This could definitely be in the Guinness Records for "Most unusual family holiday"... I love it when people are passionate about something. It doesn't really matter what it is, it's the passion that makes it wonderful.
I did this once in the Alvord about 5 years ago. I did it at night with a glow stick attached to the arrow. In the morning, I went out to get it and found the arrow was 2 feet from an obsidian point!! Someone did the same thing long ago!!! Crazy....
Yeah I can only imagine how hard it would be finding an arrow at night like that lol. Nothing to do with shooting arrows. But when I was on my first tour in Iraq we had these small drones called Crows that I helped launch at night. Side job as I was a mechanic during the day. Recovering them was always a pain. So I took an extra IR strobe we had and attached it to the drone with tape. The IR strobe was a small light thing we could attach to our helmets and either have red blue or white light or IR. The IR (Infra Red) was the setting I used and then used NVG's to track it coming back and where it landed. Made recovery incredibly easier. None of this was what we were supposed to do. It was just what we did to make it work. Sorry for the tangent. But the chem light story reminded me of that.
Wow. Sharing your hobby with your kid like this is the absolute epitome of beeing a father. Congrats! I shared my nerdism with my daughter who is an absolute badass. She dives deeper, shoots sharper, is a better artist, a toughter gamer, a smarter movie nut than ANYONE on her highschool. Without beeing a tomcat kind of girl. She is just cool as hell.
thought the same, the bike design doesn't help. Raise the saddle and lower the handle bar so you can use the front part of your foot (metatarsals) and shift to a higher gear Could get double the speed easily at nearly the same cardio load
@@space.youtubeI was thinking this. He's an engineer but he's merely holding the umbrella in his hand. Why no contraption to strap it to his back or the bike.
Wonderful! My father was an explorer and problem solver. He set my mind on fire with imagination when I was a child. His guidance (he was professionally a high school teacher) left me in good stead when I became a professional sailor/mountaineer. Problem solving/planning on a sailboat in the middle of an ocean in poor conditions is an art. It's good to see there are other families out there, being so awesome!
This is a really really great documentary. It's wholesome and interesting. I get his dedication to his passion. It is so important to have something special in your life that drives you
I don't have anything to do with archery and don't plan on starting. But I like that guy and respect his passion. I fish all the time and I'm glad he's not competition.
Congratulations on the record young lady and keep doing what you do man, make the record or not you still succeed because of the time with your family.
Many years ago, a buddy and i made a bow out of the rear spring from an old truck. We used 3/8" rebar as "arrows" actually probably called bolts. Steel cable for the string. A ratcheting cable pulley to pull it back. Making a trigger to hold it was a challenge, bent and broke many triggers. Our first shot the "string" slipped up and slid over the rebar in a shower of sparks. Second shot the rebar just disappeared, the trigger broke and we never found the bolt. The subsequent shots we could see just fine and the bolts traveled relatively slow as compared to the arrows in this video. We never found any and couldn't even see a dirt puff from a hit. Never occurred to us it might be flying anywhere near as far a Alan's bolts were going, but they were going out of sight. The whole contraption was pretty scary and we finally stopped shooting it because we thought it might come apart and hurt someone.
good question ... they may be unpainted since they are solid carbon fiber and paint would abrade quickly and that might reduce arrow speed incrementally and at over a mile it is the little things that matter.
@@Skammeethat is a deeply thought out response, however, I would think if he was so precise to.consiser what you mentioned, he would be using a different type of bow string, adjust the draw weight of the bow or the channel the arrow shaft lays in prior.to release. All things that could show net gains. The arrow is the least if the equation. Fletchings, perhaps a secondary set may even help. To think a dot of luminescent paint wood just make his dreams vanish seems silly.
Way to go, bud!!! Its always awesome seeing what people can do in my sport and have been shooting since childhood and took it serious enough where I traveled for about 12 years competing tournaments, olympic trials, Pan-Am trials and even Olympic festival when we had it until the 90's in this sport all over the country and US and I never knew that there was a category for it. Keep em straight, and please make sure the record is in Oregon, but most importantly, the United States.
