The Archer's Paradox in SLOW MOTION - Smarter Every Day 136
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There's an ASTM standard for measuring spine. ASTM F2031-05
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This is excellent content. Deserves at least, oh, 14 million views.
That thing does not even look like a bow
Science and engineering rock.
IS THIS WHY ON SOME COMPOUND BOWS THE MANUFACTURER SAYS DO NOT SHOOT WOODEN ARROWS OR MAYBE IT IS ALUMINUM ARROWS ?
That man is a legend 🙏
Truly 'mindbending'!
So basically, it's like the movie Wanted, only with arrows, not bullets. The arrow curves around the bow
Love the RHS shirt. Very cool to see.
6:33 moment you know you should not touch his daughter...
Byron: "Lucky me" Smarter Everday: " Whatever man" 🤣😂
I know it’s 5 years old, but in my yard, I’d shoot a rabbit sized target from 10meters. And then from 20. At 10 the target would tumble for a few feet. At 20 the arrow just hits it like it’s any other target, it barely moves. Arrows get faster as they fly yes? This would mean at 10 feet the arrow is going slow enough to hit harder? Think armour piercing rifle ammo vs hollow point pistol, rifle will slow and deform less, leaving a small(er) hole, from the same range as the pistol hollow point. But take that rifle, shoot it from a point where the projectile slows down considerably before hitting the target and the results would be night and day. Incoherent ramble over.
I've always wanted to try archery
ruined the end by the massive link button
WELL WELL WELL, CodE BuLlEt ViEweRs waTcH this so I MIGHT AS WELL!!
please daddy shoot me with the wiggle snake
wow, buddy... such a great video!
But how is this a paradox. It’s just physics
1:58 - b*I*ndable. ... Iowa? -_-
Another trick he uses is that his longbow has a shooting notch in it, I noticed. There will still be significantly more wobble in the arrow than a modern compound bow, but the notch helps compared to a traditional English warbow, which had no notch and therefore would push the arrow to the side more. The wobble of his arrow is present, but not much more than one arrow width. Also, I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that he shoots from a known distance so that he can always hit at the nodal point, similar to knife throwing. All that said, even if the wobble didn't matter in his shots whatsoever (but it does to some degree), his accuracy, precision, and timing are unreal. I.e. on the first two, his accuracy is how close to center he consistently hits and his precision is how small a group he can consistently hit. Most modern pistol, or even rifle, shooters cannot hit a moving target the size of an aspirin at any distance, and plinksters usually spend much more time aiming their shot that he does.
Wtf who tf shoots an arrow with the bow inclined to the right instead of keeping it erect
i cant handle these slomo sounds since i saw the video that showed exactly how fake they are. I appriciate the thought of adding sound and i did like it but it freaks me out now
4:57 Did- Did they just break into his house with a camera and he just went along with it?
I thought he shot the camera lol
Byron is a god and super humble guy.
A man’s man and a great American legend
What if you were shooting an unbending arrow? Like woven carbon fibre or even aluminium? I imagine the arrow would just go left in that case?
while youre at it when shooting target at a distance using trajectory angle (300 movie or gladiator) does it still have enough velocity to penetrate flesh let alone shields in phalanx formation
What an awesome video! Good job 👍👍
6.8k dislikes? I mean, what's there to dislike? Is he too good for some people? Are there people better than this? Is the information wrong? What is it?
I swear I thought that was tommy lee Jones 😂
This is all lies, he’s still a warlock
The arrow is TWERKING
Rubbish.
1:51 I felt that
Suddenly I understand carbon fiber and aluminum arrow
Mr. Byron Ferguson IS "The Man" for longbow shooting !! I've got a couple of his DVDs. Love this little tidbit on arrow spine spec. Makes perfect sense.
the man using bow with sight guide is different from the sheriff because the sheriff uses science to shot the target but the other one is depending in the mechanism to hold the arrow in center with the bow.
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More of 14 million people visit this video!!!!!, it’s crazy man👏👏👏👏👏🤗🇦🇷
Why did i JUST get reccomended this channel ive never watched, and 5 years after it was posted?
lol
Been having trouble shooting my longbow, wanna know if it’s a bad arrow or if the specs of what i got the arrow as are to blame like spine weight and length
Soo to shoot better if it isn’t hitting where one wants it to hit, i’d get perhaps an arrow that goes an inch or two away from the rest when at full draw and a flexible spine of 700 or 800?
The archers paradox doesn't exist. Just as an orbit is a straight line in curved space time - it is merely the cucked compound bow using universe wibbling in fear of the chad long-bowman whilst the arrow flies true. (If you are a child reading this, or a brainlet, please note this is a joke.)
6:30 “WHY IS THERE DARK SOULS BOSS MUSIC” 6:34 *YOU DIED*
What are 'airrows?'
