I shot the 240 pound BOW: th-cam.com/video/Tw41ZIEP0VE/w-d-xo.html And I picked up all the plastic. btw sorry about the audio, it seems like i misaligned the audio by a second but it's too late to fix now
@@2adamast A 40 lb modern recurve is good for most hunting today. Luckily he has plenty of lighter bows as well. The military ones should be good for scaring off attackers.
@C A Perhaps not for every sword, but melee in general does help. While archery with a higher draw weight and length would require a higher base strength, melee would still benefit from strength modifiers. A 2.5-3lb sword or 5lb Dane-axe could be wielded by a lighter, less muscular person, but the larger combatant would have an easier time with it. Greater mass and strength=greater speed with the weapon=greater kinetic energy. Strength is a beneficial element for all of them. Consitution is a meme stat anyway, but you'd think it would be essential for the guy getting smacked. Perhaps swords should be classed somewhere in-between a dagger and axe or other heavy weapon in RPG terms, and I seriously hope nobody is trying to deny the strength requirements for a warhammer or two hander axe. Where dexterity would matter the most in a melee fight is not in simply wielding the weapon, but organizing your footwork and such around it. Strength would benefit the strike itself, while the dexterity would help ensure that you landed that strike at an optimal angle. That, and parried, kicked, etc. As far as I remember, higher dexterity does help with those things in RPGs, to an extent.
@@Userius1 When it comes to war hammers or two handed axes, they wouldn't require much strength if your talking about historical versions. If your talking about crazy fantasy shit, than yeah, but the original question was about real life. Strength is an attribute which is overvalued in melee fights imo. If your in a sword fight, it doesn't matter how strong you are, if you get cut by a weaker person, your dead. Strength is beneficial, but it won't always save you from a weaker but more skilled opponent. Strength is much more important for archery because if you using a huge war bow, you'll need to be strong otherwise you won't ben able to draw it never mind use it effectively. A weak person can always use a melee weapon, even if ineffectively sometimes. See Shadiversity's videos on whether a woman could beat a man in a sword dual.
Sword play probably required a lot more cunning as well. Like all close contact sports. You need a certain amount of fight IQ to help you survive. Strength and constitution is probably one of the greatest deciding factors in ANY combat situation tho to be fair.
actually Chinese crossbows often had prods of this draw weight @ this draw length, except their prods were composites. Look up Han Dynasty crossbows, not shitty repeating ones
@@lichenggong1248 Qin-Han infantry crossbows could reach 400 lbs @ ~3 ft. It made a world of difference that their pullback method was basically a seated deadlift combining legs, torso, and arms all at once, but it also comes down to the fact that their body mass at the time was roughly 5'8 and 160 lbs based on osteometry. Post-mediaeval Chinese and North Asians don't compare.
Ny'kratmuhn Me'ru I’m not too familiar with Chinese crossbows, but I know medieval European ones can get to 1500+ pounds with different styles of machanical advantage such as with an arbalest, pulley system, or leaver.
@@midshipman8654 With metal prods, yes, mediæval European portable crossbows could reach those tensions at the tumbler, but they had no evident upsides next to the archaic Chinese crossbow. First of all, their power stroke could never much exceed 7" due to the material properties of metal, which limits their kinetic energy to no more than half that achievable by a 145 × 130 cm Han composite crossbow @ 300-400 lbs (the maximum tension for unwinched infantry models-stationary types went much higher). If that's not enough, metal crossbows were all but impossible to operate without a mechanical advantage system that greatly reduces rate of fire and mobility. Received texts suggest Han military crossbowmen moved in fireteams of 5 or squads of 10. The coevolutionary pressure on classical Chinese missile strategy came from a combination of highly mobile mounted steppe archers and domestic armoured infantry capable of mass-producing and carrying torso-sized full-metal shields into battle. I am not aware of comparable conditions underpinning the origin of the European crossbow.
Impressive. Possibly the heaviest bow ever recorded in history was a Qing Dynasty archer who during a royal competition was shooting a bow just shy of 250 pounds.
Those medieval archers be practicing non stop since a very young age The skeleton of a longbowman is on display and his skeleton has been shaped by the constant pressure and additional muscle
There is a bow with the pull force about 420 lbs. The user of that bow is Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708). For the proof, that bow now kept at Patna Sahib, which is Sikhs religious pilgrimage.
@@GIobex. It was hard, but not **that** hard. Guess I could've pulled 25%, or perhaps 50% more. I guess the challenge is to aim and shoot precisely while holding it, and repeating the process dozens of times.
