This story really touched my heart. I am nothing like you. I went to university, got a job, work long hours (6nights a week), and go home to eat and sleep. Only to do it all again the next night. I never got married because I always thought, "what if it doesn't work? What would a divorce do to me financially and emotionally?" You have followed your heart. I followed a safe paycheck, a pension, good health insurance. You followed your dreams. Now I am in my late 50s still dreaming of "someday." Your story, your journey is so inspiring. You have to live a life without regrets. That would be my message to young people. What a beautiful journey your life has been.
What a life story! I am new to archery and learning a lot from you. I am Korean, so I bought a Korean bow and use a thumb draw. Korea is lucky because the Korean archery tradition has never stopped and continued from generation to generation over a thousand years and many people participate even today. But they only shoot targets at a fixed distance of 145 metres. So seeing your free stye practical archery is absolutely stunning. I also love the fact that you stand up against the government oppression. Freedom is the true spirit of archery. Thank you Sir.
For an 17yo archery nerd like myself who had no Idea what he wants to do with his life, this video is realy inspirational. Thank you for this, maybe someday we'll meet hopefully.
I started Archery in the early 70's. I was just a kid living in the middle of Nowhere Texas. I went out to get the mail. I lived on a dirt road and there was a quiver full of wood arrows just laying in the road. I guess it fell out of someones car. My Dad helped me carve a bow out of Willow. It did not take me long to destroy or lose those arrows. I eventually got a Bear Takedown. It was the metal riser with the slide in limbs. I got a compound bow my Senior Year of High School. It was a Browning Batam. I fooled with compounds a couple of years then back to traditional. I am 56 now and have found my way to horse bows. I am afraid my longbow and recurve will be collecting dust.
Thank you sir. I seriously picked up archery almost 3 years ago, and any time I had try archery before that I would shoot from the “wrong side” of the bow. It felt natural to me but the instructors always took offense to it, so I never stuck with archery. Then I found out your channel and I saw you shoot with a thumb draw, and I was like “that’s it, it’s not the wrong way to shoot”. So I literally got into archery because of you. You saved me so much time in research with your videos. I very honestly thank you for what you did for me even though you are not aware of it. Keep living your dream.
Mr Hirmer, I don't know where you are or what you are doing now, as always, I am late to the party... I have only just started watching your videos, but your expertise and instruction is timeless. I hope you are well. Thank you sir for all of the help you have given me, and I'm sure, countless others.
It's amazing. I taught Tai Chi for around 8 years,in the 1990's, archery around 6 years ago. Only basic recurve stuff, and trained to be a basic archery instructor for RAF Cadets. I've always been drawn to traditional archery more and found you. I've watched you often wondered, you look like a dude who had practiced tai chi, your movements of ' equal and opposites' obvious, the balance of those opposites and use of the spine, The Doctrine of the Elyxia and the internal alchemy. Hearing you talk about your connections makes so very much sense to me , and its within that approach I following that path, or 'Way' ! 😊
I lived in Malta in 2014, it's a shame we didn't meet. You inspired me to try traditional asiatic bows and thumb release and now I'm absolutely in love. Great story and good luck for the future.
Listen to yours story make me feel two thing, inspired and moved. I start to love archery from 17 years old, when i just play mount & blade and age of empire. First bow that i love is, longbow. I start to make it from bamboo with my father. Im so excited with that bow, and always play with it. Theres a gap time, that i didnt learn or play archery, because my bow is broke, and covid One time, i saw people doing slavic archery. Its like, damn thats cool. So i start to learn archery again. I watch youtube, read a book, and try it with tire band. I got my new bow, a magyar bow, after i graduate from senior high school. In university, i got two problem. First, archery (especialy traditional archery) in here, are always connected with islamic stuff(since i live in Indonesia). My father grew concern about it, and became climax after i participated in a competition (the competition play many islamic song and most of them wearing islamic cloth). I got debate with my father, that force me to release archery. But after one week, i just train archery again, and seems my father didnt troubled with that. Second, theres no traditional archery teacher in my university. Most of traditional teacher already graduated. Even the modern one understand about my archery, he cant teach me, since he is so busy with the other (other student always ask him to teach them) so i need to learn alone, by myself (as theres no traditional archer in my university after me). Its always sad, to see other people do their modern archery together, while im alone. But, thats motivated me to preserve traditional archery, as it live inside me. First time i watch your video, when talking about magyar (as magyar and hunnic style is my favourite bow). I start to watch more video about you, even sometimes use it as reference. Im start to learn something from your style of archery, or about pick a right bow, and many thing. Im sorry, if im bother you with this long story. But this is what i feel, after hear your story. Maybe you are not so perfect, but inspired many. I hope, one day, you can came to Indonesia, or if can, i came to your place, to get teached by you. Well, terima kasih lagi (thank you again) for all of your video. God bless You.
With or without the quiver your channel is still my favourite. I guess I'll never meet you in person in Malta, but maybe I will see you in Austria (my neighbouring country). Wherever you'll be, try to keep this channel alive because it is an inspiration to many of us.
Thank you for sharing Mr. Hirmer. My first bow was a branch from an oak tree with kite string and my arrows were the straitest little branches i could find from anything lol. One of my brothers was a boyscout and he showed me how to make. My arrows were unfletched. I was only about 8 years old. Eventually my Mom got me two little long bows from a garage sale for just a few dollars.
Very interesting story. What I learned from your life journey is nothing will go according to our initial plans. People who are fast to adapt normally are the one who will survive and thrive.
