The first good documentary about archery. Many pseudo hollywood produced documentaries forget the important points like draw weight, or velocity, you don't. That's great. Very good to don't forget the tradition🙏
friends who watch most documentaries have faced too many problems Turkish Composite bows are strong enough to pierce the armor of a Knight armed with full iron armor. Please research the production of composite Turkish bows. 1 publication takes 1 year to produce. Because the Horns are made of animal tendons, solid horn pieces and a strong and flexible glue made of fish oil, and they are kept for 1 year to fuse with each other and flexibly dry. In addition, Turkish bows are placed between the two legs and set on the beam "in reverse", which increases the speed and impact power of the arrow. But it makes pulling power more difficult. imagine building a horn upside down and pulling 20 cm :D I think you will feel the pain in your arm for days. but Professional Turks were used to it. They have been trained in it since childhood.
Oh Dear Me! So sorry Olde Chaps.. But the "English long bow" (at 19:13) is really closer to the American Long bow. A couple of good Centuries WAY off! But that is quite alright! I will still hug my Very own Howard Hill American Longbow. And hug my Grozer Horn Turkish bow. And hug my Ben Perkins Italian yew English War Bow. But STILL love your show/work!!!!
A great documentary that I watched with great pleasure, but why not use a real longbow instead of a laminated one in the comparative tests with the Ottoman bow?
Like the documentary, pretty shady shooting a regular arrow from the American longbow and then using a light flight arrow with the composite bow though.
A 14th century French knight and men-at-arms in heavy armor were very used to fighting on foot, plus their armor was generally proof against bows such as this firing such light weight arrows. Firing a bow at short range seems against the silly claims of 'great range' of the Turkish bow. Also shooting at some thin, flat steel sheet does not represent the curved and hardened armor of a knight's curass. Also even with the smallest amount of research they would know that the knight wears a gambeson (10-14 layers of linen padding), then chain mail and then the plate armor. It was generally proof against british war arrows which had arrow heads that were designed to penetrate armor and had twice the weight of these light arrows used. Check this for a test ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DBxdTkddHaE.html
The documentation has some technical errors. They comparison of the turkish and the longbow was a total flaw. First this was not a real englisch longbow and second the drawweight was never mentioned. Maybe the turkish bow had to be the winner ...
The strength of a longbow was roughly between 120 and 160 pounds did you take that into account?Bir İngiliz uzun yayının gücü kabaca 120 ila 160 pound arasındaydı bunu hesaba kattın mı?
@@ercaner3905 they were well trained, they didn't do anything else if they had been shooting with arrows all their life. The arrow was much heavier than the file we have today, which increases the penetration power enormously. You can't really compare a Turkish bow and a long bow because each bow serves its purpose in different ways.
@@amiller6489 What I asked was not about training or anything to be able to fully stretch the longbow one should have inhumane physics like above average arm lenght and muscle mass, whch was not the case for british people at that time whose eating or exercising habit that would develop that kind of body type. I am not sure that people today would pursue it even if they have the knowledge to do so. Today's best archers have the capability near 50 pounds or so (www.britannica.com/sports/archery under equipment title), applying more strengrh than that can't be effective in real fights because even to accomplish that task would lead to longbowmen's downfall because they could not ready and shoot the cavaliry units before they get too close to kill them all. It is practically impossible and even useless because crossbows are always superior on that fullly stretching power and english armies like many other european nations used them instead for heavy impact on single targets, longbow's main issue was to make a rain of arrows battlefield, but more importantly as decribed here they were easily mass produced and their users were easiliy replaced (this was even intended by the employer kind or lord etc. because dead soldiers can't collect their payments), this kind of warfare attitute may seem inhumane today but industrilisation and mass production are the backbones of today's west and their dominance over other parts of the earth. Longbows paved the way for it as was the case for American revolution and civil war where they need to have many fire arms in so little time which resulted in American mass production tradition. Still what they had tested here was not the full capabilities of both bows as they willingly admitt, I don't know about British recods at that time but as also described here in Ottoman records, there were people who can use their bow to shoot a target from 800 meters away or so. So in the test they could only reach little more than half power of the Ottoman composite bow.
