The Big Problem with Sword Fighting...

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  • @justguy-4630
    @justguy-4630 Рік тому +1821

    Problem #1: You die when you are killed.

    • @Loderyod
      @Loderyod Рік тому +40

      🤯🤯🤯

    • @rachdarastrix5251
      @rachdarastrix5251 Рік тому +86

      I hate dying. It happened to me 5 times already. And it's not even noon.

    • @xxXXRAPXXxx
      @xxXXRAPXXxx Рік тому +79

      Skill issue. I do not die when im killed.

    • @Franky_Sthein
      @Franky_Sthein Рік тому +55

      How to solve: Just don't die.
      Problem solved.

    • @InvincibleSummer7
      @InvincibleSummer7 Рік тому +14

      *Laughs in Auto resurrection*

  • @andrewli6606
    @andrewli6606 Рік тому +1290

    Problem with any HEMA competition is that you will always even subconsciously be less cautious because it isn’t real. If you’re leading in points, you can even lose a few points to further gauge your opponent. Not possible in real life. Suppose you could make it so that if you “get a fatal wound” you just immediately lose, but that makes for poor sport.

    • @cadethumann8605
      @cadethumann8605 Рік тому +63

      If you don't mind me asking, what would you suggest as to how we can make for a more authentic sword sport without actually maiming people?
      This reminds me of how many detractors to the idea of women being competent swordsmen argue that the women in HEMA are not proof of such. They reason that it is merely a touch-based sport and imply that a real sword fight would only have the strongest and fittest survive, something that women have a biological disadvantage in.
      Mind you, I am not judging the OP anything. I think this brings up an interesting thing to discuss about. The question is how do we do a proper test of swordsmenship without actually endangering?

    • @Dan_Kanerva
      @Dan_Kanerva Рік тому +72

      ​@@cadethumann8605 is not possible

    • @deakonkuster
      @deakonkuster Рік тому +118

      @@cadethumann8605 Use rules that reflect reality. You took a maiming hit, you are out. Like done, no more fights for you. Took a hand hit in the last round that hand is now bound and you cant grip with it. There are ways but they would be overly arbitrarily and really remove the fun.

    • @WebertHest
      @WebertHest Рік тому +77

      @@deakonkuster That is _also_ unrealistic. People who got hit with swords for a living wore armour that protected them from sword hits at least to some degree. A hit to the hand is not an automatic "lose use of that hand" injury. To quote Skall, swords are not lightsabers, a mere touch of them will not kill you.
      Unless we stay at judicial, lightly protected fencing, but that is another story in an of itself.

    • @Fantastic_Mr_Fox
      @Fantastic_Mr_Fox Рік тому +52

      @@WebertHest HEMA is simulated unarmed swordfighting. So yes, lightly protected fencing.

  • @Adam-xd9tr
    @Adam-xd9tr Рік тому +1000

    "Necromancers: Healers with bad timing."
    This is the first time I've heard that joke, and I'm using it to describe them in the future.

    • @johndododoe1411
      @johndododoe1411 Рік тому +26

      Necromancers are the most powerful healers, as they heal the otherwise unhealable. The classic weapon against necromancers recruiting your dead relatives is a massive stake through their bodies in the cemetery .

    • @wolf1066
      @wolf1066 Рік тому +2

      Likewise!

    • @lechking941
      @lechking941 Рік тому

      hehe that general line has been used before, more so with evolve (if you know the game then your gonna know who i speak of) there is one healer who though weaker sustained heals just powerful frount game with reviving the dead being Lazarus and i think he or one of the others has a line about him being a healer with bad timing or something XD

    • @saulesalejos4483
      @saulesalejos4483 Рік тому

      Or healers are necromancers living a lie.
      Think about it, you are literally regrowing flesh and creating blood out of thin air.

    • @clarencejackson4666
      @clarencejackson4666 Рік тому

      😂

  • @christiankalk4668
    @christiankalk4668 Рік тому +470

    This video brought to mind a couple quotes I read.
    The first is from one of David Gemmell's novels, can't remember which one. But the quote is something like, "Every man with a sword is undefeated in mortal combat."
    The other is from "The Excalibur Alternative" by David Weber. The context is an English army is stolen fom the Hundred Years' War and recruited to fight on behalf of an advanced alien civilization. In reference to the aliens' highly avanced medical technology and the effect on his soldiers' abilities, the English commander is thinking, "Death was a wonderful teacher when he was not allowed to keep his pupils."

    • @adzi6164
      @adzi6164 Рік тому +51

      inb4 the Dark Souls approach - go, die, repeat until you git gud

    • @Skallagrim
      @Skallagrim  Рік тому +100

      I approve of your Gemmell quote, good sir.

    • @christiankalk4668
      @christiankalk4668 Рік тому +13

      @Skallagrim One of the few authors I've read who seems to truly understand how fighting works...particularly the psychological element.

    • @JayM409
      @JayM409 Рік тому +7

      There is a whole genre of those type of sci Fi novels. H. Beam Piper's 'Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen,' Jerry Pournelle's 'Janisaries' series, David Drake's 'Ranks of Bronze,' and Poul Anderson's, 'High Crusade.'

    • @christiankalk4668
      @christiankalk4668 Рік тому +7

      @jayharper3491 The Excalibur Alternative is actually a sequel to Ranks of Bronze. Not familiar with the others...are they connected or just similar theme?

  • @teenfoe
    @teenfoe Рік тому +472

    "The best techniques are passed on by the survivors." Yes this quote still applies when it comes to real fights.

    • @MrPiotrV
      @MrPiotrV Рік тому +78

      Not necessarily. You could still die from sickness, random arrows, your side losing the battle, etc, even if you were the best individual swordsman in the world.

    • @Wyzai
      @Wyzai Рік тому +29

      you wanna survive a battlefield, ask someone who did that. Doesn't necessarily mean they were the best fighter there - it's just that they were smart enough to gang up on the best fighter.

    • @ArifRWinandar
      @ArifRWinandar Рік тому +3

      @@MrPiotrV Who brings arrows to a duel?

    • @MrPiotrV
      @MrPiotrV Рік тому +12

      @@ArifRWinandarever heard of wars? turns out soldiers fight in them! :O

    • @Killicon93
      @Killicon93 Рік тому +6

      @@ArifRWinandar War is not dueling.

  • @exharkhun5605
    @exharkhun5605 Рік тому +276

    On Mike Tyson's podcast the WWF wrestler the Undertaker recently told a story that some WWF wrestlers don't practice the really dangerous stunts because the risk of injury is just as high as doing it for real, and training would only double the risk.
    I can see that same mindset here, if the risk of simulating combat is loosing a limp then you simply don't. You train the basics, you train yourself silly in dealing with circumstances but you leave the high risk situations for the moments that count.

    • @adreabrooks11
      @adreabrooks11 Рік тому +27

      He would know! Dude broke his neck diving off the top rope.