Had the bow set up at a pro shop. It performed just fine th-cam.com/users/postUgkxQEKUoxLWwayEDZR0NKB-5limn4MBU-2L . And I would say this is a good starting now that I could pass down to my son when he is older.But the package was missing the release and a nock was missing from one arrow.Dealing with customer support was terrible. They suggested I buy a new release rather than correct their own quality control issue because it’s to expensive for the. to ship it out from China.Update: manufacturer got back to me and resolved the issue. I retract the above statement.
Doug does make fantastic bows. We own several. They are really underrated, especially among the warbow community. Fantastic. Keep us posted on your journey to draw this beast!
LMAO, I thought he was holding the bow at the start of the vid. I was thinking, "That's a log, not even a stave yet!". Then he shook it out of the tube and I laughed hard at my dumb self.
Note the archers skeletons found on the Mary Rose were said to have deformed bones from using those heavy draw weights. They gave their bodies to being a war archer.
@Anthony Maurice well, there are people shooting 160 lbs bows. Not to say it's easy to achieve such a feat... Remember the video where a couple of guys shot a period accurate modern replica breastplate with a 160 lbs longbow? The archer that shot it said he does shoot 200 lbs bow, but maybe after 6 arrows he's done, but 160 lbs he can shoot comfortably "all day long" (a figure of speech, I assume). I guess with a lot of dedication and maybe a bit of luck in the genetic lottery you could shoot that one too... But man, it is a little ridiculous.
Yup. Same reason bodybuilders start at around age five. Muscle mass should start being gained about a decade before the person goes through puberty. But accuracy on the other hand can be learned in a few months.
@holstatt6896 it was beyond most humans. No one on earth could do it unless they were trained from the age of 6. It just so happened that all English yeoman were. No one else did this so no one on earth could draw them. There isn't a human alive today capable of doing it because no one has been trained from birth to do it. These people were deformed as a result, their skeletons bent and adjusted to the massive weight.
@@TheAlb100 Uhmmm. No. First you point out to me what I already told, but then you add something that is not true. It was not all English persons that was trained. If you think that woman were allowed to even touch a bow like that, then you are mistaken a great deal about many things. Yes, one was trained from the age were one could lift a bow. No. Not all were trained. If you were trained, then that were the only thing you did in life. As in the only thing. And people had to eat and otherwise be a productive member of society. What happened, was that the lord of the land or the chief gathered children at the right age. Pointed to one random boy, and said that he were to be an archer. And the parents had absolutely no saying in that. That was what were going on back then. It was shut up, take it as it was decided and just deal with it.
The novel 'Agincourt' by Bernard Cornwell really details well just what it took to be an expert Bowman and all the fine details that accompanied that profession. It also is a pretty good story
Google says the heaviest longbow pull was about 200 lbs to 32 1/2", but that was from 2004. Didn't feel like digging around too much, so dunno if it's been beaten since then.
The Welsh archers that used these bows in battle were generally quite short and would train on bows from an early age. Their bodies were deformed by years of practise. Also many of the tribes lived on o High protein diet like salmon or herring. Thousands of calories a day intake. This bow of yours it's high poundage yes our long gone brothers used to pull that all day in battle. Keep it up. Great video
Id be carefull with those dietnumbers, back in the day when you wanted so many calories you literally had to eat your towns grainreserves. But youre right with the training. Someone doing hard work from a young age will just come to a crazy amount of strength.
@@dudemcnude1314 a lot of the tribes along the Towy and the Teifi rivers would eat salmon dry salmon salt salmon etc. Also deer and boar. The archer had a good advantage on the farmer when it came to getting a few extra calories. And some salmon 😁. Nothing left now but white stones in a field and no fish or boar
@@kieronbevan7489 I know basically nothing about this but I was under the impression that most of the archers were just levies so they would have been the farmers who just had to train regularly. I guess they'd probably be using less powerful longbows though. Were bows this powerful actually used? And if so were they used by a standing army then? And were most archers professional soldiers or levies?
@@Seagull780 a lot of longbowmen during the 100 years war were professional soldiers. They would form free companies of mercenaries during periods of peace and fight in northern Italy for example. They found longbows on the wreck of the Mary Rose with a draw weight of up to 180 lbs.
The type of people who used these bows were the type that practiced with longbows from childhood. They probably have a slightly lopsided build because of it too.