@@ercaner3905 Unfortunately I have to contradict, because the fact is that the arrows for Turkish bows were heavier than the arrows as they are used today and therefore the bow was much stronger and was between 80 LBS and 120 LBS for the Ossmanians. The English bow was also between 100 los and 160 lps that is scientifically proven. And the English archers did nothing else from childhood than to train with the bow, which in turn means that the right shoulder side was extremely strong and the left extremely stunted. According to archaeological excavations, this has been proven on skeletons. Battle of Azincourt documents the English superiority against an outnumbered opponent where around 10,000 English soldiers including 7800 archers and around 2000 armed knights competed against 50,000 French knights - the result is that long archers have largely penetrated the armor and completely destroyed the French
English had to use bows made from one piece of wood because of the weather. A composite bow will fall apart in the British weather. Turks themselves did not campaign in Europe in the winter because of the weather.
It may but when you think about battle those archers must have energy after shooting. If they use nearly 200pounds longbow they cant fight after 10 shoots so they have to use lighter then 200, nearly 160pounds or less. And that bow can make 110-80 j about 10m - 25m.
@@kerimtoraman3428 good point! By reducing the maximum force required to shoot the same energy arrow, the more technologically advanced Turkish bows allowed archers to shoot many more arrows in a single battle
@@suunraze if you dont shoot all day you shouldnt shoot at battle. But difference between longbow and turkish(or eastern bow whatever you call it) is in fighting style. Turks are nomadic nation so they cant travel with heavy armor all the time for that reason everything about war is speed for Turks. But european nations are stay in town and village so they can carry their armor at war so their fighting style more static. Static warfare needs heavy armor, heavy weapons and also heavy bows but war of movement needs light armor, light weapons and speed. Both bows are good with their style and no one say which one is better.
English Longbow??? Janbi shoots a modern laminated Sportsbow. That‘s like holding a Banana in my Hand and telling everyone „Look at this Apple.“ Sorry, but this comparison doesn‘t fit at all
This turkish bow isn't composite this is laminated İf use full organic turkish bow get very different results. Turkish bow best bow in world. Longbow is very easy and isn't optional. Longbow has very stupidly design. English bow is toy. 😂😂 Composite turkish bow throw 846 meters Organic longbow 240meters Cry😭😭😭😭😭😭
It's all depends on the material of the bow, the archer skills, arrow spine, wind, etc. We can't compare each bow so simple like this, it's just like judging others bow with their imperfections. Just read the title, this videos just want to make the turkish bow the winner, that's make it unfair. If you want to compare don't be so subjective, each bow or any other weapons is deadly. The fact is they're using the turkish bow or long bow for thousands of years in many battle based on nature resources, culture, knowledge, etc. If you talking about winning a battle, archer is not the only aspect for win, there is strategy, politics, power, tools, knowledge, skills, loyalty, reward, punishment, food, gold, etc.
'10,000 fully equipped french knights' ... you have to be kidding. France never had such numbers and certainly never sent the majority of their forces on a crusade given the political situation in Europe. This is clearly written for a Turkish audience.
First, he takes a regular arrow with a 3-inch fletch and shoots at a distance from a modern longbow... Then he takes a specially prepared arrow for flying and shoots from a Turkish bow. Naturally, it will fly further... Do you think all the viewers of your program are stupid? They wouldn't be disgraced by making such clumsy comparisons.
Bu belgesellerde kasıtlı olarak insanlara yanlış bilgi veriyorsunuz. 11 mm'lik zırh mı olur. Libreyi kilogram olarak anıyorsunuz. Yayın gerçekteki kuvvetini 2 kat fazla söylüyorsunuz, ve 55 librelik bir yayın 11 mm kalınlığındaki (!) zırhı deldiğini iddia ediyorsunuz. Daha neler neler. Özellikle TRT'ye hiç yakışmıyor. Çok ayıp.
