Absolutely true bro, i have finished the book call "The Way of Zen" by Alan Watts and very impressed by how Zen reflect on many aspect of Japanese culture, especially Kyudo, Kendo and Chado. It is all the way of Nature, so beautiful.

@@hungnguyen-mm6pm Unfortunately, books like 'The Way of Zen' and -- especially -- 'Zen in the Art of Archery' by Eugen Herrigel have lead to a lot of confusion among outsiders to Kyudo and Kendo. As one of my sensei said, "Zen is Zen, and Budo is Budo."

I personally found real Japanese far from what they old traditional culture used to teach. I admire it and I wish I can follow its rules and teaching

@@rickloyd8208 Some Japanese still do, and many non-Japanese now do. If you train in traditional Japanese arts such as the Kyodo seen here, and/or Iaido (one type of swordsmanship), Chado (tea ceremony), etc., there is still a lot of immersion in traditional Japanese customs and traditions.

To handle your own bow and have mental Harmony because like the last gentleman that we're all others miss the target you know you are going to get that adrenaline rush and you need to hold that back and be in that moment so when you release your physical and mental Harmony will send the Arrow home.

me to. I got my first long bow in 1957 and I still have it. Its a lemon wood and its just for show. After watching this style of shooting I think the long bow is more fun. I now shoot the 21st century reflex long bow.

It isn't anything close to a simple bow. The constitution and shape of the bows is different, as is the way to handle them. The arrow as well.

kyudo is more focused on art and self defense, most of it is about the spiritual between you and the bow. western archery is more focused on speed, efficiency, accuracy and adaptability. it is like learning to takedown your prey effectively rather than spiritual thing.

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@@ThatWeirdCat Art & Zen body spirit alignment, sure. But Self Defense? I dunno about that part. Kyudo seems a bit too impractical for self defense, at least at an individual standpoint. Perhaps you could argue that as a group support role in ancient military strategic deployment though.

@@ThatWeirdCat The amount of steps and preparation that each shot requires and the belief that "arrow finds its way to the target if your mind, body and spirit align" isn't feasible for an actual predator/malicious human, since they can move in b/w the time (so arrow wouldn't magically find its way to the opponent) and do all sorts of stuff b/w the preparation stage.

U talk too much

when doing archery, and teaching archery, i tell my students that it's about 90% form consistency, 9% range finding, and 1% aiming. once you have your form down, and you figured out your distance from the target, you just look at the target, and let your body do the rest. if you overthink, you will miss, or hold the bow drawn too long and start to wobble from fatigue. i agree, marksmanship is fun

We love a 360 no scope

As lame as this may sound it is the same with pro-level videogames where at some point to be the best everything in your life has to align, has to all come together, in every way... and then you perform perfectly.

@@TripleTreuViet You do stupid idiot. The four stupid words you were able to produce are too much than his nine lines of analyzed experience.

Good ear.

yuup

I don't know it. Which part of the video?

@@BibtheChibI can hear the drums start well before but the flutes come in at 8:40.

Indeed! It brought a tear to my eye. ;)

Second time watching, I just bought a Hankyu bow moments before watching it again!

it appeared after i saw some female archer fire the bow in an 11 year old video

it popped up after the Breath of the Wild Archery video lol. And imma say im totally amazed by Kyudo! the craft, physics, tradition, mental preparation, everything is fascinating

thats where ur wrong randomly just popped up on my stuff

@@eyescare7134 this video? Episode TWO? Your watch history gotta be SOMETHING for sure.

It is. Pretty common in sports psychology.

"Take a bow" 😂👌🏼🎯👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I was programed to win, thank you

There are good and bad in every culture...

@@eminence_ therefore, bringing that up is irrelevant

"True archery" sure thing...

Most bows will do that even at 40 lb. and a 50 lb will go through a moose if the arrow is heavy enough . Trad bows width heavy arrows are very deadly, not a toy to play with.

@@hildtonmcconnell5626 Holy shit, now I wonder what a warbow with a razor head can do. I've seen something like a 70 pound bow penetrating a deer with the fletchings inside it's body with a stone point.

Just dodge. 😂 He'll have to do that stupid dance all over.

@@HardyMetalliX Damn, you must be a genius, no-one ever thought of that before.

That's... not really true.

I agree, thats why i see a Japanse who convert to islam (which happen lately) or even christianity as a traitor of their heritage and their land.

They do seem to know something the rest of us don't.

They are mostly american now. Like the rest of the world, only a bunch of nihilist consumers.

@@jpsholland islam doesn't change your lifestyle. Having beard is not changing culture. In fact, some Japanese also have long beard. Usually the wise and old people. Plus, islam doesn't have special costume as long as it is polite. And Japanese normal clothes are already polite. Except for the woman. Woman need to Wear hijab. It is for their safety tho. From the pervert male. And in Japan, the perverts are a lot. Just like in every part of the world. But it removes the adultery culture and alcohol consumption and other haram thing. And also the polytheism culture. Which is good, right? No more primitive mythical way of thinking. Modern Japan also like that. They still care about God's stuff but they don't care about it. They prefer science than religion. In other Hand, it is Christianity that ruin the Japanese culture so hard especially with their Western culture. The Christmas, the Easter, etc. The west suit, etc. Edit: Plus, learn history. Islam always spread naturally. It only takes logic to accept Islam. Maybe your children someday will be a Muslim too. There is no force. While Christianity.. It brings destruction. Remember when Japan first met with the west world? USA force Japan to open the country and threat them with cannon ships. Christianity always a terror to the world.

