Yabusame - with errors

[GrahameA]

Morning All.

I am always impressed how good the archers shooting Yabusame are.

But even they have a bad day it would seem:
Vid 1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKcKzsOq ... re=related
Vud 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3gfn9Txq7w

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Just an aside. This is a poor video but Yabusame off the Bitumen Are they mad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMH4BeXHwbI

[kimall]

I see the secret is to have a really slow horse..
Cheers KIM

[GrahameA]

Hi Kim.

I see the secret is to have a really slow horse..
Cheers KIM

Yep. They seem to shoot better off the slower horse. Interesting to see that they do not always get it perfect. I am still impressed that they can ride the horse and get away any sort of shot.

[stringnstik]

I like the little bowing robots that pick up the wayward arras.

[wishsong]

Grahame , i have a horse who was 'bow broke ' a few years ago ... and I am re introducing to it again slowly ... at the canter is easier than at the trot I think from prev experience ... either way to get those arrows off that quick those guys and girls are doing well .

[GrahameA]

Morning.

Grahame , i have a horse who was 'bow broke ' a few years ago ... and I am re introducing to it again slowly ... at the canter is easier than at the trot I think from prev experience ... either way to get those arrows off that quick those guys and girls are doing well .

The Archers in Yabusame always interest me. Most of the video that is shown has them at full gallop with the best standing in the stirrups (and a different type of stirrup they are). They draw an arrow (and not just a normal arrow), nock it, shoot it and hit the target. Sounds easy - but I would suggest it is a lot harder than it looks.

Have a look at 2:40 on at these guys in action and note how fast that horse is moving. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWQaJLPKaK8

Whilst on the topic - I have posted this before. This really impresses me as a way to promote something. Here we have a single target event where the course has been laid at the steps of a temple in the middle of a city and the spectators only a metre or so away from the full gallop Horse and a chap with a bow. What are the chance of getting something like this up in Brisbane? ROFL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIKRuvYbIw0

[kerry]

Grahame I guess the nearest thing to a temple in Briz.would be Lang Park, oops, Suncorp . I haven't been there to a league game for donkeys but if he's still going around maybe someone on this forum could ride Buck and shoot arrows at the refs at half time.