As a frenchman, this video makes me a little bit uneasy.
@ethanquirk2810 жыл бұрын
Hehehe, here's to the longest time of peace the French and English have ever experienced with each other! :D
@Nightstalker181310 жыл бұрын
You could try surrendering?
@ethanquirk2810 жыл бұрын
Nightstalker1813 who are you again??
@joshuaberkau10 жыл бұрын
Nightstalker1813 awesome!
@Cephas9 жыл бұрын
GregTom2 That's OK, since you kicked their asses in the Hundred Years' War.
@tn00bz8 жыл бұрын
"a tree, or a french men, or the ground..." hahahaha
@HeadlessChickken8 жыл бұрын
+Taylor Newberry :) Yeah, I love it too when he keeps saying that "or a frenchman" LoL
@riccardomoscatello20308 жыл бұрын
+Taylor Newberry I'd love to hear his take on the battle of Agincourt xD
@MJuegaES8 жыл бұрын
+Toshi Buntaro He is an englishman.
@brk9328 жыл бұрын
... oh God imagine English cusine without the French influence ...
@diceman1997 жыл бұрын
A popular misconception.....we have some pretty good foods without french tendencies
@somedudelol10 жыл бұрын
I enjoy how you just casually say things like "slams into a Frenchman"
@Elgar3372 жыл бұрын
I laughed out loud at that one and came down to the comments to share the laugh.
@LabashtheMighty10 жыл бұрын
Breaking news: Frenchmen are now grouped along with inanimate objects.
@Poldovico10 жыл бұрын
Also, they should be shot with medieval longbows whenever possible.
@JesseP.Watson9 жыл бұрын
Poldovico Apparently, if you're stood on York's city walls and you see a Scottish man walking towards them you are still legally allowed to shoot him. I am not sure how well that would be received but apparently the law stands. Not sure about Frenchmen though. Arg... think they've had enough of shooting this week :(.
@Poldovico9 жыл бұрын
Watson's Mine Too soon mate.
@JesseP.Watson9 жыл бұрын
Mmm. Indeed.
@la537eme9 жыл бұрын
Watson's Mine Tou can't kill the scottish if he doesn't have a bow and arrows.
@vedritmathias91938 жыл бұрын
"into a Frenchman" "into a Frenchman" "into a Frenchman" "Frenchmen" I'm noticing a trend. Favorite target? "Frenchman"
@internetalias16138 жыл бұрын
+Vedrit Mathias Isn't that everyone's favourite target?
@chrisd20518 жыл бұрын
It's low hanging fruit but it's such a good meal.
@usukatlifegodiekthx10 жыл бұрын
God i could listen to this guy explain shit all day.
@FlinckShinesOn10 жыл бұрын
Isn't his voice perfect for it though? :)
@tezwoacz8 жыл бұрын
There was also a pommel head arrow used if u want to end the frenchmen rightly
@KingEhrys988 жыл бұрын
;)
@dirkhirbanger41538 жыл бұрын
+Alex K but you had to screw vigorously before you could end him rightly
@tezwoacz8 жыл бұрын
stephan cooper u can get free pommels from trees and dead frenchmen
@HaniiPuppy8 жыл бұрын
+Alex K Is that not essentially what the square arrow-head was? A flying pommel on a stick?
@poiuytrewq114227 жыл бұрын
HaniiPuppy It is not a true pommel unless unscrewed from a sword and screwed to the arrow.
@DanielLCarrier10 жыл бұрын
I wonder if anyone just stuck a bunch of arrows in their armor so everyone would just assume they're arrow-proof.
@ethanquirk2810 жыл бұрын
That is....... The best....... Idea I have ever heard, you sir are a military genius :D
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman5 жыл бұрын
Probably a *Frenchman...* 😁😁😁😁
@ninny658 жыл бұрын
36 French men disliked this video
@Mev-ni2mi8 жыл бұрын
Or 18 French men and 18 trees.
@MrGOLDENCUPCAKE18 жыл бұрын
what makes you say that
@ninny658 жыл бұрын
He's not an idiot
@MrGOLDENCUPCAKE18 жыл бұрын
ninny65 do you mean he's not an idiot so he wouldn't vote brexit or the other way round
@ninny658 жыл бұрын
a macdonald Judging by the types of videos he makes and by his personality, what do you think
@ParkerDai8 жыл бұрын
"its very big, massive and hard" Lindybeige
@thechaos448 жыл бұрын
"Look at the difference in the thickness of the shaft...."
@GooglyEyedJoe6 жыл бұрын
"When eventually it slams into a Frenchman, you want the mass of all that wood pushing in to the Frenchman"
@danieljhalab67753 жыл бұрын
"one is considerably thicker that the other....."
@TheNejD8 жыл бұрын
I mean if your not hitting a french man with your arrow it's kinda a waste of am arrow.
@simen1577 жыл бұрын
I´d argue that hitting a frenchman with your arrow is a waste of an arrow and i´d really feel bad for that arrow for having to touch a man of the white flag.
@longbows6 жыл бұрын
lol
@garethturner6416 жыл бұрын
TheNejD your not English if you don’t like the French and your not French if you don’t like the English
@longbows6 жыл бұрын
Lol
@Thelnquisitor6 жыл бұрын
What else are arrows for? I’m confused.
@kirk_76328 жыл бұрын
"the head will stay in the ground, or the tree, or the frenchman."