The bow looks interesting! I doubt you are able to find anyone able to pull it right now, but with dedicated and hard work someone might manage one day. Btw, you can't just give any strongman a heavy (150+) bow and expect him to pull it. I've seen to many examples of strong people (even strong for real, not just pumped-up for the looks) struggle with bows even down to weights below 100#. Without a proper technique or working the right muscles you will have to start as a beginner when using theese warbows.
The muscles used to pull a bow are very difficult to work in the gym. Some real big guys can’t pull modern sporting weight bows very well. The only sure fire way to get “archery strong is to shoot every day and gradually buy heavier bows. 5 pounds at a time seems to work well
Probably not as high as you think, their comes a point with heavier bows that in order for the arrows to handle the heavier draw weight the arrows become to heavy and that they start losing power and velocity. Its known as diminishing returns and from what i have read, once the bows poundage increases above 120 to 130 pounds diminishing returns takes effect.
The interesting thing is this bow is not a self longbow (made of one piece of wood) but actually a composite [long] bow because it is made of multiple layers of different woods glued together. Were English longbows ever made in this composite manner? I'm thinking this bow has more in common with composite bows rather than historical English longbows.
Thanks for the reply. Are you aware of any historical 240lb draw longbows? The heaviest longbow I am aware of is when archaeologists believe that the heaviest draw longbows on the Mary Rose were ~180lbs. I suppose it is possible to get an exceptional fellow pulling a 240lbs longbow, but haven't read anything on it.
With heavy bows like this the best way to draw it is keeping your holding arm straight out with the bow and rather than trying to muscle pull it you instead curve your shoulders and use your core, after getting it extended it should be much easier to hold but as an archer is different from a sniper an archer should be ready to release very soon after drawing rather than a sniper who just waits to pull a trigger, so don’t tear your arm by drawing incorrectly on a bow with this much tension strength
Honestly you are a fairly strong man to get it that far the way you were pulling it, however don’t pull it that way , you will tear your muscles and tendons
Interesting fact is that some brazillian indian tribes would build Longbows from Ipe wood, but they were too strong to be used in the general stance. They would lay on the ground and hold the bow in place with their feet, while using both hands to hold the arrow and pull the line.
@@HistoricalWeapons Its ok we can do english. I remember this documentary I watched at High School, the indians explaining how and why they do it, and then showing a young man shooting a big arrow far away in the water. While searching for a source, I learned that Alexander The Great had faced the same technique: www.rbth.com/blogs/2013/05/27/marshal_zhukov_on_alexanders_failed_india_invasion_25383
Starting the draw from the center of your chest raise your hands slightly above your eyes all the while increasing the pull by using both arms pulling in opposite directions then lower it bringing the arrow on line to your eye then release. Works for me also it helps if you lift weights or use weights on a pulley system device to increase your draw weight.
Dude, your videos are a pleasure to watch! Now I'm considering buying a 45# longbow from this Ebay seller after watching this vid. Is the bow sealed with polypropylene? I assume their bows would last a long time. Keep up the good work! Learned a lot from your vids. 💪👊
100-180 at 30" (people were shorter) was what was the average found on the mary rose warship which was mid 15th century when it capsized. that was the height of longbow weight. I have no idea where you got 300 from. The skeletons of all the archers are disfigured from growing pulling heavy bows.
Hey @Historical archery !!! Beautiful demonstration , if you don't mind i have a question i recently got into the wonderful world of bow hunting and target archery and i was planning to purchase my first traditional bow ( I currently use a takedown recurve ) i was wondering that will it be awkward for someone of a shorter stature ( I'm 5'7 ) to wield an English longbow effectively ? , thank you again for the wonderful video !!.
I’m no expert but I think Joe Gibs (who you mentioned here) draws huge bows not by pulling but by pushing. You put the string by your head and you press the bow away from you. Opposite way of normal drawing. Basically using your bench pressing chest and tricep muscles rather than your back.
Some medieval drawing show feet drawing. Basically artillery heavy bow drawn manually by feet and both hand. Very portable and versatile than bulky ballista.
I don't use lb as measurement, but the heaviest bow i drew when i was much younger and stronger was around 60kg or 70kg. I will never able to pull that giant longbow.
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I shot the 240 pound BOW: th-cam.com/video/Tw41ZIEP0VE/w-d-xo.html
And I picked up all the plastic.
btw sorry about the audio, it seems like i misaligned the audio by a second but it's too late to fix now
try making a war bow crossbow. look up JR's place.
I don't think you will die of the virus. With all these bows, it will be easy to hunt for food.
@@vanivanov9571 lol since i weigh 240lbs i can last a while lololol
Mostly precision shooting up in the trees, who needs power when there are skills.
