Comment preview: The problem that I have with your arguments is that this is *one* person in a cool internet video stating that he has recovered a lost art and that his way is superior to modern archery and everyone is treating him as the single world renowned expert on th ....

Comment preview: Archery is a great hobby! Most of archery has nothing to do with hunting and other than an initial investment in equipment relatively inexpensive. Two main styles of archery, Compound and Traditional. Compound bows use a set of cams or wheels at the tips o ....

Comment preview: Note from the last time videos of this guy were posted. This type of archery did not become extinct because of guns nor is it a completely forgotten art. It was used extensively by the Mongolians to shoot from horseback however it's usefulness died off hea ....

Comment preview: This video circulated widely in the archery-related forums over a year ago. The criticisms were that the fellow was using a very light draw-weight bow, and thus this didn't really have any bearing on how ancient Monogol archers shot. However. others (inclu ....

Comment preview: There was a saying that, to train a bowman, you had to start with his grandfather. Englishmen trained with longbows *a lot* - it was a legal requirement for all able-bodied men from 1252 (and technically remained so until 1960). King Edward I's ban on spor ....

Comment preview: I won a state championship in archery almost 20 years ago. I practiced daily for years and it finally paid off. However, there was a girl on my team about my age that was simply better than me. I could not outshoot her consistently. Her shooting form was p ....

Comment preview: 1) Hunting - the ranges that he was typically shooting at in this video were quite significantly shorter than in most hunting situations, he took most of his shots at very short distances with a bow that fired an arrow that was barely powerful enough to be ....

Comment preview: I thought it was an amazing idea at first. I tied a soda can to one of the strings hanging down from the ceiling fan. Then I strung my recurve bow, crouched down into a corner of my room, nocked an arrow and hit the can with an arrow. The physics of the wh ....

Comment preview: Ahhhh Stadium High circa 1998 (this was shot in the summer of 98 as the movie released in March 99). That was a fun summer. I was going into my sophomore year. I remember during Spring football practice they brought down Larisa Oleynik and a few other peop ....

Comment preview: You may be a good (target) archer, but you aren't a good bowhunter with that frequency of loss. The question really is why you experienced this amount of loss. Target panic? Poor shot selection? Lack of practice? It was a good idea to stop bowhunting ....

Comment preview: Mark was a famous archer who wanted to be the best shot the world had ever seen. The problem was he didn't have enough natural talent, and rather than overcome that through practice and hard work he set about to invent a better bow and arrow. He invented d ....

Comment preview: I probably wouldn't think anything for day 1. I woud probably just shrug and read, try to figure out why things weren't working, and then start to eat the perishable food before it went bad. Day 2 I would realize that something bad happened (I tend to be s ....

Comment preview: Dwarf fortress. EVERYTHING about dwarf fortress. I keep Elves that have been modded to be buyable as pets as... Well, pets. But also to make food out of them, chain the females and children up as decoration, and keep all the males in a pit which I occasion ....

Comment preview: The question really comes down to intention and scholarship. If it's intended as mockery, then sure. If it's unintentional mockery due to lack of sufficient research into the source material, it's not much better. If, however, someone is sincerely intere ....

Comment preview: That is quite common in Japan. Its a woman practicing kyudo. (Japanese archery). It is a bow (yumi) and the thing that looks like a bazooka is a quiver (Yatzutsu). She also have a glove (kake) which she use to pull the string. In kyudo you dont hold the st ....

Comment preview: Warriors are equipped along the lines of what their society deems most effective for them to use. The English longbow would not have been an effective weapon for other countries to utilize for several reasons. Nothing about its capabilities or technology w ....

Comment preview: Scalia, in PGA Tour v. Martin: "It has been rendered the solemn duty of the Supreme Court of the United States, laid upon it by Congress in pursuance of the Federal Government s power [t]o regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several Stat ....

Comment preview: I did archery for ~6 years when I was younger. And yes, it is pretty expensive, but your first own bow can be second hand and could easily cost you <$200, including arrows and last you 2 years (maybe not the arrows though). There are a few types of bows ....

Comment preview: I think it's unfair to say their ONLY purpose is to kill stuff. I own around 10 firearms, I've never been hunting, and none of them are kept loaded or in any kind of a "readily accessible" state. I purely enjoy target shooting and trap shooting. Besides, t ....

Comment preview: Disagree (to some extent) and I don't know why it seems to be the prevailing opinion. Lets picture England of the 14th/15th Century. The English peasantry grows up with Longbow Archery as almost the Soccer/Football of it's day. Archery Ranges were built fo ....

Comment preview: Archery in PE class. I went to a small school in Alabama, so there were only about 20 kids in the class, but of course the school didn't have enough equipment for everyone to use. To remedy this, they sent home a letter to the parents asking them to send ....

Comment preview: Former archery instructor checking in. An arrow from a 35 lb draw bow at half draw certainly isn't going to kill anyone unless you somehow manage to hit them in the eye, and doesn't fly fast enough (read: straight enough - slow arrows flutter) to even be r ....

Comment preview: > If your child was a genius at 5, they would writing symphonies or solving equations and shit. One of the main reasons kids were able to write symphonies and whatnot at very young ages in the past is because they had already had years of training and p ....

Comment preview: Actually, there are records of Turks using their short bows well past the point of musket use. This was presumably because of the Central Asian horse-archer tradition (not so different from the Huns and Mongols, and to a lesser extent in this regard, the P ....

Comment preview: I have and play a ukulele. I dehydrate my own fruit and beef jerky. I brew my own beer and mead. I program (at a beginners level) in various languages and on various equipment (Latest is an Arduino, and a little bit on Android) I take random courses for ra ....