Da'mon's classes are excellent, he has presented at a couple martial arts symposiums that I've attended. He admits what is conjecture, but really explains why he thinks it could have been done in such and such a way.
Wow, the dedication Da’mon has for this stuff! I always admire people who throw themselves into a particular subject 200%. And he seems like such a great teacher!
people who do this are just awesome. many european civilizations recorded the specific moves they used in manuals, but so many other cultures didn't, and for that reason I applaud everyone trying to reconstruct these ancient and absolutely badass fighting styles with so little to go on.
Damon just looks like a warrior. Most sword instructors I've seen just look like regular dude holding a sword, but especially with the armor on he looks like a total badass.
In neo-post-apocalyptic-protoland he would have good odds of becoming a regional warlord as their competence is measured in style. That means lots of good style.
Da'Mon is a great instructor. Had the privilage of taking one of his workshops a couple of years ago when he visited the UK. We then went to the pub and got merry, chatting swords and weird accents in the beer garden!! Good times!
My brother (and me on occasion) do Norman-style combat recreation, which is only 1000 years ago. The Khopesh is more than 3 times that. Interesting to see a few similarities between the combat styles though
There are only so many ways to swing a sword, yea if you look at Asian and European swordsmanship there are many similarities...It’s just comes down to simple body mechanics.
Please do sword fighting for other cultures like make their kind of weapon then learn to use it, I think that would be pretty cool. Anyway very cool video!
their* 'there' indicates a direction, like "hey, it's over there." it can also be used to describe existence of something "there are several fighting styles used in this video." but pedantry aside, i 100% agree! i would love to see weapons made from all sorts of different cultures in the bronze age, and also how they are theorized to have been used. good comment :)
Please, cover other cultures martial arts! There’s so many to talk about! I know for Mexico there’s Xilam & Atlatl Mexico’s workshops among several others trying to reconstruct or reinterpret pre-Hispanic martial arts from surviving artwork, accounts & stelas.
Kyle Cheng sorry, i used to teach english, so i just can't help myself 😅😅 but i still really enjoyed your comment, and love your suggestion. it would make for some very fun videos. ty for your contribution
There's a whole scene around historical martial arts and quite a few of their teachers/researchers/practitioners do youtube videos. Matt Easton of Schola Gladiatoria for example is a great source on this.
I’ve studied European sword styles for over 30 years, and I will say that this guy knows his stuff. I’m always worried when I see “how to fight with a ____” videos, this was fantastic, almost all of these drills were familiar to me from multiple other styles. You guys made another fantastic video, and I’m glad to see that the one piece from you where I could give “expert analysis” was of amazing quality.
I am missing a lot of strikes though. It seems like a Hema approach. You familliar with Doce Pares? Or Eskrima Kali? I think specially with shorter weapons and more primitive gear that might suit better here. Specially the back hand and forehand that change with wrist movement to get the flat over enemy def, be it a weapon, or shield. (These ones are not in the basic 12 strikes though)
I honestly wasn't stoked on the idea of this episode. I'm more of a fan of the maker episodes. But I was presently surprised! I would actually like to see more of episodes like this in the future!
I think it was the guest experts who kept it interesting a video like this wouldn't be nearly as entertaining or educational if it was the blind leading the blind.
I know next to nothing about this AAMA (Ancient African Martial Art.) So, this is going to be fascinating. As far as "Frog DNA" there are some relatively modern Sudanese weapons, and techniques that no doubt grew out of this.
I'm really quite glad that you've taken the criticism about not really knowing how to use the tools that you've made and are actually doing just that with the Khopesh you made.
I am teaching swordfighting myself for a couple of years and focus especially on newbie training. I must say, you found an incedible teacher! How do you feel abour uploading the whole lesson, maybe to your second channel? I have a very similar teaching style and I think I could learn a lot from his way of explaining. This style is rather rare and I never had the opportunity to observe it from the outside. You would do me a huge favor by uploading it. And by the way Andy, even with the quite frequent cuts, your brain seemed prety stuffed with new information. You did very well and I can tell from experience, that very few get such flowing movements in such a short period of time.
Electric computers are extremely hard to make from scratch with time you could probably skip a-lot of steps because of modern knowledge but you have to realize the complexity of an engine is like building legos compared to a computer. I should say the biggest chalenge is you either need a ton of space and the ability to easily manufacture accurate parts or the ability to make extremely small things at extremely high spesificity.
It's always so funny watching some one that is new to the concept of fighting, with anything, weapons, hand to hand, etc. It can feel very awkward to actually try to hurt some one especially when it is in a practice scenario like this.
