I was in an archery club for a few years. However, we shot at stationary targets from a standing position. I can't imagine how much training and experience it takes to hit moving targets at that speed from a horseback. These people have my full respect.
Exactly, that's why the ancient Chinese army formed by farmers couldn't defeat PROFESSIONAL ARCHERS formed by nomads although the Chinese army had more men
@@aofeizhang8735 The Chinese did beat them plenty of times. But it's still telling that the best tactic they found was to beat the nomads at their own game - making their own cavalry archer corps.
This is amazing in that Mongols knew the real value of shooting at fast moving targets simulating real combat scenarios, 800 years before today’s fighter shooting at moving targets.
The Mongols were actually quite weak to Western armies. The Mongol threat against Central Europe was ended by the rapid westernization of the Hungarian and Polish militaries. The Mongols were thoroughly embarrassed when they went up against a reformed Hungarian army in the 1280s, for instance. Nagai Khan lost almost his entire army and barely survived himself.
It's a thing of beauty. As impressive as this is, the horse archers of old were on another level, having known nothing but life in the saddle from childhood, imagine the feats they were capable of...
i heard from another video, there was an archer on horseback who fired three arrows into a man as his horse fell from a fatal injury. three arrows in practically one second
@@wyatt7465 Historical sources love to exaggerate. There’s also records of armies which exceed the total population of the empires raising them, stories of one guy holding a bridge against thousands of men, arrows blocking out the sun, and many other tall tales. It’s possible to loose arrows quickly, but 3 in 1 second is superhuman, aka not possible. The human body just does not move that fast. The rate of fire of a semiautomatic rifle, or the rate at which a human can pull a trigger, is roughly 2 shots per second. That’s a 1/2 inch movement of one finger. Drawing a bow requires the entire arm to move several feet and takes significantly longer than it takes to move the finger 1/2 an inch.
@@QualityPen i didn't say one second, i said Practically one second. from the time his horse got hit to the time it took for him to loose the arrows quickly. historically speaking it takes a trained soldier to fire a flintlock 2-3 times in one minute and though rare can be shot 3-4 times. my point with that being humans who have a certain level of determination or motivation can do impossible things in certain situations. there are stories of parents lifting cars with their bare hands to rescue their kids. and this archer i was referring to was focused on one target and i never said he pulled the arrows back to full draw. and that was a bit contradictory of you to say in one line it's possible then to say in the next line it's not possible.
INSANE displays of riding skill plus archery feats! WOW they are really galloping so fast and doing all sorts of shots, including shooting each other! Love it!
I'm a woman and really want to learn horseback archery. I just started learning archery last year and don't knoe how to ride a horse yet. If there's a war, I want to be a horseback archer
Mongolian & other steppe horse archers had a large part in creating today’s world, a heritage those archery students should be proud to continue. Beautiful video. I wish I could have seen the Mongolian army I’m action. Well, maybe not.
@@ayoubmonno9662 I hear you and understand. They turned Central Asia and much of China into pasture, obliterating millions of lives, many cultures and languages in the process. But, a long time has passed, so we can look back with clearer eyes to see what they wrought, to learn and understand.
@@gregoryluckert9969 I can't imagine what over 120,000 Mongol cavalry looked like in action. Must've sounded like thunder with all those hoofs galloping.
What is really amazing is that this has been preserved for thousands of years. The Mongols didn't invent this stuff, they just perfected it. We know it was being done at least as far back as 4000 years ago, maybe longer. Works so well it's still being done today
As an experienced rider myself, and someone who is well trained with a rifle and bow, I find this to be beyond impressive. Shooting from the back of a moving horse takes some insane skill! Thanks to the Mongolians for the stirrup by the way.
@@Maza675 I stand corrected, and thank you for the information. Have any of you ever tried riding without a saddle or stirrups? I compare it to driving a sports car without power steering or hydraulic brakes. Much better in terms of a sense of real control and feel. However, the burn in the thighs after 30 minutes or so (depending on how you're riding) is noticeable, it's definitely a lot more work to stay on the horse, again depending on how well trained your horse is, and how you're riding it.
This is insane! Shooting arrows at enemy from horseback was probably the equivalent to gunning down people from a helicopter while horse archer vs. horse archer was probably as close to a dogfight as you can get before the advent of firearms and flying machines.
Yeah, these short horses are incredibly strong! Arabic/European horses may look good, but Mongolian horses withstand cold, hunger and other hardships much better than them
They stand in the stirrups using their legs to smooth out the motion, like standing when on a bike. But I think that back in the day the mongols did not use stirrups so that wold have looked a bit different...
They’re communicate with the horse with their knees knocking or body weight leaning to right or left. The horse knows where to go with that body languages.
@Dani Dans the mamluks were turks, & they were also born & bred on the same steppes as the mongols in present day krygz/kazakh, thats why their horse archery was paralleled to the mongols. Before being sold off into slavery by the mongols by Crimea way to Syria then Egypt.
@Mighty Light a bit of history, its the SLAVE MAMLUK TURKS of the kipchack steppes, present day kazakhstan/kyrgyzstan who defeated the mongols under Al Zahir Baybars who is also a Steppe Nomad whom share the same culture as the mongols. thats why their horse archery was paralleled to the mongols bc they're essentially steppe nomad people with the same culture before they were sold off by the mongols into slavery. The mamluks also used feigned & retreat to defeat the mongols. They also looked like mongols too.
