#mounted archery

[whywishesarehorses]

Mongolian horse archer; pulled from Instagram from a repost account that did not include the og source

[redsamuraiii]

Sakura Yabusame by Aomori Japan

Yabusame is a traditional martial arts of mounted archery which started during the Heian Period, a time when the first female Samurai, Tomoe Gozen, was first known and recorded in history.

Sakura Yabusame is a special event for female archers only which takes place during spring, where women in kimonos ride horses at full speed under the sakura and shoot their targets.

[crazycatsiren]

One day in the near future, my utmost honoring of my ancestors will be complete with mounted archery. 🏹🏇

[lafseanchai]

I went to my first SCA equestrian event, which was amazing! Beau was an absolute rockstar, and we got recognized in court as the mounted archery MVP for the weekend (I ended up being the only mounted archer after we all got authorized as the other horses were not having good days). It was interesting to see Beau work things out in some of the games, as he would get fired up but then be confused as to why we were in personal bubbles when that is not allowed normally, and also why the horses didn't back off when he made mean cow horse bitey faces at them. But he did very well, and never spooked at anything (including a big outdoor patio umbrella blowing over next to him in the archery lane). We have to work in some equitation and trail skills to handle the challenge courses, but we needed to do that anyway. The other equestrians were amazing (and helped save me when I had a trailer tire blow on the way up to the event), and I am looking forward to the next event in July.

[kitsumeo]

Akatsuki no Yona

Here is an illustration I made for @the_doodling_panda for a secret santa at the end of last year. One of the things on her list was the character Yona shooting her bow. I thought it would look even more epic from the back of a horse!

I haven't seen the series but might watch it!

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[chromecowgirl1]

[cricketcat9]

You go Noura!

Saudi equestrian and the country's first certified mounted archery trainer Noura Al-Jabr has a vision: reviving mounted archery and sword fighting. In her training centre in Dammam, she welcomes women hoping to enter the male-dominated sport.

[beatrack92]

Archer on horseback

[cinisekha]

i feel like these would be good references to you artists out there, have at it. would love to see the art if you do use them!!

[deserthorseperformancehorse]

Inshallah Kishor

1999 dark bay stallion (Sidi Sahibi x Galoom Beraka) 

Pedigree. 

ShaTranj Mounted Combat & Bushcraft

[redsamuraiii]

Yabusame by Hideki Mizuno

[horsebackarcherymexico]

La Arqueria a caballo/Arqueria Montada/Arqueria Ecuestre en Mexico

Horseback Archery/Mounted Archery/Equestrian Archery in Mexico

[istra-ish-sucha-geek]

My entire parenting philosophy towards my baby sibling (I’m 16 years older than they are) was to expose them to every piece of fantasy and geeky media I could to raise a thoroughly proper nerd.

Considering their full time job is now running a HORSE ARCHERY school/business, I’d say: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

So part of parenting is slowly exposing the small child to various pieces of media.

There’s a balancing act between trying to present media that I loved at that age and allowing space to explore it, and becoming acutely aware of confronting content in ‘kids’ media. The child’s brain is like a sponge and I have no idea what’s going to be absorbed on any given viewing.

For example, going from Disney’s Frozen to Disney’s Cinderella is confronting and kind of scary for a little kid, because we jumped from one idea of what ‘sisters’ are to wicked ones. Like yeah, I have to agree in context that it’s scary.

But Sleeping Beauty, with the monsters and dragon and fire, is only ‘pretend scary’. It does, however, cause questions to be raised about kissing. (Because, being a single mum, the child doesn’t see me kiss anybody so has no context for that)

But anyway, now we’re finally grasping more complex stories and while we’re nowhere near developing a moral code yet, kiddo is currently obsessed with The Last Unicorn movie!

And I am so happy about it!

It was a movie I first saw at about that age, though I nowhere near understood it at the time.

You gotta be careful about what words you let I be your brain because some of them will re-write your mind. The Last Unicorn was one of those influences for me and I’m delighted to be passing it on.

[chromecowgirl1]

[ash-and-starlight]

modern au and esen’s honkers are haunting the instagram feed

[sesamenom]

blond wrestling guy + blumineck = celegorm