Korean Traditional Archery, Gungdo

[@BA3676]

The Gakgung with its extreme reflex , was designed to maximize efficiency and range to defend mountain fortresses and to counter the aggression and larger numbers of invaders.

[@mudkip_btw]

Korea has one of the coolest traditions in archery. And the Korean team kicks serious butt in the Olympics and World Cup events haha

[@deangullberry5148]

Olympic Archery is a competition for silver. The Koreans pretty much own the gold.

[@dkssudgktpady]

In medieval korea(chosun), there's a national examination to recruit talented man in military. In that examination, archery test was included and actually there's no extra score to hit every target. Because everyone did it.

[@BA3676]

If I were of medieval noble ness , I would employ a warrior class of Hwarang to guard me , my wife and my concubines.

[@Hayan_Yeou]

@@BA3676 No need. Archery was a basic skill for all nobles. Even the kings. In Korea, there are many old legends and stories where a *scholar* hits the head of a snake or defeat an entire thieves with his bow. In Korea, archery was a basic art even for a scholar because our ancestors believed that your mind needs to be cleansed in order to use a bow.

[@hishot1078]

@@BA3676 Hwarang was Silla's noble knight. Silla wasn't famous with archery, but its military was known for crossbowman.

[@OfficialMINIm]

watching this makes me proud. Koreans aren't the only ones who used composite bows. Mongols, the manchurians, Turkish and many others used bows like these but Korean ones are amongst the most compact, beautifully designed yet extremely powerful ones. I can't wait to get my own Korean Bow

[@evazulfiahh]

Idk how much Imma wathcing this video and this korean culture still make me amaze.

[@HistoricalWeapons]

thumb draw doesnt make it easier to draw heavier bows.

[@gizmonomono]

I think something got lost in translation there. He probably meant that it has to be drawn with the thumb because of string pinch.

[@ArielaShines]

I would love to go there and train and live there. So beautiful.

[@beepot2764]

Wow that arrow gets very close to the hand and brace. Makes me nervous!

[@라지오98]

김형탁 코치의 자세를 볼 수 있는 귀중한 자료 1:00 3:18

[@ILhamKambaa]

amazing archery video. I from indonesia and i like korean bow

[@jskoh4662]

Indonesia is very cool

[@johannes3153]

There were several things wrong in this video. In the beginning the korean said the korean bow is the best because it can shot 145m far and no other bow in the world could do that which is obviously wrong to anyone who knows even a little bit about traditional archery. Also his explanation why korean archers use a thumb ring was wrong. It is not only korean archers but all archers from every culture who use(d) short composite bows with a long draw length use(d) their thumb instead of the three-finger-draw because the angle the bow string makes is a lot closer when the bow is shorter and drawn further. Just imagine drawing an english longbow 32" back and then a short korean horsebow drawn 32". The angle string has at the point where you place you finger(s) is very different. In a short bow there is no room for three fingers. And of course he got it wrong that he called the olympic bow and archery "western archery". I

[@Excalibure666]

is there any mistake 145 metre range is longer than any other traditional bow?

[@JTFII]

its honestly an exaggeration; a prideful legend of the traditional korean bow. 145 is a huge distance for any archer. most of their shots didnt even hit the target but if you can shoot at drastically long distances, 20-30 meters means nothing

[@lalixvalencia1340]

A hungarian archer (Tamás Mónus) shoot over 500 meters with traditional bow.

[@Excalibure666]

Valencia Lalix, flight shots and target shots are totally different. Ottoman " Iskender the Tozkoparan" shot 826 metre in 1550. Actually minimum requirement to join Ottoman Archery Club (Okcular Tekkesi) is making minimum 594m shot. (Toz-koparan means Bow-Breaker roughly, he was able to break 150+ lbs bows.) So, Its almost impossible to hit a target from over 800 metre. (except by luck) but it's too wrong to say "145 metre korean shooting is longer than any traditional bows" I'm sure many asiatic archers can get similiar results with koreans.(if not better)

[@lalixvalencia1340]

It's true.

[@OfficialMINIm]

Okay so strong Korean bows and other bows alike (like Turkish bows) can easily go over 145 meters.. But Shooting as far as you can and hitting a target are two different things. Koreans actually shoot the 145 meter targets at traditional ranges and they were trained to do so in medieval times. They shoot a 70 meter target in modern day Olympic competitions so you can imagine how far 145 meter is. There are records of Korean and Turkish bows shooting as far as a thousand meters. But that's the bows capacity and not the archers.

[@stevenkimdmd]

Glad to see the Korean traditional martial arts has survived in the form of archery. Such much unlike Taekwondo.

[@stevemarce1988]

❤️🙏🏽 🏹 🎯 💥 🔥

[@호롤롤로-o1y]

근대 내 생각엔 국궁이 장력에 비해 활의 성능은 좋을지 몰라도 현대적인 활이 좀더 사용자 친화적인 것 같다. 일단 리커브 보우에는 애로우 레스트가 있어서 화살이 활의 수평방향기준 가운데 위치에서 발사되게 할 수 있으니까. 롱보우나 각궁은 활의 가운데에서 약간 좌나 우로 비껴난 위치로 발사되니까 조준이나 맞추는게 힘들 듯. 그리고 각궁은 드로우 렝스가 긴만큼 위력이 강해지지만 그와 반비례해서 조준이 힘들어질 듯. 현대적인 리커브 보우는 화살의 시위를 눈가까이에 갖다댈 수 있으니 현과 화살촉으로 어느정도 조준선 정렬을 해서 목표를 맞추기가 더 쉬울 듯. 각궁은 시위를 귀 뒤까지 당기니까 조준선 정렬이 힘들어서 어지간히 많이 쏴보지 않는 이상 목표를 맞추기 힘들 것 같다.

