For it is Legolas................

[undercovergeek]

crazy archer guy

[bob48]

Very clever - but these girls look much nicer.

[undercovergeek]

i dont know what shes doing at 8:36 but i can watch it over and over again!

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

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..... :( 

[undercovergeek]

noooooooooooooo - the whole bow??

oh man, bad news, drop and run

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

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. 

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

That must have been when they replaced you with the silent disapproval robot.

[LongBlade]

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.

[MetalDog]

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.'

[Ubercat]

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?

[MetalDog]

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.

[Staggerwing]

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.

[JasonPratt]

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.)

[JasonPratt]

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.)

[undercovergeek]

thanks JP, wondered what the noise and resulting 'poof' were