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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 6211928" data-attributes="member: 4348">Is that so...hehe...really.Funny, I haven't seen most of them at the tournaments winning any medals then.Sure, they do fine with academics, but when accuracy, range, and power are on the line......Speed with a low poundage bow is one thing...and yes, anyone can do it with a  low enough poundage.  As I stated, looking at those, they may even be slow if someone is using a 5 lb bow (with a 5 lb, if I have a good enough line up with the arrows I could probably beat 12 arrows a minute...of course those arrows aren't going to kill anything...or at least probably be just as ineffective as a bbgun...meaning sure, you might hurt something, but probably not to any lethal degree on a normal person), but with archery there's a LOT more than speed.Their technique is NOT what the medieval bowmen utilized in Europe from what I understand.  It IS possible for the medieval bowman to have shot rather quickly also, but in a different manner.  Sometimes it was a rain of arrows that didn't have a much aiming (shooting over a wall for instance), as it was mass of the number of arrows simply raining down.  One can also shoot faster, even with a heavy pull, if you don't have to aim.The shooting they are demonstrating probably would have been more effective from horseback...and they may also be accurate in their depictions.  It would NOT surprise me that the depictions in the videos are EXACTLY what were utilized by the middle eastern archers during the middle ages and even the Renaissance.  However, when you read the engagements between those archers and European forces...you realize the middle eastern archers were HIGHLY ineffective overall against an armored opponent.  The texts talk about knights that looked more like pincushions with hundreds of arrows sticking out of them.  Same with military men which only had heavy leather or chain.  In some circles, looking at the European archery, that would seem like made up fairy tales.  Looking at what may possibly be done with the middle eastern archers...perhaps there IS some truth to it.  IF the pull of their bows were as light as the videos indicate, AND they were not even using the full strength of the pull in order to go for speed (I still doubt that, as the sacrifice of poundage in order to shoot faster seems rather counter intuitive), then I suppose those tales may not even be exaggerations, but dead on truth.But in modern day archery...range, power, and penetration sort of count...You still HAVE archers that shoot very rapidly WITH full poundage and full draw without having to resort to tricks like you see in those videos.</blockquote>

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