So, I went back to the range on Sunday, and had a lovely time putting sharp pointy things into a crappy target made out of masking tape. My groupings are getting better, thank you for asking. But it got me thinking about the stuff that people don't know about archery,...
So! I've been back in the salle, doing Swordfit and cursing my muscles the day after. I've also been at the archery range in Burnaby, and I've swapped my Rakim Wildcat limbs for a set of Jando limbs that boost my bow's weight from 18lbs to 25lbs. Increasing the bow...
I took a trip out to the Burnaby Archery Range again to do some more practice with my faithful yet rather crappy 18lb Wildcat bow. This time, we were shooting at 25 yards instead of 20, and I did notice the difference! The good news is that I seem to be getting better...
I went out to the Burnaby Range with Taylore (a friend and archery instructor) to see if I could get any better at putting holes in poor defenseless targets. I also brought along a camera to record my bumbling foolishness for posterity, and posted the evidence on...
Yesterday, I went shooting with my own bow for the first time. My bow is a Rakim Wildcat, an 18lb recurve that I can't help thinking of as being only for complete archery beginners, but it's a very nice, serviceable weapon to get trained up. For my pains, I got a...
Okay, remember how I posted about Lars Anderson? He's the archer whose video has been blowing up the interwebs for the last few days. I would be remiss if I didn't now post an update, after hearing from the experts. As I've mentioned before, I train swordplay in...
Okay, we've all seen Legolas do some pretty crazy shit, alright? Well, trust me, you ain't seen nothing yet. Meet Lars Anderson, a Danish archer who apparently went back through a lot of old manuscripts, started with the notion that everything in them (even the stuff...
So I follow some very smart people on Youtube, and one of them is Matt from Schola Gladiatoria in the UK. Following on from something I touched on in the post about Drizzt, here's a video about stereotypes on the use of swords and bows in media....