Rediscovering Ancient Archery

AZ_Dawn · Jan 25, 2015

Found this video on archery. Perhaps it might be of use to someone here.

Lars Andersen: a new level of archery.

snafu1056 · Jan 25, 2015

Yeah that guy's insanely good. And he's right. That's how combat archery used to be. We never get to see it in movies because I don't think there are enough people alive today who could recreate it.

davidwestergaard · Jan 25, 2015

snafu1056 said:
Yeah that guy's insanely good. And he's right. That's how combat archery used to be. We never get to see it in movies because I don't think there are enough people alive today who could recreate it.

WETA/ILM, are you reading this?

IMO we haven't seen this in movies because the people making them were just as floored by Lars' video as the rest of us

kuwisdelu · Jan 25, 2015

I find it a bit hard to believe no other Western archers have considered such basic things as holding extra arrows in hand or nocking on the same side as your draw hand. After all, these are both standard practice in kyuudou.

rugcat · Jan 25, 2015

On the other hand here's a contrary view from a military historian and archer.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cr_1z3GwxQk

kuwisdelu · Jan 25, 2015

rugcat said:
On the other hand here's a contrary view from a military historian and archer.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cr_1z3GwxQk

Yeah, a lot of the video did strike me more as trick shooting than anything that would be used in actual combat.

AZ_Dawn · Jan 26, 2015

rugcat said:
On the other hand here's a contrary view from a military historian and archer.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cr_1z3GwxQk

I like his point about pulling the arrow most of the way back. Made me take another look at Lars Andersen's video. Sometimes it looks like he's pulling it mostly back; sometimes
it's too fast to tell.

kuwisdelu said:
Yeah, a lot of the video did strike me more as trick shooting than anything that would be used in actual combat.

True. But when your BAMF archer protagonist shoots two ruffians at point-blank range from a seated position, you can show the naysayers this video and say, "It is, too, possible!" :tongue

snafu1056 · Jan 26, 2015

kuwisdelu said:
Yeah, a lot of the video did strike me more as trick shooting than anything that would be used in actual combat.

Yeah, a lot of it is just show-off stunt stuff. But at the very least it does give you an idea of how quickly archers could operate in combat.

Rediscovering Ancient Archery

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