@ZanOGAL8 жыл бұрын
he has something against frenchmen....do note men....everyone loves the girls
@Eezapropageeza8 жыл бұрын
+Random Stranger It was because the Longbow was primarily used against the French noble armies. The French were primary targets for the Longbow. It was made with them in mind. And it was extremely effective when a few thousand arrows were fired into 25 square metre kill zones during each individual volley - which usually tended to be where some of the Frenchmen were. So, he was just making a historical pun. The English of today have very little against the French, if anything at all.
@vapreppernewb49948 жыл бұрын
+FartingFoulFarts this noise:- Probably because they're becoming so much like the French :(
@Eezapropageeza8 жыл бұрын
Lol ! I suppose so. But, English folk have always had leftist collective masses employed by imperial-politico conglomerate type folk. So big picture Britain is still a financial influencial powerhouse, within which are a collective "we are the people" who are seeking and maybe given jobs and activities to further the interests of economy, whatever that means. It changes through time in the minds of many as they are often dependent on statements found in the press in order for them to imagine to know what "things" are. Lol! So in a way they are the same as always, I reckon. Though, there is a creeping to the left which seems invisible to those encapsulated and dwelling there. Which is weird.
@johnpotter47503 жыл бұрын
Usually in French Backsides as they Formate > > >
@BeepingMetal9 жыл бұрын
When I visited Warwick castle (about 10 years ago), there was a 'traditional' fletcher on-site, selling to tourists. He explained to me that beeswax was used on the actual arrow tips, because those pesky Frenchmen started using more-strikingly curved plate armour, which caused traditional arrows to glance off, as well as ruining all that hard work put into arrows designed to punch through mail. The wax would force the arrow to stick, and although force was lost due to the wax absorbing a portion of it, the remaining force was directed straight through the arrow tip, for maximum impact. It was basically a trick designed to attack French knights cheaply, without specialised arrows. Just thought that was interesting.
@BeepingMetal9 жыл бұрын
The Stoned Videogame Nerd Hey I genuinely didn't think that a simple concept like that would still be applied to a more modern warfare... thanks for sharing! And it does mean that the base idea can practically work.
@cadenrobl4739 жыл бұрын
The Stoned Videogame Nerd actually the germans are the ones with surface hardened armour, the Russians used rolled homogeneous armour
@cadenrobl4739 жыл бұрын
The Stoned Videogame Nerd capped shells are actually british, dual cap shells have a cap made of thin metal to increase aerodynamics and a lead cap to flatten, this makes them great against sloped armour but against hard flat armour they are fairly useless, that is why russians commenly used apcr because most german designs are flat with no sloping, however HEAT and APDS are more effective but more expensive alternatives to both capped shells and apcr shells
@cadenrobl4739 жыл бұрын
The Stoned Videogame Nerd the germans had 2 types of heat, one that wasn't as hot and had more copper for more damge and one with less copper and more heat for Penetration, and for longer barreled guns they used less powder, and HEAT and APDS were not very effective until the Vietnam Era, for ww2 capped shells and APCR were much more effective in WW2 but not after the technology was perfected
@cadenrobl4739 жыл бұрын
***** I'm aware that most carried more high explosive but in late war the perfered round for shooting the front of tigers and such was apcr
@StAlchemyst9 жыл бұрын
Is that where the expression "getting the shaft" comes from?
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman5 жыл бұрын
Apparently the *French* use that expression the most...😝
@pauln69178 жыл бұрын
So you can't return it.......... and you got the shaft? Sounds like Comcast customer service.
@daveybernard10565 жыл бұрын
People will think yur kidding. He's not
@NightmaRReify10 жыл бұрын
"Or the frenchmen" Made me laugh :)
@XronisFountoukidis10 жыл бұрын
He realy loves frenchmen...
@filmfreak98810 жыл бұрын
I think this is the consequence of studying the Middle Ages from an English perspective.
@XronisFountoukidis10 жыл бұрын
Yup seems so :)
@ossaoskakso9 жыл бұрын
No' it's just joke :) Very funny indeed :)
@MadMargaretGaming9 жыл бұрын
Or it could be to do with Crecy and Agincourt where archers killed many a frenchman
@jackpaice8 жыл бұрын
You should watch "the archer's paradox" by smarter everyday. he addresses this oscillation of the arrow.
@owenmitchell81128 жыл бұрын
+
@ashtreylil17 жыл бұрын
funny considering both profile pics
@davidswanson96067 жыл бұрын
Was about to write the same video recommendation but looks like there's no need.
@CarcerH9 жыл бұрын
I've just recently started watching your videos (being led here by Varg Vikerness of all people), and I must say this is the most perfect balance of hard science and your own interpretation of the data that I've yet seen. People like you are what makes this cat video sharing medium great! Many salutes.
@The1Helleri10 жыл бұрын
But...once we bag a Frenchman how do we go about field dressing it?
@rozniyusof28599 жыл бұрын
Haute couteur, of course. With frills and ribbons.
@Thutil9 жыл бұрын
"Could their purpose have been to harbour germs in the grooves..." Not before the Germ Theory of Disease.
@BeepingMetal9 жыл бұрын
And yet, one does not have to understand biology to know that one needs to water crops for them to grow.
@REVAN23389 жыл бұрын
BeepingMetal or dead cows over the walls made for no fun.
