What kind of archery is this?

[Barneyboy]

(19 March 2013, 11:13)Tartar Horde Wrote:

(19 March 2013, 10:40)Barneyboy Wrote:

(19 March 2013, 10:14)Tartar Horde Wrote: Hollywood pretty much sums it up though, as they are showing a trick shot. Shooting a foot bow does have some historical provenance, but it was never really popular nor part of the Qin/manchu Archery tradition. The chinese made excellent composite bows and crossbows powerfull enough to be shot normally without having to revert to shooting with their feet.

but the arrow storm must of been like that ,imagine faceing that lot

The Arrow storm would be pretty much like that. For instance reports from the battlefield of Agincourt describe the sky being darkened by the thousands of English arrows which fell like rain.
If you take the number of English Longbowmen to be 5000 (numbers range from 5-7k as no definative answer) at agincourt, give them a rate of fire of Eight arrows a minute (this is well within parameters so the number of arrows shot could be a lot higher. The French would have seen 40,000 arrows coming at them every minute, or 700+ every second.
Now the Qin had tens of thousands of both foot and mounted archers so the numbers of arrows would be in the hundreds of thousands coming at you. You would need a big fekin shield for that boys

i think a little bit of poo would come out