Quote Originally Posted by Radacci View Post
just gonna put this here. Since an actual archer isn't really what you think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk
I hope you're aware that video is about as far from combat archery as you can get. It's performance archery, designed to impress gullible audiences with clever tricks that would serve no real purpose in combat.

http://www.snopes.com/info/news/larsandersen.asp

http://nerdist.com/did-that-danish-a...hole-internet/

Whilst all of his stunts are real as far as anyone has been able to tell none of them are practical. Most of them took him dozens of attempts (anything more than one in a real combat situation would mean a dead archer) and many of them saw him using special props, such as a slow-moving, chunkier bamboo arrow when he shot one out of the air. His rapid-fire shots are all done at close range as well... firing at that speed would severely limit accuracy and arrow flight speed (making the weapon far less dangerous).

What he does in that video is both impressive and highly skilled but it has absolutely nothing at all to do with real combat archery. Most of the historical 'facts' he mentions are completely made up as well, he just counts on no one actually bothering to do any research into the actual history of archery to discredit him.