@@2adamast A 40 lb modern recurve is good for most hunting today. Luckily he has plenty of lighter bows as well. The military ones should be good for scaring off attackers.
RPG logic:
Archer = Agility & Dexterity
Swordsman = Strength & Constitution
Reality:
Archer = Strength & Constitution
Swordsman = Agility & Dexterity
@@danteravenveren1278 no what adrian ocon said was correct
@C A Perhaps not for every sword, but melee in general does help. While archery with a higher draw weight and length would require a higher base strength, melee would still benefit from strength modifiers. A 2.5-3lb sword or 5lb Dane-axe could be wielded by a lighter, less muscular person, but the larger combatant would have an easier time with it. Greater mass and strength=greater speed with the weapon=greater kinetic energy.
Strength is a beneficial element for all of them. Consitution is a meme stat anyway, but you'd think it would be essential for the guy getting smacked.
Perhaps swords should be classed somewhere in-between a dagger and axe or other heavy weapon in RPG terms, and I seriously hope nobody is trying to deny the strength requirements for a warhammer or two hander axe.
Where dexterity would matter the most in a melee fight is not in simply wielding the weapon, but organizing your footwork and such around it. Strength would benefit the strike itself, while the dexterity would help ensure that you landed that strike at an optimal angle. That, and parried, kicked, etc. As far as I remember, higher dexterity does help with those things in RPGs, to an extent.
Archer and Swordsman = Strength and Constitution and Agility and Dexterity. All play a role.
@@Userius1 When it comes to war hammers or two handed axes, they wouldn't require much strength if your talking about historical versions. If your talking about crazy fantasy shit, than yeah, but the original question was about real life.
Strength is an attribute which is overvalued in melee fights imo. If your in a sword fight, it doesn't matter how strong you are, if you get cut by a weaker person, your dead. Strength is beneficial, but it won't always save you from a weaker but more skilled opponent.
Strength is much more important for archery because if you using a huge war bow, you'll need to be strong otherwise you won't ben able to draw it never mind use it effectively. A weak person can always use a melee weapon, even if ineffectively sometimes.
See Shadiversity's videos on whether a woman could beat a man in a sword dual.
Sword play probably required a lot more cunning as well. Like all close contact sports. You need a certain amount of fight IQ to help you survive. Strength and constitution is probably one of the greatest deciding factors in ANY combat situation tho to be fair.
That draw weight is my entire bodyweight. Whoever can draw this bow is a straight animal.
ya im 230lbs and this is definitely a beast
It's about 20 pounds lighter then I am lol, I think I could pull it back, maybe not all the way
dont have to have been shootin bows my whole life, pure strength works too
Ian Hopkins You mean Mountain.
I draw 220lb
when u just start at a MMORPG and your friend gives you an item that you need 89 str. but you have 32 srt points
I think it's more like 100 str
Lol ikr
@@HistoricalWeapons In runescape logic you would need the archery cape to even equip the bow. lmao.
This bow is reaching ballista territory.
actually Chinese crossbows often had prods of this draw weight @ this draw length, except their prods were composites. Look up Han Dynasty crossbows, not shitty repeating ones
@@lichenggong1248 Qin-Han infantry crossbows could reach 400 lbs @ ~3 ft. It made a world of difference that their pullback method was basically a seated deadlift combining legs, torso, and arms all at once, but it also comes down to the fact that their body mass at the time was roughly 5'8 and 160 lbs based on osteometry. Post-mediaeval Chinese and North Asians don't compare.
@@sahelanthrope makes sense I can deadlift 450lbs but if I sit on my butt I can kick more with legs only
Ny'kratmuhn Me'ru I’m not too familiar with Chinese crossbows, but I know medieval European ones can get to 1500+ pounds with different styles of machanical advantage such as with an arbalest, pulley system, or leaver.
@@midshipman8654 With metal prods, yes, mediæval European portable crossbows could reach those tensions at the tumbler, but they had no evident upsides next to the archaic Chinese crossbow. First of all, their power stroke could never much exceed 7" due to the material properties of metal, which limits their kinetic energy to no more than half that achievable by a 145 × 130 cm Han composite crossbow @ 300-400 lbs (the maximum tension for unwinched infantry models-stationary types went much higher). If that's not enough, metal crossbows were all but impossible to operate without a mechanical advantage system that greatly reduces rate of fire and mobility. Received texts suggest Han military crossbowmen moved in fireteams of 5 or squads of 10. The coevolutionary pressure on classical Chinese missile strategy came from a combination of highly mobile mounted steppe archers and domestic armoured infantry capable of mass-producing and carrying torso-sized full-metal shields into battle. I am not aware of comparable conditions underpinning the origin of the European crossbow.