True! Greeks also said that the Amazonians were Scythian. Scythian women would fight alongside their men in battles in the bronze age so the Greeks mythologized them to be an all female warrior race. The centaurs might've been mythologized Scythian nomads too
GREATE!!! I wish you be there with you and ride and shoot in steppe !!! This type of shooting, in group of people, in open stepp is much closer to real battle. You did greate job Altan, horseback archery in mongolia is again ALIVE, thanks to you and your friends!!!
Cool video, very impressive skills. Imagine an army of 30,000 of these warriors on a battlefield. Makes sense why Subutai with a force of 30k was able to wreck the Rus like they were nothing.
It was 20k mongols vs 80k cumans and rus. Cumans perhaps had same tactics as mongols, so mongols had to feign retreat and ambush, suddenly attacking with force shocking the enemy.
However, they were so successful only because the Mongols' opponents did not adapt to Mongol tactics. Later the Mongols were defeated by the Arabs and then by the Russians.
However, they were so successful because the Mongols' opponents did not adapt to Mongol tactics. Later the Mongols were defeated by the Muslims and then by the Russians.
@@SerkAk how much later? correct me if im wrong, but i thought they never lost a major battle under Genghis khan, or his generals. The Rus were completely subjugated by the mongols, and the only defeat to any muslim force that I know were the Mamluks but that was already after Genghis Khan died and Hulugu khan was running things.
i never thought such tradition is still held there! it is a good thing they still train their youth - and perhaps the elderly - for cavalry and archery we, Muslims, know it is advisable by our Prophet Muhammad (PBUP) to train our kids: archery, horse-riding and swimming
Very impressive display of mounted archery. In a open battle, you really wouldn't like these guys riding against you. Multiply their number by hundreds, and you can see why the Mongolians were so feared as an enemy.
@Andy Hrp90 you do know the seljuks turks lost to the mongols & were subjugated by the mongols right? Also, the seljuks were also from present day krygyz/Kazakhstan so they looked similar to mongols except by the time they touched Anatolia they Islamicized from assimilating with his arab/kurd/persian neighbors
indians persians koreans vietnamiss afghans caucasians and all of central and western and eastern europe and central asians lol all of them suffred from horse archers nomads attacks
Actually this comes from a long tradition of Horseback Archery that’s commonly found amongst any Y-DNA R1b, R1a and Y-DNA Q men. So this is basically how all of these men’s ancestries used to be. Germanic men for example were not originally from Europe, but were pushed into Europe by invading Hunnic tribes. Imagine that all these tribes are really like rival brothers, cousins and such; much like European Nobility was. Almost entirely related, yet fighting wars to be the dominant family House. It was found that 4 out of the five bodies found in a Royal Burial from Royal members of The Golden Horde were actually R1b and one of them was Y-DNA Q. So most Eastern and Western Europeans (Those who come from these aforementioned Haplogroups) used to live exactly like this. Hence why during WWI the Germans were called Huns by the media at that time. You can even look at the Equestrian Statue of Genghis Khan built in Mongolia, by a Mongolian nonetheless and he has a far more Eurasian depiction. The same goes for his descendants, like the Mongolian Astronomer Prince statue and many seem to have a common characteristic of Red Hair. The original Aryans were mostly Red Haired, mixing with East Asian women gave some darker features and Eye Shapes. I myself am a mixed ancestral lineage of paternal Aryans and Maternal Canaanites/Mycenaeans/Etruscans and Ancient Egyptians who all seemed to share genetic, cultural and historical links and trade routes. Thus, I’m Y-DNA R1b and MtDNA T2 and this is an analysis on the K6 calculator: Ancient Eurasia K6 Ancestral North Eurasian: 17.29% Ancestral South Eurasian: 5.78% East Asian: .99% West European Hunter-Gatherer: 41.24% Natufian: 34.7% Sub-Saharan: 0% As you can see I do have a small portion of East Asian, which seems to be associated with Modern Chinese. This seems to be through Y-DNA Q and MtDNA C, which are both found present in my DNA Autosomal analysis, though at minuscule amounts today.
As a Hungarian, loved this video, actually I am an asian fanatic. Love love love love everything about Mongólia, China, Japan, Korea, culture, music, history , tradition. Havonta the Kurultáj annál event ín Hunagry and knowing that si many people címe and visit it from Asian countries considering is Hunagarians as their relatives is amazing.
I get shivers down my spine, when I remember how the Huns and mongols utterly crushed pretty much all rival armies and almost dominated the world.. If it wasn't for the Plague outburst in Venice, I think Mongolia would have taken over all of Europe.
@@dr.shahidkarim8420 chinese dynasties, korean dynasties, japanese dynasties, persian dynasties, manchus, turkic states, northern india, tibetans. I could go on, you're welcome
Actually ,in the most time of histroy, nomads were defeated by han Chinese . Han chinese defeated the huns, turk and chased them away the far west from China. mogolian success in military didnot keep a long time,just decads of years, then were defeated by chinese ppl again.
Yeaaaaah... mongols were mostly Khan's and main family of Mongol Empire when 20% part of theirs army were other nationalities and other 70% parts were turkic peoples. But a whole world knew us(turks) only as mongols.... 😑 Actually we - turks, has many many empires and empires that we destroyed in history.
@@Juanchoo-jd6ln Dude, Central Asian Turkish horses can run for a long time without rest, hungry and thirsty. In this way, they went on distant expeditions and were not captured by their enemies.
It looks so amazing. I had once rode a retired military Mongolian horse. It was sensational when the horse started to run like crazy, jumped over a creek over 10 meter wide.