@Thutil9 жыл бұрын
***** If fire was completely undetectable, then yes. You can have an empirical understanding of something, but you need to know it exists first.
@coledragoth21739 жыл бұрын
Thutil They cauterized wounds knowing that it had to be done for some reason. I they knew it was mainly to stop the bleeding; however, they did know that infection set in if they didn't do it also. Hence why they would chop of limbs and such to prevent spreading.
@MrAwawe8 жыл бұрын
+Thutil something that kills you is not undetectable. the whole reason fire became so popular is because people noticed that eating raw food made you sick. If people truly had no idea what made them sick there would be allot more shit eating throughout history.
@ThatNateGuy9 жыл бұрын
Haha, "points about arrows".
@Hafnooz9 жыл бұрын
Type 16....Shit, the Chinese have been making those too ? :(
@HippoBean9 жыл бұрын
Maximus Alexis Chinese factories - For all your frenchmen impaling needs.
@daddyleon10 жыл бұрын
lol! "...and it lands in a tree, or a Frenchmen, or the ground.."
@daddyleon10 жыл бұрын
***** I think everybody does... unless they don't understand English... like the French.
@NihonNiv10 жыл бұрын
daddyleon I'm a Frenchman and I approve of this message. :D
@daddyleon10 жыл бұрын
NihonNiv xD
@EhAmes9410 жыл бұрын
***** Enjoyed? Aw why you be hatin? xD
@tatayoyo33710 жыл бұрын
anyway we win guyanne (aquitaine) and normandy :p, so i understand the hate ^^
@lindybeige11 жыл бұрын
Forwards-curving sharpened crescents were used, certainly. There were many weird and wonderful heads, many of which we do not know the use of. A double prong, like a fork would not penetrate well, would be difficult to balance well, and I can see little use for in war.
@chrismusix56697 жыл бұрын
"Sire - what arrow doth ye wish me provide thee?" "Type 16 will suffice good chap."
@iamcleaver68549 жыл бұрын
Why is your temperature in Fahrenheit? Don't we Europeans use Celsius everywhere???
@WhatIsSanity9 жыл бұрын
+Iam Cleaver The U.K. implemented metric then gave up went back to imperial.
@iamcleaver68549 жыл бұрын
Luke DS WHEN???????
@WhatIsSanity9 жыл бұрын
Iam Cleaver I don't know exact dates but it was a couple of decades ago give or take a few years.
@iamcleaver68549 жыл бұрын
Luke DS When I lived in UK, 4 years ago. They used Celsius. Why the hell would you ever use Fahrenheit?
@WhatIsSanity9 жыл бұрын
Iam Cleaver Some people in the U.K. use metric and most use the English imperial system.
@psychedalek7 жыл бұрын
i paused this video and got up twice because i thought i heard knocking -_- 0:56 1:44
@arthurgordon60724 жыл бұрын
Me too!
@nikofinman10 жыл бұрын
a point about arrows: they are usually pointy. boom.
@Fidgety_fugu10 жыл бұрын
Wait, WHAT?!
@lughfiregod1610 жыл бұрын
SHIT! I think I'm going to need a whole new set of arrows...
@OvAppolyon10 жыл бұрын
Jane Murphy There are such things as blunt arrows. They are called Birding Arrows.
@lughfiregod1610 жыл бұрын
OvAppolyon I know that... I was going along with the joke. :\
@SunVKing8 жыл бұрын
archer's paradox is the reason why stiffer arrows would be very inaccurate, so the saved energy would be delivered to a tree and not a frenchman.
@michaelrobl3531 Жыл бұрын
The comment is six years old, but I think commenting is worth it. It isn’t neccessarily inaccurate, you just have to put on big enough fletching and the arrow will hit the target (when the fletching is intact and not wet for example). but this forced stabilisation costs a lot of energy, since the fletching is always straightening the arrows course and so slowing it down. So the correct spine of the arrow (bendiness of the arrow) for the bow-archer-drawlenght is the most efficient option. You can play with heavier tips and stiffer arrows or lighter tips and weaker arrows to get either more force and stability or more speed, straighter flight curve but less stable arrow. An arrow with the perfect spine shot with flawless technique will fly dead straight without fletching and therefore minimal energy-loss. It would be still bending archers-paradoxish while flying though.
@SunVKing Жыл бұрын
@@michaelrobl3531 I think what I meant 6 years ago is the fact that you cannot get rid of the archer's paradox, therefore it should not be seen as a inefficiency, but rather a property of the arrow. Lindy towards the end goes on a rant about how some energy is wasted because the arrow leaves the bow bent, but I didn't think it's really possible to achieve for the arrow to leave "straight" instead of "bent" or that it would make much of a difference either way :) Anyways thanks for commenting because I watched the video and it was still as informative as 6 years ago, good old lindybeige!
@MysticKnight3810 жыл бұрын
that "inefficiency" is the cause of the archer's paradox
@Visigoth_9 жыл бұрын
Lindybeige 6:20 the archer's paradox.
@nmmeswey35849 жыл бұрын
Nathan Stoddard Smarter every day?
@evilplaguedoctor51589 жыл бұрын
Roque Moreno That's what I was thinking :)
@hexadecimil9 жыл бұрын
yep, Lindy, your one of the smartest guys on KZbin, and I have all respect for you bro, but a bow (especially a long bow or other primitive bow) just would not work at all without that bending your observing. this is the archer's paradox. I'd like to see your video on the topic.
