Should the slide bow bend when not in use?

When the sliding bow is not used, it needs to be bent downward, otherwise the bow piece will lose weight if it remains deformed for a long time, that is, the tension will be attenuated and the elasticity will be reduced. Among all kinds of bows, only the modern compound bow does not need to be bent.

Sliding bow is a kind of bow whose side looks different from ordinary long bow: the end of the bow arm without bowstring in recurve bow bends outward. One of the special definitions points out that the difference between recurve bow and other bows is that recurve bow's bowstring, that is, the winding person, is in contact with its bow arm. Compared with the straight-arm bow, recurve bow can store more energy, which makes the shot arrow have higher kinetic energy. So recurve bow can make it shorter than the ordinary bow, but it can keep its power. This advantage makes recurve bow suitable for places where long weapons can cause inconvenience, such as jungles, forests or horseback riding. Relatively speaking, the traditional straight long bow will have a "cascading" effect-that is, the more the bow is pulled open, the more the force required to pull the bow will increase obviously.