Asian Robin Hood


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Robin Hood is alive and well. Okay, so he got a little pudgy, and looks very Asian, but his archery skill is completely intact. (I think he just busted the Mythbusters!)


If only he used an English longbow instead of a multi thousand dollar composite with every attachment possible bolted on.

Anyway great shot
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"Of course it was hollow. It was a two shot trick, which is why the first was hollow AND bigger"

Right, but the mythbusters were looking at splitting the arrow. They busted it because they couldn't get an exact split. The arrow would always deflect. Using a hollow arrow is cool, but not the same.
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I think it is pretty obvious that it was intended to be a trick shot - a very difficult one, that nevertheless took extraordinary skill. It also doesn't threaten the credibility of Adam, Jamie, and the gang since the point wasn't to split a wooden arrow shaft but really to be a demonstration and impress viewership.

On a side note, archery is serious business in Korea, with the dominance of the Korean archery team (particularly the women's team) at the Olympic games as the most salient example.
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Splitting an arrow with wood shafts is going to be extremely difficult because of the difficulty in getting a shaft with wood grain that is uniformly parallel to the shaft. Modern aluminum or fiberglass tubular shafts would make it much easier, as would bamboo shafts, which are already tubular in nature. Regardless of the shaft construction, though, the nock, which has to be sturdy enough to take the stress of shooting the arrow, would have to split cleanly in order that the second arrow not deflect -- you will note in the video that the arrow in the target has no visible nock; it is not clear whether it was shot without a proper nock so that the hollow center of the shaft remained unobstructed, or whether the nock on the first arrow was removed after it hit the target.
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