@Visigoth_9 жыл бұрын
hexadecimil sorry but that's not true, a bow can work just fine without the "archer's paradox" almost all modern "Compound bows" do. even "a long bow or other primitive bow" could still be accurate without using "the paradox" it would just be weird to aim 0_0
@evilplaguedoctor51589 жыл бұрын
Nathan Stoddard compound bows can becouse they shoot 'through' the bow, longbows can't. it's the only way it can get around the bow in a straight line.
@lindybeige11 жыл бұрын
The notion is to upload two videos a week for a year. We'll see how long this resolution lasts...
@SkySweeperSyn9 жыл бұрын
HAhahahaha "A tree, a frenchmen, or the ground." Love that bit...
@OrmTostesson8 жыл бұрын
You are right about the arrows flexing and leaving the string bent. I trained archery with an english longbow, and besides choosing your poundage and length and whatnot, you also can choose which wood your arrows are made out of. Softer woods tend to curve around the bow more, so if your rest is on the left side, the arrows would prefer to go to the right. And vice versa with the harder woods.
@Drake8442219 жыл бұрын
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. F=ma can be really brutal.
@Fogyt1219 жыл бұрын
+Michael Morris Well, a part of the brutality is linked to E=1/2mv^2.
@stalker19838 жыл бұрын
+Happy Koala Welll I suppose the F=MA is the start of the brutality, but the "frenchmen" only sees the E=1/2mv^2 part of it
@Fogyt1218 жыл бұрын
Everythingguy The frenchmen feels the E=1/2mv^2 and P=mv. Arrows, though have a lot more P than E, unlike bullets. Why did I say that previous sentence, I have no idea.
@TheRyujinLP8 жыл бұрын
+Savage Porkchop Kinda, at he velocity regime most arrows travel at, momentum and hardness of the head tend to be more important. High velocity rounds effectiveness is more linked to kinetic energy (well, velocity actually) since the closer an impactor hits to the materials it's impacting's speed of sound, the less the materials hardness, toughness and strength matters and it starts becoming a matter of impactors length and it's density relative to the impacted materials.
@drewmandan8 жыл бұрын
+Savage Porkchop F=ma, P=mv, and E=(1/2)mv^2 are all the same equation just thought from different differential perspectives.
@stephentroyer38319 жыл бұрын
"A tree, or a Frenchman, or the ground" I keep cracking up when he mentions Frenchmen. More so than I should.
@101jir9 жыл бұрын
"Type 16" sounds like a naming convention out of WW2 LOL.
@Gingrnut10 жыл бұрын
Yano, I always wondered how such small light shafts that I've seen in medieval movies and TV would ever have killed people as well as they seemed to when they seemed so fragile. But that war arrow. That thing is fucking massive, and I can easily see that puncturing flesh when fired from a proper war bow. Thanks hollywood.
@scottfain36299 жыл бұрын
bending of arrow is called "archers paradox" & the fishtailing continues for considerable distance...Arrow has to "bend around" the riser of the bow & took a while to straighten out in flight...this is one reason for the modern, "center shot" type of arrow rest/riser, where the arrow rest is recessed as near as possible to the centerline of the bow....far less of the fishtailing action from a center shot bow.
@mikegrossberg86246 жыл бұрын
Actually, the "bending" or "flexing" of the arrow ISN'T caused by going around the riser. It's caused by Newton's 3rd Law Of Motion; "An object at rest tends to remain at rest. An object in motion tends to remain in motion". The arrow starts off at rest on the string. When released, the back of the arrow is moving, but the front doesn't want to . The back has to overcome the inertia of the front, so the arrow flexes, and continues to flex for a good distance downrange before finally flying straight. Assuming that it hasn't been stopped by a target first. Incidentally, the force that makes the arrow flex gets transmitted to the target when it's hit by the arrow
@mikegrossberg86246 жыл бұрын
This happens with center-shot bows as well as straight bows
@pineutrino4 жыл бұрын
2013 video description: "An uncommonly long ramble, even for me." Length: 8m29s. Lindybeige's 2019 Gladiators video (SMK60O695r4): 1h50m1s.
@jcohasset233 жыл бұрын
I rather miss these shorter videos. Sure the longer videos are great in that he can give more details and exposition but the shorter videos are good for bite sized information.
@CommandLineVulpine9 жыл бұрын
Lost my shit at Frenchmen being the example of who's being shot with it
@lindybeige11 жыл бұрын
Yes, and I was keen to see if arrows do the same, but it seems that they do not. An atlatl can because the user moves forwards with it, whereas an archer stays still. I was considering doing a video on the atlatl, but I see that there are already better ones than I would have done on KZbin.
@EDOOB8 жыл бұрын
your channel has answered so many questions i never knew i wanted answered. Thanks!
@charlespippins7610 жыл бұрын
The dolphining or porposing of the arrow helps maintain a straight flight. Also when the tip hits, it helps dig in creating a larger hole. As for the Beeswax and arrow tips, fletchers had glue in the pot anyway. After putting the tip on, they would apply a thin layer of glue where the tip and shaft met. On impact, the glue would break (remember the flexing motion of the arrow) and the tip would look for a new home. BigBowBrum has lots of amazing videos on midieval archery. He destroys plate and ringmail and proves the power of the bow.