    • @Captain_Insano_nomercy
      @Captain_Insano_nomercy Рік тому +8

      I'm practicing with a tetsubo lately and there's no kind of way to spar with the real thing. You can use foam but you can't get the true weight AND full contact. It's been a tough time for studying the forms of the weapon

    • @Rafafidi
      @Rafafidi Рік тому +25

      That's why many boxers spar with a padded mask. You can't "train" your face to being punched

    • @ShinFahima
      @ShinFahima Рік тому +16

      In Naruto, can you imagine if Rock Lee opened a bunch of the eight gates every time he was training? He'd be in a coma like the whole series.

    • @vorrnth8734
      @vorrnth8734 Рік тому +12

      And that is why everyone back then had Kata even if they had a different name for it.

  • @wagnersantos6348
    @wagnersantos6348 Рік тому +138

    Very good points Skallagrim. One thing I've read is how ehxaustion was far more impactful than skill.
    Fighting is one thing, fighting after marching for 14 hours is another one completely.
    Someone said: "an exhausted skilled swordsman will always be beaten by a well-rested novice".

    • @cattysplat
      @cattysplat Рік тому +32

      Not to mention sleepless night before the battle, lack of food, the fear of dying, losing and being taken prisoner, mutilation and slow death, missing limbs (a death sentence in middle ages), the sight and sound of people dying, eating a random unlucky arrow, panic and confusion during the fight, ordered to retreat running whilst enemy chasing, even friendly fire from someone behind you.

    • @sleethmitchell
      @sleethmitchell Рік тому +13

      even well rested and fed, how many opponents must you face before you can rest again? surviving an actual battle is not bloody likely...

    • @alexdoiron8419
      @alexdoiron8419 Рік тому +18

      Agreed. Anybody with significant martial arts experience understands this fact. It's one thing to be able to win a 2 minute bout. It's completely another thing to do ten 2 minute bouts in a row without a break. Note: That's "only" 20 minutes of combat.

    • @bsanchez3563
      @bsanchez3563 11 місяців тому

      Ooooh man... ngl imho regarding having not even thought of lile thrist an exhaustion.. thaaaats not how picturing in ones mind works @op

    • @vincentlinsin6549
      @vincentlinsin6549 10 місяців тому +2

      There's a video game where this actually holds true - Dwarf Fortress.
      Your dwarfs will get tired from fighting and wearing armor. It doesn't matter if that dwarf is a steel-plate clad hammerlord with 300 kills under his belt - if he passes out from exhaustion surrounded by the 100-something giant cave olm men trying to storm the fortress, he's gone.

  • @jeremieherard2166
    @jeremieherard2166 Рік тому +76

    Gorgeous landscape right from the start

    • @MrMetonicus
      @MrMetonicus Рік тому +3

      Yeah. He looks good with a shorter beard.

    • @johnracine4589
      @johnracine4589 9 місяців тому +1

      Maybe he’s born with it.

  • @quaternarytetrad4039
    @quaternarytetrad4039 Рік тому +214

    This puts an interesting perspective on the realistic lightsaber duel that you reviewed. The school taught its students the art of the sword, and they often died repeatedly in their training and testing and thus had to be repaired and revived.

    • @Skallagrim
      @Skallagrim  Рік тому +92

      Yes, that would make for excruciating but immensely effective training.

    • @foldionepapyrus3441
      @foldionepapyrus3441 Рік тому +41

      @@Skallagrim As long as it doesn't break you psychologically. Two extremes come to mind for me - the complete disregard for your life when out there in the real world, as dead never mattered in training and the pain becomes almost familiar, its not bothering you long term - in which case you may be very effective at getting both you and your target dead. Or all that pain in the process breaks you first and you just can't face another opponent, the memory of all that trauma is too much.

    • @stamythezombie
      @stamythezombie Рік тому +13

      ​@@Skallagrim we might be reaching the point where brain-computer interfaces allow that kind of practice to happen with no consequences; so we might be closer than we think to reaching new levels of combat readiness. Being able to practice fighting after getting shot in a safe environment will create some scary soldiers.

    • @johndododoe1411
      @johndododoe1411 Рік тому +2

      ​@@stamythezombieHow would brain-computer interfaces work in the face of opponents that aim specifically for the brain or computer?

    • @stamythezombie
      @stamythezombie Рік тому +4

      @@johndododoe1411 I was mentioning how you could use the brain-computer interface to practice, not talking about using it in battle; that's a whole difference story.
      But if you really want to know the answer to your question then you don't have to look much further than what we've been doing for ages in combat. We aim for the head because it controls the body, we protect our head because the opponent also knows this. It wouldn't be that different.

  • @superrobotmonkeyhyperteamf3194
    @superrobotmonkeyhyperteamf3194 Рік тому +222

    Hi skalla, there are some direct and indirect references to fencing protection. Rapiers with ballpoints are mentioned by some masters, fencing masks from the 17th and 18th century seem to have survived. Pagano writes in his narration of two people fighting with two handed swords that they had hats that had steel protection underneath them and a spring device that would when being hit release an iron mask to protect the face. There are other more indirect refernces to fencing jackets, some kinds of protections one seem to imply some skullcap as protection underneath a normal hat.
    Regarding realism, the masters back then knew about the problem, manciolino iirc suggests a tournament system that is more realistic, where being hit punishes you much harder and the hit person is allowed to do one action in form of a ripost. Imo there should be different styles of tournaments with different goals. Another thing would be trying out accurate historical fencingswords and actually only fight with eye protection maybe throat protection and historical rules. So no thrusts and only hits to the head. Interestling enough that changes the whole dynamic of fencing and usage of techniques also it seems the injuries are quite harmless. Some did experiment with that. Should be however noted that with accurate fencing swords many seem to mix up parat swords and real fencing swords.
    Spinning is only really vialable when being surrounded no matter if rapier or great sword, there are however some smaller late rapier devices that have spinning moves in them. Anyways great topic.

    • @tommeakin1732
      @tommeakin1732 Рік тому +12

      I'm not familiar with fencing masks from the 17th and 18th century, but I do know that, at least in the 17th century where it became fashionable for men to sometimes wear (fabulous) hats in combat, it seems to have been very common for them to wear a skullcap of some kind under the hat, and that's one of those things that can easily be missed when we look back at art because it's basically invisible armour - very similar in fact to how it seems to be the case that mail coifs were almost never worn without a skullcap under the mail, but it's easily missed when looking at art

    • @superrobotmonkeyhyperteamf3194
      @superrobotmonkeyhyperteamf3194 Рік тому +3

      Yeah there is also something called a head casket iirc that soldiers often wore. Assume thats similar to what we mean. Overall thats a big problem with art. There are often invisible layers of weapons or armor that we can't see but did definitely exist. one example would be the morningstar or types of landsknecht armor that is almost never shown in pictures. The fencing masks i remember were from italy i think they look kinda weird like real masks but with the mouth and the eyes having small protective bars. I also remember an accident where a prince killed another prince by mistake or anger and it was specifically pointed out that it was tragic that they fought without protection unlike they usually did. Was early or high middle age but been a while when i read about that subject. The problem is we wont have many sources about those types of weapons, armor and protective gear simply because it was not worthy to talk about.