Somebody took a monk's walking staff and stuck a bow string on it.
Original American a staff with a string will break in a few inches, not 32 inches
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@@Not-Just-Cars best dude in a party, tell me do you got bullied a lot during your lifetime?
Strongmen need to incorporate this into their sport.
That would go wrong so fast
@@garrettsaulnier2651 nah. Just pull, no arrows
Impressive. Possibly the heaviest bow ever recorded in history was a Qing Dynasty archer who during a royal competition was shooting a bow just shy of 250 pounds.
will do vids on manchu qing bows
@@HistoricalWeapons
th-cam.com/video/Pp20Gmqwnm0/w-d-xo.html
Those medieval archers be practicing non stop since a very young age
The skeleton of a longbowman is on display and his skeleton has been shaped by the constant pressure and additional muscle
@@loopsmybrother6156yea when there was war all the time I would do it every day
There is a bow with the pull force about 420 lbs. The user of that bow is Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708). For the proof, that bow now kept at Patna Sahib, which is Sikhs religious pilgrimage.
Historically, English Archers in Medieval Times could pull 185 lbs. draw weight... what powerful men there were back then...
Right. Tempered muscle from training by them since they were young
I could pull it without training . .
@@GIobex. It was hard, but not **that** hard. Guess I could've pulled 25%, or perhaps 50% more.
I guess the challenge is to aim and shoot precisely while holding it, and repeating the process dozens of times.
English were cowerd , not warrior
@@Love_u_Bangladesh They were pretty successful for cowards.
I think the most effective way for most humans to use this weapon is to club their enemy with it.
Had the bow set up at a pro shop. It performed just fine th-cam.com/users/postUgkxQEKUoxLWwayEDZR0NKB-5limn4MBU-2L . And I would say this is a good starting now that I could pass down to my son when he is older.But the package was missing the release and a nock was missing from one arrow.Dealing with customer support was terrible. They suggested I buy a new release rather than correct their own quality control issue because it’s to expensive for the. to ship it out from China.Update: manufacturer got back to me and resolved the issue. I retract the above statement.
Doug does make fantastic bows. We own several. They are really underrated, especially among the warbow community. Fantastic. Keep us posted on your journey to draw this beast!
who is Doug?
The bowyer
LMAO, I thought he was holding the bow at the start of the vid. I was thinking, "That's a log, not even a stave yet!". Then he shook it out of the tube and I laughed hard at my dumb self.
I would definitely love to see how Jeorge Sprave would tinker with it.
Andrew Neumann you mean Jörg Sprave
@@smilloww2095 He wouldn't even be able to draw it lol what's he supposed to do with it? Make a crossbow out of plywood with it?
let me show you its features
I should make a repeating ballista with this
@@GenScinmore HA HA HA HA!!!
Note the archers skeletons found on the Mary Rose were said to have deformed bones from using those heavy draw weights. They gave their bodies to being a war archer.
This channel is underrated. I remember back in the day when he did lars Anderson speed shooting and now hes doing the complete opposite lol
Thx man
@Anthony Maurice well, there are people shooting 160 lbs bows. Not to say it's easy to achieve such a feat...
Remember the video where a couple of guys shot a period accurate modern replica breastplate with a 160 lbs longbow? The archer that shot it said he does shoot 200 lbs bow, but maybe after 6 arrows he's done, but 160 lbs he can shoot comfortably "all day long" (a figure of speech, I assume).
I guess with a lot of dedication and maybe a bit of luck in the genetic lottery you could shoot that one too... But man, it is a little ridiculous.
@@tomaszwota1465 That's Joe Gibbs. That's who he's talking about in the video.
@@NigelTolley I'm working on my 170lb
That’s what it looks like when a bow bends you instead.
Thor and Eddie hall(the beast)...share this to them everyone...I want to see this bow shot
I have the sudden urge!........ to start training rigorously day and night, for years if I must. Just to one day pull that bow
👁👄👁
There is a reason why archers trained from the age of 6, back when it was a tool of war. 😉
Yup. Same reason bodybuilders start at around age five. Muscle mass should start being gained about a decade before the person goes through puberty.
But accuracy on the other hand can be learned in a few months.
I don't think most historical yeomen are drawing 240 pounds either. Like, that is a bow beyond most humans.
