Many non-Japanese people don't seem to understand what Kyudo is, so if you want to see a traditional Japanese style of practical archery, you should look up Kyujutsu. However, compared to Kyudo, Kyujutsu is less popular in Japan and is quite minor, so the opportunities to learn it are quite limited.
Yes the bullseye is like the icing on top! For the idea is that if you have good proper form, your arrow is more likely to hit the target. It is summarized in an old samurai saying that goes: If you are surrounded in all sides by the enemy, your sword blade has broken and the string of your bow snap; do not hesitate, draw and release your arrow. It means maintain a steady mind even in the face of adversity.
It should be way more popular. If not more than the Katana, Tachi (which actually isn’t that popular and needs to be too, but still more people know about that) even the Naginata. As well as the famous yoroi. But yes Samurai we’re trained swordsman but they were archers more than anything else. Specifically horse archers. Just as the Mongols are famous for horse archery, the Samurai should be equally renowned with a bow, especially on horseback. They might have even been better, as the Mongols tried to conquer Japanese multiple times and never succeeded. But that is due to several other factors and elements as well. Still though, the Mongols successfully conquered through nearly every culture they came in contact with. Except for Samurai and who ever ruled North Africa at the time.
The draw weight on my bow is 17kg, but the weight varies pretty drastically. My instructor is using a 23kg bamboo bow that I couldn't dream of pulling lol
I have been going to kyudo lessons for a month now and we started shooting regular distance last Saturday. I only go once a week and our classes will finish next month. I want to continue practicing kyudo after that. Could you give me some tips on how to continue about it. My Japanese is not practically nonexistent and I dunno where to look for information to practice regularly. I live in Nagoya so it will be good to know of places near the area. Thank you.
So I started practicing at the kyudo club at the school I teach at. Then I registered for my city’s local kyudo association and became a member of their team. Maybe try seeing if a dojo in Nagoya has a registered kyudo renmei (連盟) and go from there! Best of luck!
I take it the poundage on that is fairly high or you’ve just been shooting for a while? You seem to have a lot of tension in the hand. I know because that happens a lot to me too, I shoot mostly 60lbs Korean bows (I also have 1 longbow at 50lbs) and my body is used to putting in a lot of force in the draw. But I don’t mean jerking it to full draw, more in a controlled way. I find that even with the shaky hand, force, as long as I can control it I can still get accurate groups. It does get gradually worse the more I tire, but that’s the same with anything else really. When I shoot lighter bows I find it’s worse because my body is used to putting more force into it, but the extra unused energy doesn’t know where to go, idk if that’s just me or not
Well I don’t work out outside of kyudo, 😂 so it kinda depends on how often you’re shooting kyudo. It trains all the necessary muscles in your chest, back and arms pretty well I’d say.
@@kurikurinton o ok nice I’ve always wanted to try and shoot from a yumi bow but I look at it in comparison to the bow from the japenese animeted series of inyasha why is it different compared to the one irl= in real life
This is awesome but I understand from videos that it is difficult to shoot and you barely hit the target. However in the videos ive seen they don’t explain why. Draw weight? Different draw form?
These are good questions! Firstly, the targets are very small in diameter, about 36cm, and the distance to the target is about 28 meters. So that can be pretty tough. On top of that, kyudo is only measured in hits or misses. So if you hit the target you get a point, if you don't you don't lol. It doesn't matter if you hit a perfect bullseye or on the very edge of the target. So the distance, target size, and scoring system, it's designed to be difficult enough where even experienced masters miss the target sometimes. For perspective, I've been practicing kyudo about 6 years, and my hit ratio is about 60-65%. My teacher who has been doing kyudo for 30 years hits about 90% With draw weight, each archer tries to find the right weight bow for them over time. It takes a year or two to settle into the perfect weight for you but once you do, it only helps your ability to hit the target
Way harder to draw across the body like that and puts more stress on the shoulders. I've been shooting bow since I was 10 and just by watching I can tell this would he much harder than shooting a longbow or recurve. Then again, tbis bow is alot taller than a European-style bow and you have to shoot this way in not unlike how some longbows had to be shot. The difference was that the English longbow was shot along with many other bowmen and arrows were volley shot towards a group of enemies and was different than a shorter hunting style. Anyways, interesting style and technique
That’s really cool you’ve been shooting for so long! The idea with kyudo is that it distributes the strain on your arms, body, chest, and back evenly, so it’s not only mainly straining your arms like most other archery methods. That’s why we lift the bow so high and spread from our chest and back, rather than just pulling with our arms. Like imagine lifting a workout band over your head and spreading it apart across your body, rather than trying to pull it from one side all the way to the other. Neither is necessarily superior, just very very different methods.
