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Rod:
That's the picture featured in Strickland and Hardy's book, where Strickland says that he thinks it an artistic misrepresentation and not a practical method of drawing a heavy bow.
Which would be news to an oriental warrior, although the representation here is too vertical and leaning back to be considered an accurate representation.
Whilst there are probably as many variations in technique and preferences as there are archers, what always remains are methods that are mechanically/physically advantageous using our physical structure which can usefully define our preferences.
At the end of the day it's all about context. There is no method you can come up with however peculiar, that has not probably been a legitimate method somewhere, someplace, sometime.
But in the real world when a culture using a weak method meets an aggressive culture using a strong method, the weak change their ways or go under.
By any useful definition, a strong method will provide the mechanical/physical least work solution that minimises effort and so enhances endurance and control.
To my mind this is the soundest basis for a preference.
Rod.
Yewboy:
Yeah its also interesting to see that the bows are inside out with the white sap wood on the inside or belly and the red heart wood on the back of the bow, Just goes to show you can't always trust in Naiive art from the period.
Rod:
That and the fact that the arrows are yet again on the wrong side of the bow... ;-)
Rod.
ratty:
--- Quote from: Yewboy on October 14, 2009, 08:16:34 am ---Yeah its also interesting to see that the bows are inside out with the white sap wood on the inside or belly and the red heart wood on the back of the bow, Just goes to show you can't always trust in Naiive art from the period.
--- End quote ---
i agree steve.
ive often thought about this shooting from the right had side of the bow and the 2 fingered draw.
in some pictures / paintings a thumb draw can look very much like the 2 fingerd draw, and and viser verser, coupled with shooting from the right hand side of the bow makes me wonder if there is some link or influence to the painters at the time period that we dont know about.
(not for one second am i saying this is fact, but it has been food for thought for me)
as for the bows being insideout you've got me there lol. seems to be a commen misstake for artists of the period.
robby:
Ratty, That is a really cool video on your signature, makes me want to go uot and shoot some more!
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