bad archery
So in the last couple of days, perhaps a dozen people have been kind enough to forward me the video of Lars Anderson’s latest exercise in speed shooting. It has been wildly popular on the internet, racking up (at this writing) over 13 million views in around 48 hours, in a superb, engaging display of viral success. If you haven’t seen it already, tick up the counter right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk
Unfortunately, almost from the gun, I smelled bullshit. Firstly, it would be vastly more impressive if ANY of the shots were taken under some kind of controlled conditions. Basically, as an audience we never see the first take, or the fifth, or the thirtieth; we only see the one that comes off; just like people only ever take an Instagram picture of the best end of the day (holds guilty hand up) – and just like Hollywood. To be honest, I’m sure if I did at least a couple of these shots thirty times I’d pull them off once too – and I wouldn’t make a video full of generalisations and straight-up inaccuracies about what is and is not ‘faster’, ‘better’, and ‘more fun’ archery.
More here: http://www.theinfinitecurve.com/archery/bad-archery-pt-251/