Just to clarify, the comments about virginity were a joke, I was a virgin until I was married and proud of it. So people, protect your virginity until marriage and if you need any help with that I do suggest you buy some Mall ninja weapons, it's one of the few things they can properly protect.
The highlight is when he loses his virginity? Shad should write a "Suburban Fantasy" story with Isekai elements where a Mall Ninja gets pulled into a fantasy world! Put in those sensible hard magic rules and lots of Shad-isms, and that could be a HOOT!
Ah yes the legendary historical mall ninjas of Mesopotamia. It is said they had to defend their malls from leagues after leagues of unsatisfied rice thrasher buyers and angry karens.
Haha when I was younger my sister gave me this double bladed, double sided knife which imo was weird but I was like "Thanks, I'll use it to open packages I guess - I like my longsword Opa gave me years ago though!" My grandpa on my moms side was German and would make me longswords of different designs, send them over (even against my parents wishes lol) and I loved all of them. In 2012 when I got into longsword fencing he made me a blunt fencing longsword, and a feder which I still use it for sparring to this day. He's since passed away so no more swords but they're like treasures to me.
So one idea I had, if Shad sees this, is that there’s a mod called Fortified Whiterun that addresses some of the things Shad says in his Whiterun video. I’m not sure how much Shad still plays Skyrim but I think it would be cool if he reviewed the mod that was most likely made by a fan of the channel
As soon as he said " in fiction, sometimes the impractical designs are justified from the context of the fantasy world itself" i was waiting for the plug for his book
The Karambit is actually a traditional Indonesian knife, that has essentially become mall ninja'd. Its original purpose was a farmer's cutting tool roots, rice, and threshing. When it became popular outside Indonesia, it was turned into a "combat knife"
@@tabithaalphess2115 eyy, not alone. and also nunchucks and scythes are also under the classification of "farming tools we used as weapons when we had nothing else" as they had metal chains
One important aspect of mall ninjitsu is that real swords are bloody expensive, whereas the typical mall ninja katana is well within the reach of someone working the third shift at Taco Bell.
Until you’re an adult and you’re emptying your parents basement of $500 of worthless mall knives that you, if you’d saved, you could’ve spent on a real sword. Lol. When I look back and do the math I for sure cringe.
@@htenerf137 As a crafty adult, I did much the same with all the toy- grade crafting tools I had. Wobbly plastic loom, sewing kit more interested in being pink and making a shelf look cute than making something, scissors that I wouldn't use on paper as an adult let alone fabric... If I'd saved up I could have gotten something really great. But on the other hand, I might not have gotten that into the hobby if I didn't have those cheap things to practice on, and being able to blame the cheap kit came in handy when my initial attempts were utter garbage. 😅
@@InfernosReaper i'm young and new to sword enthusiasm, so I know i will eventually have to pass through the mall ninja phase if i'm not there already, but i'm prepared to fall to the dark side, and have promptly picked up the skillsets to *make* my shitty mall ninja weapons out of trash and hot glue rather than wasting my limited funds.
I used to work with a guy, and he told me he was really into tactical training. I first thought it was some airsoft kind of deal with him, but he showed me a video of himself training: he was alone in the woods, wearing a black "tactical vest", smacking trees with two of those "Zombie Slayer" neon-green-type mall ninja swords. We didn't talk much after that.
I went larping with a cousin I never see, this was years back and he’s about ten years older. I didn’t know what larping was but I was excited to spend time with him until this goof pulled out foam swords and cloth bean bag magic spells. His village people emerged from the trees in their renaissance attire with shields and bows and staffs and poles and spells and capes and my only option was to play along with these grown adults throwing fire spells at eachother pretending to burn to ash. I love him but, Coworker > Cousin.
@@N_metabthat's a totally different thing though. Generally mall ninjas or people into bullshido think they have some type of real martial arts skills. Larping is just people having fun. It's no goofier than getting on your playstation and pretending to be spiderman for 4 hours.
The quartz dagger looked really cool. And I doubt someone with the craftmanship to actually produce that piece of art would think it's a practical weapon.
yeah, gemstone knifes are actually quite a common thing to carve semi=precious stones into, I once saw an amethyst dagger if I'm not mistaken, glass/crystal translucent handles were popular in middle eastern knives and those were actualy sold as weapons
@@joaosturza I've seen a few daggers with translucent blades, mostly said to be letter openers. The handles aren't going to take nearly as much damage as the blade, and I've seen handles of a lot of various precious and exotic materials. As long as the tang is sturdy enough, you can put almost what you want on the handle. But I wouldn't try butter.
Yeah, I've seen agate letter openers before. Beautiful and useful in its intended purpose but obviously not a viable weapon beyond maybe one desperate stab if you've got nothing better.
The bladed shovel is more of a multitool than a primary weapon. 1st use: compactable shovel, 2nd use: Hatchet/Axe for chopping wood, clearing brush, some edges have a 3rd use as hand saw, sometimes there's even a cheeky little bottle opener. Last use on the list is back up self defense weapon.
Shovel in a trench where you are dealing with knives, 1/2 axe vs knife. Sill would take bayoneted on rifle as short spear. But weapon of last resort shovel or sharpened shovel?
@@coreytaggart128 Shovels are great. Shovels are the quintessence of civilization. With a shovel, you can dig a hole just deep enough to hide yourself. Or if you gather a bunch of people with them, you can dig a fine trench. If you change your viewpoint a little, you can even dig a tunnel. You can smash a sturdy enemy trench with mining tactics (not that they get used often). A shovel is a good friend to any and every type of soldier. And a shovel is the best gear for a close-quarters fight in a trench. Longer than a bayonet, simpler to handle than a rifle, sturdier than any other tool. Not only that, but they are extremely cheap and easy to make, so they're perfect for mass-producing. Plus, I don't have to worry much about damaging my mind. This is it. The ideal piece of equipment. This is the point humanity was meant to reach. Civilization has developed the shovel as its implement.
As it turns out, if you don't mind a little bit of grit in your potted meat, you can even open a tin with a shovel. I traded for some decent food, OK? Ratpacks might be edible, but they sure as hell don't taste like it.
I have a feeling the manufacturers of these metal art pieces recognize that there's a non-zero chance one of their customers uses one of these weapons on someone and intentionally designs them to be so ineffective to prevent excessive harm.
While ineffective against anyone with a real weapon or sometimes just a brain, some of these things would make savage wounds that are difficult to put back together if you actually stabbed someone with them...the weapon itself would probably fall apart in the process...but still.
19:08 When I worked at Little Caesars, we had a regular customer who dressed like that. Black leather trench coat, knee pads, bullet resistant vest, straight ninja-like blade on his back, bear mace, and other stuff all over him. Everyone called him Blade, because that was the look he was going for, the Wesly Snipes Blade. Just glancing at him, you'd figure he had some kind of mental issue or something. In reality, it would be more accurate to say that he was either a person who just didn't want to fully grow up or just liked the concept of wearing functional larp gear as his everyday outfit. He's also a nice guy and our store manager always liked talking with him. I think he may have also volunteered for some kind of community work. Kind of cringy at times, but an all-around okay person.
I can relate. I do airsofting and I honestly spend more money on actual tactical gear that has no benefit in the hobby of slinging biodegredable biopellets at each other. Seriously, I've fully kitted out Osprey carrier with a goddamn shotgun sheath on the back. For same reasons I have a BB six shooter and damned full length double barrel shotgun. It's for the cool factor. Hell, I'd wear that osprey outside hobby because looks cool and is oddly hella comfy to wear. All that gear and lugging around "real steel" machinegun (Real steel in this case denoates accurate size and weight) IS a good work out though..
That one set of brightly colored weapons doesn't look too bad. Medieval people would have _loved_ those bright colors as long as the steel was still good.
What's funny about these is that the best swordsmen in anime usually have very plain, functional and worn down swords. Hajime Saito carried a generic nameless sword, Kenshin had a banged up reversed-blade sword, and Hiko Seijuro had a completely unadorned sword.
Those are some very limited examples. Those are all Rurouni Kenshin swords. Bleach is a good example to the contrary, and Ichigo's Shikai is close to Cloud's buster sword levels of "realism." Granted, on second thought Bleach also has plenty of sword designs that aren't absolute trash, and Ichigo's Bankai is significantly better than his Shikai. One Piece is entirely hit or miss, with the vast majority of it's swords designs being fine. Meanwhile Mihawk's sword is off in the corner *literally T posing.* Demon Slayer is another very popular anime that doesn't go crazy with the sword designs, and Attack on Titan has crazy swords but they're well explained and it makes some sort of sense under the circumstances. I'd like to say "I could go on" but most anime I've come across just doesn't go crazy with the swords. Bleach is probably the worst offender and it doesn't even come close to Monster Hunter. I'm starting to think video games are more of a culprit than anime after close consideration.
And then there's Guts. With a slab of iron, too big and heavy to be called a sword. A sword that was impossible to wield, forged to slay foes that didn't exist.
@@DIEGOLOKO82 Naruto is particularly egregious since several of them aren't even swords but Naruto pretends they are. The Kabutowari is literally an axe and hammer chained together, the Samehada is a spiked club, and the Shibuki is a fucking roll of paper on a stick, and yet all three of them are referred to as swords.
I love how so many mall ninja weapons are incredibly flashy and brightly colored when the LAST thing any ninja/shinobi would EVER want is to be spotted as a ninja.
Have you ever tried to use a weapon with spikes coming out every which way? 😂Just looking at those weapons make me afraid of even coming near it. Someone from my high school knew I used to do martial arts, so he asked me to show him how to use some of his... stuff. He got annoyed when I held his decent knives the right way (not backwards). Holding it backwards might look neat, but if you're trying to attack, you have a much larger arc. By the time your blade reached me, your opponent could have knocked you out several times over. Needless to say, trying to swing his weapons (if they could have even retained an edge) might have killed the user before the opponent. Stupid toys are completely unable to be used in any real combat situation. TL;DR, keep weapons simple so they can be used. Don't try to look cool.
Having cool weapons might keep low level intruders from attacking (seeming to be 'extreme' may scare of most people). I personally have an old and dirty fireman ax from about 1780. It's an extremely bad and heavy weapon (4 kg) but sharpening it in public is a way to scare of most people. If some hostile would arrive, i would obviously choose another "decoration' to defend myself. Don't underestimate the power of seeming dangerous but prepare for the time when actual violence is needed.
Do you really think these people are trying to mimic history accurate ninjas lol,i'm not sure they are that smart to do that,btw fun fact for you,history is blurred about ninjas we are not even sure if they even existed
@@karvast5726 Well we know espionage existed, and that at least is accredited to the ninja. As for any martial art (ninjutsu) accredited to them, that more than likely does not exist, and is, instead, an amalgamation of preexisting martial arts. They may or may not have done assassinations as well, but naturally we have next-to-no data about that. And as for assassinations, if it was done correctly, there would be no need for any fancy footwork, blocking, parrying, etc. So a martial art for ninjas would have essentially been if they failed, and if you did hire one for such an act, you'd be hoping they didn't fail, defeating the purpose and need of a martial art. As for a tool for the job, small, easily hidden, and simple would have worked the best, completely disproving anything fancy immediately.
@@saturnalia91 i can imagine the ninja's would have looked like everyone else back then to blend in,probably completely different from what the movies are telling us
@@danielhardman234 Good sir, it has come to my attention that you have misspelled "during" as "before". I can assure you, fellow citizen of the most glorious Imperium of Man, our God-Emperor shall protect the brave Death Korps of Krieg through the artillery!
The folding camping/trenching shovels are legit. I keep one in my jeep for camping/off roading usage. Not only have I dug my jeep out of mudholes, but I've also chopped down a tree with it for fire wood. And trust me. The moment you hold one in your hand you realize how devastating a weapon it could be. A lot of men lost their lives to trench shovels in various wars.
I also have a tactical shovel which I do use. Mine is just a collapsible shovel with a bladed side and a side with saw teeth for cutting brush or branches. It works great and saves a lot of space/weight in my pack. Which is always nice especially when jumping. Never used it on a person but I'm sure you could easily crack someone's head right open with it if you tried.
I've seen a folding shovel with the Punisher skull slapped on it. This adds nothing to what you're saying, I just wanted more people to know it exists.
The mall part also comes from the fact that, At least in the US, There are a lot of shops in malls or even markets that sell these kitch blade trinkets.
“Bladed” shovels were commonly used as weapons in the trenches of WW1, it was practical because most soldiers already carried them and close up (in a trench) they were much more effective than bayonets. So as mall ninja as they may seem at first glance there is historical combat doctrine built around the spade. They were used as weapons in real war, only about 100 years ago no less! doesn’t get more legitimate than that.
Germans on the WW2 eastern front liked their sharpened spades way more than the bayonet for CQC - especially in confined environments. On the western front there were less "to the last man" fights - good for both sides. But I wonder about the Marines over in the pacific - they also had bloody hand to hand brawls pretty often. And of course, the Death Korps use them, so: Case closed 😉
I did my service in 2000 in the German army and although we didn't train with them as weapons we were still told that the foldable shovel is a decent melee weapon when absolutely needed. Not that you should of course. The examples in the video would still be mall ninja weapons as they aren't really good as shovels and have far too many edges and holes.
Fun fact: Trench Shovels/ Entrenching Tools (E-Tools) are incredibly effective at breaking through tree roots and rocky soil. There have also been recorded accounts of them being used effectively in melee fighting since World War 1.
In soviet army during ww2 and throughout soviet times, they were also known to be used against civilian non combatant targets, since shooting them would be waste of ammo, because those people didn't fight back.
