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kleinbl00 · 3379 days ago · link · · parent · post: LARPing, Parkour, archery ... world's fastest archer shows us how Hollywood does it wrong
In every account of archers I've ever seen, they hold their arrows like this: As in, "come for me fuckers I'll be right here." That guy ain't doin' a lot of running and jumping. I'm with 'em on the chainmail bit. Yeah, most targets wouldn't be wearing any but 10 lbs of push behind a field point will bounce off drywall, let alone trees. It'll stab a foamcore target just fine but as far as actually doing anything useful in the way of death'n'such, not unless you're a squirrel. I have no doubts that the dude can run and jump and do all sorts of impressive things with a bow. I don't think that means we need to rethink everything about archery. Bows just aren't designed for melee no matter how nifty it looks in the movies.