in Omaha. He--as it turned out, you know, in his farming life, he got more involved in political issues and agricultural issues, and ended up working for some corporations. Archer Daniels Midland, he was on the board of Kanegra, and the Coca-cola Enterprises, other companies like this. On one of his business trips to Africa--go backward--no, no. On oneof his business trips to Africa, he took a camera with him, and he is sort of conservationist.
And in many ways, I actually thought it was a home crowd disadvantage. Archery's one of those sports that you've got to try and keep your heart rate nice and low and your nerves quite low. But going into the stadium, everyone's clapping.
all of those areas would come and there would be a very challenging contest an archery contest and the person who wins it is going to marry you so fanali is uh you know she's not completely happy because she's like I'm not going to be choosing my husband anyway um but still
work there have been many explanations mongolia's Supreme horse archers for example or climate change that somehow forced their explosion from the Central Asiangrasslands but there have been horse archers for a thousand years and there's no evidence of ecological change to find
the other one is Greek. The archer is bending very far backwards, seemingly aiming randomly at the sky. The ancient vase specialists and art historians have interpreted this scene as quote, a dying Amazon collapsing in battle.
Anyway, the point is "The Archers --" I'm just going to take one example. "The Archers " is a publicly funded radio soap opera that you're a huge fan of sir. You will be able to tell us, it had a major storyline last year, listened to by millions of people, about violence within a marriage,
The nomads of the steppes perfected the small but powerful re-curve Scythian bow. Scythian archers were feared for their terrific aim, and their ability to shoot arrows at incredible speeds. And then they even went on to concoct sophisticated and nasty arrow poisons by mixing viper venom with pathogens
The horse combined archery, that was the great equalizer for women on the steppes. Mounted archery was the catalyst for women's full participation in hunting and warfare and all those other activities. Astride a horse with a bow and arrows, a woman could be just as fast and just as deadly as a man.
The ancient vase specialists and art historians have interpreted this scene as quote, a dying Amazon collapsing in battle. Scythian archers were also famous for their speed shooting, and they could probably estimate-- estimates today are that they could probably release an arrow
The ancient vase specialists and art historians have interpreted this scene as quote, a dying Amazon collapsing in battle. It allows an archer to shoot in quick succession without having to constantly reach for arrows from the quiver at their waist.
Aisha Tyler: Yeah. LaFawn Bailey: On Archer . Aisha Tyler: Archer . Yeah. I love that show so much. LaFawn Bailey: Which is the highest rated show in FX history. Which is pretty awesome.
So I looked around for one that I could do, one that didn't involve running or walking. And I figured archery was a good idea and turned out to be quite good at it. Wow. So there's a lot you covered there.
I'll be good for a while. And the archery style you see in the movie is what he taught me.
And meanwhile, women of all ages, we've been talking about this earlier today, are taking up bows and arrows in unprecedented numbers, and horse women archers , calling themselves Amazons, are competing around the world. These are a few of them, you could actually take the lessons from these women to learn to do this.
was the combination of the horse and the bow. The horse combined archery, that was the great equalizer for women on the steppes. Mounted archery was the catalyst for women's full participation in hunting and warfare and all those other activities.
The ancient vase specialists and art historians have interpreted this scene as quote, a dying Amazon collapsing in battle. And flight archery contests were described by ancient Greek historians, and we even have some of the record distances recorded
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. This was the annual archery festival in Bhutan.
More different than just positive and negative charge. I've got an Archerfish on the statistics book, which is a really cool, I don't know if you know about the Archerfish,
More different than just positive and negative charge. and then the Archerfish swims over and eats it.
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So here's the data. There's a woman named Emerald Archer who did her Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara in political psychology. She studied female Marines at Camp Pendleton, a Marine base outside of San Diego.
friend that only one person no maybe two people can win this contest and one is the pandiva brother the famous Archer Arjun and that is the person they want her to marry okay so so she's all geared up and they show her the portraits of
And it was around that time-- you make it sound very easy, but you decided I could do something where I can do something sporty, and archery is it. But did you know people who did archery? What led you to picking up an arrow for the first time?
