The joke about min 13 is a reference to video games in general. In a video game the bosses are progressively more difficult and normally you get a reward after beating one
The whole video is Seth listening to this guy's story and saying, "That doesn't sound right." The guy goes on to explain why it wasn't right, and Seth goes, "....Yeah."
Yeah, unfortunately I think the comedian actually has some understanding of martial arts and Seth doesn’t understand that he’s just saying how he didn’t in the past. Details like going on mats with boots and knowing the concept of rule sets is at least very basic understanding of what he had done wrong
@@jestfullgremblim8002 he's reacting on a moment to moment basis. It's the same as you reacting something to what your friend says without him finishing his sentence. Then again, the comedian isn't really funny so no loss here.
unironically i think if you told the random entirely uninformed person in the US that aikido is steven seagall's specialty, the vast majority of people would think surely aikido must be badass and way more effective than karate. karate has been fighting for its life to be seen as more than something 11 year olds do in a strip mall on tuesday nights for like 30 years.
I'd argue that giving a martial art shit for oonvincing people that if they just go through the forms for decades, that they'll be able to defend themselves inf they're attacked is less 'making fun of' and more 'calling it on its bullshit'. Don't get me wrong aikido is beautiful...it just uhh doesn't help when you're being made to swallow your teeth...
And this is a comedy routine. So, it is probably somewhere between 100% autobiographical and something he completely made up, while watching a karate competition on public access cable, and evolved with dozens of retellings in front of audiences around the country.
All of the nun jokes are way funnier if you know about Shayne’s recent history. Dude went from fighting with nunchucks to fighting for Sister Natalia. Dude did a total 180 with his life.
So, if you're wondering how he didn't watch the younger fighters and figure it out, some tournaments run the adult black belt division first so they can use the adult black belts as judges in all the other matches.
I know in NYC its was just a quick trip to Chinatown. On Mott street and Mulberry there were stores you could buy it all. Weapons, uniforms everything one stop shop including instruction manuals. Your age didn't matter all that much they would sell it to you.
Where I grew up, any gas station ran by middle eastern folks was guaranteed to have a glass case full of nunchuks and brass knuckles and katanas and belts, and they also could not care less how old you were xD
Yeah I tuned in to one of their recent events and the anount of "Karate Style: Muay Thai" guys was ridiculous. just completely ruining what made the promotion special lmao
I think they labeled them as "grudge matches" or something? Just get a couple of untrained dudes in there to beat on each other. Sometimes I watch professional matches and think these guys don't look particularly well-trained, but then I saw a couple of these amateur grudge matches and I was like...oh, that's what an untrained athlete/fight looks like! (kind of terrible to be honest)
I was following a girl I saw on Karate Combat, and one day in her stories she posted something like "It's so cool to being back to karate after (Many) years" and I was like what are you doing in *KARATE* combat if you don't even train karate anymore lol
All Kyokoshin and off-shoots of Kyokoshin (Seido, Kenshikai, etc.) do not allow punches to the head. Even in "full contact." Devastating kicks to the head however are encouraged.
If you punch a samurai in the helmet you dont do much damage to them but you break a hand, which means no disarming the enemy or grappling or fighting back if you pick up a weapon, basically high chance of death If you kick a guy in the helmet its probably still going to knock him out and the leg has much thicker stronger bones than the hand does Edit: Turns out this is a cool story but totally not true, just an urban myth
@@driver3899 It was more a product of equipment. Mas Oyama's students didn't have anything that would allow them to punch eachother in the face without damaging their hands or heads so badly they couldn't continue. So to ensure Kyokushin sparring was full contact (but still taught people to keep their guard up) punches to the face were disallowed (so that people could regularly throw heavy blows) but kicks to the head were kept so that people had a reason to actually defend their face/head. It's not an ideal ruleset but it worked considering the materials available to them.
@@driver3899 that would make sense if Samurai and Kyokushin existed at the same time 😂 Kyokushin was not meant for armor or weapon combat, Kyokushin is basically Muay Thai with some variations on the rules; while traiditional Karate from Okinawa was more like Japanese Jujutsu: LOTS of grappling, LOTS of weapon work (both how to use weapons and how to defend against weapons) and some unarmed striking here and there, but it was mostly used to setup grappling as most Okinawan Karateka also practiced Okinawan wrestling, and if they did not, they still did grappling sparring (now called Kake Dameshi) as part of their Karate training. These things are lost today, but that's what Karate used to be
By applying torque using the string you can get the end of a nunchuck having higher angular velocity than a similar-sized stick because it is not rigid, so the force can be disproportionately applied at the end of the length. The string adds a higher range of possible movements than a straight stick. That said, a stick is still a far better weapon because correctly using a pair of nunchucks this way takes way more effort and discipline than the similarly deadly and far simpler baseball bat. The real advantage of nunchucks is that you can fold them in half to hide them. Which is what this guy did.
Minor point: The string on nunchucks does nothing on a direct swing and the hit is equivalent to a stick of that length. It's when you modify the swing to whip the outer stick that you get that magnification (for the exact same reason that cracking a whip or a towel does way more damage than swinging it)
I love Seth's videos but yh he was taking it too serious and awkwardly, probably wasnt even a true story or just partially true, just a funny comedy sketch that's all seth!
Well, IDK how it works in the States, but here in Czechia, I think that only people registered within a czech karate organization can enter tournaments, so they would know which belts the participants hold. So this could not happen.
@@DLFLux The element of truth is that Karate in the mind of a young man thinking "death tournaments" is hilariously far from the truth of point Karate, that's about it
Yeah, there arent any here now but in the 90s there used to a lot of sporting goods places that sold belts. Always behind a counter coz i guess kids would steal them other wise. Even my local sports centre had them next to the swimming goggle at their desk.
A lot of small towns and mini cities in the USA became Martial Arts obsessed in the 1980's and 1990's. Some towns with under 20k population had 4 or 5 competing dojo's back in the day. They would hold competitions with very few rules. Over the years, as people saw teenagers get injured seriously and sometimes maimed for life rules got stricter and stricter.