    • @lfbp7051
      @lfbp7051 Рік тому +1

      ​@@superrobotmonkeyhyperteamf3194 I cant find the head casket iirc anywhere

    • @Jeremycook_
      @Jeremycook_ Рік тому +1

      I was going to say something dumb. Then I saw your name and you win

    • @superrobotmonkeyhyperteamf3194
      @superrobotmonkeyhyperteamf3194 Рік тому +1

      @@lfbp7051 There aren't many examples online, it was called Casquet, or in german eisernes Hutkreuz or just Hutkreuz. Sometimes equalled with the Skull cap with the difference that it has iron bars instead of being fully closed. So here and sometimes in old english it seemed to be called casquet or Hutkreuz but in modern english its often called skull cap as well which is imo bit confusing.

  • @mysticmarbles
    @mysticmarbles Рік тому +215

    To avoid miscommunication with a hairstylist always show a picture of what you want and use language like "just an inch shorter here." Never trust that they will just automatically get it because it's their job.

    • @edgarburlyman738
      @edgarburlyman738 Рік тому +9

      The barber thought he looked like a damned hippy !

    • @felisasininus1784
      @felisasininus1784 Рік тому +2

      lmao took me a few seconds to start chuckling at this

    • @tylerdillon3745
      @tylerdillon3745 Рік тому +7

      Except no hairstylist can properly eyeball an inch

    • @andrewkelly6828
      @andrewkelly6828 Рік тому +14

      I tried this once. Took in a picture of myself with about four inches of length on top and walked out with a buzzcut.

    • @brittakriep2938
      @brittakriep2938 Рік тому +9

      For many decades in Southwest Germany between Comercials in TV small cartoon clips with a monkey and a horse appeared. In one Clip the horse was the hairdesser and the monkey the Client. When the hairdesser asked: How shall i cut your hair? The Client answered: 5 cm longer please!

  • @satyrosphilbrucato9140
    @satyrosphilbrucato9140 Рік тому +52

    The thing I love most about the Tybalt-Mercutio-Romeo fight in Zefferelli's film version of Romeo and Juliet is that the fight begins as two teenagers showing off with deadly weapons, turns ugly when one of them gets skewered more or less by accident, and devolves into a dusty, brutal brawl and no one wanted and everyone loses.
    That's one of the most realistic swordfights in film history.

    • @raylopez99
      @raylopez99 Рік тому +10

      Sounds like a realistic fight between teenagers who are friends too, playing roughhouse that gets out of hand.

  • @PureYang0
    @PureYang0 Рік тому +132

    It really makes you comprehend how epically talented someone like Miyamoto Musashi was. First kill around 13 years old with no training, he basically picked up a katana and was either going to figure out sword fighting by surviving life and death battles or he was going to die, and instead of dying every battle he survived made him a better swordsman until he was the best in his generation. Such a story sounds unbelievable when you consider how much can go wrong in any given sword fight.

    • @raylopez99
      @raylopez99 Рік тому +15

      Survivorship bias? Bet he had a big ego thinking it was all about his skill, when in fact he was possibly just lucky. Happens on Wall Street too.

    • @weef2188
      @weef2188 Рік тому +55

      @@raylopez99 idk he killed a lot of guys its safe to say that he was fairly skilled probably one of the best

    • @cchavezjr7
      @cchavezjr7 Рік тому +27

      @@raylopez99 survivorship bias? Funniest thing I read today, thanks.

    • @raylopez99
      @raylopez99 Рік тому +14

      @@cchavezjr7 You don't believe there's survivorship bias in mortal combat? That's the funniest thing I've read today. The French even have a phrase for it: "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed is king".

    • @S.pilgrim
      @S.pilgrim Рік тому +37

      @@raylopez99 I think survivorship bias is definitely not the case with Musashi. He was obviously highly skilled, and you don't face that many fights without being very lucky, but he was very innovative and unorthodox. I agree with Pure Yang's comment, but one thing to point out was he didn't use a katana in that first fight, he used a 6 foot quarterstaff. His opponent was an adult, but equipped with a Wakizashi, which is obviously far shorter. A clever way for a 13 year old boy to approach a duel with a full grown man, as well as surprise attacking the man. Probably his most famous duel, against Sasaki Kojiro, was fought using an unusually long wooden sword (I always believed it had been cut from a wooden oar, but apparently this is disputed, maybe another commenter can clarify for clarity's sake) carved to be just slightly longer than his opponent's unusually long sword. He also kept the sun at his back, and had enraged Kojiro by turning up to the duel hours late (an oft-used tactic by Musashi). He also didn't have a big ego (at least later in life), one of his famous quotes "Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world". I think in his youth there was an arrogance that came from ability, but I'm deriving that from some of his actions, I have no real way of knowing, but later on and from his writings there's humility there.

  • @turinmormegil7715
    @turinmormegil7715 Рік тому +47

    In other words, we are extremely lucky Musashi died just shorly after (matter of days) after writing his Treatise, although, not quite, as the final parts might have been longer and deeper, but he rushed cuz he knew he was short on life expectancy. Also lucky the manuscriot survived rather wholly - that he wrote while serving someone who happened to be in the end one of the rare lords that managed to keep his Castle, Lands ans Title after the civil war, instead of it burning down to arson/fire or purely being dismantled by order lf the central govt. And also with few alterations or parts whose originality we actually might question.

  • @painfullyaware5221
    @painfullyaware5221 Рік тому +59

    Just the fact that you realize that you're actually fighting for your life puts combat on a whole different plane than any kind of training. Training may make you a swordfighter, only combat makes you a warrior.
    Great video.

    • @marvalice3455
      @marvalice3455 Рік тому

      That's good advice for any situation in which you cannot "send back" what you are buying

    • @Javissht
      @Javissht Рік тому +1

      I would even say that lack of training makes you weaker and more likely to lose your life in combat. That would apply to any kind of combat whether it is sword fight or fighting on modern battlefield within aircraft or other vehicles.

    • @cerberus.talking
      @cerberus.talking Рік тому +1

      Exactly, trying to fight your opponent by some rules is so much different than fighting your enemy for high stake. It real changes the sparring to war

  • @SibylleLeon
    @SibylleLeon Рік тому +13

    Off-topic: It's so lovely seeing you walking around in that landscape. I went there on holiday six years ago. Such an amazing place ❤

    • @horacelidenbrock3905
      @horacelidenbrock3905 Рік тому

      The landscape is incredible. May I ask which country/region this is?

  • @silverarm6130
    @silverarm6130 Рік тому +31

    You get this in the unarmed martial arts as well. Point sparring is the first to come to mind. This can lead to a false conception of ones actual skill level. This is because the "point" can be won with little to no power used in the strike as long as it made some sort of contact with the opponent. I enjoy this topic. Keep'em coming.

    • @Rallysoldier
      @Rallysoldier Рік тому +10

      It's a little different with swords though. You don't need much power at all to destroy an unarmed target. "Weak" cuts to the hand, neck, head, forearm, wrist, etc are much more martial and valid than you think. What we sometimes consider a "decent" cut is actually enough to completely cleave through someone, which is a good thing, but also not entirely necessary in order to kill or incapacitate someone. And thrusts just work, there's no escaping those.