The four point knife with the skull gave me an idea for a RPG character: an necromancer Rogue, whose personality is literally of a Mall ninja, but cultuates a ton of evil gods just to have their sacrificial daggers. None of them are very deadly, but he has so many of them that he seems dangerous.
Shad: "I think there's some validity to bladed shovels!" World War 1: On the battlefield more people were killed with sharpened trench shovels used as axes than by bayonets or other knives.
It's also a perfect self defence implement with plausible deniability for a professional driver, especially in rural areas or in areas that gets snow or sand drifts. An infantry shovel/spade will have 3 uses for such a driver, nr2 will be especially versatile if the tool is sturdy enough to be used on local trees as an axe: 1) call of nature miles from any rest stop. Dig a latrine pit and cover it up afterwards. 2) get the vehicle unstuck/clear the road blockage 3) self defence, and the short handle means it isn't as unwieldy inside a car/truck cabin as many other implements and it won't leave irritant residue as pepper spray will. It's primary nature as a digging tool also means cops won't harass you over having it in easy reach.
@@SonsOfLorgar I actually own such a shovel of, I believe, Russian design?.. It folds and can easily fit in a backpack, so I take it on camping trips. Works well as a shovel, sturdy and sharp enough to work as a hatchet as well. I'm pretty sure, I wouldn't like getting hit by such.
When I was in the military, basic training did include whacking dummies with our trench shovels. Which - considering how much of dumpster fire most other aspects of the service was - gives me pause in regards to their validity as weapons....
@@MrAranton Well, range alone makes them better than knives in this regard... I gotta say, nowadays if you find yourself on the battlefield without a proper ranged weapon, you are pretty screwed anyways, so with a shovel you'll at least be able to dig yourself a nice grave.
The russians still equip them to their soldiers, the US army has started to as well...alot of the newer e tolls which is just entrenching shovles for the US army, have edges now, including a serated edge on one side.
Not the least of which is the infamous aura of cringe! Which makes all enemies within visual range cringe, thus leaving them open to your lighning fast teleportation attack.
Man, I never saw any mall cops when I was a teen, but there was absolutely a "weapons" store that had me all kinds of excited whenever I went, lol. In addition to mall ninja, I was also a mall crocodile dundee with my bowie knife, lol.
Shad: *laughing at combat shovels* - *Dissatisfied Gasmask noises* Shad: actually, thay might be effective. - *insistent gasmask noises* Shad: i wanna try it out - *heavily biased and excited gasmask noises!*
I mean, the blade on an entrenching tool is for cutting through roots so you can dig deep enough, or branches to build over ground shelter. It's not the ideal tool for the job, but you can't easily dig a hole with an axe.
I have never actually seen one of the ones that was foldable and or with stuff in the handle that was robust enough to survive a few hits into anything tougher than a plastic fizzy drink bottle
37:57 : That's not _just_ "a gun attached to another gun". That is the legendary Zip 22, widely considered to be the single worst handgun ever mass-produced. It was only ever bought _ironically_ :P.
Nah, the epic worst was the RG23, a .22LR revolver notorious for launching its own barrel downrange and single action mode jamming, due to the sheet metal sear/cylinder lock being too long. Think they sold for something like $10 - $20, decades ago. Then, there was the Tangfolio Giueppe .25 ACP, bought one in Alabama in '82 for $35, first one went back with an inoperative safety - all safeties, half cock and lever safety being broken. FIE Titan also were rebranded models of the same pistol, with slightly better quality control. The good old Saturday Night Special days, where the firearm was as great a risk to the wielder as to the target. I keep one of each in my collection for the same reason he keeps the mall ninja toy swords about, a warning to future generations to get quality, not cheap junk.
If you're carrying a shovel onto a battlefield as part of your standard kit you might as well put a combat edge on it. Its already there. Never gonna be a primary weapon but if that's all you got left its still a force multiplier over a bare fist
I agree. the thing putting those shovels into mall ninja territory (I'm my opinion). are the extra bells and whistles apart from the blade. those bells and whistles usually have nothing to do with anything battle related. like bottle openers, or unscrewable handles which hold things like knifes (usually low quality and blunt) and stuff like screwdrivers. "oh this Christmas present needs batteries, give me one second, let me just screw open my combat shovel and get out my fillips head" xD
I remember there was a big ninja trend in the early eighties. There were ninja magazines, crappy ninja to's, straight swords, even a tv show starring Lee Van Cleef as a ninja going around solving crimes.
Fun fact: the ninja trend caused a bit of a moral panic in the UK during this time period. There were lawsuits filed in an attempt to ban ninja weapons in fear that roving gangs of nunchuck-and-shuriken-wielding toughs would menace local neighborhoods and be a corruptive influence on kids, and that’s also why TMNT is called “Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles” in the UK as calling it “Ninja” turtles was verboten 😅
36:05 - The tiny curved knife with the ring is a take on an Indonesian Kerambit. It's used in pencak silat, the Indonesian martial art, and it's used mostly for what I refer to as "spicy grappling." It's surprisingly good for controlling limbs (multiplying force on pressure points, you're the last person I have to explain that to), or failing that, severing tendons and ligaments, which... feels like an academic difference.
Looks like it would be a good assassination blade too, for when you come up behind people and cut the throat or go for the brainstem. Though, and that point, any decent knife would probably be just as practical.
@@corruptangel6793 it's not really long enough for that. It's good for cutting into places where you could hook against something solid and lead the person around. Or, if you don't much care about noise and mess, you could go for a major artery cut and bleed the person out. But largely, no. It's not a good assassination weapon.
Originaly it is a tool like a sickel and the ring is meant for the finger to hang the knife down, while grabbing and tie together the cutted herbs or rice straw, without putting the knife down...and like every tool, you could use it as weapon. Is it the best weapon ever? Don't know, but you don't want to mess up with people, who know how to slice with a sharp knife. And sickels are very mean weapons.
The thing is, these sorts of blades look cool partly because the blade curves forward, unlike other knives, but pretty much all other knives curve the other direction for a reason, because they actually _work better that way._ Knives are always more effective when slicing (cross-cutting) than when chopping (push-cutting). If the blade edge curves in a convex way, it makes it easier to slice across the target and penetrate more easily (regardless of the angle of incidence). If it curves in a concave way like this, then the knife cannot move in a slicing manner easily, and the knife design actually forces you to basically "chop" through whatever you come in contact with instead, which is much harder, and your knife swing will more than likely just get caught on something and stopped, or at least require a more force to cut through things than necessary. (I think some people also think they must be effective because they look like animal claws, but claws are typically used for a very different purpose than knives. Predators use their claws to try to grab onto their targets and pull them closer or hold them (i.e. grappling), so the claws are actually designed to be good at puncturing and grabbing, but _bad at cutting_ (because if they just cut right through, they wouldn't be able to hold onto them)..)
Positioning it with the blade down enables you to use it as a very quick stabbing weapon (if the curvature of the blade isn't too extreme) with a hammer-blow strike with the fist. It also allows for raking the blade up and across in a slash without leaving your torso wide open the way you would if you were slashing down with the blade pointing up.
I was more of a mall handyman, with a deep-pocketed jacket literally filled with tools. Though having a small anvil and a large hammer where someone once tried to punch me was very satisfying. Also when our class made a trip to the parliament and I had to unload everything at the security checkpoint, the usually-stoic guards made some priceless faces as the pile kept on growing.
I almost became a mall ninja when shopping for a machete to trim some plants. Luckily I relied completely on reviews. There is a surprising lack of good machetes on Amazon.
Found one that - does work good enough on smaller branches, and I could strike a ferrorod with it as well. Not great, definitely not worthless, but there's still room for improvement so to speak. xD
39:55 The problem with bladed shovels is that those blades are likely to quickly go dull if they're regularly used as a shovel... Which are still lethal ! But it's not a wise use of budget.
Actually as someone who has an entrenching tool and uses it regularly, it’s a lot easier to dig with a sharpened one so you will see a lot of people sharpen theirs just for digging and it gives the after effect of having a good improvised weapon, you can see military units who actually train to throw them as improvised throwing axes if they have no other weapon since you do keep it so sharp.
Here's a request for one of your next books: Create a utterly useless weapon, like a Batleth or that Shark thingie and have a character insist to use it. With all the consequences.
@@Blondie42 cast iron can easily shatter upon impact, shovels won't shatter on impact. Although, I did once jump from a gasoline filled trench I was grading out to chase a fire commissioner that was smoking a stogie near with a 10 pound hammer. Nobody thought that hefty fellow could move so quickly! He stayed away from the hole, which was all I wanted, as being on fire has long been something I've actively tried to avoid.
The problem with the shovels is more the mall ninja quality of the examples. A good military grade folding shovel can be an effective weapon, as well as a tool. The cheap survival ones suck as tools because of the cut outs and are really flimsy and too light and flexible either as tools or weapons.
The karambit is a farming tool the ring is so you can hold onto it between cutting vegetables from their parent plants. There is a martial art from the Philippines for fighting with it, but it still is inherently a farming tool
To be fair though, a karambit has a lot of utility as a defensive offhand weapon in a knife fight because of how easy it is to manipulate. It's not an extremely lethal weapon, but it excels at disarming the main hand by severing wrist tendons during a wrist block.
Shovels are a valid improvised weapon. There are a lot of Stalingrad accounts of especially soviet troops sharpening entrenching shovels for very close quarter urban combat. And in small rooms and corridors those would be better than knives, at the very least in my opinion.
There was a scene in ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ where Ernest Borgnine teaches new arrivals to forget their serrated bayonets and use their shovels in enemy trenches-and demonstrating why.
@@KazonNystrom I literally watched that movie for the first time ever yesterday. I love how that scene specifically addresses the difference between the academic study of warfare, and the practical reality of being a frontline soldier.
@@nobsherc The most lethal weapon? I think that would be the artillery, considering you know the trenches were there to protect against artillery, not against shovels. I'm pretty sure the most common cause of death for troops in ww1 was getting hit by shrapnel.
We have Brandon Herrara for cursed gun images, now we have Shadiversity for cursed bladed weapons images. The circle is complete. Would love to see more of this style of content Shad.
Indeed. Shad tackling cursed bladed weapons was something we needed. Now all I want from Shad at this point is covering more cursed weapons and armor images.
The trench shovel or spade is a proven weapon from WWI. I do have doubts about those depicted with folding heads and tubular metal handles. The Russian Spetsnatz shovel is an effective tool for digging as well as hand-to-hand combat, and can be thrown to good effect. Cold Steel makes a nice one of these.
I have one of those folding shovels, and it was my brother's before it was mine. He did quite a bit of digging over the years with it doing field work, and it held up just fine. He was pretty bad at taking care of tools too, and when I received it it was still pretty solid for being held together by essentially a couple sections of threaded pipe. Long story short those shitty looking folding shovels are better than they seem
They work well on raccoons too, and making the rest of the campsite think your crazy. You could ask me how I know, but the context is obvious .... my kids call it a harpoon now, I think I wasn't allowed to shoot my firearms for some reason ..... like my life wasn't in danger, but my kids couldn't sleep and they were trying to get into the extra tent ..... the trench shovel seemed appropriate .... either way I missed (pretty close though, scared them off real good)
In Marine Corps infantry school (called A.I.T. at the time), we were told about one marine that actually got three confirmed kills with an E-tool, aka the little folding shovel. I think it was during the Korean war, but it could've been 'Nam. In short, the enemy charged a trench several marines were in, and this lad didn't have his rifle in hand. So, he grabbed the nearest thing, which was the shovel, and took the head off the first enemy that hopped into the trench before maiming the skulls of two others. We then had to hit practice dummies with a shovel for two hours. So, I guess by old marine corps standards, the shovel/E-tool is considered a viable weapon.
If you go to your local military surplus store you can pick up a legit used shovel for about $50-70. my local one has about a dozen, albeit all are pretty beat up
*im about to sound stupid as I don’t have really any level of weapons-based combat experience, but really anything is a weapon if you are angry enough and/or are strong enough.*
I see no problem with bladed shovels. Utility as a weapon aside, they're great multipurpose tools for digging, substituting as an axe or heavy knife, etc. Certainly something a soldier that expects to have supply line troubles would want strapped to his pack. Or, in more civilian context, something to take along on a camping trip.
@@annoyanceking Just don't skimp on quality. there are a *lot* of crappy folding shovels out there. I usually just buy military surplus. They're usually dependable, and usually fairly cheap too.
@@annoyanceking Nice, Gerber makes good stuff. I went with my old model from the Marine Corps and have a WWII one as well, not sure who made either, the WWII one is straight, doesn't fold, but has sharp enough edges. The other folds like you were talking about and you're right, it's good for starting a hole, good for digging trenches for runoff around the tent too.
Zombie apocalypse weapons have been done to death. That being said, if it happened, I'd actually prefer a shovel to a machete or even a boar spear. And for the longest time, those last two would have been my ideal survival tools. Sure a machete will take more punishment than a sword, and a spear keeps you where the zombies aren't, but a shovel can be used for more things.
Re: the karambit/curved type.. as others have mentioned, I've found it really is exceptional as a work knife. Whether it's small plastic bags or a bundle of plant material or even just as a box cutter, IMHO it goes far and beyond the usual straight blade. For example if you imagine cutting a bit of string, it's far more unlikely to slip off the tip of the blade.. ykwim? And regarding the ring, I definitely wouldn't consider it essential or anything, but considering the blades usefulness in a work capacity, the ring can absolutely come in clutch if your hands are wet or excessively dirty or whatnot. Thats something I read before I got it, and it turned out 100% true in my experience. Just wanted to add my two cents! Totally recommend trying one out if any of that stuff applies to anyone. 😄👍
@@kova1577 What I'm trying to say is that someone made some contorted, pretentious, overly-flashy and worthlessly unbalanced piece of metal that can vaguely be wielded by another human, and it couldn't match the damage output, finesse, or versatility of literally just some long piece of wood. If someone tried to force the issue and use the former "weapon" regardless? Mall ninja.
