http://www.pistolwimp.com/media/51208/
This is astounding, especially the arrow into the arrow. Sorry if this was posted previously.
This is astounding, especially the arrow into the arrow. Sorry if this was posted previously.
amazing Korean archers
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p35
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Isn't archery something of a Korean national sport? Those guys are amazing.
hexidismal
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I hadn't seen that before. Pretty neat , thanks for the post.
Sistema1927
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Wow! Just Wow!
Interesting the slow-mo shots to see how much "wobble" there is on the arrows and still be able to achieve that level of accuracy.
Interesting the slow-mo shots to see how much "wobble" there is on the arrows and still be able to achieve that level of accuracy.
idahoemt
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Wow. It's especially amazing after watching all of the slow-motion shots leading up to it. You really get a good look at the way an arrow moves in flight. The oscillations they go through make a shot like that seem impossible. Very cool.
Q-Lock
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Good Lord! I wonder how many years of practice it took to achieve that level of accuracy. Simply amazing. Thanks for the link.
'Card
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Yup. The inhabitants of the Korean Peninsula are more-or-less the direct descendants of the Mongol hordes that swept across Asia, the Middle East, and a big chunk of Europe back in the day, kicking everybody's ass in the process. Since horse archery was one of the things the Mongols excelled at, it just makes sense that modern-day South Koreans would dig it.p35 said:
ID_shooting
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Since private firearm ownership is not allowed in the ROK, it makes sence that archery is practiced.
Amazing work by these shooters, certainly WORLD CLASS!
Amazing work by these shooters, certainly WORLD CLASS!
I was somewhat incredulous when I heard "arrow with an arrow", But when I saw they were shooting a sub-caliber(?) arrow into a larger one with the nock removed from the tail, it made sense.
I'm just thinking of all the effort they put into trying to split arrows from point blank range and from mechanical rests in Mythbusters and never getting a clean split. It's simply that splitting arrows is nearly impossible, because even with perfect accuracy the fllexibility of the arrows and the wood grain is never perfect.
Not that it deminishes the Korean's achievement one bit. That is definitely the level of accuracy required to split an arrow.
I'm just thinking of all the effort they put into trying to split arrows from point blank range and from mechanical rests in Mythbusters and never getting a clean split. It's simply that splitting arrows is nearly impossible, because even with perfect accuracy the fllexibility of the arrows and the wood grain is never perfect.
Not that it deminishes the Korean's achievement one bit. That is definitely the level of accuracy required to split an arrow.
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The local archery club up here has a couple of arrows in an arrow...shot by accident though. When both arrows are aluminum or carbon, they don't go in too far though. I think the Korean archers where shooting carbon arrows into aluminum arrows. Those men are fantastic!
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p35
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There's a bunch of those on display at my local archery range- if you shoot thousands of arrows at the same point it's going to happen just by the law of averages. Doing it at will, though, is amazing.
Just goes to show that technology is not the last word in weapons.
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wheelgunslinger
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The Koreans have an insane training program that involves lots of practice and lots of mental and psych training on top of that.
They are currently the best Olympic/competitive team on the planet. We Americans can't lay a glove on them.
I've done robin hoods on arrows myself. Even have carbon fiber arrows that are robin hooded.
Most competitive archers will do this once in their careers.
They are currently the best Olympic/competitive team on the planet. We Americans can't lay a glove on them.
I've done robin hoods on arrows myself. Even have carbon fiber arrows that are robin hooded.
Most competitive archers will do this once in their careers.
Interesting. I'd like to see it done with some classy wooden recurve bows. Yes, the shots are very good, but those bows are the equivilent to a modern carbon fiber rifle with photoscopic scopes with a bipod, flash suppressor, etc.. If you look, the bows had long counterweights on them which did all the balancing for the archer, the arrow rested on an arrow rest (for lack of the proper term). Pretty much all the shooter had to do was line his fiber optic sight and loose.
Not that I'm downplaying it or anything...
Starcraft could be considered the national passtime over there
Not that I'm downplaying it or anything...
Starcraft could be considered the national passtime over there
p35
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Interesting comment, Todd- I understand that Korean is the language closest to Hungarian, which resembles no other European language. Those horse archers sure got around.
p35, the Magyars were like the Bulgars, Scythians, the Seljuk Turks, the Tuvans, some of the ancestors of modern Koreans, the Mongols and others - horse nomads from the Sea of Grass who were pushed out during the great migrations or went conquering for other reasons. It's not surprising that a lot of them have similar languages.
I've been reading a lot about them lately. They were absolutely fascinating. Their style of warfare was pretty much unbeatable on their ground until the advent of firearms. Mounted archery, unchristly toughness and discipline, superior tactics, and ugly, hardy little horses ridden by ugly, hardy men swept pretty much everything before them. Their great defeats were almost always at the hands of people who had adopted their methods or natural forces - hoof rot and heat exhaustion in Indonesia, the kami kaze in Japan and the death of the Great Khan that took the armies back from Europe. They did it all with a horde that never numbered above 100,000.
I've got a Magyar-style bow. It's very much like the Mongol but doesn't jar as much on the release and is more efficient than the Scythian bow. Otherwise they are almost identical. The lack of an arrow rest, putting the arrow on the "wrong" side of the bow and the use of the thumb ring take some getting used to. It's amazing just how much weight you can get out of such a short weapon.
I've been reading a lot about them lately. They were absolutely fascinating. Their style of warfare was pretty much unbeatable on their ground until the advent of firearms. Mounted archery, unchristly toughness and discipline, superior tactics, and ugly, hardy little horses ridden by ugly, hardy men swept pretty much everything before them. Their great defeats were almost always at the hands of people who had adopted their methods or natural forces - hoof rot and heat exhaustion in Indonesia, the kami kaze in Japan and the death of the Great Khan that took the armies back from Europe. They did it all with a horde that never numbered above 100,000.
I've got a Magyar-style bow. It's very much like the Mongol but doesn't jar as much on the release and is more efficient than the Scythian bow. Otherwise they are almost identical. The lack of an arrow rest, putting the arrow on the "wrong" side of the bow and the use of the thumb ring take some getting used to. It's amazing just how much weight you can get out of such a short weapon.
El Tejon
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The three perfections of Mongolia: horsemanship, wrestling and archery.
FWIW, the Chinese character for "barbarian" is composed of a large man with a bow.
FWIW, the Chinese character for "barbarian" is composed of a large man with a bow.
'Card, unfortunately your history is incorrect. Koreans are Korean, Mongols are Mongols. FYI, original Mongols were of Turkic ancestry (the Huns were ancestor tribesmen). I think that you would have to fight your way out of every bar in Korea if you made this claim there.
Archery and the mastery of the composite bow was the major form of military martial art for every nation of mainland Asia thru, India, Middle East & parts of E. Europe. Composite bow technology was not limited by any national or ethnic barriers. Warriors of every one of these nations excelled at archery well past the introduction of firearms.
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