@@thekeysman6760 the pinky finger gets away from me from time to time and automatically hits the ' before the s as the thoughts flow. Sorry I don't have a full time editor to review all my spur of the moment posts for your reading pleasure lol.
"They werent doing this 11 years ago." Yes, my guy, we were. Im in my 30s and there were tournaments that were going that far as early as 08. They were small and relatively new, to be fair, but they existed.
no the FUNNIEST part is people like you not realizing 3-5 states in ALL OF USA is the reason USA is #2 in gun violence. guess which states? all of them are blue, all of them are democratic, ALL OF THEM HAVE THE HARSHEST GUN LAWS. it's almost like criminals do not give a flying FK about gun laws. so lets just remove the 2nd Amendment and allow criminals to violently murder innocent civilians, as well as rob them, car jack them, etc. not to mention 12-13% of USA's gun violence and gun related crime is in those same states. take a wild guess what else? its 83-88% of ALL GUN VIOLENCE IN THE COUNTRY. remove those states and USA drops inthe high 180s. out of 192 countries in the WORLD. another "FUNNY" stat is its black on black crime. gtfo out with your anti-gun delusions
Iirc some weapons in some states are illegal (to carry/have in public) if they have been used in an intimidating manner in movies. So that covers things like switchblade knives, balisong, nunchucks, and throwing stars.
I made myself a pair of nunchucks when I was a kid. I found some hanging garden pots that had been dumped in the bush, so I took the chains off that, I then cut up an old wooden broom handle and connected them with those U shaped staple nails. It was strong enough I could hang from them. I gave myself the biggest black eye Ive ever had swinging them around.
It's totally believable to me that he didn't get a rules prep, because during the year I wrestled, I never got one either. I learned the rules by getting warnings from the ref, lol
5:40 you asked where he bought a black belt. I had "Martial Arts Supply" stores around me for several years (they all seem to have disappeared since). I don't doubt for a second that he was upsold some chaku. As to them being illegal, New York legalized them under the Second Amendment, meaning the Supremacy Clause applies and they're technically now legal to carry as part of your right to bear arms. Also, I've seen this standup before and it's SOOOOOOO much funnier with Seth's reactions in real time.
@thekeysman6760 Actually, given that it literally said "Martial Arts Supply" on the signage, someone DID say it. Regardless, seems a REALLY petty and silly comment to make in the first place, not to mention irrelevant, given that the point clearly made it across (else it would've been a question for clarification, not an attempted grammatical correction gone horribly awry). That said, I don't know what size or shape the stick in your backside is, but you've made it very clear that it exists. Congratulations.
Yea I think everyone here is so serious about karate they think this is like a real life story. What a time to be alive haha it’s like going back in time and showing this video to people in 1965.
It isn't funny either though? It's like an even more exaggerated Bert Kreischer story and yeah, comedy needs exaggeration. But the dude exaggerates it so much the whole joke turns into a shitty summer comedy movie that went straight to DVD.
First half of this video is pretty rough the way you kept stopping him mid joke to comment, but you figured out a much better flow in the second half, look forward to future martial arts stand up reacts. This guys set is so damn funny.
The set is hilarious but I'm watching a video of a guy commentate over it. I'm not watching the set. I personally didn't mind the stopping. I'm more intrigued about what he has to say. If I wanted to watch the set without pauses I would go watch the set on the comedian's channel and not the karate channel.
At 13:31 - fun fact, "Sensei" does NOT mean "teacher". That word is "Kyoshi". "Sensei" literally means "one who has gone before". A more experienced person. Someone passing on their experience. That's why lawyers, gifted artists and other notable people are often referred to as Sensei in Japan - it's acknowledging their expertise. Yes, because the Sensei is teaching the class, the term is used interchangeably, but it doesn't mean teacher.
...aaand teachers are called sensei. Google translates it as teacher. Duolingo teaches that sensei means teacher. In my 10 000 hours of reading manga and watching anime I've never heard of kyoshi. It's a fun fact, but it is wrong. Also, google translates kyoshi as "sawtooth". The information on sensei etymology seems to be from the wikipedia page and while that part is correct, it doesn't contradict that it is still the word for teacher.
@@CuulX With respect, my source is a native Japanese teacher (mechanical engineering in Tokyo). I didn't say people who teach are not called Sensei. That is very common. I'm saying the word doesn't translate directly to the English. It translates the concept. Kyoshi matches more closely.
The reason karate tournaments are light contact is liability. If you start having competitors getting knocked out and sent to the ER state athletic commissions will be forced to get involved and local karate tournaments will be no more.
Also, most practitioners these days are kids. Parents want a safe place for them, that's why they get their kids into Karate and Taekwondo, not Muay Thai or MMA hahaha.
I don't think Shayne made up any of this story. In his earlier sets he references having gotten banned from a karate tournament. And if you pay attention, he explains why he wasn't paying attention to anything and didn't realize it wasn't what he'd thought it was. That, and he probably only showed up an hour or so before he was supposed to fight.
12:00 at 38, I got talked into entering a nationals level freestyle wrestling tournament by my athletes. without having competed since the year 2000. in folkstyle. in high school. and with all the confidence in the world, i walked out onto that mat, shook the dudes hand, and proceeded to blow my knee up. ACL surgery recovery is a monster.
@@snowboardfamilyof4 Resonates with me.. I’ll be 39 in a month and still love doing dumb shit. Dirt Bikes are my vice. Good luck in the tournament brother. Show em we ain’t used up yet 😂
Shayne was a legit criminal back then. My karate crew was almost that bad in Boston in the late '90s. A lot of poor decisions were made back in those days. Camera phones changed the world.
In the 90's, we had three different stores locally where you could buy belts, various types of gi, pads, gloves, etc. One was a retail storefront attached to a kung fu studio, one was a Century branded store, and the third was a random martial arts store.
