Another two Mat Armstrong's last night, i can't believe the millions of hits / views in a short space of time this guy gets over other Youtubers.
Just watched Sinners. Enjoyed the soundtrack, found the premise and the execution a little silly; quite how it got 16 Oscar nominations we are struggling to fathom.
This was absolutely brilliant. It’s a film based on a true story about the Nineveh SWAT Team, a legendary squad of renegade Iraqi police officers who fought against ISIS (Daesh) in the battle for Mosul. In Arabic with English subtitles.
I didn't enable YouTube because it eats through my mobile credit, but I did a search and read: https://www.eabaker.org/post/two-truths-and-a-lie-a-review-of-mosul So I shall acquire that.
This is so good. A longbowman shooting correctly made arrows manufactured by a mediaeval arrowsmith/fletcher from a 160lb yew war bow into (eventually, as the series progresses) a ballistics gel dummy clad in metallurgically and dimensionally correct armour fabricated by a medieval armourer with all the historically accurate mail undershirts, padded doublet etc. Just to see what happens….. The attention to detail and historical accuracy is incredible.
One of my mates is well into his medieval history and also dabbles in a bit of long bowing, believe me you have to a proper monster to keep drawing one of those weapons back in a fight. Probably why the crossbow became so popular. Other 'interesting' fact is that arrowheads were attached to the shaft (giggity) with beeswax, the use of which would leave the head in the victim! Ask Henry V.
Love a crossbow, although no doubt banning them will be on Herr Starmer’s to-do list at some point. Some arrow heads were also bonded in with resin or glue made from horse hooves and if barbed, they were very difficult to extract as pushing the arrow through creates an even longer wound track and/or risks hitting major blood vessels and cutting the arrow out has its own obvious drawbacks. However, mediaeval battlefield medics worked out that by inserting two feathers that had had the tips snipped off the ends of the shafts into the wound so that the open end of the shafts slipped over the points of the barbs on either side of the arrow head meant it could easily be extracted without causing additional trauma.
Fascinating (nerdy) stuff. Sounds a little like a medieval ghetto version of the Bradmore arrowhead extraction tool...
Brilliant channel that. I've watched a lot of his vids. Joe Gibbs is an awsome archer. There can be very few people in the country who could even draw one of those heavy English long bows once, let alone shoot them repeatedly and as accurately as he can. Makes you realise what atheletes battlefield archers must have been, and what a toll it must have taken on their joints and bones.
Particularly as people were smaller and less well nourished on those days. However, they did train from boyhood on progressively heavier draw bows and it affected their physical development so profoundly that battlefield archeologists can identify the skeletons of archers by their asymmetric bone structure and more prominent marks where the tendons attached on one side’s shoulder and arm bones NB: that was a 160lb bow but he said he can also shoot a 200lb, although he’s fit for fuck all after 6 shots.
I'm just starting it now. The scenes of destruction in the opening credits are thought-provoking like a slap round the back of the head.
I remember the early days when Channel 4 did the coverage. Not a fan of all the extraneous shit on Channel 5 Had family in Seattle so Seahawks here. Andy
Agree with Channel 5, that Dermot O Leary bloke. Plenty of snow this game, bit to late to watch the Seahawks
