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.

@@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.

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.

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.

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

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?

will do vids on manchu qing bows

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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.

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.

That would go wrong so fast

​@@garrettsaulnier2651 nah. Just pull, no arrows

who is Doug?

The bowyer

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!!!

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

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.

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@@fluidityarchives4411 bruh

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.

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.

Or michigan. But then again, whats the difference

Commonwealth architecture.

Are you Toronto?

Bill Kong yes

Actually no it was 1850 pounts.

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.

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

making a crossbow

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.

then hunt a polar bear with it LMFAO

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.

I just brought and am waiting on a 50 lbs longbow hybrid. Kind of regretting such a draw weight.😅

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

Currently doing 170lbs and injured myself

nice let me know when u plan to sell any lighter ones than 240lb

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.

240lb is approximately 110kg

Sounds like communist propaganda but okay

@@bryantenjhay65 … not everything Chinese is communist. But yes people back in the ancient and medieval era do exaggerate

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

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@@HistoricalWeapons kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hZpiqNN2mbHZmYE.html this is what I use for training it's not perfect but I find it helps a lot for the first half of the draw

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