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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 dsr_ »

None of these are forgotten archery techniques. Some of them are acrobatic, some are silly, some are unreliable. (Some fall into more than one of those categories.)

Modern Olympic archers are all about accuracy, with no points for speed other than an overall time limit.

If you want to learn archery with both speed and accuracy, you could do worse than to find your local SCA group.

A Royal Round is a set of six arrows (or bolts from a crossbow) shot at round targets at 20 yards, 30 yards, 40 yards, and then as many shafts as possible at 20 yards in 30 seconds. That gives a maximum score of 90 (6 arrows x 5 points for each bullseye x 3) plus the 30 second score.

A rank of "Bowman" is awarded to someone who can average 60 points over three Royal Rounds.

Master Bowmen average 80 points.

Grand Master Bowmen average at least 100 points.

And the Ludicrous Bowmen -- there have been 25 of them, so far -- have managed an average of 120 or more over three Royal Rounds. I've met five of them.

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

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Post by bryanlarsen »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #7
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???

We just saw the time it worked. And he had a big grin on his face. How many times did it fail?

One of the potential failure modes is getting hit with a arrow, so even failures are impressive.

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

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Post by Retric »

cryowaffle wrote: post #15
JoeAltmaier wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We just saw the time it worked. And he had a big grin on his face. How many times did it fail?

Probably quite a few, but what's your point? That he shot enough arrows that it eventually hit without requiring significant skill? I tend to believe his success is above that of chance.

The actual odds are not really that important as what you really care about is not the odds that that specific odd thing happen but how many odd things happen given enough time.

One of the more amusing examples was Ripley(sp?) from the 3rd Alien movie does a long distance one handed backward basketball shot that they were going to use CGI on. The funny thing is watching the movie you see very honest surprised emotions which seem almost to believable.

However, the actress actually made the shot during the take which is why all the actors have a much more believable WTF expression than normal. The only thing out of place is the actress expression where she must have been trying really hard not to blow the take.

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOrTfA8QZyI 4:35

Anyway, my point was if she missed then nobody would have thought it odd. They were not going to try again until it happened, but once it did happen they wanted to use that 'good luck'. It’s sort of the best take effect, walk around and take 1,000 pictures and the chances are something unusual happens in that shot. The odds of that specific unusual thing happening are not high, but the odds of some unusual thing happening is.

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

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Post by pavel_lishin »

zackmorris wrote: post #26

Caution! Do not split incoming arrow with remaining eye.

Yeah, that's where I did a double take and actually paused the video to confirm that he's not wearing any goggles, and doesn't appear to be wearing any protective gear whatsoever.

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

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Post by tootie »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #28
zackmorris wrote: post #26

Caution! Do not split incoming arrow with remaining eye.

Yeah, that's where I did a double take and actually paused the video to confirm that he's not wearing any goggles, and doesn't appear to be wearing any protective gear whatsoever.

It's possible the incoming arrow was blunt.

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

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Post by pavel_lishin »

tootie wrote: post #29
pavel_lishin wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, that's where I did a double take and actually paused the video to confirm that he's not wearing any goggles, and doesn't appear to be wearing any protective gear whatsoever.

It's possible the incoming arrow was blunt.

True, but even a blunt arrow will put out an eye. And depending on where it hits you, it can put quite a damper on your day.
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