Sunset Hill Longbows and Leather

       Sometimes, I liken shooting a Longbow to a good classical song. There's a beautiful rhythm to the shot cadence of shooting in the Hill style.  We discuss a fluid, natural, rhythmic and flowing shooting form, and that's all wonderful.  But every song, every symphony, every jingle has to have a starting point.  That key moment when everything starts.          Watch the musicians at a symphony sometime.  All eyes are on the conductor, waiting for the downbeat.  Count one. It's the split second where every single part of the entire sum of moving parts is moving in complete unison.  After that downbeat, all the instruments do their coordinated, practiced motions that bring about a synchronized sound.  So too with shooting in the Hill style.  There has to be that initial split second of focus, when all the attention aka concentration of the mind is on the spot for the arrow to go; that split secon...