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I remember this viral video from this guy a few years back https://youtu.be/BEG-ly9tQGk https://youtu.be/BEG-ly9tQGk

by buzzy_hacker 4y ago

oneoff786 4y ago
It seemed like a parody in tone, but it was pretty great all the way through
- dalmo3 4y ago
  "Or on a horseback" is my favourite line.
Semaphor 4y ago
Wow, that does make legendary archers in movies actually seem less impressive, I’d rather face Legolas than Lars after watching this.
- srik 4y ago
  Lars was heavily involved in the Robin hood movie production, the one with Taron Edgerton from a couple years ago. Despite how incredulously "blockbustery" the action sequences looked, the archery itself was all heavily grounded in reality and research from manuscripts of that era. I gained a lot of respoect for Taron Edgerton for his dedication to pulling all that off without resorting to stuntsmen or cgi. Wish the movie did better, so all their work could have had more exposure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZsQmlZclTo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZsQmlZclTo
ultrahax 4y ago
FWIW whilst superficially impressive, that video was thoroughly debunked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDbqz_07dW4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDbqz_07dW4
- Sebguer 4y ago
  I can't stand the tone of this video, so couldn't watch the whole thing but skipped through, and afaict it's debunking the idea that people ever really did this in battle? Not that the stunts in the video are fake? Kind of a misleading thing to say it's 'thoroughly debunked' when it's very clearly for entertainment and just says they're 'myths'.
  - titanomachy 4y ago
    I agree, after watching both videos it seems plausible that at least some historical warriors could have used a style like Lars and been very effective with it. I don’t think that claim is really “debunked”. They seem to have attacked the least charitable interpretation of his video. For example, I don’t think he was seriously claiming that warriors would routinely catch opponent’s arrows and fire them back in combat, I thought he was just presenting that as a cool trick.
  - isitmadeofglass 4y ago
    Your correct. Lars isn’t faking his feats. But his narrative that he “rediscovered the ancient true way of archery” is fake, and originally before his rise to fame, that was his “claim to fame” he was a snake oil salesman who ended up being successful because even though his claims about the product where false, people still genuinely liked the product just for what it was, impressive archery skills, no need to wrap it up in claims about ancient lore or some modern conspiracy to “suppress true archery”.
    - astrange 4y ago
      If you’re actually good I don’t think you can be called a snake oil salesman exactly. We have people who really do amazing things but make up wild claims about how it works - magicians. I guess if a magician actually believed what they were saying was true, that’d be some third thing.
      - randomswede 4y ago
ugh123 4y ago
Insane. After watching the world-record video I was left feeling suspect it was fake. Now i'm a believer

I remember this viral video from this guy a few years back https://youtu.be/BEG-ly9tQGk https://youtu.be/BEG-ly9tQGk

oneoff786 4y ago

It seemed like a parody in tone, but it was pretty great all the way through

dalmo3 4y ago
"Or on a horseback" is my favourite line.

Semaphor 4y ago

Wow, that does make legendary archers in movies actually seem less impressive, I’d rather face Legolas than Lars after watching this.

srik 4y ago
Lars was heavily involved in the Robin hood movie production, the one with Taron Edgerton from a couple years ago. Despite how incredulously "blockbustery" the action sequences looked, the archery itself was all heavily grounded in reality and research from manuscripts of that era. I gained a lot of respoect for Taron Edgerton for his dedication to pulling all that off without resorting to stuntsmen or cgi. Wish the movie did better, so all their work could have had more exposure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZsQmlZclTo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZsQmlZclTo

ultrahax 4y ago

FWIW whilst superficially impressive, that video was thoroughly debunked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDbqz_07dW4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDbqz_07dW4

Sebguer 4y ago
I can't stand the tone of this video, so couldn't watch the whole thing but skipped through, and afaict it's debunking the idea that people ever really did this in battle? Not that the stunts in the video are fake? Kind of a misleading thing to say it's 'thoroughly debunked' when it's very clearly for entertainment and just says they're 'myths'.
- titanomachy 4y ago
  I agree, after watching both videos it seems plausible that at least some historical warriors could have used a style like Lars and been very effective with it. I don’t think that claim is really “debunked”. They seem to have attacked the least charitable interpretation of his video. For example, I don’t think he was seriously claiming that warriors would routinely catch opponent’s arrows and fire them back in combat, I thought he was just presenting that as a cool trick.
- isitmadeofglass 4y ago
  Your correct. Lars isn’t faking his feats. But his narrative that he “rediscovered the ancient true way of archery” is fake, and originally before his rise to fame, that was his “claim to fame” he was a snake oil salesman who ended up being successful because even though his claims about the product where false, people still genuinely liked the product just for what it was, impressive archery skills, no need to wrap it up in claims about ancient lore or some modern conspiracy to “suppress true archery”.
  - astrange 4y ago
    If you’re actually good I don’t think you can be called a snake oil salesman exactly. We have people who really do amazing things but make up wild claims about how it works - magicians. I guess if a magician actually believed what they were saying was true, that’d be some third thing.
    - randomswede 4y ago

ugh123 4y ago

Insane. After watching the world-record video I was left feeling suspect it was fake. Now i'm a believer