Test this area of text As I was drawing my bow back, a teacher once told me to "relax into the tension." Four words that I feel will be a lifelong endeavour. Pulling a bow back requires a lot of muscular tension in the body; the true challenge for me is to use as little contraction as possible to get the desired result. The better I get at this, the easier I find it to find a couple of seconds of pure focus, where the distinction between my body and bow becomes blurred and I