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Offline Youngboyer2(billyf)

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Re: War of the Arrows
« Reply #15 on: January 02, 2013, 07:27:20 pm »
I thought it was a great flim, what was the point of the short arrow with the bamboo guide? Faster arrow flight?
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: War of the Arrows
« Reply #16 on: January 03, 2013, 05:28:46 pm »
Faster arrow flight was the secondary consideration.  First consideration was to look cool doing it. 
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: War of the Arrows
« Reply #17 on: January 06, 2013, 03:56:36 pm »
Quote from: Youngboyer2 on January 02, 2013, 07:27:20 pm
I thought it was a great flim, what was the point of the short arrow with the bamboo guide? Faster arrow flight?
-Billy

That thing is called a Korean overdraw. It is a wicked simple innovation imo. About the movie, I was sorely disappointed with the rubbish excuses for Manchurian bows. They looked like toys, which I thought was a pretty sad representation of a bow that was used to conquer all of china.  ::) Although I guess it is to be expected in a movie made in Korea. Curiously, the Korean bows were very nice in contrast, lol. 
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 the upper part is pressed down,
 the lower part is raised up,
 the part that has too much is reduced,
 the part that has too little is increased."

- Tao Te Ching, 77, A new translation by Victor H. Mair
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