We’ve had similar pasts. I started archery with the purchase of my first bow, a Bear Grizzly recurve in 1976. I was 15. Mostly self taught but eventually met some older archers and stumped with them as they helped me learn the art. Living in a northern Ontario small town there were no archery clubs but I didn’t care. As long as I could walk the trails, summer, fall, winter and spring I was happy. Later I went away to school and joined a fencing club and eventually became an instructor. While getting my engineering degree I joined the military and life and work took me away from archery. I left the military for the police and eventually retired from forensics. I began writing books but after a bit I had trouble concentrating and I began to worry. My doctor suggested I take up something from my youth and I rediscovered my love for archery. You had a big hand in helping me get back into it so I’m forever grateful, Armin. Now I’m making archery videos of my own. Maybe someday I’ll have a few subscribers too. I found out that because of past head injuries and my health I now suffer from retinopathy. Things are okay for now, and after a few surgeries my eyesight is pretty good but at sometime in the future I’ll have to give up my bow, but for now, as long as I can see even the blurriest of blob for a target, I’ll keep shooting. Great video, Armin. Cheers and good shooting. 👍😎🇨🇦🏹
@janarules that’s great Jan. Sucks about not getting the other bow, but glad you finally got one. There are excellent videos here, Armin being about the best, but there Grizzly Jim from archery adventures, Greg at 3D archery, Jeff at the nocking point, flea at bows and errors just to name a few. Enjoy, good shooting and share your archery.👍🏹🇨🇦
Thanks for sharing your story William and do not worry. I taught a blind woman to do archery from scratch and she did great, never give up on your dreams
*Armin uploads a video* Me: Pulls up a seat. This is an awesome video, the throwback photos are great, and just in general this video, the idea of giving us a rundown on your begin to where you are now...is great. You inspired me, I was always into archery, it was always something I loved. But you inspired me to try different things with archery. Because of you and your videos, I wanted to learn thumb draw. So I'd watch you, mimic you to learn, bc I'm in the US and it's not that big a thing here, and when I found your channel the pandemic lockdown was in full effect, so couldn't go to a range. So unintentionally you were my teacher. I left behind recurves and Mediterranean draw to only shoot horsebows and thumb draw. You aren't just a great teacher, a great reviewer, a very charismatic guy, you are an inspiration.
The Archer! I smiled genuinely when you humbly mentioned "sure if you want to, write a book, I don't mind". ^^ So many lives touched and influenced, thank you for that.
And what an incredible journey you have embarked on! To elevate the "sport" of archery, to an art form. And beyond. To bring a lot of restless souls like myself, into the NOW. When someone can inspire people to control their egos, that's truly a gift. Where I live, this is terribly needed. Thank you for sharing.
I have to repeat: welcome to Vienna. I'm sure you'll be successful. Weatherwise it is not Malta, but it is not Sylt either. Only the next four months might become a little bleak in this regard - but March/April will be very nice again in Vienna. If you want any advice on things local -- you know where you can find me....
I just started getting into archery 6 wks ago - at 77 I really have to get back into shape - your videos helped me a lot to avoid injury (had 'frozen shoulders' 20 yrs ago) my range is still somewhat restricted :-( but I am working on it. Danke fuer deine Information und viel Glueck in Deutschland. I'm from Canada and came from Germany in 1960.
Hallo Armin: I am starting the journey in my late 50’s. Your videos have been most helpful. Danke sehr fuer die grosse Hilfe!! Grusse von die V.S. :):)
Fascinating. Enjoyed every moment. A friend of mine started her working life in Regensberg after the wall came down (she was a teenager in Chemnitz), my ears pricked up when I heard you speak about it! May you continue to be as successful as ever and continue to inspire others. Chapeau as we say in France.
Nice story. Proud to be a part of it and that you trusted me to continue the legacy of Malta Archery. You are truly a great teacher and archery master.
What an adventure, thank you for sharing. I remember stopping by the Embassy range a couple times per week when I worked in Valletta. First started learning thumb release there with Sean and Michele. It was a happy place, for me. Thank you!
Being able to do what you truly love to do and make a living at it is no mean feat. O medito gozaimashita! I had a teacher of Kendo, Omoto Sensei. Bun bu ichi--pen and sword in accord...he taught me simple caligraphy...i once did a character Ji Hi. He said it means a great big feeling. I always think of how he managed to put that feeling into me, through kendo kata and teaching. So then, you are on the path--Gambate, as they say, and thanks a whole lot for sharing! rc
Very inspiring story, thank you for sharing! And I'm so glad you pursued what you felt best and healthiest even when gov was pushing against you. Keep up the great work. Such a humble and real gentleman. There's a lot of popular entertainer RUclipsrs who care more about numbers and money (I know some personally, and makes me sick watching those, like goofy ads), but it's great to watch someone who talks in a normal voice and is really passionate about what they do. You've got a new subscriber and follower. God bless 🤟😁 🏹
You shared your experience that is very inspiring, although i am also going through similar experience, some times it makes you slow and when you get support you get speed ... But the thing is that..never give up... Ups ( friendly supports) and downs ( financials) are there, that's part of our life.👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏 Thanks Armin❤️
That. Was. Great. Thank you! I found inspiration in the part about having to pack up and go back with broken wings. You kept moving forward and didn't become stagnate nor did you fixate on only one path to your dream. Like a streams water finds it's way around and over rocks to merge into the river...to flow into the sea. Always forward and growing. Really cool journey Armin. 🙏💘
🇩🇪 💜🇱🇧 loved every part of your story Armin, thank you for all the content . You are always welcome in Lebanon, in the city and in the Villages. Wishing you well on your journey that still continues
You have quite the reputation and you also should not underestimate your influence on your viewers. Because of watching your videos I recently started getting into thumb release and just ordered a manchu bow from fairbow. In the time it takes to be build I work up to the drawweight with a Sarmat bow. When ordering both bows I mentioned that I came over from your videos so there is another closing circle. Love your videos, all the best for 21 to you and your family.
I am so happy people like you exist who is public about the good and the bad choices they have made. I am ordering a bow next week, a scythian you reviewed. First time shooter but i feel i will avoid alot of mistakes that i would otherwise have to learn the hard way watching your videos. Much appreciation from Denmark brother, wish you the best .