@AlanChase, if you are making your own arrows, I accidently discovered that a projectile will fly further if there are flutes carved into the shaft very similar to rifling inside a gun barrel. Or a drill bit. The projectile flies true and quick.
shooting an arrow thru a sheet of paper is something I first saw done in a video some time back. Setting up an arrow to make this hole as small as possible is an art.
I am surprised that the record still stands, I remember when it was shot, I was an Archer at the time and knew some of the Flight Archers in my country we didn't even have a place we could shoot half that distance, in 1978 I shot in the NZ flight archery champs in the target bow category with my Hoyt 42lb recurve with a few mods to help performance my best distance was 249 metres I didn't place but it was a great experience and learned a lot, I sure hope he makes that shot.
I wonder whether they could use an array of spaced out microphones to triangulate arrow impacts. I suppose it would depend upon how loud the impacts are and how much background noise is present.
amazing family, amazing subject, the opening drone shot of the bicycle/umbrella great...but my favorite part, hands down, is the "ding" when the red arrow pops up on the xray
harmless hobby in a beautiful environment, that the family gets involved with. fantastic. Although next time I'm on the Alvord I'll be terrified of arrows haha
Just because the nock and point are not going through the paper straight it doesn't mean the arrow isn't flying true. An arrow oscillates as it is released. Usually up and down or sided to side depending on the release mechanism.
In virtually all archery disciplines that's perfectly acceptable, and all but impossible to remove, but this equipment is engineered and tuned to get rid of all the things that cause those oscillations. That was the whole point of the paper, they were making adjustments until they eliminated all of that movement before they bothered to take any real shots with it. An arrow like that with such tiny fletching is going to suffer tremendously if it's not flying like a laser beam, they don't have the luxury of relying on the fletching to stabilize the arrow before hitting their target. Most people aren't trying to get a mile long shot with an arrow, and trading some velocity for stability isn't even something they're going to notice, but a momentary wiggle from the arrow in this situation and your distance could be cut short by hundreds of yards as a result. The arrow will still stabilize and fly true with that initial oscillation, it'll just land a lot shorter than an arrow that was already stable before it even leaves the string. Going further down that rabbit hole, most of the fletching and balance needed for an arrow to actually be stable and fly true isn't necessary, it's only needed to counter that initial wobble. If you can eliminate that wobble entirely, you've opened up the ability to modify an arrow with even better aerodynamics and balance. Historically speaking, the most impressive archery distances have been made utilizing reduced fletching and khatra, which is a technique to eliminate that archer's paradox from being necessary...done well, arrow oscillations are reduced considerably and is probably a big reason why they were able to reach such impressive distances back then.
I wonder if you could apply a reflective material to the fins of the arrows, then spend all day shooting, and search for the arrows at night with a spotlight on the front of the bike? Good luck breaking the record! Edit: 3M part no. 983-10-2-12(5), could you machine grooves into the shaft of the arrows to inlay strips?
Another issue with that is the weight. These arrows are usually incredibly light. There's not a lot of weight to spare, and it's very hard to insert into a solid carbon rod without compromising the shaft in the process. I can't imagine it can be done in a repeatable way other than inside the nock or point, which may or may not cause structural issues.
