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Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 24, 2015 - 07:48pm PT
Stumbled on this youtube video completely by accident. It's got nothing to do with climbing, but I think most climbers will appreciate it...

[Click to View YouTube Video]
WBraun

climber
Jan 24, 2015 - 08:18pm PT
Bad ass, way beyond cool, stuff most people can only dream of in a fiction book ......
alannamal

climber
B.C.
Jan 24, 2015 - 09:58pm PT
Didn't Twight get into archery? I wonder if he got all up into it like this Lars guy.
SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
Jan 24, 2015 - 10:17pm PT
What????? I had to watch it several times to follow it!
A-maaaaazzing!

Susan
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Jan 24, 2015 - 10:26pm PT
Wow! Like, way fecking wow! That is most impressive. Why doesn't this guy have his his own TV show? It would be way more exciting than watching climbing.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Jan 25, 2015 - 04:49am PT
Sweet!

Gotta show this to my boy!
MH2

Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
Jan 25, 2015 - 07:54am PT
Good lessons about the evolution of archery. Will climbing gradually go indoors and a climber someday rediscover that it can be used to climb mountains?

But shooting and at splitting an incoming arrow???!!! What kind of tip did the incoming arrow have??

Lars is amazing and I like the way the video is done.
mooser

Trad climber
seattle
Jan 25, 2015 - 08:11am PT
This is an incredible video, David! I've done a fair amount of archery through the years, and I was always stoked to get a tight cluster from a decent distance.

Man...I gotta set my sights higher...
kaholatingtong

Trad climber
therealmccoy from Nevada City
Jan 25, 2015 - 08:22am PT
Badass.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jan 25, 2015 - 10:33am PT
And we're supposed to believe that this was not a DreamWorks production?


Right.

Peter Haan

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
Jan 25, 2015 - 10:48am PT
I had no idea about Lars.

Here is some more info:

http://laughingsquid.com/danish-archer-lars-andersen-uses-ancient-techniques-to-shoot-arrows-faster-than-anyone/
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Jan 25, 2015 - 02:26pm PT
Shouldn't he be dating a Russian chick from the sidebar?
Roger Breedlove

climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Jan 25, 2015 - 05:30pm PT
Old school. Really really old school. Agincourt old.
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 25, 2015 - 05:59pm PT
Old school. Really really old school. Agincourt old.

Compared to what he's basing his approach on, Agincourt was new school.
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
extraordinaire
Jan 25, 2015 - 10:37pm PT
mooser

Trad climber
seattle
Jan 26, 2015 - 07:15am PT
The thing that I think about is how we "modern" people become very arrogant about our abilities compared to what we think the "ancient" people were capable of.

Plenty of examples ; the Anasazi hand&foot trails, the Easter Island statues, the pyramids, the rock structures built by the Inca, south seas navigation, spear chucking with an atlatl, et'c.....

And even more irritating is when ancient technologies are ascribed to aliens. Sigh. Why can't we accept that humans have always had ingenuity?

Yeah, but could they text? Um...I don't think so!
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Jan 26, 2015 - 07:18am PT
Klimmer can explain this....
Lanthade

climber
Jan 26, 2015 - 09:02pm PT
Turns out when another archer looks at it this video is full of a lot of bs:

http://geekdad.com/2015/01/danish-archer/
David D.

Trad climber
California
Jan 26, 2015 - 10:02pm PT
Well folks, it's official. We've finally found the the secret weapon we've been missing in the fight against ISIS/AQ. Drop this guy out of an airplane and he'll have things taken care of in no time.
limpingcrab

Trad climber
the middle of CA
Jan 26, 2015 - 10:03pm PT
I used to do a lot of archery and I think the guy who wrote that article ^^^ didn't realize the video was meant to be impressive AND FUNNY!

Next he's going to critique the guy's roller blading technique. That video was amazing! Even if it took him a million tries for each shot it's still a million less that it would take virtually every other human on earth.

We used to hunt squirrels for practice. I'd love to go shoot squirrels with Lars, especially from the back of a motorcycle.
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