For Rocket Launcher Fans

**Orda Khan** · 06-04-2007, 01:32

Kassai excels at this technique. Spare arrows were also held in the drawing hand, especially in the east where the thumb draw was more prevalent.
The use of the thumb draw can be seen in this link....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEUTfsYdHBI
The Korean bow you see is 86# draw weight, being made to look like a toy

..........Orda

**Whacker** · 06-04-2007, 01:41

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhyE...elated&search=

This one is pretty illustrative of the thumb draw and use of a thumb ring. Didn't have sound on, but just watching it was helpful. Thanks again guys.

**Shahed** · 06-04-2007, 01:41

Thanks for the links guys.
Damm that 86 bow would be a hard to shoot on horseback. Even though that guy looks slow to the untrained eye, I think that's a decent draw speed.

I can't help but think how these people make knights, cataphracts and all that, look like abominations.
There's just no comparison in skill, bravery, sheer gut to do this on horseback in battle.

**Orda Khan** · 06-04-2007, 02:34

Don't think of grasping the bow, the grip is very light pressure. In fact, as you begin to draw, right through to release you can actually open the fingers of the bow hand, a technique used by many/most modern recurve archers who rely on a bow sling to prevent the bow flying forward out of their hand on release. One free finger is enough to do this, leaving the rest to hold arrows. Kassai can hold up to ten arrows in this manner

........Orda

**Husar** · 06-04-2007, 03:13

Originally Posted by Sinan

I can't help but think how these people make knights, cataphracts and all that, look like abominations.
There's just no comparison in skill, bravery, sheer gut to do this on horseback in battle.

A knight would say there's no honour in it I guess.

Well, I'm inclined to agree with you, but I still like knights and I guess they also had quite a lot of skill, bravery and gut, we just haven't seen a video about them yet.

Though I have to visit that horse archery school sometime, the video was quite amazing.

**Shahed** · 06-04-2007, 03:24

ROFL.

There's "honor" in all that armor and that "charge" ?
... is what one of those guys would say.

Indeed I'd love to visit that school too, added to my long wish list.

**Philbert** · 06-04-2007, 09:10

Can you guys actually read the text? I can only read the menu, the body text is in strange characters. It seems something has gone wrong with the encoding, but I can't find out which encoding to use.

**Orda Khan** · 06-04-2007, 11:41

Philbert
It's a site of the Kassai Horseback Archery school in Greece, the text is Greek

....Orda

**Philbert** · 06-04-2007, 12:15

I see, it's supposed to be ISO-8859-7. When I change the charset to that meaningful stuff comes up.
That was not specified in the HTML, but probably Greek readers have that as their default encoding.