Shooting with Siper in Turkish Archery

In Ottoman era sportive archery existed as early as 15th century. In the earliest capital cities Bursa and Edirne there were special archery fields called "okmeydani". After the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 Sultan Mehmed II "the Conqueror" established an okmeydani for archers in the newly named city Istanbul. Flight archery has always been popular all the 623 years (1300-1923) in which the Empire survived. Bilek siperi or siper was an over-draw device that has been used by flight archers to draw shorter arrows beyond the bow grip. Here you can see how it is used.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Tirendaz
• Turkish traditional archery
• siper
• bilek siperi
• Ottoman archery
• flight archery
• Murat Özveri

[abdulkabza]

Thanks!

[abdulkabza]

Thank you sir! Good luck with thumb release. It is not very easy to master it but you'll be amazed of the flexibility and speed it will provide. The more experience you have the more you will adore it. All the best. Murat

[abdulkabza]

Shorter arrow is light (low mass). Their very tiny ivory tips increases the dynamic spine and these two spesifications make an arrow that would fly further. Of course, a lighter arrw would absorb less energy from the bow. Therefore there should be an optimisation between the energy absorption and mass decrease. Ottoman flight archers could reach disances over 800 metres with 58-62 cm long arrows. There were other types of over draws like majra but for flight shooting they have used siper.

[abdulkabza]

Thanks Lars!

[CombatArchery]

Great to see this information Thank you and Great to see you once again...

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[ccoetzer]

Dear Dr Özveri, thank you very much for your very informative videos! I recently started shooting with a thumbring and your videos are a big inspiration.

[crookedninja5]

Interesting, I wonder why they where shooting shorter arrows, I can see it being a extended arrow rest for greater power.

[larsandersen23]

Very informative

and exciting

sincerely

Lars Andersen

[josephrobinson1976]

Very Interesting. Thank you for the video.

[hwalkkun]

nice video!