@@DBT1007 you are spouting such bullshit it hurts. Look at how much peace your religion brings and all the sec slavery connected to it. Since when cant women choose what they want to wear ? Weird that it takes some one else to force those rules upon others.

Write it then

a lot of the philosophy can be applied to just about everything. Not just the different forms or archery and martial arts, but even to other sports, work and home.

So true!

oh wait, they did!

Absolutely. Useless, lame, they never really had to struggle during history. Kyudo is not even archery, it is just fooling around.

​@@goprodog4304 I'm sure they had to struggle. After war became a no go, their land have little natural resource so their economy relied mainly on exporting high tech. Not many countries in the world is able to achieve that in its early history. They've dominated the car and phone industry in the 1990-2000's

It’s not all that different from golf form.

Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. Only when a warrior can perform the techniques slowly and perfectly should they attempt to speed up, and eventually commit to combat. The same is true for modern firearms as much as it is ancient archery.

Dumbest comment I've read this week. Congrats!

Smartest comment I've read on this video. Thanks for being woke and not a weeaboo nerd.

I mean... duh. All archers around the world aren't made to face against someone who wields a melee weapon all by themselves, and even if they found themselves in that scenario; I'm pretty darn sure that you are allowed to shoot an arrow quickly when an enemy is already close-by anyway, the martial arts are made for long ranged combat hence why you didn't see them shooting a target right in their face. So contrary to the comment above me; it's not smart nor is it "woke" (who unironically says that in this kind of context), if anything; the main comment is more likely a joke.

How did this show of acrobatics begin? Was it a hobby or a show of discipline ?

It's all based on Chinese culture. And Southeast Asians too love to connect things with mythical thing too. South Asia also. But Chinese always do the elegant thing

The influence of Meiji Reformation era propaganda is still strong

lol too much unnecessary moments

@@krisdang A bunch of foo-foo bu!!sh!t centered around a bow that's a child's toy when compared to say... an English longbow.

an English longbow which is meant to volley far over walls, spamming as many arrows as possible. antithesis to the marksman concept of the perfect hit. Might as well compare a mass-produced shotgun to a precision rifle.

@@krisdang many*

@@drm9397 You are mistaken if you think Kyudo is centered around the bow. It's about the archer. Proper footing, proper stance, proper muscle tension, proper grip, centered raising of the bow (such that you could also fire it from horseback without shifting your weight and accidentally communicating to your horse that it should move), proper release, and proper mental state before and after release.

Throughout history bows and other range munitions were for the most part used en masse. Formations of archers/slingers/etc would go through stages of preparing to fire. Having an 8 stage system like this is not much different from standard formation shooting

"How are the steps applicable in real world, like during battle or the likes?" Latin culture won the war and now Japanese can be rich country full of high tech tools and weponds...

@@matthewjohnson4583 Yes, basically; you don't expect any archers from any country from the past to just have a single archer facing against an entire army. An incredibly skilled musketeer can take up to 30 seconds to reload just for a single shot, let alone an unskilled ones which is what most musketeers in the past are yet they dominated the battlefield despite an incredibly slow firerate compared to any archery really, including the one in the video.

Strengthen the muscles protects the joints. Head to the gym. Don't give up.

left side of the bow, greatly reduces efficiency, and the bow string might hit your hand too

@@2auhsoj2 is it just with that style of bow? European and modern day bows fire on the left side, if it is better to be on the right side why do we not see modern day bows that way?

@@randallgpreston lars Anderson might have the explanation for that, as far as i know, bow that meant for war fires its arrow from right side.

@@2auhsoj2 Lars Anderson is great, but he is an outlier. His studies did rediscovered an old way of holding spare arrows in the left hand to increase firing speed, but his rediscovery is debated against historians. If that is how it used to be across the board then I'm interested in the transition from the right to the left.

@@randallgpreston kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kNSCi8J01s7bkmw.html this might help

Just goes to show that traditional techniques are bullshit. Modern, based on science will always be better. Just watch any competition with modern composite bows, they are crazy accurate.

@@fobusas or, you could use a mix of both.

@@fobusas Composite bows are also crazy high tech, and very consistent. Bamboo bows are irregular, no visual aids or stabilizers. Traditional archery removes the whole technological arms race component, leaving us with purely the human aspect.

@@drownthedays Isn't it the opposite? Regular bow has crazy amounts of luck. Modern tech being far more consistent means it's mostly down to archers skill, not the bow.

@@fobusas Quite the contrary. I wouldn't call it luck, really. With a traditional bow, the archer has to do the job of all the stabilizing tech while also knowing and accounting for any possible quirks of the bow itself. Oh, and aim without any aid as well. As we can see in the clip, it is quite difficult to give the arrow a somewhat straight trajectory, and that it takes a good amount of training and concentration to achieve this.

This brings to mind the L. L. Bean company's former motto, "We sell steak not sizzle." Lotta sizzle here, IMHO.

You are right and this applies to all of life too. It's just that in Kyudo (and Budo in general) this is explicitly taught.