Reinventing the fastest forgotten archery.

Got to love his shooting and his comment on his Youtube channel, this man is a rare type that will not let others narrow views of what is possible stop him, which is a huge problem as I hate listening to self proclaimed experts saying it is impossible and it is visible it is due to lack of skills, he shows that he can acquire skills beyond what seems possible, this man is a genius maverick. There are too many interested in medieval European Martial Arts who lack skills and proclaim themselves as experts by reading old books, with no prior martial arts experience or with some martial arts experience with another ancient weapon style, so they at least have a base and foundation to build from, but most of them have no real skills, there is today a lot of new really skilled practitioners and teachers, but there are more swindlers than the real deal, that does provoke me as I hate to listen to all kind of BS no matter what subject, but with a dead art it is hard to know if its done properly and easy to fraud people with naming fancy old German guards and techniques. I have only one advice for anyone interested in medieval European Martial Arts, the only and best groups you can find are the European Historical Combat Guild (EHCG), Gladiatores, Sieniawski & Sons, our own group Kratos Combatives, there are others but most of them are full of BS but watch videos with them and you have a baseline of how quality looks like.

 

Faster than Legolas! 
A historical technique much faster than the known.

The Danish archers Lars Andersen has rediscovered. an old and very fast way to shoot bows.

To compare speed
I have added 4 other good fast archers together !
to show the time it takes to shoot 10 arrows.

It is completely unscientific and not objectively
The 4 other archers can probably shoot faster than these video.

1: Lajos Kassai famous and fabulous Hungarian. 
Fastest horseback shooting in the world !
He was the one who first inspired me to fast shooting.
Shoot and teach the horses and archery system
he has developed.
A system based on pre angerede arrows.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yorHswhzrU

2: Iza Privezenceva tough Russian girl.
Fastest quiver shooting in the world!
She shoots a new and very interesting inverse system developed by Seregedel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SeregedelReal

3: DasDaan Dutch archer
He shoots a ""classic"" quiver system
http://www.youtube.com/user/DasDaan

4: Bo " CombatArchery" cole American archer.
Shoot and teach the system he has developed
A fairly simple straightforward system, without the 
use of pre angerede arrows.
The best start system for people who want to shooting fast
http://www.youtube.com/user/CombatArchery

In 60,000 years, man has shot with bow,
Today we know very little about the past archery.
so much is lost.
There are no truths, or proper ways to shoot with bow,
I have rediscovered something about archery, but there is still so much to rediscover.

Sincerely,
Lars Andersen

Comments on my videos:
I remove: stupid and not funny comments, childish criticism,,,,,

Sword meets mask

I have always liked the videos from The Real Gladiatores on youtube, these guys are so good at fencing it can be seen, no need to be an expert to see the quality of their historical correct fencing techniques. I have seen many videos with other groups that are not at this level from every part of the western world, this is correct on many levels, technical, historical and most likely their training method is pretty good to reach this level.

One of the biggest problems with historical European martial arts (HEMA) is that with the introductions of firearms, the needs for the use of swords diminished to a level were it only existed as a sport with foil and sabre fencing.

Having a broken line and not a continuous heritage, there IMO only few good sources to learn from, The Real Gladiatores, EHCG Sieniawski & Sons, ACT and other groups, the serious problem is that anyone can appoint himself as an expert after reading a few books. They have no one but themselves to judge how good they are, but as the interest has evolved dramatically there are more persons who can judge the quality.

A self-appointed expert who has published one book or more are then suddenly the super experts with authority, forgetting that Paladin Press, Loompanics, Turtle press and other publisher, many times have no interest if the book is filled with real or false information, Paladin Press went downhill after loosing the trial against them for publishing the Hitman book, now many of their books are worthless and as DVD are superior product than books with martial art, they are going to loose money on that market unless they have a competitive price to diminish the huge amount of illegal downloading.

Langes Messer

Fechten mit dem langen Schwert

Some long sword fencing pieces after Danzig & Ringeck

Fencing with five different medieval weapons

One of our new projects is using ancient weapons and among them also old European weapons, in our newly created sub group under Copenhagen Combatives, the Kratos Combatives group, use AMOK! as methodology, a combat proven modern teaching method developed and tested in the worst hot spots on the world, to survive armed assaults by civilians, in war by professional soldiers and special forces, police, security companies, bouncers, martial arts instructors and correctional officers.