Bladed shovels could certainly be a legitimate tool/weapon combo, but the mall ninja factor comes in when design negatively impacts function. For example, the shovel on the far right has a significant curve in the side of the head, which would significantly decrease its carrying capacity compared to the others. Also, none of those shovels have grips at the ends, which would make digging harder since they're not really large enough to push with your foot like a regular shovel. They're really just weirdly-shaped axes at this point.
Also on the cheap ones the locking nut (if the spade folds) is terrible and usually fails quickly. The entrenching tools we had in the Marine Corps worked well though, and they had edges, though I wouldn't call them "sharp" they would do more damage than your average home depot shovel.
Second from the left isn't too bad, the rest are hot garbage... those cut-outs would make digging into anything but sand or soft loam impossible. I kinda love the "tactical trowel" though... it's just adorable
Russian Spetsnaz actually use shovels as weapons. The practice was inherited from Soviet combat engineers in WW2 who were the first ones to breach heavily fortified positions with explosives and PPSH submachine guns.
In “All Quiet on the Western Front”, there’s actually a short paragraph dedicated to the effectiveness of the German shovel in trench combat. Entrenchment tools are not to be underestimated for sure.
35:35 this is a kerambit, its a south asian weapon that exist at least from the 14th century, not made to be used a "knife". and has many different shape depending of the location. but mainly use as a hidden weapon when you strike empty handed. the fact that the hook goes forward can allow you to thrust.
Just a comment on the shovels. I was in the Army (U.S.) for 18 years and my E Tool (Entrenching Tool) saw a LOT of work as a makeshift axe and also for pounding stakes into the ground. They are sturdy and are useful as "makeshift" weapons but I would not plan on it being a primary weapon
@@SGT_RPGames Thanks for the response. I only ask because when I was in Boy Scouts my troopmaster would throw a fit if we dropped our knife and it went into the dirt claiming "That dulls the blade!". I wasn't sure if that was true in general or more likely because we had cheap $5 knives for the most part.
I've heard in the Soviet army they did actually plan on their shovels being a backup melee weapon for when they didnt use their knife. I know the special forces actually trained on things like throwing shovels or using them in hand to hand combat similar to how Marines train on bayonets even though they havent done a real bayonet charge since the 50s.
Granted I’m a 40 year old vet that lives in the woods. But I once had the dream of being a mall ninja. As many goofy pageants and parades as there are in this country. Someone should start the annual March of the Mall Ninja. Let them gather and be seen. Let them congregate and know they are not alone. Some would do it in jest. Others in Ernest. If furries can do it then by god so can the modern mall ninja.
Name the time and place and I bet my buddy and I will be there twirling butterfly knives as we get out of the car and walk to the trunk for the "good stuff" lol
@@FVCK-TH1S there are endless closeted mall ninjas... and I'm sure the Homemade Cool-Ass Weapon community will join our cause as well. Let's get this March going!!!
Bladed shovels is about as close as any of these get to being actual ninja gear, considering the blades we know call kunia we improvised weapons made from trowels.
@@PhantasmPhoton It depends the period. During most of the era of Samurai (let's say prior to the late 16th century), nothing kept you from having a sword or any weapon. Considering you could required to join an army, it was pretty ok. It's mostly When Toyotomi Hideyoshi made it pretty impossible for a commoner to become a samurai and made everyone stuck in his own class forever that these weapons bans appeared. And anyway, a weapon like an armor were expensive things. Not something commoners and peasants could get easily. The real thing concerning the kunai is it was a handy multi task tool that could be turn into a weapon. Let's remember ninjutsu was much more about intelligence gathering and breaking into places than fighting.
Not to mention even the sort of monks Miroku from Inuyasha was had a weaponized staff with a blade that worked like a shovel/spade in case they needed to bury a body and perform last rites
Regarding using shovels as weapons: when I was in German military service in 2000, we were actually training with these. Not in a very serious way, mind you. But with a sharpened edge, they actually can do some damage, when you strike someone with it. There are of course more effective weapons than this, but if you need a shovel anyway, might was well learn how to use them in combat.
Most people with shovels probably have the ones who are large and made specifically for digging, and i assume the ones you trained with were like the ones used in WW1, so i don't think it really applies your training in those type of shovels
I like mine, good for missing attempts to harpoon raccoons, scaring said raccoons and probably other campers (weird looks next day), but turning children's tears into laughter! Conservatively must have gone 4 meters up several times, landing on asphalt parking pad many No brand or anything but was Army Surplus (like the store) mist expensive solid one available ..... and well tested as mentioned above *I am very happy with it* I think prepper and historical weapons fans have much overlap, many if us have trench shovels. *That being said, unless I am throwing it I have no reason not to prefer a bayonet in any case I can conceive*
Actually, I don't think there's anything wrong with owning over-designed, purely aesthetic swords, as long as you're aware that they're just for decoration, and isn't historical. Although, there are some instances of weapons being made less effective on purpose to look better. Usually this happened when a certain weapon stopped being overly useful, so people wore it more for aesthetic reasons than combat. One could argue this happened with the sword a while ago.
Hang the "aesthetic" swords close to the front door and the good ones toward the back. In case of burglary, hopefully the thieves don't have time to grab all your stuff, and just get the cheap stuff up front. Or better yet, you're home, and the home intruder wants to duel you, and grabs the nearest tacticool mall ninja garbage as a weapon, leaving you open to give him a proper lesson why actual swords use carbon steel and full tangs, or you emulate Indiana Jones and just shoot him while he twirls.
@@eamonnholland5343 Or if you are fast enough you grab the "aesthetic" swords and beat them over the head with it using it's weight:) Of course that's if you don't have a baseball bat or kitchen knives or proper weapons on hand.
At 10:54, the smaller knife in the saya was a real thing. If memory serves, they were called yamagatana (山刀) and were used as utility knives. They could be used for anything, but apparently a common use was to treat medical problems in horses, although, as I know nothing about horses, I am not sure of the details.
The bladed entrenching tool (Shovel) is 100% a legitimate weapon and has been used in modern conflicts as a very effective hand held dealer of damage. When we slept on the ground in Iraq we kept an entrenching tool between us as a go to in the event we were surprised by an intruder in the middle of the night. Also highly effective against camel spiders, the most likely of unwanted intruders!!!!
That's what I was thinking. Actual military organizations, in the present era, spend good money on bladed shovels because it adds an extra weapon to a soldier's kit without adding any extra weight. I think even the Russians spend money on those. It's not just the Americans.
I wouldn't mind a video where Shad actually tests some of these "weapons" against practice targets, just for fun. After getting dressed in full body protective gear
As a former mall ninja you must know that nunchucks were made that way so you could fold them and hide them in robes/clothes to sneak them in and bash someone around in close quarters.
38:00 the best part is that the smaller pistol that is attached is a zip22, a gun so horrible that getting a full magazine through it without jamming is a miracle and it was such a financial disaster that the company that made it had to go out of business
If you didn’t start your sword enthusiasm by buying a mounted “demon sword” from a shop in the mall then I’m sorry 😢 Will also accept a random booth at an organized town wide yard sale.
Yep, you could use it like an axe since it has a simmilar principle, or in some cases you could ram it into somebody. My dad had one of those and he said he preferred that over a combat knife or bayonett (romanian army during communism). He said that he'd rather use his rifle since he almost never missed his targets (he was the best sniper in his group).
Okay but if I’m honest I would totally love to play with those mall ninja weapons, I wouldn’t feel bad abusing them and I could just slice watermelons and whatever else for hours😂
These look like they would be a legitimately fun thing to collect. The weirder and tackier the better. That shark thing! Tell me that wouldn’t make the best conversation piece, even with someone who has no previous interest in swords. After leaving, the guest would never look past those things again. It may be a quick glance, but you’ll have provided them with a whole lot of amusement even after they’ve left your home and grand collection.
That's why I like the Batman double knifes. Just for their pure impracticality, they would make me smile every time I see them. Something that males you smile thousands of times? Good buy!
I'm a fan of the mall ninja stuff that is dumb but can be negotiated into something sorta practical. Like, that one glowing blue sword I like because it's dumb but, I could sharpen it into a giant letter opener!
This seems to be a pretty common thing with new weapon collectors. People tend to start off by buying relatively cheap, aesthetically pleasing, impractical and poorly made weapons. I did the same. I used to have a couple of display pieces which were so badly designed that they would have been more dangerous to the user than anyone else. They looked cool, though lol.
What makes the gun under gun attachment even better is it's a Zip22. Literally the worst gun you could buy unless you want to be trying to unjam after every shot if it even gets to that.
and here I was wondering if someone in the comment section posted about the zip22. oh you sir have made my day +1 additional like from me. watched a video of it from forgotten weapons, even gun jesus was afraid to fire it
@@joedoe7041 the slow-mo of the casing just rattling around in the chamber and barely escaping before the gun finished cycling and closed back up is a horrifying image of just how poorly made of a gun it is, even when it's "working" without "fail"....
@@RipOffProductionsLLC yer I remember that, it's been a while since I watched it. I think the concept and basic design of the gun is neet, but for practical use it would need to have a few pieces reworked, at least that's what I believe.
Regarding the "Bladed Shovel," I'm pretty sure its actually tactical survival gear. The sharpened edge can be used in bush craft as an axe for breaking down small limbs for fire wood. As with any woodsman's axe, it can do combat damage and thus be considered a weapon, but the first function in design is as a tool...
It's probably an even better weapon than a proper axe or shovel too, since it's much lighter. Although as with most tacticool gear, they tend to not be particularly good at any one task, and be prone to failure/breaking.
The army issues them and the edges dont get resharpened but we do use the serrated side for cutting shrubs and bushes to gather it up for concealing our op's
A german officer, Hermann Balck, once wrote that during World War I, on the eastern front, their Upper Silesian Jager battalion members could easily turn an entrechment tool into a deadly battle axe in a matter of seconds.
There needs to be a movie about mall ninjas, maybe called 'Mall-pocalypse' or 'Mall-hem' or something like that, where a mall is taken over by 'mall ninjas'... And then real ninjas show up
The sword in his story/rant about his own time as a mall ninja is actually the replica sword from the Blade movies. I know because I thought about getting it during my same mall ninja phase. LOL.
@@Nob911 I stand corrected. Obvious mistake as they came out around the same time with similar aesthetic, but you are right that this isn't the replica and is instead part of the "cyber ninja" line that offered this double-edged, a more traditional katana blade version, and a tanto. Thank you for the correction, but to be fair these were so long ago that even Shadiversity thought the same.
37:57 Idk if you'll see this, Shad, but underbarrel gun in that image, the littler one, is a Zip 22, one of the most infamously bad firearms ever made. It's a total jam machine chambered in a pitiful cartridge. Attaching an anime figure to your gun would be more effective than using one of those things.
@@thatguybrody4819 .22 is a good practice round, but using a rimfire cartridge for self-defense is foolhardy. Primers are far less reliable than on centerfire cartridges of comparable quality, and, frankly, I've had feeding issues even with good quality .22 guns like the Ruger Mark IV, presumably due to the rimmed shape of the cartridge or possibly the jacket-less lead bullet deforming on the feed ramp. You can't beat the .22 LR when it comes to fun, affordable plinking... but if I'm going to rely on a gun to save my life, I'd rather have a .25 or .32 ACP. Not that those rounds are common these days, but if I was going to use a small cart (and there are a lot of reasons to do so), it'd be one of those.
37:57 The guy you called out early on, Ian from Forgotten Weapons, actually has a video where he talks about how absolutely awful that undermount weapon is. Yes it's a real thing, and no it was not practical.
16:38: There's another problem with the multi-bladed dagger. Not only does it disperse your force as Shad pointed out, making it harder to get good penetration, having multiple blades also makes it significantly more likely that you're going to hit a rib -- nature's armor -- and minimize the blow rather than sliding between them to get at a vital organ.
Just imagining how Shad’s wife would wake up and see him walking around in the morning wearing things like the “Mall Ninja Shad” outfit or a straight up knight-armor makes me laugh so hard XD
"hooky knife" are called karambits and they're actually traditional phillipine Kali/Arnis historically used weapons, and they are super versatile. although the actually historically accurate version is sharp on both sides. You can watch Doug marcaida's video on how someone that actually knows how to use it does. They got really popular because of Counter Strike Global Offensive, just like balisongs hade a big comeback because of that too. As a Escryma teacher, that cold steel video cringes me so hard. They dont know what its for either hahaha
It’s indeed a very versatile and hard to predict weapon but they also require a lot of often painful and kinda boring training. Most kali and silat practitioners don’t even practice enough to make it a feasible weapon. I’ve practiced with training karambits for thousands of hours and I’m confident that I can use them without hurting myself but I don’t think I’m really able to control the amount of damage. I wouldn’t recommend learning to use a karambit.
The thing about the hook knife is that it's actually designed for a very specific style of martial art, and even then they're shortening the blade and adding weird embeleshments to them. It's for the Silat martial arts so it's bizarre seeing people use those knives without knowlege of how it's actually used.