24:03 you don't think he's embellishing the story you know for the joke. For all we know this is completely fake and he's just making us laugh. And it is working cuz I have been laughing Non-Stop
I mean a stick is a better weapon than nunchucks because it's ridged and transfers the force better. I don't get why nun chucks are ever used except as a training tool for body control and focus
We have a store here in Baltimore that sells all that stuff, belts, Gi, hakama, Bokken, Bo, Jo, Katana, Iaito, books, tatami, you name it. Kiyoto Co., it's ran by this super knowledgeable, super helpful, old Japanese guy. Such a great store.
In Sweden nunchaku is classified as "karate sticks" and prohibited through the knife law. 😂 The description in the legal text is something like "two sticks connected by a rope or a chain" But he the "karate sticks" part always annoys me. It's a factual error written into a legal binding text voted for by the swedish government. It's so stupid.
I googled if nunchucks are legal ln any US state, only to find out "Nunchucks are legal now that Penal Code 22010 PC was repealed." Apparently, currently nunchucks are only illegal in Massachusetts! (Sorry if twenty other people already noted this, as a 1960s CA kid, this blew my mind.)
The string doesn't amplify anything. The string allows for the force multiplication of a stick to be folded and maneuvered in between strikes. The speed of the swing is no different than if you were wielding an equal length stick. The force of the swing is no different. The versatility of the nunchaku is why they're used.
@@LagMasterSamThe "whip effect" that allows achieving extreme speeds at the tip of a whip happens because of conservation of momentum. The whip tapers heavily, specially towards the tip. Momentum is the product of the mass and the velocity, so when a heavy part of the whip transmits it's momentum to a lighter one, since the mass decreases, the velocity increases. You can't crack a piece of string and you can't swing the tip of a nunchuck at a greater velocity than a stick's.
@@cerocero2817if you swing it folded and it unfolds fully (or even more) at the moment of contact, it means that the tip of the second part travelled 2x the radial distance that of a stick with a length of nunchaku. Hence 2x velocity, etc...
I'm so glad to see one of my favorite martial arts guys overlapping with one of my favorite comedians lol. His double special video on youtube is something I've been putting on recently just for a guaranteed laugh.
I was in 3 NHB tournaments back in the early 90's. I did ok in the first two but I won the last one. Those were the good old days. I'm not sure if they even have those anymore.
In regards to where he would've bought the belt from, in the 90s a number of martial arts stores could be found all over Los Angeles that specialized in selling various gear/equipment for people and various schools in the area. In the late 90s/2000s many of these places started going out of business. In regards to nunchucks, in many states it is illegal to have/use those with wooden handle or handle that has a hard surface, however many get around this by having a foam material around the handles for training purposes/toys.
0:25 Ive got four esses in my name....so itll be an even worse start for me!! Personally, id blame the parents!!haha. Anyways another cool vid once again fella!!
Yeah, I think he's didn't fully appreciate that this was a comedy routine, a funny "mostly true" story, and just didn't allow himself to laugh at the guy who was ultimately making fun of himself, and maybe the sport too a little. But in ways that all of us students of Karate can appreciate/laugh at too.
Certainly with later statements like “my stupid, tattooed face.” Also, I found the ending a bit silly, telling people not to do this, as if Shayne was endorsing this behavior. A lot of Shayne’s comedy is self deprecating cautionary tales about the absurd situations he found himself in as a younger person. He started his first Dry Bar special with something along the lines of “I also think it is a bad idea to get your face tattooed, just so we are all on the same page.”
@@clothandleather2838 It's... stand-up comedy. You really think stand-up comedians really have all the stuff they say happen to them? Of course not, sometimes they take inspiration from stuff they see and spin a story to turn it into a funny bit, sometimes they invent stuff from scratch. This is just one bit in a set, you can bet your ass all his other bits are just as wild, and while there may be some elements of truth in some of them, I can guarantee none of them are true stories.
I wouldn't say karate is the most made fun of martial art, you should try being a Krav practitioner people act like you've just told them a joke when you tell them what you do 😆 what they don't know is its basically just mma with its foundations in boxing, wrestling, jiu jitsu and karate. Aikido is also pretty much a laughing stock.
I like that he is also wearing a magic shirt. He was definitely into it back then too which explains why he thought he could enter a “no holds barred death match style fighting tournament” with no prior experience 🤣
At the tournaments for my kids, the black belts go first early morning, so they are done to judge the kid's divisions, looks like that is what happened here.
I love shad. I was with him since 10,000 at the latest. I feel bad cause I can't watch him anymore. He can't admit when he's wrong anymore and is always beefing. I still like the guy, but I haven't seen anything he's done in a bit Edit: and shad's community tend to carry the same attitudes that make it a somewhat toxic community
@@KurNorock Nunchaku is a concealed/"EDC" weapon. Saying it can deliver a less powerful strike compared to a Bō is like saying a dagger is a shit weapon compared to a sword. Also, his technique is absolutely awful. With proper technique, cracking a jaw or breaking bones isn't hard. Sure, not as powerful as proper Bō strike, but you don't need that against people without armour.
And in his comedy bit, he clearly states that getting them is something he regrets. You should check out his stuff. One of his jokes is that "I drink so much Mountain Dew - I would go into the same convenience store every day and the guy that worked there called me "Mountain Dew guy" - he then says: "can you fully appreciate how much Mountain Dew I must drink for them to give me that nickname instead of "Tattoo guy?!"
0:56 "They weren't doing this eleven years ago." This has been done in the world since forever, son! I'm in my fifties and have lived longer than you to know this first-hand.
Why are y'all here if you didn't want to hear a literal breakdown of the stand up routine from the perspective of a karate expert? That's literally what this channel is. Why didn't y'all just go watch the original video than?