It’s sad to see people claiming “kangz” simply because a black man shows interest in ancient egypt. Truly racist. Thank you to the majority of decent people who are genuinely interested in martial arts.
Exactly...Metal was very precious and expensive..You can make many spearheads with the same metal it takes to make one sword and the shaft is wood so that it easy to get.
Imagine if Doc Brown showed up in a delorean as they were training Doc Brown: "Andy, we gotta go back to Ancient Egypt, Andy. You have to participate in an Egyptian sword fight" Andy: "Aw Doc, ...wha...what d'ya mean....ya mean my mom got the hotz for me?" Doc Brown: " yeah, wait what..., 👀, no one said anything about your mom. That's the second time you asked me that....is there something you wanna tell me?" Andy: "uhh....To Ancient Egypt, you say...."
despite being literally labeled as 'Doc Brown' and 'Andy', I cannot prevent myself from hearing this in Rick and Morty's voices, and I deeply passionately hate how much that fits
Fun fact: While the khopesh is mostly associated with egypt its origins can be traced back to Sumer in the third millennium BC. I think it's called "gamlu" in babylonian, though I'm not entirely shure about that part. Have to read about that again.
I've read about that theory based on the Sumerian "Stele of the Vultures" but that's insufficient evidence. It's most likely that King Eannatum is wielding a bow in that relief, since he also has a quiver of arrows next to him. No "gamlu" was ever found on an archeological dig in Sumer. It's more likely that the khopesh gradually developed in Egypt from the axes that the Hyksos invaders brought in around the 16th century BC.
Interesting. In more modern styles of swordfighting you usually want your weapon infront of you and between you and the enemy blade at all times, but it seems that's less of a priority with short swords and shields.
@@darthplagueis13 exactly. That's the point There's a part in the video where DaMon explains how swords like these can bite into eachother, or roll their edges & be damaged. This is obviously not ideal, so stances like those weren't used
Conjecture being important in evaluation of weapons we don't know much about, I offer another. Many early Egyptian depictions of the sun show it in a crescent-shaped boat, which is how it would have appeared if our original sun were the bronze-hued brown dwarf star, Saturn. The khopesh's shape is nearly identical to that of the sun boat -- Saturn's rings. Almost all ancient lore includes descriptions of the antedeluvian time before our current sun, the white light of which created the first rainbow and for the first time brought forth the color, blue. I suspect the kopesh's weird shape is a religious tribute to the sun god at the time it was created. Depictions of the khopesh being used to sacrifice prisoners of war by dismemberment lend some support to my conjecture. Best regards. 😎
Both fought with very different technology and equipment.... Can't really compare. I would say an Egyptian soldier had a speed and agility advantage carry less equipment then a legionary, but a legionary is much more heavily armored than an Egyptian soldier of the Bronze Age.
Big ups to my brother Da'Mon ✊🏿. To learn more about African martial arts, then search for the Historical African Martial Arts Association (HAMAA) across all social media. 💯
I’ve trained with Da’mon for years and seeing him on these episodes is so cool he’s such a good teacher and he really knows his stuff!
...What
@@talhatariqyuluqatdis yes
Damn I would love to hear more
-iv done a bit of viking fighting which is also a lot of guess work and they are far later in history
He sounds exactly like Jason Mantzoukas
he's so awesome, i hope they have him on the show again. and he's a cutie
Da'mon gives off that beloved history teacher vibe. Somebody ought to get him his own show!
He has is own UA-cam channel.
When will the DIY mummification happen?
Speaking about... Where is his other assistant? Annalise :) I suppose she's going to get mummified.
the whole HTME crew will fight to the death with their casted copper and bronze weapons. first one to die volunteers to be mummified for the video :D
Maybe he can mummify a rat
No no more in 2020 more
Lol
Da'mon's classes are excellent, he has presented at a couple martial arts symposiums that I've attended. He admits what is conjecture, but really explains why he thinks it could have been done in such and such a way.
I think "frog DNA" is a phrase that should see way more use in that "this bit is reconstructed" sense.
Wow, the dedication Da’mon has for this stuff! I always admire people who throw themselves into a particular subject 200%. And he seems like such a great teacher!
people who do this are just awesome. many european civilizations recorded the specific moves they used in manuals, but so many other cultures didn't, and for that reason I applaud everyone trying to reconstruct these ancient and absolutely badass fighting styles with so little to go on.
Damon just looks like a warrior. Most sword instructors I've seen just look like regular dude holding a sword, but especially with the armor on he looks like a total badass.
In neo-post-apocalyptic-protoland he would have good odds of becoming a regional warlord as their competence is measured in style. That means lots of good style.
