#larsandersen

My brother and I watch the 2018 Robin Hood and discuss all about some of the archery techniques shown.

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #436: Welcome My Brother, Jeremy, as talk about Robin Hood (2018) https://archive.org/download/podcast-436/Podcast%20436.mp3 This week, my brother and I are watching the 2018 rendition of Robin Hood, which is like a modern take on the Robin Hood legend.  The biggest reason I wanted to see it was the fact that archer Lars Anderson was a consultant on the film and taught…

In my last post, I talked a little about how archery has been brought out of the dark ages in the last decade or so thanks in large part to popular media that have featured modern day Robin Hood-styled characters armed with bows.

So I thought for this post, I’d comment on a video that’s been making the internet rounds lately and currently has racked up over 25 million hits on youtube at the time…

So in the last couple of days, perhaps a dozen people have been kind enough to forward me the video of Lars Anderson’s latest exercise in speed shooting. It has been wildly popular on the internet, racking up (at this writing) over 13 million views in around 48 hours, in a superb, engaging display of viral success. If you haven’t seen it already, tick up the counter right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk

Unfortunately, almost from the gun, I smelled bullshit. Firstly,  it would be vastly more impressive if ANY of the shots were taken under some kind of controlled conditions. Basically, as an audience we never see the first take, or the fifth, or the thirtieth; we only see the one that comes off; just like people only ever take an Instagram picture of the best end of the day (holds guilty hand up) – and just like Hollywood. To be honest, I’m sure if I did at least a couple of these shots thirty times I’d pull them off once too – and I wouldn’t make a video full of generalisations and straight-up inaccuracies about what is and is not ‘faster’, ‘better’, and ‘more fun’ archery.