Everyone at my dojo is super supportive and friendly! There is one member who is a university professors who speaks decent English and he helped me when I was getting started and didn't know much Japanese. But even then, when I joined my dojo, they offered to get a pocket talk translator just to communicate with me! Lol but I told them that wouldn't be necessary because I needed the Japanese practice anyway!
Lolol imagine, none of them would make it out alive! But from I’ve seen from historical dramas and such was that it was the same steps to shooting, just performed much faster, and often from castle walls.
Kyudo is a modern martial art that is mostly based on shrine ceremonial archery and temple competitive archery. The idea in Kyudo is that it is a spiritual, meditative practice as much as a physical one. If you're interested in medieval Japanese battlefield archery, check out Satsuma Heki ryu kyujutsu. They shoot fast and accurately while advancing in samurai armour without the meditative element. It's not a question of one being superior to the other, it's just two different approaches to archery and both have great value.
get you some resistance bands and start practing pulling those back so you don't shake. or just get a bow at home and start drawing it every night 50 times or so.
Just like Karate-do, Judo. Kyudo is NOT for war, but for PEACE. Yes, in Karate you learn to defend yourself, but the main goal as Jesse Enkamp perfectly words is Self-Perfection.
Karate-do is different from Karate and the two shouldn't be confused with each other. Having said that, comparing Karate-do to karate is like comparing modern boxing to ancient pugilism like caestus or pygmachia or pankratios.
I just saw your 4. dan shinza video, sadly with commentaries disabled...So you will do never know if the commentaries would be that negative then... For example I had a quite bad performance at the german kyudo championships this year, shooting much below my usual level in style and hitting rate. And beeing corrrected by the judges during competition did not help anyway... Not so nice. I had a bad week at work before, was tired and not in full health....I could draw the conclusion: was only a bad day, just try again next year. Trying to expore the possible reasons for not performing optimally and then change this would be better. I wondered, why you were able at all to catch the bow, even out of a reflex. The flow of force in the arms normally is definitvely directed outward in zanshin. I asked myself: were possibly you already prepared to catch the bow, because you normally do it? It is not so rare that people are opening the hand shortly and then catch the bow shortly after to have a visible (but fake) yugaeri Somehow you got in a rare situation not strictly governed by shizu rules too. They only say what to do, if the bow is already laying on the ground. Snatching the bow and continue shooting would be a live saver in war times... If you had managed to bring the bow directly back in toriyumi position would be a quite badass move ;-) Andy
Kyudo is not battlefield or hunting archery. It is a modern martial art that is mostly based on shrine ceremonial archery and temple competitive archery. The idea in Kyudo is that it is a spiritual, meditative practice as much as a physical one. If you're interested in medieval Japanese battlefield archery, check out Satsuma Heki ryu kyujutsu. They shoot fast and accurately while advancing in samurai armour without the meditative element. It's not a question of one being superior to the other, it's just two different approaches to archery for different purposes and both have great value.
Kyudo is not battlefield or hunting archery. It is a modern martial art that is mostly based on shrine ceremonial archery and temple competitive archery. The idea in Kyudo is that it is a spiritual, meditative practice as much as a physical one. If you're interested in medieval Japanese battlefield archery, you can check out Satsuma Heki ryu kyujutsu. They shoot fast and accurately while advancing in samurai armour without the meditative and ceremonial elements. However, it's not a question of one being superior to the other, it's just two different approaches to archery for different purposes and both have great value. Also, I don't know where you got that European archers are far more accurate. In Kyudo the target is 36 cm in diameter placed at a 28 m distance, sometimes it's 1 m in diameter at 60 m distance and the Japanese bow, being a longbow, is more difficult to master, unlike modern Olympic bows, so it's more difficult.
This is normal training attire. Everyone trains Kyudo with a dougi and hakama just like in Karate and Judo you train with a gi. The Japanese Kyudo clubs welcome everyone who is interested in Kyudo regardless of their race and ethnicity, as long as they are genuine and respectful. Your racism is truly staggering.
How many kyudo videos can u make..make a million bc it's so fkn cool. The world needs to know
I’ve been practicing Kyudo for 23 years. So far I’ve shot 8 arrows.
