Chapter 14: The Beginning of Archery
After more than ten days of hard practice, Long Yun's archery skills have improved a lot, and the accuracy of archery has been greatly improved. At first, the arrows he shot missed the target, but now he almost never misses the target, and often hits the bull's-eye, but unfortunately the powerful arrow he shot before has never been shot.
Long Gang was very satisfied with Long Yun's performance during this time, in a short period of time, to be able to practice to such a level, in addition to super perseverance, it also required excellent talent. Long Gang knew that he didn't have this kind of talent, and his archery skills were able to reach the current level completely by diligence and little by little. And the young man in front of him gave him too many surprises, and he was even a little jealous of this kid at this time!
Long Gang originally planned to let Long Yun train the fixed target like this before he set off, but Long Yun was making too fast progress, and Long Gang had to change his plan.
He said to Long Yun: "Your current archery skills have achieved a little, and it won't be too much progress to practice these again, so let's practice archery in a different way today." ”
Long Yun asked, "In what way?"
Long Gang replied: "What you shoot now is all dead things, but in actual combat, people are alive, and the target is alive, they will not stand there, waiting for you to shoot, so we will start practicing live targets today." ”
He pointed to the arrow target in the distance and said, "The first thing you have to practice is to hit those targets in motion." ”
After saying that, Long Gang picked up the bow and made a demonstration. He ran as fast as he could, sometimes rising into the air and turning back with an arrow, sometimes rolling on the ground for weeks and then crouching and shooting another arrow, sometimes serpentine and firing several arrows in quick succession...... Although he kept running and firing arrows, each arrow still hit the bull's-eye.
Long Yun carefully observed Long Gang's demonstration from the side. I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, Long Gang really had superb archery skills!
He couldn't have imagined that Long Gang, as the most ordinary first-level beast hunter in the Beast Hunting Alliance, had this ability far beyond ordinary people, and he began to have a heartfelt yearning for being admitted to the Beast Hunting Alliance, which was no longer just to save his grandmother, but a desire for power......
After observing Long Gang's demonstration, Long Yun also learned Long Gang's movements, dodging and moving while shooting arrows. I didn't think it was too difficult to look at it just now, but it was even more difficult to do it myself. Long Yun couldn't see the target clearly when he moved irregularly, let alone shot the arrow at the target!
Long Gang saw Long Yun shooting like a headless fly, and hurriedly stopped him. And said to him: "You just shot in a disorderly manner, and it is useless to practice like that for a long time." The most important thing in shooting an arrow on the move is to stabilize your body and lock on to the target. The so-called stable body shape means that no matter what you do in the movement, you must not use all your strength, and you must leave room to maintain the balance and stability of the body, so that the arrows will be shot calmly. ”
Long Gang took the arrow in his hand and gestured twice, and then said: "The so-called locking the target is to first observe the direction of the target, and then lock it firmly, no matter what kind of movement the body makes, you must know which direction the target is in the body now, instead of blindly running and jumping." Before you move, you have to think about where the target is, how to shoot that arrow......"
After listening to Long Gang's teaching, Long Yun suddenly realized. I thought to myself, it turned out that the seemingly irregular movements of the dragon just now were not done casually, but they had predicted the situation in advance, and they had thought clearly in their hearts about where to shoot and how to shoot next, so that they could be so easy.
Thinking of this, he began to practice on his own again, and sure enough, according to Long Gang's method, it was much stronger than before, although many arrows also missed the target, but they were all about the same. Long Yun had confidence in his heart, and he practiced it over and over again......
In this way, another ten days have passed, Long Yun has become more and more refined in moving target shooting, he was originally in the mountains, trained a flexible body, coupled with these days of hard practice of archery, he has completely mastered the skill of moving target.
On this day, Long Gang no longer asked him to move the target, but told him: "As an archer, it is important to be skillful, and at the same time to dodge the enemy's attack, shoot arrows. But it's also important to shoot cunning, fast-moving targets, and today I'm going to teach you how to shoot fast-moving targets. ”
After saying that, Long Gang picked up three broken tiles on the ground, and at the same time threw them high into the air, and then immediately took up his bow, and quickly fired three arrows in succession, only to see that the arrows were accompanied by three clear sounds of "Boom, Boom, Boom", and went straight into the air, unbiased the three tiles, shot them to pieces, and scattered the rubble on the ground.
Long Gang finished trying, handed the bow to Long Yun, and then brought some worn tiles from near the dojo, and said to Long Yun, "Come, you try." With that, he threw a tile into the air.
Long Yun was concentrating at the moment, looking at the tile in the air, and hurriedly shot the arrow, but the arrow missed.
Seeing this, Long Gang hurriedly explained to him: "You didn't shoot just now, because you didn't see the trajectory of the target clearly, any moving target has its trajectory, and that trajectory is regular, when you aim at the target and shoot the arrow, the target is still moving, so the shot is only the afterimage of it just there, so if you want to shoot a fast-moving target, you must first judge the trajectory of the arrow after it is fired, and shoot towards the place where it will go, in order to hit the target." ”
After hearing this, Long Yun nodded and said to Long Gang: "Uncle Gang, I'll try to throw another piece." ”
Long Gang then threw another tile into the air, according to what Long Gang said, Long Yun carefully observed the trajectory of the tile, observed the direction of the tile, observed the speed of the tile, and then found the right time, judged its next landing point, and the last arrow was shot, and sure enough, it hit the target.
"Okay, good, come on. Long Gang said, did not stop the movement in his hand and continued to throw tiles in the air, Long Yun shot another arrow, steadily hitting the target.
At this time, Long Gang seemed to be suddenly interested, and threw tiles into the air one after another, and Long Yun shot them down with a bow and arrows. As soon as Long Gang saw this, he sped up, and Long Yun also accelerated his speed and shot arrows in succession, and the arrows shot into the air one by one, shooting the tiles in the air crackling. Almost all hit the target.
A few more days passed, and there were only a few days left before the time to leave.
On this day, Long Gang didn't let Long Yun practice archery anymore, he said to Long Yun: "Do you know why I only taught you to practice archery for so many days?"
"Isn't it true that you're only good at archery?" replied Long Yun.
"That's just one of the reasons. Long Gang said.
"Then what is the reason?" Long Yun asked curiously.