  • @StunLockedSinceBorn
    @StunLockedSinceBorn Рік тому +36

    In Malaysia, Indonesia and the Phillipines. It is common for martial art train with weapon. There are some case of fatalities when accident happens. Injuries like cut, losing or damaged a finger is quite common amongst practitioners especially in a traditional training

    • @MarcusConstantine_Cavalida21
      @MarcusConstantine_Cavalida21 Рік тому

      In the Philippines, we train with sticks. Deadly sticks but just sticks.

    • @StunLockedSinceBorn
      @StunLockedSinceBorn Рік тому

      @@MarcusConstantine_Cavalida21 yeah i have seen the escrima and kali fighting. We usually use stick that we call “rotan” too. There are multiple variants u can choose which size and length do you want to train with, it give the rough idea of the weapon handling, usually we train with that for regular training but switch it with dummy weapon for hard training because each weapon have different grip and balance that we dont get in simple rotan stick

  • @raymondsosnowski9717
    @raymondsosnowski9717 Рік тому +21

    Quite the dilemma! Compare Olympic fencing vs. classical fencing vs. actual duels.
    Likewise in Budo. Kendo is a shadow of Japanese fencing; pre-WWII Kendo (still practiced by Japanese police, and which includes tripping, grappling and disarming) is somewhat closer to Japanese combat reality, but still using shinai (light-weight mock swords made of bamboo slats - early use of wooden swords was tried & quickly abandoned as too injury-prone). We can get close with kenjutsu kata with bokuto (wooden swords) or even metal swords (unsharpenable alloy metal blades, or even shape steel for the more advanced practitioners) are more edgy, but those are just pre-formed forms and not free-form.
    (And forget the foam boffers of Sports Chambara - quite the joke from the demos that I have seen, but can be somewhat helpful given the proper conditions as supplemental training).
    The bottom line is that, generally, the safer you make sparring, the further away from actual reality you are. Likewise, we do want our playmates to return to class for the next session.

  • @Captain_Ironbeard
    @Captain_Ironbeard Рік тому +6

    I really enjoy these rambly videos. They're short but on point and I can do stuff while listening.
    Also hits home with the saying "fear the old man in a profession where men die young".

  • @yourfather8865
    @yourfather8865 Рік тому +5

    It was indeed stimulating ! I like this kind of content, you rambling while taking a walk in a cool place

  • @MikaelKKarlsson
    @MikaelKKarlsson Рік тому +12

    Barber might just have trimmed up ol' Skall a century or two. From 950's Shieldzerker to about 1150's Housekarl.

  • @razorblaze4406
    @razorblaze4406 Рік тому +5

    I really like these videos where you are out in nature. Such beautiful scenery.

  • @gameragodzilla
    @gameragodzilla Рік тому +65

    I see the same issue with gunfighting, though at least we can measure our accuracy and time with paper targets and a shot timer.
    Though force on force training does require simunations and all that.

    • @Effect-Without-Cause
      @Effect-Without-Cause Рік тому +4

      Gunfighting? like in Equilibrium?

    • @adzi6164
      @adzi6164 Рік тому +7

      @@Effect-Without-Cause ...it's not necessarily about the fictional gun kata.
      Literally about any combat with guns.

    • @Captain_Insano_nomercy
      @Captain_Insano_nomercy Рік тому +2

      I recall when I was in the Marines we used that crappy Halo system to shoot lasers and all that but it never really did a good job simulating

    • @robertlewis6915
      @robertlewis6915 Рік тому

      And blanks/ simu-nition is a thing.

  • @JustGrowingUp84
    @JustGrowingUp84 Рік тому +9

    Heh, loved the "Fatality!" edit.

  • @riverraven7359
    @riverraven7359 Рік тому +12

    the point about learning from mistakes and real vs practise fighting is immensely important. the value of veteran troops was high, just look at the end of the Roman Republic or post Stalin Russia. a trained and blooded man joining your ranks is usually more valuable than a total amateur and will get a signing bonus or easier promotion as a result.

    • @arsenelupiniii8040
      @arsenelupiniii8040 Рік тому +1

      Emotion has a tendency to make a combatant lose their focus. Be like water and keep the showmanship to a minimum!

  • @WgB5
    @WgB5 Рік тому +3

    Well said. I was trained several years ago, for real sword fighting. You fight to maim or kill, not to make points. There were seldom any predictable movements. Most of the time you were trained to duck and get in that first slice. It wasn't fencing, it was brutality.
    In exchange, I instructed in the skill of rifles. A long distance form of inflicting pain.

  • @TalesForWhales
    @TalesForWhales Рік тому +6

    When things are games/hobbies then they really are not fights. This is a blessing! We live in an age where friends hit eachother with swords! Much better than your enemies hitting you with swords!

    • @cattysplat
      @cattysplat Рік тому

      There are only 2 people in war. Survivors and the dead.

    • @aaronboo8172
      @aaronboo8172 Рік тому

      Sword fighting isn’t war, edgelord

  • @jesuizanmich
    @jesuizanmich Рік тому +10

    Another interesting aspect is that HEMA practitioners today also may have fought more opponents and for longer than many of the authors of the original treatises. The safety of equipment today means people can keep doing HEMA for longer than what some of these old masters even lived. Sure, HEMA isn't going to be a good simulation for real life combat, but it's still an interesting point.

  • @DaveSpaceman
    @DaveSpaceman Рік тому +2

    I haven't got to watching your content in a while and I'm glad im getting into it now, it's nice to see you describe combat scenarios objectively while also giving your opinions on the matter and understand where certain things can be used for exaggerated scenes for fun as well as understanding where the lines can be crossed between practicality and impracticality. You're a fun and insightful man.

  • @irmasil3
    @irmasil3 Рік тому +5

    One of the best quotes ever in martial arts (and it applies great to weapon fighting as well) cam from (oh, well) Bruce Lee: " I don't fear the man who practiced 10.000 techniques for 1 day. I fear the man who practice 1 technique for 10.000 days".

  • @jordonlongley6576
    @jordonlongley6576 Рік тому

    I appreciate the whole walking-through-the-woods-while-tirading vibe. You are very reasonably articulate and easy to understand.

  • @DavidVogt-zv7fd
    @DavidVogt-zv7fd Рік тому +4

    My man is hiking through rough terrain and casually talks about sword fighting, gotta love it

  • @jockjammer3443
    @jockjammer3443 Рік тому +1

    My condolences to your beard. Great scenery, wish i was there. yeas old warrior syndrom is real. going on 52 now and I am simply broken all over. Thanks for a lovely vid.

  • @Shatterverse
    @Shatterverse Рік тому +5

    "A necromancer is just a healer with poor timing." Now _that's_ a quote for the ages.

  • @Mr.Anderson__
    @Mr.Anderson__ Рік тому

    I like this style of video by the way. Walking through the woods speaking into a mic, perfect way to keep the viewer engaged! I found the surroundings beautiful!

  • @Starklar
    @Starklar Рік тому +21

    for a moment there i was taken aback by skall actually saying "fatality" since i half expect that this video will be demonitized because of it but nah, this is skallagrim.