@@BenRothArcheryengineer a towable metal detecting trailer that is very wide but lightweight, make it as wide as possible. Could drag it behind two bikes
I'm curious if the actual issue here is the method of measurement: even just what he is being shown doing here to ballpark things with his phone while tracking down his arrows is pretty respectably accurate and he'd be verifying a *lot* more precisely with an actual potential record but a LOT of those old records are measured in some *REALLY* fudgeable ways (both intentionally and entirely accidental, go try to get exact times with the stopwatch on your phone and you'll quickly see what I mean) and/or some inherently inaccurate ways for instance a long distance shot being measured with a walking-wheel, that wheel might be a common piece of perfectly sports-legal measuring equipment but in reality it is going to gain/loose quite a bit of rotation vs it's actual traversal over the ground depending on how it moves and it is hardly going in a perfectly or even just _mostly_ straight line when walking out something that long with little in the way of reference points to begin with. this is especially true when you're talking about Guiness Book Of World Records "records" where to put it quite frankly you're pretty much just paying them money to say you're the best and half the time they don't even make a token attempt to verify anything let alone bring their own equipment and everything to measure with when someone calls them up to set a record. sadly trying to look it up on google for half an hour just returned the same quote repeated over and over and over again instead of any actual contextual information...maybe I should've looked for images in hopes of finding articles/etc first? I really didn't expect to find the same suspicious result a hundred times in a row on something that isn't a big media nonsense point like T-rex "facts".
This is just SO cool. I have been shooting a bow since I was 9 years old, and I still am at age 79. It is a life long sport, and I say "Way To Go Alan Chase." Doctor George Whitehead
Fine documentary! Enjoyed seeing Alan and Joslin engaged in their footbow flight archery. So much is invested in every shot! Alan pedaling his bicycle, under the shade a large black umbrella, across the vast white flats in search of the treasured “furthest arrow” is truly a classic image. Gotta love that guy!
First of all, what an eccentric but totally American hobby, love it! Second of all, the current record is a perfect power of 2, which is nerdy and nice
For lining up the shot, may I suggest the use of a line laser. Carpenters use them, in this case the laser line would pass through the center of the shooter & the bow and then into the horizon. Leaving it on might help find the arrows as well.
Nice to see the Alvord. I used to spend a lot of time out there with my Grandpa (he was a Game Biologist) in that neck of the woods. Up on the Steens, too.
Hello, Great presentation!. I feel and understand as any person Matures and reaches age of contemplation They return to places that they felt best and pursue Records that they can accomplish. You did just that.! congratulations..
cool. i did tons of archery videos when i lived on mt hood in oregon. as far as i know i was the fastest instinctive archer in oregon. i love speed shooting and instinctive shooting. load fast. load without looking at your hands and load fast. shoot while moving also. etc.
Its probably better with no shoes if you get shot. Having to carefully cut away your shoes just to get to the arrow sounds horrible, if it didn't just go straight through and out the other side. Its not like the shoes are going to even slow the arrow down much, they'd have to be steel all the way up the tongue to be of any use. The bow they showed does seem to have some metal shielding covering his feet though.
I wonder if a thin teflon coating would help reduce drag. I found it interesting that early mornings were prime time - I guess the advantage of firing in hot less dense daytime air is offset by its turbulence. Good video, thanks!
great video! it's amazing to see someone pushing the limits like this. however, i can't help but wonder if the focus on distance means sacrificing accuracy. i think both skills are important in archery, and maybe we should celebrate that too. what do you all think?
I wonder how wind speed or wind direction is factored in or accounted for in record attempts. Cool people! Fascinating endeavor! Good luck in your pursuits!
Wonder if you could shoot further with a compound bow than could be obtained with a traditional bow? Of course,that would be a separate category from the bow used by the record holder you are trying to beat.
audio mic triangulation would find the arrows or lidar mapping set near the record zone impact or you both ride out on bikes with weighted fishing line till u snag it
Unless the human is holding the bow and releasing the string, the human is not shooting the arrow, the contraption is. It's called a ballista, even if this one is not mounted on a platform as they usually are. 2k+ yards is a feat, but shouldn't count as any sort of official record.
Well, you don't set the rules so what you think counts or doesn't count amounts to nothing. The record he is going for allows for use of a footbow, has to be muscle powered, and can be a crossbow type. There is also farthest show with a hand held bow. And if you find something to complain about with that one there is also farthest turkish composite bow, farthest english longbow, furthest shot using your feet, etc etc etc.
@@AveragePicker He uses a crank. Literally no physical effort. I'm in oregon and im half tempted to make own and beat his record lol. Larger bow, larger draw and heavier draw weight than what he showed here.