"Correct"
This guy speaks American
Could you adjust the rigidity of an arrow to change the node points' locations along it? Sort of like changing the resonant frequency of an object? The middle section of the arrow may be flopping around, but the node points stay in a consistent X/Y location as they go down the Z plane, no? If you could adjust the node points' locations such that the forward node point was located at the tip of the arrow, could you ignore the wobble entirely because the impact point is at the fulcrum of the wobble? Or is there some reason you couldn't get away with that?
I also have a quiver full of arrows that I dont shoot. The difference is that mine are there because they're either broken or missing fletchings/nocks/tips. Or they're too short. It's more of a time out for arrows, and in theory I plan to fix them someday.
Mindblown!
*Corona virus casually floating in air* Him - go get my arrows
LOL
Lovin’ the Richland Bombers shirt!
i think every dnd player got offended at your use of the word warlock
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Byron is the Larry Bird of archery.
Bow in rdr2 be like: 0:33
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He's a warlock and this is black magic. LoLOL
This was incredible! I loved archery as a kid, and as an adult I studied medieval weaponry. I did not know about the "archer's paradox". I tended to favor stiffer arrows. I didn't know why people liked the wobbly ones. And then when you had the guy shooting us with arrows (or that's how it felt anyways!)...this was a really fun end to an already enjoyable lesson. Liked & subbed! I'm glad NLworld's algorithm suggested it
How did historical archers shoot accurately using not-so-flexible arrows without all these knowledge to get around? I guess our science sometimes get in the way of our inbuilt genius. Just look at all those unused arrows (because they don't fit). Culd u dump them in wartime?
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I know it´s silly but I want to have 1 untrue arrow...
We know who the better archer is.
Khmm khmm but what about shooting on the right side?
the arrow at the end looked like a sausage trying to kill me
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that guy is a super shot .
Byron is a badass
This man makes robin-hood wish he didn’t exist.
Waited the entire video for Corey and Trevor to show up and start busting rhymes with JROC
The area wobbled by the tip of the arrow while traveling is not large enough to miss a target like an aspirin tablet. That is why he was able to hit it.
or you could cut a notch in the bow (every recurve bow ever)
This archery is some sort of black magic. 😂
Where is paradox here?
john wick but an archer
I stopped watching, when I realized the bible stuff in the end. Even if I unsubscribed (obviously), these videos are proposed to me. Why NLworld is not banning hate-preachers?
I don't get it. Explain.
This seems similar to knife throwing (without the base paradox part.) I've always wondered how a knife thrower gets the rotation of the knife correct so that it strikes the target normal to the surface. Both phenomena seem to involve periodic motion combined with linear kinematics.
I don't see why this has to be a problem. Just offset the string..
oh I get it, kinda like how I want to date a girl, but her boyfriend is in the way, so I have to slither around him to get to her.
Can he do a backflip then have the arrow go through a key hole. Then shoot a second one through another key hole. WITHOUT LANDING TILL BOTH ARROWS ARE SHOT.
Straight as an arrow!
2:34 Archer's Paradox
Omg.
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3:51 ah yes, sweet release
Archers paradox only applies to bows with no center shot. Any bow where the fletching clears the riser doesn't need flexible arrows. The stiffer the better! Don't listen to unscientific "traditionalists".
Byron is the man! I watched him shoot a water drop on Stan Lee's super human
10 seconds in and Im already wtf.
nice shot at the camera bet that was one of the out of tolerance arrows ... he enjoyed shooting it i bet too lol perhaps gave him and idea how to sort the out of tolerance ones and what to do with them ... great way to demonstrate the paradox and do trick shots like a super big bend like you did at the camera ... perhaps even shoot your demo arrow and see what paradox can effect and arrows flight you can hit accurately etc ... even the stiff ones use them to show how much the ... aim center target and let arrow land where it will ... then adjust for a similar arrow and adjust the shot to hit the bulzeye ... and show the view down the arrow as well ... all the math he has to do in his head broken down into little parts ... then do it with a normal arrow some trick shot ... like neuter a fly or some such lol
The arrow in super slow-mo at the the end; it looks like a snake in the water as it heads toward the camera
They don't care a bit about broken mirrors and seven years of bad luck.
I find it interesting that even though the arrow is rolling, the wabble stays in the same plane. Why is that Dustin?
I was literally about 3ft from him and his wife while he shot arrows doing trick shots. He joked with me and my buddy. He was very kind and NOT STUCK ON HIMSELF 💥
I think we found katnesses father
I can shoot a grape off a tooth pick at 300 yards with a 22
Is this guy Green Arrow or Hawkeye?
Amasing !
is it me or does smartereveryday have something he doesn't anymore in his old videos, i mean his content is still great but something is more home feeling when you watch these i havn't seen these videos before as well
6:30 the last thing that aspirin tablet saw before death
they also get around it by using center shot bows :P