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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 2067730, member: 19065&quot;]Neat video. Thanks for sharing it. He&#039;s great, but all of his targets are stationary, as well as contrived for exhibition to show off his acrobatics with archery. As a war-archer, he would be going against moving archers of equal or unknown advanced skill, and other weapons confronting them flung from a far, a volley of arrows and missiles incoming, mounted and shielded swordsmen, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Videos like this are like skateboarding videos. They film endlessly until they capture on-video perfect scenes, then piece them together to make a full length story from it. I wonder how many other times his scenes had to be reshot because he fumbled the arrow, string or some action in performing these stunts.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also liken this to folks who boast their skills at target shooting but are easily defeated by opponents in the field of battle, such as being unable to confront an enemy in a dense jungle when you can&#039;t see your enemy no matter how near or far they are attacking you from. Sure you can shoot x from y meters, but you&#039;re not walking out of the jungle that way.</p><p><br /></p><p>American cars are often rated on their greatness for speed in a straight-away, drag or performance of 0-60mph, but are complete flops in balanced design for actual road racing where turning, torque and acceleration are all necessary the way many European equivalents are built for all of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>This guy surely knows his stuff and has researched the techniques and learned it himself. To that I commend his efforts and knowledge. In Japan, they have never let their archery fall to the wayside and most all schools and communities have archery clubs and maintain this ancient tradition which relates to much more than simply war-archery.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]fZNdx_g_mr8[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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