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Lars Andersen: a new level of archery [video]

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Re: Lars Andersen: a new level of archery [video]

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Post by zaroth »

btilly wrote: post #2

I thought this was going to be his older video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zGnxeSbb3g . But he's improved. Splitting an incoming arrow???

And not even that but unloading with less than a second after spinning around from facing the other way? It actually puts Legolas to shame.

Re: Lars Andersen: a new level of archery [video]

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Post by hoopism »

This is so close to being a real-life Kenny Powers highlight video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjvZOh4OzBs).

I realize this guy is immensely talented and probably in the top .0001% of this chosen field... but I laughed the whole time as he roller bladed, jumped and spun while shooting arrows.

Just needed some cool flame effects.

Re: Lars Andersen: a new level of archery [video]

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Post by regularfry »

I'd love to know the draw weights of the bows he's using. One of the differences between the sort of archery he's doing and the standard recurve competition shooting you'll see is that the latter is much slower, more relaxed, with very defined, conscious aiming. The idea is to do precisely the same thing, with your whole body, over and over and over again. His aiming is completely instinctual. Because of the way the arrow will drift away from the bow sideways if you put it on the right, I doubt it would be worth using the bow as part of your sighting at all.

On the one hand, I can believe he'd be able to do this sort of thing quite easily with low-powered bows. On the other, you really wouldn't want to be holding the sorts of positions he gets into for very long at all if they were heavier.

I'd also, just for interest's sake, be interested to put him up against an experienced modern recurve archer at, say, 40 metres. Close range trick-shots would, I suspect, lose out to more refined technique over much more than that.

Re: Lars Andersen: a new level of archery [video]

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Post by regularfry »

zaroth wrote: post #3
btilly wrote: post #2

I thought this was going to be his older video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zGnxeSbb3g . But he's improved. Splitting an incoming arrow???

And not even that but unloading with less than a second after spinning around from facing the other way? It actually puts Legolas to shame.

A second's quite a long time. Depending on the weight of the bows he's using, a quick, explosive release might be the only way he can actually put enough energy into the bow to get a shot off at all.

Re: Lars Andersen: a new level of archery [video]

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Post by Tharkun »

regularfry wrote: post #5

I'd love to know the draw weights of the bows he's using. One of the differences between the sort of archery he's doing and the standard recurve competition shooting you'll see is that the latter is much slower, more relaxed, with very defined, conscious aiming. The idea is to do precisely the same thing, with your whole body, over and over and over again. His aiming is completely instinctual. Because of the way the…

Try hitting a moving target at 40 metres. You'll probably miss. He'll probably miss as well, but he'll have a significant edge being able to shoot while moving closer towards the other archer.

Kyudo is a very nice and sort of meditative experience. I'm guessing it's the same for other forms of stationary archery. It'll really teach you how to work your bow. Slowly and methodically. No one who practices kyudo expects to be able to fight a battle with it. This guy pretty much shows why.

Re: Lars Andersen: a new level of archery [video]

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Post by btilly »

zaroth wrote: post #3
btilly wrote: post #2

I thought this was going to be his older video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zGnxeSbb3g . But he's improved. Splitting an incoming arrow???

And not even that but unloading with less than a second after spinning around from facing the other way? It actually puts Legolas to shame.

The previous video did a time comparison. He shot 7 targets to Legolas' 6. In this video he's noticeably faster.
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