This is a demonstration, not a competition. The archery martial art form will have methods for every aspect of shooting an arrow, under different conditions...standing, kneeling, advancing...whatever. The art is taught and practiced slowly, for muscle memory and perfection of form. We are being shown the Way of the archer. The consistency and perfection of the physical form is part of the Way, and in solo practice can be a form of meditation, not combat. Kyudo is the Way of the bow. We are seeing self-discipline and self-discovery. It may be the case that the combat aspects of the bow developed first, and the art form we see here was derived from the combat aspects.
Brilliantly simple, brutally effective! Seeing this close order live fire drill of a platoon sized unit (hehe) the precision of every aspect, gear clothing right down to the deep kneeling to take most of the CM of the archer from their newest rival on the field. Pacing the close engagement on a unit level has never been so poetic. The hell that would be in front of that ; even with cover, would have to be devastating! Bet the 1st Euros that saw this must've shit themselves!
There’s a guy here on the internet that made a statement about the Comanche, that the Comanche could shoot ten arrows off before the first one hit, then he proved it could be done.
Exactly... in Feudal Japan, the bow and arrow was the primary weapon of the Samurai; mounted and dismounted. Their "sidearms" long and short sword were essentially back up weapons to bow and spear. Samurai archery really has been under emphasized in modern times. Why pull out your sword when you can effectively disable or kill your enemy dozens of meters away. Fight smarter not harder, and Samurai were anything but efficient.
That that's why guns were prohibited in Japan since the 16th century. Why let peasants knock off a samurai? Ban guns so the peasants will be easier to be oppressed.
I just watched “War of the Arrows” yesterday. I watched a guy shoot a 145# draw Weight bow. Archery required lots of strength. I feel I was Inoue warrior in another life! Blades n Bows n beautiful women.
Please, next filming show a target full of arrows. Somehow, I have a suspicion that a fight with the Samuri didn't last long because of accurate bow work.
The first shot is actually a signal for certain archers to focus on a certain target, a tactic commonly used to stop mounted warriors, and the shouting is done at the moment of release to expel air and steady one’s aim.
Ovvio, in guerra la forma è tutto. Ma per piacere, non diciamo sciocchezze. È una suggestiva dimostrazione ma assolutamente inefficace. Oltretutto parecchie frecce sono fuori bersaglio...
Ciekawy pokaz od razu przypomniał, mi się film ,, Tron we krwi " w reżyserii Akiro Kurosawy z równie doskonałym aktorem Toshiro Mifune w roli głównej. Było by jeszcze ciekawiej gdy by wszyscy łucznicy strzelali, do jednej tarczy. Łuk to doskonała broń wynaleziona przez człowieka, aż czasami myślę czy nie zapakować swojego bloczkowego i jechać na Ukrainę po cichu pomóc ukraińcom
Less area exposed. When you walk normally, you show your opponent the entirety of your chest and there's a greater chance you'll get hit (esp. since archery was used in battle earlier than swords in Japan). When you walk the way they do in this video, you only show a portion and there's less of a chance you'll be hit.
haha, all these responses are so funny. Today it's tradition and ceremony, but back in the day do you think the archers were only carrying one or two quiverfuls of arrows? No. You were laden with quivers full of arrows. Walking normally would make them all swing around uncontrollably whilst walking stiffly and wobbling from side to side kept the quivers mostly in place swinging in tune with each other and you the wobble walker....hehe. don't think so? Go ahead and don 12 or more quivers of 12 or more arrows each and give it a try.
Like the Roman legions, advancing precisely with pila and gladius , what terrifies the enemy is the precision of an entire battalion of such archers. The display is intended to sap the opposition of strength and cohesion.
From the looks of the spread of those arrows that did happen to hit those huge targets, they don't appear to be the best of shots with a bow and arrow. I suspect these are just reenactors and not really archers. I much prefer the archery technique of our own Comanche warriors. Japanese archers of the era being enacted seemed to be more formal in their warring. They appear to have had a more strict code of conduct even in war.
It's ignorant to judge an archer of today's skill to an actual soldier of that time and say one from another culture is better than the other. Especially if the bow being shown today isn't an accurate representation of the real war bows a half a century ago. As overrated as the samurai are when shown in media, they used these weapons unchanged for centuries and managed to keep their traditions intact longer than the comanche ever did.