@tedstriker66469 жыл бұрын
'... or a Frenchman' :) I suppose the arrows are emblazoned with the company motif of two crossed dead Frenchmen on a background of a mound of dead Frenchmen motif.
@lindybeige11 жыл бұрын
This happened at Agincourt, but I know of no solid evidence that it was deliberate. The men were waiting in one place for a long time, and were suffering from dysentry, and they stuck their arrows in the ground ready for the battle... The French complained of poisoned arrows.
@Birdblizzard10 жыл бұрын
So the arrows with a sort of cutting edge works kind of like needles made for leather of denim? Cleaver...
@RurikLoderr8 жыл бұрын
The spring in the arrow is what allows it to travel straight at all. Without it, the offset between the back of the arrow sitting on the string (center of the bow) and the shaft resting on the bow (left of the bow) would cause the arrow to fly wildly off course to the left. The arrow bends around the bow during release, causing it to literally bend around the bow and travel as a wave in the proper direction (at your target). The concept is known as the Archer's Paradox.
@olifantgamer10 жыл бұрын
Dear Lindybeige, Could you please use degrees Celsius in your video so that the majority of the world gets it? Thank you, a foreign viewer.
@caterinafitzgerald328110 жыл бұрын
You can convert degrees online, but I know what you mean!
@daveybernard10565 жыл бұрын
@@matthewwainwright8650 No doubt, he blames the French for the metric system.
@Roon65588 жыл бұрын
"You twang it, it lands in a tree, or a Frenchmen, or the ground"👌☺️
@phoenix3341010 жыл бұрын
Specfically designed fro frenchmen though. Dammit !
@Sardothien3 жыл бұрын
A heavier arrow is also more efficient, and because of that, is slightly more resistant to wind drift, which is important for shooting at long range. I did the calculations for this, since I was interested in archery competition, and here’s what I learned: The distance an arrow is pushed sideways by a crosswind is inversely proportional to the kinetic energy of the arrow. The bow stores the same potential energy regardless of what arrow is being shot, equal to the integral of the draw force curve. When that energy is released, it accelerates the arrow, string, and limbs. If the arrow is heavier, it gets a larger portion of the energy. For modern competition archery, this affects your tuning, and that typically means that you have to dial your poundage down to make sure the arrows still group well, and you lose the extra energy. However, if you can use heavier points and compensate for the tuning change by using stiffer arrow shafts, you can reduce wind drift. There may be reasons not to do this, but it was a fun thought experiment and calculation to do, and I thought I would share it.
@HeavyCuntFucker289 жыл бұрын
Katana can deflect arrow.
@powder88369 жыл бұрын
Wergvaldys Botagas lol
@chancedamont69399 жыл бұрын
Wergvaldys Botagas Yeah, if the archers aiming right at it.
@abingabing61919 жыл бұрын
Wergvaldys Botagas all sword can
@davidvanau31829 жыл бұрын
Wergvaldys Botagas Or you can throw a pommel at it.
@mmartinu3279 жыл бұрын
Wergvaldys Botagas WTF man?
@captbeardy8 жыл бұрын
The stiffness of the arrow is called the Spine and is very important. The bend of the arrow is called the Archers Paradox in that it MUST bend when it leaves the bow so it does not strike the handle with its fletchings but if it didn't it would be easier to shoot. The arrow continues to flex around two nodes (say about 15% of length from each end but this depends on the spine, the weight of the arrow head and the power of the bow)) which remain of the line of travel. This is why the spine is important and that it is matched to the bow. Obviously there is some latitude with war dos as you just wanted the arrow to go towards your enemy, bit if you want accuracy then the spine match is critical .
@jabames9 жыл бұрын
I take it he doesn't like Frenchmen xD
@Anndgrim9 жыл бұрын
jabames a He is a Brit. He likes to talk about all the battles the English won during the 100 years war and never mention those they lost. He also likes to say that 6th Generation vassal to French King and mostly French by blood William the Conqueror "was not French".
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman5 жыл бұрын
Maybe just DEAD ones...😁
@kloschuessel7734 жыл бұрын
jabames a who does? We germans certainly dont either
@TyphusAndronicus4 жыл бұрын
Can we just appreciate what a magnificent title "Some Points About Arrows" is?
@jpavlvs8 жыл бұрын
You don't pull an arrow out. You push it through.
@falconJB8 жыл бұрын
If you are armored its likely the arrow didn't penetrate too far even if it did get though your armor and you probably wont want to push it though your chest or stomach and if the arrow doesn't have aggressive barbs you are going to do far more damage pushing it though than pulling it out even if you have to have someone get in there and get a hold of the arrow head.
@jpavlvs8 жыл бұрын
Except contemporary drawings show the surgeons pulling the arrow through the wound after they cut off the fletchings.
@falconJB8 жыл бұрын
jpavlvs They show both, if its deep enough, barbed and in an inconvenient area or in a limb away from the artery then push it through, else just pull it out. No one is going to push a shallow arrow through an area where it its going to hit an undamaged organ if it can just be pulled out.
@RurikLoderr8 жыл бұрын
I know human anatomy.. rather well.. and pushing it through sounds utterly insane. Maybe they'd do that in the fucking middle ages when surgery was a crap shoot and they didn't know dick about how the body actually worked, but I doubt it and any claims I'm skeptical of without proof. Pushing an arrow through, even after removing the fletching, would cause unfathomable amounts of additional damage to other internal organs and blood vessels that simply cutting the arrow head out wouldn't cause. I could see if the arrow is most of the way through and pulling it out might do more damage.. but otherwise.. absolutely not.