Karambit right? yeah I thought their popularity was odd as well. Many reviewsputting them in top tens good ol 440 "UAE" m7 style bayonet or 1095 ka-bar does me quite well. Daily the ka-bar for prying, can opening, and general stuff one maybe shouldn't use a knife for. I use the cheapo chinesium bayonet for any hacking and carving needs (nice hilt for many solid purchases/grips) but mostly for food prep while camping (it is stainless) I'd like to try powder steels some day, but still expect a form that can peirce or slice with a reinforced point and spine. Karambits seem to wide a thin for the abuse I put a blade through.
With regards to shovels as weapons, I’ve met a veteran nicknamed “E-Tool”, so called because he used a folding shovel to kill an NVA soldier during the Vietnam War.
My father was in marine bootcamp where he was told about one of their drill instructors. The instructor had been in Vietnam. His whole squad was wiped out defending a hill once they ran out of ammunition. The guy then proceeded to kill 15 enemy soldiers with his entrenching tool before backup arrived. The reinforcements were stunned that the guy managed to hold that hill on his own. at first they thought he had killed his squad but quickly realized that he had in fact held that hill on his own for a day. The guy was brought back stateside and made a drill instructor; he was also awarded a purple heart if i recall correctly. No one, No one ever, messed with or bothered that drill instructor.
Matthew Coyle nah, the drill instructor didn't have that kind of kill count. It still fucked with him though. My dad said the guy was quieter and kinda reserved.
@@JaneDoe-dg1gv Nah not him. I Think the guy that got the really high kill count was a Green Beret. I could see how engaging in basically medieval combat and then returning to modern society could alter someone's disposition.
I could see that quartz dagger being some presentation weapon gifted to a foreign ambassador or visiting royal. It’s a pretty common historical practice and it’s why there are so many gold and diamond inlay swords and daggers from history. The Spanish and the Ottomans are probably the most well known for giving extravagant decorative weapons as gifts.
Combat shovels check out, in all honesty. Depending on weight distribution, they're basically repurposed "digging axes", with the added cutting advantage in the front.
I've seen Shad do a couple videos now on Mall Ninja weapons, but I think it would be objectively hilarious to see him do a video on historical Mall Ninja weapons. I'm thinking specifically of the nobleman who mounted two flintlock pistols to a boar spear but I'm sure there are many other examples
Karambit (the hooked knife that Shad didn't know the name of) have accrued some cringe points in recent years for a few reasons, but they are effective weapons. Check out Doug Marcaida's explanation.
And they are effective at cutting vinyl flooring and carpet. It was the main cutting device for flooring until the 70's now it mostly used to just tuck carpet.
37:57 Forgotten Weapons has a video on the "gun" that's mounted down and forward. It's the Zip 22, and it's one of the worst firearms ever made. The manufacturer seriously suggested using the gun in a similar way, except that it was hanging from the front of a rifle.
I felt the same about karambit knives, up until I saw someone demonstrate the reason they're made the way they are. I can't recall who the wielder was, but he specialized in joint locks and controlling his opponents movements. The karambit lends itself exceptionally well to that. There's no way I'd be able to manage most of it myself so I'll be sticking to more conventional tools.
If you need to use a knife on someone that's deadly force, good luck convincing a jury that your life was in danger enough to use deadly force but you decided just to use a deadly weapon for joint locks. It's like warning shots, they will get you put in prison
A karambit is also the most efficient working blade I've ever used. The ability to lever the edge into a tough piece of cable insulation or tiedowns is useful when you're sixty feet in the air.
Combat shovels are actually pretty useful because you can use the serrations to saw through tree roots and what not, and the sharp side doesn’t do a horrid job chopping firewood. Not my first choice as a deadly weapon but they’re nice to have if you’re camping
Been in the military, can confirm that entrenching tools are sharpened regularly for various reasons The main use for them are, obviously, digging foxholes and trenches, but it's almost never gonna be nice loose dirt you find in your backyard in the jungle. Most of the time, you'll be encountering stuff like tree roots that are a bitch to cut through even with a sharpened tool, among ant/termite nests, dense clay, tubers and rocks. During my time, I had a platoon mate whose designated spot was just on a rock and we joked that he's mining for gold ore. It's crazy that you can actually see sparks coming off as he was literally mining the rock for a nice cubbie hole to sleep in as training Other uses do include clearing the underbrush, wooded bushes and other forms of vegetation (with difficulty), but it doesn't take much of a stretch of an imagination to use it as a weapon in the most desperate of circumstances. It's really a very versatile tool issued to you in the army, and I can attest that it pops off the caps of beer bottles quite nicely! Cheers
As a long time construction worker (in many fields) I can confirm that not all bricks are created equal. I can make a perfect circle, or any shape u want in a brick wall (not a big deal, been doing it since very young & taught many others usually in one sitting) with nothing more than a 2lb sledgehammer & chisel, but what I came to say is that I could darn near look at some brick & make em crumble, while others seriously felt indestructible & took forever to break through & those second kinds would shoot off all sorts of sparks when I'd blast it with the hammer. It really is crazy, the amount of sparks & the strength difference. I'm sure it's a simple difference in the manufacturing process that I never cared to look into, but yea...sparks, lots of sparks lol.
I love how you poke fun at the mall ninja's, but aren't a downer to them. The "we all went through this stage, I think its part of being a sword enthusiast" was very wholesome and that mentality showed in the video, preventing it from ever becoming flat mocking.
19:34 the Hayabusa armor, if I recall its name correctly, was Bungie's way of rewarding players who beat the campaign on not only the hardest difficulty but also without ever dying. So wearing it in that context makes it an achievement most halo 3 players didn't earn.
Just to clarify, the comments about virginity were a joke, I was a virgin until I was married and proud of it. So people, protect your virginity until marriage and if you need any help with that I do suggest you buy some Mall ninja weapons, it's one of the few things they can properly protect.
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its 6:20am at work and the first thing I hear is this joke about virginity and now my head hurts cause I laughed a little too hard.
Is it sad that I heard the joke and thought he was saying a virgin in combat?
This comment is pure gold.
The life of Shad is the story of an edgy teen who studies the blade to the point where he started to make money
Shad is me in ten years and I'm not sure of that's a good thing or a bad thing.
who is good at photoshop
So... Shad is basically Raiden
The highlight is when he loses his virginity? Shad should write a "Suburban Fantasy" story with Isekai elements where a Mall Ninja gets pulled into a fantasy world! Put in those sensible hard magic rules and lots of Shad-isms, and that could be a HOOT!
Lmao
Shad is just a grown up, historically accurate mall ninja
I guess shad didn't think it was funny 🤣
@@tbishop4961 he admitted ad much himself, saying that the "mall ninja" was the first step many take on becoming master of the blade.
Ah. I may not have paid attention the entire way
@@lokdog257 maybe some of the mall ninjas weren't lying when they said they were studying the blade...
Ah yes the legendary historical mall ninjas of Mesopotamia.
It is said they had to defend their malls from leagues after leagues of unsatisfied rice thrasher buyers and angry karens.
Haha when I was younger my sister gave me this double bladed, double sided knife which imo was weird but I was like "Thanks, I'll use it to open packages I guess - I like my longsword Opa gave me years ago though!"
My grandpa on my moms side was German and would make me longswords of different designs, send them over (even against my parents wishes lol) and I loved all of them. In 2012 when I got into longsword fencing he made me a blunt fencing longsword, and a feder which I still use it for sparring to this day. He's since passed away so no more swords but they're like treasures to me.
Please upload a video of these! Id love to see the construction and different takes on swords! It would definitely be a treat!
Yeah me too. That’d be cool to see.
That's really cool
The grand blacksmith from a far away land making you special weapons to take on your foes!
Virgin normal gifts vs Chad Swords
So one idea I had, if Shad sees this, is that there’s a mod called Fortified Whiterun that addresses some of the things Shad says in his Whiterun video. I’m not sure how much Shad still plays Skyrim but I think it would be cool if he reviewed the mod that was most likely made by a fan of the channel
Yes!!
Yeah a few fan mods can make skyrim so much better
Gaming video lesgoo
he hearted it! he likes the idea of taking a look at the very least!
There is also a fortified windhelm, but I think it's a WIP
I love how shinobi, thousands of years later, are completely misunderstood by most people. They did their jobs perfectly.
Thousands of years later? Which would imply multiples of thousands. They're like 800-years-old if that.
@@AsukaLangleyS02 ehh, my bad. I am extremely bad at time scales. Should've said hundreds.
Point still stands though.
@@AsukaLangleyS02 Weren't there Chinese assassins that have similarities to Shinobi that existed before them?
@@plzletmebefrank Maybe, but this man said shinobi so he's definitely talking about Japanese people.
*found on the internet
"What if every country had their own ninja, but we know only about japanese ones, because they were the worst?"
As soon as he said " in fiction, sometimes the impractical designs are justified from the context of the fantasy world itself" i was waiting for the plug for his book
The Karambit is actually a traditional Indonesian knife, that has essentially become mall ninja'd. Its original purpose was a farmer's cutting tool roots, rice, and threshing. When it became popular outside Indonesia, it was turned into a "combat knife"
my adhd addled brain"its a fidget toy"
I actually gave my brother one a few Christmases ago, and he uses it as a fidget toy
@@tabithaalphess2115 eyy, not alone. and also nunchucks and scythes are also under the classification of "farming tools we used as weapons when we had nothing else" as they had metal chains
Good to know.
They're still highly effective. That's the one problem I have with your statement. There is martial arts designed around them from Indonesia.
"There is some validity and effectiveness to bladed shovels."
*A thousand Kriegsmen rejoice.*
*happy gasmask noises*
Nato countries standardized both the multipurpose combat shovel, but also the multipurpose combat knife
FOR THE EMPEROR!
Then immediately revert back to being doomful penitent battle-junkies. 💀
**breathes heavily with trenching intent**
One important aspect of mall ninjitsu is that real swords are bloody expensive, whereas the typical mall ninja katana is well within the reach of someone working the third shift at Taco Bell.
Until you’re an adult and you’re emptying your parents basement of $500 of worthless mall knives that you, if you’d saved, you could’ve spent on a real sword. Lol. When I look back and do the math I for sure cringe.
@@htenerf137 yeah, it's pretty bad. Hell, for $500, you could've taken up friggin' bladesmithing and made your own damn weapons at that point
@@htenerf137 As a crafty adult, I did much the same with all the toy- grade crafting tools I had. Wobbly plastic loom, sewing kit more interested in being pink and making a shelf look cute than making something, scissors that I wouldn't use on paper as an adult let alone fabric... If I'd saved up I could have gotten something really great.
But on the other hand, I might not have gotten that into the hobby if I didn't have those cheap things to practice on, and being able to blame the cheap kit came in handy when my initial attempts were utter garbage. 😅
500 DOLLARS? Damn, you could buy a real nice high-end arming sword (I am generic) with that.
@@InfernosReaper i'm young and new to sword enthusiasm, so I know i will eventually have to pass through the mall ninja phase if i'm not there already, but i'm prepared to fall to the dark side, and have promptly picked up the skillsets to *make* my shitty mall ninja weapons out of trash and hot glue rather than wasting my limited funds.
the advantages of using a shovel as a weapon, is that you can just dig the grave for your enemies right then and there.
A Shap entrenching tool is very effective hand to hand .
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Another great advantage is how satisfying the whack sound is
@@MOZZQUESTVANYALI get it right and it goes THWACK" !
this is literally the monk's spade principle.
I used to work with a guy, and he told me he was really into tactical training. I first thought it was some airsoft kind of deal with him, but he showed me a video of himself training: he was alone in the woods, wearing a black "tactical vest", smacking trees with two of those "Zombie Slayer" neon-green-type mall ninja swords. We didn't talk much after that.
LMAO
I went larping with a cousin I never see, this was years back and he’s about ten years older. I didn’t know what larping was but I was excited to spend time with him until this goof pulled out foam swords and cloth bean bag magic spells. His village people emerged from the trees in their renaissance attire with shields and bows and staffs and poles and spells and capes and my only option was to play along with these grown adults throwing fire spells at eachother pretending to burn to ash. I love him but, Coworker > Cousin.
@@N_metabthat's a totally different thing though. Generally mall ninjas or people into bullshido think they have some type of real martial arts skills.
Larping is just people having fun. It's no goofier than getting on your playstation and pretending to be spiderman for 4 hours.
@@N_metabyea that's just good fun dude. LARP stands for Live Action Role Playing. You're not gonna be using real swords and spells 😂
The quartz dagger looked really cool. And I doubt someone with the craftmanship to actually produce that piece of art would think it's a practical weapon.
yeah, gemstone knifes are actually quite a common thing to carve semi=precious stones into, I once saw an amethyst dagger
if I'm not mistaken, glass/crystal translucent handles were popular in middle eastern knives and those were actualy sold as weapons
@@joaosturza I've seen a few daggers with translucent blades, mostly said to be letter openers.
The handles aren't going to take nearly as much damage as the blade, and I've seen handles of a lot of various precious and exotic materials. As long as the tang is sturdy enough, you can put almost what you want on the handle. But I wouldn't try butter.
Yeah, I've seen agate letter openers before. Beautiful and useful in its intended purpose but obviously not a viable weapon beyond maybe one desperate stab if you've got nothing better.
It's a glass dagger teleported from Tamriel.
@@randomcomment3164 So.... malachite? Once you mention Tamriel all bets are out the door when it comes to how metal behaves.
The bladed shovel is more of a multitool than a primary weapon. 1st use: compactable shovel, 2nd use: Hatchet/Axe for chopping wood, clearing brush, some edges have a 3rd use as hand saw, sometimes there's even a cheeky little bottle opener. Last use on the list is back up self defense weapon.
Shovel knight would be proud
Basically if the engineer core gets ambushed, it wouldn't be a absolute massacre, just mostly a massacre.
