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That scene is impressively accurate in ways few people will notice: In addition to the awesome slow motion, there are three boys who shoot before Merida start
by Laremere 11y ago
That scene is impressively accurate in ways few people will notice:
In addition to the awesome slow motion, there are three boys who shoot before Merida starts her shooting. The first two miss horribly, and the third one gets a bull's eye on the sheer chance that he was startled as he was loosing the arrow. What's interesting is that all three have different types of bad form seen in real life, and they miss (or hit) in the way someone who has that bad form would.
Source / Much more info: http://archive.wired.com/geekdad/2012/02/new-brave-trailer-gets-it-right/ http://archive.wired.com/geekdad/2012/02/new-brave-trailer-g...
- geon 11y agoIn the promo pics for the Avengers movie, Hawkeye was wearing double arm guards. As I understand it, they are only worn by n00bs who haven't learned to rotate their elbow to the right instead of down. (Try it. You will see what I mean.) http://www.blastr.com/sites/blastr/files/HawkeyeRenner1.jpg http://www.blastr.com/sites/blastr/files/HawkeyeRenner1.jpg
- 2muchcoffeeman 11y agoIt's virtually impossible to not hit your forearm assuming you are doing everything correctly. If you look at all the high level recurve comps, everyone has an an arm gaurd. The same is true for chest protectors. Google videos of the World Champs or Oylmpics and you'll see what I mean. Even if this were not the case, why risk it? You don't want to get hit by a bow string on a 44lb bow in the middle of a comp.
- Gibbon1 11y agoWhen I was shooting bows, if you did things properly, you wouldn't hit your forearm. The problem is if you blow chow and don't notch the arrow properly. Or the notch blows out. Or the arrow shatters when you let loose. Then the string will hit your arm. I got hit once with a 35lb bow. I don't want to get bit by a 60-70 lb bow string nohow no way.
- 2muchcoffeeman 11y agoThe angle between your arrow and bow arm may have been too high. The strongest position is when your arms and shoulders form a straight line (with your shoulders low). So the closer to parallel the line of the arrow is to this, the easier it is to hold. Now, technically you are correct. If your release is perfectly clean there should be no problem. But in reality, there will be some degree of 'plucking' going on. Your fingers can't open fast enough. So the string actually vibrates a bit from side to side. I have seen some weird follow throughs that avoid this problem. There are very few top recurve archers that shoot without a guard.
- CognitiveLens 11y agoarm guards are worn by all Olympic-style archers (there are some traditional archery styles where they are slightly less common), but wearing two arm guards is something you might see at summer camp before the counselor gets the chance to show how the equipment should be used...
- eridius 11y agoAIUI, you're exactly right. He wore two arm guards because he kept hitting his arm. Of course, my source for this is reddit comment threads back when Avengers first came out, so make of that what you will.
- geon 11y agoThat was my source as well...
- bodhi 11y agoIn the picture you linked, he's not wearing two arm guards. He has an arm guard on his left arm (the one holding the bow), and a finger guard on the right (the one drawing the string).
- reagency 11y agoI think parent was referring to the two strips on his bow arm (which is his right arm, btw; he is shooting goofy, or the photo is reflected.)