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The thing I notice about these debates is that all of the Samurai "enthusiast" know nothing about history. It seems like they got most of their ideas about history from movies like a "A kid in King Arthur court" and the last season of "Rioni Kenshin."
Then to fill in the blanks they go on the bugei ...

Here, is a passage from The Archer's Guide by an Old Toxophilite. It gives an example of an ambush with longbows, which it gives a few others, and was an aspect not reached in the article (as good as it was.) In the poem of Chaucer it tells us of the Archers use of sword and buckler, Which is ...

Bowyers will always select staves that have no knocks in them. Bows will actually be weaker if knocks are present.

Shane,
The reason Thomas Boehm does not list draw weights is because each bow is costume. I also believe traditional longbows had a draw weight between #120 and #150. I have only heard of few people modernly drawing that weight and afterwards they say had back problems for weeks. If you are looking ...

Hello Shane,

I am Matt's recurve friend. The bow Thomas made for me is a fine specimen. I also had him make some arrows they were just as fine. I take that all of his work is the same. I think the best thing about him is that he does every thing in a traditional manor and the careful ...

Interesting James, my friend has ben having the same problem. Him and I both have dabbled into a bit of kung fu but him much deeper than I. My friend followed kung fu first then I followed but we both stopped, and have started European martial arts at the same time. We have recently received our ...