That many huh!
Take your bow to an archery range and you’ll shoot more
Oh ffs 😂😂😂
@@AI_Ralph can i do it?
should i do it?
ah who cares, R/WOOOOOOOOOOOSH
Achievement unlocked! Love from India
Definitely make more! I'd love to see more kyudo practices!
高校で弓道部をやらさせてもらってるものです！射形がとても美しく、とくに引き分と会が綺麗だと思いました！
自分は早気で悩んでるんですが、こんのような射形になれるように改めて自分も頑張ろうと思えました！
I’m an archer myself and I find this very fascinating 🏹
Eu gosto muito do Kyudo! É tão legal o Tsurene! 😸
Kyudo is wonderful. I practise too. Good continuation.
By the time a kyudoka lets off a single arrow, a chu ko nu empties his quiver
It's a whole different art with a whole different focus, there's no comparison. But I get the gist of your joke.
This is epic mate, well done :) x love u x
Many non-Japanese people don't seem to understand what Kyudo is, so if you want to see a traditional Japanese style of practical archery, you should look up Kyujutsu. However, compared to Kyudo, Kyujutsu is less popular in Japan and is quite minor, so the opportunities to learn it are quite limited.
Very nice -- I watched a Kyudo documentary and the form is the point not the bullseye! Thanks
Yes the bullseye is like the icing on top! For the idea is that if you have good proper form, your arrow is more likely to hit the target.
It is summarized in an old samurai saying that goes:
If you are surrounded in all sides by the enemy, your sword blade has broken and the string of your bow snap; do not hesitate, draw and release your arrow.
It means maintain a steady mind even in the face of adversity.
かっこいいです！
Would love to learn Kyudo. I practice traditional western archery
It should be way more popular. If not more than the Katana, Tachi (which actually isn’t that popular and needs to be too, but still more people know about that) even the Naginata. As well as the famous yoroi. But yes Samurai we’re trained swordsman but they were archers more than anything else. Specifically horse archers. Just as the Mongols are famous for horse archery, the Samurai should be equally renowned with a bow, especially on horseback. They might have even been better, as the Mongols tried to conquer Japanese multiple times and never succeeded. But that is due to several other factors and elements as well. Still though, the Mongols successfully conquered through nearly every culture they came in contact with. Except for Samurai and who ever ruled North Africa at the time.
I don't understand your comment, are you saying that kendo and kenjutsu are not that popular?
You are so cool😍😍
Nice SHAKEI(射型)！
What’s the draw weight on these?
The draw weight on my bow is 17kg, but the weight varies pretty drastically. My instructor is using a 23kg bamboo bow that I couldn't dream of pulling lol
I have been going to kyudo lessons for a month now and we started shooting regular distance last Saturday. I only go once a week and our classes will finish next month. I want to continue practicing kyudo after that. Could you give me some tips on how to continue about it. My Japanese is not practically nonexistent and I dunno where to look for information to practice regularly. I live in Nagoya so it will be good to know of places near the area. Thank you.
So I started practicing at the kyudo club at the school I teach at. Then I registered for my city’s local kyudo association and became a member of their team. Maybe try seeing if a dojo in Nagoya has a registered kyudo renmei (連盟) and go from there!
Best of luck!
Your English is not that good either!
Thar last sentence has a double negative in it. So which one is it, "practically nonexistent or not"? 😅
@@tatumergo3931 all good in life?
@@mpueyo03 . Life is good, and English grammar is not so hard to learn...hahaha!
Love Japanese tradition
I take it the poundage on that is fairly high or you’ve just been shooting for a while? You seem to have a lot of tension in the hand. I know because that happens a lot to me too, I shoot mostly 60lbs Korean bows (I also have 1 longbow at 50lbs) and my body is used to putting in a lot of force in the draw. But I don’t mean jerking it to full draw, more in a controlled way. I find that even with the shaky hand, force, as long as I can control it I can still get accurate groups. It does get gradually worse the more I tire, but that’s the same with anything else really.
When I shoot lighter bows I find it’s worse because my body is used to putting more force into it, but the extra unused energy doesn’t know where to go, idk if that’s just me or not
How difficult is it to pull a yumi bow if you haven’t worked out in a while?
Well I don’t work out outside of kyudo, 😂 so it kinda depends on how often you’re shooting kyudo. It trains all the necessary muscles in your chest, back and arms pretty well I’d say.