@@jamsjars9505 No physical effort...yeah cool, go for it. Sounds easy. Not sure why this guy is having such a hard time of it. Looks like it's all you. Oh but you might want to look again because he's not using a crank. That's just on the test setup, not on the actual attempts.
This is awesome. Alan should get in contact with the Slow Mo Guys to see the behavior of his bowstring and arrow during the launch. Greetings from Germany - Maik
It may cause a slight weight difference to the arrow but using a lighted nock and shoot in the evening could be a very easy way to spot your arrow. Just an idea :)
Thank you for not using any background music. Very refreshing.
lol. I complain about unnecessary background music on TH-cam videos all the time. Glad someone agrees with me.
@@Nicksonian I,m a musician and I hate the way it’s used
@@teoteagueosborne word!
@@geoffbrown4182 same, you can almost feel the "Free Music" google search
This could definitely be in the Guinness Records for "Most unusual family holiday"... I love it when people are passionate about something. It doesn't really matter what it is, it's the passion that makes it wonderful.
not even close
this is what public broadcasting should be. beautiful lil doco.
I did this once in the Alvord about 5 years ago. I did it at night with a glow stick attached to the arrow. In the morning, I went out to get it and found the arrow was 2 feet from an obsidian point!! Someone did the same thing long ago!!! Crazy....
@@soupysam8586no it doesn’t. 🙄gimme a break. Next you’ll be talking about god.
@@FYMASMDdang, wtf bro? You must be fun at parties.
Can you imagine if he had someone like the Rock and a bit stronger setup and it easily go the distance...
@@brycecupp9660 It's technology not strength !
Yeah I can only imagine how hard it would be finding an arrow at night like that lol.
Nothing to do with shooting arrows. But when I was on my first tour in Iraq we had these small drones called Crows that I helped launch at night. Side job as I was a mechanic during the day. Recovering them was always a pain. So I took an extra IR strobe we had and attached it to the drone with tape. The IR strobe was a small light thing we could attach to our helmets and either have red blue or white light or IR. The IR (Infra Red) was the setting I used and then used NVG's to track it coming back and where it landed. Made recovery incredibly easier. None of this was what we were supposed to do. It was just what we did to make it work.
Sorry for the tangent. But the chem light story reminded me of that.
Wow. Sharing your hobby with your kid like this is the absolute epitome of beeing a father. Congrats! I shared my nerdism with my daughter who is an absolute badass. She dives deeper, shoots sharper, is a better artist, a toughter gamer, a smarter movie nut than ANYONE on her highschool. Without beeing a tomcat kind of girl. She is just cool as hell.
My only recommendation would be to raise your saddle a bit on that bike: much more efficient with a bit more leg extension. Awesome (unusual) archery!
And maybe lay off the cheeseburgers 😂
thought the same, the bike design doesn't help. Raise the saddle and lower the handle bar so you can use the front part of your foot (metatarsals) and shift to a higher gear
Could get double the speed easily at nearly the same cardio load
What, no umbrella critique??? 🤪
@@space.youtubeI was thinking this. He's an engineer but he's merely holding the umbrella in his hand. Why no contraption to strap it to his back or the bike.
I'd also hit the squat rack. Surely a higher poundage bow would equal more distance?
This is awesome. Congratulations to Joslin. You'll get it done Dad. Don't stop believing.
Fascinating, and so wonderful to see how people follow their passion!
Interesting! It lovely to hear his daughter speak so well of him!
That's really cool to see the family doing this together.
Wow, what a great video!! I loved learning more about your passion. So proud to know you, Alan and Joslin!!!!
Wonderful! My father was an explorer and problem solver. He set my mind on fire with imagination when I was a child. His guidance (he was professionally a high school teacher) left me in good stead when I became a professional sailor/mountaineer. Problem solving/planning on a sailboat in the middle of an ocean in poor conditions is an art. It's good to see there are other families out there, being so awesome!