[@llilyanil1095]

사용목적에 따라 다릅니다. 그냥 서서 쏘면 확실히 양궁활이 좋지만 산림 혹은 사냥시, 마상일경우등 기동성이나 은폐가 필요한경우는 크기에 비해 장력이 좋은 활이 더 유용합니다.

[@오달자-z9d]

연습하기 나름이구요 컨시스턴시라고하나 일정한 힘과 탄도로 활을 날려주기 때문에 익숙해 지면 참으로 만족스럽습니다 휴대성과 단순함은 외국활에 비해 월등하고요

[@jordanholman7822]

A summary. A rabbit runs. What's up doc.

[@Scooterboyfra7451]

this is offensive to vestern traditional achery because we don't shoot OL bows. and if the Korean traditional achery ekspert 's experience with traditional vestern achery is OL bows he kinda got it wrong sadly

[@irzackihmj5259]

What is OL?

[@aureliodecanton9970]

Zkmjs 5641 Olympic

[@johannes3153]

There were several things wrong in this video. In the beginning the korean said the korean bow is the best because it can shot 145m far and no other bow in the world could do that which is obviously wrong to anyone who knows even a little bit about traditional archery. Also his explanation why korean archers use a thumb ring was wrong. It is not only korean archers but all archers from every culture who use(d) short composite bows with a long draw length use(d) their thumb instead of the three-finger-draw because the angle the bow string makes is a lot closer when the bow is shorter and drawn further. Just imagine drawing an english longbow 32" back and then a short korean horsebow drawn 32". The angle string has at the point where you place you finger(s) is very different. In a short bow there is no room for three fingers. And of course he got it wrong that he called the olympic bow and archery "western archery".

[@alskarmode]

*expert

[@VRSVLVS]

the term "western" archery is misleading in this film. Traditional "western" archery is much closer to korean archery.

[@Excalibure666]

everything is misleading in this film :)

[@comingsoon4657]

I am an archer and learnt the archery 'western bow' first. Recurve and Longbow. then I shoot Korean bow now. So the question is what was misleading in the film? In my knowledge of archery of western and Korean bow, I don't see any error in the film.

[@서대문이대길]

Korean Archery is "NOT" gungdo, gung-do is Japanese Korean is Kuk-gung. Understand???

[@coldAg]

국궁 또한 궁도라고 부릅니다.

[@松軒-w6q]

@@coldAg 궁도는 규도가 궁도 조선은 궁술 어떤 모지리가 궁도라고 해요? 술과 도의 차이가 얼마나 큰데 ㅋㅋ 도는 적정한것 술은 한계가 없는 것 9단명궁이 불을 쏘는게 활인데 단따기놀이가 무슨소용? 9단이란 적정선을 정해놓고 수련하는 도는 술을 이길 수 가 없다. 왜? 술은 한계가 없는 끊임없는 도전과 노력이 있기 때문이다. 이것은 우리민족의 특성이다. 왜가 이충무공을 넘지 못한 것은 바로 이런 이유 때문이다.

[@beatbaker7420]

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@jskoh4662]

Amen

[@bleee1]

twomen

[@hishot1078]

Koreans : bot lane DPS or AFK

[@Sk0lzky]

Actually the current record in range is held by a turkish type of bow :P

[@mintyfresh4855]

No it isn't. They're talking about at an actual range with a distance for practicing target archery for not only people but also the military. Turkish archery focuses on flight archery which is vastly different than target archery. Flight arrows have shorter vanes----not as accurate but flies farther and faster. So accuracy isn't the focus of flight archery. Turkey has the longest flight of an arrow but not the longest target archery range; of which it is debated. But in terms of proof and depiction, Korea has the strongest case for it. There is a record that English longbow men used to shoot 200 meters, so that would have beaten Korea's record except for a major flaw; it is no long practiced nationally as a tradition. So Korea does win the longest traditional archery range by technicality, but not historically speaking. Does this clear things up?

[@yeom_gh]

그놈의 정간례좀;;;

[@countrysider2258]

Korean bows are Mongolian bows, so it feels like they have no originality.

[@Amnok]

No it isn't. Korean bows, moreover Korean composite bows founded in archeological sites valuate before the birth of Mongol identity. Which means, it's tradition of bowcraft and archery can trace down to ancient period even before 'Mongol, as a ethnic term' existed.

[@Amnok]

The earliest record of the Mongols is the government account of Tang dynasty(618~907), you should notice in this time period 'Mongol' was not as an ethnic group, just a Altaic tribe name. Korean bow of these form (composite-horn material) are found in archeological sites - its date proven to be goes back to beforce christ - also record of king sansang(197~227) indicates he presented these bows to Sun Quan of Wu .

[@bleee1]

The Korean ruling class came from Central Asia and Siberia.

[@Karznax]

You do realize that the mongol before the 13th century were just a small tribe right? the history of korean bows predate history of mongol itself...