I always knew I had the physic of an Olympic athlete!

@greywolfwalking6359

3 жыл бұрын

Me 2! " WORLD CLASS SHAPE! Just like a pear! Lol!

@karlsjostedt8415

3 жыл бұрын

... in a sport with very little competition... Even competitive video gamers benefit from being physically fit, there just is not that much competition in archery to where fitness makes enough of a difference... The bigger and more competitive the sport gets, we will see more and more archers taking fitness seriously.

@kasaghn2

2 жыл бұрын

Physique *

@TheFenrirulfr

2 жыл бұрын

@@karlsjostedt8415 Even top chess players stay in shape.

@Dragon-Slay3r

Жыл бұрын

base gym

Runners chase the prey, archers let the arrow do that bit. ;-)

This is what’s known as Archer’s Paradox.

@Australian_Made

3 жыл бұрын

✌✌✌✌✌✌👍👍👍👍👍👍

@FreakyHimmel

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the archers paradox was how the arrow flung around the bow at launch? Is this just a joke? 😭 I'm sorry man I'm retarded 🗿

@IREFUSE9

12 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

Helps to stabilize against the wind 🌬️😆

I feel attacked 😂. I got back into archery after gaining a heft of weight last year from an accident, but I plan to slim back down ASAP.

@sngs9565

3 жыл бұрын

Hope you are better and well!

@dorachau5900

3 жыл бұрын

Me and you both brother. Even though running is looked down upon (for some reason). I've been running a lot for my weight loss exercises and it's working. Also eating decently but not strictly.

You should check out darts world cup. Great atmosphere, great bellies

@yan3073

3 жыл бұрын

Because they mostly practise dart in bar :p

@tick999

3 жыл бұрын

@@yan3073 bring back pub archery! And the law that every man and boy over 14 should practice 2 hours every Sunday under supervision of the clergy

@electoplater

3 жыл бұрын

@@yan3073 well it is a pub game

Obviously to have a good center of gravity, mass to resist wind drift, and acts as vibration dampener when shaking lmao

@DasCube01

3 жыл бұрын

"it's my dampener fat" 😆

As an elderly overweight(not obese) man, archery is one of the few sports I can indulge in without having to go running every day or go to the gym to keep in shape, I love archery, but I am not keen on strenuous exercise or heavy dieting.

HEAVY QUESTION!!!

I find as I get older the effectiveness of the "Dad Bod" is often under rated. :-)

The king in the show disenchanted said it best "a sport that doesn't involve much moving" or something along those lines

the main point i get from this video is archery is for every type of body, gender, and age.. i'm now late 30 and beginner to archery, mainly traditional archery.. so i can compete with more younger archer and still have chance to compete to qualify for Olympic and be Olympic / World champion!! Archery can be done without gender separation!!

I love how tactfully you handled this question. Props to you on this, handled very professionally.

Very interesting point! I suppose with horseback archery most people are ‘average’ shape cause of the rest of the work we have to do. Shovelling shit for example 😂

@iamrocketray

3 жыл бұрын

lol, that never occured to me. but i bet you grow the best roses in the neighbourhood.

@casper.the.exracer

3 жыл бұрын

@@iamrocketray the rose competition is fierce around here lol the apple orchard looks awesome though!

Spot on. The physical diversity you see in competitive archers is not a product of what is necessary for success, but instead a reflection of the fact that waistline measurements have a negligible impact on archer performance. For any sport, physical build comes down to how success is measured. You'll see a correlation between more "athletic" builds and success being a function of moving the athlete over a distance in the shortest possible time. Moving more mass more quickly requires more power. The more power you're trying to generate, the harder it is to sustain that power for longer. Being successful requires athletes to minimise mass while maximising power output (power to weight ratio) for the required duration of their activity. For example, 100m sprinters tend to have more muscle bulk because they're optimised to generate extremely high power, but only for a very short duration. Long distance runners opt to be lighter so that they can run lower, more sustainable power output for very long durations. In target archery the athlete remains stationary, so power to weight ratio is irrelevant. What matters is the muscles required to draw the bow string, position the bow, and stabilise the body.

