archery

The downside is that its hard to defend the empire that you've conquered using horse archery.

However, the places where most people come into contact with archery (Hollywood, The Olympics, archery clubs) do it left around the bow.

And if short-bows and non-Western-European archery are the topic of the day, then what's with the long digression into The Queen Of All Archery, the English longbow?

Olympic archery is at 70 yards, and they are very consistent at hitting the inner rings of the target.

Weapons of war have historically become objects of sport: it happened with fencing and archery - firearms are no different.

For myself, this post was just as much fun, if only for the links to more archery stuff on youtube.

She still spends time with other kids her age during archery practice, reading club etc...

Arab Archery (the book) says that it's less useful, because the arrows vibrate when shooting with powerful bows, causing imprecise shots.

But instead he asserted himself as some sort of expert on historic archery technique and that is what is being challenged.

The combination of their horse riding and archery skills made them more lethal than the US Army, until the revolver was invented.

Lots of sports; running, olympic lifting, archery, fencing etc have used video analysis for a long time.

Turkish archery and bison hunting were very much about speed and being able to shoot from a mobile target at relatively close enemies.

But still, which are they, ineffective or "well-known techniques in non-Western-European archery"?

I'm pretty sure his point is that "Modern Olympic" archery isn't as useful for hunting or fighting, given that it's been heavily optimized for stationary shooting.

I will also remove dumb “archery experts” comments.

He's basically misrepresenting a bunch of well-known techniques in non-Western-European archery as his own invention or "rediscovery" (bonus cultural appropriation!), and into the bargain, he's not actually putting any strength into that bow of his.

At /r/Archery people were loving this guy, or hating him for doing a fake video, but not despising or underrating him as a silly acrobat.