04-19-2007, 06:16 AM
Quote:just watched the plumbatae video....your men throw overarm...wish mine went like that....!!
Yes, great piece of video:
http://www.cohorsprimagallica.com/recon ... amento.php
Last year at Archeon, the guys from I Germanica also told me that overarm throwing would result in greater distances than underarm throwing. However, when I used their plumbatae underarm, I managed to throw them further than they did overarm... :wink:
Having said that, I've never reached those large distances (80-100m) with my own, larger (Len Morgan-based) plumbatae, that other groups have reached with smaller ones. It seems that lenght of the shaft is really a determining factor for distances reached.
We should test this sometimes, grand scale. With at leat 10 test throwers and several types of plumbatae.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)