Shovel in a trench where you are dealing with knives, 1/2 axe vs knife. Sill would take bayoneted on rifle as short spear. But weapon of last resort shovel or sharpened shovel?
@@coreytaggart128 Shovels are great. Shovels are the quintessence of civilization.
With a shovel, you can dig a hole just deep enough to hide yourself. Or if you gather a bunch of people with them, you can dig a fine trench.
If you change your viewpoint a little, you can even dig a tunnel. You can smash a sturdy enemy trench with mining tactics (not that they get used often).
A shovel is a good friend to any and every type of soldier. And a shovel is the best gear for a close-quarters fight in a trench.
Longer than a bayonet, simpler to handle than a rifle, sturdier than any other tool. Not only that, but they are extremely cheap and easy to make, so they're perfect for mass-producing. Plus, I don't have to worry much about damaging my mind.
This is it. The ideal piece of equipment. This is the point humanity was meant to reach. Civilization has developed the shovel as its implement.
As it turns out, if you don't mind a little bit of grit in your potted meat, you can even open a tin with a shovel.
I traded for some decent food, OK? Ratpacks might be edible, but they sure as hell don't taste like it.
I love how this video was just an excuse for Shad to travel down memory lane back to his own days as a mall ninja.
For mall ninjas its not about what is the best weapon, its all about the drip.
As long as that drip isn't your own blood. XD
@Nikolay Kotykhov
that too.
As somebody whose first visit to Spirit Halloween was last fall to do my first anime cosplay, as Ichigo, I 💯 confirm this!
I have a feeling the manufacturers of these metal art pieces recognize that there's a non-zero chance one of their customers uses one of these weapons on someone and intentionally designs them to be so ineffective to prevent excessive harm.
While ineffective against anyone with a real weapon or sometimes just a brain, some of these things would make savage wounds that are difficult to put back together if you actually stabbed someone with them...the weapon itself would probably fall apart in the process...but still.
@@memitim171
I’d think you’d harm yourself more than your opponent.
@@samuraijackoff5354
Worth it. You die, the enemy dies-
It's a win-win
19:08 When I worked at Little Caesars, we had a regular customer who dressed like that. Black leather trench coat, knee pads, bullet resistant vest, straight ninja-like blade on his back, bear mace, and other stuff all over him. Everyone called him Blade, because that was the look he was going for, the Wesly Snipes Blade. Just glancing at him, you'd figure he had some kind of mental issue or something. In reality, it would be more accurate to say that he was either a person who just didn't want to fully grow up or just liked the concept of wearing functional larp gear as his everyday outfit. He's also a nice guy and our store manager always liked talking with him. I think he may have also volunteered for some kind of community work. Kind of cringy at times, but an all-around okay person.
I can relate. I do airsofting and I honestly spend more money on actual tactical gear that has no benefit in the hobby of slinging biodegredable biopellets at each other. Seriously, I've fully kitted out Osprey carrier with a goddamn shotgun sheath on the back. For same reasons I have a BB six shooter and damned full length double barrel shotgun. It's for the cool factor. Hell, I'd wear that osprey outside hobby because looks cool and is oddly hella comfy to wear.
All that gear and lugging around "real steel" machinegun (Real steel in this case denoates accurate size and weight) IS a good work out though..
As someone who carries around a katana umbrella, oh but I get it.
I would always start singing the Highlander theme when I saw one of those cats.
That one set of brightly colored weapons doesn't look too bad. Medieval people would have _loved_ those bright colors as long as the steel was still good.
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What's funny about these is that the best swordsmen in anime usually have very plain, functional and worn down swords. Hajime Saito carried a generic nameless sword, Kenshin had a banged up reversed-blade sword, and Hiko Seijuro had a completely unadorned sword.
Those are some very limited examples. Those are all Rurouni Kenshin swords. Bleach is a good example to the contrary, and Ichigo's Shikai is close to Cloud's buster sword levels of "realism." Granted, on second thought Bleach also has plenty of sword designs that aren't absolute trash, and Ichigo's Bankai is significantly better than his Shikai. One Piece is entirely hit or miss, with the vast majority of it's swords designs being fine. Meanwhile Mihawk's sword is off in the corner *literally T posing.* Demon Slayer is another very popular anime that doesn't go crazy with the sword designs, and Attack on Titan has crazy swords but they're well explained and it makes some sort of sense under the circumstances.
I'd like to say "I could go on" but most anime I've come across just doesn't go crazy with the swords. Bleach is probably the worst offender and it doesn't even come close to Monster Hunter. I'm starting to think video games are more of a culprit than anime after close consideration.
Yea the main dude from bleach in his final form only has a black Nodachi.
@@jacobesterson Naruto has the worst swords ever though, those things are ugly, useless irl and mostly pointless
And then there's Guts.
With a slab of iron, too big and heavy to be called a sword.
A sword that was impossible to wield, forged to slay foes that didn't exist.
@@DIEGOLOKO82 Naruto is particularly egregious since several of them aren't even swords but Naruto pretends they are. The Kabutowari is literally an axe and hammer chained together, the Samehada is a spiked club, and the Shibuki is a fucking roll of paper on a stick, and yet all three of them are referred to as swords.
I love how so many mall ninja weapons are incredibly flashy and brightly colored when the LAST thing any ninja/shinobi would EVER want is to be spotted as a ninja.
Have you ever tried to use a weapon with spikes coming out every which way? 😂Just looking at those weapons make me afraid of even coming near it. Someone from my high school knew I used to do martial arts, so he asked me to show him how to use some of his... stuff.
He got annoyed when I held his decent knives the right way (not backwards). Holding it backwards might look neat, but if you're trying to attack, you have a much larger arc. By the time your blade reached me, your opponent could have knocked you out several times over.
Needless to say, trying to swing his weapons (if they could have even retained an edge) might have killed the user before the opponent. Stupid toys are completely unable to be used in any real combat situation.
TL;DR, keep weapons simple so they can be used. Don't try to look cool.
Having cool weapons might keep low level intruders from attacking (seeming to be 'extreme' may scare of most people).
I personally have an old and dirty fireman ax from about 1780. It's an extremely bad and heavy weapon (4 kg) but sharpening it in public is a way to scare of most people.
If some hostile would arrive, i would obviously choose another "decoration' to defend myself.
Don't underestimate the power of seeming dangerous but prepare for the time when actual violence is needed.
Do you really think these people are trying to mimic history accurate ninjas lol,i'm not sure they are that smart to do that,btw fun fact for you,history is blurred about ninjas we are not even sure if they even existed
@@karvast5726 Well we know espionage existed, and that at least is accredited to the ninja. As for any martial art (ninjutsu) accredited to them, that more than likely does not exist, and is, instead, an amalgamation of preexisting martial arts.
They may or may not have done assassinations as well, but naturally we have next-to-no data about that. And as for assassinations, if it was done correctly, there would be no need for any fancy footwork, blocking, parrying, etc. So a martial art for ninjas would have essentially been if they failed, and if you did hire one for such an act, you'd be hoping they didn't fail, defeating the purpose and need of a martial art. As for a tool for the job, small, easily hidden, and simple would have worked the best, completely disproving anything fancy immediately.
@@saturnalia91 i can imagine the ninja's would have looked like everyone else back then to blend in,probably completely different from what the movies are telling us
"Shovels can be effective weapons!" Spoken like a true Kriegsman!
I'm sure some tech priest will discover power shovel dark age technology and the deathkorps will be first on the list to receive them.
Also, if you read all quiet on the western front, you’ll come to the same conclusion. They kill a lot of people with those shovels.
@@Delvien Not if the Iron Warriors get them first!
They indeed are, however an unending rolling barrage before a bayonette charge is better!
@@danielhardman234 Good sir, it has come to my attention that you have misspelled "during" as "before".
I can assure you, fellow citizen of the most glorious Imperium of Man, our God-Emperor shall protect the brave Death Korps of Krieg through the artillery!
The folding camping/trenching shovels are legit. I keep one in my jeep for camping/off roading usage. Not only have I dug my jeep out of mudholes, but I've also chopped down a tree with it for fire wood. And trust me. The moment you hold one in your hand you realize how devastating a weapon it could be.
A lot of men lost their lives to trench shovels in various wars.
I also have a tactical shovel which I do use. Mine is just a collapsible shovel with a bladed side and a side with saw teeth for cutting brush or branches. It works great and saves a lot of space/weight in my pack. Which is always nice especially when jumping. Never used it on a person but I'm sure you could easily crack someone's head right open with it if you tried.
A 'tree' tree, or a sapling?
I mean it’s soldier’s stock Meele in tf2
I've seen a folding shovel with the Punisher skull slapped on it. This adds nothing to what you're saying, I just wanted more people to know it exists.
The Death Korps of Krieg approves of this statement.
The mall part also comes from the fact that, At least in the US, There are a lot of shops in malls or even markets that sell these kitch blade trinkets.
“Bladed” shovels were commonly used as weapons in the trenches of WW1, it was practical because most soldiers already carried them and close up (in a trench) they were much more effective than bayonets. So as mall ninja as they may seem at first glance there is historical combat doctrine built around the spade. They were used as weapons in real war, only about 100 years ago no less! doesn’t get more legitimate than that.
Not to mention the chinese Monk's Spade weapon.
They still issue e-tools (basically a foldable shovel) in the US Army. The Green Berets used it as the special weapon in deadliest warrior.
Germans on the WW2 eastern front liked their sharpened spades way more than the bayonet for CQC - especially in confined environments.
On the western front there were less "to the last man" fights - good for both sides.
But I wonder about the Marines over in the pacific - they also had bloody hand to hand brawls pretty often.
And of course, the Death Korps use them, so: Case closed 😉
I mean you can still bonk a guy pretty well with a spade either way.
I did my service in 2000 in the German army and although we didn't train with them as weapons we were still told that the foldable shovel is a decent melee weapon when absolutely needed. Not that you should of course.
The examples in the video would still be mall ninja weapons as they aren't really good as shovels and have far too many edges and holes.
Fun fact: Trench Shovels/ Entrenching Tools (E-Tools) are incredibly effective at breaking through tree roots and rocky soil. There have also been recorded accounts of them being used effectively in melee fighting since World War 1.
In a trench fight its also likely to be close at hand, sometimes you fight with the weapon you can *reach*
you should see the videos of russian soldiers throwing them like axes
In soviet army during ww2 and throughout soviet times, they were also known to be used against civilian non combatant targets, since shooting them would be waste of ammo, because those people didn't fight back.
@@raifthemad That's assuming the conscript even had ammo.
@@sik3xploit Well some of them certainly did, otherwise why carry a firearm if no one has ammo for it.
Very few people have the balls to admit they were a mall ninja at any part of their life. Respect Shad 👊🏻
I can happily say i was to poor to be one so i had time to actually learn about swords before i ever had the money to get one
It's not shameful to be a mall ninja, it's shameful to remain that way.
In elementary school i posed doing some dragon ball z attacks and the pictures turned out horibly stupid lel i learned my lesson
He has 5 kids so he's safe.
"While you were out partying, I studied the blade" - Mall Ninjas
The four point knife with the skull gave me an idea for a RPG character: an necromancer Rogue, whose personality is literally of a Mall ninja, but cultuates a ton of evil gods just to have their sacrificial daggers. None of them are very deadly, but he has so many of them that he seems dangerous.
I literally had an npc in a game 2 years ago but he was a merchant
Shad: "I think there's some validity to bladed shovels!" World War 1: On the battlefield more people were killed with sharpened trench shovels used as axes than by bayonets or other knives.
It's also a perfect self defence implement with plausible deniability for a professional driver, especially in rural areas or in areas that gets snow or sand drifts.
An infantry shovel/spade will have 3 uses for such a driver, nr2 will be especially versatile if the tool is sturdy enough to be used on local trees as an axe:
1) call of nature miles from any rest stop. Dig a latrine pit and cover it up afterwards.
2) get the vehicle unstuck/clear the road blockage
3) self defence, and the short handle means it isn't as unwieldy inside a car/truck cabin as many other implements and it won't leave irritant residue as pepper spray will.
It's primary nature as a digging tool also means cops won't harass you over having it in easy reach.
@@SonsOfLorgar I actually own such a shovel of, I believe, Russian design?.. It folds and can easily fit in a backpack, so I take it on camping trips. Works well as a shovel, sturdy and sharp enough to work as a hatchet as well. I'm pretty sure, I wouldn't like getting hit by such.
When I was in the military, basic training did include whacking dummies with our trench shovels. Which - considering how much of dumpster fire most other aspects of the service was - gives me pause in regards to their validity as weapons....
@@MrAranton Well, range alone makes them better than knives in this regard... I gotta say, nowadays if you find yourself on the battlefield without a proper ranged weapon, you are pretty screwed anyways, so with a shovel you'll at least be able to dig yourself a nice grave.
The russians still equip them to their soldiers, the US army has started to as well...alot of the newer e tolls which is just entrenching shovles for the US army, have edges now, including a serated edge on one side.
“The path of the Mall Ninja is a journey to many abilities some consider to be...unnatural.”
What could be more natural than SHARK FIST
Not the least of which is the infamous aura of cringe! Which makes all enemies within visual range cringe, thus leaving them open to your lighning fast teleportation attack.
"Shovels can be effective weapons."
Shad is a Soldier main confirmed.
Me: _recalls that one catty fight where the girl _*_THROWS_*_ a shovel_ I mean, the statement aint *_WRONG_*
Or he's from Kreig
Or he's old enough and hardcore enough to have played beyond dark castle ua-cam.com/video/ISP9su7okHo/v-deo.html
Plains of passage.
@@jakemyers5764 Guardsmen tested, Kreig approved!