@NUSensei

3 жыл бұрын

It's interesting to note that the burst-potential of a sprinter is idolised through media ("the fastest man alive!") and their physique represents the peak of human fitness, while the thinner long-distance runners are sidelined even though they might look unhealthier than the "overweight" athletes in other sports.

@infinity345

3 жыл бұрын

​@@NUSensei Indeed. Perhaps some of that can be attributed to media's inherent love of sensationalism. Really we should be qualifying that as "Fastest man alive (over 100m)!" I'm sure there's someone faster than the Olympic gold medallist over 1m. ;) It's also worth wondering whether the sprinter physique is idolised in that way because it's visibly fast, or because it conveniently aligns with the media's concept of a perfect physique?

@garymickus6412

3 жыл бұрын

@@NUSensei one of the most interesting discussions on your channel.

@seeloknyasebaiknya3392

3 жыл бұрын

@@infinity345 should pinned this comment..

"Not going to call anyone out" then proceeds to do a photo montage haha. The invention of archery "Id like to stab that guy, but he is way over there" .... comes to mind.

The beauty about Pleasantly Plumb Bowmen is that ...In world competitions, your body size, has no affect on your ability to use a stick and string , hitting a target....Anyone can learn and do it....doesn't matter if your 200 or 300 lbs or 4' - 7 ' tall or 15yrs - 90 yrs old... Everyone is an Olympian.

I think you are my favorite youtuber, you're a very cool person Nusensei

Just discovered your videos and so excited you are still making them! Thanks so much for the wonderful content & humour. I have just started archery & have learned so much, Cheers from rural NSW

yes i am an archer and i am overweight beware we r like bears i mean teddy bear and girls like to hugs us!

NU sensei I would like to say thank you when I first started into archery even though I am a compound bow hunter Archer I studied your videos almost religiously to learn as much as I could and I learned so much from you and I'm still learning so much from you thank you thank you thank you and please continue to do what you are doing.

For me it's because I tend to get hungry after a day at the range and stop for fast food on the way home :-) Negates all the calories I burn retrieving arrows ....

@AVOinc

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, a nice coffee and sweet treat. Especially if the last end was disappointment. 😁

Because we are not allowed to run to retrieve our arrows? Safety rule #3.

@Australian_Made

3 жыл бұрын

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Archery builds back muscles, it doesn't provide weight loss etc

To look ripped while being an archer, ya gotta lift or run on the side, basically, it's more of a personal effort than a requirement! :D! I, too, wanna be fitter than now to not show my belly when shooting!

@karlsjostedt8415

3 жыл бұрын

Not a requirement, but overall fitness will help you be a better archer. If there was more top competition then we would see all the competitive archers be in shape. They would be looking for every tiny edge they could get because the competition would be so closely matched between a huge number of competitors...

@domovoibutler42

3 жыл бұрын

@@karlsjostedt8415 I'm more than certain those who compete at the Olympic are fit! Even those fat looking archers from Korea! Training in the Olympic centers would require a certain level of fitness to be met as a daily routine as well. Also those Korean archers have very stable and low heart rates when shooting, that means they trained very well. It is not a requirement to be abs tight fit, that's personal effort. These guys with bellies are more fit than you think with more than enough muscle strength and mental calmness!

We like to think of it as compound counterbalance.

Hey Nusensi I'm a new player to war thunder and your old tank guides help me a lot to understand each tank thank you! 😄

So what you're saying is I have the body of an Olympic Athlete?, thanks I needed a confidence boost for today 😀🤗

Walking 180m every end works the leg muscles. Then theres the extra walking around the field looking for other peoples missed arrows.