Very good work mate that song ties it all together. Terrifyingly effective those men were. Westerners hated them cuz they liked hand to hand combat more than ranged combat but steppe tribes didn't care they simply shot u to pieces while u tried to chase them
Westerners don't really hate Mongols (at least those to the west of Poland/Hungary), since they never really got a foothold in Central Europe. Tribes like the Huns, Vandals and Goths still have the names of their tribes carry some dark associations to this day, while "Mongol" doesn't really have those associations.
Although the Turks often comprised the bulk of the Mongol army as well as the bulk of armies opposed to the Mongols, throughout the domains of the Mongol Empire there was a diffusion of military technology, which has already bee and also ethnic groups. In addition to the Mongols and Turks, other ethnicities served in the Mongol military machine and found themselves distant from home. May, T.M., 2012. The Mongol conquests in world history, London: Reaktion Books. p.222
Amazing film , I'm forever intrigued by these people and their journey to here in modern times . I am sure their culture will outlive many others. Amazing footage
Сильнейший лайк! В 1988-1989 проходил армейскую службу в МНР и посчастливилось в Эрдэнэте побывать на празднике Надом. Великолепные ритуалы древней национальной борьбы, стрельба из лука и, конечно же, захватывающие скачки. Короче, полный найрамдал!
@LawyerSean It's not about the "rest".. It's the way they train these horses that is abuse. And I'm almost positive that you don't work with horses anyway so you can't be talking.
I heard that the Mongolians are great horseback riders, they can be riding and thesame time shooting there arrows at it’s target with great accuracy with full speed on horse. I can see that now. Bravo The Genghiz!!!
This should be a Olympic sport when we look around the world I don’t think there’s any country that didn’t have and use archery in defense or for hunting could be interesting
Sound nice, but it will be a sport dominated by a very limitade nations from central Asia. People don't practice that much even riding and achery, if you combine them it will be more harder and people will barely show intere
When you read about worriors from Steppes of Central Asia such as Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans, Yuezhi, Kidarites, Hephthelitis, Turks, Magyars, Kazars, Pechenegs, Bulgars, Kipchak/Cumans, Tanguts and finally Mongols they all used horse archery. They were different nations but shared culture and religion Tengeri
Non-nomadic people simply couldn't support so much cavalry because they would have to grow all the fodder for the horses on farms, whereas the nomads just had to let them graze. So different civilizations support different types of armies.
Although the Turks often comprised the bulk of the Mongol army as well as the bulk of armies opposed to the Mongols, throughout the domains of the Mongol Empire there was a diffusion of military technology, which has already bee and also ethnic groups. In addition to the Mongols and Turks, other ethnicities served in the Mongol military machine and found themselves distant from home. May, T.M., 2012. The Mongol conquests in world history, London: Reaktion Books. p.222
That Remind me of a funny Story. My daughter is half chinese. When she was only 4 years old, she sat on a rodeo horse machine on a Festival in Germany for the first time. They had several modus levels ( easy to very high)..the one who Managed the levels got to the highest one and my daughter still sits on the rodeo after a loooong time😂...normally all much older kids/ Teens already wld fell off at that stage. She never sat on a horse or else. At the end all waiting kids got a bit uncomfortable by her Talent and we wonder if she had some mongolian in her ancestry😊.....how persistent and fearless she Held herself on that machine : we were like 😮😅
This is amazing!! And something the world dose not get to see a lot of.. I’m amazed at how steady these men are in the saddle very little to no bouncing and seeing as they can ride up to 35 mph and still hit there targets while moving is amazing no fancy gadgets sights or scopes just pure skill and practice I can see why they gave most of Europe a butt kicking. If your interested there traditional throat singing is amazing as well I wish I could have the chance to try this stuff but I’m not sure outsiders would be welcome to learn this stuff some cultures are very guarded not sure if the Mongolian culture is or not though
Horse Archers would get destroyed by normol archers massed together. The mongols at times had to get off their horses just to shoot back a concentrated rain and still lost and their arrows fell apart due to different climate. They met their match in Europe and Indian area. Best counter to mongols are cannons, foot archers and lines of spear men.
@@randomlygeneratedname7171 I didn’t know that, still despite there issues for a group of nomadic people and tribes it’s amazing what they accomplished and there skill on horseback is still extremely impressive
The rest of Asia, but not Europe. Mongol conquest stopped after the east of Europe. Long thought because of the death of the Khan but more recent study shows it was because Europe had an insane density of more than 10,000 stone castles. Utterly impossible to invade by light cavalry.
@@categories5066 Only the lowlands. As soon if they hit more difficult geography it's also over. Steppe tactics don't work in dense forests or mountains, have to get of your horse. Dismounted they would have been wrecked by the Europeans.
Thank you for this video. This is awesome to watch. I have to focus really hard to make sure I stay in step with the horse at full gallop and y’all are doing that AND perfectly timing the shots with the full gallop of the horse. I’m jealous but in a good way of their skill and way of life
Far more I assume. Today people do this for more of a sport and game. Back then, people do so more regularly and was part of their hunting and skirmish traditional.
I was in an archery club for a few years. However, we shot at stationary targets from a standing position. I can't imagine how much training and experience it takes to hit moving targets at that speed from a horseback. These people have my full respect.
Exactly, that's why the ancient Chinese army formed by farmers couldn't defeat PROFESSIONAL ARCHERS formed by nomads although the Chinese army had more men
You have to use a thumb ring to shoot effectively while you are moving
@@aofeizhang8735 The Chinese did beat them plenty of times. But it's still telling that the best tactic they found was to beat the nomads at their own game - making their own cavalry archer corps.
