"Historic" Archery Technique

[DaveWL]

Please please please ignore the poor narration.

But thought this was quite interesting.

[video=youtube;2zGnxeSbb3g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zGnxeSbb3g[/video]

Difference between "combat" archery and huntuing or sport archery?

 

[Gaudette]

Really enjoyed that. Many thanks fir posting.

 

[Dogoak]

Interesting, thanks for posting

 

[Keith_Beef]

There was a brief discussion about the "upside down hand" technique shown by Iza Privezenceva, either here or over on BB not so long ago...

The computer voice is a bit distracting, but not too bad... I've heard much worse, very recently.

 

[oldsoldier]

That was truly amazing to watch.

 

[dwardo]

Never seen the guy Lars before so a real eye opener. amazing skill.
I get that he holds the arrows in his hand rather than quiver but has anyone seen a breakdown of this skill? The guy is way too fast for me to slow his film and see how it works.

Thanks for the post.

 

[Arya]

Amazing!
Inspiring video

Is he using a horsebow? It looks vey similar.

 

[crosslandkelly]

Wow, That is some great archery.

 

[yarrow]

This vid puts a lot of myths to rest, a lot of the old legends are probably correct. I especially like the way he doesn't really come to full draw but still hits his mark. And the rapid fire makes the crossbow an inferior weapon all round, I would guess that the bow he is using is under 50lb. I think its hard to get ones head around just how good our ancestors were with a bow.

 

[Swallow]

At the end of the video the text says he is using 2 bows, one 30lb, one 35lb.

 

[Reverend Graham]

I have a new hero, that was so good.

Rev G

 

[Niels]

He's a secretive one though. He won't tell anybody exactly how he does it.