@@Seelenschmiede You can’t choose with eastern archery styles that use thumb release and khatra/yugaeri techniques - the bow rotates sideways away from the shooter’s arm as the arrow is launched (in Kyudo, the rotation can be almost 360 degrees around the hand), so the arrow must be on the right side. By doing it like that, the arrow gets additional acceleration and archer’s paradox is practically neutralized. It’s done like that in Japanese archery and other eastern and Eastern European traditions.
The samurai mostly crushed the koreans during the imjin war, the samurai were the best horse archers at the time. It's only slow because this is just a demonstration, not how they would fight on an actual battlefield. The only horse archers in history I know of that could match the samurai are the mongols.
These older style of weapons are ok, but they are in no way any kind of match for today's modern Global Thermal Nuclear weapons. I can not stress that enough. Japan must modernize. If they are to survive.
Irrelevant marching style, Counterproductive yelling, Advancing without covering fire (anyone else catch that?), this would have been a poor engagement in real combat. Highly disciplined and ceremonial? Yes. Practical form of combat? No.
You’ve got it all wrong. They March like that because their balls are so big. They have to yell because they can’t hear each other over the sound of their own awesomeness. They advance without cover fire because their opponents are running from certain death.
This is a demonstration, not a competition. The archery martial art form will have methods for every aspect of shooting an arrow, under different conditions...standing, kneeling, advancing...whatever. The art is taught and practiced slowly, for muscle memory and perfection of form. We are being shown the Way of the archer. The consistency and perfection of the physical form is part of the Way, and in solo practice can be a form of meditation, not combat. Kyudo is the Way of the bow. We are seeing self-discipline and self-discovery. It may be the case that the combat aspects of the bow developed first, and the art form we see here was derived from the combat aspects.
Brilliantly simple, brutally effective! Seeing this close order live fire drill of a platoon sized unit (hehe) the precision of every aspect, gear clothing right down to the deep kneeling to take most of the CM of the archer from their newest rival on the field. Pacing the close engagement on a unit level has never been so poetic. The hell that would be in front of that ; even with cover, would have to be devastating! Bet the 1st Euros that saw this must've shit themselves!
A wonderful display of culture and discipline.. a true art form.. Many congratulations to the participants..
There’s a guy here on the internet that made a statement about the Comanche, that the Comanche could shoot ten arrows off before the first one hit, then he proved it could be done.
BS
@@axeman33333 4-5 in the air before the first one hits......... ruclips.net/video/liHlCRpS70k/видео.html
No ten, five. The guy is Lars Andersen, best archer in the world.
Ok, maybe 5 sounds possible depending how far they were shooting
One of the most underestimated and deadliest weapons of a Samurai
Exactly... in Feudal Japan, the bow and arrow was the primary weapon of the Samurai; mounted and dismounted. Their "sidearms" long and short sword were essentially back up weapons to bow and spear. Samurai archery really has been under emphasized in modern times. Why pull out your sword when you can effectively disable or kill your enemy dozens of meters away. Fight smarter not harder, and Samurai were anything but efficient.
That that's why guns were prohibited in Japan since the 16th century. Why let peasants knock off a samurai? Ban guns so the peasants will be easier to be oppressed.
@@ms.annthrope415 What? hahahaha that's so false.
Yo why they walkin like that, it had me rollin😂😂😂😂😂
I fall in love with that !
I really do wish to learn this one day
I just watched “War of the Arrows” yesterday. I watched a guy shoot a 145# draw Weight bow. Archery required lots of strength. I feel I was Inoue warrior in another life! Blades n Bows n beautiful women.
and wine and music...
Iste geçmişine sahip çıkmak bu ,başarılar Japonya halkı
Ich Liebe Japan, Danke für die Int. Videos. Abo und Daumen Hoch dagelassen
😁👍🇩🇪❤️🇯🇵
Impresionante demostración de destreza.. gracias!!
Please, next filming show a target full of arrows. Somehow, I have a suspicion that a fight with the Samuri didn't last long because of accurate bow work.
Samuri ?
In fact, accuracy is secondary to form and precision even less so. If you looked closely, very few of the arrows hit the mark.
The beauty of Bushido tradition...
Gotta have good knees for that.
Really amazing. However, wouldn't the shouting be more effective if all the archers let loose at the same time giving a single group shout?
The first shot is actually a signal for certain archers to focus on a certain target, a tactic commonly used to stop mounted warriors, and the shouting is done at the moment of release to expel air and steady one’s aim.
They sure do look ready for battle
Before gun powder this must have been one of the most terrifying army in the world.