@@aofeizhang8735455😂❤😊😅
If want to learn just come and train I can teach yu
This is amazing in that Mongols knew the real value of shooting at fast moving targets simulating real combat scenarios, 800 years before today’s fighter shooting at moving targets.
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Dynamic horse archery goes back way further than 800 years
They were one of the few cultures who invented a bow where they actually could shoot like that from a horse
@@AltanNergui
I love how unified and centralized ancient mongolian life was around horse and archer. A culture seemingly built for mastery of war.
Actually I believe shooting at moving targets were originally meant for hunting. Need to bring in some nice venison. It was later adapted for warfare.
Amazing. Im Native American (Navajo) This is amazing to see this culture still hold their traditional ways.
Our Central Asian and First Nations people are related✊✊✊
Hi, sorry for my bizarre question,...
How many Native Americans are currently living in the USA?
you are ONLY american others are occupants
@@bartomiejzakrzewski7220 I don't think you understand what the title is.
no you are not 👏
Amazing, Imagine the fear and feeling of total hopelessness that western armies felt when encountering thousands of these guys for the first time.
The Mongols were actually quite weak to Western armies. The Mongol threat against Central Europe was ended by the rapid westernization of the Hungarian and Polish militaries. The Mongols were thoroughly embarrassed when they went up against a reformed Hungarian army in the 1280s, for instance. Nagai Khan lost almost his entire army and barely survived himself.
As a Hungarian, i felt proud watching them . Talented people. Greetings goes out from the Sons Of Attila. Praise Tengri.
Love Asia to the moon and back. Don't care about the West at all, we belong to Asia
Greetings cousin :) another grandson of Great Attila from Türkiye
Tengri biz menen
so fancy that hungarians of today think of themselves as sons of atilla while their dna is mostly mix of slavs and neighbouring people :D
@@hirdbarding3399 depends on the person. the actual person.
As a Turkish, I salute our closest relatives, the brave Mongolian brothers&sisters! Long live Mongolia!
@Mighty Light That allah, also can see Qutaiba's bloodshed in the Middle Asia too ? By the way, there's no allah or something. Nobody can see nothing.
@Mighty-Light Fun fact : some mamluks were mongols (like Al Adil Kitbuga)
Long Live Mongolian and Turkish brotherhood.
I’m mixed Hungarian and Native American and this literally brings tears to my eyes and I can hear my ancestors calling
It's a thing of beauty. As impressive as this is, the horse archers of old were on another level, having known nothing but life in the saddle from childhood, imagine the feats they were capable of...
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i heard from another video, there was an archer on horseback who fired three arrows into a man as his horse fell from a fatal injury. three arrows in practically one second
@@wyatt7465 Historical sources love to exaggerate. There’s also records of armies which exceed the total population of the empires raising them, stories of one guy holding a bridge against thousands of men, arrows blocking out the sun, and many other tall tales.
It’s possible to loose arrows quickly, but 3 in 1 second is superhuman, aka not possible. The human body just does not move that fast. The rate of fire of a semiautomatic rifle, or the rate at which a human can pull a trigger, is roughly 2 shots per second. That’s a 1/2 inch movement of one finger. Drawing a bow requires the entire arm to move several feet and takes significantly longer than it takes to move the finger 1/2 an inch.
@@QualityPen i didn't say one second, i said Practically one second. from the time his horse got hit to the time it took for him to loose the arrows quickly. historically speaking it takes a trained soldier to fire a flintlock 2-3 times in one minute and though rare can be shot 3-4 times.
my point with that being humans who have a certain level of determination or motivation can do impossible things in certain situations. there are stories of parents lifting cars with their bare hands to rescue their kids. and this archer i was referring to was focused on one target and i never said he pulled the arrows back to full draw.
and that was a bit contradictory of you to say in one line it's possible then to say in the next line it's not possible.
@@QualityPen actually you'd be surprised how fast one can shoot arrows. look up lars andersen archery, you will be shocked
Insane to imagine it was this that brought the ancient world to heel. So many accounts treat the Mongol hordes as a force of nature, not an army.
"A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger than a man on foot" - John Steinbeck
Netflix should make a movie out of it. What a wonderful scene! Thanks for sharing this!
" War of the Arrows " 2011 Korean film and excellent
My dad was born in Inner Mongolia and he said this video reminded him of his uncle who can ride a horse with no saddle at the age of 8.
INSANE displays of riding skill plus archery feats! WOW they are really galloping so fast and doing all sorts of shots, including shooting each other! Love it!
Thanks a lot we are trying to save this ancient art
I'm a woman and really want to learn horseback archery. I just started learning archery last year and don't knoe how to ride a horse yet. If there's a war, I want to be a horseback archer
@@naylisyazwina6836Not sure how useful that might been on modern warfare... It would be a great skill all the same.
@@naylisyazwina6836 Idk where you are but Horses havent been used on the battlefield since 1942. Theyre used more for recon and crowd control nowadays
Right now it looks like a sport but in 800 years ago those were the most lethal techniques on battlefield. Amazing skills.
Mongolian & other steppe horse archers had a large part in creating today’s world, a heritage those archery students should be proud to continue. Beautiful video. I wish I could have seen the Mongolian army I’m action. Well, maybe not.
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It’s be the last thing you’d ever see
What "heritage" would they leave behind? Just a trail of death, destruction and catastrophe, like a swarm of locusts.
@@ayoubmonno9662 I hear you and understand. They turned Central Asia and much of China into pasture, obliterating millions of lives, many cultures and languages in the process. But, a long time has passed, so we can look back with clearer eyes to see what they wrought, to learn and understand.
