THE VIDEO SHELF · historical archery
Lars Andersen: A new level of archery
Archer Lars Andersen demonstrates fast, accurate shooting techniques he says he revived from historical art and texts, arguing Hollywood archery is not historical.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as an entertaining example of rediscovered lost skills, though some commenters note it is contested.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- larsandersen23
- Topic
- historical archery
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Semi-Related to this is Lars Andersen taking archery to the next level by using forgotten skills he learned by looking at old art and various texts. Worth a watch! [VIDEO]
rickdale on Hacker News · 2015-01
In Inside the world of longsword fightingDon't know how historically accurate it is, but this entertaining video argues that archery might be an example: [VIDEO]
xamuel on Hacker News · 2018-03
In Million-dollar Strads fall to modern violins in blind ‘sound check’Not to shit on your nice story :) but much what we know is either wrong or incomplete about archery. Lars Anderson made a nice series of videos on this: [VIDEO]
gbtw on Hacker News · 2018-04
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