That was interesting but it would have been more so if we'd have see the targets more. Do they keep score?
It’s not about the target. It’s about the form.
Form of what?
@@Ordnog form of the shooting.
Ovvio, in guerra la forma è tutto. Ma per piacere, non diciamo sciocchezze. È una suggestiva dimostrazione ma assolutamente inefficace. Oltretutto parecchie frecce sono fuori bersaglio...
@@Ordnog ...
AA is correct. The aesthetic is everything.
No rattling of sabers . . . just the cold hard facts m’am.
Great presentation, supporting the Channel
So that's really the most accurate display of what it was like, with the bow as the primary weapon and the katana as secondary?
at long range definitely .
Always better to have a stand-off weapon - the bow & arrow, with the Katana if you run out of arrows or they're upon you quicker than you can draw.
Check out Lars Anderson! He is an archer.
Ciekawy pokaz od razu przypomniał, mi się film ,, Tron we krwi " w reżyserii Akiro Kurosawy z równie doskonałym aktorem Toshiro Mifune w roli głównej. Było by jeszcze ciekawiej gdy by wszyscy łucznicy strzelali, do jednej tarczy. Łuk to doskonała broń wynaleziona przez człowieka, aż czasami myślę czy nie zapakować swojego bloczkowego i jechać na Ukrainę po cichu pomóc ukraińcom
Gracias felicitaciones y siempre adelante
Seemed to be all show for tourists, very much like CNN.
The headgear reminded me of Spacing Guild Navigators.
Show the target for the love of everything that is good
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Whats the historical and tactical reason they walk like picachus?
Less area exposed. When you walk normally, you show your opponent the entirety of your chest and there's a greater chance you'll get hit (esp. since archery was used in battle earlier than swords in Japan). When you walk the way they do in this video, you only show a portion and there's less of a chance you'll be hit.
It's just marching. You see the same thing in modern military drill demonstrations.
@@katesclabassi3857 great point! I see what u mean
@@katesclabassi3857 just grasping at straws. that's complete and utter bullshit.
haha, all these responses are so funny. Today it's tradition and ceremony, but back in the day do you think the archers were only carrying one or two quiverfuls of arrows? No. You were laden with quivers full of arrows. Walking normally would make them all swing around uncontrollably whilst walking stiffly and wobbling from side to side kept the quivers mostly in place swinging in tune with each other and you the wobble walker....hehe.
don't think so? Go ahead and don 12 or more quivers of 12 or more arrows each and give it a try.
Bunch of sekiro villains
They walk like me after I peed my pants.
Camminano così per via della "uallera"?
Does anyone know what their headdresses are called?
Jacques deBurgo hikitate-eboshi
I ache to see them hit the targets.
Lamentable que hayan occidentalizado a ese gran país...lo vieron como amenaza...
Enemy archer : shoot those clowns 🤣
Those quivers make European quivers look like a handkerchief
楽しそうｗ
Bet these guys have some nice swords on them.
Not one shot of where the arrows were landing.. Seriously?
loud mouth. Were they accurate on the target boards?
Very light bows. I can see why European firearms were so rapidly adopted in Japan, even though they generally shunned Western innovations.
This are presentation bows, not actual war bows.
@@Seelenschmiede A pretty display, but I stand by my comment.
@@jacksmith8466 Japanese warbows can reguarly surpass the 100lbs mark.
@@jacksmith8466 if you're gonna judge the effectiveness of a weapon at least look it up if your own assumptions are correct
Did any of them act hit anything?
Watching a bunch of old dudes with glasses takes some of the ferocity away.
The bows don't look to have a very heavy draw weight; what is it?
Around 40#
They are presentation bows, not actual war bows.
@@Seelenschmiede Yes, I should have realised
What's the draw poundage on one of those bows?
Around 50lbs-150lbs respectively, at least from what I've read. Although ones for practice and demonstration are often much lighter, around 20-40
Oh! them arthritic knees.
E muita falta do que fazer.
The bows are very long - what is their draw weight?
30-35ibs
@@amunek Thank you, I use a compound bow 70lbs but with 50% let off, so my hold weight is the same as their draw weight.
One shot a shout
thats how i walk when i was got my circumsize
Very nice of Very nice.Arigatogozimaschita.
Nice hat have some air in it...
Not Bad, But imagine, In battle field speed of them is quite slow, in battle you have to as quick as possible.
This is a demonstration, not an actual fight...
