My Archery Journey - my Way of the Bow
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.พ. 2021
- Upon multiple requests, here we go: My Journey
How I got into archery and how did my Way of the Bow develop over the years until now.
Pretty sure I forgot half of it, but at least some milestones on my way :)
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I'm a seventy year old new fan, plan on buying a Tatar bow after watching a review video by Armin.
This story really touched my heart. I am nothing like you. I went to university, got a job, work long hours (6nights a week), and go home to eat and sleep. Only to do it all again the next night.
I never got married because I always thought, "what if it doesn't work? What would a divorce do to me financially and emotionally?"
You have followed your heart. I followed a safe paycheck, a pension, good health insurance.
You followed your dreams.
Now I am in my late 50s still dreaming of "someday."
Your story, your journey is so inspiring. You have to live a life without regrets. That would be my message to young people.
What a beautiful journey your life has been.
It’s never to early to live your life bro.
And it’s also never too late.
Why would anyone dislike this?
It’s the government agents
exactly... you start wondering if youtube adds dislikes on its own so that the algo does not go crazy.
Vielleicht wurden ja heimlich Quoten-Hater eingeführt 🤔
Stupidity can't be cured sadly, that's why 🤔
@@HistoricalWeapons Too much time, no purpose in life to do anything with that time. Just sad and a waste imo
With or without the quiver your channel is still my favourite. I guess I'll never meet you in person in Malta, but maybe I will see you in Austria (my neighbouring country). Wherever you'll be, try to keep this channel alive because it is an inspiration to many of us.
Thank you for sharing Mr. Hirmer.
My first bow was a branch from an oak tree with kite string and my arrows were the straitest little branches i could find from anything lol. One of my brothers was a boyscout and he showed me how to make. My arrows were unfletched. I was only about 8 years old. Eventually my Mom got me two little long bows from a garage sale for just a few dollars.
I am 54 and just started with archery. Best thing I have ever done...
Enjoy
I started Archery in the early 70's. I was just a kid living in the middle of Nowhere Texas. I went out to get the mail. I lived on a dirt road and there was a quiver full of wood arrows just laying in the road. I guess it fell out of someones car. My Dad helped me carve a bow out of Willow. It did not take me long to destroy or lose those arrows. I eventually got a Bear Takedown. It was the metal riser with the slide in limbs. I got a compound bow my Senior Year of High School. It was a Browning Batam. I fooled with compounds a couple of years then back to traditional. I am 56 now and have found my way to horse bows. I am afraid my longbow and recurve will be collecting dust.
God Bless you for not kissing government @$$! You would be a Hell of a Texan sir!
I only has one teacher in archery and my teacher is you...from Malaysia with 💘
For an 17yo archery nerd like myself who had no Idea what he wants to do with his life, this video is realy inspirational. Thank you for this, maybe someday we'll meet hopefully.
I am only 16 but as an obsessed archer your story inspires me.
Thank you sir. I seriously picked up archery almost 3 years ago, and any time I had try archery before that I would shoot from the “wrong side” of the bow. It felt natural to me but the instructors always took offense to it, so I never stuck with archery. Then I found out your channel and I saw you shoot with a thumb draw, and I was like “that’s it, it’s not the wrong way to shoot”. So I literally got into archery because of you. You saved me so much time in research with your videos. I very honestly thank you for what you did for me even though you are not aware of it. Keep living your dream.
A great and interesting story, I am proud to have been a small part of it. All the best for your future path.
thank you Andy
Mr Hirmer, I don't know where you are or what you are doing now, as always, I am late to the party...
I have only just started watching your videos, but your expertise and instruction is timeless. I hope you are well. Thank you sir for all of the help you have given me, and I'm sure, countless others.
I lived in Malta in 2014, it's a shame we didn't meet. You inspired me to try traditional asiatic bows and thumb release and now I'm absolutely in love. Great story and good luck for the future.
Wow, I would have died halfway through from stress, lol you are an interesting person my friend.
The Archer. a six-year-old asked me why am I an archer? good question ... because it fills my life. Armin, the bow fills your life.
