Whataboutism & Archery

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[@peternguyen1911]

I was Today years old when I learned NUSensei color-codes his videos

[@RogueArcheryTV]

If you say that "The sky is blue", then someone will argue "what about the sunset?".

[@sebastienraymond3648]

Unfortunately, all KZbin channels attract people who report anecdotes, who think it's a bigger argument than what's happening most often, and who don't understand what is obvious to 98% of others followers. 👉Your explanations were very clear and very good and the majority of your subscribers appreciated it. Don't be like those who focus on anecdotes and focus on your positive followers. Have a nice week and take care !! 🙂

[@carcharhinus_555]

Love the saying "the plural of anecdote is not evidence".

[@wb5plj]

i did not notice that you color code your thumbnails. I like subtle messaging that is not intrusive. kudos.

[@lubossoltes321]

Same here, I have noticed the different colors but the reason behind them escaped me ...

[@StevethecavemanLive]

Saw this comment before getting that far in the video and was trying so hard looking at his hands to see his thumb nails ... and now I'm laughing so hard at myself

[@freemandrew]

There's a reason KZbin Comments have the stigma they do (as I shamelessly type into a youtube comment box). Your archery videos are always helpful, informative, and thoughtful. I wouldn't enjoy archery as much as I do without them. I appreciate the general love of all things archery related: techniques, traditions, bow types, purposes. It's welcoming and inclusive.

[@UTxTheArchangel]

This goes back to what's kinda wrong with the internet rn. People watch videos or read post not to listen to what someone has to say, but to reply. Not only do they just wanna reply, they wanna one up...catch ppl being wrong or slightly wrong, or intentionally misinterpret to make it seem like something is wrong. We have a very argumentative society. You say you like pancakes, someone will comment "what about french toast, you don't like french toast" and someone else will reply the same thing but about waffles. Even though you never said anything about either. A lot of ppl also don't fully watch videos, they watch until they hear something to reply to and then they immediately make the comment and never finish the video. Everybody wants to be right and folks will talk in circles until you get bored of replying, which they'll take as them automatically being right, bc you stopped replying. lol

[@societyofrobots]

First lesson I give to all my students: "There are 100+ ways to do archery. It depends on your goals, your biology, and your preferences. The way I'm teaching is just the way I like to do it. But, you may eventually like to do it a different way. Archery is an art."

[@93med1]

I share and understand your frustration. Thanks for your years of videos they’ve been truly helpful to me.

[@randytrudeau952]

Your videos are great and provide such a great level of information on a wide range of archery styles which in my opinion is what makes them so great. Please dont let the trolls get you down. Keep up the great work!

[@Klowlowa]

no worries about the 1% ...nothing is loss in translation because the beauty of online content is it is there for anyone, who care enough to learn unlearn and relearn, to revisit however many times necessary to really understand the subject in the appropriate context. Please keep it up in sharing really valuable lessons and insights. Even this video is invaluable for those who might not know already about the color coding, which is smart and might save us the time in searching what is most relevant for each of us. Thank you for your time and effort. It has made my 2 years journey as a budding asiatic archeress more enjoyable learning through your videos and applying them during my training.

[@MisSorryforthespam]

honestly this is WHY I stayed in the archery hobby. Almost every cloture from all around the world both modern and ancient have some kind of archery. its fascinating.

[@Mic2701M]

I liked your last Videos. And you were very clear in what you told. That's what I realy like! Your clear and you've got so much knowledge of so many kinds of archery. There is so much to learn, no matter wich kind of Bow or style you use. Don't wast your time on the hater! Youre contend is great.

[@MinistryofFoam]

I am new to archery and I greatly appreciate your videos and your teachings. Thank you.

[@juliapoelstra3624]

Oh buddy, you are crystal clear. That's the best part of your videos.

[@carcharhinus_555]

"Context is king here" - LMAO. Also "The viewer isn't dumb": oh well, the optimism. At least if you include *all* viewers. And I really applaud your work to even include and inform the ones who miss (choose to ignore?) context. Just want to emphasize: I love your videos, their style and the awesome tips and clear info.