You can see the passion Damon has about teaching this stuff.
Da'mon looks like the DND PH Fighter picture in that armor... pretty badass
Da'mon just did not flinch when Andy was swinging that Kopesh at his head, absolute don
Da'Mon is a great instructor. Had the privilage of taking one of his workshops a couple of years ago when he visited the UK. We then went to the pub and got merry, chatting swords and weird accents in the beer garden!! Good times!
My brother (and me on occasion) do Norman-style combat recreation, which is only 1000 years ago. The Khopesh is more than 3 times that. Interesting to see a few similarities between the combat styles though
There are only so many ways to swing a sword, yea if you look at Asian and European swordsmanship there are many similarities...It’s just comes down to simple body mechanics.
I'm just gonna say it!
Da'mon is da man.
😂
Watching Jake from State Farm fight with a shield and stick has made my day.
Da’mon is a great teacher! His lessons really came in handy with that werewolf pack I faced a while back!
i agree! when i was faced with some smileys the other week i remembered his training. my warm-ups alone were enough to scare them off!
**CHBA campers rush in**
Do you guys think he’ll still have that fight with Heracles this summer?? I bet on him winning
@@suntheclumsycat
Da'mon is articulate and humble. Thank you for introducing him!
Please do sword fighting for other cultures like make their kind of weapon then learn to use it, I think that would be pretty cool.
Anyway very cool video!
their*
'there' indicates a direction, like "hey, it's over there." it can also be used to describe existence of something "there are several fighting styles used in this video."
but pedantry aside, i 100% agree! i would love to see weapons made from all sorts of different cultures in the bronze age, and also how they are theorized to have been used. good comment :)
Please, cover other cultures martial arts! There’s so many to talk about!
I know for Mexico there’s Xilam & Atlatl Mexico’s workshops among several others trying to reconstruct or reinterpret pre-Hispanic martial arts from surviving artwork, accounts & stelas.
@@BothHands1 fixed it!
Kyle Cheng
sorry, i used to teach english, so i just can't help myself 😅😅
but i still really enjoyed your comment, and love your suggestion. it would make for some very fun videos. ty for your contribution
There's a whole scene around historical martial arts and quite a few of their teachers/researchers/practitioners do youtube videos. Matt Easton of Schola Gladiatoria for example is a great source on this.
I’ve studied European sword styles for over 30 years, and I will say that this guy knows his stuff. I’m always worried when I see “how to fight with a ____” videos, this was fantastic, almost all of these drills were familiar to me from multiple other styles.
You guys made another fantastic video, and I’m glad to see that the one piece from you where I could give “expert analysis” was of amazing quality.
Yep Da'Mon definitely knows his stuff. He's good friends with my HEMA school, London Longsword Academy.
I am missing a lot of strikes though. It seems like a Hema approach. You familliar with Doce Pares? Or Eskrima Kali? I think specially with shorter weapons and more primitive gear that might suit better here. Specially the back hand and forehand that change with wrist movement to get the flat over enemy def, be it a weapon, or shield. (These ones are not in the basic 12 strikes though)
the stick fighting is still preserved in egypt and very well known to all of us here and is a beloved tradition. It is called tahteeb
Long live Egypt my brother ❤
That was awesome, looked right.
And Da'mon looks the part too, he's like Hannibal !
Alternative title: I nearly got injured with a sword (my doctors HT-me)
It weel KEEEEEL.
@Your Greatest Ally A.G. is a man presenting to the emergency room with multiple abdominal lacerations and ruptured organs.
After thinking about jojo I read the title in the tone of “walk like an Egyptian”
Menacing.....
me too
Oh my god!
Yare yare daze...
@@Muhammad-ou9wh ゴゴゴ
Da'mon is such a good teacher
I love the sound art for the sword fight! Great job!
I honestly wasn't stoked on the idea of this episode. I'm more of a fan of the maker episodes. But I was presently surprised! I would actually like to see more of episodes like this in the future!
I think it was the guest experts who kept it interesting a video like this wouldn't be nearly as entertaining or educational if it was the blind leading the blind.
I'm glad you took some time to gain some good training on the use of this sword project.
The Mummy is my favorite historically accurate documentary on Egypt
this guy is awesome!!! please have him on the show again!!
If I was a Pharaoh Da'mon would be training my royal army.
This is amazing! I love it! Awesome video! This is actually really helpful for writing and all that kind of stuff.
