AvA2 – Armour defeated!

Arrows vs Armour2 asked and answered many questions about just how the arrows from a full weight longbow could injure the knight wearing armour, but there were still some questions we wanted answered.  Can the very thin arm armour resist hits or is it vulnerable?  The mail aventail is really resistant to strikes, but even…

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Testing the longbow simulator

Tod uses a ‘longbow simulator’ and shoots it against Joe Gibbs with his 160lbs longbow.  How do they compare? Are they interchangeable or is it a complete cheat?  What do these arrows look like in slow motion, how fast do they go and how much energy and momentum do they have?  How powerful are they…

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AvA2 Blunt Force Trauma

How powerful is a hit from a full weight medieval war arrow? Can it knock you off your feet? Can it send you flying from your saddle ? Can repeated hits stop you walking forward? A good question and one I hear often quoted, but is it correct? Whilst we are discussing these things, it…

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Joe Gibbs and the Longbow simulator

Ideally filmed prior to the filming dates here and will be Joe and Tod only. Time and commitment may mean that we just get together for a very rapid hour or two one evening when we don’t even have to worry about light and just shoot and write down numbers and then get together to…

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Credits

On screen contributors Film crew Off screen contributors and suppliers Christine Carnie – Historical Tailor

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Suppliers

Part of the philosophy of Arrows Vs Armour is to source the best of authentically made equipment and these were our principal suppliers. Amazing crafts people with amazing skills and knowledge.

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Force of impact test

After filming the first 5 AvA2 films, we realised there was another set of questions and another film that needed making so Tod wrote out a quick ‘story’ and made the film. Because of this the “story’ is a little unpolished. An after thought…….. Intro to me – the guys are not here today. We…

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Documents

Conceiving, planning, fundraising, producing and filming a block of films like this generated lots of documents that will be of interest to some of you and they can be found here. Stories We do not work to scripts and we change our focus depending on what has just happened and what we have seen, but…

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Documents

Email thread The Arrows Vs Armour project happened very fast, in an informal way between friends and acquaintances, so much of it was done by phone calls and emails, coordinated and produced by Tod. This is a string of emails that show the process from conception to the eve of filming in just 4 weeks…

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War bow weight test 

One of the biggest problems we face in exploring what longbows could do and did do to armour is that we don’t even know how powerful the longbows were. We have written accounts of the battles, we have the armour of the time, we have pictures and paintings and arrow heads, but no bows. Not…

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