Patting the power pouch

[JACK]

What the

[Flehrad]

Hahahahahaha :lol:

A powder pouch is a talc powder filled bag essentially.
It contains the powder with a few holes and flyscreen like material.

What you are supposed to do is pat the pouch each shot or round, so you get a light coat of talc on your finger tab.
It used to help get a cleaner release, but these days with new materials available for serving, it's not very used anymore.

Further more, in wet conditions, it gunks up your tab.

[Erika]

Actually... I think some sick puppy came up with it to annoy the $*@$%*@ out of the competition. It used to be really annoying at tournaments listening to the constant 'pat pat pat'. Not to mention the huge clouds of talc and the foul smell of baby powder every shot. IIEeeew!
We used to store them in bags of talc instead....still stinky, but not so noisy on the line.

[Ozzy]

I was thinking it was some sort of mojo :-?

[grantwomack]

I've only seen two guys who still use talc over here and I think they were doing it because it was what they always have done. Not a very pleasant way to use a tab, as far as I'm concerned.

[Leighton]

I use it to break in a tab, but after that, I don't use it anymore. I heard that a good oil will keep the tab slick and prevent rain damage. Anyone got suggestions?

[Oldtimer]

If your tab face is cordovan, the weather will not affect it. It still seems to be OK if it is soaking wet. Artificial materials are OK, too, but I don't like them. Ordinary leather is fine until it gets wet, then it sticks on release - not nice.

I used to use powder on my bowhand - it then just slid into place. However, for some reason it didn't work very well in the rain or on very humid days.

[Leighton]

If your tab face is cordovan, the weather will not affect it. It still seems to be OK if it is soaking wet. Artificial materials are OK, too, but I don't like them. Ordinary leather is fine until it gets wet, then it sticks on release - not nice.

I used to use powder on my bowhand - it then just slid into place. However, for some reason it didn't work very well in the rain or on very humid days.

Actually, its not okay. In my experience, after getting the tab completely soaked, the cordovan and leather warped.

[Flehrad]

My leather tab didn't warp after getting wet, but it became very stiff, and compressed a lot more than it used to.
But a light coating of sewing machine oil has softened it up nicely.

Olive oil works good for looking after your tab, but it's not good when you try to pull arrows out of the target and your fingers are oily....

[toxic_rabbit]

Brian Cotter still uses a powder pouch, its amusing to see each arrow leave in a cloud of talc :lol:

[JACK]

yep, decided there was no need for talc on my tab a long time ago. What I was curious about was the bit where it says:


You may pat the power pouch which will trigger the relaxing routine that you have practiced countless times during training. The automatic response lowers your heart rate and relaxes you into that area which you know is necessary to produce a quality performance.

Have heard people talk about having a "trigger" thing you do that ties in with relaxation excercises before. What do you lot think about that sort of stuff - tried any of it? worthwhile or a big waste of time?

I had got the idea that the "power pouch" was something other than a bag of talc. Maybe I shall have to design one :)

[The One]

From the sounds of the 'relaxing routine', about half of us may already be equipped with one :wink:

[Bia]

Olive oil works good for looking after your tab, but it's not good when you try to pull arrows out of the target and your fingers are oily....

Blarghhhhhhh
:o
:silly:

Is it soooo different than the regular tab than it

[hook9477]

I was thinking it was some sort of mojo

I got loads more to say about that, but I gotta run - Later!

[2Dogs]

Yeah stop wasting time searching and posting on ancient threads! :o