Like thousands of archers, I’ve been quite inspired by Lars Andersen, who has single-handedly revived the art of instinctive speed shooting. He’s spent many years developing a technique derived from the Saracen standard of firing three arrows in 1.5 seconds.
I don’t really like the cold, and doing archery in winter is difficult. So I just set up a living room range 🙂 I’m getting fairly fast but have pretty much destroyed two targets (one was a punching shield Jill got at the dump). Both have had thousands of arrows shot into it over a few weeks, both front and back:
My fastest time is about 2.2 seconds for three arrows, so I’m not there yet. Also Lars doesn’t really explain his techniques that well (I don’t blame him) so I’ve had to sort of figure it out by slowing down his videos and trying out different things. It’s like learning karate from Bruce Lee movies 🙂 The guy moves so fast it’s nearly impossible to see what he’s really doing. Here’s a short video I made showing my current progress:
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