Wonder how many tries it took?

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Sounds like a family experience. Think mom can catch an arrow from Maya while propped out of the F150?

Wondering how they were going to do that!
Only a matter of time before someone screws up and eats an arrow.
The blindfold thing isn't going too well.

This could be faked for all we know.

I can see it now...the "catch the arrow challenge" being a new thing.

They couldn't put a camera on the car for a better view?

An 80lb draw weight compound bow sends an arrow at approximately 185 mph or thereabouts. Getting the timing right would be the hardest part. I’d like to see a camera viewing from the catchers position matching the arrows speed in flight.

You know, the Arizona chapter of USA Archery is always looking for new ways to promote the sport, raise awareness of the sport and get more people involved. I've joked with board members for years that we needed to set up at Barrett-Jackson and have a drag race the arrow challenge. Have one of the big three sponsor us and see if you can drag race a Mustang, Camaro or Challenger and beat the arrow to the target face. This takes it to a whole new level.

The ad got quite a bit of coverage in the archery community a few months back. It wasn't faked, they received a Guiness World Record for it, furthest distance arrow caught from a moving car. Kind of makes one wonder what other, "Hey hold my beer!" moments can be classified as world records. The catcher was martial artist Markus Haas and the archer was Olympian Laurence Baldauff. So it took a ninja and an Olympic archer 4 months to pull this off.

It was a recurve and not a compound bow used for the shot. A recurve shoots an arrow at a considerably lower velocity than a compound; think 200 fps rather than 300fps. That's when it leaves the bow, it decelerates and drops rapidly after that. So not only is there a horizontal component to the timing, there's a vertical as well, an arrow doesn't fly straight it has a ballistic curve to its trajectory. To me that makes this shot and catch even more impressive.

The basic physics of how to plot and time an intercept are relatively simple. The goal of archery is consistency and an Olympic archer is going to be extremely consistent. A chronograph can be used to measure the initial speed of the arrow, time in flight can be measured and acceleration calculated. It's the practicality of actually doing it that gets difficult.

As far as the commercial, HELL YES! I want to take it to the next level. Have my daughter flinging arrows out of her compound at Barrett-Jackson and chasing them down with a ZR-1 Corvette. 'Murica!

http://www.guinnessworldrecord...ught-in-a-moving-car

Stupid commercial. Needs to start off: "Hold my beer, watch this"

Can we see a version that pans wide so the viewing audience can watch the arrow leave the bow while keeping the car in the field of view?

I didn't think so.

If they'd faked it, don't you think they'd have made it so we could actually see him catch it? lol Rather than sort of see it like in the ad?

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I don't think that it's as difficult as it looks, given that the car and the arrow are going roughly the same speed (initially). Put the arrow in the right place and decelerate the car at the same rate as the arrow, and all you'd have to do is reach out and grab it.

You'd need a few fancy physics equations, and a good aim, but other than that....