No reason--I just thought it was cool.

OK, there is a reason. I've been fascinated with archery since I was a child, often making my own crude bows with sticks and kitchen string. In my early thirties, I actually got serious about it and bought the equipment and learned to shoot. I shot competitively briefly, but just didn't have the time to devote to it between my work and family.

I decided to pick it up again last year, and bought new equipment (which is vastly improved over the stuff I had been using...). With a few weeks of practice, I had by shooting form back, but was chagrined to learn that I can't see the target anymore. Next week I get my first pair of bi-focals, but it will be nice to see 20/20 again.

The next video is Korean. The Koreans are to archery what the U.S. is to basketball. Shooting soy beans from 30 meters is pretty impressive. The "Robin Hood" at the end of the sequence? Not so much. If you look closely, you can see that the nock--a plastic piece inserted at the end of the arrow that pinches and holds the string--has been removed. That makes this shot much, much easier.

I've shot a few Robin Hood's in my career. I still have the first one because it was still common to use aluminum arrows back then, and the arrows would "tube"--essentially nest one inside the other, and preserve the accomplishment. With modern carbon arrows, you get splinters. Its a more common phenomenon that you might believe among better archers, which is why they shoot five spots at closer ranges, rather than the classic single target.

If that's more than you ever wanted to know about archery--I apologize.