On 23 January 2015, a video titled "Lars Andersen: a new level of archery" was uploaded to YouTube. The video showed Andersen, self-dubbed "the fastest archer on the planet," as he performed a variety of unbelievable tricks such as shooting an arrow out of midair and firing three arrows in 0.6 seconds. The video immediately went viral and racked up more millions of views in just two days:
While most viewers were simply amazed by Lars Andersen's archery skills, others were skeptical. Was this "New Level Archery" created by digital manipulation?
Andersen faced similar scrutiny when he posted a video titled "Reinventing the Fastest Forgotten Archery" in 2012 and addressed those concerns in the press release that accompanied his 2015 video:
"Many people have accused me of being fake or have theories on how there's cheating involved. I've always found it fascinating how human it is, to want to disbelieve anything that goes against our world view — even when it's about something as relatively neutral as archery."