This is one thing I love about archery there is no ideal physique or age etc, anyone can be good at it. My club for example has such a range of people. Men, women, children, teenagers, thin, large, in a wheelchair, quite old, experienced, newbies (me!) and most of them are pretty darn good!

It's kind of funny because in almost all cinema, archers are portrayed as some reserved, skinny, stoic who want to be left alone but a lot of them are really the opposite and passionate about their hobby.

cus modern archery is a traditional sport, try mounted archery and you'll be more fit

I'm closer to Mete Gazoz, in terms of shape. I hope it's like having longer stabilizers, instead of adding more weight.

Forgive me for giggling through this entire video. 🤭

New Olympic event. Cross country running , climbing with archery shooting interspersed 😂

@NUSensei

3 жыл бұрын

Run archery is already a thing, but of course without the climbing part.

Brady Ellison lost some noticeable weight recently

@lordcarnorjax8599

3 жыл бұрын

Brady's got thyroid issues which is what led to the weight gain and weight management is more difficult for people with thyroid problems.

Except a bunch of the female archers are freaking gorgeous...

@jessicaholden3019

3 жыл бұрын

Fat and gorgeous aren't contradictory.

@dick-gs9tb

3 жыл бұрын

@@jessicaholden3019 Yes they are. Cope all you want.

@elrobbo6

3 жыл бұрын

@@jessicaholden3019 lol, did you look at the female archers?

@Kruziik

3 жыл бұрын

@@jessicaholden3019 I don't think being overweight and unhealthy is "gorgeous", and it shouldn't be glamorized

@casperaaron5530

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kruziik you… you do know you can be overweight and be healthy?

Pretty simple explanation. Archery is not physically demanding sport. It doesn't require stamina or a large amount of strength. However if you look at bow-hunters, many of them are in athletic shape. Getting close to an animal takes a lot of rigorous footwork while hauling extra weight. Not only that heavier draw weight is prioritized over super precise accuracy. The isolated act of archery is not a physically demanding activity.

@vksasdgaming9472

2 жыл бұрын

It is physically demanding sport, but in different manner.

It will absolutely help to be in peak physical and mental fitness when doing archery... There just is not enough elite competition for that to be the standard... Even chess and video game players benefit from being physically fit and we see those trends in the competitive scenes... Archery will get there if there is ever enough elite competition...

@NUSensei

3 жыл бұрын

It's interesting that you put up the hypothetical increase in competitiveness being a driver for fitness. In S. Korea, where archery is an elite competitive sport, we still see the top archers (Kim Woojin, Oh Jin Hyek) being big-bodied despite their professional status and daily training routine, which makes top archers from other countries look like high school kids. The focus on archery training simply isn't in overall fitness.

Because your opponent won't get to admire your gains when they have an arrow between their eyes from a few hundred yards unless you're pulling off the archery equivalent of Gun fu in the front lines or are trying to be a Legolas

Mete Gazoz :)) An Olimpic Champ :) he is preety slim like u said

I guess it is safe to say then, that an archer is part of a sedentary sport... however, a " bow hunter", is an active participant..ergo..tends to be in the " idea of".. fit n trim look category? Be a bow hunter/fisher... be trim n fit??? Lol!

@F14Goose37

3 жыл бұрын

Well, Western bow hunting anyways. Sitting in a tree stand near a feed lot is not really that active.

@greywolfwalking6359

3 жыл бұрын

@@F14Goose37 Indeed, that is why I prefer the " traditional, ' stalk n shoot' method".. up close n personal...! On the move all of the time. N I don't wait 1/2 the day once I harvest, I recover n drag/ carry my ( harvest ) out to process immediately! In the south, heat, is a bad thing with your harvest!

@F14Goose37

3 жыл бұрын

@@greywolfwalking6359 I can relate. Heat is a real concern here in Arizona too. Especially during the August/September early archery deer season, or all the elk rut hunts (although most of the elk areas are littered with roads, so getting your truck relaticely close to your kill is pretty easy usually).