We’ve had similar pasts. I started archery with the purchase of my first bow, a Bear Grizzly recurve in 1976. I was 15. Mostly self taught but eventually met some older archers and stumped with them as they helped me learn the art. Living in a northern Ontario small town there were no archery clubs but I didn’t care. As long as I could walk the trails, summer, fall, winter and spring I was happy. Later I went away to school and joined a fencing club and eventually became an instructor. While getting my engineering degree I joined the military and life and work took me away from archery. I left the military for the police and eventually retired from forensics. I began writing books but after a bit I had trouble concentrating and I began to worry. My doctor suggested I take up something from my youth and I rediscovered my love for archery. You had a big hand in helping me get back into it so I’m forever grateful, Armin. Now I’m making archery videos of my own. Maybe someday I’ll have a few subscribers too. I found out that because of past head injuries and my health I now suffer from retinopathy. Things are okay for now, and after a few surgeries my eyesight is pretty good but at sometime in the future I’ll have to give up my bow, but for now, as long as I can see even the blurriest of blob for a target, I’ll keep shooting. Great video, Armin. Cheers and good shooting. 👍😎🇨🇦🏹
@janarules that’s great Jan. Sucks about not getting the other bow, but glad you finally got one. There are excellent videos here, Armin being about the best, but there Grizzly Jim from archery adventures, Greg at 3D archery, Jeff at the nocking point, flea at bows and errors just to name a few. Enjoy, good shooting and share your archery.👍🏹🇨🇦
Thanks for sharing your story William and do not worry. I taught a blind woman to do archery from scratch and she did great, never give up on your dreams
@@ArminHirmer Thank you Armin.👍 Cheers, mate.
I MISS FIVE MINUTE FRIDAY
Me too, me too
already in work :)
Wherever you go,we, your loyal friends, will follow. If you happen to come to Ireland and set up shop, I'll be there every weekend 😁😁😁
Felt as if I was there , in person, listening to you share some of your story. Very personal. Thanks Armin. :)
Very interesting story. What I learned from your life journey is nothing will go according to our initial plans. People who are fast to adapt normally are the one who will survive and thrive.
As always Inspiring Armin 🙏🏹I hope your future is blessed and come from many successes and love👊😃
And what an incredible journey you have embarked on! To elevate the "sport" of archery, to an art form. And beyond. To bring a lot of restless souls like myself, into the NOW. When someone can inspire people to control their egos, that's truly a gift. Where I live, this is terribly needed. Thank you for sharing.
The Archer! I smiled genuinely when you humbly mentioned "sure if you want to, write a book, I don't mind". ^^
So many lives touched and influenced, thank you for that.
Awesome I am ready for my archery journey or adventures 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹
I have to repeat: welcome to Vienna. I'm sure you'll be successful. Weatherwise it is not Malta, but it is not Sylt either. Only the next four months might become a little bleak in this regard - but March/April will be very nice again in Vienna. If you want any advice on things local -- you know where you can find me....
I just started getting into archery 6 wks ago - at 77 I really have to get back into shape - your videos helped me a lot to avoid injury (had 'frozen shoulders' 20 yrs ago) my range is still somewhat restricted :-( but I am working on it. Danke fuer deine Information und viel Glueck in Deutschland. I'm from Canada and came from Germany in 1960.
Danke Günther und viel Spass
Yes, I would love to hear how you run an archery range, as I am also planning to set up an archery range near my small village
You are the reason i got into asiatic archery. Thank you for opening me to a new style
*Armin uploads a video*
Me: Pulls up a seat.
This is an awesome video, the throwback photos are great, and just in general this video, the idea of giving us a rundown on your begin to where you are now...is great.
You inspired me, I was always into archery, it was always something I loved. But you inspired me to try different things with archery. Because of you and your videos, I wanted to learn thumb draw. So I'd watch you, mimic you to learn, bc I'm in the US and it's not that big a thing here, and when I found your channel the pandemic lockdown was in full effect, so couldn't go to a range. So unintentionally you were my teacher. I left behind recurves and Mediterranean draw to only shoot horsebows and thumb draw. You aren't just a great teacher, a great reviewer, a very charismatic guy, you are an inspiration.
Dear Armin, the only place success comes before work is in the dictionary, I wish you the best!
