Very clever - but these girls look much nicer.
i dont know what shes doing at 8:36 but i can watch it over and over again!
I taught at a girls' high school in Japan. When I first started there I went around to check out the various clubs, one of which was Kyudo archery. One of the girls offered me her bow to try out a few shots. She said it'd been in the family forever. It was a big, 6ft tall thing so, thinking back to my days of farting around with a bow and forgetting that it was being used by a tiny Japanese girl, I assumed it was going to have a ridiculous 80lb draw weight and I reefed back on the string and broke the bloody thing. I'm such a hero..... :(
noooooooooooooo - the whole bow??
oh man, bad news, drop and run
Cracked the bow at the top end. The notch holding the string broke and one side came away bringing a good 10cm tapering sliver of wood with it.
That must have been when they replaced you with the silent disapproval robot.
Quote from: undercovergeek on January 24, 2015, 07:06:06 PM
crazy archer guy
Stunning.
I was going to try to find a clip of A Christmas Story's line "you'll shoot your eye out," but by the time I finished I was too awed by his skill to even try to crack a joke.
That is pretty insane. I wonder if Peter Jackson saw that and incorporated it in the running battle down the river to Laketown after the dwarves escaped from Thranduil in 'The Hobbit.'
Quote from: MetalDog on January 25, 2015, 09:29:01 AM
That is pretty insane. I wonder if Peter Jackson saw that and incorporated it in the running battle down the river to Laketown after the dwarves escaped from Thranduil in 'The Hobbit.'
I doubt it. Why would he bother researching what's actually possible when he can just cram Hobbit movies with as many Saturday morning cartoon action scenes as they can possibly hold?
I expect that is so. But you have to admit, all that jumping around, running and firing, using enemy arrows, in the movie is pretty much everything Lars did in the video.
Except Legolas' arrows magically stayed in his quiver while he hung upside down or did other neg-G acrobatics. Lars should put a very strong magnet or something in the bottom of his own.
Wow. One of my guys at work learned about Lars this morning and showed me the video, and I came here to share it... :o
Incidentally, I know at least some of the Legolas bow-work couldn't have been this, because shots clearly show him nocking the arrow to the inside not the outside. But it does make sense, hm?
T and I both agreed we should check Arrow next time it's on and see if that's what they've been doing.
(But now I want to know what happened to pump him up in the internet consciousness.)
Quote from: undercovergeek on January 24, 2015, 07:15:26 PM
i dont know what shes doing at 8:36 but i can watch it over and over again!
Heh. Those are rosin balls (I think).
Archers could carry powder balls, too, to reduce friction on the thumb if using that as the shaftrest.
(I use an archer's powder ball as a key prop in disposing of one of the major villains in Book 3: the hero blows dust in his eyes, causing a disastrous distraction that allows the heroine to wipe the street and walls with the villain.)
thanks JP, wondered what the noise and resulting 'poof' were
Amazing. I've seen a lot of the Assyrian stone work in the British Museum and elsewhere. Some of the other illustrations I've seen at museums. The guy is right, I never put 2 & 2 together on modern archery and pre-guns archery.
The guy's skill level is amazing. Some of those shots (not the trick shots of incoming arrows) would be hard to do with a pistol in the time frame he is getting his shots off in.
Whoops. Looks like this could be a hoax.
http://geekdad.com/2015/01/danish-archer
Quote from: LongBlade on January 26, 2015, 08:54:12 PM
Whoops. Looks like this could be a hoax.
http://geekdad.com/2015/01/danish-archer
why ?
First of there are actual reports of speedshooting being used. In fact in some of the accounts from first and second crusade the knights write about the blankets of arrows being shot at them. We also know from the Mamluk Furusaiyya that a mamluk Archer was expected to fire 3 arrows in 1.5 second. This we know from an mamluk army manual from 1368 which was later translated to English as "saracen archery". Its also mentioned in other books ex from "crusader warfare" by David Nicolle.
Now you can make the point that this type of shooting is simply not possible with the later longbows because of the greater drawstrenght required, but even those where able to shoot 12 arrows a min, albeit only for a very short while.
Also most speed shooters you see on the internet, only Draw their string about halfway, which is not really usefull as you then dont have enough energy in the arrow to shoot more then a few feet.
Lars does make some faktuel mistakes though, first and foremost that its a lost art, which quite simply isnt true. Its more a case of this type of archery wasnt really used in Europe but was more of an Asian thing. And indeed its still being taught throughout Asia.
Secondly the reason he gives for putting the arrow on the left side of the bow in modern European archery is simply bollocks to be frankly. The reason you put it there is because of the 2 or 3 finger grips which is being used. That Means the bowstring will naturally move slightly to the left when released which would mean the arrow would not fly straight if placed on the other side of the bow (very simple explanation I know). Native Americans, and fx the afore mentioned mamluks on the other hand holds the arrow with the thumb, which Means that the bowstring will move to the right when released so therefore you need to put the arrow on the right side of the bow.
That geek dad posting is a rude, obnoxious rant combining statements that are probably true (about the narrator not the shooter) with a good dose of envy that he obviously can't do what Lars does and so he tries to belittle him with cheap shots. So hero, show us your skill and then we can talk.
And why should we believe some ranting dude who doesn't show any skill himself anyway and not the one who does show skill?
http://www.snopes.com/info/news/larsandersen.asp (http://www.snopes.com/info/news/larsandersen.asp)
anyways speaking of skills :smitten:
Quote from: GrimnirssonAnd why should we believe some ranting dude who doesn't show any skill himself anyway and not the one who does show skill?
Well, could we believe the polite woman who serves as
Arrow's archery consultant and is making a documentary on ancient bow practices?
https://www.facebook.com/notes/anna-maltese/yes-ive-seen-the-video-thank-you-for-posting-it-/10152769003622585?pnref=story
Also, Snopes favorably quotes the man you're calling the "ranting dude", so...
Quote from: Grimnirssoncombining statements that are probably true (about the narrator not the shooter)
Since the narration shows up in a video arranged by the shooter on the shooter's video channel, I think we're reasonably inferring the shooter (Lars) is making such claims, being narrated (in English) by the narrator.
It doesn't seem likely that someone just randomly caught Lars doing things (fumbling a back quiver, aiming with one eye down a bowshaft instead of using both eyes like real archers typically do) supposedly echoing the historical claims being made by the narrator.
As for claims of "hoax": even the grumpy critic doesn't make that claim about everything Lars does and (via narrator) says. The historical claims tend to be rubbish (and occasionally self-contradicting) precisely at the points where a contrast is being made with Lars' supposed superiority, though, so that's a real problem.
I was impressed enough at what he was actually doing to mentally filter out the sillier parts of what he's talking about: trick shotting is still talented, even if (like for a film stunt sequence) it takes some practice to catch a good run on film, and even if it isn't very useful militarily or for hunting except in a last-ditch scrap.
I do think the grumpy critic isn't giving enough credence to artistic representations; but Lars in his presentations isn't giving enough credence to a ton more study on archery physics both ancient and modern.