@greywolfwalking6359

2 жыл бұрын

@@F14Goose37 yes,agreed! I lived near Cloudcroft ,New Mexico, for 5 years..(in the Weed/Timberon vicinity)....the terrain alone ,will keep you on your toes!

Can't... comment...mnmnmm... eating.

For lunch today, I ate two donuts followed by four slices of pizza, AND I WASN'T EVEN HUNGRY

Snarky comments notwithstanding (many of which I enjoyed) I think the better question is why so many archers are deconditioned. My archery improved dramatically and I greatly reduced muscle aches after I started a regular conditioning program. I prefer 3D as opposed to static archery. In addition to 30 minutes of archery 5 days a week, I walk at least a mile each day and practice another 30 minutes of beginner yoga postures. If I can do this at 71, all archers should be able to add some reasonable conditioning program to their practice. The vast majority of us will never have Ms. Loring’s physique, we will all enjoy archery more and improve with conditioning.

In the UK ELB/field shoots are usually a sport for older men and are always accompanied with real ale and pies so that answers that.

it is pretty easy : archery is a standing, relaxing, literally not moving sport or martial art. You are using only verz few muscles, and it wont burn literally any extra fat, no matter how heavy is your bow. You burn more fat to going and picking up your arrows from the target than from a 2 hour shooting session. However if you are a horseback archer you will become lesser fat, it burns some fat to trying to stay on a horse while shooting.

Great video! Well explained!

It’s to keep themselves steady in the wind when they shoot.

Good work brother 👍 love from India

Archers are fat because it provides counter balance during the draw of bow, much like how they have two stabilizers stuck of out the bow on both sides.

Skeet shooters are often heavy too.

I tried to draw the bow like the guy in the video behind my head...now my head is stuck ....i knew i shouldve went with a setup with a longer brace height

Young female archers: *surprised Pikachu face*

They are fat, because archery is about enjoying the good life. This includes good food.

Why were archers replaced by muskets in combat?

@NUSensei

3 жыл бұрын

Scale. It was easier to make many muskets at an industrial level and train unskilled people to use them in a shorter amount of time. Bows and arrows were an artisan-level weapon that took time to make, and took longer for its users to master. It was cheaper and easier for someone armed with musket to do what an archer could.

@qaz120120

2 жыл бұрын

@@NUSensei Thank you. Another related question: Why did not all infantry in the medieval period carry a bow? A small simple bow and a couple of arrows just to shoot at the enemy direction while not in melee.

Sumo archery

I was confused a little bit when i read the title because I didn’t thought of that before 😅 but nice video 👍🏻

i'm thinking about trying archery, and i am indeed fat

Fat archers have built-in stabilizer and absorbs recoil

Shooting 9-Ball is a SPORT too!

I know people that deny that weightlifting and cardio helps with archery which is just dumb. Some people will invent any excuse not to exercise

@F14Goose37

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I can say that right now I am in the worst shape I have been since I picked up a bow and I notice. I sit all day and learn because I am in a training program at my job and have been for almost a year now. I stopped running before work, eat like crap and gained 20lbs during that time. I am a better archer today than I was a year ago, but that comes down to practice and learning. I definitely feel off more often now than I used to, my heart rate gets elevated more easily, which I notice when I shoot, and muscle fatigue seems to set in more noticeably than it used to even though I still shoot 60-100 arrows a day. Being in shape definitely helps, and I need to get back there before December when I have my next backpack hunt.

If compound archers could drive up to the shooting line to shoot, they would.

Great! My Olympic dreams are still alive then! 🤭

Archers aren't athletic but the act of archery itself is athletic? That's what I'm hearing.

Because we don’t have to chase our food.