This is a really really great documentary. It's wholesome and interesting. I get his dedication to his passion. It is so important to have something special in your life that drives you
I don't have anything to do with archery and don't plan on starting. But I like that guy and respect his passion. I fish all the time and I'm glad he's not competition.
Congratulations on the record young lady and keep doing what you do man, make the record or not you still succeed because of the time with your family.
Many years ago, a buddy and i made a bow out of the rear spring from an old truck. We used 3/8" rebar as "arrows" actually probably called bolts. Steel cable for the string. A ratcheting cable pulley to pull it back. Making a trigger to hold it was a challenge, bent and broke many triggers. Our first shot the "string" slipped up and slid over the rebar in a shower of sparks. Second shot the rebar just disappeared, the trigger broke and we never found the bolt. The subsequent shots we could see just fine and the bolts traveled relatively slow as compared to the arrows in this video. We never found any and couldn't even see a dirt puff from a hit. Never occurred to us it might be flying anywhere near as far a Alan's bolts were going, but they were going out of sight. The whole contraption was pretty scary and we finally stopped shooting it because we thought it might come apart and hurt someone.
I absolutely love the father daughter bond. I feel like it creates the most durable women. Although that sounded weird af.
Its cool how his daughters fully support his relatively odd hobby. Much respect to them
My immediate question was - how come the arrows aren't painted, like, dayglo orange?
Or led's ?
good question ... they may be unpainted since they are solid carbon fiber and paint would abrade quickly and that might reduce arrow speed incrementally and at over a mile it is the little things that matter.
I imagine weight and balance gets pretty finicky at this level to the point where a simple coat of paint will throw things off
@@Skammeethat is a deeply thought out response, however, I would think if he was so precise to.consiser what you mentioned, he would be using a different type of bow string, adjust the draw weight of the bow or the channel the arrow shaft lays in prior.to release. All things that could show net gains. The arrow is the least if the equation. Fletchings, perhaps a secondary set may even help. To think a dot of luminescent paint wood just make his dreams vanish seems silly.
@@Hammerback0 Any reason why the arrow can't be spayed with something to enhance smoothness of the flight? Like PAM or some other slippery product?
This man is lucky to have such a beautiful and supportive family.
Yes he is. It almost makes me wish I had a family.
I've camped out on the Alvord in January. It was below zero with a 40 mph wind. We were quite comfortable with great camping equipment.
Go Alan and Joslin! Always a pleasure to see you two.
It is refreshing to hear the daughter to praise his father. That is now pretty rare. Good job people.
Congratulations Alan and Family! We’re cheering you on from the Midwest!
That is so cool to see!! Real dedication, and real, cool people!
god bless this man on his journey and I'm glad he has a supporting daughter. Absolute win
Way to go Joslin and Alan I can see the World record, but it's way out there thank you and all.
Way to go, bud!!! Its always awesome seeing what people can do in my sport and have been shooting since childhood and took it serious enough where I traveled for about 12 years competing tournaments, olympic trials, Pan-Am trials and even Olympic festival when we had it until the 90's in this sport all over the country and US and I never knew that there was a category for it. Keep em straight, and please make sure the record is in Oregon, but most importantly, the United States.
Thank you for specifying which planet we're talking about in the title! Good piece- I enjoyed it.
@AlanChase, if you are making your own arrows, I accidently discovered that a projectile will fly further if there are flutes carved into the shaft very similar to rifling inside a gun barrel. Or a drill bit. The projectile flies true and quick.
So cool! Loved everything about this!
shooting an arrow thru a sheet of paper is something I first saw done in a video some time back. Setting up an arrow to make this hole as small as possible is an art.
@@shelbynamels7948 it's called tuning your bow, usually done without fletching.
Great documentary.... I've always wanted to camp at the Alvord Desert
@@speedfreak8200 Don’t do it. There’s a crazy man shooting arrows up there :)
I think it’s great that your family has taken an interest in your quest to the extent that your daughter has set a new world record. Good luck to you.
