How to Throw an Atlatl | Live Free or Die: DIY
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2016
- Matt shows us how to use one of the most primitive yet highly efficient hunting tools.
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Everybody gangster till the early hominid snipes you from 50 feet away with 2 sticks.
try 300ft, lol
More like 50 yards lol
Quarantine brought me to places I thought I'd never go. Also John Flanagon.
Yep! Same!
Me too
lol that’s why i’m here
same
Literally the reason I am here.
I am reading Brotherband Chronicles again and wanted to know how they function
Hey cameraman! How about showing us a single unbroken shot that captures the whole throw and flight of the spear. No doubt, a repeat in slow mo would reveal a few interesting things too.
This is the 1st time I've ever even heard of such of a tool. Wow and cool.
Kinda obscure, but probably one of the most used tools in human history. This was the tool that set us apart from the bears, wolves, and cougars. When you think about it, this tool directly lead us to becoming the apex predators we are today.
@@cloaker7237 nah the use of flint is what separated us as that allowed for us to leap from just using a tool that’s pre made naturally to taking an item n changing its very form believe me to take some rocky flint n to selectively strike n pre think of the outcome you want working slowly till you have a tool that btw can be perfected more n more thinning n wat not anyway the fact we used flint wen we were hairier apes similar to chimps is wat separated us from other animals
@@cloaker7237Well wolves and bears didn't use spears to begin with so no, this specifically wasn't what set us apart. Remarkable invention though.
@@senatorclaydavis5539 That was still a melee weapon, though. It was almost as dangerous to hunt with spears as it was to hunt with claws. It could be thrown, but not very far. That’s where the atlatl comes in. It (and the rock sling) were the first true ranged weapons in the known universe, giving us a MASSIVE edge in the world, one that directly put us on track for today
I heard that this, the bow, and the blowgun was what separated us from the other hominids. So the other spear users dominated their hunting grounds, but I suppose we never found evidence the other hominids were able to use a "two stage tool" so we prolly killed them all in competition when we met?
I'm native Australian and we make them too for hunting or fishing but ours are similar
I think it's one of those tools that many groups thought of around the same time. Hunting is hard, how do we make this easier? :D Beautiful and huge country, which part are you from? I did the whole backpacker thing for a year, it's so big your brain hurts. Palya
They have likely been used by spear-throwing cultures everywhere, but the modern English term "atlatl" comes from Nahuatl.
Yeah it’s probably like pizza everyone came up with a similar idea because it serves a function everyone needs
I came here because this weapon being mentioned in a novel..
I came here because I was watching "quest for fire"
Everyone else is a returnee? Reading that right now lol
same!
Me too
@@allenwalker4703 Same here
You would blow people away if you told them that the Atlatl is thought to be at least 20,000 + thousand years old
Came here from tierzoo.
Drowned Sword me too
What episode? Which video?
@@TheThedisliker how humans broke the game
Human is OP
That slow motion is perfectly capturing what I was confused about!
it looks like the stick being launched just failed to go straight but the cut mid-attack made it shoot better
Just threw one of these yesterday and it was surprisingly easy and so much fun!
The early human that came up with this is an uncredited genius within the context of that time and era.
💯💯💯💯
Seriously. Like how does one even conceive of such devices with the relative intelligence of an animal?
who came here after watching The Silencing (2020)?
hahaha me
me rn
Hello fellow students. I'm also studying how to become a serial killer.
Same
Me 2
Was that it? These videos are interesting but they are always so short.
unlike your username tho...
The show "Alone" brought me here. What an awesome device that I had never heard of before!
admit it, you are here because of oldschool runescape
Yeah and I'm the only one who found your comment 😊
I have never heard of this weapon until I watched a movie called The Silencing…
Lmao, watching it right now, brought me here
Hahah same
Same though seems alot weaker in real life in the silencing was nearly going through trees
Same
Brother your the best been looking, and your at the top..i have plenty of wood so iam learning ..my first time will be one i make for myself bymyself..thanks Sir✌
He was on the "Duel Survival" show.
When I was a lad, we used a length of string to do the same thing, known as a 'Dutch Arrow'
Vesper know what he wants
Ah gee thanks for not showing THE ONE IMPORTANT ANGLE where you could actually see what the guy is doing ❤️
That’s dope!
Pretty cool weapon. It's somewhat of a slinging weapon and a big one at that. I came here because of my Anthropology 101 course. It's the last online course for the semester and the atlatl is one of the new terms we have to know.
Same here :)
A lot of talk, not a lot of throw.
I came here when I was playing Age of Empires with Aztec civilization.
One of my personal favorite civilizations.
Anyone here after having watched the movie The Silencing (2020) ??
The title should be: How to become a serial killer with an atlatl.
Lol me too haha
No.
But I might have to watch that movie now......
I'm watching it right now
wonderful
this is badass 😎
I've never seen one like that before and I've seen and made a lot
Read about this 38 years ago in the book Fire-hunter Jim Kjelgaard, a book I recently rediscovered and am currently reading. I am not sure if the book calls the throwing stick an Atlatl, but Atlatl was mentioned by Joe Rogan in episode 872.
At 0:47 he's wrong saying that atlatl is more accurate. It's actually less accurate than by throwing a javelin by hand as you don't have the fine control a wrist has.
You can throw it faster but the downside is it's less accurate.
It's not about faster but having that larger projectile point and dart shaft for taking down game much quicker. A skilled atlatl thrower can pass an entire dark almost through a deer.
