The Official Random Video Thread!

[Peter]

I love speed, whether it's a push bike, car, or jet ski. Even a skate board.

Whatever it is I have to push the limits, its almost a compulsion.

I try to behave on the public highway though, risking your own life is one thing but endangering others isn't acceptable.

 

[Raj]

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[Dave Shepard]

And now for something completely different:

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[Dave Shepard]

And another:

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[SouthSoundTree-]

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[Steve Mack]

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[MasterBlaster]

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[pantheraba]

wow...amazing to see that.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Cool baby.

 

[cory]

That was fun.

 

[MasterBlaster]

More flight deck porn...

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[MasterBlaster]

Mind blowing, but that last trick - I dunno!

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[pantheraba]

SUPERB!! Masterful skill...thanks for finding that.

 

[MasterBlaster]

What do you think about his last shot?

 

[cory]

How bout friggin' insane.

 

[gf beranek]

He has mastered the Force.

 

[stig]

Nice, but let us see him do it with a bow that has more than a 10 pds draw.

I'm sure he is very, very accurate with a heavy bow as well, but if you watch carefully, it is easy to tell that the bows he uses for the speed drills, have such a light pull that the arrows aren't going to have much penetration power.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Yea, you're right... he's full of shit.

Thanks for pointing that out, bro!

 

[vl2007]

Hilarious!!!!

 

[stig]

Where did I say he was full of shit.
I said he uses a very light draw bow for speed shooting. That is no secret, he says so himself.
Turns out it is a bit heavier that it looked, 20 pds, but that is still a light bow, compared to the 90 pds of a traditional English war bow.

He is an interesting guy, who works at rediscovering the more or less lost arts of shooting from horseback etc.

He says that he just did the video to get a bit of publicity for what he does.

There is a group of people assiciated with the Danish museum of weaponry, Tøjhusmuseet, that works with swordcraft,Halberds etc doing the same thing.
My karate sensei works with them.
We had a visit from the Okinawan weapons master Keisho Tokomura a couple of months ago.
Sensei took him in to meet the group and they had a fun day comparing asian and European tecniques.
The Danish sword fighters were blown away at how good that old dude is

 

[Peter]

Plenty for up close though, that's where the speed shooting comes in really handy.

 

[stig]

Yep, so long as your opponent isn't too fat.

But then you'd need to carry 2 bows.
One for close counter work and one for long distance.

It reminds me of people doing bo work with lightweight bos.
Looks fancy, but is totally useless for combat.

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[SouthSoundTree-]

Would you say that lightweight bo training translates at all into skill development for 'standard' weight bos?

 

[stig]

Quite the opposite IMO as you can get away with improper handholds and placements, since there is almost no inertia to overcome.
That is quite obvious in the video, which I wouldn't call a bo kata, but a circus act.

There are weapons where you can do dry runs with a lighter version and benefit from it, but the heavy weapons need to be trained at the weight you'll want to use for combat.

Imagine what you could do with a lightweight halberd and how little of that you could actually do with a real one.

 

[Peter]

Yep, so long as your opponent isn't too fat.

But then you'd need to carry 2 bows.
One for close counter work and one for long distance.

It reminds me of people doing bo work with lightweight bos.
Looks fancy, but is totally useless for combat.

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He managed to hit the eye on those two heads, then it doesn't matter how fat you are really. Ask King Harold....