    • @greywolf7577
      @greywolf7577 Рік тому

      It's strange to me that UA-camrs feel that they have to be more cautious in what they say than what they put on the screen. I've seen many UA-camrs that will write a word on the screen, but won't say it. I guess UA-cam's ability to use AI to review what someone says is more advanced than its ability to read what is on screen.

  • @TheMrAllam
    @TheMrAllam Рік тому

    I liked the rambling with the walking in nature, it is a very nice combination! 😊

  • @ramzen89
    @ramzen89 Рік тому +14

    Does that necromancer joke qualify as Dead Pan Humor?

  • @mydriasisintensifies6139
    @mydriasisintensifies6139 Рік тому

    dude i absolutely love this new walkabout format you've got going on, your country is super beautiful, hearing about swordy stuff while getting to go on a beautiful walk is next level :)

  • @Valdyr_Hrafn
    @Valdyr_Hrafn Рік тому +6

    ngl the beard looks quite good in that style. cant wait to see what it looks like when it grows again and maybe get the same trim, but less short haha

  • @nahuelmat
    @nahuelmat Рік тому +1

    Skall's backrounds are always top tier, Canada is a beautiful place

  • @googleisacruelmistress1910
    @googleisacruelmistress1910 Рік тому +3

    Skall, the stylist was right, you look fucking great like this man!

  • @Rol-E-Roll-da_real_1
    @Rol-E-Roll-da_real_1 Рік тому

    Would absolutely love a video about the use of spinning in sword fights and other armed combat (spears, knifes, blunt impact weapons etc)! Great content Skall!

  • @geoffsaunderson5766
    @geoffsaunderson5766 Рік тому +3

    Not by any means a sword person, just watched by accident!
    Yeah that was fascinating, a good dose of reality, thank you 👍

  • @scribblingjoe
    @scribblingjoe Рік тому

    Thanks!

  • @axel9473
    @axel9473 Рік тому +6

    I am writing a fantasy story set in the times of the early roman empire revolving around a young germanic warrior noble, who rises to great prominence and power due to his devilish skill with the sword and shield. While writing the very topic of the video popped up in my head.
    At some point the protagonist contemplates on why he managed to get to that point while so many others didn't, ultimately coming to the conclusion that a lot of it has to do with circumstance and sheer luck, and less with his own outlandish talent, as he was told from early on in life.
    Being born to a chieftain, therefore having access to both better gear and better training than the vast majority of people. Not to mention actually having the time and energy to train daily under a skilled mentor, without having to work on a field or anything like that.
    Being lucky enough to survive his first few real battles until his skills properly developed is another thing. He witnessed some of the other boys of his age, close friends to him, being severely injured and/or killed long before they could ever realize their potential.
    He also trained like a madman of course, but that again is a privilege that comes with being a noble.

  • @jasonbrody8724
    @jasonbrody8724 Рік тому

    Just want to say Skall that I like these styles of videos with the ocean background mixed in with video of you test cutting and stuff. Really makes the video more interesting to watch imo

  • @unicorncz
    @unicorncz Рік тому +5

    There is one argument about the historical fighting experience I found out recently that completely flipped my view of how "experienced" those medieval duelists may be.
    At the very end of the 16th century, Prague had ~60k citizens. Yet in Old Town (one of three city districts), there was a law introduced, allowing fencing tournaments to be held "only on Sundays or Holidays" which means, roughly 110-130 tournaments PER YEAR. The law has many more interesting details but the fact that they had to restrict the tournaments to be "only" every 3rd day or so is insane if you think about it from today's HEMA perspective.
    If you realize it was one of the most popular free-time activities overall, there were 2 major schools in the town (Marxbrüders and Federfechters) that were attended by many (most?) adult citizens plus traveling professional swordfighters making a living out of prize money... The raw talent pool and skill transfer options were unimaginable from our modern perspective. I think it was more like soccer which every Western kid knows how to play than anything else.
    And we are still talking about one city of the time only, not a small one but also not a large one by any means.

  • @locke03
    @locke03 Рік тому

    I just want to say I love your outdoor filming locations.

  • @Yoshimitsu882
    @Yoshimitsu882 Рік тому +7

    I can't remember exactly who it was off the top of my head unfortunately (they might have been a member of the Shinsnegumi) but there was a Japanese swordsman who had been in many real duels and was undefeated and feared. But in duels with practice swords was okay (not bad but not super amazing either). And he had a quote about how fighting with practice swords was just play. Which always struck me as how many factors make fighting with real swords with your life on the line different from practicing

  • @MeanBeanComedy
    @MeanBeanComedy Рік тому +1

    Nice! Exercise and chatting about swords! Best of both worlds!

  • @chadherbert18
    @chadherbert18 Рік тому +25

    I feel like I’m lucky to still be battling, after a poke in the face, gout issues, a hernia, cracked fingers, cracked foot from hacky sacking a steel blade, and growing older, to the most recent issue - a ganglion cyst on the bottom of my foot right under my big toe where the gout flares up… 🤦🏻🤷😂 …and that just from training, health, and age. No where have I suffered actual combat damage. Who knows how far I’d have made it in 1585 without modern surgery and medications on top of actual combat damage, because my bold, beginner charges would likely have left me crippled pretty early! 🤔

    • @nahuelmat
      @nahuelmat Рік тому +4

      I mean, your name is literally Chad my man

    • @chadherbert18
      @chadherbert18 Рік тому

      @@nahuelmat Mwahahaha!

    • @arsenelupiniii8040
      @arsenelupiniii8040 Рік тому +2

      At 49 I am getting a bit crusty as well. However, my wisdom and Kamae keep getting sharper and more precise

    • @chadherbert18
      @chadherbert18 Рік тому +1

      @@arsenelupiniii8040 Wisdom is definitely necessary to keep up with the youth! 😂

  • @sanguinoid8919
    @sanguinoid8919 Рік тому

    it's good to see you out hiking, that is a really beautiful landscape friend

  • @leonardobueno8456
    @leonardobueno8456 Рік тому +13

    About spinning attacks, it's simple, the back muscles are pretty dense to absorv unarmed blows. However, when weapons are involved, you can be stabbed (or hitten any other way) pretty faster and deadlier than any unarmed blow powerful enough to cause damage or consequences to the fight.

    • @Nicenigel14
      @Nicenigel14 Рік тому

      What about a strike to the liver?

    • @leonardobueno8456
      @leonardobueno8456 Рік тому

      @@Nicenigel14 It's not so easy to hit against a spinning target neither faster than a weapon stab. Also, a stab would be pretty deadly, or incapacitating, against any point of the back except for the scapulas.

    • @miltenignis1017
      @miltenignis1017 Рік тому

      @@leonardobueno8456 Can only go from what little (4 years) experience I have with primarily unarmed martial arts, but we're always taught that on the more sportive side of things (ie. when we're training/fighting for the sport of it with a set of rules and no real stakes) then some spins and spun kicks are ok and can be useful in certain situations. However, for self-defense or when fighting outside of a controlled environment, kicks and especially spins (at least when not surrounded) are basically a no-go as it leaves one out of balance and exposed to things like being pushed, tripped over by being kicked/taking a knee in the back of the knees/legs or grappling.