@jarv74418 жыл бұрын
+RurikLoderr like the other guy said, barbed arrowheads.
@stevepowell49110 жыл бұрын
The arrows are flexing as they leave the bow, and carry on flexing in flight. This is called the 'Archer's Paradox' and on impact, they flex and vibrate to increase penetration. This flex is why you tune the bow by adjusting the number of twists in the string and matching the correct stiffness arrowshaft to the bow - the flex archs the arrow away from the stave as you loose rather than the arrow flexing into the stave and pushing it away to the side, hence improving accuracy and efficiency.
@caterinafitzgerald328110 жыл бұрын
He's so English!
@Pariah197411 жыл бұрын
This video is perfect ammunition for explain to my players why they cannot waste game time recovering arrows! Thank you!
@lordspamify10 жыл бұрын
you need to get the correct "spine" (stiffness) for the bow you are using. if it is too bendy it will snake along to its target and lose range and accuracy because of lost energy. similarly, with an overly stiff arrow it will travel at an angle, slightly sideways to the direction of flight and will also lose accuracy and range also
@ImperialistRunningDo8 жыл бұрын
"With a stiffer arrow, you would waste less energy." True as far as that goes. I build my own arrows, so indulge me. The stiffness of an arrow is called it's "spine." If an arrow is too weak (under-spined) it will either shatter or fly sideways with the point to one direction. Make an arrow too stiff (over-spined) and it will fly sideways with the point to the other. I have been shooting my arrows through a sheet of paper and reading the tear it makes. I will trim off a bit of length, re-attach the arrow pile and try again. Repeat until I have one tidy hole. If an arrow shatters, it doesn't go a few feet ahead of the archer. The hand that is holding the bow manages to catch most of the flying splinters.
@mathiascaspersen16068 жыл бұрын
I guess the french are to the british what the swedes are to the danes xD
@buttercup97098 жыл бұрын
well, historically we've been at war with them on and off for almost a millennium. we only actually started to get along in the last few hundred years.
@Zathaghil7 жыл бұрын
An no one actually get on with Danes... Ever... They fail to swallow their damned porridge, so no one can hear what on earth they're trying to say... Damnable goose lovers.
@mathiascaspersen16067 жыл бұрын
Norwegians love us, germans love us, everybody loves us, just not russia and sweden
@kloschuessel7734 жыл бұрын
Mathias Caspersen yah, we germans dont mind you.
@markschippel79748 жыл бұрын
once again a wonderful video. I saw some statements about the archer's paradox in the comments section. simply put, the bowstring is along the centerline of the bow. the arrow is at the side of the bow. when the string is released and the string approaches the bow, the nock of the arrow is also drawn to the center of the bow. that forces the head of the arrow sideways, away from the point of aim. the paradox part is that, using geometry it is easy to prove that an archer can not hit a target he aims at... yet he does. an arrow must bend to be able to hit what you are aiming at. the arrow actually bends around the bow and so flies true to the target. there is an excellent video on that very subject, including slow motion of an archer hitting a thrown aspirin tablet, done by Destin at Smarter Every Day.
@Fearofthemonster10 жыл бұрын
as far as I know germ was an unknown concept back then.
@Idengard10 жыл бұрын
Certainly. But I've seen a documentary film saying that sometimes archers would stick the point of their arrows into faeces or sthg to cause disease...don't know if that's actually true, but sounds probable to me
@Idengard10 жыл бұрын
ah, there's just another comment saying that below
@Fearofthemonster10 жыл бұрын
Cid Idengard I've probably watched that documentary. Maybe they've realized that wounds fester faster when arrows are stick into the ground. I doubt that they can do the same with an arrow design. They must make a design, test it on the enemy to see how much they fester then change it if not satisfied. It is not as easy as testing against an armor. These are my thoughts, I might be completely wrong about everything I've said.
@Idengard10 жыл бұрын
the smell of dung is always a quite repelling sensation, you wouldn't want to be near it instincitively. Then there was this idea (not sure if in medival times, but I think so) of "miasma", foul gases and such to spread disease. So they maybe just put one and one together - doesn't seem too far fetched for me. And MAYBE they thought, "well, if my arrowhead has ridges, more shit will stick to it"
@Fearofthemonster10 жыл бұрын
Cid Idengard if it is the dung they are fighting on fine. But I'm not sure.
@mikegrossberg86245 жыл бұрын
A couple of comments: The "bent" arrow is called "archer's paradox", and occurs, to a greater or lesser degree, with EVERY bow, even one with a center cutout. As you said, the back of the arrow is pushing forward, and the front of the arrow doesn't want to move. The STIFFNESS of an arrow is called the "spine". The spine of the arrow has to match the draw weight of the bow. If it's TOO stiff, or not stiff ENOUGH, the arrow will NOT fly straight, because it will flex too much(or too little) as it goes around the bow. Another thing: In one of the crawl titles, it was mentioned that the type 16 head had grooves in it possibly to transmit germs into a wound. Germ theory didn't come out till the 19th century; medieval people didn't know about germs.
@blue04mx538 жыл бұрын
Have a search for 'The archer's paradox'. There are some good videos posted on that subject.