@@gregoryluckert9969 I can't imagine what over 120,000 Mongol cavalry looked like in action. Must've sounded like thunder with all those hoofs galloping.
What is really amazing is that this has been preserved for thousands of years. The Mongols didn't invent this stuff, they just perfected it. We know it was being done at least as far back as 4000 years ago, maybe longer. Works so well it's still being done today
As an experienced rider myself, and someone who is well trained with a rifle and bow, I find this to be beyond impressive. Shooting from the back of a moving horse takes some insane skill! Thanks to the Mongolians for the stirrup by the way.
@Kashgari yes (or Sarmatians) but it was the Mongols that took it to Europe
@@Maza675 I stand corrected, and thank you for the information.
Have any of you ever tried riding without a saddle or stirrups? I compare it to driving a sports car without power steering or hydraulic brakes. Much better in terms of a sense of real control and feel. However, the burn in the thighs after 30 minutes or so (depending on how you're riding) is noticeable, it's definitely a lot more work to stay on the horse, again depending on how well trained your horse is, and how you're riding it.
This is insane! Shooting arrows at enemy from horseback was probably the equivalent to gunning down people from a helicopter while horse archer vs. horse archer was probably as close to a dogfight as you can get before the advent of firearms and flying machines.
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That's why Mangols shivered the entire world 👌👌👌👍
スゴイ!格好いい!!モンゴル軍がいかに強力だったかを感じられますね。素晴らしい動画をありがとう👏
arigato
when you're realize that this short horses was dominating the world 800 years ago
When you realize that this short horse was still preferred in Ww2 by the soviets.
@@squintz21four dayum,never knew that before
@@idsfxtm5759 It's because they are very sturdy and can withstand hunger, disease and fatigue a lot better.
It whas domina t untile the invention of revolver 😮
Yeah, these short horses are incredibly strong! Arabic/European horses may look good, but Mongolian horses withstand cold, hunger and other hardships much better than them
Just took an basic archery course. The amount of skill these people have is astonishing!
Seeing this amount of skill, it seems quite obvious how the mongols conquered themselves a largest continuous empire ever
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soon we wiill post more good monoglian horsebakc archery videos our team trying to save that mongol horseback archery traditions
Did you notice that although their horses move erratically below them riders, they manage to keep their bodies stable???? 😲 Incredible.
Yes, however just a reminder that they aren't the only people who can do that!
@LawyerSean prove it
Core strength from wrestling and riding horses they whole life
They stand in the stirrups using their legs to smooth out the motion, like standing when on a bike. But I think that back in the day the mongols did not use stirrups so that wold have looked a bit different...
They’re communicate with the horse with their knees knocking or body weight leaning to right or left. The horse knows where to go with that body languages.
Watching this again after 1 year, still one of the coolest video on youtube. Easy top 100, possible top 10.
This tactic of warfare allowed these people to rule the largest land empire in history stretching from Poland to Korea, 800 years ago. Simply amazing.
Truly amazing and incredible! I imagine back in the 1200s of Mongolian Soldiers
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And i hope to joining turkic cavalry or mamluk
@@danidans4689 me too!
@Dani Dans the mamluks were turks, & they were also born & bred on the same steppes as the mongols in present day krygz/kazakh, thats why their horse archery was paralleled to the mongols. Before being sold off into slavery by the mongols by Crimea way to Syria then Egypt.
@Mighty Light a bit of history, its the SLAVE MAMLUK TURKS of the kipchack steppes, present day kazakhstan/kyrgyzstan who defeated the mongols under Al Zahir Baybars who is also a Steppe Nomad whom share the same culture as the mongols. thats why their horse archery was paralleled to the mongols bc they're essentially steppe nomad people with the same culture before they were sold off by the mongols into slavery. The mamluks also used feigned & retreat to defeat the mongols. They also looked like mongols too.
Loved this skills. Indian history had always admired by Mongol archers and their horses. Thanks for keeping this alive. Respect from India.
What did you mean?
@@mja2239what did they say? Its deleted
@@mja2239 he means to say that Mongol learned from Indians that’s why they were subdued by all invaders
@@Canuck21530 lol
@@Canuck21530 thats not what he said
If ancient people saw riders like this...not difficulty to understand how the kentaurs legends are born :D
This is horse abuse
True! Greeks also said that the Amazonians were Scythian. Scythian women would fight alongside their men in battles in the bronze age so the Greeks mythologized them to be an all female warrior race. The centaurs might've been mythologized Scythian nomads too
@@ThatBuckskinPonyTell that to cavalry 1000 years ago.
@@soysauce4087 Can’t. It was 1000 years ago. But now, humans know that other animals have emotions and that we should respect that
GREATE!!! I wish you be there with you and ride and shoot in steppe !!! This type of shooting, in group of people, in open stepp is much closer to real battle. You did greate job Altan, horseback archery in mongolia is again ALIVE, thanks to you and your friends!!!
thanks welcome to land of the horses
Cool video, very impressive skills. Imagine an army of 30,000 of these warriors on a battlefield. Makes sense why Subutai with a force of 30k was able to wreck the Rus like they were nothing.
It was 20k mongols vs 80k cumans and rus. Cumans perhaps had same tactics as mongols, so mongols had to feign retreat and ambush, suddenly attacking with force shocking the enemy.
Because mongols were professional warriors at those times
However, they were so successful only because the Mongols' opponents did not adapt to Mongol tactics. Later the Mongols were defeated by the Arabs and then by the Russians.