Man, I never saw any mall cops when I was a teen, but there was absolutely a "weapons" store that had me all kinds of excited whenever I went, lol. In addition to mall ninja, I was also a mall crocodile dundee with my bowie knife, lol.
That's not a knoife.. THATS a knoife :D
Shad: *laughing at combat shovels*
- *Dissatisfied Gasmask noises*
Shad: actually, thay might be effective.
- *insistent gasmask noises*
Shad: i wanna try it out
- *heavily biased and excited gasmask noises!*
I mean, the blade on an entrenching tool is for cutting through roots so you can dig deep enough, or branches to build over ground shelter. It's not the ideal tool for the job, but you can't easily dig a hole with an axe.
The Emperor protects
@@calvertmorris2420 yes, now kill that chaos titan with that laspistol
*Happy gasmask noises*
I have never actually seen one of the ones that was foldable and or with stuff in the handle that was robust enough to survive a few hits into anything tougher than a plastic fizzy drink bottle
37:57 : That's not _just_ "a gun attached to another gun". That is the legendary Zip 22, widely considered to be the single worst handgun ever mass-produced. It was only ever bought _ironically_ :P.
To be honest, I would buy one ironically...
If they're lucky they might get 2 or 3 shots out of that 15-ish round banana mag.
Gun Jesus has an episode on it.
Nah, the epic worst was the RG23, a .22LR revolver notorious for launching its own barrel downrange and single action mode jamming, due to the sheet metal sear/cylinder lock being too long. Think they sold for something like $10 - $20, decades ago.
Then, there was the Tangfolio Giueppe .25 ACP, bought one in Alabama in '82 for $35, first one went back with an inoperative safety - all safeties, half cock and lever safety being broken. FIE Titan also were rebranded models of the same pistol, with slightly better quality control.
The good old Saturday Night Special days, where the firearm was as great a risk to the wielder as to the target.
I keep one of each in my collection for the same reason he keeps the mall ninja toy swords about, a warning to future generations to get quality, not cheap junk.
@@Vanastar AKA Ian McCollum from "Forgotten Weapons" and sometimes "InRangeTV" for those who don't know.
If you're carrying a shovel onto a battlefield as part of your standard kit you might as well put a combat edge on it. Its already there. Never gonna be a primary weapon but if that's all you got left its still a force multiplier over a bare fist
It's still a stick.
@@foxyfoxington2651 a stick with a wide metal edge
I worked trail crews and we kept edges on our shovels. When you're shoveling through roots and what not, it helps.
I agree. the thing putting those shovels into mall ninja territory (I'm my opinion). are the extra bells and whistles apart from the blade. those bells and whistles usually have nothing to do with anything battle related. like bottle openers, or unscrewable handles which hold things like knifes (usually low quality and blunt) and stuff like screwdrivers. "oh this Christmas present needs batteries, give me one second, let me just screw open my combat shovel and get out my fillips head" xD
Hell yeah that's the mantra all military equipment should have. Why do you think the MRE spoon has a confirmed kill? That thing is fucking meaty.
I remember there was a big ninja trend in the early eighties. There were ninja magazines, crappy ninja to's, straight swords, even a tv show starring Lee Van Cleef as a ninja going around solving crimes.
surprised you didn’t mention Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Yessir! God I remember that. Ninjas were fucking EVERYWHERE in the 80s. American ninja, TMNT, ECT.
Good times man good times
Fun fact: the ninja trend caused a bit of a moral panic in the UK during this time period. There were lawsuits filed in an attempt to ban ninja weapons in fear that roving gangs of nunchuck-and-shuriken-wielding toughs would menace local neighborhoods and be a corruptive influence on kids, and that’s also why TMNT is called “Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles” in the UK as calling it “Ninja” turtles was verboten 😅
36:05 - The tiny curved knife with the ring is a take on an Indonesian Kerambit. It's used in pencak silat, the Indonesian martial art, and it's used mostly for what I refer to as "spicy grappling." It's surprisingly good for controlling limbs (multiplying force on pressure points, you're the last person I have to explain that to), or failing that, severing tendons and ligaments, which... feels like an academic difference.
Looks like it would be a good assassination blade too, for when you come up behind people and cut the throat or go for the brainstem. Though, and that point, any decent knife would probably be just as practical.
@@corruptangel6793 it's not really long enough for that. It's good for cutting into places where you could hook against something solid and lead the person around. Or, if you don't much care about noise and mess, you could go for a major artery cut and bleed the person out. But largely, no. It's not a good assassination weapon.
Originaly it is a tool like a sickel and the ring is meant for the finger to hang the knife down, while grabbing and tie together the cutted herbs or rice straw, without putting the knife down...and like every tool, you could use it as weapon. Is it the best weapon ever? Don't know, but you don't want to mess up with people, who know how to slice with a sharp knife. And sickels are very mean weapons.
The thing is, these sorts of blades look cool partly because the blade curves forward, unlike other knives, but pretty much all other knives curve the other direction for a reason, because they actually _work better that way._
Knives are always more effective when slicing (cross-cutting) than when chopping (push-cutting). If the blade edge curves in a convex way, it makes it easier to slice across the target and penetrate more easily (regardless of the angle of incidence). If it curves in a concave way like this, then the knife cannot move in a slicing manner easily, and the knife design actually forces you to basically "chop" through whatever you come in contact with instead, which is much harder, and your knife swing will more than likely just get caught on something and stopped, or at least require a more force to cut through things than necessary.
(I think some people also think they must be effective because they look like animal claws, but claws are typically used for a very different purpose than knives. Predators use their claws to try to grab onto their targets and pull them closer or hold them (i.e. grappling), so the claws are actually designed to be good at puncturing and grabbing, but _bad at cutting_ (because if they just cut right through, they wouldn't be able to hold onto them)..)
Positioning it with the blade down enables you to use it as a very quick stabbing weapon (if the curvature of the blade isn't too extreme) with a hammer-blow strike with the fist. It also allows for raking the blade up and across in a slash without leaving your torso wide open the way you would if you were slashing down with the blade pointing up.
I was more of a mall handyman, with a deep-pocketed jacket literally filled with tools.
Though having a small anvil and a large hammer where someone once tried to punch me was very satisfying.
Also when our class made a trip to the parliament and I had to unload everything at the security checkpoint, the usually-stoic guards made some priceless faces as the pile kept on growing.
The bad ass hero extended disarm scene is always my favorite.
sigma rule #454: carry an anvil in your front pocket
The living version of the "Impossible amount of weapons" guy/girl
...Why did someone want to punch you?
@@Rydax Because he was an asshole. Assoles don't need more incentive than that.
I almost became a mall ninja when shopping for a machete to trim some plants.
Luckily I relied completely on reviews.
There is a surprising lack of good machetes on Amazon.
Lack of machetes in Amazon, ironic
Go to a military surplus, plenty of cheap bladed hunks of iron
ontario knife company has good ones
Found one that - does work good enough on smaller branches, and I could strike a ferrorod with it as well. Not great, definitely not worthless, but there's still room for improvement so to speak. xD
39:55 The problem with bladed shovels is that those blades are likely to quickly go dull if they're regularly used as a shovel... Which are still lethal ! But it's not a wise use of budget.
Just sharpen a shovel at that point
Actually as someone who has an entrenching tool and uses it regularly, it’s a lot easier to dig with a sharpened one so you will see a lot of people sharpen theirs just for digging and it gives the after effect of having a good improvised weapon, you can see military units who actually train to throw them as improvised throwing axes if they have no other weapon since you do keep it so sharp.
@@jqfreezy53 no one has time to sit there and hack away at roots.
@@liquidsleepgames3661 ...is that an attempt at a rebuttal? Lol
@@Gutslinger no
Here's a request for one of your next books: Create a utterly useless weapon, like a Batleth or that Shark thingie and have a character insist to use it. With all the consequences.
This deserves more likes
First fight: character gets in danger, someone else saves him and tells him not to be dumb. Second fight: character is still dumb and dies.
The character is called Mol N'inja
I know what I'm asking the DM to help me with next time we meet.
So the character is disarmed and has the weapon destroyed every battle?
Shad has evolved from Mall Ninja to Sword Enthusiast.
Now, he's finally ready to the next step, and become a Shovel Knight!
He could try for being a cast iron skillet 🍳 "shield" defender, like Flynn in Tangled, if being a knight doesn't . . . pan out.
😎
And then, a Hollow Knight.
Oh my God, YESSSSS! Shovel knight was so much fun.
@@Blondie42 cast iron can easily shatter upon impact, shovels won't shatter on impact.
Although, I did once jump from a gasoline filled trench I was grading out to chase a fire commissioner that was smoking a stogie near with a 10 pound hammer. Nobody thought that hefty fellow could move so quickly!
He stayed away from the hole, which was all I wanted, as being on fire has long been something I've actively tried to avoid.
@@spvillano Someone doesn't have a sense of humor. The original comment contained one and I added to it.
The problem with the shovels is more the mall ninja quality of the examples.
A good military grade folding shovel can be an effective weapon, as well as a tool.
The cheap survival ones suck as tools because of the cut outs and are really flimsy and too light and flexible either as tools or weapons.
You can mess someone up with an etool
I don't think autistic mall ninjas are the outdoorsy types, wouldn't expect them to dig a fox hole.
I love how mall ninja "combat scythes" look nothing like an actual war scythe. (Think spear with a crescent-ish blade)
They're basically fantasy scythes
The karambit is a farming tool the ring is so you can hold onto it between cutting vegetables from their parent plants. There is a martial art from the Philippines for fighting with it, but it still is inherently a farming tool
And if you do not know how to handle one someone can disarm you and snap your finger like a twig.
Pfft. You underestimate farmers.
The Grim Reaper himself was quite a corn-feller.
Death himself is a mall-ninja-wheat-farming-demi-god.
To be fair though, a karambit has a lot of utility as a defensive offhand weapon in a knife fight because of how easy it is to manipulate. It's not an extremely lethal weapon, but it excels at disarming the main hand by severing wrist tendons during a wrist block.
@@skynyrdjesus Fair point.
I don't particularly want to find out if it's true.
Don’t certain military units legitimately use karambits though? Or am I just misinformed?
Shovels are a valid improvised weapon. There are a lot of Stalingrad accounts of especially soviet troops sharpening entrenching shovels for very close quarter urban combat. And in small rooms and corridors those would be better than knives, at the very least in my opinion.
Shovels are just big sticks with a piece of metal on the end
That and shovel was the most lethal weapon in WWI, where you already had it in hand for digging trenches
There was a scene in ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ where Ernest Borgnine teaches new arrivals to forget their serrated bayonets and use their shovels in enemy trenches-and demonstrating why.
@@KazonNystrom I literally watched that movie for the first time ever yesterday. I love how that scene specifically addresses the difference between the academic study of warfare, and the practical reality of being a frontline soldier.
@@nobsherc The most lethal weapon? I think that would be the artillery, considering you know the trenches were there to protect against artillery, not against shovels. I'm pretty sure the most common cause of death for troops in ww1 was getting hit by shrapnel.
We have Brandon Herrara for cursed gun images, now we have Shadiversity for cursed bladed weapons images. The circle is complete. Would love to see more of this style of content Shad.
Hell yeah!
There was also metatron with that one vid he made about shitty armour
Indeed. Shad tackling cursed bladed weapons was something we needed. Now all I want from Shad at this point is covering more cursed weapons and armor images.
@@macro3751 The trifecta of cursed warfare.
@@Chinothebad That would be amazing.
The trench shovel or spade is a proven weapon from WWI. I do have doubts about those depicted with folding heads and tubular metal handles. The Russian Spetsnatz shovel is an effective tool for digging as well as hand-to-hand combat, and can be thrown to good effect. Cold Steel makes a nice one of these.
I have one of those folding shovels, and it was my brother's before it was mine. He did quite a bit of digging over the years with it doing field work, and it held up just fine. He was pretty bad at taking care of tools too, and when I received it it was still pretty solid for being held together by essentially a couple sections of threaded pipe.
Long story short those shitty looking folding shovels are better than they seem
They work well on raccoons too, and making the rest of the campsite think your crazy. You could ask me how I know, but the context is obvious .... my kids call it a harpoon now, I think I wasn't allowed to shoot my firearms for some reason ..... like my life wasn't in danger, but my kids couldn't sleep and they were trying to get into the extra tent ..... the trench shovel seemed appropriate .... either way I missed (pretty close though, scared them off real good)
How could we have lived so long without shad reacting to mall ninja shit ?
Need the more
Yes.
It reminds me of (forgets the channel name) reacting to fake konfu (he was a shaolin monk years ago)
@@SoulieCanolie Ranton?
it's shocking, I know.
In Marine Corps infantry school (called A.I.T. at the time), we were told about one marine that actually got three confirmed kills with an E-tool, aka the little folding shovel. I think it was during the Korean war, but it could've been 'Nam. In short, the enemy charged a trench several marines were in, and this lad didn't have his rifle in hand. So, he grabbed the nearest thing, which was the shovel, and took the head off the first enemy that hopped into the trench before maiming the skulls of two others. We then had to hit practice dummies with a shovel for two hours. So, I guess by old marine corps standards, the shovel/E-tool is considered a viable weapon.
If you go to your local military surplus store you can pick up a legit used shovel for about $50-70. my local one has about a dozen, albeit all are pretty beat up
I mean, if need be a fucking rock is a weapon.
*im about to sound stupid as I don’t have really any level of weapons-based combat experience, but really anything is a weapon if you are angry enough and/or are strong enough.*
@@jadedoptimistt very true but the E-Tool gives me reach and a serated edge to crack your skull open with!
