I am so grateful for this video! I had read your book, but I was struggling with the double hook draw, so this is a wonderful complement to that part of the book. Either way, thank you for all you do!
Hello, i am from Argentina, i have been shoting occidental archery for a while but the oriental method really shock me, my father bought a ktb nomad for me, what information do yo recomend me to improve my shoot with great tehhnic
There are obviously many warriors in history said to have been able to do this shot in battle. One that comes to my mind is Xiahou Yuan, of the Chinese civil war "Three Kingdoms". Very impressive display of skill by the archer in this video.
chinese invented gun powder my grandpa has single shot riffle use to hunt wild boar what the point? we don't need bow please use your traditional clothes only for ritual and use gun not bow this is 2021
Hi Justin, do you know if there's anyone/a group in the UK that holds such Chinese archery events? I currently know of Thumb Shooters UK, but as far as I know they don't hold any gatherings or seminars as of yet because they were founded around the time of the Covid lockdown. Cheers!
Hi 😊. May I know, at 31 inch draw length, what is the draw weight? Is this YMG bow is 95# at 31" ? I had ordered this bow from freddie archery website. But still don't know the suitable arrow specs for this bow 😅. My draw length is about 28-29 inch. Hope to hear some answers from you. Tqvm :)
This is great, man, I've been reading The Way of Archery and Gao Ying's teachings have been SUPER helpful for this fiction book I'm writing that revolves around war archery and techniques (gotta make sure I'm properly writing what the character's doing with Eagle Claw, thumb release, etc. so that I'm not doing future readers a disservice like if they wanna try it themselves). So the attention to detail is just invaluable. Double-hook is what I was reading about last night and I curiously tried that hold---just pulling back to see how it felt---with my thumb guard. Thanks guys for publishing this translation and I can't wait to see what else the book contains.
In asiatic archery there are usually up to three anchor points at different parts of the string. As far as I can see, he is using a string to chest anchor point. I have also been developing the floating face anchor, it's a lot harder, but it allows you to focus on your draw technique more and provides a more 3D sight picture. To each their own though.
Google's algorithm's are amazing. Yesterday, on my third day of Asiatic bow shooting with no thumb ring, I naturally developed the two finger draw. I subconsciously started doing it to reduce the pain of the draw on my swollen thumbs. I appreciate you going over this technique, because it helped me determine my problem. My issue with it was I wasn't synchronizing the dropping of the middle finger with the release, and that was resulting in a collapsing draw. Can't wait to practice this technique some more after work. I bought The Way of Archery last night. Thanks for the hard work in disseminating historic Chinese wisdom to us English speaking people.
