In Disney’s 1998 animated film Mulan, Mulan retrieves an arrow from the top of the training camp’s high pole.
Captain Li Shang places an arrow high above the camp and challenges the recruits to retrieve it while carrying heavy weights. The other soldiers fail, but Mulan uses the weights creatively to climb the pole and take the arrow.
The exercise is important because it demonstrates her problem-solving ability rather than simple physical strength. After she succeeds, Li Shang accepts her as a capable member of the troop and the recruits begin to improve under his training.
The arrow is not the same weapon Mulan later uses to trigger the avalanche; that action involves a cannon. Keeping those two scenes separate prevents a common plot mix-up. The pole challenge occurs during training, before the army confronts the Huns.