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This perfectly showcase how to make a true master of his craft look like a SNL sketch through amateur video making skills.
A lot of it makes a ton of sense. But draw weight of the bow and weight of the arrows make a huge difference. Would be really interesting to see him do this even half as effectively using and 80-100lb warbow with heavy war arrows. Weaker stuff will not punch through even the worst armour at any kind of decent range. Also I wonder if this works with light flight arrows used to harass enemy at range and kill horses. Hi…
With heavy war arrows you can easily shoot through riveted mail and layers of gambeson. In this video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ32VnjOQ28 ) you can see a war arrow going right through rived mail and 8 layers of gambeson. This Guy is bowyer and historian, and will be presenting research about this very subject at a medieval studies conference this spring.
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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…
The samurai to which kyudo is descended from certainly expected to win battles with it...
Very impressive! But I can't help but think of George Michael in Arrested Development https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-EouZi1mvQ