, awesome soundtrack, great story, cute couple, very moving)

Die Welle (a teacher makes a social experiment about fascism with his class and it goes wrong!! a must-see!)

Pünktchen und Anton (adaption of a famous novel, cute movie for children but I’m in my twenties and I still love it, a rich girl and a poor boy become friends)

Die dunkle Seite des Mondes (don’t take drugs guys, just don’t! this movie will show you why! the main character goes crazy - but is it just because he took drugs? find out!!)

Jeune Homme ((Swiss)German and French film about a guy who makes an au pair year, gets laid by the neighbour lady and falls in love with the host parents’ oldest daughter)

7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald (it’s like Snow White and the 7 dwarfs but very trashy, the dwarfs are big, the prince has a wild hair style and Snow White loves playing with her barbie. Ah, and the evil queen’s outfits are iconic and weird)

Die wilden Kerle (a kids’ movie about boys who play soccer - we all love it! EVERYTHING’S ALRIGHT AS LONG AS YOU’RE WILD! BE WILD - DANGEROUS AND WILD!)

Sommer (teen movie about the first love, takes place on an island, skater boy meets rich boy and they both love the same girl, teenage drama, i don’t wanna spoil but some people almost die and sth burns down)

Das Missenmassaker (12 girls who want to be Miss Switzerland, bitch fights 24/7 and a lot of blood because a lot of people get killed)

For No Eyes Only (Rear Window for teenagers, a very interesting thriller, cute main characters)

Homevideo (a guy films himself while masturbating, someone finds the video and then the drama starts, his family also falls apart)

Grosse Mädchen weinen nicht (two teenage girls, lots of feelings, sex, dangerous things)

Lola rennt (reminds me of The Butterfly Effect, iconic film, i don’t even wanna say more about it just watch it)

Who am I - Kein System ist sicher (movies about hackers with big plans and sometimes you have no idea if what you see is what is real)

Das Leben der Anderen (must see! fucking sad tho)

Cannabis (a member of the Swiss federal council who is against the legalization of weed has to consume weed because he has a problem with his eye and this helps - ofc his life changes and gets wild)

Die Herbstzeitlosen (4 old Swiss woman open a lingerie shop in a lil village and people freak out)

Grounding - Die letzten Tage der Swissair (the story behind the grounding of Swissair, the national airline of Swizzy)

And let me tell you: It works for me. 

If you’re not a morning person do whatever feels right instead. Don’t listen to others. Prepare your stuff the evening before or do whatever feels best. It should work for you and not anyone else.

Here are some specific archery techniques to help when writing a character who practices archery or even to get you started on your own path to learning the sport. This is mainly tips and tricks for a recurve bow, however some of these could be used when dealing with a compound bow as well. Most of this will just be the basics but if you’d like more advanced information, feel free to contact me.

THE BOW

Recurve bow is a standard ‘classic’ bow. This means you draw back the weight of the bow on your own instead of using wheels ( compound ) to help with the draw.

Recurve bow’s perform better when the draw weight is at least 40 lbs or more.

The larger the riser ( the middle section of the bow where the limbs are attached ) the less shock you will receive when shooting.

The recurve has many parts, so let’s break them down:

BOW PARTS

Arrow Rest - This is exactly what it sounds like. This is where you rest the arrow you are loading onto the bow.

Back - The side of the bow that is facing away from you. The side of the bow seen by others.

Belly - The side of the bow facing you.

Grip - The part of the bow you hold with your ‘bow’ hand.

Limbs - The curved upper and lower parts of the bow.

Nocking Point - The place on the string where you rest the arrow fletching.

Riser - The middle section of the bow.

ARROW PARTS

Arrowhead ( Broadhead ) - The point of the arrow. There are several types of these from metallic broadheads to plastic bullets.

Fletching - The end ( vanes ) of the arrow, can be plastic, feathers, or metal. More often than not, it is plastic these days.

Nock - The slotted tip attached to the fletching. This helps the arrow string onto the bow.

Shaft - The main body of the arrow. They can be made out of a multitude of materials.

STANCE AND FORM

Feet - Stance should always be solid and comfortable. Keep your feet shoulder length apart, aiming your body is subjective to the target.

Grip - Do not strangle the bow. Let the bow rest in your hand. The best and most comfortable place is right at the base of your thumb, where bone meets palm.

Bow Arm - A locked shoulder but relaxed, slightly bent elbow is how you should hold the bow. If you press down on your shoulder with your other arm, your bow arm should not move.

Release Hand - When drawing the bow, keep your elbow sideways, it should not move up or down. Keep it straight and squared and let your release hand brush somewhere along your jawline. String to tip of nose. Also called ‘kissing the string’. 

Follow Through - Keep your bow arm up until the arrow hits the target. Your release hand should continue it’s motion of when you were aiming, brush against the side of your face and fall down once it reaches parallel to the back of your head.

DOMINANCE AND AIMING

Dominant Eye - Determining if you are a left handed or right handed shooter is not based off of if you are left or right handed. Instead, it is based off which eye is your dominant eye. Most of the time your dominant eye will correspond with your dominant hand but it does not always have to be the case. To determined your dominate eyes, hold your hands away from your face about ½ inch away. Make a triangle with your thumbs and forefingers and center something on the wall inside of the triangle. then close your left eye. If the image stays centered or in view, you have a right dominate eye and vice versa if you close your right eye. While you use both eyes when shooting an arrow, your dominant eye should float to the target before your non dominant eye.

Trajectory - If you are eyeballing your target, it is always good to understand that arrows curve and that your aim and shot should reflect that. If you are using a sight, trust the sight. Do not aim a little above or below the sight.

Breath - old your breath for 5-7 seconds and then release it as you take your shot, this will help keep your accuracy in check and also help you not over-think your shot. This also helps your back tension.

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