However, they were so successful because the Mongols' opponents did not adapt to Mongol tactics. Later the Mongols were defeated by the Muslims and then by the Russians.
@@SerkAk how much later? correct me if im wrong, but i thought they never lost a major battle under Genghis khan, or his generals. The Rus were completely subjugated by the mongols, and the only defeat to any muslim force that I know were the Mamluks but that was already after Genghis Khan died and Hulugu khan was running things.
Incredible to see this in live action. They must have been so goddamn terrifying to fight against in medieval times
Everyone is a badass until you see a horde of nomad riders and experts archers come towards you blocking the sun with a veil of arrows hailing down…😮
i never thought such tradition is still held there!
it is a good thing they still train their youth - and perhaps the elderly - for cavalry and archery
we, Muslims, know it is advisable by our Prophet Muhammad (PBUP) to train our kids: archery, horse-riding and swimming
This people conquered the world and still holds the number one record all time greatest.
The Greatest Army in history
Very impressive display of mounted archery. In a open battle, you really wouldn't like these guys riding against you. Multiply their number by hundreds, and you can see why the Mongolians were so feared as an enemy.
Warrior cultures have so much to teach us. This video invigorates me 💪💪
Imagine an army of those archer riding to you with there arrows. No wonder they built the biggest empire in history
yes my ancestors build bic empire
there was like hundreds of nations and empires who fought with horse archery not just mongols
@@takachitimur474 hundreds of empires?! For real ? You know what empire means ?
seljuk cavalry acher still better than Mongol
@Andy Hrp90 you do know the seljuks turks lost to the mongols & were subjugated by the mongols right? Also, the seljuks were also from present day krygyz/Kazakhstan so they looked similar to mongols except by the time they touched Anatolia they Islamicized from assimilating with his arab/kurd/persian neighbors
Dude, the Russians and the Chinese are going to have PTSD watching this…
indians persians koreans vietnamiss afghans caucasians and all of central and western and eastern europe and central asians lol all of them suffred from horse archers nomads attacks
Actually this comes from a long tradition of Horseback Archery that’s commonly found amongst any Y-DNA R1b, R1a and Y-DNA Q men.
So this is basically how all of these men’s ancestries used to be. Germanic men for example were not originally from Europe, but were pushed into Europe by invading Hunnic tribes.
Imagine that all these tribes are really like rival brothers, cousins and such; much like European Nobility was.
Almost entirely related, yet fighting wars to be the dominant family House.
It was found that 4 out of the five bodies found in a Royal Burial from Royal members of The Golden Horde were actually R1b and one of them was Y-DNA Q.
So most Eastern and Western Europeans (Those who come from these aforementioned Haplogroups) used to live exactly like this.
Hence why during WWI the Germans were called Huns by the media at that time.
You can even look at the Equestrian Statue of Genghis Khan built in Mongolia, by a Mongolian nonetheless and he has a far more Eurasian depiction. The same goes for his descendants, like the Mongolian Astronomer Prince statue and many seem to have a common characteristic of Red Hair.
The original Aryans were mostly Red Haired, mixing with East Asian women gave some darker features and Eye Shapes.
I myself am a mixed ancestral lineage of paternal Aryans and Maternal Canaanites/Mycenaeans/Etruscans and Ancient Egyptians who all seemed to share genetic, cultural and historical links and trade routes.
Thus, I’m Y-DNA R1b and MtDNA T2 and this is an analysis on the K6 calculator:
Ancient Eurasia K6
Ancestral North Eurasian: 17.29%
Ancestral South Eurasian: 5.78%
East Asian: .99%
West European Hunter-Gatherer: 41.24%
Natufian: 34.7%
Sub-Saharan: 0%
As you can see I do have a small portion of East Asian, which seems to be associated with Modern Chinese.
This seems to be through Y-DNA Q and MtDNA C, which are both found present in my DNA Autosomal analysis, though at minuscule amounts today.
And the Arabs, and the Bulgarians, and the Persians....
Not all. Because now some Mongols and Turks are part of Russia, so they feel more pride. 😂😂😂
@@Uran_KH-98 I’m pretty sure they’re talking about ethnic Russians, not ethnically Mongolian citizens of the Russian Federation.
As a Hungarian, loved this video, actually I am an asian fanatic. Love love love love everything about Mongólia, China, Japan, Korea, culture, music, history , tradition. Havonta the Kurultáj annál event ín Hunagry and knowing that si many people címe and visit it from Asian countries considering is Hunagarians as their relatives is amazing.
Köszönöm!! De jó volt látni drága testvéreim !!!
I love the Mongolian horses. Compact horses, live on next to nothing and run all day.
Mongolian horses have stronger endurance than European horses, and European horses are more explosive
Those little horses are absolute powerhouses!
this ain't british horses
I get shivers down my spine, when I remember how the Huns and mongols utterly crushed pretty much all rival armies and almost dominated the world.. If it wasn't for the Plague outburst in Venice, I think Mongolia would have taken over all of Europe.
It had rather to do with Europeans and their 10,000+ stone fortresses. Difficult to take with a bow and horse lol.
