Combat Archery

[zedturtle]

Since this has come up in the past regarding the archery rules, I figure it's worth a look...

http://youtu.be/BEG-ly9tQGk

[Gwalchmei]

Very impressive skills but I'm not about to draw any conclusions about historical archery techniques from this video.

I think that eastern archers, such as nomadic horse archers, may have used similar elements but all that jumping around, catching arrows and such is more than a little Hollywood, don't you think?

Try doing that with a 100 lbs+ warbow at full draw!

Nevertheless, impressive stuff so thanks for the link.

[Khamul]

Only a Swede can shot like that

[bluejay]

Or a Dane!

[Beleg]

The members of my uni archery club are all rather annoyed at this video, not least because he never seems to come up to full draw. Impressive, yes. Practical? Probably not

[Woodclaw]

The members of my uni archery club are all rather annoyed at this video, not least because he never seems to come up to full draw. Impressive, yes. Practical? Probably not

That was something I noticed too, I don't know if it's a consequence of the extremely high rate of fire combined with the low quality of the video, but I got the distinct impression that he does half-draws most of the time. In terms of speed at short range that makes a lot of sense, but I think it wouldn't be that efficient at longer ranges.

[Valarian]

As people have said, it's a technique that horse archers used to shoot quickly as they passed. The speed and accuracy is impressive. Line of battle archery is a different technique, and western archery is based a lot on that.

[Balou1917]

The members of my uni archery club are all rather annoyed at this video, not least because he never seems to come up to full draw. Impressive, yes. Practical? Probably not

That was something I noticed too, I don't know if it's a consequence of the extremely high rate of fire combined with the low quality of the video, but I got the distinct impression that he does half-draws most of the time. In terms of speed at short range that makes a lot of sense, but I think it wouldn't be that efficient at longer ranges.

Then you have to wonder how much draw was used to penetrate the chain mail. That would still be a nasty wound.

[Stormcrow]

This video is the equivalent of a six year old filming himself pointing his finger and shouting, "Pew! Pew! Pew!"

[zedturtle]

The members of my uni archery club are all rather annoyed at this video, not least because he never seems to come up to full draw. Impressive, yes. Practical? Probably not

That was something I noticed too, I don't know if it's a consequence of the extremely high rate of fire combined with the low quality of the video, but I got the distinct impression that he does half-draws most of the time. In terms of speed at short range that makes a lot of sense, but I think it wouldn't be that efficient at longer ranges.

Then you have to wonder how much draw was used to penetrate the chain mail. That would still be a nasty wound.

Part of his point in making the video is that bows can be effective weapons at what we'd consider close range. None of his techniques are designed to be effective at 100 yards or whatever.

People have pointed out that he's using a more powerful bow during the chainmail penetration segment. But I wonder if his technique would work with a traditional bow at full draw. That's really what he needs to do to silence his critics... a good high-speed camera and a traditional bow. I doubt he's 100% right about historical techniques but I doubt he's 100% wrong either.