@JohnSmith-rb6zj8 жыл бұрын
+Mahatma Coat You can't really call it a paradox if it's very clearly explained, but it is interesting.
@blue04mx538 жыл бұрын
+John Smith Agreed. Those weren't my words just the title of the video on the subject.
@00nerd48 жыл бұрын
+John Smith "The Archers Juxtaposition" just dosent have the same ring to it. You could still kinda call it a paradox ... there is no 'perfect' answer you'll always end up with an arrow that is either a tad too stiff or a tad too soft as the wood continues to age/mature/warp .
@lindybeige11 жыл бұрын
The Fahrenheit scale is easy to understand once you understand that body temperature is 100. It was developed for medical use.
@kirafaren56310 жыл бұрын
Poor frenchmen D:
@jmartin90596 жыл бұрын
*The inefficiency mentioned can be greatly reduced or perhaps eliminated with an extremely stiff arrow or bolt in a crossbow. Longbows, shortbows, recurve bows, reflex bows, horse bows, etc... all use this flex of the arrow or "archers paradox" as it may be called to allow the arrow to flex around the bow and still fly to where it was pointed or aimed. Crossbows do not rely on "archers paradox" to avoid spoiling the aim. Therefore, crossbow bolts or arrows may be much stiffer and more efficient as little or no energy is spent or wasted flexing the shaft.*
@corymcgrath56528 жыл бұрын
You can never put arrows in Frenchmen. They are to busy surrendering.
@kevinsullivan34488 жыл бұрын
Only after WWI.
@vincivedivicilextalionas40366 жыл бұрын
Americans cant celebrate 4th of july in france. Everytime fireworks start going off all the french start surrendering lol
@kristopherking919910 жыл бұрын
the quilts being good needle arrow stoppers makes sense because its been proven that samuri wore silk parachutes to stop arrows when fleeing because the tough material with a cushion of air would deflect like 4 out of 5 arrows
@gawayne137410 жыл бұрын
Frenchman..., hilarious ;)
@leejackson78645 жыл бұрын
Flex is required for the arrow to go in a straight(albeit bendy) line. As the string pushes the arrow towards the bow, the slight angle created by the arrow being aside the bow rather than central to the string, is increased. Meaning that the arrow leaves the bow in the wrong direction. That flex, and the sideways oscillation you are in flight, causes the arrow to bend back towards where you were aiming in flight. Meaning they fly straighter. By bending. It’s caljed ‘the archers paradox.’
@YiannisThiakos8 жыл бұрын
into a frenchman.... :D...
@lindybeige11 жыл бұрын
You don't need germ theory, you just need to know that a filthy wound tend to go bad, and to note that the traditional (barbed) arrows still seem to inconvenience the wounded even when the barbs hardly hook back at all. Arrows were commonly stuck in the ground before shooting, and so would carry soil into the wound.
@ninja586110 жыл бұрын
as someone that does archery, longer fletching is more for longer range. Also the wide blades on the hunting arrow is called a broadhead. The thicker arrow has lower feet/second, but when it hits, it hits harder.
@TheBoyFromNorfolk10 жыл бұрын
Really? Longer, larger fletching is used to give more drag, the more drag the quicker the arrow is stabilised. However, small fletchings will still stabilise the arrow over longer range. Do not think that making your fletchings longer gives you longer range, it has no basis in reality. I'd love to know why you think it does though.
@JohnSmith-vl7zu10 жыл бұрын
TheBoyFromNorfolk afaik the fletching length depends on the arm length.
@MarkusMahlberg5 жыл бұрын
Probably a bit late, but you are right about the bended arrows. In modern archery, the draw weight of a bow, the draw length and the stiffness of the arrows, also called the spine, are the three main variables which are VERY carefully evaluated against each other in order to prevent the loss of energy. The thing is that if you make the arrow too stiff for your bow, it absorbs LESS energy and is hence slower yadda, yadda. Is it too soft though, and you have either a wobbly piece of carbon and/or aluminium flying down the range - or a rather expensive (relatively speaking) cloud of carbon fibre/a rather cheap cloud of aluminium shards.
@CelticRider8411 жыл бұрын
Two things I'd like to bring up from my own research; though Archery has never truly been high on my list of ancient weapons and armor, they are a necessary research for the armor parts. 1: Bee's Wax; If the fletcher used simply bee's wax scraped from a honeycomb, that would be quickest, and most efficient, for arrow productions, rather than mixing up glue? It could have also been more abundant/cheaper than materials required to make proper glue. Production lines are all about 'fast and cheap' and 'good enough.' Point 2: It's been estimated that the flexing of the arrow mid-flight may not have increased it's velocity (such as an American football being thrown in a spiral), but in fact, upon penetration, the wriggling arrow would then cause severe tissue damage as it wriggled about inside the body. (as is the case in the 'skull test' using the Samurai yumi bow in a Season 1 episode of Deadliest Warrior. Yes, I am aware of the severe historical inaccuracies of the show's presentations, and severe limitations placed on the participating warriors).
@Swidhelm11 жыл бұрын
From what I understand when arrows are fired they do flex, but not just right away, they flex back and forth during the entire flight usually. Also that flexing allows the arrow to essentially flex around the riser of the bow, as medieval bows did not have a shelf cut out. Some modern bows have a shelf cut past center allowing for a stronger spined arrow to be fired. The less shelf you have, the softer the spine needed in relation to the poundage.
