Do you compete in Archery while on Horseback? I have seen Hungarians do that, and it is something to watch, do the Czech's do it too?
Niri Te

I haven't seen anyone to do this. And I'm not good horse rider (some times I ride, but if I want go faster I've to fall like Jake :D ), so I would not try it now.
Do any one here doing this? (without Dakar?)

Rewon lefpom ma Zrina Ni'awve !
Kehe, ma Tsmuk, I have never seen anyone here in this Country compete with archery from a running Horse.
How we DO compete on Horseback, is in "Cowboy Action" Shooting events. Ateyo and I both compete in Cowboy action, where everyone dresses up in 1880's clothing, and shoots new (for safety), Rifles, Pistols, and Shotguns.
One of the events, is a "Mounted" (on a horse running at full speed), event. In all our other events, we have old style solid lead, rather than modern jacketed bullets, with people standing behind us, as we compete. We are scored by by shooting for speed and accuracy against steel targets, you can hear the bullets hit the steel.
In the mounted event, we are weaving around barrels as fats as the horse can go, (this event is scored both by speed and accuracy), and there are people all around, so we CAN'T use bullets, we use "blanks" that have a hard piece of cardboard packed tightly over the powder, which DOES get shot out of the barrel, and travels for about 70 feet. The targets are balloons that are tied to stands, that if you shoot at from 20 to 30 feet away, the cardboard will "pop" the balloon, yet all the spectators are safe. It is a LOT of fun, both to compete in, and to watch. ALL of us who compete, love to watch each other compete as well.
HERE is the website of the Mounted Cowboy Shooting Association. If you let it load all the way up, there will be a section towards the center top of the page, where you can select, and watch some of the competitions, including the Men's and Women's World Record runs. ENJOY!!

Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association "CMSA" - The Fastest Growing Equine Sport In The Nation

Let me know what you think of the event, ma tsmuk.
Niri Te

Shooting from horseback would be so amazingly cool, I have never seen anybody do it with a great degree of accuracy though.

Then look at THIS. It begins with a ceremony, so if you are in a hurry, bear with it, you will be glad that you did.

kassai_05_09.mpg - YouTube

These people are good, there are videos of Native Americans doing the same thing elsewhere on the web.
ta Niri Te

HERE is more on the reborn Martial Skill, that had ALL of Europe one time saying, "GOD save us from the arrows of the Hungarian Horsemen".

Traditional Horseback Archery Enjoys Revival in Hungary - YouTube

ta Niri Te

The Silver Stag: I have agree. They're so skilled. Their arrows are true in high speed. It looks awescome (if you can it, I can't) from Niri Te's video!

And Niri te: Your cowboy competetion can be fun, but I prefer bow and arrows (in horoscope I'm Sagittaurus - I don't know, but I've loved archery from my childhood :D). If I go to the USA, I will go see it ;)

You could try practice the "one match fire" first. Meaning to try to make a fire with one single lit match. That way you can see how to build a fire once you have a flame. If that works, you can try again getting to the flame with flint&steel or bowdrill - and then be sure that you will not loose the flame afterwards. I found it not to be too hard to do these with the proper equipment. It has to be the right kind of steel, flint and tinder or the right kind of woods and string for the bowdrill.

What do you mean by that? I guess I missed something here :s

Oi - that should not be hard at all. I dont know about the UK, but here in Germany, there are dozens of archery clubs around. Of course most are "boring" ones with straw disks as targets and people shooting not only wooden but also modern bows - but hey, its archery. We even had a really affordable course option at the university sports center here. And then we have plenty of clubs doing "hunting archery" - not really killing animals, that is forbidden by law, but setting up a parcours in the forest with plastic foam animals - this is a lot of fun. I am sad that I did not have the time for it in a while.

Also, my second self-made bow is still not even close to be finished :( - also because of little time. I wanted to make a stronger one than the one I made first.

Sounds cool. Here in Germany, bows and arrows are considered a sports equipment and one is allowed to carry it as long as it is not ready to shoot. The situation of where one is allowed to actually practice that sport is another issue - some say that as long as one does it safely, it is basically allowed in any open space. But I guess the police would differ in opinion. I once was carrying my bow and arrow across the city after a training and was stopped by the police. In the end of that encounter, they wanted to know where one can do traditional "hunting-style" archery in my city :P

That sadly is because of the technique itself. It simply is not working as well. It has to do with the drag of the fingers on the string and on the arrow. One can shoot with that method, but the accuracy is not that great and it takes a lot more concentration and is a lot more risky. I tried a modification of the NA'Vi technique by using the same style of holdign the string, but by placing the arrow on the other side of the bow. That works rather well actually, because then the twist of the string is again similar to regular style archery.

What else have I done - I tanned a leather once, want to try it by myself sometime, though I am not sure it is that easy because the last time it was 6 people or so all pulling at that leather in different directions to make is smooth - alone, one would have to use a frame and a stick probably.

I am doing some sewing, some weaving (tablet weaving in particular) and if you want to call it a Na'vi skill I did prepare some insects to eat :P

Cool, what kind? I didn't even think of that, though I guess it's not something I do anymore. I used to work at a kiosk of insect foods at a bug zoo around here.

There are a few around that I saw, but it's all the organised type, where they teach things and not where I could just turn up and teach myself to do it Na'vi style :(
That hunting one sounds more interesting, I'll have to take another look for things like that.

Got enough problems with AFK stuff right now though, it'll be at the very least a few months before I can really do anything, probably more.

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AFK ?????

Niri Te

Congratulations! I'll try it your way! :D

i have just finished a neytiri necklace that i did and did again it's kinda cool

Away from keyboard. In the non-internet world.

It must be realy beautiful! :)