Turkish traditional Archery-Backward Shot

Shorter Asian style bows and using a thumb release allow the archer to shoot in nearly any position and cant the bow to any side. Here you see Gökmen demonstrate the backward shot with a Grozer Turkish bow 60#@28.

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[abdulkabza]

Exactly! Parthians were people who spoke a Indo-European language. However, it was probably a military and political allience consisted of various tribes and nations. Such contributions have been a part of Central Asian history and culture. Since there is no other scintific evidence historians tend to classify/categorize such civilisations according to the native tongue of their war lord.

[abdulkabza]

Yes, "Parthian shot"

[abdulkabza]

Parthians were a nation that spoke Indo-European tongue, so they're related to Persians but are not exactly them. In Central Asia people of different tongue and ethnic origin lived together and shared a common culture. It was not too much different for Ural-Altaic people such as Korean or Turks or Magyars or Mongols.. This technique has been named after Parthians. Nobody knows whether it existed before or not. Turks have undoubltly been one of the nations who performed this technique perfectly.

[abdulkabza]

...but in the US bows with sight windows are also accepted as "traditional" tackle. Use inexpensive aluminum or carbon arrows at the beginning and switch to wooden arrows when you are more experienced.

[abdulkabza]

Geva,

Thanks for your interest.

Gokmen who demonstrates the Parthian shot can shoot on horseback. There are a few more people who can do that in Turkey. Besides, the mounted archery is still on baby steps in the country. But we're trying to revive this martial art of our ancestors too. For a newcomer to traditional archery a bow made from synthetic matarials, 30-35 pound of draw weight, with no sight windows would be great

[Rhinoch8]

It was used in horse archery tactics.

The ennemy army was coming, the archery horse were doing like if they ran away and shoot backwards their arrows. It was very powerful...

[walatalalaw]

the mongolians.... backwards shooting is useful on horseback, and they were the best horseback archers you can find...

[fangchin72]

Heh heh,what a backshot.

[TheBigP99]

Omg, This Video got 90 K Views for nothing... This is just 5 sec of PURE crap

[sonichedgie]

I got traditional turkish bow lately , and amazed how deadly accurate it shoots .

If you cant shoot traditional accurate , its you which is not accurate .

[CannibalCarp]

Did the Chinese back in the day have that style bow?

[EmperorOfPersia]

@abdulkabza

Not only Indo-European but also Iranian, their language was also Middle Persian, however nice video!

[domigery]

Look the hungarian archerys :)

[MrFloppy19]

isnt this a technique that most mounted archers had to learn and master?