Jeremy Williams Trying to understand your comment made my brain hurt, I thought I was having a stroke.
1:13 he also definitely missed that throw lol
Also provided it penetrates anything, all this shitlatl does for me is bounce off the target.
Hello ologites,
notice me dad-ward
Hello from a fellow ologite working through the episode backlog right now LOL
Epic!
Lydia from Brotherband Chronicles brought me here. Anyone else?
Cool
I learned about this in high school...1990s era school.
When’s season 3 of “Dude, you’re screwed”?
Muito bom
Concordo
I came here because I can't figure out why survival video games don't let you make these before, or instead of, a bow and arrows...
And still don't fr
slings also aren't featured that prominently in survival games. Frankly, there's a lot of primitive tools that survival game devs apparently just don't know about.
Whoah!
Dad and i built a few "addle addles" as i called them back then. They worked but were kinda lame. I preferred my pellet gun.
Wonder how long this was used before the bow n arrow?
Is this a New Hampshire?
thanks for the info. lol doing an essay/exam in bout an hour
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Watching The Silencing brought me here
Everyone is a returnee anybody?
I came here from Civilization 3 after playing the Maya.
he sounds like jeff from american dad..but he knows his stuff
A korean light novel brought me to this place. Hows that for randomness
experimental archaeology - ologies brought me here
This guy must be from new Hampshire, LIVE FREE OR DIE
toltec weapon.
dual survivor
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can you chuck one and make it go through a deer?
came here because of my anthropology class... kinda like it
What wood is he using foe the dart
Saber Hanington river cane or bamboo.
Kelley Two Feathers I don't know why it has those spots, but I looked into it and in one of matt graham's videos he atually said the darts he was using (the same onesnor very similar to the ones in this video) were made of bamboo with the same pattern on it.
it is rubber
A manga named “Origin” by Boichi brought me here, where a character uses a similar weapon.
Next time on zombie goes boom!!!
Came here because of the movie Silencing (2020)
Same
The thumbnail made me think it was Les Stroud :(
Matt Graham is a far better survivalist than Les Stroud brother. Matt is a long term survival expert. He goes on survival missions for months at a time by himself. He is a walking encyclopedia on survival skills
Hola Si Maya
I came here after visiting atlatl rock at the valley of fire state park
and you thought traditional instinctive shooting took guts.
Im watching this just in case im stuck in a forest with a random Atlatl with me
looks like Peter pan grew up lol
Ill stick to my compound Bow with explosive tips
They used Fist Wedges like 1.75 Million Years ago. THATS the longest lasting Tool of Mankind imho
The Silencing brought me here.
Came here from Spear Hero spin-off manga.
I see. Now I found my fellow readers
Had heard about this in deadliest warriors but came from the manga Origin
I’m here after watching The Silencing on Netflix
A praying mantis arm is build like that. ???
Everyone else is a returnee
Who else thought that guy's name was Matt
0riginal _Panda_Child his name is Matt.
is name is matt bruh
+The Last Of Us i know his girlfriend s' name sarah
Matt's surname is Graham.
Came here after reading the Shield Hero spinoff manga
Same here.
Lydia
Force multiplier
Wikipedia : earliest atlatl 20,000; earliest arrow 70,000. Hmmm?
Better be careful you don't “dig your boots” too far into the ground, Bryce. You might go all the way through the flat Earth you believe in, where you'll endlessly fall because of the gravity you don't believe in.
Jamie Lannister sent me.
Came here from Clan lol
Nice match cut. You wanna really throw it next time?
Live free or die? Spears?
Yu Ilhan sent me here.
turk olan??
Sa
+Battlefieldfan 99 as sonunda bir Türk
Here from Everyone else is a returnee novel
Came Drom John flancaln
I see I'm not the only one who came here because of Brotherband
I have thrown these for years and I've NEVER seen a full size spear in use. It should be 1/4 of that size. Further distance, better accuracy, more deadly. Idk what natives he "learned" from but that's waaaaay bigger than it should be. Small spears u can throw harder and they move faster
I'll just tell you one thing: HuntPrimitive. Watch the videos on this channel about hunting using atlatl, you'll see with your own eyes that you're wrong.
Everyone's an expert until the real experts come with their 9 foot darts.
dont think the atlatl gives you more accuracy because it does not--they are almost impossible to aim except for a general area. in most cases natives throw them such as at a flock of birds and "hope for the best" For mammoth and large animals the atlats was in fact needed--they did not rush up with or throw spears like you envision--you cannot get the power.
Either you have never used an atlatl, or you haven't used one enough. A proficient thrower can get similar accuracy with an atlatl compared to the bow out to 20-25 yards. After that accuracy drops due to the drop of the darts due to their weight. Bows have an advantage of being able to carry more ammo, somewhat stealthier (you don't to step into the throw, just ruins accuracy) and have longer range. If you want to talk about shear killing power within 20 yard distances or less, the atlatl with a good dart is hands down Superior. My 100# longbow with a ~900 grain arrow doesn't even compare.
@@gunsnreelsoutdoors3796 I saw a person who managed around 50 meters.
I saw this in a meme.
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When I was 6 I bought an atlatl and accidentally got entered into an adults competition and won, still such a fun throwing sport I didn’t know existed
Cdc
A came here after watching silencing movie
I'm also here studying how to become a serial killer. Shall we team up?
Same
JStark
Who else is here for WHAP
Came here from Roanoke Gaming