  • @ianthrockmorton9167
    @ianthrockmorton9167 Рік тому

    Love the walk and talk! Not sure of this is a new format, would appreciate more.

  • @hydrotyler3737
    @hydrotyler3737 Рік тому +6

    Keep the content coming brother

  • @heideknight9122
    @heideknight9122 Рік тому

    I just want to let you know I really enjoy the hike you went on also. What a nice place. It's the nature of combat, a great fighter can lose to circumstance. Albeit far less likely.

  • @codygriffin8256
    @codygriffin8256 Рік тому +15

    As an infantry combat vet.....i can safely say there is a difference between practice and real combat lol. Unfortunately there is no save scumming or continues....😅

  • @merfall2224
    @merfall2224 Рік тому

    This are my favorite kind of videos, a well thought rant while you walk through the wilds. I wish I could go walking into nature like that near home

  • @ColonelSandersLite
    @ColonelSandersLite Рік тому +4

    Sorta related to this -
    I used to play a *lot* of combat flight sims. WW2 era in particular. I have *way* more trigger time (with pretty realistic ballistic models these days) on maneuvering targets than anyone who ever actually flew in combat. I can compare my shooting with actual ww2 gun camera footage and straight up see that I'm just a better shot than the vast majority of those guys where. Any historical person that's got better aim is just a freak of nature (and those do exist).
    Here's the thing though. I'm not even really all that good compared to a whole lot of the guys out there flying sims right now. Wouldn't be even if I wasn't a bit rusty these days.
    Just food for thought. Not any kind of criticism of the guys that actually flew those planes. They just didn't have anything even close to a realistic simulator. The closest thing they had was the occasional highly choreographed pass on a towed training target. They definitely didn't get the ability to learn from a fatal mistake either.

    • @patrickkenyon2326
      @patrickkenyon2326 Рік тому

      My father was a fighter pilot instructor, WW2, Korea, Vietnam.
      He always said the best training was by doing.
      In the 1970s and 80s, the best trained pilots in the world were the Israelis.
      In order to graduate from flight school, their pilots had to engage an enemy aircraft in actual combat and survive.
      Until they did so, they remained students.

  • @williammiddleton2141
    @williammiddleton2141 Рік тому

    Those are some deep, well consideres, and provocative thoughts. This is the first of your videos that I’ve seen and I’m subscribing.👍

  • @theassening4563
    @theassening4563 Рік тому +6

    many of the same things apply to modern combat.
    we can get closer to simulating a firefight with the tools we have, but it will never be the same as the real thing

    • @1stCallipostle
      @1stCallipostle Рік тому

      I will say running a shoothouse is probably more practically adjacent for the skills you need and more measurable than wacking a bag or sparring with someone
      Especially with all the wacky setups in modern matches

  • @christopherdegagne9811
    @christopherdegagne9811 Рік тому +1

    This video helped me understand something about kenjutsu which has always puzzled me. My understanding is that many (most?) kenjutsu schools place a heavy emphasis on two-person kata drills but little emphasis on free sparring. Given what we now know about developing skill in combatives, this always struck me as odd. Perhaps the answer is this: two person kata were the most effective method of training that didn't bring with it a corresponding high risk of horrific injury or death. Free sparring, even with wooden implements, would have maimed and injured individuals before it developed enough skills. The kata approach may have been much less effective at developing competency, but it allowed people to train consistently and some level of skill before the rest was honed on the battlefield.

  • @ulfflehmann3759
    @ulfflehmann3759 Рік тому +15

    I've been dealing with the same problem in my latest book. A knightly order of sorts who have been patrolling the countryside, keeping the roads safe, but that's pretty much the extent of their combat experience.
    In order to become proper warriors, people have to go to war. And a proper fighter needs to be in fights. You can train all you want, but the safety net of blunt weapons and controlled environment only gets you so far. If the danger isn't real, how will you react when it finally does become real?

    • @WebertHest
      @WebertHest Рік тому +2

      Those are two, or rather three, different things.
      One is individual combat skill or prowess. This can actually be trained, hence humanities long, long, long history of organised warfare.
      The second is individual morale. Will you, personally, crap your pants and cry, or keep in the fight. While this is _less_ trainable, it is trainable, and it has been trained by humanity for as long as we have been at war.
      The third is group cohesion. How likely is your group of fighters to shatter into a collection of individual fighters. This again, is trainable, see any army training manual ever written.
      The whole "unbloodied troops are unreliable" thing is a bit of a trope, that mostly falls apart under slightly below surface reading. It is untrained troops that are unreliable, but states have found ways around that. Wether any individual warrior performs as well on the battlefield as they do under training conditions is mostly a rounding error on actual battlefield performance. A coherent group of mediocre fighters will beat an incoherent group of individual Rambos almost all the time.

    • @ulfflehmann3759
      @ulfflehmann3759 Рік тому +5

      @WebertHest I didn't say they fall apart, please give me some credit. They're OK enough, but if the leadership is inexperienced, things do turn ugly, even for a well-trained unit. The legions ambushed during the Gallic Wars, Valens's disastrous, and final, encounter with the Goths. History is full of such stories.

    • @WebertHest
      @WebertHest Рік тому +3

      @@ulfflehmann3759 History is remembered for the exemptions, not the rule, at least by those who only have a diffuse knowledge of it. Rome won the Gallic Wars, because pound-for-pound, its armies were better even if its warriors may not have been. Rome kept the germanic people on the other side of the Limes.
      We remember when unit cohesion failed, when the enemy, or our forces, routed, because that is the interesting bit. "Troop X advanced in good order, kept their cohesion and won the battle" is less told.
      And to circle back, your first comment was about *proper warriors*, but your examples are all about *bad leadership*. One is not like the other.
      Example: Everyone's favourite "proper warriors" are the Spartan hoplites, and the actual war record of Sparta is no better than that of any other big polis, because Spartan leadership (tactical, logistical and strategic) war abjectly terrible.

    • @davefletch3063
      @davefletch3063 Рік тому +5

      @@WebertHest in the history of warfare it is well documented that well trained men abandon or forget their training under duress

    • @arsenelupiniii8040
      @arsenelupiniii8040 Рік тому +2

      War with swords would have been feast or famine. If your side won, then you could upgrade to better armor and such, if you lose, then the other side gets all the goodies!

  • @Jtbrahh
    @Jtbrahh Рік тому +1

    This is one of the reasons why I think real historical swordfights were generally slower, more tactical things than what we today tend to think. The idea of big, hard swings only makes sense when you're choreographing a scene for film or stage. In real historical street fights or even in battles I think we would see fighters being much more careful and taking smaller, quick swings than what we typically imagine, going for hands and legs and the occasional headshot. When you're actually trying to keep yourself alive and the human psyche and physical limits comes into play I think you'd see fights slow down and be much more "snipey" in reality and the guys who go in swinging hard and fast would be the exception and likely short lived.