I remember those damn dummies! oh the memories.
I see no problem with bladed shovels. Utility as a weapon aside, they're great multipurpose tools for digging, substituting as an axe or heavy knife, etc. Certainly something a soldier that expects to have supply line troubles would want strapped to his pack. Or, in more civilian context, something to take along on a camping trip.
@@annoyanceking Just don't skimp on quality. there are a *lot* of crappy folding shovels out there. I usually just buy military surplus. They're usually dependable, and usually fairly cheap too.
@@annoyanceking Nice, Gerber makes good stuff. I went with my old model from the Marine Corps and have a WWII one as well, not sure who made either, the WWII one is straight, doesn't fold, but has sharp enough edges. The other folds like you were talking about and you're right, it's good for starting a hole, good for digging trenches for runoff around the tent too.
Yeah I can honestly see the use in something like that even it it looks absurd, kinda like the Swiss Army Knife of big tools
Excited krieg noises
Zombie apocalypse weapons have been done to death. That being said, if it happened, I'd actually prefer a shovel to a machete or even a boar spear. And for the longest time, those last two would have been my ideal survival tools.
Sure a machete will take more punishment than a sword, and a spear keeps you where the zombies aren't, but a shovel can be used for more things.
Re: the karambit/curved type.. as others have mentioned, I've found it really is exceptional as a work knife.
Whether it's small plastic bags or a bundle of plant material or even just as a box cutter, IMHO it goes far and beyond the usual straight blade.
For example if you imagine cutting a bit of string, it's far more unlikely to slip off the tip of the blade.. ykwim?
And regarding the ring, I definitely wouldn't consider it essential or anything, but considering the blades usefulness in a work capacity, the ring can absolutely come in clutch if your hands are wet or excessively dirty or whatnot. Thats something I read before I got it, and it turned out 100% true in my experience.
Just wanted to add my two cents! Totally recommend trying one out if any of that stuff applies to anyone. 😄👍
When "A far superior weapon in every way" is literally a big goddamn stick, you know you're a mall ninja.
Not really, big sticks have been used for hundreds of thousands of years
@@kova1577 What I'm trying to say is that someone made some contorted, pretentious, overly-flashy and worthlessly unbalanced piece of metal that can vaguely be wielded by another human, and it couldn't match the damage output, finesse, or versatility of literally just some long piece of wood.
If someone tried to force the issue and use the former "weapon" regardless? Mall ninja.
@@PeterDivine Your first statement was a bit ambiguous, but correct non the less.
@@PeterDivine as someone who used to use a bo staff, i agree
@@ExulInsani ayyyy staff users is where its at bro
Bladed shovels could certainly be a legitimate tool/weapon combo, but the mall ninja factor comes in when design negatively impacts function. For example, the shovel on the far right has a significant curve in the side of the head, which would significantly decrease its carrying capacity compared to the others. Also, none of those shovels have grips at the ends, which would make digging harder since they're not really large enough to push with your foot like a regular shovel. They're really just weirdly-shaped axes at this point.
Also on the cheap ones the locking nut (if the spade folds) is terrible and usually fails quickly. The entrenching tools we had in the Marine Corps worked well though, and they had edges, though I wouldn't call them "sharp" they would do more damage than your average home depot shovel.
Second from the left isn't too bad, the rest are hot garbage... those cut-outs would make digging into anything but sand or soft loam impossible. I kinda love the "tactical trowel" though... it's just adorable
Russian Spetsnaz actually use shovels as weapons. The practice was inherited from Soviet combat engineers in WW2 who were the first ones to breach heavily fortified positions with explosives and PPSH submachine guns.
I mean have you seen some shovels? That shovel has more carrying capacity than many standard shovels, so your point here is a moot one.
In “All Quiet on the Western Front”, there’s actually a short paragraph dedicated to the effectiveness of the German shovel in trench combat. Entrenchment tools are not to be underestimated for sure.
I like how Shad measures his skill with a sword by how many kids he has.
Well, I have no kids and I also have no skill with a sword, so he might be onto something.
He's talking about the other sword ;)
"Two handed skill 100"
Anakin vibes
It is kinda an effective measurement though
35:35 this is a kerambit, its a south asian weapon that exist at least from the 14th century, not made to be used a "knife". and has many different shape depending of the location. but mainly use as a hidden weapon when you strike empty handed. the fact that the hook goes forward can allow you to thrust.
Just a comment on the shovels. I was in the Army (U.S.) for 18 years and my E Tool (Entrenching Tool) saw a LOT of work as a makeshift axe and also for pounding stakes into the ground. They are sturdy and are useful as "makeshift" weapons but I would not plan on it being a primary weapon
Legitimate question, do you have to constantly sharpen the edges as if you use it as a shovel doesn't the blade get dulled?
@@theTweak0284 I sharpened it only if the blade looked damaged, which really only happened if I hit rocks. They're pretty tough
@@SGT_RPGames Thanks for the response. I only ask because when I was in Boy Scouts my troopmaster would throw a fit if we dropped our knife and it went into the dirt claiming "That dulls the blade!". I wasn't sure if that was true in general or more likely because we had cheap $5 knives for the most part.
I've heard in the Soviet army they did actually plan on their shovels being a backup melee weapon for when they didnt use their knife. I know the special forces actually trained on things like throwing shovels or using them in hand to hand combat similar to how Marines train on bayonets even though they havent done a real bayonet charge since the 50s.
@@arthas640 Although the Marines haven't done a Bayonet charge since Korea, they were used plenty in Iraq and Afghanistan on an individual basis.
Granted I’m a 40 year old vet that lives in the woods. But I once had the dream of being a mall ninja. As many goofy pageants and parades as there are in this country. Someone should start the annual March of the Mall Ninja. Let them gather and be seen. Let them congregate and know they are not alone. Some would do it in jest. Others in Ernest. If furries can do it then by god so can the modern mall ninja.
Name the time and place and I bet my buddy and I will be there twirling butterfly knives as we get out of the car and walk to the trunk for the "good stuff" lol
Start the movement
@@FVCK-TH1S there are endless closeted mall ninjas... and I'm sure the Homemade Cool-Ass Weapon community will join our cause as well. Let's get this March going!!!
@@onslaughtmp YEAH! RISE UP!
@@FVCK-TH1S oh damn... the "my fists are registered as lethal weapons" community just emailed me....
Bladed shovels is about as close as any of these get to being actual ninja gear, considering the blades we know call kunia we improvised weapons made from trowels.
weapons were often outlawed by local lords. better get gud with a rake
Tactical shovel! It can fulfil all your needs and wants
@@PhantasmPhoton It depends the period. During most of the era of Samurai (let's say prior to the late 16th century), nothing kept you from having a sword or any weapon. Considering you could required to join an army, it was pretty ok. It's mostly When Toyotomi Hideyoshi made it pretty impossible for a commoner to become a samurai and made everyone stuck in his own class forever that these weapons bans appeared. And anyway, a weapon like an armor were expensive things. Not something commoners and peasants could get easily.
The real thing concerning the kunai is it was a handy multi task tool that could be turn into a weapon. Let's remember ninjutsu was much more about intelligence gathering and breaking into places than fighting.
Not to mention even the sort of monks Miroku from Inuyasha was had a weaponized staff with a blade that worked like a shovel/spade in case they needed to bury a body and perform last rites
I thought this said towel for a second and very confusing for that second
Regarding using shovels as weapons: when I was in German military service in 2000, we were actually training with these. Not in a very serious way, mind you. But with a sharpened edge, they actually can do some damage, when you strike someone with it. There are of course more effective weapons than this, but if you need a shovel anyway, might was well learn how to use them in combat.
I'll take that shovel against anyone in the comments with their "styles"
@@Reyd_01 Glock Makes a shovel. Entrenching Tool.
Russian special forces can do some quite deadly things with shovels.
Most people with shovels probably have the ones who are large and made specifically for digging, and i assume the ones you trained with were like the ones used in WW1, so i don't think it really applies your training in those type of shovels
I like mine, good for missing attempts to harpoon raccoons, scaring said raccoons and probably other campers (weird looks next day), but turning children's tears into laughter!
Conservatively must have gone 4 meters up several times, landing on asphalt parking pad many
No brand or anything but was Army Surplus (like the store) mist expensive solid one available ..... and well tested as mentioned above *I am very happy with it*
I think prepper and historical weapons fans have much overlap, many if us have trench shovels. *That being said, unless I am throwing it I have no reason not to prefer a bayonet in any case I can conceive*
The addition of the Krieger guardsmen during the bit about the shovels was well done. :)
At least we know that Shad is loyal and not a subject of Chaos.
Edit, sorry
*Happy Gasmask Noises*
@@lukkaredwolf3534 Shad isnt a Chaos Scum?!? The Inquisition favours this knowledge!
Actually, I don't think there's anything wrong with owning over-designed, purely aesthetic swords, as long as you're aware that they're just for decoration, and isn't historical.
Although, there are some instances of weapons being made less effective on purpose to look better. Usually this happened when a certain weapon stopped being overly useful, so people wore it more for aesthetic reasons than combat. One could argue this happened with the sword a while ago.
Bat'Leth, peta'q!
Interesting thought.
The decorative ones are better then nothing if someone breaks into your house and you are fast enough.
Hang the "aesthetic" swords close to the front door and the good ones toward the back. In case of burglary, hopefully the thieves don't have time to grab all your stuff, and just get the cheap stuff up front. Or better yet, you're home, and the home intruder wants to duel you, and grabs the nearest tacticool mall ninja garbage as a weapon, leaving you open to give him a proper lesson why actual swords use carbon steel and full tangs, or you emulate Indiana Jones and just shoot him while he twirls.
@@eamonnholland5343 Or if you are fast enough you grab the "aesthetic" swords and beat them over the head with it using it's weight:)
Of course that's if you don't have a baseball bat or kitchen knives or proper weapons on hand.
This needs to become a series. Cursed fantasy weapons, cursed medieval weapons, etc.
Brandon Herrera has cursed gun images, has been doing it for a while. Guns, Not fantasy weapons. Still great.
@@epauletshark3793 the AK Guy's one of my favorite UA-camrs.
@@matthewlentz2894 one of mine too.
@@epauletshark3793 it's really weird with how much these two communities some how overlap.
I second this.
At 10:54, the smaller knife in the saya was a real thing. If memory serves, they were called yamagatana (山刀) and were used as utility knives. They could be used for anything, but apparently a common use was to treat medical problems in horses, although, as I know nothing about horses, I am not sure of the details.
"Sharp combat shovels...."
[Cuts to Krieg Guardsman]
Your editor is on point.
The bladed entrenching tool (Shovel) is 100% a legitimate weapon and has been used in modern conflicts as a very effective hand held dealer of damage. When we slept on the ground in Iraq we kept an entrenching tool between us as a go to in the event we were surprised by an intruder in the middle of the night. Also highly effective against camel spiders, the most likely of unwanted intruders!!!!
That's what I was thinking. Actual military organizations, in the present era, spend good money on bladed shovels because it adds an extra weapon to a soldier's kit without adding any extra weight. I think even the Russians spend money on those. It's not just the Americans.
I wouldn't mind a video where Shad actually tests some of these "weapons" against practice targets, just for fun.
After getting dressed in full body protective gear
As a former mall ninja you must know that nunchucks were made that way so you could fold them and hide them in robes/clothes to sneak them in and bash someone around in close quarters.
38:00 the best part is that the smaller pistol that is attached is a zip22, a gun so horrible that getting a full magazine through it without jamming is a miracle and it was such a financial disaster that the company that made it had to go out of business
A semi-automatic pistol you can legitimately play Russian Roulette with! (Don't play Russian Roulette.)
And odds are, most (if not all) of the players will walk away with their lives. Not sure about dignity though
If you didn’t start your sword enthusiasm by buying a mounted “demon sword” from a shop in the mall then I’m sorry 😢 Will also accept a random booth at an organized town wide yard sale.
Flea market "knife" shop
Calvary sword from a flea market. I still have it.
What about an auction at a Renaissance fair?
I started my sword collecting by making wooden ones
Shovels are quite effective weapons, just look at WWI, trenches were filled with bodies that died from shovels. shovels are no joke.
Underestimate a shovel in a fight and it'll bury you
not shovels, entrenching tools
@@Ally5141 dude seriously?
@@MJS-lk2ej My guess he is referring to the 9-70 Entrenching tool aka Folding Spade issued to the Imperial Guardsmen in Warhammer 40k
Yep, you could use it like an axe since it has a simmilar principle, or in some cases you could ram it into somebody. My dad had one of those and he said he preferred that over a combat knife or bayonett (romanian army during communism). He said that he'd rather use his rifle since he almost never missed his targets (he was the best sniper in his group).
Okay but if I’m honest I would totally love to play with those mall ninja weapons, I wouldn’t feel bad abusing them and I could just slice watermelons and whatever else for hours😂
More like minutes lol. Many of us have experienced a blade break on the first hit (often from "cutting" something preposterous.
Like a coconut.
These look like they would be a legitimately fun thing to collect. The weirder and tackier the better. That shark thing! Tell me that wouldn’t make the best conversation piece, even with someone who has no previous interest in swords.
After leaving, the guest would never look past those things again. It may be a quick glance, but you’ll have provided them with a whole lot of amusement even after they’ve left your home and grand collection.
That's why I like the Batman double knifes. Just for their pure impracticality, they would make me smile every time I see them. Something that males you smile thousands of times? Good buy!
They are kitsch weapons, if that is your thing...
That sounds like a plan
I'm a fan of the mall ninja stuff that is dumb but can be negotiated into something sorta practical. Like, that one glowing blue sword I like because it's dumb but, I could sharpen it into a giant letter opener!
