Lars Andersen: A new level of archery
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as an entertaining example of rediscovered lost skills, though some commenters note it is contested.
What it is
Archer Lars Andersen demonstrates fast, accurate shooting techniques he says he revived from historical art and texts, arguing Hollywood archery is not historical.
Recommended by 4 HN commenters across 4 different months, 2015 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends rickdale · 2015-01 · on “Inside the world of longsword fighting”
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! [this video]
Recommends xamuel · 2018-03 · on “Million-dollar Strads fall to modern violins in blind ‘sound check’”
Don't know how historically accurate it is, but this entertaining video argues that archery might be an example: [this video]
Recommends gbtw · 2018-04 · on “What Medieval England Can Teach Us about Software Development”
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: [this video]
Recommends mikkergp · 2022-10 · on “Archery World Record: Most arrows through a keyhole [video]”
He has lots of videos in his YouTube channel showing various feats of archery, this is a pretty good one: [this video] Maybe he faked all the videos and got the Guinness book of world records to put a fake record on their website, but they doesn’t seem like the simplest explanation.
Cites discardorama · 2015-01 · on “Lars Andersen: a new level of archery [video]”
> Weaker stuff will not punch through even the worst armour at any kind of decent range. They do show his arrows piercing chainmail: [this video]
Cites nkurz · 2015-01 · on “In which I am crabby about viral archery videos”
Andersen's description on the original posting of the video addresses many of these criticisms. I can't figure out how to link to it directly as text, but you can go to [this video] , stop the video, and then click "Show More". Or view the copy below. --------------------------------------------------------- Published on Jan 23, 2015 The ultimate archery trick. Proving that Hollywood archery is not historical. Press release: [LINK] . Podcast about how I started archery: [LINK] . DO I HIT EVERYHING? I use a LOT of time practicing, and every time I set out to learn a new skill, a new trick or how to handle a new type of bow or arrow, it takes a long time, with plenty of misses. When I got the idea
Cites jart · 2022-02 · on “What do you really get from IDE-driven development?”
I've always thought Lars Andersen's archery did a pretty good job making this point. [this video] What will the crossbow wielding programmers of the future look like and who will be selling the crossbows?