Nice one :) thank you
Sorry to hear you may well be leaving Malta. Am glad we managed to visit. All the best for the future. Stewart & Jane.
Nice! Thank you for sharing!
Fascinating journey, thank you for sharing
Thanks for sharing your journey 😎❤️
Amazing story, very inspirational!
Thank you for sharing ! good luck for the rest of your journey
Thank you for sharing, Armin!
Hallo Armin: I am starting the journey in my late 50’s. Your videos have been most helpful. Danke sehr fuer die grosse Hilfe!! Grusse von die V.S. :):)
Thank you for this.
Thanks for sharing your story, very inspiring.
What a way! Amazing!
Thank you, Armin, very interesting 🏹
Thanks for the interesting story... 🙏
Thank you for sharing. Thoroughly enjoyed the video!
Amazing photos and story, Armin
Thank you Armin.
Thank you for your story Armin. It was interesting.
Thanks for sharing your story master Armin
Beautiful and fascinating journey, thanks for sharing!
Thanx mr Hirmer for sharing ....very inspirational
Great video, really fascinating! Keep up the great work always Armin!
Hallo Armin, vielen Dank für diesen Einblick in Dein Leben.
Ich hoffe mit Dir, dass das C- Thema bald der Vergangenheit angehört und wir wieder frei unserem Hobby, in Deinem Fall auch Beruf, nachgehen können.
Gruß aus der Südpfalz, wo die Sonne auch oft scheint.
Ich würde mich freuen, Dich einmal persönlich kennenzulernen.
awesome. Thank you for that biography, so far.. more to come of course.
looking forward to seeng you Wienna !
Glad I found your channel, Armin.
Thanks and respect !
Thanks Mr. Armin. Great video! I'm glad you stayed the course.
Thank you for sharing your history. It's amazing.
I've watch it all twice, very interesting!
Very inspiring story, thank you for sharing! And I'm so glad you pursued what you felt best and healthiest even when gov was pushing against you. Keep up the great work. Such a humble and real gentleman. There's a lot of popular entertainer TH-camrs who care more about numbers and money (I know some personally, and makes me sick watching those, like goofy ads), but it's great to watch someone who talks in a normal voice and is really passionate about what they do. You've got a new subscriber and follower. God bless 🤟😁 🏹
Thank you very much
Thank you very much!
Always inspiring.. love the channel and love the work .. all the best to you my friend
Very nice to watch and listen to your Archery journey. Thanks
Thank you for the story. Best wishes on your next move. Whenever that maybe.
Great story Armin ! Set your goals to came there...nothing is easy..nice personal story...thank you for sharing this with us...
The beautiful thing about this video...chasing your dream/passion. It's more than just about archery but about life aspirations and achieving your goals. "One door closes and another will open." Keep knocking (see what I did there 😉)
Haha yeah
Great way to spend 30 min. Thank you for your story Armin always looked up to ya all these 2.5 years I've known ya :)
Bravo brate!
really interesting subject, your history (at least the few moments of it that you just told us ) is very inspiring thank you for sharing your experiences with us ! i don't know for the others people but i will continue to following your high value reviews . encore merci
Thanks for sharing your story, life is the journey as the destination is the same for all of us ,stay happy and sharing your gift to those who want to learn
How great is you tube. Good luck in your journey.
Fascinating. Enjoyed every moment. A friend of mine started her working life in Regensberg after the wall came down (she was a teenager in Chemnitz), my ears pricked up when I heard you speak about it! May you continue to be as successful as ever and continue to inspire others. Chapeau as we say in France.
Very interesting archery history, thanks for sharing. I enjoy your TH-cam videos, so much so, am trying to learn thumb shooting!
You are a inspiration Armin your videos are very informative and well spoken. Best of luck with all of your future endeavors.
Inspiring and informative ... I saw this pop up a couple of weeks ago ... but I had to wait till I could give it my full attention.... thank you Sifu Armin.
Thank you for sharing. Great to hear your journey. Funny how things turn out. I'm an English man living in Bavaria.
Your story is inspiration for me Sir ... thank you for sharing ... and yes I love to know how you manage your shooting range.