It took me years to perfect this belly

archers are slim compared to ten pin bowlers and power lifters

rest the lower bow on the tummy for stabilising

Maybe we should bring back combat archery.

we dont run ,we dont have to walk far , and i love a beer after all that hard work

My posterior kinetic chain rocks, anterior not so much. I imagine many archers are the same.

Funny question but real

Fantastic Topic

I took this question personally 🤣

Don't take his word 100% the archer dose need a bit of arm too hold the bow up and steady in a match with the bow holding hand as well as have good finger strength in the string pulling hand or it will hurt a bit to shoot a bow with both body parts over time. Also the eye coordination needed to train the eyes for aiming has got to be there for the top level of archers. The other thing you need is the ability to do the same motion with parts of the body over and over that is like hand coordination not needing to be connected to the eyes. These things come with time but there is not a need unlike other sports like sprinting or the two types of throwing bodies like the Javelin/Discus slimmer muscles and the Hammer/Shotput, the rugby or USA/Canadian football none of that is really needed not even a hockey ice or field goalie shape is needed. Oh sure you might find a few in archery the guy who has a better body but really only other sport in Summer Olympics that is more like this is the rifle and handgun target stuff and they can be less in shape then the archery people, winter Olympics has the sport of Curling and they tend to look not in shape unlike most other sports including the skeleton and luge where they have been seen with a not so slim body but have strong muscled arms and legs.

@blackspeed69007

3 жыл бұрын

Archers don't NEED more fitness than required to lift and carry your groceries to your car ... THe opposing forces when at full draw make the bow set up almost weightless, and the pressure on the finger is only for few seconds...

@caseysmith544

3 жыл бұрын

@@blackspeed69007 Yes but to do it time and time again, that builds up for a tournament with this muscle use.

It's definitely skill and talent. And it does require an amount of physical control. NOT STREGNTH But when you observe most archery competitions, they're mostly stationary. And they are not required to move to point A to B. Now, warrior archers are moving. Archers who hunt, are moving.

Target archery.... I'm sure moving archers are not generally fat

Love this

Beer gut counts as a second anchor point advantage.

Archers can shoot their own food, so they are not starving.

Weightlifters also often look fat, not like Arnold Schwarzenegger esque bodybuilders. Visually looking fat doesnt mean you aren't super strong and athletic

the belly lowers the center of mass and does indeed improve stability, particularly in windy conditions. its been modeled.

Stop calling me fat. I am big boned.

This made me think of Frangilli 😅

If you put 2-3 hours per day to shooting, you don't have enough time to do other activity.

Probably because they only are standing in one spot… you could literally have no legs and be good at archery

let me say this. Mete Gazoz.

yes

I don't know how to feel about all the euphemisms used in this video ("round", "massive") - they kind of make it worse I feel.

@NUSensei

3 жыл бұрын

Don't let it weigh on you.

@Australian_Made

3 жыл бұрын

@@NUSensei lololololololololololol

They don't exercise enough. It is amazing how much talking you can do about the simplest topics. It is a gift.

Fantastic Question

I have thought the same question from time to time, hehe. Funny side note, I grew up with my best friend being one out of five Korean boys (I'm half Korean) and the third middle brother was by far heavier than his siblings and had a build similar to Kim Woo-Jin. All five brothers played sports and were competitive but I have to say that the third heaviest/fat brother was the best athlete and most talented when he applied himself. His hand eye coordination was noticeably superior to his brothers. So, maybe there is something to being heavier and excelling at certain sports.

large darts is what bow and arrow

The real question is why Archers drive backwards lol

Hello NUSensei, What do you think about Sanlida X10 target recurve bow? Would you recommend this price range? Thank you.

@NUSensei

3 жыл бұрын

I've got one, but haven't set it up to shoot due to the pandemic. It's a top level bow, no doubt, and well worth the price.

Good

3-D-archers tend to be rather slim...

Because we like bacon butties 😂

Archers would make good kite buggy racers then lol. More mass means you can hold down a more powerful kite 🤔😏