Philippines Traditional Archery

Stephen Selby · Post by **Stephen Selby** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 2:38 am

I have come back from a study trip to the Philippines (thanks to preparations by Peter Cua) where I did interviews and filmed traditional archery by the Aetas - one of the native tribes of the Philippines.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiKk-PlD ... NgHgQVoN4=

Stephen Selby · Post by **Stephen Selby** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 2:40 am

Look at this footage as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOlJ0ozj ... re=related

Note the speed-loading. Now we know where the 'Kassai technique' came from.

Justin Ma · Post by **Justin Ma** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 4:17 pm

Stephen Selby wrote:I have come back from a study trip to the Philippines (thanks to preparations by Peter Cua) where I did interviews and filmed traditional archery by the Aetas - one of the native tribes of the Philippines.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiKk-PlD ... NgHgQVoN4=

Great work!

Maybe I'm mistaken, but the archer looks to be using a pinch draw (not a 3-finger draw as per the description at the end of the video).

Pikkuhannu · Post by **Pikkuhannu** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:05 pm

Looks like a pinch draw for me to, not sure.

Why they use so long arrows?
Compared to modern compoundshooters, they cut arrows as short as possible.

Stephen Selby · Post by **Stephen Selby** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:44 am

The long arrows stop the prey from moving far in the undergrowth after they are hit. Most shooting is less than 10 metres.

jiao · Post by **jiao** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:24 am

greet discoverer

and good travel(can you share some pic about your travel?)

Kassai show his archery in many china city in this year, i see Kassai good archery form video and some debate on internet, in Hungary has any book or pics recording this archery in history?

in the undergrowth all animal can not run fast, but they are fast than mans, and tree stop arrows shoot long distance, why they are not use lance? i am rather use lance if no ak47 in china northeast forest, but there are some hunt has ak47 contribute his body to angry Mr. bear and some time we find all they are die, once i come in the forest the guide tell me there are bear in forest and we find fresh bear hand mark on the tree, and we are on mountaintop, in the village i am a hero but got a twist yellow birch tree

i need some time find a pic show Australia aboriginal archery very like chinese ming dynasty military affairs archery, also some archery same , the ming and qing and Indian, maybe we are know it form Africa and in many language we call mather is ma \mama[/img]

Philippines Traditional Archery

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