Right! But somebody on the school bus did it. And they told me about their archery and how much fun it was. And the more they were talking about it, I thought I could do that.
And she said, you've got a choice to make. You either go for your archery. And if you want to do that, we will support you all the way.
There was so much pressure on me to win as well every week in 2012. And I come from Paralympic archery, which is a low-profile sport. But I was getting two journalists a week ringing me up saying, you're the hot favorite to win.
Most local gun ranges have some kind of beginners shooting seminar. I've noticed that both rifle and archery ranges, that everyone is always right there to help you if you need help, if you're asking for it.
Well, I mean, does anybody here-- I mean, you may find radio rather old fashioned. But does anybody here listen to "The Archers " on Radio 4? Yeah, come on. Yeah, it's one bloke-- one bloke.
And they also used a floating anchor, which is an innovation-- or not an innovation-- but is known nowadays and used by people like this modern Amazon of instinctive archery. You don't have a fixed anchor point, you actually use instinctive aim.
Greek artists began to equip the Amazons with real Scythian weapons, just like those found in Scythian burials. Amazons were now shown as archers , and they were outfitted with distinctive Scythian style re-curve bows and decorated quivers with flaps that hung up on belts at their waist instead of at the back of their shoulders.
It's overlooked by the art historians. When I showed vase paintings of Amazon archers to some archery experts, they immediately noted that the women are using the nomad style thumb draw, and also instinctive archery with no fixed anchor.
And as we've already seen, Greek artists illustrated Amazons twisting around on their horses to shoot arrows backwards in the notorious Parthian shot. That re-curve bow used by Scythian archers was an equalizer, as I mentioned, for women. And the bows' curves store a lot of extra force under compression because of those curves.
It can also be done standing if you brace one foot against a rock or a helmet as shown on this vase from the Smithsonian on the right. Some Greek images of Amazon archers have been misunderstood by scholars until now. For example, there's a vase painting here that shows an Amazon archer between two riders, one of them identified as a Scythian,
The ancient vase specialists and art historians have interpreted this scene as quote, a dying Amazon collapsing in battle. Because I think we would expect with archers to find one side more developed than the other, and it would be a way of determining
archers for example or climate change that somehow forced their explosion from the Central Asiangrasslands but there have been horse archers for a thousand years and there's no evidence of ecological change to find the cause we must look more closely at Jenis leadership is the key given the
He said, my theory stands as firm as a rock. Every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer . How do I know this?
It's just magic. Thank you. You want to have the arc of an archer .
When you just have your investment in-- this is Archer Daniel the Midlands, ADM in Bolivia, cutting down huge amounts of rain forest for our grains
faction the kava Dynasty he's the best friend of the prince of the kavas and this person who was also as good an Archer as Arjun is known as karna okay but but she's told you know he's allied with the wrong people so we don't want you to
If your friends are going out, and you're invited, you can go. But if it's going to affect your archery, you don't. So she's like, you've got a choice.
So she's like, you've got a choice. You either have your social life or your archery. But you make your choice now.
And that was able-bodied. We don't have very many disabled competitions domestically in archery. So your first major win, Junior Championships able-bodied, so you're the national champion at that point?
I've just taken 10 days off. Yeah, the World Archery Classifiers, yes.
I've just taken 10 days off. "The Hunger Games," "The Avengers," how good is the archery?
And then there was a band called the Archers of Loaf.
Then, you get the archers .
When I showed vase paintings of Amazon archers to some archery experts, they immediately noted that the women are using the nomad style thumb draw, and also instinctive archery with no fixed anchor. The thumb draw is sometimes called the Mongolian draw.
The ancient vase specialists and art historians have interpreted this scene as quote, a dying Amazon collapsing in battle. But in fact, the archers stance is an accurate portrayal of flight archery, shooting an arrow a very long distance.
The ancient vase specialists and art historians have interpreted this scene as quote, a dying Amazon collapsing in battle. were like domestic propaganda to discourage girls from taking up archery, horseback riding
The ancient vase specialists and art historians have interpreted this scene as quote, a dying Amazon collapsing in battle. So we know that these nomads on the steppes were practicing archery since they were kids, little kids.