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Offline Silent Invader

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17thc Manchurian/Korean archery
« on: 16 May 2014, 02:09:24 PM »
Watched War of the Arrows last night, not my usual fare but was very, very good.

One question though, on the historical/technical representation of the archery technique.

I am used to arrows being rested on the left of the bow but in the movie they were rested on the right. Was this a movie anomaly or how it was done?

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Re: 17thc Manchurian/Korean archery
« Reply #1 on: 16 May 2014, 03:11:23 PM »
Watched War of the Arrows last night, not my usual fare but was very, very good.

One question though, on the historical/technical representation of the archery technique.

I am used to arrows being rested on the left of the bow but in the movie they were rested on the right. Was this a movie anomaly or how it was done?

Cheers.  :)

Not sure off the top of my head but I can have a look  :)

cheers

James

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Re: 17thc Manchurian/Korean archery
« Reply #2 on: 17 May 2014, 12:45:58 AM »
Cheers James

I just watched "Myn Bala: Warriors of the Steppe", which was even better (18thc Kazakh struggle).  The horse archers in that all rested the arrow to the left of the bow.

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Re: 17thc Manchurian/Korean archery
« Reply #3 on: 17 May 2014, 10:15:33 AM »
Couldn't find anything after cursory look bit I'll have a deeper dig around later over the weekend  :)

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James

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Re: 17thc Manchurian/Korean archery
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Re: 17thc Manchurian/Korean archery
« Reply #5 on: 18 May 2014, 08:54:53 AM »
http://www.manchuarchery.org/

Thank you!

That website is a fantastic resource.  Great articles with really useful images.  The page on stance is most informative.

 

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