I am surprised that the record still stands, I remember when it was shot, I was an Archer at the time and knew some of the Flight Archers in my country we didn't even have a place
we could shoot half that distance, in 1978 I shot in the NZ flight archery champs in the target bow category with my Hoyt 42lb recurve with a few mods to help performance
my best distance was 249 metres I didn't place but it was a great experience and learned a lot, I sure hope he makes that shot.
What a cool family, play together and stay together guys . God bless you all
Man is taking part in a grand tradition, one that started at the dawn of man and the first bow ever made.
Congratulations young lady and Dad keep on keeping on . Stay safe
That looks like it feels so good on your feet lol.
Love this video, so laid back, idiosyncratic and and exceptional.
I wonder whether they could use an array of spaced out microphones to triangulate arrow impacts. I suppose it would depend upon how loud the impacts are and how much background noise is present.
what a cool idea!
This is a great idea!
amazing family, amazing subject, the opening drone shot of the bicycle/umbrella great...but my favorite part, hands down, is the "ding" when the red arrow pops up on the xray
harmless hobby in a beautiful environment, that the family gets involved with. fantastic. Although next time I'm on the Alvord I'll be terrified of arrows haha
Just because the nock and point are not going through the paper straight it doesn't mean the arrow isn't flying true. An arrow oscillates as it is released. Usually up and down or sided to side depending on the release mechanism.
In virtually all archery disciplines that's perfectly acceptable, and all but impossible to remove, but this equipment is engineered and tuned to get rid of all the things that cause those oscillations. That was the whole point of the paper, they were making adjustments until they eliminated all of that movement before they bothered to take any real shots with it. An arrow like that with such tiny fletching is going to suffer tremendously if it's not flying like a laser beam, they don't have the luxury of relying on the fletching to stabilize the arrow before hitting their target. Most people aren't trying to get a mile long shot with an arrow, and trading some velocity for stability isn't even something they're going to notice, but a momentary wiggle from the arrow in this situation and your distance could be cut short by hundreds of yards as a result. The arrow will still stabilize and fly true with that initial oscillation, it'll just land a lot shorter than an arrow that was already stable before it even leaves the string. Going further down that rabbit hole, most of the fletching and balance needed for an arrow to actually be stable and fly true isn't necessary, it's only needed to counter that initial wobble. If you can eliminate that wobble entirely, you've opened up the ability to modify an arrow with even better aerodynamics and balance. Historically speaking, the most impressive archery distances have been made utilizing reduced fletching and khatra, which is a technique to eliminate that archer's paradox from being necessary...done well, arrow oscillations are reduced considerably and is probably a big reason why they were able to reach such impressive distances back then.
super awesome documentary! very cool family, i liked and subscribed
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I wonder if you could apply a reflective material to the fins of the arrows, then spend all day shooting, and search for the arrows at night with a spotlight on the front of the bike?
Good luck breaking the record!
Edit: 3M part no. 983-10-2-12(5), could you machine grooves into the shaft of the arrows to inlay strips?
@TG22222 we wrap our hunting arrows by the fletchings with florescent orange. Super easy to see with a UV light up to 100 yards away.
They make radio telemetry tags for small mammals and birds. Might be able to embed one into the arrow.
I haven't found a manufacturer willing to work with me for this. Trust me I've tried...
Another issue with that is the weight. These arrows are usually incredibly light. There's not a lot of weight to spare, and it's very hard to insert into a solid carbon rod without compromising the shaft in the process. I can't imagine it can be done in a repeatable way other than inside the nock or point, which may or may not cause structural issues.
It's possible but you'd have to adjust the weight of the arrow alot depending on weight in grains
@@BenRothArcheryreflective paint so you can find them at night?
@@BenRothArcheryengineer a towable metal detecting trailer that is very wide but lightweight, make it as wide as possible. Could drag it behind two bikes
As a pre-teen growing up in a tiny logging town I used to build Ballistas similar to this.