Evet, ne yazık ki. Test edilen lamine yay 55 kgf değil, muhtemelen 55 librelik. Ahşap ve fiberglastan yapılan hiçbir Türk yayı 55 kilogram güce sahip değildir. Bazı gerçek kompozit yayların 55 kgf çekme ağırlığı vardır (ve birçok ortaçağ Türk savaş yayının büyük olasılıkla vardı). Google çeviri kullandığım için üzgünüm.
@@dileb112You are 100% correct. The thing is laminated bows regardless of their models cannot endure draw weights above 60-70 lbs due to their structures. However, the composites bows made of genuine horn, wood, sinew and hide/sturgeon glue usually perform worse than laminate bows when they have draw weights under 60-70 lbs. But they are head and shoulders above the laminate bows beyond draw weights of ~80 lbs. The common bows avtually used in battles had draw weights of (roughly) 80 -120 lbs. But don't let these figures mislead you. The season for battles were mostly spring and summer. The organic materials used for making bows are highly sensitive against heat and their draw weights were getting weaker considerably under such conditions. For instance a bow that has 110-120 lbs draw weight may become 80-90 lbs under hot weather conditions. Maybe that's why the fighters mostly had 2 bows with them during battles. You can see way stronger bows in the museums like 180-250 lbs but we assume that these were for show-offs rather than for being employed in warfare.
@@tayfunlucumhuriyeti3332 mustafa bey 11 mm zirh olmaz. Muzelerde boyle bir ornege rastalayamazsiniz. Tarihte boyle bir ornege rastlayamazsiniz. Joust adi verilen kargi duellolarinda bile kullanilan zirhlarin kalinliklari en fazla 5-6 mmyi buluyor. Ayrica gercekte 55kg (yani yaklasik 110 lbs) yaylar yapilmis ve kullanilmis olsa da belgeselde kullanilan yaylardan hicbiri bu kadar sert degil. Ancak oyleymis gibi lanse ediliyor. Mesafeler yanlis lanse ediliyor. Kendi yaptiklarini iddia ettikleri yaylarin uzerinde oldukca iyi bilinen bir Macar kemangerin logosu var. Ingiliz uzun yayi dedikleri esasen flat bow. Ironi degil. Tecrubelerime dayanarak, bilerek ve gorerek yaziyorum. Soylediklerimin hepsini de ispatlarim. Ancak bana en azindan 11 mm kalinliginda bir zirh oldugunu belgeler uzerinde gostererek soylediklerime itiraz ederseniz daha makul olacaktir.
@@keremagackoglu4152 ben 11mm olduğunu duymadım hacı açıkcası mümkünse bir zaman dilimi atar mısın söylenilen yeri, tekrar baktım ama duymadım kalınlığı. Ve zırh konusunda zaten batırmışlar. O dönemde sadece plaka zırh giyen tek bir asker bile yoktu. Fransız şövalyeler kalınlığı 2.5-1.5mm arası değişen plaka zırh, altına tüm vücutlarını kaplayan zincir zırh ve onun altınada savaş juponu giyiyorlardı. Giydikleri zırhların eğimli olduğunu ve gelen okları sektirdiğinden bahsetmiyorum bile. Adamlar bile bile kendilerini rezil edicek bir test yapmışlar. Ordaki tarihçiler nerden ne okumuşlarda böyle bir testin gerçeği yansıttığını söylemişler harbiden anlayamıyorum. Bunu ancak konu hakkında bilgi sahibi olmayan insanlara yedirirler. Avrupalı adama güler valla.
Any bow against well made plate armour have no chance, arrows dimly break on impact. But If you aim In between plates in less protected areas then it had a chance. It’s been proven many times. Also killing horse would be more effective…
Museums in Turkey is full of examples of arrows penetrated metals and wood. They might not be able to do this today but it does't mean they couldn't do it in the past. And also even bullet can not penetrate into todays tecnological armors so it is not logical making comparison without taking into consideration the era people lived in.