2:24 There was a fictional live-action series... but I couldn't tell if the competitions were real or not ... where the competitions WERE done via reverse points...like HP. It was pretty cool. WMAC Masters
WHOA WHOA WHOA... WTF? 16:10 Shane is 100% correct here. You CANNOT strike to the face in point scored Karate ffs! How do you not know that? I was disqualified from a tournament as a white belt for punching a guy in the face. Cost me 1st place. He was a green belt and just had solid defense, i got annoyed and punched him in his nose, fight was stopped and i was DQed. A teacher should know that. Maybe it's state to state but i doubt it. I know the same rule applies in TaeKwonDo as well.
"Michaelangelo is my favorite," is a killer line. Tony Ferguson would be proud, haha.
That one was epic, I laughted harder than in a loooong time.
The joke about min 13 is a reference to video games in general. In a video game the bosses are progressively more difficult and normally you get a reward after beating one
And food or health up can drop, improving his health. Don’t eat wall chicken.
I knew this would be the first comment I saw
"Final Fight". "Double Dragon", "Streets of Rage", "Shinobi"...
to name a few.
Wow took 13 minutes to find a joke this guy fucking sucks sensei bullshidooussy
Sounds like Pokemon gym battles
The whole video is Seth listening to this guy's story and saying, "That doesn't sound right." The guy goes on to explain why it wasn't right, and Seth goes, "....Yeah."
Yeah, unfortunately I think the comedian actually has some understanding of martial arts and Seth doesn’t understand that he’s just saying how he didn’t in the past. Details like going on mats with boots and knowing the concept of rule sets is at least very basic understanding of what he had done wrong
@@ricardoronaldo837true, Seth be giving some airhead vibes on this one 😂😂
@@jestfullgremblim8002 he's reacting on a moment to moment basis. It's the same as you reacting something to what your friend says without him finishing his sentence. Then again, the comedian isn't really funny so no loss here.
@@Inaluogh yeah yeah, and about the comedian, i wouldn't call him unfunny
@@Inaluoghhe has a great sense of humor and good punchline delivery. His setup game is a bit lacking but all around a pretty good comic
Most made fun off martial art, meanwhile Aikido crying in the corner.
unironically i think if you told the random entirely uninformed person in the US that aikido is steven seagall's specialty, the vast majority of people would think surely aikido must be badass and way more effective than karate. karate has been fighting for its life to be seen as more than something 11 year olds do in a strip mall on tuesday nights for like 30 years.
Came here to say essentially the same thing.
Karate in general Aikido in martial arts
You have to be a martial arts nerd to even know akido is thing. Everyone knows karate
I'd argue that giving a martial art shit for oonvincing people that if they just go through the forms for decades, that they'll be able to defend themselves inf they're attacked is less 'making fun of' and more 'calling it on its bullshit'.
Don't get me wrong aikido is beautiful...it just uhh doesn't help when you're being made to swallow your teeth...
He did say he didn't perceive the world around him because he was so nervous. It was like one of the first things he said.
And he repeated it several times
And lets face... He was probably high out of his mind xD
and i think he said he was the first match
And this is a comedy routine. So, it is probably somewhere between 100% autobiographical and something he completely made up, while watching a karate competition on public access cable, and evolved with dozens of retellings in front of audiences around the country.
All of the nun jokes are way funnier if you know about Shayne’s recent history. Dude went from fighting with nunchucks to fighting for Sister Natalia. Dude did a total 180 with his life.
Pints with Aquinas FTW!
It's a great story. It's crazy to think that right now in a gang somewhere in the world, there is a great comedian missing the calling of his life...
@@marshalbaek5580i know a ton of real bad dudes that are super funny and they’re usually the funniest that I know 😂
@@barlicgread5483 That's awesome!
C'mon Seth, that was the world's most obvious video game reference
Seth doesn't really play video games, except for making content
@@justinAclark2075 he plays smash and obviously at least knows about street fighter
@@fiendfi7119 smash is a common game for non gamers to play. He says himself he's not really a gamer
That reference describes every martial art show or videogame
@@justinAclark2075 good point
The HP idea for point sparring would be so much better
they could totaly create gi's with preasure points to register hits on some scoreboard with a health bar.
So, if you're wondering how he didn't watch the younger fighters and figure it out, some tournaments run the adult black belt division first so they can use the adult black belts as judges in all the other matches.
I love how you are reacting to this guys comedy skit as if it's 100% true real life story telling.
Thats why its funny and entertaining my man!
dude went through his own Baki Grappler arc
Except there was no grappling allowed...
@@SuperPeterok that’s a reference to anime
Black belts are available all over Amazon. In 2005, probably some Army Navy/ Military surplus and sporting goods store.
I know in NYC its was just a quick trip to Chinatown. On Mott street and Mulberry there were stores you could buy it all. Weapons, uniforms everything one stop shop including instruction manuals. Your age didn't matter all that much they would sell it to you.
Where I grew up, any gas station ran by middle eastern folks was guaranteed to have a glass case full of nunchuks and brass knuckles and katanas and belts, and they also could not care less how old you were xD
I’m like 90% sure I’ve seen black belts and nunchucks in a hot topic before.
The city I grew up in had an actual karate supply store.
@@kamenwaticlients hell yeah! I bought a legit sword when I was 12 from one of those stores off Mott st. They have it all!
I’ve followed Shayne the last 5+ years. He is a good comedian
If I'm not mistaken, in Karate Combat there were guys who were not even karate white belts, they were MMA guys.
I'm sure there were a few non karate guys. The old rules tried to limit people using other styles. But some of the rules have changed since.
Yeah I tuned in to one of their recent events and the anount of "Karate Style: Muay Thai" guys was ridiculous. just completely ruining what made the promotion special lmao
I think they labeled them as "grudge matches" or something? Just get a couple of untrained dudes in there to beat on each other. Sometimes I watch professional matches and think these guys don't look particularly well-trained, but then I saw a couple of these amateur grudge matches and I was like...oh, that's what an untrained athlete/fight looks like! (kind of terrible to be honest)
Yeah most of them are maui tai or kick boxing
I was following a girl I saw on Karate Combat, and one day in her stories she posted something like "It's so cool to being back to karate after (Many) years" and I was like what are you doing in *KARATE* combat if you don't even train karate anymore lol
The fruit reference was basically just a reference to computer games, the way you eat to get your health back
I don't remember if this is exactly so, but upon hearing about fruit I was immediately reminded of Kung Fu, the NES title.