HTME: Learns how to fight with a sword
Me with 13 Star Wars Lightsabers: I’m 4 Parallel Universes ahead of you
I know next to nothing about this AAMA (Ancient African Martial Art.) So, this is going to be fascinating. As far as "Frog DNA" there are some relatively modern Sudanese weapons, and techniques that no doubt grew out of this.
My man looks like the dnd fighter artwork
Da'mon seems like a great teacher.
I'm really quite glad that you've taken the criticism about not really knowing how to use the tools that you've made and are actually doing just that with the Khopesh you made.
3:35 some of the swords look like they have the triforce on them meaning that the Egyptians liked playing Zelda
There's simply no other explanation, you got it right on
I am teaching swordfighting myself for a couple of years and focus especially on newbie training.
I must say, you found an incedible teacher!
How do you feel abour uploading the whole lesson, maybe to your second channel?
I have a very similar teaching style and I think I could learn a lot from his way of explaining. This style is rather rare and I never had the opportunity to observe it from the outside.
You would do me a huge favor by uploading it.
And by the way Andy, even with the quite frequent cuts, your brain seemed prety stuffed with new information. You did very well and I can tell from experience, that very few get such flowing movements in such a short period of time.
I'm Totally looking forward, you making simple even mini siege engines :D
I love this so much! This is such an excellent channel ❤❤❤
I havent checked the comments yet but I guarantee there are several comments about jojo
INAUDIBLE SCREECHING oh my god I just commented I thought of jojos and then read your comment! Bruh!
Andy being trained to be conscripted in the Pharaoh's army, just like a real peasant. You're really getting into this series lol
I want to see them make an electronic computer from scratch, or an engine
Tristan Sloan I’m waiting for rockets
F that! I want to see them make a nuclear reactor and a nuke then test it
@@zacharyj6465 Mechanical Relays and vaccuum tubes were the logical component of choice before the transistor.
Electric computers are extremely hard to make from scratch with time you could probably skip a-lot of steps because of modern knowledge but you have to realize the complexity of an engine is like building legos compared to a computer. I should say the biggest chalenge is you either need a ton of space and the ability to easily manufacture accurate parts or the ability to make extremely small things at extremely high spesificity.
@@eveer4876 look up the nuclear boyscout he does that kind of stuff if your interested
Dude even looks like an Egyptian general
It's always so funny watching some one that is new to the concept of fighting, with anything, weapons, hand to hand, etc. It can feel very awkward to actually try to hurt some one especially when it is in a practice scenario like this.
So cool to see two people I'm subscribed to collab.
This was very different but well executed! I like it. Also, maybe put a link to Da'Mon in the show notes?
wow, he's a modern reincarnation of Bayek
If khemu didn’t die he would be his descendant
That is my seni!
It’s sad to see people claiming “kangz” simply because a black man shows interest in ancient egypt. Truly racist. Thank you to the majority of decent people who are genuinely interested in martial arts.
The spear was the king of historical weapons . . . .
Exactly...Metal was very precious and expensive..You can make many spearheads with the same metal it takes to make one sword and the shaft is wood so that it easy to get.
Swords are pathetic, polearms are the way to go
STICK
Spears and maces are my favourite
*jojo part 3 intensifies*
I clicked on the vid because of it
SILVAA CHARIOT
I was thinking the exact same thing when i read the title
Anubis
Love it, Da'mon...
Fascinating video.
Not enough Bangles.
Great episode! Da'mon is legit!
That was fun, You pick up on things quickly. I't would be cool to see some experts sparing.
I am so glad you are healthy! Stay safe dude.🥰🙏❤🧡💛💚💙💜🖤
Imagine if Doc Brown showed up in a delorean as they were training
Doc Brown: "Andy, we gotta go back to Ancient Egypt, Andy. You have to participate in an Egyptian sword fight"
Andy: "Aw Doc, ...wha...what d'ya mean....ya mean my mom got the hotz for me?"
Doc Brown: " yeah, wait what..., 👀, no one said anything about your mom. That's the second time you asked me that....is there something you wanna tell me?"
Andy: "uhh....To Ancient Egypt, you say...."
despite being literally labeled as 'Doc Brown' and 'Andy', I cannot prevent myself from hearing this in Rick and Morty's voices, and I deeply passionately hate how much that fits
Plot twist: It's not Doc, but Colin Furze!
Darasilverdragon Same.
Very Knowledgeable Great Man More Of Videos an Teaching of This Guy Very Excellent
Loved the napoleon dynamite clip!
Fun fact: While the khopesh is mostly associated with egypt its origins can be traced back to Sumer in the third millennium BC. I think it's called "gamlu" in babylonian, though I'm not entirely shure about that part. Have to read about that again.
