Momote Shiki - Japanese Archery Ritual

[Besoaria]

Pretty hot!

[katsumorymoto]

man these ppl are deluded

[shichan]

i love the sound the arrows make when they're shot.

[battletoads22]

I loved the whistling arrow.

[Gnarkade]

3:36 this guy is bossin

[blackfeatherarchery]

Awesome form of archery.

[Gmissile]

No thanks. Too self conscious for me and a tad fruity.

The mounted archery has greater appeal.

[youtubister]

The arrow leaves the string:

It may not hit,

But it does not miss!

Fascinating. Thanks for uploading, RoninDave.

[Brianjacob5050]

Dont tell me that is all silk. I know much. I know enough to know that the sun can shine and can also reflect ones medals, but i do not know why or how, the samurai obtain lenins of any material for their culture. They are obviously cotton like, highly superior. Defined and dehardened. However, all I can think of is silk. Which would be impossible. Due to the chinese silk trade which is simular to diamonds and gasoline.

[usefullstuff]

Legolas could take all these mofos :P

[petrustella]

Very good and beautiful

[landsurfer66]

Very interesting ritual. Ancient beauty.

[RisingTornado]

Does anyone know the actual name of the style of hat the gentlemen are wearing at 0:46?

[VegaEtereo]

Your videos remind me the documentary "Baraka". Really beautiful. Sorry for my bad english.

[ErichoTTA]

The Mortal Kombat character?

[VegaEtereo]

No. "Baraka (1992) is a Todd-AO (70 mm) non-narrative film directed by Ron Fricke." (Wikipedia)... Find it, is a real piece of art. ^^

[illnesillusion]

Oh my... <3

[CombatArchery]

very cool

[DiVeronica]

the wacko at 4:15 freaks out a little bit

[5tonyvvvv]

lol..i have one of these boes ,,they shoot great but thats funny

[hosozoku]

kakkoii(・∀・)

[BlackRoninMartialArt]

I cannot wait to see that! looking forward to the Yabusame, for those who have not seen it before it is quite different to Kyudo and worth taking a look.

[RoninDave]

search my vids - I've got a short 30 second clip of yabusame up right now

[BlackRoninMartialArt]

Its nice to see the Shinto aspect of traditional Japan as it so so often overlooked by the Buddhist aspects of so many martial arts. I would love to see more.

[RoninDave]

stay tuned then as I have another archery event video to put together and right now I putting together a kind of music video for yabusame - mounted archery shinto ritual

[GsxRaider]

@RoninDave i love japanese!thanks for sharing!

[talo91]

Awesome!!!

[rfbursa]

d'avash la momomte

[kungfuasgaeilge]

brilliant! as solemn and dignified as a tea ceremony... but with yumi. (they're massive, I knew they were big, but not that big!)

[Deadeye777]

i love that "i'm shot sh*t" pose after they shoot with the peter pan hands-on-hips pose

[kardentyrell]

the arrow at 3.56 had a nice sound to it ^^

[Thehexland]

beautiful isn't it?

[ErikTributsch]

Thats very important! Next year I went to Japan (I hope so that my money is enough) with my girlfriend. We here in Germany are so lucky and happy that we found our past from the middleage. Knigthly,proud and honor is here in our group the first thing..... but in front of this... the fun! You see it in my videos.... and the video fromredsquirill. So then, I look more from your videos!... and make my coments ;-)

[waros4you]

watch?v=34UQRMGCSgU

at the Shourinzan temple, Takasaki, you can find the monument which were carved with "Ich liebe die japanische Kultur" by Bruno Taut 1933. and a house by him at Atami.

Eugen Herrigel from Germany 1924, he has written on the subject of Zen and Yumi.

"Die ritterliche Kunst des Bogenschiessens" "Zen in der Kunst des Bogenschiessens"

[reynoldsair]

nice vid. do you know anything about the women? doesn't seem like the traditional housewife role.

[RoninDave]

archery was a sport that many women throughout japanese history took part. Many female members of samurai family were expected to be ready to defend their home or family so they learned martial arts particalurly the bow and naginata.

[reynoldsair]

wow, thanks. i thought it was just a politically correct festival.

[RoninDave]

check out my earlier vids on yabusame and a martial arts demo on culture day and you'll see female participants.

[Pablo668]

Awesome vid.

[beezyr]

beautiful video!

[RoninDave]

Thanks!

[pisisamio7]

Sweet man. I'd really like to visit Japan sometime, thanks for the cultural insight.

[RoninDave]

thanks for the comment and rating! Check out the link to my blog I recently added which has more info on Momote Shiki.

[atomicboyx]

That was a nicr video, and thank you for adding the notes it was very insightfull!

[RoninDave]

thanks for the comment and rating! Check out the link to my blog I recently added which has more info on Momote Shiki. Hope the subtitles weren't too difficult to read!