>>2343995Ok, here's what i'm gonna suggest, get yourself an entry level olympic bow and buy/steal an archery manual online, people who say you need a pro coach are kinda off their rocker, you would if you wanted to become an actual pro at this but at 25 that is no risk you face.
And this is how you go about it.
1. Take a tape measure, grab the roll in the non dominant hand in a way that the tape will roll out over your thumb, grab the end between curled fingers of the dominant hand, stretch the hand nearly to the side (roughly to the line the front of your chest makes) look in the direction of the tape roll standing with your back and neck straight, pull until you can touch the corner of your mouth with your curled finger tips. THAT in inches is very close to your actual draw length, this is the base parameter you will use while selecting a bow.
2. Find a nice entry level sporting bow (a riser, a set of limbs- wood in fiberglass are perfectly good enough for start and cheap and a string, most things will do, dyneema string is kinda the lamest but also the softest, will make it easier to get used to the bow) with the weight (force required to pull the string to your draw length) of around 25 pounds @ your draw length. It will feel silly light very soon, but that's the point, light bow allows you to get used to the actual movements and work on correct technique instead of fighting the string. Don't forget to get the arrow rest with that.
3. Get yourself few (like 6 for example) aluminum arrows with point tips and artificial fletchings for your length of pull and at or a bit more than the bow weight.
4. Get a forearm guard and a split finger leather finger guard.
That is all you need to spend any real money for up front to just have at it and start shooting. Go on YT and look up stuff like DIY archery targets, you need one but instead of spending money you can use a stack of reclaimed cardboard from boxes and it will do fine for now (especially with low weight bow).