“Ready to chuck nuns” is an underrated joke.
All Kyokoshin and off-shoots of Kyokoshin (Seido, Kenshikai, etc.) do not allow punches to the head. Even in "full contact." Devastating kicks to the head however are encouraged.
That’s such a backwards rule lmao
If you punch a samurai in the helmet you dont do much damage to them but you break a hand, which means no disarming the enemy or grappling or fighting back if you pick up a weapon, basically high chance of death
If you kick a guy in the helmet its probably still going to knock him out and the leg has much thicker stronger bones than the hand does
Edit: Turns out this is a cool story but totally not true, just an urban myth
It was probably some type of shotokan instead. We were allowed to punch in the head in shotokan tournaments.
@@driver3899 It was more a product of equipment. Mas Oyama's students didn't have anything that would allow them to punch eachother in the face without damaging their hands or heads so badly they couldn't continue. So to ensure Kyokushin sparring was full contact (but still taught people to keep their guard up) punches to the face were disallowed (so that people could regularly throw heavy blows) but kicks to the head were kept so that people had a reason to actually defend their face/head.
It's not an ideal ruleset but it worked considering the materials available to them.
@@driver3899 that would make sense if Samurai and Kyokushin existed at the same time 😂
Kyokushin was not meant for armor or weapon combat, Kyokushin is basically Muay Thai with some variations on the rules; while traiditional Karate from Okinawa was more like Japanese Jujutsu: LOTS of grappling, LOTS of weapon work (both how to use weapons and how to defend against weapons) and some unarmed striking here and there, but it was mostly used to setup grappling as most Okinawan Karateka also practiced Okinawan wrestling, and if they did not, they still did grappling sparring (now called Kake Dameshi) as part of their Karate training. These things are lost today, but that's what Karate used to be
By applying torque using the string you can get the end of a nunchuck having higher angular velocity than a similar-sized stick because it is not rigid, so the force can be disproportionately applied at the end of the length. The string adds a higher range of possible movements than a straight stick. That said, a stick is still a far better weapon because correctly using a pair of nunchucks this way takes way more effort and discipline than the similarly deadly and far simpler baseball bat.
The real advantage of nunchucks is that you can fold them in half to hide them. Which is what this guy did.
Minor point: The string on nunchucks does nothing on a direct swing and the hit is equivalent to a stick of that length. It's when you modify the swing to whip the outer stick that you get that magnification (for the exact same reason that cracking a whip or a towel does way more damage than swinging it)
"Michaelangelo is my favorite."
Best cop ever! 😂😂😂💀💀
Remind me to never bring Seth to a comedy club. "So, one day I was cleaning my pool . . ." "IDK, does this guy really have a pool?"
This was the first video i ever saw of shane smith. I was crying from laughter within minutes. Totally hilarious.
Not gonna lie your lack of understanding that you're watching stand-up and taking everything he says completely serious is both funny and weird.
I love Seth's videos but yh he was taking it too serious and awkwardly, probably wasnt even a true story or just partially true, just a funny comedy sketch that's all seth!
Yeah there was something off about this video
Well, IDK how it works in the States, but here in Czechia, I think that only people registered within a czech karate organization can enter tournaments, so they would know which belts the participants hold. So this could not happen.
The best stand up reflects reality and has an element of truth, though.
@@DLFLux The element of truth is that Karate in the mind of a young man thinking "death tournaments" is hilariously far from the truth of point Karate, that's about it
When I was a kid the outfits and belts were sold at Department stores. Karate was big in the 80s.
Yeah, there arent any here now but in the 90s there used to a lot of sporting goods places that sold belts. Always behind a counter coz i guess kids would steal them other wise. Even my local sports centre had them next to the swimming goggle at their desk.
I remember the mid-90s... Even TKD was awesome back then.
That story gave me 90s vibes for sure
TKD is still awesome, just don't watch the olympic style (WT) ruleset tournaments :)
I remember the 80s, the ghost of BL was in all of us
Watching point sport karate is like watching a drag race on gravel
This bit is hilarious. when you listen to the jokes they tend to explain themselves… patience butterfly
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HP bars and shock collars to know when the bar has run out XD
Seth reacting like dude on stand up is serious ;D
Jokes tend to be funnier if they’re somewhat realistic or have some bearing on reality. Unless it’s obvious absurdist comedy.
@@ogolthorp Right but to the average person everything about this story is realistic.
This guy is a great story teller.
A lot of small towns and mini cities in the USA became Martial Arts obsessed in the 1980's and 1990's. Some towns with under 20k population had 4 or 5 competing dojo's back in the day. They would hold competitions with very few rules. Over the years, as people saw teenagers get injured seriously and sometimes maimed for life rules got stricter and stricter.
1980s* and 1990s*, no apostrophe saying 1980 is etc. Eighties and nineties have no apostrophe.
@@thekeysman6760 the pinky finger gets away from me from time to time and automatically hits the ' before the s as the thoughts flow. Sorry I don't have a full time editor to review all my spur of the moment posts for your reading pleasure lol.
"They werent doing this 11 years ago."
Yes, my guy, we were. Im in my 30s and there were tournaments that were going that far as early as 08. They were small and relatively new, to be fair, but they existed.
He meant MMA tournaments.
Funniest part is that even having nunchacks is illegal cause they are "deadly", but having a bazillion of glocks is totally fine.
Technically the 2nd amendment should protect nunchucks as well. But I'd still much rather carry my Glock.
