Archery animations

[Tuuvi]

I was just watching the EB video on the the new animations for EB II and I am a little worried about the accuracy of the new animations for the archers. The problem is the archers jerk their hands back when shooting. As I understand it this is bad form and reduces accuracy. Now I will admit I've just watched some videos of people shooting heavier poundage bows (as the EB team probably already knows bows used for war have much heavier draw weights than bows used for hunting) and sometimes they do jerk their hands a little bit, because shooting a heavy bow puts a lot of strain on archer's hand, wrist, back, etc. Here is a pretty good video demonstrating proper shooting technique. The first few minutes are about bow tuning; the actual shooting starts at about 3:30.



Since EB is about warfare and not hunting I also found this cool video showing people shooting heavy weight English longbows.



I hope this helps the EB team in making EB II the best, most historically accurate mod ever

[Tretii]

Those heavy English bows look like proper killing machines. Nice videos.

[Macilrille]

They were- despite being somewhat overrated in myth since the middle ages, the English longbows were... nasty.

[seienchin]

Wow, nice videos, but the guy in the first one seems to be heavily influenced by japanese kyudo. Both eyes open, waiting and aiming and then release a constant strain of arrows.
Did europeans use the same technick?^^
I remember reading about a heavy dispute between a samurai and a european about why europeans only focus with one eye in the 16century.

[antisocialmunky]

There was a history channel special with an expert longbow user. Unlike these videos, he demonstrated rapid fire with high parabolic arcs. It was rather elegant actually since it was a fully body draw to aim to release in a single motion. He was firing an arrow every 5 seconds. And the thing was his bow was a 175lb siege bow.

[Tuuvi]

Wow, nice videos, but the guy in the first one seems to be heavily influenced by japanese kyudo. Both eyes open, waiting and aiming and then release a constant strain of arrows.
Did europeans use the same technick?^^
I remember reading about a heavy dispute between a samurai and a european about why europeans only focus with one eye in the 16century.

hhhmmm I'm not positive but I think the shooting technique demonstrated in the first video is pretty universal. I also shoot with both eyes open and I know nothing of japanese kyudo.

[Ibrahim]

Wow, nice videos, but the guy in the first one seems to be heavily influenced by japanese kyudo. Both eyes open, waiting and aiming and then release a constant strain of arrows.
Did europeans use the same technick?^^
I remember reading about a heavy dispute between a samurai and a european about why europeans only focus with one eye in the 16century.

perhaps they were arguing about muskets and not bows? or is it explicitly stated?

[oudysseos]

I was really impressed by the penetration in the second video until I realized that they were standing very close to their targets.