@@kurikurinton o ok nice I’ve always wanted to try and shoot from a yumi bow but I look at it in comparison to the bow from the japenese animeted series of inyasha why is it different compared to the one irl= in real life
This is awesome but I understand from videos that it is difficult to shoot and you barely hit the target. However in the videos ive seen they don’t explain why. Draw weight? Different draw form?
These are good questions! Firstly, the targets are very small in diameter, about 36cm, and the distance to the target is about 28 meters. So that can be pretty tough.
On top of that, kyudo is only measured in hits or misses. So if you hit the target you get a point, if you don't you don't lol. It doesn't matter if you hit a perfect bullseye or on the very edge of the target. So the distance, target size, and scoring system, it's designed to be difficult enough where even experienced masters miss the target sometimes.
For perspective, I've been practicing kyudo about 6 years, and my hit ratio is about 60-65%. My teacher who has been doing kyudo for 30 years hits about 90%
With draw weight, each archer tries to find the right weight bow for them over time. It takes a year or two to settle into the perfect weight for you but once you do, it only helps your ability to hit the target
make more!!!
Way harder to draw across the body like that and puts more stress on the shoulders. I've been shooting bow since I was 10 and just by watching I can tell this would he much harder than shooting a longbow or recurve. Then again, tbis bow is alot taller than a European-style bow and you have to shoot this way in not unlike how some longbows had to be shot. The difference was that the English longbow was shot along with many other bowmen and arrows were volley shot towards a group of enemies and was different than a shorter hunting style. Anyways, interesting style and technique
That’s really cool you’ve been shooting for so long!
The idea with kyudo is that it distributes the strain on your arms, body, chest, and back evenly, so it’s not only mainly straining your arms like most other archery methods. That’s why we lift the bow so high and spread from our chest and back, rather than just pulling with our arms. Like imagine lifting a workout band over your head and spreading it apart across your body, rather than trying to pull it from one side all the way to the other.
Neither is necessarily superior, just very very different methods.
Do more Kyūdo content!
I went to the bathroom and then I made myself a sandwich. How many arrows did he shoot while I was gone?
Rarely do YT comments get an audible laugh out of me 🫡
This is awesome! How far away is the target and how big is it?
Its just outside the door and its 20 feet in diameter.
More please!
Woah nicee
Show demais
Meanwhile the enemy charging at you in slow mo !
上手！
What's the draw weight of your bow?
My current bow is about 18kg
Do i have to learn japanese in order to learn kyudo or is the dojo you’re training at foreigners friendly?
Everyone at my dojo is super supportive and friendly! There is one member who is a university professors who speaks decent English and he helped me when I was getting started and didn't know much Japanese. But even then, when I joined my dojo, they offered to get a pocket talk translator just to communicate with me! Lol but I told them that wouldn't be necessary because I needed the Japanese practice anyway!
did yumi archers take their time like that during the mongol invasion?
beautiful though
Lolol imagine, none of them would make it out alive!
But from I’ve seen from historical dramas and such was that it was the same steps to shooting, just performed much faster, and often from castle walls.
@@kurikurinton Yes it seemed the samurai must have feared their archery.
Kyudo is a modern martial art that is mostly based on shrine ceremonial archery and temple competitive archery. The idea in Kyudo is that it is a spiritual, meditative practice as much as a physical one. If you're interested in medieval Japanese battlefield archery, check out Satsuma Heki ryu kyujutsu. They shoot fast and accurately while advancing in samurai armour without the meditative element. It's not a question of one being superior to the other, it's just two different approaches to archery and both have great value.
@@Perceval777 Thats interesting very.
How do U get into ti
get you some resistance bands and start practing pulling those back so you don't shake. or just get a bow at home and start drawing it every night 50 times or so.
Cooool~ merci
Even the stance is very much like Karate.
Tried it. Sit on your knees on a hard wood floor 80% of the time. No deal.
Its not the best way to shoot an arrow but if you enjoy it good for you.😊
It's super fast how's it gonna work in combat
この人に英語教えてもらったことあるわ
You forgot to mention why you look so small
Just like Karate-do, Judo. Kyudo is NOT for war, but for PEACE. Yes, in Karate you learn to defend yourself, but the main goal as Jesse Enkamp perfectly words is Self-Perfection.
Karate-do is different from Karate and the two shouldn't be confused with each other. Having said that, comparing Karate-do to karate is like comparing modern boxing to ancient pugilism like caestus or pygmachia or pankratios.