[@karathrace4855]

I depend on your videos for education. I am an intermediate archer but have learned on my own mostly.. I have had NO ISSUE determining what type of archery u discuss in ur video. (Although didn’t realize the color coding, genius!) I am Olympic style archer but enjoy ur other videos bc I appreciate ALL styles of archery. I even tried Kyudo while I was in Japan because I was curious after seeing all the variations of archery in ur videos beyond recurve/compound. You do a fantastic job and don’t let anyone tell u any different!!

[@cthorno2991]

I've learnt so much from you over the years about my form of archery, (trad) I just want to thank you. 👍 No confusion here.

[@kaishirou]

I just wanna say that I really appreciate the work that you've done all this while, and I hear that annoyance about the context since for instance, I view Kyudo as a tool that fosters discipline and cultural practice as opposed to being the most "accurate" or "practical" style of archery. Doesn't help too that it has many practices that distinctively separates it from other archery styles despite the fundamentals being very similar, albeit with different contextual connotations. But I appreciate your exploration into the various styles of archery (traditional, modern Olympic, Asiatic, etc) because that inspired me not to seek segregation, but find commonalities among the various styles. And one such example is that the KSL shot cycle bears many similarities to the 8 steps of shooting (Shaho Hassetsu) in Kyudo. Let's also not forget Kisik Lee also comes from a culture that embraces archery, albeit one that is not as well explored in its traditional roots due to its eclectic nature of practice (kind of clout shooting with horse bows?). Nevertheless, I'm sure there are others like me who, drawing inspiration from you, have also started to widen our approach and understanding of archery in of itself, and how to distinguish the differences and embrace similarity without losing context.

[@leductuanmail]

Your content is great and crystal clear, dont try to argue with ignorance, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience 🤣

[@madonnafaux6911]

Thank you for your videos. New person here...no confusion just a desire to learn. Thank you again

[@thisoldrelic]

I enjoy your videos because you do different types of bow and archery. Although I think a series of seeing you work out changing to a compound would be fun. But you would have to get a new background color.

[@1ststater611]

This is Outstanding

[@social3ngin33rin]

Yeah, NuSensei will get a huge variety of viewers from different archery styles, and a bunch of new person questions lol

[@GaveitagoRC]

I must admit i was someone who left a comment on your last video, but it was only because I'm a noob and i was trying to get my head around what you'd been saying. It definitely wasn't your videos fault, just me trying to grow my understanding. I hope my comment wasn't taken the wrong way because i do appreciate what you do here with your channel.

[@dad2coconut]

Big difference between reading / viewing stuff and actually comprehending it.

[@staffordsanpei7804]

I never took notice of your color coded videos. I think you're talking about shallow minds.

[@brookvalleylife724]

Hi Nusensei from over in NZ. Not only will you get bad comments from these people but also from others that will troll you just because. I get them for my channel and I only have 2.3K subs. I have a laugh at them. However your channel has provided me lots of information and ideas on video content. I just want to be able to grow my channel to where yours is. Cheers Buddy

[@klimino]

Hello NUSensei, did you think about putting videos on odyssey as well?

[@PXCharon]

Since you brought it up. I'm also a HEMA guy, I specialize in one particular school from northern Italy documented at the very beginning of the 17th century. For clarity, I'll refer to the author of the treatise or I'll say Italian rapier when teaching. Italy as a concept didn't exist at the time, and the word rapier never appears in the book. It's just "sword" but it goes on to specify certain qualities necessary in a sword to perform the art correctly. Those qualities describe what we call a rapier today. Distinct from the sword we use for Bolognese swordsmanship, or the sword of George Silver's school in England. Even if at first glance they look interchangeable. Certain universal truths apply, and learning any one of them gives you insight into the others. Fundamentals of timing, distance, and mechanics don't change, but the differences in equipment and the goals of each style mean the applications of those principles are a little different. As an interesting aside, learning proper back engagement for archery has been amazing for understanding the muscle groups involved in just holding a sword up for extended periods.

[@Carnax6969]

Yeah, I'm not surprised that some people still misunderstood what you were saying in that video. You can be crystal clear about a subject and yet some numpty would still misunderstand/misinterpret you.

