My youth was spent fly fishing for trout, learning tracking and bush craft skills from my Grandfather and shooting bows.

With this background eventually came bowhunting; I had been on many hunts with my Father by that time watching him hunt. A pivotal moment came one day when I asked my Dad, if I could take out a shotgun to hunt grouse and Hungarian partridge and he told me; ' If you really want to learn how to hunt grab your bow and go hunt'. So, I did! I chased everything I could, grouse, pheasant, rabbits, ducks & geese and the holy grail of my youth- whitetail deer. .

I learned three very important rules those years;

1. You needed to get close and actually learn how to hunt the game you pursued

2. You lost arrows during this process

3. And the importance of rule #1, You needed to get close and actually learn how to hunt the game you pursued.

The overarching take away to all of this was that I needed to become both a better hunter and archer- and therefore a "bowhunter" walking in the footsteps of ancestors who relied on these competencies to survive. This was not a product but a process of development and error, of learning from mistakes and direct application of accepting in the heart and soul of my being, the challenge that is traditional bowhunting.

Then this happened... I had been training in both traditional and functional combative martial arts since I was young and as I grew older the correlation between the martial arts, body mechanics and archery began to become evident.

I took this a step further and began to apply the archery shooting method my Father had taught me as well as the "functional" pressure testing and isolation training that the martial arts had taught me into what is now, Primitive Stone Archery and the Archers Trinity Shooting method.

I began to see rapid results in my own shooting ability and confidence that I had not had before even with the several stick and string deer I had taken already.

The result is a dynamic process of pressure testing and functionalizing shooting a stick and string instinctively that is unique. Which will prepare anyone to hunt with a bow more effectively whether beginner or advanced archer. 

Then this happened... I had been training in both traditional and functional combative martial arts since I was young and as I grew older the correlation between the martial arts, body mechanics and archery began to become evident. I took this a step further and began to apply the archery shooting method my Father had taught me as well as the "functional" pressure testing and isolation training that the martial arts had taught me into what is now, Primitive Stone Archery and the Archers Trinity Shooting method. I began to see rapid results in my own shooting ability and confidence that I had not had before even with the several stick and string deer I had taken already. The result is a dynamic process of pressure testing and functionalizing shooting a stick and string instinctively that is unique. Which will prepare anyone to hunt with a bow more effectively whether beginner or advanced archer. .

I created and refined the Archers Trinity Shooting method into an online video course after having it well received by several bowhunters I had coached and guided with stick bows.  As a society connecting to our ancestors and our environment is more important than ever before. Being able to teach people self-reliance and resilience through the Archers Trinity shooting method as a form of self-development is extremely satisfying. To have resilience and the ability to hunt in an older and simpler way that connects them to a part of us that is lost in society today results in a real hands-on appreciation for our environment. Self-learning and failure are the greatest teachers in this process!