@@testname4464 That's an interesting use.😁😁 I thought it was okay bc it was the closest thing to a good sword/knife in the collection
I just want to put it out there: one can independently be both a weeb and a sword enthusiast as long as they don't confuse the two.
This seems to be a pretty common thing with new weapon collectors. People tend to start off by buying relatively cheap, aesthetically pleasing, impractical and poorly made weapons. I did the same. I used to have a couple of display pieces which were so badly designed that they would have been more dangerous to the user than anyone else. They looked cool, though lol.
39:25 love the kreigsmen blushing over tactical shovels. "Enough praising the emperor, I've found a new passion!"
What makes the gun under gun attachment even better is it's a Zip22. Literally the worst gun you could buy unless you want to be trying to unjam after every shot if it even gets to that.
and here I was wondering if someone in the comment section posted about the zip22. oh you sir have made my day +1 additional like from me.
watched a video of it from forgotten weapons, even gun jesus was afraid to fire it
@@joedoe7041 the slow-mo of the casing just rattling around in the chamber and barely escaping before the gun finished cycling and closed back up is a horrifying image of just how poorly made of a gun it is, even when it's "working" without "fail"....
@@RipOffProductionsLLC yer I remember that, it's been a while since I watched it.
I think the concept and basic design of the gun is neet, but for practical use it would need to have a few pieces reworked, at least that's what I believe.
I swear it was designed to be fired sideways, if only to make ejection easier
@@gratuitouslurking8610 it would literally benefit from homeboy ironsights.
Regarding the "Bladed Shovel," I'm pretty sure its actually tactical survival gear. The sharpened edge can be used in bush craft as an axe for breaking down small limbs for fire wood. As with any woodsman's axe, it can do combat damage and thus be considered a weapon, but the first function in design is as a tool...
It's probably an even better weapon than a proper axe or shovel too, since it's much lighter. Although as with most tacticool gear, they tend to not be particularly good at any one task, and be prone to failure/breaking.
To be fair, the Mall Ninja is right next door to the Mall Survivalist. Most of those sword-seller catalogues/magazines are full of both. XD
@@Krescentwolf You have the entire Mall Team there. Mall Ninja, Mall Survivalist, Mall Cop, Mall Handyman, and Mall Gun Nut.
The army issues them and the edges dont get resharpened but we do use the serrated side for cutting shrubs and bushes to gather it up for concealing our op's
A german officer, Hermann Balck, once wrote that during World War I, on the eastern front, their Upper Silesian Jager battalion members could easily turn an entrechment tool into a deadly battle axe in a matter of seconds.
There needs to be a movie about mall ninjas, maybe called 'Mall-pocalypse' or 'Mall-hem' or something like that, where a mall is taken over by 'mall ninjas'...
And then real ninjas show up
Just one ninja might be able to subdue them all
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 3: War of the Mall Ninjas
@@TheGoop22 😃😄😆
The sword in his story/rant about his own time as a mall ninja is actually the replica sword from the Blade movies. I know because I thought about getting it during my same mall ninja phase. LOL.
No its not at all tf
@@Nob911 I stand corrected. Obvious mistake as they came out around the same time with similar aesthetic, but you are right that this isn't the replica and is instead part of the "cyber ninja" line that offered this double-edged, a more traditional katana blade version, and a tanto. Thank you for the correction, but to be fair these were so long ago that even Shadiversity thought the same.
37:57 Idk if you'll see this, Shad, but underbarrel gun in that image, the littler one, is a Zip 22, one of the most infamously bad firearms ever made. It's a total jam machine chambered in a pitiful cartridge.
Attaching an anime figure to your gun would be more effective than using one of those things.
a lot of the problem is that the bolt is made of plastic. if your gun has a higher plastic to metal ratio than a Glock, that's a bad sign.
Drag the sip all you want but .22 is no slouch.
.22 isn't a joke, @@thatguybrody4819 , it's a legitimate, if light, round. The zip .22, however, definitely qualifies as a joke.
@@thatguybrody4819 .22 is a good practice round, but using a rimfire cartridge for self-defense is foolhardy. Primers are far less reliable than on centerfire cartridges of comparable quality, and, frankly, I've had feeding issues even with good quality .22 guns like the Ruger Mark IV, presumably due to the rimmed shape of the cartridge or possibly the jacket-less lead bullet deforming on the feed ramp.
You can't beat the .22 LR when it comes to fun, affordable plinking... but if I'm going to rely on a gun to save my life, I'd rather have a .25 or .32 ACP. Not that those rounds are common these days, but if I was going to use a small cart (and there are a lot of reasons to do so), it'd be one of those.
Yep at least the anime figure may distract somebody 😉
37:57 The guy you called out early on, Ian from Forgotten Weapons, actually has a video where he talks about how absolutely awful that undermount weapon is. Yes it's a real thing, and no it was not practical.
16:38: There's another problem with the multi-bladed dagger. Not only does it disperse your force as Shad pointed out, making it harder to get good penetration, having multiple blades also makes it significantly more likely that you're going to hit a rib -- nature's armor -- and minimize the blow rather than sliding between them to get at a vital organ.
good to know that mother nature provided everyone with one armor rating and fifty hitpoints
and most importantly, you look kind of lame using it
At 3 blades or more its better just to punch the dude
hehehe "good penetration"
@@carlosandleon You have to make it harder, to get that good penetration!
Just imagining how Shad’s wife would wake up and see him walking around in the morning wearing things like the “Mall Ninja Shad” outfit or a straight up knight-armor makes me laugh so hard XD
Shad the mall ninja
"hooky knife" are called karambits and they're actually traditional phillipine Kali/Arnis historically used weapons, and they are super versatile. although the actually historically accurate version is sharp on both sides. You can watch Doug marcaida's video on how someone that actually knows how to use it does. They got really popular because of Counter Strike Global Offensive, just like balisongs hade a big comeback because of that too.
As a Escryma teacher, that cold steel video cringes me so hard. They dont know what its for either hahaha
You couldnt even spell the thing you claim to teach. Added this comment into the fake thoughts from fantasy island bag.
Yeah didnt karambits originally come from sickle knives that were used for harvesting and digging up roots?
It’s indeed a very versatile and hard to predict weapon but they also require a lot of often painful and kinda boring training.
Most kali and silat practitioners don’t even practice enough to make it a feasible weapon.
I’ve practiced with training karambits for thousands of hours and I’m confident that I can use them without hurting myself but I don’t think I’m really able to control the amount of damage.
I wouldn’t recommend learning to use a karambit.
@@MightyRude so far, your the king mall ninja of this comment section.
@@chriskolb3105
Where did you get the nerve to speak to your king like that
The thing about the hook knife is that it's actually designed for a very specific style of martial art, and even then they're shortening the blade and adding weird embeleshments to them. It's for the Silat martial arts so it's bizarre seeing people use those knives without knowlege of how it's actually used.
Karambit right? yeah I thought their popularity was odd as well. Many reviewsputting them in top tens
good ol 440 "UAE" m7 style bayonet or 1095 ka-bar does me quite well. Daily the ka-bar for prying, can opening, and general stuff one maybe shouldn't use a knife for. I use the cheapo chinesium bayonet for any hacking and carving needs (nice hilt for many solid purchases/grips) but mostly for food prep while camping (it is stainless)
I'd like to try powder steels some day, but still expect a form that can peirce or slice with a reinforced point and spine. Karambits seem to wide a thin for the abuse I put a blade through.
With regards to shovels as weapons, I’ve met a veteran nicknamed “E-Tool”, so called because he used a folding shovel to kill an NVA soldier during the Vietnam War.
My father was in marine bootcamp where he was told about one of their drill instructors. The instructor had been in Vietnam. His whole squad was wiped out defending a hill once they ran out of ammunition. The guy then proceeded to kill 15 enemy soldiers with his entrenching tool before backup arrived. The reinforcements were stunned that the guy managed to hold that hill on his own. at first they thought he had killed his squad but quickly realized that he had in fact held that hill on his own for a day.
The guy was brought back stateside and made a drill instructor; he was also awarded a purple heart if i recall correctly. No one, No one ever, messed with or bothered that drill instructor.
He won't the Beret that killed like 100 of em was he?
Matthew Coyle nah, the drill instructor didn't have that kind of kill count. It still fucked with him though. My dad said the guy was quieter and kinda reserved.
@@JaneDoe-dg1gv Nah not him. I Think the guy that got the really high kill count was a Green Beret.
I could see how engaging in basically medieval combat and then returning to modern society could alter someone's disposition.
I could see that quartz dagger being some presentation weapon gifted to a foreign ambassador or visiting royal. It’s a pretty common historical practice and it’s why there are so many gold and diamond inlay swords and daggers from history. The Spanish and the Ottomans are probably the most well known for giving extravagant decorative weapons as gifts.
Combat shovels check out, in all honesty. Depending on weight distribution, they're basically repurposed "digging axes", with the added cutting advantage in the front.
I've seen Shad do a couple videos now on Mall Ninja weapons, but I think it would be objectively hilarious to see him do a video on historical Mall Ninja weapons. I'm thinking specifically of the nobleman who mounted two flintlock pistols to a boar spear but I'm sure there are many other examples
Karambit (the hooked knife that Shad didn't know the name of) have accrued some cringe points in recent years for a few reasons, but they are effective weapons. Check out Doug Marcaida's explanation.
of course they are. They excised for a long time, originating from Indonesia
And they are effective at cutting vinyl flooring and carpet. It was the main cutting device for flooring until the 70's now it mostly used to just tuck carpet.
@@omimo12 they're also a go to for laying sod. I can tell you from experience for sure
37:57 Forgotten Weapons has a video on the "gun" that's mounted down and forward. It's the Zip 22, and it's one of the worst firearms ever made. The manufacturer seriously suggested using the gun in a similar way, except that it was hanging from the front of a rifle.
Another fun little detail with the Zip. It won’t feed with any magazine that isn’t a 10 round drum. So that 25 round mag is gonna jam every shot
@@lepurpleboi3266 even with that 10 round mag it's still gonna be "one shot if you're lucky", as Ian proved...
I remember that video. Was truly an abomination of a weapon.
The Zip 22 was proven an entirely lethal weapon, though.
To the manufacturer.
I felt the same about karambit knives, up until I saw someone demonstrate the reason they're made the way they are. I can't recall who the wielder was, but he specialized in joint locks and controlling his opponents movements. The karambit lends itself exceptionally well to that. There's no way I'd be able to manage most of it myself so I'll be sticking to more conventional tools.
doug marcaida?
Didn't know they were made for grappling. I always assumed they were meant for skinning animals and then they got the mall ninja treatment.
If you need to use a knife on someone that's deadly force, good luck convincing a jury that your life was in danger enough to use deadly force but you decided just to use a deadly weapon for joint locks. It's like warning shots, they will get you put in prison
All hail the almighty STICK.
A karambit is also the most efficient working blade I've ever used. The ability to lever the edge into a tough piece of cable insulation or tiedowns is useful when you're sixty feet in the air.
Combat shovels are actually pretty useful because you can use the serrations to saw through tree roots and what not, and the sharp side doesn’t do a horrid job chopping firewood. Not my first choice as a deadly weapon but they’re nice to have if you’re camping
Been in the military, can confirm that entrenching tools are sharpened regularly for various reasons
The main use for them are, obviously, digging foxholes and trenches, but it's almost never gonna be nice loose dirt you find in your backyard in the jungle. Most of the time, you'll be encountering stuff like tree roots that are a bitch to cut through even with a sharpened tool, among ant/termite nests, dense clay, tubers and rocks.
During my time, I had a platoon mate whose designated spot was just on a rock and we joked that he's mining for gold ore. It's crazy that you can actually see sparks coming off as he was literally mining the rock for a nice cubbie hole to sleep in as training
Other uses do include clearing the underbrush, wooded bushes and other forms of vegetation (with difficulty), but it doesn't take much of a stretch of an imagination to use it as a weapon in the most desperate of circumstances.
It's really a very versatile tool issued to you in the army, and I can attest that it pops off the caps of beer bottles quite nicely! Cheers
You forgot the use of bashing someone's head in
Bro what are you from Finland
there are many ways to open a bottle, shovels included. from a knife to the obvious lighter to a table or another bottle.
As a long time construction worker (in many fields) I can confirm that not all bricks are created equal. I can make a perfect circle, or any shape u want in a brick wall (not a big deal, been doing it since very young & taught many others usually in one sitting) with nothing more than a 2lb sledgehammer & chisel, but what I came to say is that I could darn near look at some brick & make em crumble, while others seriously felt indestructible & took forever to break through & those second kinds would shoot off all sorts of sparks when I'd blast it with the hammer. It really is crazy, the amount of sparks & the strength difference. I'm sure it's a simple difference in the manufacturing process that I never cared to look into, but yea...sparks, lots of sparks lol.
@@HappyBeezerStudios A Galil works, too.
Shad: "...if you add a sword to anything, it does increase its coolness."
*adds sword to a sword*
Shad: *Angry Machicolation Noises*
I love how you poke fun at the mall ninja's, but aren't a downer to them. The "we all went through this stage, I think its part of being a sword enthusiast" was very wholesome and that mentality showed in the video, preventing it from ever becoming flat mocking.
Man, watching Shad get hyped over finding pieces if crap to rip into is a joy 🤣
19:34 the Hayabusa armor, if I recall its name correctly, was Bungie's way of rewarding players who beat the campaign on not only the hardest difficulty but also without ever dying. So wearing it in that context makes it an achievement most halo 3 players didn't earn.
Get all the skulls for the armour but you needed every achievement for the katana