Like the Roman legions, advancing precisely with pila and gladius , what terrifies the enemy is the precision of an entire battalion of such archers. The display is intended to sap the opposition of strength and cohesion.
What is a katana?
sword
Why do they hate the number eight?
The way they are walking it looks like they have been sodimised!!!
sodimised?
Guess all these old fellas just had prostate exams lol
不是硬弓, 但容易發射。
Ththose bows can take a man off a horse at600yards
Shhhhhhh
funny^^
Tudo esses japas faz um drama kkkkkk
Aaaaaaaaaappppppeeeeeee
From the looks of the spread of those arrows that did happen to hit those huge targets, they don't appear to be the best of shots with a bow and arrow. I suspect these are just reenactors and not really archers.
I much prefer the archery technique of our own Comanche warriors.
Japanese archers of the era being enacted seemed to be more formal in their warring. They appear to have had a more strict code of conduct even in war.
comenche halkına türkey den selamlar
@@kotekliyorukilyas6245 Marúawe
It's ignorant to judge an archer of today's skill to an actual soldier of that time and say one from another culture is better than the other. Especially if the bow being shown today isn't an accurate representation of the real war bows a half a century ago. As overrated as the samurai are when shown in media, they used these weapons unchanged for centuries and managed to keep their traditions intact longer than the comanche ever did.
Зачем орать???
tactica militar del antiguo Japon
@0:10 Please, they need fresh diapers.
Too loud for a silent weapon
I think the arrow should be on the left side of the bow not the right side.
You can shoot from both sides of the bow, whichever side suits you better.
@@Seelenschmiede You can’t choose with eastern archery styles that use thumb release and khatra/yugaeri techniques - the bow rotates sideways away from the shooter’s arm as the arrow is launched (in Kyudo, the rotation can be almost 360 degrees around the hand), so the arrow must be on the right side. By doing it like that, the arrow gets additional acceleration and archer’s paradox is practically neutralized. It’s done like that in Japanese archery and other eastern and Eastern European traditions.
Discipline . . . giri . . . Banzai!
Lenti ed inefficaci....niente di paragonabile con i grandi arcieri a cavallo ungheresi...turchi...coreani
The samurai mostly crushed the koreans during the imjin war, the samurai were the best horse archers at the time. It's only slow because this is just a demonstration, not how they would fight on an actual battlefield. The only horse archers in history I know of that could match the samurai are the mongols.
спецназ есть спецназ...
I think they need looser pants - they are certainly making it difficult to walk.
👏👌👍🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️
LOL!!!!! And not one single "COCK-UP" or was there????????? We did not see the targets!!!!!!!!!
These older style of weapons are ok, but they are in no way any kind of match for today's modern Global Thermal Nuclear weapons. I can not stress that enough. Japan must modernize. If they are to survive.
😂
Lmao
@@theodore.katsuaki 很不錯的視頻。開個核武器玩笑 很抱歉我的朋友
booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooring !!!
Look like a bunch of turkeys
Too slow for a real battle!
SARA SOUZA
A lê mal sós oro owp Ele
Nos kwp male dia aosf e
Dia todo
Sumo walk
진짜 사람들작네...
They would not have chance against english longbow men.
кююююю...
Eeeeeggg!!
lol There was a target with only one arrow on it .
BTW They used to save the last arrow for themselves .
It’s hard to fall on your own arrow. That’s what them short swards are for.
@@AA-rc4zr
Nah , you shoot it up and get yourself below it on the drop . That's what moccasins are great for .
при всём уважении к японской средневековой культуре.....всё это выглядит нелепо и непрактично.
Chłopaki co wam jaja zdrętwiały że tak się poruszacie
폼만 잡는 활 쏘기... 겉치레만
way to much yelling for me...archery is supposed to be a peaceful sport, I thought...LOL..!!!
스머프반바지만 하네...
All that yelling and they couldn't put a decent group up.lol
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Arrêté, vous allez donner des idées à Poutine.
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Irrelevant marching style, Counterproductive yelling, Advancing without covering fire (anyone else catch that?), this would have been a poor engagement in real combat. Highly disciplined and ceremonial? Yes. Practical form of combat? No.
You’ve got it all wrong.
They March like that because their balls are so big.
They have to yell because they can’t hear each other over the sound of their own awesomeness.
They advance without cover fire because their opponents are running from certain death.
Molto bene grazie Evitaeterna.zsaerty