Such an amazing story. Very inspiring. Wherever you go after Malta, never give up this channel.....we’ll always watch your videos 🙏
I think in Tanzania it's nice warm right now. Not much restrictions. But probebly there will be a coup in the next months...
Thanks, a great story and really appreciate it. Ray from Riverside, California
Great story, thanks for sharing. My first bow was also a compound from Bear Archery. It was a Bear Legion, but this was 2012..😁
Haha the year does not matter :)
Very nice that sounds like a really cool idea, I would love to go to a place like that 👍🏼👍🏼. For me it is a thing that really got inside me and I think about it all the time. Thank you sir for sharing appreciate it
Shot my Kóvács Magyar bow today for the first time. Awesome!!! Great video!
It was a realy good idea to make a video like this, was realy interesting. Ever since i started archery and i found your channel, i learned a lot from your videos... well tbh almost everything i know comes from you, so therefor im truely gratefull.
Great story. you've been a great source of information during my own journey. i really appreciate what you have done for the archery community. no value can be put on your reviews Armin. Priceless information saves us all so much money and time in trial and error. Chinggis Khaan is the reason i got into archery. actually it was Conn Iggulden's conqueror series about Mongolia's Khan dynasties. Such a romantisization of the Bow. It's a beautiful thing
What an adventure, thank you for sharing. I remember stopping by the Embassy range a couple times per week when I worked in Valletta. First started learning thumb release there with Sean and Michele. It was a happy place, for me. Thank you!
Being able to do what you truly love to do and make a living at it is no mean feat. O medito gozaimashita! I had a teacher of Kendo, Omoto Sensei. Bun bu ichi--pen and sword in accord...he taught me simple caligraphy...i once did a character Ji Hi. He said it means a great big feeling. I always think of how he managed to put that feeling into me, through kendo kata and teaching. So then, you are on the path--Gambate, as they say, and thanks a whole lot for sharing!
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I always wondered how you ended up on Malta...
Interesting story indeed 😁
The feeling when you found out about thumb release was the exact same feeling I got as a kid when I first discovered that there were other ways of shooting, other than pinch grip. 😂
Btw, Im really glad you didnt get fined during lockdown 🙂
keep positive during the lockdowns dude! YouRE welcome back to the USA when you can make it and we can shoot some bows and arrows. I love the story!!
Yes, come to Vienna, I would definitely go to your course there, I am from South Moravia.
Inspiring as usual, from another professor Selby convert, may your future be prosperous and fun...
Inspirational story Armin, thanks for sharing, even though I'd myself enjoy an extended version:)
also, very interesting in hearing about how to run/start with an archery range, thinking of opening one shortly.. come to Vienna, we'll be dangerously close to each other, and maybe you'll visit one day or vice versa. Anyway, many of us started with a horse or Asiatic bows if you like after watching your videos, so I guess it's a good time now to say thank you :) have a good one Armin, wherever you are or going to be, you definitely know what you want from your life, and people like you, travelers, people ready to do something and stop being cry babies I admire. Enjoy!
Interessante Geschichte! Viel Glück für die Zukunft!
Thank you for all you do! Dedication and a huge heart, such a positive influence on so many
Thank you
Hey Armin, great video, thank you for sharing so much knowledge with us, it has been great to have you around in Malta and I hope you stay here for a while longer! :)
I will always come back and visit Malta Archery and my friends
Lots of respect from your Chinese fan❤
good Job and amaizing
Thank you Mr Armin Hirmer for introducing me to horse bows and thumb draw. I always loved archery but you opened another door and as you said a more natural feeling style of archery. I started my thumb draw journey just recently. A few months ago I got the Alibow fiberglass horse bow at 30# and for it not to be the most fancy looking bow I feel like it's a performer. I just wanted to thank you again for introducing me to this awesome style of archery. Cheers from America friend and keep up the great reviews and hard work
Very interesting journey in some ways a parallel of my own experience, compound bow at age 15 started Tai Chi Chuan at the same time then Mediterranean draw and then I discovered the way I had been searching for after I began talking with Lukas Novotny right when he became president of the American mounted archers association and then Lars and Armin and Mihai and here we are ,I can actually call myself an archer something I couldn't do when doing Mediterranean draw because I knew something very important was missing. Now I am whole