They’re illegal to carry, not own. Much like stilettos and knucks
Which is also dependent on where you are
no the FUNNIEST part is people like you not realizing 3-5 states in ALL OF USA is the reason USA is #2 in gun violence.
guess which states? all of them are blue, all of them are democratic, ALL OF THEM HAVE THE HARSHEST GUN LAWS.
it's almost like criminals do not give a flying FK about gun laws. so lets just remove the 2nd Amendment and allow criminals
to violently murder innocent civilians, as well as rob them, car jack them, etc.
not to mention 12-13% of USA's gun violence and gun related crime is in those same states. take a wild guess what else?
its 83-88% of ALL GUN VIOLENCE IN THE COUNTRY. remove those states and USA drops inthe high 180s. out of 192 countries
in the WORLD. another "FUNNY" stat is its black on black crime.
gtfo out with your anti-gun delusions
Iirc some weapons in some states are illegal (to carry/have in public) if they have been used in an intimidating manner in movies. So that covers things like switchblade knives, balisong, nunchucks, and throwing stars.
Seth is reacting like this is a true story....cmon man the guy is a comedian.
Except it actually happened. 😂
I made myself a pair of nunchucks when I was a kid. I found some hanging garden pots that had been dumped in the bush, so I took the chains off that, I then cut up an old wooden broom handle and connected them with those U shaped staple nails. It was strong enough I could hang from them.
I gave myself the biggest black eye Ive ever had swinging them around.
I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time. That dude is hilarious!
It's worth to check out his other sets as well. They are all awesome.
It's totally believable to me that he didn't get a rules prep, because during the year I wrestled, I never got one either. I learned the rules by getting warnings from the ref, lol
5:40 you asked where he bought a black belt. I had "Martial Arts Supply" stores around me for several years (they all seem to have disappeared since). I don't doubt for a second that he was upsold some chaku. As to them being illegal, New York legalized them under the Second Amendment, meaning the Supremacy Clause applies and they're technically now legal to carry as part of your right to bear arms.
Also, I've seen this standup before and it's SOOOOOOO much funnier with Seth's reactions in real time.
'Martial arts supply stores' in inverted commas implying so-called or supposedly, not quotation marks quoting someone saying it.
@thekeysman6760 Actually, given that it literally said "Martial Arts Supply" on the signage, someone DID say it. Regardless, seems a REALLY petty and silly comment to make in the first place, not to mention irrelevant, given that the point clearly made it across (else it would've been a question for clarification, not an attempted grammatical correction gone horribly awry). That said, I don't know what size or shape the stick in your backside is, but you've made it very clear that it exists. Congratulations.
Seth this is comedy, it doesn't have to be realistic.
Yea I think everyone here is so serious about karate they think this is like a real life story. What a time to be alive haha it’s like going back in time and showing this video to people in 1965.
It isn't funny either though? It's like an even more exaggerated Bert Kreischer story and yeah, comedy needs exaggeration. But the dude exaggerates it so much the whole joke turns into a shitty summer comedy movie that went straight to DVD.
First half of this video is pretty rough the way you kept stopping him mid joke to comment, but you figured out a much better flow in the second half, look forward to future martial arts stand up reacts. This guys set is so damn funny.
Yeaaah it’s so… funny
His silly made up karate story
@@acebase2302lol, do you not understand humor? Stand up is not investigative journalism, it's comedic fiction
The set is hilarious but I'm watching a video of a guy commentate over it. I'm not watching the set. I personally didn't mind the stopping. I'm more intrigued about what he has to say. If I wanted to watch the set without pauses I would go watch the set on the comedian's channel and not the karate channel.
At 13:31 - fun fact, "Sensei" does NOT mean "teacher". That word is "Kyoshi". "Sensei" literally means "one who has gone before". A more experienced person. Someone passing on their experience. That's why lawyers, gifted artists and other notable people are often referred to as Sensei in Japan - it's acknowledging their expertise. Yes, because the Sensei is teaching the class, the term is used interchangeably, but it doesn't mean teacher.
...aaand teachers are called sensei. Google translates it as teacher. Duolingo teaches that sensei means teacher. In my 10 000 hours of reading manga and watching anime I've never heard of kyoshi. It's a fun fact, but it is wrong. Also, google translates kyoshi as "sawtooth". The information on sensei etymology seems to be from the wikipedia page and while that part is correct, it doesn't contradict that it is still the word for teacher.
@@CuulX With respect, my source is a native Japanese teacher (mechanical engineering in Tokyo). I didn't say people who teach are not called Sensei. That is very common. I'm saying the word doesn't translate directly to the English. It translates the concept. Kyoshi matches more closely.
@@theaikidoka of course it's the aikido guy
@@theaikidokaChange those quotes to inverted commas implying so-called or supposedly, then I think you've got something! 😉
@@Inaluogh What I study has no bearing on wether I can listen to an actual source rather than a Western interpretation.
Shayne Smith is a very good, watched a few of his stuff on drybar comedy ( its all clean comedy)
"Store" owner probably thought he was just looking for a Halloween costume with the black belt and thought he'd appreciate the nunchucks too.
This story sounds like the best episode of a sitcom.
The reason karate tournaments are light contact is liability. If you start having competitors getting knocked out and sent to the ER state athletic commissions will be forced to get involved and local karate tournaments will be no more.
Also, most practitioners these days are kids. Parents want a safe place for them, that's why they get their kids into Karate and Taekwondo, not Muay Thai or MMA hahaha.
7 minutes in and I’m just gonna go to the original sketch 😂
YOU DO UNDERSTAND HOW COMEDY WORKS RIGHT?
24:13 - Or he is a performer who makes up fictional stories to make us picture them and all laugh together!
I don't think Shayne made up any of this story. In his earlier sets he references having gotten banned from a karate tournament. And if you pay attention, he explains why he wasn't paying attention to anything and didn't realize it wasn't what he'd thought it was. That, and he probably only showed up an hour or so before he was supposed to fight.
I believe his stories are real. Coloring them up a little maybe? I don't see an issue with that.
Sounds like McDojo tournament.
I've never seen someone dissect a comedy bit quite like this
Seth on jokes is a weird experience lol
How many nuns would a nunchuck chuck if a nunchuck would chuck nuns?