@@holstatt6896 240 is the stuff of legends
@holstatt6896 it was beyond most humans. No one on earth could do it unless they were trained from the age of 6. It just so happened that all English yeoman were. No one else did this so no one on earth could draw them. There isn't a human alive today capable of doing it because no one has been trained from birth to do it. These people were deformed as a result, their skeletons bent and adjusted to the massive weight.
@@TheAlb100 Uhmmm. No. First you point out to me what I already told, but then you add something that is not true.
It was not all English persons that was trained. If you think that woman were allowed to even touch a bow like that, then you are mistaken a great deal about many things.
Yes, one was trained from the age were one could lift a bow. No. Not all were trained. If you were trained, then that were the only thing you did in life. As in the only thing. And people had to eat and otherwise be a productive member of society.
What happened, was that the lord of the land or the chief gathered children at the right age. Pointed to one random boy, and said that he were to be an archer. And the parents had absolutely no saying in that. That was what were going on back then. It was shut up, take it as it was decided and just deal with it.
The novel 'Agincourt' by Bernard Cornwell really details well just what it took to be an expert Bowman and all the fine details that accompanied that profession. It also is a pretty good story
Ancient bowmen had different skeletons than us
imagine you try and rob this guy but he pulls out his 240 pound longbow and puts an arrow through your chest
"Hey guys here is the new ballista I ordered."
I feel this guy is a Diablo 2 character saying "I can't use this yet" hahaha
Just being able to string that bow is impressive.
Wait, how is this possible, handling 100 kg that way seems crazy.
Nice video
I am still impressed! Thank you for trying.
Google says the heaviest longbow pull was about 200 lbs to 32 1/2", but that was from 2004. Didn't feel like digging around too much, so dunno if it's been beaten since then.
officially no that's why this dude is trying to break it
@@lichenggong1248 Guinness thinks it's official:
www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/heaviest-longbow-draw-weight/
He means officially breaking the 200 lb official record
Joe Gibbs is on track at the moment, he drew a 200 pound bow with a 10 pound resistance band. Meanwhile, I can barely draw 100 pounds for ten reps.
There is story that longbows was made upon ones height. So you are trying a hell lot of bow .I respect!
He's gonna hurt himself if he's not carefull
already did th-cam.com/video/gDgjdBT-JnM/w-d-xo.html
who cares the corona virus gonna kill us all gg
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@@fluidityarchives4411 bruh
And he seems pretty strong too you need to make a cross bow out of that awesome bow
You'd probably need to be able to barbell row at 500lbs and have a really good technique to pull this thing, that's bonkers.
240 is insane no matter what platform you use.
This thing is just a portable Siege Engine..
Archeologists can tell who the Archers were by looking at the differences in their skeletons compared to everybody else.
The Welsh archers that used these bows in battle were generally quite short and would train on bows from an early age. Their bodies were deformed by years of practise. Also many of the tribes lived on o High protein diet like salmon or herring. Thousands of calories a day intake. This bow of yours it's high poundage yes our long gone brothers used to pull that all day in battle. Keep it up. Great video
Id be carefull with those dietnumbers, back in the day when you wanted so many calories you literally had to eat your towns grainreserves.
But youre right with the training. Someone doing hard work from a young age will just come to a crazy amount of strength.
@@dudemcnude1314 a lot of the tribes along the Towy and the Teifi rivers would eat salmon dry salmon salt salmon etc. Also deer and boar. The archer had a good advantage on the farmer when it came to getting a few extra calories. And some salmon 😁. Nothing left now but white stones in a field and no fish or boar
@@kieronbevan7489 oh ok 🙂
@@kieronbevan7489 I know basically nothing about this but I was under the impression that most of the archers were just levies so they would have been the farmers who just had to train regularly. I guess they'd probably be using less powerful longbows though. Were bows this powerful actually used? And if so were they used by a standing army then? And were most archers professional soldiers or levies?
@@Seagull780 a lot of longbowmen during the 100 years war were professional soldiers. They would form free companies of mercenaries during periods of peace and fight in northern Italy for example. They found longbows on the wreck of the Mary Rose with a draw weight of up to 180 lbs.
When I read the title I was excited and definitely sceptical. It’s obviously doable, but probably you have to be part gorilla time do it.
The type of people who used these bows were the type that practiced with longbows from childhood. They probably have a slightly lopsided build because of it too.