I've read about that theory based on the Sumerian "Stele of the Vultures" but that's insufficient evidence. It's most likely that King Eannatum is wielding a bow in that relief, since he also has a quiver of arrows next to him. No "gamlu" was ever found on an archeological dig in Sumer. It's more likely that the khopesh gradually developed in Egypt from the axes that the Hyksos invaders brought in around the 16th century BC.
Where can I find some instances of those middle kingdom shields?
Interesting. In more modern styles of swordfighting you usually want your weapon infront of you and between you and the enemy blade at all times, but it seems that's less of a priority with short swords and shields.
Like he said, when the sword is so short & soft, there's just not much point in stances like that
@@goddammtroubleman I mean, your opponent would have short and soft swords as well.
@@darthplagueis13 exactly. That's the point
There's a part in the video where DaMon explains how swords like these can bite into eachother, or roll their edges & be damaged. This is obviously not ideal, so stances like those weren't used
The sword master has some Egyptian Saiyan armor .
That thumbnail legitimately made me laugh. That is how I would probably react if thrust into an ancient Egyptian sword fight.
By Re, this is beautiful.
Good moves there Andy 👍😷
Conjecture being important in evaluation of weapons we don't know much about, I offer another. Many early Egyptian depictions of the sun show it in a crescent-shaped boat, which is how it would have appeared if our original sun were the bronze-hued brown dwarf star, Saturn. The khopesh's shape is nearly identical to that of the sun boat -- Saturn's rings. Almost all ancient lore includes descriptions of the antedeluvian time before our current sun, the white light of which created the first rainbow and for the first time brought forth the color, blue. I suspect the kopesh's weird shape is a religious tribute to the sun god at the time it was created. Depictions of the khopesh being used to sacrifice prisoners of war by dismemberment lend some support to my conjecture. Best regards. 😎
Nice, I enjoy you trying and using the weapons you build.
I’m going to propose the question
Who was the better fighter?
The Egyptian solider or the Roman Legionary
Both fought with very different technology and equipment.... Can't really compare.
I would say an Egyptian soldier had a speed and agility advantage carry less equipment then a legionary, but a legionary is much more heavily armored than an Egyptian soldier of the Bronze Age.
2:55 wtf is he doing with that bird
Looks over at Horus...
Mans getting a bird footjob on the lion table
@@altvertue347 ngl he do be enjoying it
I had to double take when I first saw that thing down there just in general, I didn't even realize the bird
Big ups to my brother Da'Mon ✊🏿. To learn more about African martial arts, then search for the Historical African Martial Arts Association (HAMAA) across all social media. 💯
Great stuff
Bayek
Missed opportunity to call it "how to make war like an Egyptian"
Maybe they didnt do it on purpose because they thought it was too lame
8:29 / 14:41
does anyone know what that type of shield is called?
This guy is a master of stick
I don't know how to sword fight like an Egyptian but I most certainly know how to Walk Like An Egyptian.
@2:57 the guy just waking up in the morning like...
best UA-cam title of all times
I see a whole lot of similarities to Filipino Martial Arts in here so all the stuff he was talking about was very easy to absorb
foley artist got mad skillz
This is just one step Andy is taking to world domination, first its homemade copper swords, next it's *homemade nuclear weapons*
Da'mon is very passionate about his trade
Our man gives off mad youth pastor energy.
Anyone noticed the LEGO bag❓ A sign of things to come❓
You should make a video reacting to Dr. Stone and then make something they made in the series.
This is what it looks like when the fighter tries to teach some fighting to the wizard.
Cool vid
Cool
Did you ever try to make a shield?
When will you make a computer?
How to make UA-cam from scratch
They can actually use HEMA helmets to improve training more, coz from the looks of it they both too afraid of getting hit
I’d love to see this guy go up against the Medieval European guys in Austin and see how the styles compare
He competed in a HEMA symposium several years ago using the Ethiopian shotel. He got second place. Damn near won the whole thing 🤯
Can you cast a sword out of cobalt please
Awesome
Why didn't you link to his channel though?
It's in the i in the corner!
I think Demon is a cool man-at-arms. Thank you for the masterful demonstrations.
This looks like Assassins Creed Origins.
These sword stance are really exhausting for the muscles in your butt and lower back since you are slightly crouching the whole time.
So you are saying Egyptian warriors had Amazing glutes?
@@DH-xw6jp he's saying it's not as an efficient way to fight
Love you guys
Is it just me or does Damon look like the guy with orange eyes from Thor?
Heimdall? Yes he kinda does xD
He looks nothing like Idris Elba, and his hair is hideous.