A nunchuck could chuck no amount of nuns since a nunchuck can´t chuck on it´s own.
All ov em
Chuck Norris
"Did you walk into a bar, ready to chuck nuns?"
I'm speechless. That's an absurd sentence.
12:00 at 38, I got talked into entering a nationals level freestyle wrestling tournament by my athletes. without having competed since the year 2000. in folkstyle. in high school. and with all the confidence in the world, i walked out onto that mat, shook the dudes hand, and proceeded to blow my knee up. ACL surgery recovery is a monster.
Haha.. sorry bout your luck. Hilarious though. Hope you’ve healed up well.
@mcgo3595 well see next April when I enter masters nationals again lol. I'll be just at the end of my 30s
@@snowboardfamilyof4 Resonates with me.. I’ll be 39 in a month and still love doing dumb shit. Dirt Bikes are my vice. Good luck in the tournament brother. Show em we ain’t used up yet 😂
Oh man!!
Shayne was a legit criminal back then. My karate crew was almost that bad in Boston in the late '90s. A lot of poor decisions were made back in those days. Camera phones changed the world.
In the 90's, we had three different stores locally where you could buy belts, various types of gi, pads, gloves, etc. One was a retail storefront attached to a kung fu studio, one was a Century branded store, and the third was a random martial arts store.
century standing bags are still around
90s*, no apostrophe saying 90 is. Nineties has no apostrophe.
@@thekeysman6760 Carry your pedantic ass somewhere else.
LMAO they've been doing no holds barred tournaments since the 70s at least.
24:03 you don't think he's embellishing the story you know for the joke. For all we know this is completely fake and he's just making us laugh. And it is working cuz I have been laughing Non-Stop
Seth: "guys name is dan..."
Dan Henderson stepped into the chat...
I really liked that skit
Grape Lady in 2024? We're living in the best timeline.
9:19 ranting about nunchucks being dangerous in a country with guns everywhere…
I was walking down the street and one just came out of a bush smoking a cigarette. Was mental.
They ARE dangerous.
To the user!
I mean a stick is a better weapon than nunchucks because it's ridged and transfers the force better. I don't get why nun chucks are ever used except as a training tool for body control and focus
The sun is dangerous, fire is dangerous, driving is dangerous. Just have to learn to do dangerous things responsibly.
@@spracketskooch sure but the difference is that the sun, fire, and driving are all actually useful. Nunchucks aren’t
When the opponent is down, turn around and look away. . .
IS THAT WHAT AKUMA DOES THAT IN STREET FIGHTER?!
Lazar's bazzar in Eugene Oregon. You can buy a black belt, Gi, lava lamp, a Christmas card with a naked woman sitting on Santa's lap and a bong.
And there was probably a dude there who could do your taxes for $50.
Life goal.
Sounds like a mega "Bucee's" store here in the South U.S.
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Yes, i wanted you to react to this. I love shayne Smith
We have a store here in Baltimore that sells all that stuff, belts, Gi, hakama, Bokken, Bo, Jo, Katana, Iaito, books, tatami, you name it. Kiyoto Co., it's ran by this super knowledgeable, super helpful, old Japanese guy. Such a great store.
"My dad was in karate like back in the day... mid 90s".... shit, that hurt my soul.
In Sweden nunchaku is classified as "karate sticks" and prohibited through the knife law. 😂 The description in the legal text is something like "two sticks connected by a rope or a chain"
But he the "karate sticks" part always annoys me. It's a factual error written into a legal binding text voted for by the swedish government. It's so stupid.
"No officer, these are kung fu batons! They're completely legal"
The grape lady killed me man! Lol
He’s a ✨comedian✨
I googled if nunchucks are legal ln any US state, only to find out "Nunchucks are legal now that Penal Code 22010 PC was repealed."
Apparently, currently nunchucks are only illegal in Massachusetts!
(Sorry if twenty other people already noted this, as a 1960s CA kid, this blew my mind.)
The string doesn't amplify anything. The string allows for the force multiplication of a stick to be folded and maneuvered in between strikes. The speed of the swing is no different than if you were wielding an equal length stick. The force of the swing is no different. The versatility of the nunchaku is why they're used.
Depending on how it's swung, there can be a whip effect that makes the end swing faster than a stick of equivalent total length.
@@LagMasterSamThe "whip effect" that allows achieving extreme speeds at the tip of a whip happens because of conservation of momentum. The whip tapers heavily, specially towards the tip. Momentum is the product of the mass and the velocity, so when a heavy part of the whip transmits it's momentum to a lighter one, since the mass decreases, the velocity increases.
You can't crack a piece of string and you can't swing the tip of a nunchuck at a greater velocity than a stick's.
@@cerocero2817if you swing it folded and it unfolds fully (or even more) at the moment of contact, it means that the tip of the second part travelled 2x the radial distance that of a stick with a length of nunchaku. Hence 2x velocity, etc...
You make me feel old, sir! I also participated in these in the mid 90s. 😂
Keep in mind he may or may not have been high as a kite at the time.
Shayne is straightedge he doesn't drink or do drugs
@@drewfamilyadventures Really? We was in a gang in 2005 and he was straight edge? Man they got a gang for everything now.
@@mnorris790 Guess you have never heard of CourageXCrew. Plus, I know many people in gangs, crews, MC's and are straightedge, myself included.
I'm so glad to see one of my favorite martial arts guys overlapping with one of my favorite comedians lol. His double special video on youtube is something I've been putting on recently just for a guaranteed laugh.
I was in 3 NHB tournaments back in the early 90's. I did ok in the first two but I won the last one. Those were the good old days. I'm not sure if they even have those anymore.
In regards to where he would've bought the belt from, in the 90s a number of martial arts stores could be found all over Los Angeles that specialized in selling various gear/equipment for people and various schools in the area. In the late 90s/2000s many of these places started going out of business.