I'm curious if the actual issue here is the method of measurement: even just what he is being shown doing here to ballpark things with his phone while tracking down his arrows is pretty respectably accurate and he'd be verifying a *lot* more precisely with an actual potential record but a LOT of those old records are measured in some *REALLY* fudgeable ways (both intentionally and entirely accidental, go try to get exact times with the stopwatch on your phone and you'll quickly see what I mean) and/or some inherently inaccurate ways for instance a long distance shot being measured with a walking-wheel, that wheel might be a common piece of perfectly sports-legal measuring equipment but in reality it is going to gain/loose quite a bit of rotation vs it's actual traversal over the ground depending on how it moves and it is hardly going in a perfectly or even just _mostly_ straight line when walking out something that long with little in the way of reference points to begin with.
this is especially true when you're talking about Guiness Book Of World Records "records" where to put it quite frankly you're pretty much just paying them money to say you're the best and half the time they don't even make a token attempt to verify anything let alone bring their own equipment and everything to measure with when someone calls them up to set a record.
sadly trying to look it up on google for half an hour just returned the same quote repeated over and over and over again instead of any actual contextual information...maybe I should've looked for images in hopes of finding articles/etc first? I really didn't expect to find the same suspicious result a hundred times in a row on something that isn't a big media nonsense point like T-rex "facts".
That’s so impressive sending arrows over a mile! I actually didn’t know it’s been done without launching from high elevation!
@@TrentonWarrington This in no way a conventional bow.
I love kooky hobbies. They're way better than sitting on the couch and watching other people's kooky hobbies.
Crazy daddy and crazy daughter= world record shots in long distent companion while being a teem of greatness 😇👍
This is just SO cool. I have been shooting a bow since I was 9 years old, and I still am at age 79. It is a life long sport, and I say "Way To Go Alan Chase." Doctor George Whitehead
I'm 70 & my back hurts just from watching this!
The AD is one of my favorite places on Earth. If you visit PLEASE do not leave ANYTHING behind when you leave.
This is refreshing❤
Fine documentary! Enjoyed seeing Alan and Joslin engaged in their footbow flight archery. So much is invested in every shot! Alan pedaling his bicycle, under the shade a large black umbrella, across the vast white flats in search of the treasured “furthest arrow” is truly a classic image. Gotta love that guy!
gotta respect a man in the pursuit of his dream. no matter what that is
First of all, what an eccentric but totally American hobby, love it! Second of all, the current record is a perfect power of 2, which is nerdy and nice
@@thegzak the record is 2028, not 2048. The video's "2048" at the end is a typo, and it mentions 2028 several times beforehand
Living the dream. Inspiring
For lining up the shot, may I suggest the use of a line laser. Carpenters use them, in this case the laser line would pass through the center of the shooter & the bow and then into the horizon. Leaving it on might help find the arrows as well.
Nice to see the Alvord. I used to spend a lot of time out there with my Grandpa (he was a Game Biologist) in that neck of the woods. Up on the Steens, too.
Hello, Great presentation!. I feel and understand as any person Matures and reaches age of contemplation They return to places that they felt best and pursue Records that they can accomplish. You did just that.! congratulations..
This is adorable how wholesome
cool. i did tons of archery videos when i lived on mt hood in oregon. as far as i know i was the fastest instinctive archer in oregon. i love speed shooting and instinctive shooting. load fast. load without looking at your hands and load fast. shoot while moving also. etc.
Do what you have a passion for & don't worry about what other people think. If they have a problem with it, it's their problem!
That is mind boggling, love it
Takes an arrow to the foot, still no shoes. I'd have chainsaw pants and steel toe boots...
It looks like he added some guards to the bow.
Happens that quick u don't even feel it.. the oh shit its in my foot is just the shock..😂😂
Its probably better with no shoes if you get shot. Having to carefully cut away your shoes just to get to the arrow sounds horrible, if it didn't just go straight through and out the other side. Its not like the shoes are going to even slow the arrow down much, they'd have to be steel all the way up the tongue to be of any use. The bow they showed does seem to have some metal shielding covering his feet though.