@hauksbee81799 жыл бұрын
A program was done a few years back (and can be found here on KZbin) where two investigators combed the field at Agincourt and came up with the corroded remains of several 'bodkin' points. After an analysis of the steel, they had several made and did a 'drop test' against a steel plate. (It being deemed a good replica of the steel the French knights had been wearing.) In all tests, the bodkin point failed to penetrate. In fact it simply bent sideways. Thus, they concluded, the myth of English longbowmen scything the French off their horses as they made repeated charges never happened. (In fact, they cited a French source that declared that there was only one initial charge, after which it was a dismounted infantry affair.)
@MrMonkeybat11 жыл бұрын
The energy in the bow comes from pulling the string, when the string is released it pulls the arrow forward with an equal and opposite force pulling the bow back into your left arm also known as recoil. To a shooter this may not be noticed as that arm is also taking a fair bit of force when the bow is being drawn.
@nathanoconnor4218 жыл бұрын
To my understanding, the main reason padded and or quilted armour was used in conjunction with chainmail is because while chainmail will protect you from the edge of a bladed weapon it would not protect you form the force of the blow weres padded and or quilted armour would but it (the padded and or quilted armour ) would not pervide protection against the edge of a blade.
@illan7318 жыл бұрын
The reason an arrow bending is a useful thing, in my understanding, is that it goes on the side of the bow, not through it, while the string is directly in the center and pushes it at the wood. So, the stiffness of the arrow needs to be balanced so that it can both fly and be shot effectively.
@upfromthefields5 жыл бұрын
he cracks me up every time he refers to "FRENCHMEN". : )
@lindybeige11 жыл бұрын
Arrows were not deliberately made flexible because of the paradox. Other factors apply, such as the straightening effect of the fletchings. Also, shooting off to the left with stiff arrows would be consistent, and so could be compensated for.
@lindybeige11 жыл бұрын
I think the noise is the microphone (separate from camera) rocking on the chair I put it on when the floor shakes as I move about. Next time I shall put it on a sweater. This also explains why my voice gets fainetr when i am closer to the camera, rather than, as is more usual, louder.
@subductionzone8 жыл бұрын
From my understanding the flexing of the arrow allows it to follow a straight path as it goes around the bow. As it accelerates the arrow flexes away from the bow itself, Once it releases from the bow it starts to flex the other way and by the time the fletching goes by the bow that part has flexed away from the bow a bit.
@MartialAerts11 жыл бұрын
I read somewhere that the flexibility of the arrow (the inherent property of the wooden fibers) is what stabilizes the arrow after it has left the string, and that too rigid an arrow would travel at an angle, as the the bow frame interposes with the center line of the string. This means there would have to be a hole through the center of the bow-frame in order to allow rigid arrows to launched at the right angle. Hope you guys can make sense of this rambling!
@lindybeige11 жыл бұрын
They wore a padded leather suit underneath, and this suit had patches of mail on it to cover gaps in the plate, such as at the armpits.
@clivegranger50178 жыл бұрын
The oscillation of the arrow once it leaves the bow cancels out and the arrow then flies straight at the target not off in random directions. Matching the stiffness of the arrow to the poundage of the bow is also important
@boredphysicist7 жыл бұрын
The bending mid flight is how arrows work by the way, it averages out the centre of gravity and keeps a stable flight, avoiding just flopping down
@lindybeige11 жыл бұрын
Effective in that they would still inconvenience and possibly harm the wearer, but the chainmail is effective in that it would often keep the wearer alive.
@ink754810 жыл бұрын
Nice that you tought the tree to be more important then the Frenchman.
@Reneator7 жыл бұрын
The bending and swinging of the arrow is used to push the arrow around the bow which is in the way of the arrow. If you used a stiff arrow you would loose a lot of accuracy. There is a video about a ranger that can hit a nickel, because in every shot he calculates the flexiblity of the arrow into the shot.
@andrewdanis50678 жыл бұрын
the reason for the bendiness when it leaves the string is known as the archers paradox, if you take a look at your bow, chances are the string is in line with the shaft, the arrow on the other hand is not going through the shaft but around it, the bendiness is measured to be just the right amount of bendy so the arrow goes around the shaft and doesn't fly off to the side because it bounced off the shaft, after all you wouldn't want to try and shoot the frenchman but end up hitting an englishman by mistake
@user-bo8yt4uc8b3 жыл бұрын
The stiffness of the shaft has to be calibrated to the draw length, poundage of the bow and the weight of the point and the whole arrow to make it bend equally to both sides, which is called tuning. If the arrow is too stiff or too weak, it will not fly straight, but curve to one side or the other.
@MrSunrise-gm5ne9 жыл бұрын
Lindy: re arrow stiffness - a properly "spined" arrow (shaft stiffness matched to the mass of the arrow and the draw weight of the bow) flexes the fletching *around* the bow handle so that it doesn't throw off the shot. That "inefficiency" is essential to shot consistency.
@TheNagiri9 жыл бұрын
I was told years ago that the beeswax on the arrow heads was so that the arrowhead could be replaced easily if it got dented or something since its easier to replace the head than to fletch a new arrow.
@ajaxjs8 жыл бұрын
It's amazing that Lindy grasps the concept of a broadhead arrow, but not a cinqueda.
@ajaxjs7 жыл бұрын
Cinquedas were fine weapons for a back alley street fight.