Thank you Mr Armin Hirmer for introducing me to horse bows and thumb draw. I always loved archery but you opened another door and as you said a more natural feeling style of archery. I started my thumb draw journey just recently. A few months ago I got the Alibow fiberglass horse bow at 30# and for it not to be the most fancy looking bow I feel like it's a performer. I just wanted to thank you again for introducing me to this awesome style of archery. Cheers from America friend and keep up the great reviews and hard work
Hello Armin, I loved your Story! last year thanks to Covid I came to the Bow and totally fell in love with Archery. In fact so much, that I decided to make a living from Archery in the coming years. Since then I have watched nearly all your videos. You helped me a great deal, thank you so much for all the wisdom you have put on youtube. I wanted to come to your Workshop in Ravensburg to meet you, but it was of course canceled. Then I decided to come to Malta when we can travel again but it seems like you already moved on. I am certain I will manage to catch you up one day! A Big Fan, a big Thank you und herzliche Grüsse
Thanks for sharing your story, life is the journey as the destination is the same for all of us ,stay happy and sharing your gift to those who want to learn
Thank you so much for your story. I know with out what I've learned here I would probably be a different person than I am now! Sincerely thank you Armin for all you do for this community, and sharing archery the way you do!
Thank you Armin for this video. I found Asian/Eastern European style archery by chance about one year ago from listening to a few Indo-European podcasts, namely "Asha Logos" yt channel "Subverted History" series. From there learning some about the Scythians and their dedication to justice and honor, despising usury. To listening to the audiobook, "The Scythians" written by Barry Cunliffe. Thereafter, listening to the audiobook, "The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes" by Raoul Mc Laughlin. I learned the Scythians were amongst the first to use the short recurve bow whilst being master horsemen on the ancient battlefields. Then came the Persians, Parthenians, Turks, Mongols, Huns, etc, utilizing the same battle tactic, using a short recurve bow while riding a horse both very well. Being both a lover of history and Western style three finger instinctive archery, I found your yt channel and I discovered shooting short horse bows with thumb release is so much fun, gratifying and meditation type exercise in both mental focus and physical strength. Presently, I am really enjoying my AF Archery Turkish bow, upgraded verision, made with Bearpaw glass, using the "South Asian" thumb ring made by customthumbrings dot com. Drawing at #34 weight, with 30" length 600 grade carbon arrows tipped with 200gr points. This combination shoots arrows very straight in my hands. Thank you Armin for your videos, please continue your efforts.
I loved this video, very inspiring mr. Armin, ive loved traditional archery since i was a kid but i never had a club or an instructor in my city, fortunately i discovered the internet when i was 13 years old, and i learned everything i could, i did some wood bows, arrows, arrowheads, 2 years ago thanks to a friend from another state i started to try thumb draw and i felt inloved whit it, thanks to him, you and others awesome guys from facebook groups i learned the basics and llts of stuff about it, thanks for sharing your story and give us inspiration to the archers who live to feel a string in the thumb and to see the arrows flight🙏🏻
I'm new to this channel, I played around with archery a little. I watched your bow reviews and shooting them was a learning experience for me even at 70 years old. I'm a pretty good marksman with a firearm it's gotten too expensive for me with the price of ammo and going to the local range, plus the political environment. So, I have a good size yard so I will will purchase a bow and equipment based on your reviews. I will keep watching your videos & learning.
It was a realy good idea to make a video like this, was realy interesting. Ever since i started archery and i found your channel, i learned a lot from your videos... well tbh almost everything i know comes from you, so therefor im truely gratefull.
Wonderful story to share. Our dear Armin, thank you for sharing your skills and advice here. I hope to meet you someday. You are the single reason that I switched from three finger to thumb release and now I'm very deep down the rabbit hole and studying daily the asiatic archery styles. I have since bought many fine bows in my ownership now that you have recommended through your reviews and have my own outdoor range in the redwood trees. No doubt this is also a blessing to the fine bowyers and artisans in across the world to increase interest in their products. Practicing archery has truly helped bring me balance and focus and the martial arts spirit through this last crazy year of Covid isolation. Every evening after work I can go to the backyard and shoot 100 arrows and feel instantly inspired all over again and feel I am making great progress!
I always wondered how you ended up on Malta... Interesting story indeed 😁 The feeling when you found out about thumb release was the exact same feeling I got as a kid when I first discovered that there were other ways of shooting, other than pinch grip. 😂 Btw, Im really glad you didnt get fined during lockdown 🙂
Inspiring and informative ... I saw this pop up a couple of weeks ago ... but I had to wait till I could give it my full attention.... thank you Sifu Armin.
sad to hear that your plan is to leave malta . i allways liked to watch your videos from a place where the sun shines most of the time. i planed a vacation in malta because a buddy of mine is coming from valetta and he invited me to come over when its possible. so i thought i could do a litle visit at malta archery and shoot a couple arrows at your range . anyway --- best wishes to your future and success to your next projects
An interesting story. I like this. If you want to share more videos about your life, I'd enjoy it. 😁 It's inspiring. I find it funny how you started your archery career with a compound bow 😁
Hallo Armin, vielen Dank für diesen Einblick in Dein Leben. Ich hoffe mit Dir, dass das C- Thema bald der Vergangenheit angehört und wir wieder frei unserem Hobby, in Deinem Fall auch Beruf, nachgehen können. Gruß aus der Südpfalz, wo die Sonne auch oft scheint. Ich würde mich freuen, Dich einmal persönlich kennenzulernen.
Awesome! I have learned the most about archery from you, Armin! And now I'm sharing what I've learned (still learning) with others! Many are quite freaked out by thumb release! haha! Danke!
Great vid Armin, I too was a draftsman (before this whole plandemic scam), and now I too am an archer, thanks to you. Good luck in the future, I will look forward to all your up and coming videos.
I’m a horseback archer in the UK and holiday often in Malta (when we’re allowed!) Hope to come shoot with you sometime! I shoot slavic release but need to work on thumb release!