@@TheRealBanana think the shielding was the after thought..😂😂
@@rebekahfrench5747 Better late than never I always say lol
People that have a passion in life are lucky.
My mentors were Don Brown and Harry Drake. Loft it brother!
I love living in Oregon.
Weird sport/ science, liking it a lot❤
I wonder if a thin teflon coating would help reduce drag. I found it interesting that early mornings were prime time - I guess the advantage of firing in hot less dense daytime air is offset by its turbulence. Good video, thanks!
Excellent! Alan is the man
Very cool,,,,thanks for showing,,,,Wow...
Video is so well done
Truly endearing video...
I love this video!!
My son's name is Fletcher, my car's name is AEROMKR and my philosophy is 'straight and true'.
Fascinating!
great video! it's amazing to see someone pushing the limits like this. however, i can't help but wonder if the focus on distance means sacrificing accuracy. i think both skills are important in archery, and maybe we should celebrate that too. what do you all think?
do you wish have an idea of the infinity ? so you have just to watch this video confortably seated on your sofa ...
respect for your perseverance
I wonder if a corkscrew tip would give further range. Perhaps larger tails for more lift as well.
I wonder how wind speed or wind direction is factored in or accounted for in record attempts. Cool people! Fascinating endeavor! Good luck in your pursuits!
Wonder if you could shoot further with a compound bow than could be obtained with a traditional bow? Of course,that would be a separate category from the bow used by the record holder you are trying to beat.
5:08 love that editing
you guys really did the man justice with this piece
P.S.
I could absolutely %100 see an e-bike being a worthwhile investment.
@@nannesoar You’re 100% correct. Some of our friends that meet us in Nevada & Utah have them & they are so helpful!!!
audio mic triangulation would find the arrows or lidar mapping set near the record zone impact
or you both ride out on bikes with weighted fishing line till u snag it
That’s crazy that bow is awesome!
Your both awesome, just had to say....
Very cool, that must be pretty risky too! I could see that hole straight through your foot on that x ray
Very cool. Do you play the wind ? Thanks
Interesting, in what people find their passion.
Cool that people have niche hobbies. The pursuit of happiness takes many paths.
Unless the human is holding the bow and releasing the string, the human is not shooting the arrow, the contraption is. It's called a ballista, even if this one is not mounted on a platform as they usually are. 2k+ yards is a feat, but shouldn't count as any sort of official record.
Agreed I clicked off as soon as I saw the launcher. Also this family is creepy af
Well, you don't set the rules so what you think counts or doesn't count amounts to nothing. The record he is going for allows for use of a footbow, has to be muscle powered, and can be a crossbow type. There is also farthest show with a hand held bow. And if you find something to complain about with that one there is also farthest turkish composite bow, farthest english longbow, furthest shot using your feet, etc etc etc.
@@AveragePicker You sound personally offended. I don't care the details, it's not a record of any sort, and foot bows are for the special olympics.
@@AveragePicker He uses a crank. Literally no physical effort. I'm in oregon and im half tempted to make own and beat his record lol. Larger bow, larger draw and heavier draw weight than what he showed here.
@@jamsjars9505 No physical effort...yeah cool, go for it. Sounds easy. Not sure why this guy is having such a hard time of it. Looks like it's all you. Oh but you might want to look again because he's not using a crank. That's just on the test setup, not on the actual attempts.
Well done vid!
Phenomenal journalism
Have you tried to build a tip based on VLD bullet shapes for long range shooting?
Great story.
stupid fantastic cinematography - bravo
When i started watching this the foot bow guy from my 1974 Guinness Book was all I could think about !
Congradulations Joslin! Fun.
This is awesome. Alan should get in contact with the Slow Mo Guys to see the behavior of his bowstring and arrow during the launch. Greetings from Germany - Maik
It may cause a slight weight difference to the arrow but using a lighted nock and shoot in the evening could be a very easy way to spot your arrow. Just an idea :)