In regards to nunchucks, in many states it is illegal to have/use those with wooden handle or handle that has a hard surface, however many get around this by having a foam material around the handles for training purposes/toys.
Is this guy actually dissecting a standup bit?
Next video:
Man breaks down unrealistic aspects of bugs bunny dodging Elmer Fudd.
Someone is talking about Nunchucks being good. I summon thee, shadaversity!
Thinking the same thing
@@SaltLight7a weapon is only as good as the person using it
0:25 Ive got four esses in my name....so itll be an even worse start for me!! Personally, id blame the parents!!haha. Anyways another cool vid once again fella!!
I only see two.
I don't really get this reaction. He was just telling a story about he was being dumb at 19. And your like yeah "yeah. Your pretty dumb".
Yeah, I think he's didn't fully appreciate that this was a comedy routine, a funny "mostly true" story, and just didn't allow himself to laugh at the guy who was ultimately making fun of himself, and maybe the sport too a little. But in ways that all of us students of Karate can appreciate/laugh at too.
Certainly with later statements like “my stupid, tattooed face.”
Also, I found the ending a bit silly, telling people not to do this, as if Shayne was endorsing this behavior. A lot of Shayne’s comedy is self deprecating cautionary tales about the absurd situations he found himself in as a younger person.
He started his first Dry Bar special with something along the lines of “I also think it is a bad idea to get your face tattooed, just so we are all on the same page.”
My dude none of what he says was true, it's a bit not a story
@@ArkhBaegor and your basis is? At least leave proof if your gonna bother
@@clothandleather2838 It's... stand-up comedy. You really think stand-up comedians really have all the stuff they say happen to them? Of course not, sometimes they take inspiration from stuff they see and spin a story to turn it into a funny bit, sometimes they invent stuff from scratch.
This is just one bit in a set, you can bet your ass all his other bits are just as wild, and while there may be some elements of truth in some of them, I can guarantee none of them are true stories.
Holy hell I just cried laughing at a man getting kicked in the stomach and knocked out🤦♂️
This was funny AF! More!!
Look him up. He's got a few sets on youtube. And I think actively doing shows live.
He is a comedian telling stories about his high as a kite days
I wouldn't say karate is the most made fun of martial art, you should try being a Krav practitioner people act like you've just told them a joke when you tell them what you do 😆 what they don't know is its basically just mma with its foundations in boxing, wrestling, jiu jitsu and karate. Aikido is also pretty much a laughing stock.
I haven' hrdmany people makefun of Karate. I have herd a lt of TKD, Kung Fu, nd Aikido jokes.
Who are these people? It would never occur to me to make fun of anyone doing any martial art.
Shayne is a great storyteller, I actually laughed out loud. :D
1 minute and no views? Seth fell off.
Instructions unclear I am now the Okinawa karate master after winning back to back tournaments.
Are you critiquing a comedy routine?
I like that he is also wearing a magic shirt. He was definitely into it back then too which explains why he thought he could enter a “no holds barred death match style fighting tournament” with no prior experience 🤣
Damn I’ve never been this early lol
Same lol
At the tournaments for my kids, the black belts go first early morning, so they are done to judge the kid's divisions, looks like that is what happened here.
09:00-09:30 nunchuks are dangerous... Here comes Shad to explain why you are wrong and a stick is better. Lmao.
Oh... That video. It's so painfully cringe and backward, I'm surprised he doubled down on that.
I love shad. I was with him since 10,000 at the latest. I feel bad cause I can't watch him anymore. He can't admit when he's wrong anymore and is always beefing. I still like the guy, but I haven't seen anything he's done in a bit
Edit: and shad's community tend to carry the same attitudes that make it a somewhat toxic community
@poomrapea what are you talking about? Shad was 100% right about nunchucks. They are a crap weapon. A stick of equal length is obviously better.
@@zeekeno823 he wasn't wrong. And who exactly is he beefing with? Absolutely nobody.
@@KurNorock Nunchaku is a concealed/"EDC" weapon.
Saying it can deliver a less powerful strike compared to a Bō is like saying a dagger is a shit weapon compared to a sword.
Also, his technique is absolutely awful. With proper technique, cracking a jaw or breaking bones isn't hard. Sure, not as powerful as proper Bō strike, but you don't need that against people without armour.
Hey that's no random guy that's the mountain dew guy!...those who know know lol
The comedian is proof that tattoos have gotten out of hand.
tattoos are cool in moderation but jesus christ
And in his comedy bit, he clearly states that getting them is something he regrets. You should check out his stuff. One of his jokes is that "I drink so much Mountain Dew - I would go into the same convenience store every day and the guy that worked there called me "Mountain Dew guy" - he then says: "can you fully appreciate how much Mountain Dew I must drink for them to give me that nickname instead of "Tattoo guy?!"
Great commentary video. No idea why you were in my feed but glad you were.
0:56 "They weren't doing this eleven years ago." This has been done in the world since forever, son! I'm in my fifties and have lived longer than you to know this first-hand.
I don’t know how many people know this, but it’s very common for comedians to make stories up.
Karate people are on a whole other level of Idiocracy. Most flat earthers know karate, that should answer some of your questions. 😂
Why are y'all here if you didn't want to hear a literal breakdown of the stand up routine from the perspective of a karate expert? That's literally what this channel is. Why didn't y'all just go watch the original video than?
2:24
There was a fictional live-action series...
but I couldn't tell if the competitions were real or not ...
where the competitions WERE done via reverse points...like HP.
It was pretty cool.
WMAC Masters
WHOA WHOA WHOA... WTF? 16:10 Shane is 100% correct here. You CANNOT strike to the face in point scored Karate ffs! How do you not know that? I was disqualified from a tournament as a white belt for punching a guy in the face. Cost me 1st place. He was a green belt and just had solid defense, i got annoyed and punched him in his nose, fight was stopped and i was DQed.
A teacher should know that. Maybe it's state to state but i doubt it. I know the same rule applies in TaeKwonDo as well.