Very interesting journey in some ways a parallel of my own experience, compound bow at age 15 started Tai Chi Chuan at the same time then Mediterranean draw and then I discovered the way I had been searching for after I began talking with Lukas Novotny right when he became president of the American mounted archers association and then Lars and Armin and Mihai and here we are ,I can actually call myself an archer something I couldn't do when doing Mediterranean draw because I knew something very important was missing. Now I am whole
Master Armin thank you for sharing that Stephen Selby was your Y.T. mentor. I am glad that I got my introduction to Asian traditional archery from you, as your reviews, consistently great form, and "lesson videos" are brief and provide just the right amount of information to help me improve, but not so much as to confuse me. With the experience of watching your videos over the last 8 months, I was able to appreciate Mr. Selby's 4 part lessons and how you expanded on his explanations by covering individual aspects of grip, draw etc. I also appreciate your discussions of different styles of Persian, thumb grip options and Mediterranean style shooting, where Mr. Selby seems very focus on strict "Asian Traditional Archery". Wishing you every success in your future adventures, hoping that you might come to the USA for a tour, giving week long classes/seminars somewhere near me (Houston Texas area). As soon as I figure out how to video myself shooting, I will join your Patreon program!
Very interesting Armin 👍🏽. I bet you wont miss dealing with the Maltese Customs Office when you get to relocate 😊. I for one would be most interested to see a video of how you run the archery club ground 🙂👍🏽.
An interesting life in archery - thanks for sharing it here. You're one of few that I've seen who keeps your hand at anchor as I do after the shot, rather than sliding it back to the ear as so many archers do. I use three fingers, one above, two below, but only load the lower two.
@@ArminHirmer Makes sense. It's my opinion that if what that hand does "after" release is required to teach the hand what to do "during" release, then consistency is required, otherwise not.
A only started archery at the very first lockdown in the uk when it all kicked off a have always wanted to get in to archery anyways wk before first lockdown a was biding on a greenkat recurve 36lb came with arrows loads actually and am hooked so is my ten yr old daughter maybe not as much as me lol am lucky to live in a old pitmens row houses the have very long gardens roughly about 90ft long a shoot most days there we don’t have any archery related ranges etc around here unfortunately. And also an 45yrs old
Obrigado Armin eu também fui inspirado por você a admirar este esporte. Não participo de competições devido a idade mas o amor pela arte foi a mesma que vc teve. Continue assim.
Great story. you've been a great source of information during my own journey. i really appreciate what you have done for the archery community. no value can be put on your reviews Armin. Priceless information saves us all so much money and time in trial and error. Chinggis Khaan is the reason i got into archery. actually it was Conn Iggulden's conqueror series about Mongolia's Khan dynasties. Such a romantisization of the Bow. It's a beautiful thing
That was a very interesting story I really enjoyed it thanks for that little snippet of your life. You should consider the south of Ireland very mild winter apart from the rain 😪. I wish you the best of luck where ever you end up. 👏🇮🇪
Inspirational story Armin, thanks for sharing, even though I'd myself enjoy an extended version:) also, very interesting in hearing about how to run/start with an archery range, thinking of opening one shortly.. come to Vienna, we'll be dangerously close to each other, and maybe you'll visit one day or vice versa. Anyway, many of us started with a horse or Asiatic bows if you like after watching your videos, so I guess it's a good time now to say thank you :) have a good one Armin, wherever you are or going to be, you definitely know what you want from your life, and people like you, travelers, people ready to do something and stop being cry babies I admire. Enjoy!
This is such an endearing empowering narrative , Master thank you . I would recommend the book “The Archer” to all the subscribers of master’s Channel, I loved it .
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This story really touched my heart. I am nothing like you. I went to university, got a job, work long hours (6nights a week), and go home to eat and sleep. Only to do it all again the next night.
I never got married because I always thought, "what if it doesn't work? What would a divorce do to me financially and emotionally?"
You have followed your heart. I followed a safe paycheck, a pension, good health insurance.
You followed your dreams.
Now I am in my late 50s still dreaming of "someday."
Your story, your journey is so inspiring. You have to live a life without regrets. That would be my message to young people.
What a beautiful journey your life has been.
It’s never to early to live your life bro.
And it’s also never too late.
I'm a seventy year old new fan, plan on buying a Tatar bow after watching a review video by Armin.
Why would anyone dislike this?
It’s the government agents
exactly... you start wondering if youtube adds dislikes on its own so that the algo does not go crazy.
Vielleicht wurden ja heimlich Quoten-Hater eingeführt 🤔
Stupidity can't be cured sadly, that's why 🤔
@@HistoricalWeapons Too much time, no purpose in life to do anything with that time. Just sad and a waste imo
What a life story! I am new to archery and learning a lot from you. I am Korean, so I bought a Korean bow and use a thumb draw. Korea is lucky because the Korean archery tradition has never stopped and continued from generation to generation over a thousand years and many people participate even today. But they only shoot targets at a fixed distance of 145 metres. So seeing your free stye practical archery is absolutely stunning. I also love the fact that you stand up against the government oppression. Freedom is the true spirit of archery. Thank you Sir.
I only has one teacher in archery and my teacher is you...from Malaysia with 💘
For an 17yo archery nerd like myself who had no Idea what he wants to do with his life, this video is realy inspirational. Thank you for this, maybe someday we'll meet hopefully.
Armin, you followed your heart and it shows! You are one of the rare ones! Keep it up.
A great and interesting story, I am proud to have been a small part of it. All the best for your future path.
thank you Andy
I started Archery in the early 70's. I was just a kid living in the middle of Nowhere Texas. I went out to get the mail. I lived on a dirt road and there was a quiver full of wood arrows just laying in the road. I guess it fell out of someones car. My Dad helped me carve a bow out of Willow. It did not take me long to destroy or lose those arrows. I eventually got a Bear Takedown. It was the metal riser with the slide in limbs. I got a compound bow my Senior Year of High School. It was a Browning Batam. I fooled with compounds a couple of years then back to traditional. I am 56 now and have found my way to horse bows. I am afraid my longbow and recurve will be collecting dust.
