Kyudo Global Form & Skeleton Analysis — See How You Actually Shoot

After years of kyudo, your own form is mostly just a feeling. Whether the shoulders open at the draw, whether your weight stays steady at full draw, it all lives in the body. Yet you have rarely truly seen one complete shot of yourself from the outside. The dojo mirror only shows the front, and mid-shot you have no attention to spare; review the footage later and the motion is there, but the naked eye cannot say by how many degrees the shoulder line tilts or which way the vertical leans.

Two ways to use it, live or from a clip

Kyudo Global's form analysis gives you two paths. In live mode, stand the phone at your side with the camera on; as you shoot, skeleton lines are drawn over you in real time, angles are computed on the spot, and anything too far off lights up, so you know at once which segment has gone astray. To take your time, use video mode: pick a clip you have already recorded and it overlays the skeleton automatically, exporting a result clip with the lines drawn in, ready to replay in slow motion, freeze a frame, or hand to a teacher or senior.

It reads more than lines: angles, the hassetsu and the tenouchi

What is overlaid is more than a skeleton. The hassetsu is detected automatically, and alongside skeleton tracking each part's angle is marked, so the tilt you could only sense becomes something visible and pointable. The tenouchi has its own dedicated modes, again live and video: turn the camera to the left hand and, from raising the bow to zanshin, the relative positions of the thumb, each finger and the wrist leave a continuous trace. The tenouchi most often loosens in an instant you do not notice; play it back frame by frame and it cannot hide.

Once you can see yourself, the rest is daily accumulation

Form analysis is only the start. Each practice, jot down arrow count, hits and impact points, and the app turns them into near- and far-target hit rates, monthly trends and a target heatmap; bow, arrows, glove and string each get their own record, tallying shots and reminding you when to service them or change the string. The club and dojo chores, attendance, notices, rosters and the noticeboard, all live in the same phone. Dojo around the world are marked on a map, so you can find somewhere to keep practising when you travel.

It all runs on your phone

The skeleton computation runs entirely on your phone, videos and records stay on your device, and it works with no connection. Form analysis itself is free, with a short ad to unlock each session; if you would rather skip the ads, a one-time purchase removes them for good, with no monthly fee. From your very first arrow to your shinsa exams, Kyudo Global walks the path with you.