This is skill unlike any other, A galloping horse, stringing & shooting an arrow... HITTING the target! The Japanese have some of the best archers out there. A war was even won when an archer sank a ship with his arrow... amazing! Thank you Japan! :)
After being to Japan many times, one of the things that struck me the most, is that the Japanese people loves the Japanese culture, and they take great care of it. Unlike most occidental country.
@Ryokushindo Yep, the Japanese sure love and protect their culture and national identity to a much, much higher degree than western countries. Take for example the frequent protest rallys held in the larger cities against illegal Korean and Chinese immigrants. If such manifestations were held in my country of Sweden against other scandinavian countries those people would be labelled racists, facists, despicable and inhuman. Not to mention protests against illegals from other parts of the world..
Japanese DNA is traced back to Mongolian type of people, Huns and such like that. That is the same people if you go back far enough, so that makes alot of sense.
20-30 feet is the practical limit for accurate archery from horseback, and most of the cultures (hun, magyar, mongolian) who practiced it preferred to do it at a canter, rather than a gallop (though the latter was done, sometimes you had to). Beyond that, you're doing massed fire, which the mongolians were REALLY good at.
I'm not an english but know that there are clubs in England who practice with English longbow and you have traditional fencing as well.
If u go to Japan a few days only u will see that they are nuts. Most likely we are idiots for them as well, but they are really crazy, even in martial arts. Damn, why am i studying jap martial arts for 12 years!
:)
Donno, baka
By the way, a kid in Mongolia shoots 3-4 times while a jap archer shoot one.
This is skill unlike any other, A galloping horse, stringing & shooting an arrow... HITTING the target! The Japanese have some of the best archers out there. A war was even won when an archer sank a ship with his arrow... amazing! Thank you Japan! :)
screenpuller 3 months ago
He mentions something about an old samurai war chant. What is it?
420Rokn 5 months ago
This horseback archery says rigidly formal style of "Ogasawara-ryu".
There is "Takeda-ryu" elsewhere. It is decided which school is performed by an area.
hirochica 1 year ago
This horseback archery says rigidly formal style of " Ogasawara-ryu".
hirochica 1 year ago
Love it!
aaalphacenturi 2 years ago 3
After being to Japan many times, one of the things that struck me the most, is that the Japanese people loves the Japanese culture, and they take great care of it. Unlike most occidental country.
Ryokushindo 3 years ago 13
@Ryokushindo Yep, the Japanese sure love and protect their culture and national identity to a much, much higher degree than western countries. Take for example the frequent protest rallys held in the larger cities against illegal Korean and Chinese immigrants. If such manifestations were held in my country of Sweden against other scandinavian countries those people would be labelled racists, facists, despicable and inhuman. Not to mention protests against illegals from other parts of the world..
TempestDust 1 year ago
@TempestDust
That's probably because they are. Everyone knows the Japanese has a reputation for racism.
ihavekankles 10 months ago
@ihavekankles
protect culture=racism?????
sheelamay3 9 months ago
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@sheelamay3
No, the Japanese are racist. Not just protective of their culture.
ihavekankles 9 months ago
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sheelamay3 9 months ago
@ihavekankles
Why Japanese are racist??????
sheelamay3 9 months ago
@Ryokushindo
Yup. Europe used to have a martial arts tradition just as rich as Asia, but as time and technology progressed, it was discarded and forgotten.
JohnnyWishbone85 11 months ago
Japanese culture is very unique.
I wish he shot the arrow closer than 5-10 feet. Riding and shooting a target closer to 25-30 feet away would be awesome!
I'm sure these archers can do it also
benelliman 3 years ago 9
@benelliman
I dare to think that Yabusame is based on Mongolian fighting style which is more older than Yabusame.
Mongolian and many Altai-Turkic groups (like Huns, Mongols) used horse and bow a long time before Japan
StratenaMatoha 1 year ago
Japanese DNA is traced back to Mongolian type of people, Huns and such like that. That is the same people if you go back far enough, so that makes alot of sense.
GuamKomudo 1 year ago
That would not be smart to try in real war, because you will miss easy lol
GuamKomudo 1 year ago
@GuamKomudo
that was used in real wars.
osakar 1 year ago
@benelliman
20-30 feet is the practical limit for accurate archery from horseback, and most of the cultures (hun, magyar, mongolian) who practiced it preferred to do it at a canter, rather than a gallop (though the latter was done, sometimes you had to). Beyond that, you're doing massed fire, which the mongolians were REALLY good at.
JohnnyWishbone85 11 months ago
its beautiful to see a culture that still has its culture intact! what do we have in England? immigrants and not much else
thesuperslacksniper 3 years ago 5
@thesuperslacksniper
I'm not an english but know that there are clubs in England who practice with English longbow and you have traditional fencing as well.
If u go to Japan a few days only u will see that they are nuts. Most likely we are idiots for them as well, but they are really crazy, even in martial arts. Damn, why am i studying jap martial arts for 12 years!
:)
Donno, baka
By the way, a kid in Mongolia shoots 3-4 times while a jap archer shoot one.
Attilahollo9 1 year ago