God Bless you for not kissing government @$$! You would be a Hell of a Texan sir!
Thank you sir. I seriously picked up archery almost 3 years ago, and any time I had try archery before that I would shoot from the “wrong side” of the bow. It felt natural to me but the instructors always took offense to it, so I never stuck with archery. Then I found out your channel and I saw you shoot with a thumb draw, and I was like “that’s it, it’s not the wrong way to shoot”. So I literally got into archery because of you. You saved me so much time in research with your videos. I very honestly thank you for what you did for me even though you are not aware of it. Keep living your dream.
Mr Hirmer, I don't know where you are or what you are doing now, as always, I am late to the party...
I have only just started watching your videos, but your expertise and instruction is timeless. I hope you are well. Thank you sir for all of the help you have given me, and I'm sure, countless others.
It's amazing. I taught Tai Chi for around 8 years,in the 1990's, archery around 6 years ago.
Only basic recurve stuff, and trained to be a basic archery instructor for RAF Cadets.
I've always been drawn to traditional archery more and found you. I've watched you often wondered, you look like a dude who had practiced tai chi, your movements of ' equal and opposites' obvious, the balance of those opposites and use of the spine, The Doctrine of the Elyxia and the internal alchemy. Hearing you talk about your connections makes so very much sense to me , and its within that approach I following that path, or 'Way' ! 😊
Thank you
I lived in Malta in 2014, it's a shame we didn't meet. You inspired me to try traditional asiatic bows and thumb release and now I'm absolutely in love. Great story and good luck for the future.
Listen to yours story make me feel two thing, inspired and moved. I start to love archery from 17 years old, when i just play mount & blade and age of empire. First bow that i love is, longbow. I start to make it from bamboo with my father. Im so excited with that bow, and always play with it. Theres a gap time, that i didnt learn or play archery, because my bow is broke, and covid
One time, i saw people doing slavic archery. Its like, damn thats cool. So i start to learn archery again. I watch youtube, read a book, and try it with tire band. I got my new bow, a magyar bow, after i graduate from senior high school.
In university, i got two problem. First, archery (especialy traditional archery) in here, are always connected with islamic stuff(since i live in Indonesia). My father grew concern about it, and became climax after i participated in a competition (the competition play many islamic song and most of them wearing islamic cloth). I got debate with my father, that force me to release archery. But after one week, i just train archery again, and seems my father didnt troubled with that.
Second, theres no traditional archery teacher in my university. Most of traditional teacher already graduated. Even the modern one understand about my archery, he cant teach me, since he is so busy with the other (other student always ask him to teach them) so i need to learn alone, by myself (as theres no traditional archer in my university after me). Its always sad, to see other people do their modern archery together, while im alone. But, thats motivated me to preserve traditional archery, as it live inside me.
First time i watch your video, when talking about magyar (as magyar and hunnic style is my favourite bow). I start to watch more video about you, even sometimes use it as reference. Im start to learn something from your style of archery, or about pick a right bow, and many thing.
Im sorry, if im bother you with this long story. But this is what i feel, after hear your story. Maybe you are not so perfect, but inspired many. I hope, one day, you can came to Indonesia, or if can, i came to your place, to get teached by you. Well, terima kasih lagi (thank you again) for all of your video. God bless You.
With or without the quiver your channel is still my favourite. I guess I'll never meet you in person in Malta, but maybe I will see you in Austria (my neighbouring country). Wherever you'll be, try to keep this channel alive because it is an inspiration to many of us.
I am 54 and just started with archery. Best thing I have ever done...
Enjoy
Wherever you go,we, your loyal friends, will follow. If you happen to come to Ireland and set up shop, I'll be there every weekend 😁😁😁
Thank you for sharing Mr. Hirmer.
My first bow was a branch from an oak tree with kite string and my arrows were the straitest little branches i could find from anything lol. One of my brothers was a boyscout and he showed me how to make. My arrows were unfletched. I was only about 8 years old. Eventually my Mom got me two little long bows from a garage sale for just a few dollars.
Very interesting story. What I learned from your life journey is nothing will go according to our initial plans. People who are fast to adapt normally are the one who will survive and thrive.
Felt as if I was there , in person, listening to you share some of your story. Very personal. Thanks Armin. :)
The Archer. a six-year-old asked me why am I an archer? good question ... because it fills my life. Armin, the bow fills your life.
We’ve had similar pasts. I started archery with the purchase of my first bow, a Bear Grizzly recurve in 1976. I was 15. Mostly self taught but eventually met some older archers and stumped with them as they helped me learn the art. Living in a northern Ontario small town there were no archery clubs but I didn’t care. As long as I could walk the trails, summer, fall, winter and spring I was happy. Later I went away to school and joined a fencing club and eventually became an instructor. While getting my engineering degree I joined the military and life and work took me away from archery. I left the military for the police and eventually retired from forensics. I began writing books but after a bit I had trouble concentrating and I began to worry. My doctor suggested I take up something from my youth and I rediscovered my love for archery. You had a big hand in helping me get back into it so I’m forever grateful, Armin. Now I’m making archery videos of my own. Maybe someday I’ll have a few subscribers too. I found out that because of past head injuries and my health I now suffer from retinopathy. Things are okay for now, and after a few surgeries my eyesight is pretty good but at sometime in the future I’ll have to give up my bow, but for now, as long as I can see even the blurriest of blob for a target, I’ll keep shooting. Great video, Armin. Cheers and good shooting. 👍😎🇨🇦🏹
@janarules that’s great Jan. Sucks about not getting the other bow, but glad you finally got one. There are excellent videos here, Armin being about the best, but there Grizzly Jim from archery adventures, Greg at 3D archery, Jeff at the nocking point, flea at bows and errors just to name a few. Enjoy, good shooting and share your archery.👍🏹🇨🇦
Thanks for sharing your story William and do not worry. I taught a blind woman to do archery from scratch and she did great, never give up on your dreams
@@ArminHirmer Thank you Armin.👍 Cheers, mate.
