I very much disagree, Sylla. A professional archer aims to perfect his techniques, yes, but do you see modern day soldiers jumping around, rotating 2 times and headshotting someone? (I certainly hope not, it must be a bloody awful place you live if you see that much violence).
The act I described above is, indeed, pretty hard. It must take years of practice, or at least months of tries. But you see, it's a different skill. Soldiers are trained to hit center mass, as quick as possible, not to spin and dance while headshotting.
Even if you disagree with that, I can just ask you the following:
What do you consider a "professional archer" as you put it? Someone who has trained for years? Someone who earns money for it? Someone who prefers practicality over showsmanship?
Or, to make it easier, just tell me what's a professional shooter to you. Someone who practices trickshooting for their entire life? Or someone who has trained to be efficient and consistent with shooting their entire life? Because those are rather different sets of skills.
What you fail to understand, aiming is the most basic and easiest thing an archer can do. Apply such skill in every situation, as Lars explains, is what really counts for me.
Being fired by an arrow, catch it in the air and fire it back within firing a flying arrow middle travel towards you are the most useful things ive ever seen to do with bows.
Just imagine yourself in an archer duel, having a perfect aim would be completly secondary with said skills or "tricks" as you call them.
Archer a only knows to aim, perfectly. Archer b knows to aim aswell, but he knows da "tricks". Who would you win? Of course the archer that knows to avoid being arrowed in the face, be hitting the arrow in the air or catch it and fire it back? AKA tricks, RIGHT? Because archer a just would throw well aimed arrows, but if an arrow is traveling towards his head is unable to react or avoid it. Get it?
It is hard to compare an archer with modern soldiers because of the current weapons. Yet soldiers nowdays are trained in martial arts, a bit of strategic, reflexes, thinking fast, endure and bypass a variety of obstacles ETC. ETC... would you call that simple tricks? i think not, since they will use all of that knowledge and body training to defeat their enemies.
To be a soldier is not simply aim with a huge rifle... same reasoning could be applied for archers? What do you say?
Dude please, stop being short minded.