[@mortenjacobsen5673]

You realy gotta baby sit those kids drowning in the shallow end of the dunning kruger pool.

[@chrisgaskell3706]

Many people have a negative filter when listening, waiting for something to criticise.

[@highrangewalker2007]

That you made tis video is no surprise. I've noticed that archery is one of those sports were everybody is an expert, even after the first lesson of a beginners course. The only thing I did wonder about through the video was, did you loose your screwdrivers?

[@4d4m22]

"I do trust that the viewer probably isn't dumb..." Ah! I think I see the problem. It's the internet. Unfortunately there's no minimum intelligence/maturity criteria.

[@thatdmguy4512]

I find the people who do this are also the same people who claim reverse grip for longsword is valid

[@ArcheryGeek]

Preach brother 😂

[@ThirdLawPair]

One element of context that I find interesting is variation over *time* within a particular geographical style. In mediaeval Europe, for example, advancements in armor required stronger and stronger bows over time. By the late mediaeval period, the many years of training required to develop proper archery skill really had more to do with developing the immense strength to pull a warbow than it was about developing the accuracy. The average commoner at the time could shoot a light bow accurately, but you couldn't put a warbow in their hands and expect them to pull it. These variations over time leads to additional confusion about terms like "traditional" archery. People get bent out of shape over what counts as "traditional" without really asking how far back in time do we have to look to find what they think of as true "traditional" archery.

[@infinity345]

I think all content creators get a bit of this from people that have insufficient breadth of knowledge to understand or fully comprehend other contexts. I think you do a good job of being specific about which context you’re referring to. Unfortunately your content does present a challenge to those that don’t like being taken out of the comfort zone of their established world view. You mentioned a few other channels where the content is a bit more specifically targeted probably being able to avoid this, and even on those I’ve seen incendiary comments from viewers clearly from other archery disciplines. For example on one of Kaminski’s videos about arrow spine selection someone mentioned hunting and how the approach Kaminski was describing is wrong and that maybe Kaminski should try doing some “real archery” and learn something. Again, like your videos, the video title was all specifying target archery, Jake had introduced the video as being about target. I think the “algorithm” contributes to the problem because it doesn’t necessarily distinguish between discipline. It can send someone that’s only interested in hunting content to a target only channel. Viewers seem to have increasingly shorter attention spans, skim video titles looking only for the key words that they’re interested in and skip past the introductions that establish the necessary context. Don’t let those types of negative comments get you down. Keep the interesting content coming. Watching your exploration of traditional archery styles encouraged me to look beyond just Olympic Recurve and it really opened up my eyes to a lot of interesting facts about why our technique is the way it is.

[@AutisticArcher]

Jeez... Don't listen to those people, Nu They whine because they have nothing better to do. They don't understand that while they are whining they can also perfect their form under the bow

[@UnnamedChorf]

For how much effort and and thought goes into being a good archer.. A lot of KZbin comment archers exert neither much effort or thinking.

[@musikSkool]

Ancient archers would pull to their pap, or breast. Imagine having to aim when anchoring near your nipple? (Edit: Okay, you would actually want to anchor about 3 inches to the right of the center of your breastbone, the exact same spot every time.)

[@Danny-el8ww]

I wonder if its more an ego thing. Everyone likes to act like they're the best on the internet and have to tell other people what they think is right and wrong. when they're corrected, they only push back more because their ego is hurt. Also, why do archers always refer to some deer they killed as their evidence? Yall ever notice that?

[@jeromedomergue7132]

😂👍💪😁

[@beargillium2369]

Uh oh, you may have to take on Paul Harrell's "since the beginning of time" rational where you do have to explain everything or else these ADHD kiddos are gonna keep posting angry out of text opinions 😂

[@NUSensei]

That was actually in the back of my mind the whole time.

[@santadorkk4862]

Don’t explain yourself to the ignorant. You were clear in your previous video. That’s a them problem. Nuff said.

[@galileopotato167]

They're redditors and bots my man. They're armchair archers, and their philosophy is "you're not the expert, I'm the expert." They're dismissable.

[@fahlvfaust677]

😂😅

[@-fazik-3713]

:D

[@macsek666]

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