I am only 16 but as an obsessed archer your story inspires me.
Awesome I am ready for my archery journey or adventures 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹
*Armin uploads a video*
Me: Pulls up a seat.
This is an awesome video, the throwback photos are great, and just in general this video, the idea of giving us a rundown on your begin to where you are now...is great.
You inspired me, I was always into archery, it was always something I loved. But you inspired me to try different things with archery. Because of you and your videos, I wanted to learn thumb draw. So I'd watch you, mimic you to learn, bc I'm in the US and it's not that big a thing here, and when I found your channel the pandemic lockdown was in full effect, so couldn't go to a range. So unintentionally you were my teacher. I left behind recurves and Mediterranean draw to only shoot horsebows and thumb draw. You aren't just a great teacher, a great reviewer, a very charismatic guy, you are an inspiration.
The Archer! I smiled genuinely when you humbly mentioned "sure if you want to, write a book, I don't mind". ^^
So many lives touched and influenced, thank you for that.
And what an incredible journey you have embarked on! To elevate the "sport" of archery, to an art form. And beyond. To bring a lot of restless souls like myself, into the NOW. When someone can inspire people to control their egos, that's truly a gift. Where I live, this is terribly needed. Thank you for sharing.
Sorry to hear you may well be leaving Malta. Am glad we managed to visit. All the best for the future. Stewart & Jane.
Wow, I would have died halfway through from stress, lol you are an interesting person my friend.
I have to repeat: welcome to Vienna. I'm sure you'll be successful. Weatherwise it is not Malta, but it is not Sylt either. Only the next four months might become a little bleak in this regard - but March/April will be very nice again in Vienna. If you want any advice on things local -- you know where you can find me....
I just started getting into archery 6 wks ago - at 77 I really have to get back into shape - your videos helped me a lot to avoid injury (had 'frozen shoulders' 20 yrs ago) my range is still somewhat restricted :-( but I am working on it. Danke fuer deine Information und viel Glueck in Deutschland. I'm from Canada and came from Germany in 1960.
Danke Günther und viel Spass
I think in Tanzania it's nice warm right now. Not much restrictions. But probebly there will be a coup in the next months...
You are the reason i got into asiatic archery. Thank you for opening me to a new style
Yes, I would love to hear how you run an archery range, as I am also planning to set up an archery range near my small village
Hallo Armin: I am starting the journey in my late 50’s. Your videos have been most helpful. Danke sehr fuer die grosse Hilfe!! Grusse von die V.S. :):)
Fascinating. Enjoyed every moment. A friend of mine started her working life in Regensberg after the wall came down (she was a teenager in Chemnitz), my ears pricked up when I heard you speak about it! May you continue to be as successful as ever and continue to inspire others. Chapeau as we say in France.
Nice story. Proud to be a part of it and that you trusted me to continue the legacy of Malta Archery. You are truly a great teacher and archery master.
thank you
What an adventure, thank you for sharing. I remember stopping by the Embassy range a couple times per week when I worked in Valletta. First started learning thumb release there with Sean and Michele. It was a happy place, for me. Thank you!
At a loss for words except to say you’re great,hope when this plague abates you find continued success.
Being able to do what you truly love to do and make a living at it is no mean feat. O medito gozaimashita! I had a teacher of Kendo, Omoto Sensei. Bun bu ichi--pen and sword in accord...he taught me simple caligraphy...i once did a character Ji Hi. He said it means a great big feeling. I always think of how he managed to put that feeling into me, through kendo kata and teaching. So then, you are on the path--Gambate, as they say, and thanks a whole lot for sharing!
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Very inspiring story, thank you for sharing! And I'm so glad you pursued what you felt best and healthiest even when gov was pushing against you. Keep up the great work. Such a humble and real gentleman. There's a lot of popular entertainer RUclipsrs who care more about numbers and money (I know some personally, and makes me sick watching those, like goofy ads), but it's great to watch someone who talks in a normal voice and is really passionate about what they do. You've got a new subscriber and follower. God bless 🤟😁 🏹
Thank you very much
Thank you for the story. Best wishes on your next move. Whenever that maybe.
You shared your experience that is very inspiring, although i am also going through similar experience, some times it makes you slow and when you get support you get speed ... But the thing is that..never give up... Ups ( friendly supports) and downs ( financials) are there, that's part of our life.👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏 Thanks Armin❤️
Great story, thanks for sharing. My first bow was also a compound from Bear Archery. It was a Bear Legion, but this was 2012..😁
Haha the year does not matter :)
That. Was. Great. Thank you!
I found inspiration in the part about having to pack up and go back with broken wings. You kept moving forward and didn't become stagnate nor did you fixate on only one path to your dream. Like a streams water finds it's way around and over rocks to merge into the river...to flow into the sea. Always forward and growing. Really cool journey Armin.
🙏💘
🇩🇪 💜🇱🇧 loved every part of your story Armin, thank you for all the content . You are always welcome in Lebanon, in the city and in the Villages. Wishing you well on your journey that still continues
You have quite the reputation and you also should not underestimate your influence on your viewers. Because of watching your videos I recently started getting into thumb release and just ordered a manchu bow from fairbow. In the time it takes to be build I work up to the drawweight with a Sarmat bow. When ordering both bows I mentioned that I came over from your videos so there is another closing circle.
Love your videos, all the best for 21 to you and your family.
I am so happy people like you exist who is public about the good and the bad choices they have made. I am ordering a bow next week, a scythian you reviewed. First time shooter but i feel i will avoid alot of mistakes that i would otherwise have to learn the hard way watching your videos. Much appreciation from Denmark brother, wish you the best .