  • @Jonahch2v9
    @Jonahch2v9 Рік тому +5

    It amazed me in fencing how many "double hits" happened in epee (rapier). Incredibly more than foil and sabre. In other words, you're both mortally wounded.
    Interesting technique difference of parry and riposte, versus allowing an attack, hoping you're faster (and being wrong).

    • @arsenelupiniii8040
      @arsenelupiniii8040 Рік тому

      Foil or rapier is arguably the sword with the most wins. I love my katana, as long as my opponent is not wielding a foil or rapier. Cutlass seem slow and cumbersome.

  • @Schattenadler
    @Schattenadler Рік тому +1

    When it comes down to one on one swordfighting to the death, I think this has one of the cleanest definitions of winning and losing out of the context of games/competition, since it is that deadly compared to other "fair"/sportly/knightly fighting.
    There are many factors wether you would win a fight. Most of them of course are connected to skill, knowledge, equipment, general Health but also a lot more others. sometimes genes and how you grew up (good nutrition etc), overall fitness. The Weather could also interefer with a fair duel. One side using dirty tricks, random events, like a grain of sand flying into your eye and many many many more random variables can interfer with what people consider a "fair fight".
    After all, whoever wins, wins. Not always is that achieved by skill. Sometimes a person gets too old in comparison and doesn't find "his master" in time to actually have a battle of skill.
    And following the fact that REAL knowledge/wisdom is only achieved by an actual fight for death, which leads to "clean" knowledge being really hard to record for training purpose.
    For me it is quiet clear that a winner of a duel was not always the most skillful.
    For bigger battles: as you say. Single skill is almost ridiculous compared to the danger of many foes.
    Swordfighting could have been a lifesaver in certain situations, but for realistic circumstances, far away from honour and a fair fight, swordfighting was one of many disciplines, that has been mispresented by time/history. Swords are cool, but the illusion of perfect preparation through training and the like in perspective of its time would have been rather hard to achieve. A lot more variables than one might instantly come up with slow ones progress and might reduce ones potential. After all life is a big gamble.

  • @oldeskul
    @oldeskul Рік тому +4

    Many times it wasn't the best swordsman who won, it was the luckiest. Nobody, regardless of skill, is ever more than one lucky punch or one lucky thrust away from being slain. I heard a martial arts master say once that all it takes is 1/10th of a second to completely undo decades of training and discipline.

    • @Mcbignuts
      @Mcbignuts Рік тому

      Nah usually the better swordsman would win, of course there might be a few cases of absolute noobs beating pros

    • @oldeskul
      @oldeskul Рік тому

      @@Mcbignuts Yes, in a duel, 95 times out of 100 the better swordsman will win. But remember, you're never more than one lucky thrust away from being buzzard chow.
      Lefty Gomez said, "It is better to be lucky than good." But always remember that luck is fickle, and can and will change faster than anyone can respond. Also keep in mind Murphy's Law.

  • @SkinnyBlackout
    @SkinnyBlackout Рік тому

    Looking very sharp there man, really like the haircut/trim.

  • @I_Willenbrock_I
    @I_Willenbrock_I Рік тому +5

    Some really good points.
    I am member of a school teaching german long sword and Joachim Meyer in particular. We train without protection - like they did in the medieval times. For the first year, you are only learning footwork, control, the principal hews and some basic counters. We train this every week until we exactly know how to stand and walk properly and how to dose our speed and force. Controlling the blade and body is the no. 1 priority, because it's the foundation to not hurt each other. And in addition, it build up trust.
    But it takes a lot of time, dedication, effort and a certain mindset.
    The payoff is awe inspiring when you see the members, who are close to becoming masters fencing at full speed without protection and the worst injury is a splinter in a foot from the wooden floor.

  • @kacklerot
    @kacklerot Рік тому +1

    I love that saying "Necromancers are healers with bad timing.". That poor zombie in the recent D&D movie.

  • @yearight1205
    @yearight1205 Рік тому +3

    Have you ever covered Mensur / Academic fencing? Made me curious due to the topic in this video where they actually are slashing each other in the face.

  • @billdoe8965
    @billdoe8965 Рік тому +1

    Nice video, that is something nice to consider when it comes to fencing and its evolution through the years.
    It also got me thinking about a misconception (largely thanks to movies/games/pop culture in general) and how complete enemy forces annihilation wasnt nearly as common as we have been led to believe. A loss of as "little" as 1/3 of one's forces (for example) is catastrophic, but we're very used to seeing armies obliterated with no hint of survivors, which *did* happen but in few instances throughout history.
    Would that be video-worthy? I figured it has lots of similarities to what you said about fencing, except in a larger scale, about how unforgiving fights were and how injury, death, and ability to fight is nothing to scoff at.
    *YOU* have a good one, love your videos

    • @greywolf7577
      @greywolf7577 Рік тому

      I've heard that in the Middle Ages, the majority of the killings weren't in the battle, but rather in the victors chasing down and killing the people running from the fight.

  • @AWanderingSwordsman
    @AWanderingSwordsman Рік тому +6

    It's something I've been lamenting about the "meta" of swordfighting. All that mostly seem to exist are historical martial arts either from the east or the west. The thing is, theres no reason to think those historical martial arts are truly the peak of swordfighting technique and it just can't really be advanced anymore. Looking at MMA especially is really interesting because we can see styles collide and improvements being made and the entire dynamic of what works now is not the same as what worked even 20 years ago, even though historically there was probably more unarmed fighting than armed fighting. Even now, it probably hasn't reached it's peak.
    Swordfighting just can't go through the same thing because swordfighting is just TOO unsafe to actually practice. The damage and fear are crucial to understanding real swordfighting and it just can't be matched in a sparring setting. My best hope for an eventual swordfighting development is full dive VR, but who knows how far we are from that.

    • @tarille1043
      @tarille1043 Рік тому +2

      Well... The thing is, that techniques are developed based on the weapons.
      Since new swords aren't being developed and instead we're getting reproductions of historical designs, there is only so much that can be done technique-wise due to the properties of weapons themselves. (I.e. You're not going to be trying out false edge techniques with a katana because it's a single edged blade...)
      This is why machete fighting is one of the more modern styles developed due to the how much more prevalent the machete has become in modern day (What with being one of the most practical sword-like items for modern use)

    • @zaganim3813
      @zaganim3813 Рік тому

      swordfighting probably wont reach any peak because its already obsolete as far as its actual applications. sure tournament fighting will definetly come further than what is today but even that is dubious as best.

    • @Rallysoldier
      @Rallysoldier Рік тому

      I mean, the meta is *thrust*. And that will never change unless your sword is incapable of doing so (so none of the commonly trained weapons). Learning how to nail that aspect in the safest fastest and most recoverable way will carry you.

  • @jonathanjacobs8989
    @jonathanjacobs8989 Рік тому +1

    As VR technology increases, we will eventually be able to circumvent all of these issues.

  • @Turin_Inquisitor
    @Turin_Inquisitor Рік тому +11

    the same as with every martial art
    if you were actually fighting for your life you'd fight very differently.

    • @badadvice787
      @badadvice787 Рік тому +2

      There are some martial arts designed for real self defense, but most are just dance classes with the dangerous premise of acting like they will actually work in self defense.