This use of composite bows on horseback really worked for them. Other nations were not used to such tactics
they were not the first
Bruh there were plenty of nations used to this tactic
@@thfkmnIII I'm sure there weren't "plenty"
@@dr.shahidkarim8420 chinese dynasties, korean dynasties, japanese dynasties, persian dynasties, manchus, turkic states, northern india, tibetans. I could go on, you're welcome
@@thfkmnIII yeah you can go on .. nobody is confirming voracity
This is incredible, it's as if horse and rider were one being. The first being the extension of the will of the second
I mean you aren’t wrong. It’s possible that Scythian horse archers were the inspiration behind the legend of the Centaur
They were called centaurs
civilization make it one, just w/ engines or in the sky
MBTs & 1st-5th gen jet fighter are derived directly
Монголы знают толк в полезном досуге...👍👍👍
А почему ты про своих российских тюрков и монголов так не говоришь?
@@Uran_KH-98 а должен?
@@Bodulaw11499 Видимо нет. Вот и пошла утилизация тебе подобных.
@@Uran_KH-98 каких подобных?
@@Uran_KH-98 зачем ему говорить про наших под видео монголов?
I adimire this tribe in way I cannot express- It's just freedom💫
Mogols and Türk tribes were great riders and archers. They were nightmares to Chinese dynasties.
For 2,000 years, nomads from the Mongolian plateau were a nightmare for the Han Chinese, and the Great Wall was built to keep them out.
Actually ,in the most time of histroy, nomads were defeated by han Chinese . Han chinese defeated the huns, turk and chased them away the far west from China. mogolian success in military didnot keep a long time,just decads of years, then were defeated by chinese ppl again.
Mongolia is the motherland of all world cavalry! I loved the video! Thank you!
thanks
Don't forget turkic
Yeaaaaah... mongols were mostly Khan's and main family of Mongol Empire when 20% part of theirs army were other nationalities and other 70% parts were turkic peoples. But a whole world knew us(turks) only as mongols.... 😑
Actually we - turks, has many many empires and empires that we destroyed in history.
Lol no! and what horses? those are ponies; very good demonstration of archery on horseback, and on top of that, on the run
@@Juanchoo-jd6ln Dude, Central Asian Turkish horses can run for a long time without rest, hungry and thirsty. In this way, they went on distant expeditions and were not captured by their enemies.
I'm so gratified that this still exists somewhere in the world.
It looks so amazing. I had once rode a retired military Mongolian horse. It was sensational when the horse started to run like crazy, jumped over a creek over 10 meter wide.
I don’t know why,but for some reason I felt a sort of primal fear or chill going down my spine when seeing this video,I can’t really explain.
It's powerful yeah.
these are demons that genocided our central asian white cousins
Very good work mate that song ties it all together. Terrifyingly effective those men were. Westerners hated them cuz they liked hand to hand combat more than ranged combat but steppe tribes didn't care they simply shot u to pieces while u tried to chase them
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@@AltanNergui I am Sioux and shoot a Tatar bow. If only our ancestors had another 200 years to develop further.
Westerners don't really hate Mongols (at least those to the west of Poland/Hungary), since they never really got a foothold in Central Europe. Tribes like the Huns, Vandals and Goths still have the names of their tribes carry some dark associations to this day, while "Mongol" doesn't really have those associations.
@@haakoflo you have no idea how big tatarophobia in germany is
even after centuries they still got it
This is abuse
The nation that rules the world is a nation that has skilled cavalry and archery like the Mongols and Turks
Although the Turks often comprised the bulk of the Mongol army as well as the bulk of armies opposed to the Mongols, throughout the domains of the Mongol Empire there was a diffusion of military technology, which has already bee and also ethnic groups. In addition to the Mongols and Turks, other ethnicities served in the Mongol military machine and found themselves distant from home.
May, T.M., 2012. The Mongol conquests in world history, London: Reaktion Books. p.222
Love from Hungary, steppe brothers
Leave Transylvania and Pannonia alone! These are Romanian lands!
Amazing film , I'm forever intrigued by these people and their journey to here in modern times . I am sure their culture will outlive many others. Amazing footage
Holy smoke. That was so amazing.
thanks
Wow. Magnificent. Gave me goosebumps all over - truly exhilarating. The power of history.
Потрясающее зрелище!❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥👏👏👏👏👏🎯🐎
being able to see this with a modern camera done by real people really is just incredible
Amazing.... It must be a incredible feeling of freedom
They were shooting each on the gallop. Wow!!!
Thanks
Сильнейший лайк! В 1988-1989 проходил армейскую службу в МНР и посчастливилось в Эрдэнэте побывать на празднике Надом. Великолепные ритуалы древней национальной борьбы, стрельба из лука и, конечно же, захватывающие скачки. Короче, полный найрамдал!
Beautiful sport. Beautiful country. Beautiful culture. ❤
Crazy accuracy and eye vision to be shooting by each other
No wonder they were the best they were so far ahead of there time.
I just thought how amazing it would be an archer on the horse, then I find this
Waow 😱😱😱 this is just crazy. The most beautiful and impressive discipline I had luck to watch so far.
This is horse abuse
@LawyerSean It's not about the "rest".. It's the way they train these horses that is abuse. And I'm almost positive that you don't work with horses anyway so you can't be talking.
I've always heard the descriptions and read about them, but this was a great representation of how they operate and how powerful their skills are.
I'm beginning to understand how 150K of them can conquer most of Asia now...
I heard that the Mongolians are great horseback riders, they can be riding and thesame time shooting there arrows at it’s target with great accuracy with full speed on horse. I can see that now. Bravo The Genghiz!!!
That would be impressive to hit standing still. The skill they have is a show of great mathematical application of the brain.
Greetings from Hungary brothers! It was soulfood to watch you! See you on the Kurultaj!
thanks
This should be a Olympic sport when we look around the world I don’t think there’s any country that didn’t have and use archery in defense or for hunting could be interesting
I think you are right. Definitely would improve the equestrian segment.