Thank you
Thank you Mr Armin Hirmer for introducing me to horse bows and thumb draw. I always loved archery but you opened another door and as you said a more natural feeling style of archery. I started my thumb draw journey just recently. A few months ago I got the Alibow fiberglass horse bow at 30# and for it not to be the most fancy looking bow I feel like it's a performer. I just wanted to thank you again for introducing me to this awesome style of archery. Cheers from America friend and keep up the great reviews and hard work
Hello Armin, I loved your Story! last year thanks to Covid I came to the Bow and totally fell in love with Archery. In fact so much, that I decided to make a living from Archery in the coming years. Since then I have watched nearly all your videos. You helped me a great deal, thank you so much for all the wisdom you have put on youtube. I wanted to come to your Workshop in Ravensburg to meet you, but it was of course canceled. Then I decided to come to Malta when we can travel again but it seems like you already moved on. I am certain I will manage to catch you up one day! A Big Fan, a big Thank you und herzliche Grüsse
Bin immer noch in Malta :) viel Erfolg
Thanks for sharing your story, life is the journey as the destination is the same for all of us ,stay happy and sharing your gift to those who want to learn
Thank you so much for your story. I know with out what I've learned here I would probably be a different person than I am now! Sincerely thank you Armin for all you do for this community, and sharing archery the way you do!
Thank you
@@ArminHirmer no my friend thank you! I'm glad to have found your channel and proud to say your my teacher!
Thank you Armin for this video. I found Asian/Eastern European style archery by chance about one year ago from listening to a few Indo-European podcasts, namely "Asha Logos" yt channel "Subverted History" series. From there learning some about the Scythians and their dedication to justice and honor, despising usury. To listening to the audiobook, "The Scythians" written by Barry Cunliffe. Thereafter, listening to the audiobook, "The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes" by Raoul Mc Laughlin. I learned the Scythians were amongst the first to use the short recurve bow whilst being master horsemen on the ancient battlefields. Then came the Persians, Parthenians, Turks, Mongols, Huns, etc, utilizing the same battle tactic, using a short recurve bow while riding a horse both very well. Being both a lover of history and Western style three finger instinctive archery, I found your yt channel and I discovered shooting short horse bows with thumb release is so much fun, gratifying and meditation type exercise in both mental focus and physical strength. Presently, I am really enjoying my AF Archery Turkish bow, upgraded verision, made with Bearpaw glass, using the "South Asian" thumb ring made by customthumbrings dot com. Drawing at #34 weight, with 30" length 600 grade carbon arrows tipped with 200gr points. This combination shoots arrows very straight in my hands. Thank you Armin for your videos, please continue your efforts.
Your first horsebow from Kassai is just like mine, and curiosly its my first horsebow,a 33#. (And the only one I have)
Thank you for sharing. Great to hear your journey. Funny how things turn out. I'm an English man living in Bavaria.
I loved this video, very inspiring mr. Armin, ive loved traditional archery since i was a kid but i never had a club or an instructor in my city, fortunately i discovered the internet when i was 13 years old, and i learned everything i could, i did some wood bows, arrows, arrowheads, 2 years ago thanks to a friend from another state i started to try thumb draw and i felt inloved whit it, thanks to him, you and others awesome guys from facebook groups i learned the basics and llts of stuff about it, thanks for sharing your story and give us inspiration to the archers who live to feel a string in the thumb and to see the arrows flight🙏🏻
Thank you
I'm new to this channel, I played around with archery a little. I watched your bow reviews and shooting them was a learning experience for me even at 70 years old. I'm a pretty good marksman with a firearm it's gotten too expensive for me with the price of ammo and going to the local range, plus the political environment. So, I have a good size yard so I will will purchase a bow and equipment based on your reviews. I will keep watching your videos & learning.
Have fun
It was a realy good idea to make a video like this, was realy interesting. Ever since i started archery and i found your channel, i learned a lot from your videos... well tbh almost everything i know comes from you, so therefor im truely gratefull.
Wonderful story to share. Our dear Armin, thank you for sharing your skills and advice here. I hope to meet you someday. You are the single reason that I switched from three finger to thumb release and now I'm very deep down the rabbit hole and studying daily the asiatic archery styles. I have since bought many fine bows in my ownership now that you have recommended through your reviews and have my own outdoor range in the redwood trees. No doubt this is also a blessing to the fine bowyers and artisans in across the world to increase interest in their products. Practicing archery has truly helped bring me balance and focus and the martial arts spirit through this last crazy year of Covid isolation. Every evening after work I can go to the backyard and shoot 100 arrows and feel instantly inspired all over again and feel I am making great progress!
Thank you
Very nice to watch and listen to your Archery journey. Thanks
I always wondered how you ended up on Malta...
Interesting story indeed 😁
The feeling when you found out about thumb release was the exact same feeling I got as a kid when I first discovered that there were other ways of shooting, other than pinch grip. 😂
Btw, Im really glad you didnt get fined during lockdown 🙂
Started watching you about three years ago, love the videos very informative, and a true pleasure to watch.
Thank you
I'm a newbie. Your video is very inspiring. I hope the archery could be a way of life for me and my kids. Thanks a lot Armin.
As always Inspiring Armin 🙏🏹I hope your future is blessed and come from many successes and love👊😃
Inspiring and informative ... I saw this pop up a couple of weeks ago ... but I had to wait till I could give it my full attention.... thank you Sifu Armin.
sad to hear that your plan is to leave malta . i allways liked to watch your videos from a place where the sun shines most of the time. i planed a vacation in
malta because a buddy of mine is coming from valetta and he invited me to come over when its possible. so i thought i could do a litle visit at malta archery
and shoot a couple arrows at your range .
anyway --- best wishes to your future and success to your next projects
An interesting story. I like this. If you want to share more videos about your life, I'd enjoy it. 😁 It's inspiring.
I find it funny how you started your archery career with a compound bow 😁
Yes, come to Vienna, I would definitely go to your course there, I am from South Moravia.
keep positive during the lockdowns dude! YouRE welcome back to the USA when you can make it and we can shoot some bows and arrows. I love the story!!
Hallo Armin, vielen Dank für diesen Einblick in Dein Leben.
