Hands on the Bow?

When I was about ten years old, I came into possession of a bow and some arrows. It wasn’t one of the fancy, pulley-laden, scientific bows of today. It was a plain, simple, recurve bow. I discovered that it took a good amount of strength to pull it. In those days, fathers might teach their sons to shoot the bow by standing or kneeling beside them, by placing their left hand on the son’s left hand and holding the bow, and by placing their right hand on the son’s right hand and holding the arrow. From a distance, it might appear that the child was shooting the bow, but in reality, the father was doing all the work,