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CraigMBeckett:
Erik,
The book you mention does not appear on their lists, not even the coming soon list.
Any idea who the Author is?
Craig.
Marz5:
I looked it up on google and found this:
http://www.amazon.com/Bended-Bow-Archery-Medieval-Renaissance/dp/0752463551
in there it says the author is Erik Roth, and is to be published March 2012
--Mark R.
CraigMBeckett:
--- Quote from: Marz5 on July 16, 2011, 10:33:41 pm ---I looked it up on google and found this:
http://www.amazon.com/Bended-Bow-Archery-Medieval-Renaissance/dp/0752463551
in there it says the author is Erik Roth, and is to be published March 2012
--Mark R.
--- End quote ---
Ah light dawns! Its Erik's own work, no wonder he knew the future!
With Mark's help found it on both Amazon US and Amazon UK but not on the History Press, Amazon UK says price is UKP 20.00, US has no price yet. Neither Amazon's say much about it, so how about a quick precis Erik?
Craig.
peasant1381:
Everybody seems to be missing the point of what a warbow is for, namely stopping a man wearing armour by killing him, wounding him or scaring the crap out of him. You're only going to do any damage by using the full power of the bow which means drawing to the full length of the arrow(which should match the draw length of the bow) every time. That's it, just draw to the full length of the arrow. You have to do that to propel the arrow as far as possible because you want to stop him as far away as possible. You draw the full length of the arrow at short range because you want the arrow to punch through his armour which is a lot less likely to happen if you don't draw to the full length of the arrow. The only way to become good at this is to practise as much as possible (like any thing else really).
Now you might say that we're not shooting at men in armour any more so why do we need to draw like that all the time. Well if that's the case why shoot a warbow at all. The whole point is to shoot the bow the old way like it was meant to. Full length of the arrow everytime - no anchor points.
Del the cat:
I like your choice of word 'authoritative'
The answer is no, the only people who realy knew are long since dead.
Of course there are those who are shooting heavy bows now and they've had to re-learn the skills, fortunately they post on youtube and the like.
The only real answer is to do it yourself, like most of this stuff.
The rest is opinion or 'received wisdom' or personal experience/proference.
Roger Ascham is probably the nearest thing to an authority and even he notes that men have many and varied styles.
Personally I recomend grimacing, but not leaping forward like a startled cat. ;)
Del
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