We could literally give it to that "The Mountain" dude from GoT and ask him to remake the battle of Gwin and the dragons on DS1
Thats a scary bow
The bow looks interesting! I doubt you are able to find anyone able to pull it right now, but with dedicated and hard work someone might manage one day. Btw, you can't just give any strongman a heavy (150+) bow and expect him to pull it. I've seen to many examples of strong people (even strong for real, not just pumped-up for the looks) struggle with bows even down to weights below 100#. Without a proper technique or working the right muscles you will have to start as a beginner when using theese warbows.
The muscles used to pull a bow are very difficult to work in the gym. Some real big guys can’t pull modern sporting weight bows very well. The only sure fire way to get “archery strong is to shoot every day and gradually buy heavier bows. 5 pounds at a time seems to work well
Know what’s good about that bow… it will never break.
Even Joe Gibbs is not enough for this monster...
imagine how high the arrow would go if you used this bow to shoot straight up
Probably not as high as you think, their comes a point with heavier bows that in order for the arrows to handle the heavier draw weight the arrows become to heavy and that they start losing power and velocity. Its known as diminishing returns and from what i have read, once the bows poundage increases above 120 to 130 pounds diminishing returns takes effect.
Algún día tendré los suficientes huevos para accionar ese longbow
That is a seriously gnarly bow!!!
Wow, .50 bmg of the old days
The interesting thing is this bow is not a self longbow (made of one piece of wood) but actually a composite [long] bow because it is made of multiple layers of different woods glued together. Were English longbows ever made in this composite manner? I'm thinking this bow has more in common with composite bows rather than historical English longbows.
these are less historical but cheaper. The english ones are usually made of yew which is very expensive these days
Thanks for the reply. Are you aware of any historical 240lb draw longbows? The heaviest longbow I am aware of is when archaeologists believe that the heaviest draw longbows on the Mary Rose were ~180lbs. I suppose it is possible to get an exceptional fellow pulling a 240lbs longbow, but haven't read anything on it.
I just realised the background is very similar to Joe gibbs video. maybe Canadian and british houses are just the same lol
Commonwealth architecture.
Are you Toronto?
Bill Kong yes
With heavy bows like this the best way to draw it is keeping your holding arm straight out with the bow and rather than trying to muscle pull it you instead curve your shoulders and use your core, after getting it extended it should be much easier to hold but as an archer is different from a sniper an archer should be ready to release very soon after drawing rather than a sniper who just waits to pull a trigger, so don’t tear your arm by drawing incorrectly on a bow with this much tension strength
Honestly you are a fairly strong man to get it that far the way you were pulling it, however don’t pull it that way , you will tear your muscles and tendons
The draw weight of guru gobind singh ji's bow was 496 pounds . Now you can imagine his strength
Actually no it was 1850 pounts.
Interesting fact is that some brazillian indian tribes would build Longbows from Ipe wood, but they were too strong to be used in the general stance. They would lay on the ground and hold the bow in place with their feet, while using both hands to hold the arrow and pull the line.
Do you have sources. Posso falar portugues
@@HistoricalWeapons Its ok we can do english. I remember this documentary I watched at High School, the indians explaining how and why they do it, and then showing a young man shooting a big arrow far away in the water. While searching for a source, I learned that Alexander The Great had faced the same technique: www.rbth.com/blogs/2013/05/27/marshal_zhukov_on_alexanders_failed_india_invasion_25383
hahaha something about the houses and backyard had me absolutely certain this guy was in canada
Or michigan. But then again, whats the difference
"If I can pill this, I'll probably break my back." Is what I thought you were gonna say😂😊
*Practice* with your 170 pound bow and *eat well.* The goal is to draw your badass 240 pound bow.
then hunt a polar bear with it LMFAO
they should make an animie about some dude with a 500 pound bow that shoots harpoons and he fights leviathan type creatures
It's like a Dragonbow from Darksouls
If Guts was given a bow instead of a sword.
I'll be looking forward to seeing you eventually loose an arrow from that one, don't pop you fu-fu valve trying though 😂
Starting the draw from the center of your chest raise your hands slightly above your eyes all the while increasing the pull by using both arms pulling in opposite directions then lower it bringing the arrow on line to your eye then release.
Works for me also it helps if you lift weights or use weights on a pulley system device to increase your draw weight.
making a crossbow
wow I can only pull 40 lbs and I complain
I just brought and am waiting on a 50 lbs longbow hybrid. Kind of regretting such a draw weight.😅
I’m a big boy and I couldn’t pull that further than you.
Well done.
If you ever manage to pull it, you will actually pull two things at once, the bow AND a muscle!
