This is a great video. Thanks for sharing this, Flint.
It also demonstrates something that we often forget. We're often used to thinking of these old weapons like swords, sabres, armor, bows, arrows, and halberds as cumbersome and quaint.
They were anything but this.
If we were transported back in time to witness a medieval battle, for example, we would be shocked at how easily the combatants were able to use their heavy swords and how their armor was not as clumsy as we might think.
These guys spent their entire lives perfecting their skills.
Same thing applies in ancient armies. Chariots in the ancient Near East were like tanks of today. Archers mounted on Assyrian chariots could cut swathes through enemy ranks in ways that people would not believe.
Parthian archers were greatly feared by the Romans.
And when the Mongol horse-mounted bowmen appeared in Eastern Europe in the 13th century, they were truly unstoppable.
Much of ancient knowledge has been lost.
This applies in warfare as much as in the mental disciplines.