Rest On Your Arms Reverse

[harry hackedoff]

COME ON, YOU CHEMICS

[Rotary Booty]

Gosh Harry, you're allowed to stay up late!!

Just to drag this back to the original subject though..........how did they do 'Rest on Your Arms Reverse' with the Longbow?

[harry hackedoff]

Easy one mate
feet 90 degs apart with right heel into the hollow of the left foot
place one end of bow between feet
other end over left shoulder
place left hand on bow at chest height, right hand underneath forearms parallel to ground
head bowed slightly


Next

[Rotary Booty]

I just tried that, and with my feet 90 degrees apart, my right heel was too far away from my left heel and I nearly did the splits!
Then I tried it with one foot pointing forward and the other at 90 degrees to it and I fell over.
I tried again, using the bow to prop me up, and progressed to the hands bit, when, locked in this position and unable to move, my wife removed my wallet from my back pocket, and history has repeated itself!
Harry, are there any strings attached to this bow drill movement, and is the head bowed the same as the bow is bowed?

[John_D]

What about those who are bow legged?

John_D

[harry hackedoff]

Listen in, you varlots,
in the Bodlian library in Oxford is a rare thirteenth-century edition called "Ye Pamflete Five and Fortee " which has some very interesting facts about the weapons of the period( thats where I found the Longbow I.A.drill), rates of fire,stoppages daily cleaning and such. In chapter XXXIV "Various and Several Cerimonious Movements, The Practice of Which Doth Pleaseth His Majestie" you will find information on arms drill.
Note that the "rest on your arms" with the Longbow is not reversed. The practise of resting on arms reversed was explicitly forbade by Henry 4 because, as the chapter explains:-
" At one time, three and twenty goodly Knights And Captaines of His Majesties Armee did, partaking of Broadsword cerimonies and drills, causeth the most heinous and bloody injuries and wounds to their hands.
Being goodly,yet simple and foolish fellowes they didst mistaketh Thy Mace and Hammer cerimonies and drills for thy Broadsword cerimonies and drills. Being of the most simplest and feeblest of minds, Thy goodly Knights and Captaines did so place their great swords not point down and hands rest ye on thy pommel but pommel down and hands rest ye on thy point. When ye good and worthy yeoman didst command these several Knights and Captains to droppeth thy arms and heads, these fellowes didst carry out ye order in such incautioned and rash a manner so as to impaleth their hands on their swords. Indeed, one fellowe, Sir Wupert de Wah-Wah did use such force so as to impaleth not only his hands, nay but allso his fore-head to a depth of two inches. Much to the humour and goodly amusements of several surfs, villaines and varlots who stood near by,
Henceforth, let it be known throughout this Realm that His Majestie King Henry doth decree that His Own Goodly Knights and Captaines shalt not play with sharp or pointy things"

Nothing much changes

By your leave, Goodly Knights, I remain
your humble scribe

Sir Harry of Hackedoff

[harry hackedoff]

Derek do what I do, practise in front of the mirror when the missus isnt in!

Harry

[owdun]

Harry,old son,I think you have finally flipped your lid,and I must be in a
bad way too,cos I almost found that last load of bullshine to be true.then
the wife hit me again,and when I came too,Irealised you were only
kidding,sad really,because it sounded so good.
Yours Aye Owdun

[harry hackedoff]

Heyup, mate,
there`s more. I went back to the library last week and found a fifteenth century newspaper, Ye Dailye Starre. On page three there`s a woodcut of Charlotte The Harlotte, who was obviously built for comfort and a short piece by one Simple John, the bowwe- leged bugger of Farnworth, entitled "Ye Moderne Wheel-lock Gunne, is verily not as worthy as Ye Long-bowe of my youth" but I`ll save that one for another time,
yours
Harry