    • @dxq3647
      @dxq3647 Рік тому

      Yes. Even in tournaments (first to 5 hits so very little room to move around), even the best fencers use a combo of 2, or at most 3 moves. More than that and it becomes super risky.

  • @craigrussell7542
    @craigrussell7542 Рік тому +1

    You're so right. There is a significant difference between fighting someone who wants to kill you, and fears that you will kill them - and practise with someone who may want to win a match, or train you really hard - but who doesn't actually mean to kill you...

  • @Ript3r
    @Ript3r Рік тому +3

    A thing that you didnt really touch on fully was also even if you were the better swordsman its very possible your opponent could just get lucky and land a fatal strike or you anticipated incorrectly and were punished. So with how reality is for us 1 solid hit makes the whole thing even harder to get truly experienced

    • @SxSxG666
      @SxSxG666 Рік тому

      A superior boxer most likely can't be hit by a significantly less skilled one. Lucky hits are possible but not likely when you really want to avoid them. I think a skilled sword fighter could easily kill dozens of untrained opponents without a scratch. Otherwise training and technique wouldn't make any sense if the chaos factor was that decisive.

    • @dxq3647
      @dxq3647 Рік тому +1

      @@SxSxG666 No. When I first started HEMA, I doubled much better fencers a lot because I had no regard for my own safety. The result was usually I got wacked on the head, they took a body hit. If it was a real duel, I was surely dead, but the much better fencer would still be seriously injured and still dead soon.

    • @SxSxG666
      @SxSxG666 Рік тому

      @@dxq3647 Okay interesting. But I think that you generally fight a lot more risky in sports then in a real combat situation.

    • @dxq3647
      @dxq3647 Рік тому

      @@SxSxG666 Well, no. If you were cornered and had to use a sword you didnt know to defend yourself, would you play a fencing game you don't even know how to start or go for random attacks and hope you take down the enemy with you?

  • @spooky8662
    @spooky8662 Рік тому +3

    Playing chivalry I think the same thing. I'm truly a force of nature now but it took me 20,000 deaths to get there. How do people get good at this when you can only die 1 time?

    • @EmeralBookwise
      @EmeralBookwise Рік тому +3

      A little bit survival of fittest, but mostly survival of the luckiest.

  • @CreepyMF
    @CreepyMF Рік тому

    Wow that ocean view was breathtaking. You where talking about some serious stuff but i was just lost watching the nature and the sea.

  • @neonpeon4475
    @neonpeon4475 Рік тому +14

    Don't cha love it when a guy who's never been in a fight tries to lecture you about fighting.. lol

    • @neiot9522
      @neiot9522 Рік тому +2

      haha true

    • @RealRonThousand
      @RealRonThousand Рік тому +2

      he'd murder you, he weighs like 250 lbs or something

    • @neonpeon4475
      @neonpeon4475 Рік тому +1

      @@RealRonThousand shut up skall would have a panic attack as soon as voices are raised

    • @tenhayz1889
      @tenhayz1889 Рік тому +3

      @@Bearkronischsmellsbad1982 no it's not a point it's a fallacy. I did not go into space to see if the earth is round, yet I know it is. By the logic of clever boy neon peon, I shouldn't believe the earth is round because Ive never experienced it, like Skall never experienced combat

    • @neonpeon4475
      @neonpeon4475 Рік тому +3

      @@tenhayz1889 haha nice pseudo scientific theory, the roundness of the earth is easily observable without going into space, even the Romans knew that.
      anyway because Skall's never fought anyone in anger we have to rely on observations about his person, look at his temperament, physicality and experience.. all severely lacking, defiantly not someone who should be listened to regarding self defence.

  • @Blessed_V0id
    @Blessed_V0id Рік тому +1

    God Necromancys truly underrated.
    You say bad timing, I say unwavering persistence

  • @pyeitme508
    @pyeitme508 Рік тому +3

    Oof 😂

  • @dizocilpine
    @dizocilpine Рік тому

    I haven't seen your videos for a while. I am glad you are back

  • @cetus835
    @cetus835 Рік тому

    I thought this was an interesting topic that I never considered. I do appreciate the ramble videos personally. Like having a conversation.

  • @miceliusbeverus6447
    @miceliusbeverus6447 Рік тому

    Amazing landscape! And reasonable thoughts, too.

  • @jorgec2233
    @jorgec2233 Рік тому

    The fatality was good editing lol two thumbs up!

  • @giovanni1984
    @giovanni1984 Рік тому

    Great video, Skall. Love the nature walks.

  • @mtgAzim
    @mtgAzim Рік тому

    Love the backdrop. Beautiful area. It really doesn't matter what you pontificate about, or for how long. If you're out there, I'm watching it.

  • @Tahllia
    @Tahllia Рік тому

    Speaking of eye protection a bit before @4:00 I did see an example of an historical fencing mask. Not as refined as the ones we have today but still super neat

  • @youremakingprogress144
    @youremakingprogress144 Рік тому +1

    At least your beard still looks good this way. You make an excellent and very important point about the likelihood of being taken out of the game before you can even get good at it, and about it not being a certainty.
    I would love to see a video (or series of videos) about techniques for fighting multiple opponents as successfully as possible; I know the subject has been touched on in several videos, like the one about the dual-wielded spears in Wheel of Time, but I'd love to learn more about viable tactics.

    • @Notmyname1593
      @Notmyname1593 Рік тому +1

      Obviously the best technique for multiple opponents is fast legs.

  • @umbrellacorp.
    @umbrellacorp. Рік тому +2

    A major importance what people overlook a lot is once you know how to block properly No one can hit you.
    I have Experience in and out of the ring and I never gotten hurt badly.
    Street Fights are no joke, if I didn't know how to block I might not be here.

  • @afterzanzibar
    @afterzanzibar Рік тому

    Like to see you out getting that exercise, my man. 💪 Beautiful scenery.

  • @plp5953
    @plp5953 Рік тому

    DU GUESCLIN MENTIONED ! (the miniature on the right at 3:04 is from the Chronique of Bertrand du Guesclin from 1405)

  • @DanielBrown-nb9zz
    @DanielBrown-nb9zz Рік тому +1

    The best swordsman are the ones that came home from war and took care of their families never to return to the battlefield... Not the ones who killed the most people or even trained the hardest.

  • @LENZ5369
    @LENZ5369 Рік тому +2

    That Jerry scene from Rick and Morty has since replaced MK in my mind.
    "FATALITY! Jerry wins!"

  • @TIGIO
    @TIGIO Рік тому

    Hey Skall, interesting insights. I like these kind of toned down chill but informative and still fun videos. Very pleasant to watch and listen too.
    Cool Castlevania merch btw. I really love the Netflix adaptation.

  • @teenfoe
    @teenfoe Рік тому +1

    If we had those regeneration bays from System Shock, HEMA tournaments and training would be more realistic. You got killed, into the regen bay you go. There, now let's try this again.

  • @Pupcan
    @Pupcan Рік тому

    Skallagrim, I'm still impressed how gracious you are towards fighting styles which aren't your own.