Currently doing 170lbs and injured myself
Dude, your videos are a pleasure to watch! Now I'm considering buying a 45# longbow from this Ebay seller after watching this vid. Is the bow sealed with polypropylene? I assume their bows would last a long time.
Keep up the good work! Learned a lot from your vids. 💪👊
EUROPEAN WAR BOWS WERE AROUND 300 POUNDS ...
YEP WE GROW SOFT IN LAST 200 YEARS LOL
ROMAN STANISZEWSKI they were actually between 80 and 150 so 240 is heavy even for back then
@@tatewaggoner6546
NO IT WASN'T AND 80 IS WHAT BACK IN THE DAY KIDS PLAY WITH DUDE LOL
100-180 at 30" (people were shorter) was what was the average found on the mary rose warship which was mid 15th century when it capsized. that was the height of longbow weight. I have no idea where you got 300 from. The skeletons of all the archers are disfigured from growing pulling heavy bows.
who the f shoots 300lb
I wonder how fast it would fire an arrow.
Skip to 3:05 for sexy noises. ;)
Anyone else open this thinking the PVC pipe was the bow and dude was about to eat shit? Hahahhaha
Finally someone made a longbow for Eddie Hall, but accidentally sold it to the wrong guy.
im currently working on 170lbs getting closer to 200
Got surprisingly close there for a second
!!!COMING SOON!!!
Video series documenting his strength training towards one day being able to draw the bow
It looks like a nice well made piece
Do keep up the great work amd keep sharing your knowledge and its okay take a breath you got time. Breathe bro breathe. Great stuff.
Hey @Historical archery !!! Beautiful demonstration , if you don't mind i have a question i recently got into the wonderful world of bow hunting and target archery and i was planning to purchase my first traditional bow ( I currently use a takedown recurve ) i was wondering that will it be awkward for someone of a shorter stature ( I'm 5'7 ) to wield an English longbow effectively ? , thank you again for the wonderful video !!.
no, you are about historical height. people were around that height back then, just tell the bowmaker about your height and draw length
I think the same thing. I'm 5'7'' aka historically accurate height, but I would prefer shooting a Turkic style bow if I was to start.
Jesus christ now thats just a firearm
I’m no expert but I think Joe Gibs (who you mentioned here) draws huge bows not by pulling but by pushing. You put the string by your head and you press the bow away from you. Opposite way of normal drawing. Basically using your bench pressing chest and tricep muscles rather than your back.
I own one of Doug's aka ArcheyBowmans bows, its a quad lam, ipe, bamboo,jatoba, ipe and man is it gorgeous, only 35-45lbs though thankfully lol.
Why would you need that much power?
to hunt elephants lol
Awesome video man!
I read that the Chinese general Yue Fei was able to pull back a bow of 300 catties. That's 400 pounds/180KG.
Sounds like communist propaganda but okay
@@bryantenjhay65 … not everything Chinese is communist. But yes people back in the ancient and medieval era do exaggerate
Why does this man buy bows he will never be able to draw? That's bizarre.
because Im building a crossbow out of it
What is the bow made of?
Nvm I read the description. You’re the best man!
Is there not already a string for that longbow? Or are you just using your own sir. Great bow
Love the stance/form when you pull! 😂
Seen mad 170lbs warbow shots on TH-cam, this adds another insane 70lbs - I shoot a paltry 60lbs atm.
240lb damn! I always thought they had the strength of 500lb in general 😦
This is why you don't spec into Dex
i would like to see eddy hall try to pull a really strong bow
So theoretically speaking if we had the strongest archer in the world this bow could maybe go through a car door
This is legendary
That's over 100 kilos. I doubt there are more then maybe 10 people in the whole world that can pull this to the full draw length
World record is 200lb officially
@@HistoricalWeapons that's insane, man
I think it 's a good way to solve constipation issue .
that seems more like a bow staff than a bow
Boys would train in archery since 13 with draw weights around 150 pounds....
We're not weak, we are the entire year.
Thats why the trained from early childhood.
The man who can draw this bow- best be callin him Sir...
Have a look at Joe Gibbs shooting his heavy bows. His record is 210 AFAIK, and he has drawn bows since he was a child and is obviously very strong.
Some medieval drawing show feet drawing. Basically artillery heavy bow drawn manually by feet and both hand. Very portable and versatile than bulky ballista.
Drawing in the bow. Meaning use both arms. Push with one, pull with the other.
I don't use lb as measurement, but the heaviest bow i drew when i was much younger and stronger was around 60kg or 70kg.
I will never able to pull that giant longbow.
240lb is approximately 110kg