-The enemy closed in to the castle wall by the time the arrows left the bows my lord
-exceptional, let's make this a trend
It’s an art.. same way Tai chi is an art but can never be used in a fight
I just saw your 4. dan shinza video, sadly with commentaries disabled...So you will do never know if the commentaries would be that negative then... For example I had a quite bad performance at the german kyudo championships this year, shooting much below my usual level in style and hitting rate. And beeing corrrected by the judges during competition did not help anyway... Not so nice. I had a bad week at work before, was tired and not in full health....I could draw the conclusion: was only a bad day, just try again next year. Trying to expore the possible reasons for not performing optimally and then change this would be better.
I wondered, why you were able at all to catch the bow, even out of a reflex. The flow of force in the arms normally is definitvely directed outward in zanshin. I asked myself: were possibly you already prepared to catch the bow, because you normally do it? It is not so rare that people are opening the hand shortly and then catch the bow shortly after to have a visible (but fake) yugaeri
Somehow you got in a rare situation not strictly governed by shizu rules too. They only say what to do, if the bow is already laying on the ground. Snatching the bow and continue shooting would be a live saver in war times... If you had managed to bring the bow directly back in toriyumi position would be a quite badass move ;-)
Andy
As a karateka, I feel offended
I have no problem with you holding a weapon it's the rest of the world that does.
The Comanche did it way cooler. Why go SO SLOW?
Kyudo is not battlefield or hunting archery. It is a modern martial art that is mostly based on shrine ceremonial archery and temple competitive archery. The idea in Kyudo is that it is a spiritual, meditative practice as much as a physical one. If you're interested in medieval Japanese battlefield archery, check out Satsuma Heki ryu kyujutsu. They shoot fast and accurately while advancing in samurai armour without the meditative element. It's not a question of one being superior to the other, it's just two different approaches to archery for different purposes and both have great value.
Make more videos related to you do -lease !
너무 비효율적인 활인듯...
부피가 너무 커서 휴대도 불편하고 비대칭이라서 사용도
좀 불편해 보임.
허세 포장 쩌는 활쏘기
Check the chick out in the back...shes way better than him
Thats not a martial art 😂 thats a hobby
Wayyyyy to much drama
🤓
No. Not what i wondered. im actually wondering why your face looks photo shopped onto another perosns body.
Japanese bow is not good. It's shaking.
why are you so small
He’s not, the bow is just massive! (and the longest bow in the world btw, longer than the English longbow)
Lol wanki do
You don’t look insanely concentrated. You look like you have no idea how to actually use a bow in a practical situation.
You can't do Japan if you aren't Japan
科学の原理を全く考えてない日本の弓w
Too much ceremony, philosophy and time waste because kyudo shooters are not even close to European archers in shooting accuracy.
Kyudo is not battlefield or hunting archery. It is a modern martial art that is mostly based on shrine ceremonial archery and temple competitive archery. The idea in Kyudo is that it is a spiritual, meditative practice as much as a physical one. If you're interested in medieval Japanese battlefield archery, you can check out Satsuma Heki ryu kyujutsu. They shoot fast and accurately while advancing in samurai armour without the meditative and ceremonial elements. However, it's not a question of one being superior to the other, it's just two different approaches to archery for different purposes and both have great value. Also, I don't know where you got that European archers are far more accurate. In Kyudo the target is 36 cm in diameter placed at a 28 m distance, sometimes it's 1 m in diameter at 60 m distance and the Japanese bow, being a longbow, is more difficult to master, unlike modern Olympic bows, so it's more difficult.
Without any doubt this is one of the useless Bow ever existed.
In precision this is ridiculous.
weeb
just lol at a white guy dressed in kimono. the weeb cringe is strong with this one
it is literally the right outfit for this martial art? he supposed to do this ancient traditional ritual in a hoodie and skinny jeans?
This is normal training attire. Everyone trains Kyudo with a dougi and hakama just like in Karate and Judo you train with a gi. The Japanese Kyudo clubs welcome everyone who is interested in Kyudo regardless of their race and ethnicity, as long as they are genuine and respectful. Your racism is truly staggering.
@@Perceval777
Ok weeb....
The draw strength is too much for you… you need to go down a kg.. especially if you’re shaking like that.
이게 활이냐 길어서 어떻게 가지고 다니냐.
Have fun dying in battle when everyone else is moving 10x faster than you
This doesn't have anything to do with actual battle. You missed the point of what he said
This is useless. This is just for fun.