Check out the World Nomad Games - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Nomad_Games
Sound nice, but it will be a sport dominated by a very limitade nations from central Asia. People don't practice that much even riding and achery, if you combine them it will be more harder and people will barely show intere
This is the the most amazing thing I have seen in a while, thank you
Excellent. Perfect training for battle.
Thankz
When you read about worriors from Steppes of Central Asia such as Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans, Yuezhi, Kidarites, Hephthelitis, Turks, Magyars, Kazars, Pechenegs, Bulgars, Kipchak/Cumans, Tanguts and finally Mongols they all used horse archery. They were different nations but shared culture and religion Tengeri
Non-nomadic people simply couldn't support so much cavalry because they would have to grow all the fodder for the horses on farms, whereas the nomads just had to let them graze. So different civilizations support different types of armies.
@@SSHitMan Parthians and the Sassanids used horse archery so non nomadic Persians used it.
@@robleyusuf2566 They were Parthians (Scythians, Huns, Hungarians).
@@AK-fe1lu no
epic man!
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Riding in Mongolia is on my bucket list, for sure!
love Mongolian From China
There were many Chinese advisors starting from the wise Chu in our "Secret history" book. Salute to our hardworking and intelligent neighbor.
Amazing skill 👍 respect from philippines
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Best of the best, Mongol Warriors.
thanks
@@AltanNergui, the great warriors were skilled with many weapons and hand to hand combat as well. I, too, live and believe in the warrior way.
Although the Turks often comprised the bulk of the Mongol army as well as the bulk of armies opposed to the Mongols, throughout the domains of the Mongol Empire there was a diffusion of military technology, which has already bee and also ethnic groups. In addition to the Mongols and Turks, other ethnicities served in the Mongol military machine and found themselves distant from home.
May, T.M., 2012. The Mongol conquests in world history, London: Reaktion Books. p.222
You guys are my favorite culture representation at Mount and Blade Banner Lord. ❤
Love and respect from Croatia...love this video....
Wow, it's looks like magical and great view , I really would like be there right now. However will visit next year 2025.
This shit right here? Conquered virtually the entire known world. Simplicity at its best.
That Remind me of a funny Story. My daughter is half chinese. When she was only 4 years old, she sat on a rodeo horse machine on a Festival in Germany for the first time. They had several modus levels ( easy to very high)..the one who Managed the levels got to the highest one and my daughter still sits on the rodeo after a loooong time😂...normally all much older kids/ Teens already wld fell off at that stage. She never sat on a horse or else. At the end all waiting kids got a bit uncomfortable by her Talent and we wonder if she had some mongolian in her ancestry😊.....how persistent and fearless she Held herself on that machine : we were like 😮😅
Now imagine 30,000 of these guys descending upon their enemy in a battle. Arrows flying from everywhere from every direction.
¡Qué jinetes! Asombroso. Gracias por el video.
Очень рекомендую лекции российского профессора Боброва по военному искусству тюрков и монголов. Это лучшее, что сейчас есть на Ютубе про эту тему.
Это может быть интересным исследованием, когда монголы признают, что они учились у гуннов!
Amazing skills!!!exceptionnal footage!!👏👏👏😀
👍😎🇫🇷🏹
This is amazing!! And something the world dose not get to see a lot of.. I’m amazed at how steady these men are in the saddle very little to no bouncing and seeing as they can ride up to 35 mph and still hit there targets while moving is amazing no fancy gadgets sights or scopes just pure skill and practice I can see why they gave most of Europe a butt kicking. If your interested there traditional throat singing is amazing as well I wish I could have the chance to try this stuff but I’m not sure outsiders would be welcome to learn this stuff some cultures are very guarded not sure if the Mongolian culture is or not though
Horse Archers would get destroyed by normol archers massed together. The mongols at times had to get off their horses just to shoot back a concentrated rain and still lost and their arrows fell apart due to different climate. They met their match in Europe and Indian area. Best counter to mongols are cannons, foot archers and lines of spear men.
@@randomlygeneratedname7171 I didn’t know that, still despite there issues for a group of nomadic people and tribes it’s amazing what they accomplished and there skill on horseback is still extremely impressive
Remember this is why the Europeans were sitting ducks for the Mongols.
The rest of Asia, but not Europe. Mongol conquest stopped after the east of Europe. Long thought because of the death of the Khan but more recent study shows it was because Europe had an insane density of more than 10,000 stone castles. Utterly impossible to invade by light cavalry.
@@jonny2954 Yeah but if they didn't have so many castles, the Mongols would've swept through Europe like it was nothing
@@categories5066 Only the lowlands. As soon if they hit more difficult geography it's also over. Steppe tactics don't work in dense forests or mountains, have to get of your horse. Dismounted they would have been wrecked by the Europeans.
@@jonny2954also because of the weather
@@jonny2954 Bro the Chinese had castles for cities with 40 feet high walls, the mongols were familiar with stone structures lmao
Thank you for this video. This is awesome to watch. I have to focus really hard to make sure I stay in step with the horse at full gallop and y’all are doing that AND perfectly timing the shots with the full gallop of the horse. I’m jealous but in a good way of their skill and way of life
The views are incredible too, just looks like mowed grass for hundreds of miles
This is absolutely incredible. I love to see traditions kept alive and strong.
i cant even imagine how skilled these riders would have been 1000 years ago
Far more I assume. Today people do this for more of a sport and game. Back then, people do so more regularly and was part of their hunting and skirmish traditional.