Yeah that's a bunch of **** .

that guy has been confirmed a complete fraud innumerable times.
those techniques are well-known to anyone that knows jack **** about archery.
they're never used, because you can't hit anything with them.

those clips in the video? you can bet your ass those are take 150 or so.
horribly inaccurate and does ******* against armor.
they were techniques used by early middle-ages archers, for very specific purposes.
never were they the standard.

this video is some infomercial level **** .

I would be inclined to believe that that's knitted mail, but the video quality makes it hard to tell.
You see, an arrow piercing both a properly made Gambeson and Riveted mail is next to impossible, seeing as piercing the two require drasticly different arrowheads.
To get through the mail, you'd need a bodkin arrow, which was thin and pointed enough to sneak in between the rings of a mail armour. However, a gambeson's weave is actualy really resistant to being pierced through due to the uneven layering of cloth. If you wanna get an arrow through a Gambeson, you'll want to use a broad-headed arrow that cuts through the weave, but then that arrow won't be able to get through the chainmail. Due to this, there are several instances of european crusaders being described as pincushions or hedgehogs as they commonly wore a gambeson over chainmail.

Part of it is that archers didn't have to aim. They just pointing in the general direction of the enemy force, and unleashed hell as quickly as they can. And then they buggered off if the enemy got too close.

A single archer is ******* worthless. Even if they can fire at a rate of ten arrows a minute, which is ludicrous speed for back then, that's negligible against an army of thousands.

That's part of the reason why English longbowmen were terrifying on the battlefield. Their bows had a higher draw-strength, so they shot about half again as far as any other bows, at the same rate of fire as most expert archers. As the enemy approached they could start firing sooner, and had a much larger window of opportunity to rain deadly death on the enemy troops before they got too close.

Ten arrows a minute during a battle is mediocre, they could fire much faster to blanket the enemy army with arrows, I will agree that a single archer with a bow can be useless in battle, arrows didn't penetrate armour as frequently as people assume from playing games and the wounds caused my arrows were actually very minor considering their size. Broad head arrows did deal more internal damage than conventional and bodkin tipped arrows but had an even smaller chance if at all of piercing armour.

useless weapons checking in?

Crossbows were used all the time in medieval warfare in Europe and China in a variety of situations, most crossbows used on battle fields had a light draw weight to them as their were used to mow down lighter armored infantry and could be reloaded rather quickly heavier crossbows that would require a windlass or a cranequin (which came after the windlass and replaced it in the late medieval period) would take longer to reload but even then you can easily stop reloading and fight off a guy trying to attack you as long as you can stay vigilant.

If a man is 20 feet away from you with a knife, and you have a holstered pistol, he could stab you just as you fired your first shot... mutually assured destruction. Which is why at short range, a ranged weapon is nearly useless if not prepared (ready to fire).
It's about speed, not about skill. It takes maybe two seconds to close a 20 foot gap (even less if you're sprinting), so unless if you KNEW you were about to be charged, it would be impossible to be ready to shoot down your attacker.
I'm not saying "ditch your gun, it's useless". Guns are a GREAT scare tactic to ward off anyone who wants to hurt you, a bow? Not so much. But if you're thinking about going somewhere dangerous, then maybe you should recalculate your route before deciding whether or not to go...
Anyway... a personal weapon during the time would be a broad dagger. Easy to draw, easy to conceal, cheap, reliable. Doesn't require much to get one from a blacksmith. Great against fleshy muggers with no real armor on. Handy for everyday things, too. Or an arming sword, which is basically a short sword. An effective weapon is always based on the situation. Five feet away from you? Melee weapon. A hundred yards? Ranged.

Bitch please, You just gotta get the Quickdraw mcgraw down.