Joe deep down wishes he was in the army of Genghis Khan
juniorsoprano
Instead of this being in the Olympics
we got breakdancing
GRRMNR
for anyone that has ever seriously tried riding a horse, hearing about the Parthian shot leaves you in awe of the level of physicality and mastery people had to reach to gain decisive advantages in otherwise losing battles. Nowadays, you only ever see a glimpse of it at high level sports tournaments. Impressive doesn't do enough to describe it.
samyattar
You can study English Longbowmen. They have Thicker bones on one side due to the fact that they were forced to train, often since childhood, for defense of the Realm.
soulie
“Jamie, pull up the video of that massive grizzly riding a elk the same way”
jackbowman
To put into perspective, most compound bows are set at 40-45lbs draw strength and once the bow is drawn you can hold the draw with minimal effort. The bows they're talking about are recurve bows with no such mechanisms to alleviate your arm of the stress of the draw. You draw 160lbs, and you HOLD 160lbs until you loose.
WreaklessTaco
The famed English long bowmen too had deformed bones from pulling their heavy bows too. Such were the power the bows, the heavily armoured French knights were taken down by their arrows.
wenhu
160 pound bow is preposterous, I feel the real strength is hanging off a moving horse like that while being stable enough to shoot a arrow.
Edit: we are so clearly talking about draw weight, what do you think they make bows out of for them to be 160 pounds? Bedrock? Also Joe said he draws 90 pounds when shooting, I doubt any of you are as strong as him so please stop telling me you're pulling back 130 for a white tail.
Edit 2: Yes we all workout. Let’s think about this though, what you make in a year doesn’t cover what Joe spends on his body. So no I don’t think you are that strong, flexible, or in shape on the level he is.
MaxoBiggiePoppa
Mongolian warriors perfected the horse mounted cavalry way before World War 1 where the French, British, and US forces were fighting trench warfare. The second time cavalry was used was during the US Civil War.
paulflores
As an owner of multiple 200 year old Mongol-Kazak-Central Asian bows, these bows were composite - made of sinew, bones, antlers, wood, fibers, strung against the natural curve. Very advanced techniques for say 1200-1450 era. Mongol horse archers could fire accurately over uneven ground. These are called Mangudai.
satyakammisra
The draw weight, measured in pounds (#) indicates how much force is needed to draw the bow to an anchor position
baljitmatharu
their enemies also had arrow and bow, but they could not shoot those arrows as far as the Mongols could. That also was a huge advantage. For hundreds of years these different Monol tribes were fighting eachother on the high planes, evolving into the best warriors of the planet. When Djenghis Khan managed to unite all the tribes under his reign, they became an unstoppable force.
soothOfTheLoop
Historical records and archaeological findings suggest that traditional Mongolian warbows had draw weights exceeding 100 pounds, making them among the most powerful bows in history. This immense poundage allowed Mongolian warriors to launch heavy arrows with remarkable velocity and force, capable of piercing armor and inflicting devastating wounds on enemy soldiers.
Accounts of war bows 120-150 pounds would mainly have to be used on foot, otherwise, shooting such heavy bows on horseback is near impossible. Contrary to popular belief, not every soldier rode on horseback. There were sometimes foot archers in the Mongol Empire army.
Joe talking about this he doesn't know shit about is just Tuesday
supra
their core and hip strength had to be insanely strong
vikimzi
That’s the coolest thing I’ve seen all week!!
Full_Spectrum_Threat_solutions
joe always goes all in on his enthusiasm. he describes bears like they are 3 times bigger and 10 times more likely to kill you
Clara-was-here_lol
A team of archaeologists once found a mass grave of british archers and they found that they're arms had twice the thickness of normal humans as they had been pulling 170 pound war bows since childhood
danieltait
It wasn't the mongols who had the 160 lb draw-weight bows and subsequently deformed skeletons, that would have been the English and the Welsh. The mongols used a recurve design that was able to launch arrows more effectively with a more compact structure and a lower draw-weight. The compact design had the added benefit of being easier to use on a horse as opposed to a longbow. They were definitely insane archers though
dumbproductions
Probably how my bones will look from all the cranking up and torquing down I do on the hub
AlltheNismo
Joe is conflating english longbows with mongol bows