Ich hoffe mit Dir, dass das C- Thema bald der Vergangenheit angehört und wir wieder frei unserem Hobby, in Deinem Fall auch Beruf, nachgehen können.
Gruß aus der Südpfalz, wo die Sonne auch oft scheint.
Ich würde mich freuen, Dich einmal persönlich kennenzulernen.
Great story Armin ! Set your goals to came there...nothing is easy..nice personal story...thank you for sharing this with us...
Awesome! I have learned the most about archery from you, Armin! And now I'm sharing what I've learned (still learning) with others! Many are quite freaked out by thumb release! haha! Danke!
You rock, Sir!
Great vid Armin, I too was a draftsman (before this whole plandemic scam), and now I too am an archer, thanks to you. Good luck in the future, I will look forward to all your up and coming videos.
Thank you
Ich habe vor einem Jahr, als ich Rentner wurde, mit dem Bogenschießen angefangen und das allermeiste aus deinen Videos gelernt. Weiter so! 👍
Danke
I’m a horseback archer in the UK and holiday often in Malta (when we’re allowed!) Hope to come shoot with you sometime! I shoot slavic release but need to work on thumb release!
Very interesting journey in some ways a parallel of my own experience, compound bow at age 15 started Tai Chi Chuan at the same time then Mediterranean draw and then I discovered the way I had been searching for after I began talking with Lukas Novotny right when he became president of the American mounted archers association and then Lars and Armin and Mihai and here we are ,I can actually call myself an archer something I couldn't do when doing Mediterranean draw because I knew something very important was missing. Now I am whole
Master Armin thank you for sharing that Stephen Selby was your Y.T. mentor. I am glad that I got my introduction to Asian traditional archery from you, as your reviews, consistently great form, and "lesson videos" are brief and provide just the right amount of information to help me improve, but not so much as to confuse me. With the experience of watching your videos over the last 8 months, I was able to appreciate Mr. Selby's 4 part lessons and how you expanded on his explanations by covering individual aspects of grip, draw etc. I also appreciate your discussions of different styles of Persian, thumb grip options and Mediterranean style shooting, where Mr. Selby seems very focus on strict "Asian Traditional Archery". Wishing you every success in your future adventures, hoping that you might come to the USA for a tour, giving week long classes/seminars somewhere near me (Houston Texas area). As soon as I figure out how to video myself shooting, I will join your Patreon program!
Thank you
armin deine videos sind richtig toll und einfach ein muss für jeden anfänger und erfahrenen bogenschützen
Danke :)
Such an amazing story. Very inspiring. Wherever you go after Malta, never give up this channel.....we’ll always watch your videos 🙏
Lots of respect from your Chinese fan❤
Very interesting Armin 👍🏽. I bet you wont miss dealing with the Maltese Customs Office when you get to relocate 😊.
I for one would be most interested to see a video of how you run the archery club ground 🙂👍🏽.
The Archer book is available still on Audible - I bought it last week
ah ok
An interesting life in archery - thanks for sharing it here. You're one of few that I've seen who keeps your hand at anchor as I do after the shot, rather than sliding it back to the ear as so many archers do. I use three fingers, one above, two below, but only load the lower two.
Depends one day like this one day like that
@@ArminHirmer Makes sense. It's my opinion that if what that hand does "after" release is required to teach the hand what to do "during" release, then consistency is required, otherwise not.
Armin in Vienna would be great for me and my sloppy release
A only started archery at the very first lockdown in the uk when it all kicked off a have always wanted to get in to archery anyways wk before first lockdown a was biding on a greenkat recurve 36lb came with arrows loads actually and am hooked so is my ten yr old daughter maybe not as much as me lol am lucky to live in a old pitmens row houses the have very long gardens roughly about 90ft long a shoot most days there we don’t have any archery related ranges etc around here unfortunately. And also an 45yrs old
You are my inspiration to start with traditional archery
Thank you
@@ArminHirmer will you keep making yt videos if you leave Malta?
Shot my Kóvács Magyar bow today for the first time. Awesome!!! Great video!
You are a inspiration Armin your videos are very informative and well spoken. Best of luck with all of your future endeavors.
Great way to spend 30 min. Thank you for your story Armin always looked up to ya all these 2.5 years I've known ya :)
looking forward to seeng you Wienna !
Obrigado Armin eu também fui inspirado por você a admirar este esporte. Não participo de competições devido a idade mas o amor pela arte foi a mesma que vc teve. Continue assim.
Great story. you've been a great source of information during my own journey. i really appreciate what you have done for the archery community. no value can be put on your reviews Armin. Priceless information saves us all so much money and time in trial and error. Chinggis Khaan is the reason i got into archery. actually it was Conn Iggulden's conqueror series about Mongolia's Khan dynasties. Such a romantisization of the Bow. It's a beautiful thing
Your story is inspiration for me Sir ... thank you for sharing ... and yes I love to know how you manage your shooting range.
How great is you tube. Good luck in your journey.
Thank you for sharing your history. It's amazing.
Inspiring as usual, from another professor Selby convert, may your future be prosperous and fun...
Beautiful and fascinating journey, thanks for sharing!
That was a very interesting story I really enjoyed it thanks for that little snippet of your life. You should consider the south of Ireland very mild winter apart from the rain 😪. I wish you the best of luck where ever you end up. 👏🇮🇪
Thank you
Inspirational story Armin, thanks for sharing, even though I'd myself enjoy an extended version:)
also, very interesting in hearing about how to run/start with an archery range, thinking of opening one shortly.. come to Vienna, we'll be dangerously close to each other, and maybe you'll visit one day or vice versa. Anyway, many of us started with a horse or Asiatic bows if you like after watching your videos, so I guess it's a good time now to say thank you :) have a good one Armin, wherever you are or going to be, you definitely know what you want from your life, and people like you, travelers, people ready to do something and stop being cry babies I admire. Enjoy!
This is such an endearing empowering narrative , Master thank you .
I would recommend the book “The Archer” to all the subscribers of master’s Channel, I loved it .
Thank you so much