How NOT to Train with an Axe - Astonishing Safety Fail!
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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How could anyone possibly think using a sharp axe in training is a good idea? Oh, the humanity...
I don't normally do this kind of video but it seems like a good opportunity to remind people of the importance of being safe and responsible with their exercise, especially when it comes to martial arts practice involving weapons. I tried to keep it reasonably polite but it's definitely a rant.
The video that I'm reacting to (Axe Weightloss Training Goes Wrong):
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turns out that axes. quite good at cutting through wood. i know, extremely unexpected and counter intuitive
I am completely and utterly unable to fathom this unexpected turn of events
i too found this quite unfathomable despite splitting rings of firewood as a past time
I have my doubts, but I've heard rumors of this
I was shocked... SHOCKED when the safety shield failed.
I just cant believe that an axe can cut through the human skin
“I can’t imagine any contacts that would make this less astonishingly reckless” that’s a good sentence
Just... LOL. "This WOODEN shield will protect me, because axes don't chop through wood or anything!"
"You bleed? Weak!"
Accidentally killing the shield dude wouldn't have eliminated him from the gene pool: he was already removed by Taco Bell and bad choices
as he said an axes literal purpose is to destroy wood. what did they expect with such a flimsy shield to happen :D
Mama bear... heal be fine bro. He’s got 2 arms for a reason
I 100 percent believe you were correct to tear into this man, ANYONE should know this is a bad idea???
"ok, today you lose a pound of flesh"
I’m not a Hema guy but from what I understand an axe is for cutting wood. And this guy’s shield is made out of... oh.
*wait* , *that* *illegal* !
It doesn't look like it even has multiple layers. It's just a circle of plywood slapped together.
Hence why axes counter shields.
Wait, axes cut wood! Man I've been cutting at this tree with a dagger.
Cutting into a wooden shield is not exactly the same as cutting down a tree but still this s**t is pretty damn dangerous and stupid.
And for my next trick I'm going to hide behind this wall of cardboard boxes while Sergei here fires an AK47 at me.
Plot twist, its an airsoft gun...
That would still hurt significantly actually 🤔
@@kasper7574 airsoft would still penetrate
I laughed more then I should with this
"Axe weight loss training."
Just that part alone sounds fishy, already.
I could see it if it's swinging at a stationary wooden target not being held by someone with no protection. similar to the sledge hammer being swung at a tire training.
@@shadownet7026 Yeah, I would suppose it is basically just cutting wood, which is actually a rather intensive workout but you don't need a trainer for that...
Well maybe some people would.
It's like melting the pounds away....only you cleave the pounds away
For weight loss. Hey it could work! If there was a dude with an axe standing in your kitchen and following you around all day saying "if you eat that hot dog im going to hit you with this axe!" lol It would be pretty effective really lol
Ikr? I laughed so much at the concept at first.
Then after thinking a bit about it, you will sure lose weight if someone chop off one or two of your arms.
I mean, chopping off your friend's body parts *will* make them lose weight 💁
your not wrong lol
@St. Haborym i see what you did there
*You are no longer being overencumbered*
Through this miraculous excercise I lost 15kg in one hour!
And an arm!
Better to just keep sparring with them to burn off those pounds. Limbless fatty friends make terrible sparring partners. They will just Katamari Damacy your ass.
You're supposed to learn not to fight your friends with real weapons the fifth time a plastic lightsaber hits your fingers as a kid.
Underrated comment. It was those smaller, denser plastic lightsabers that left the worst knuckle bruises, though - the expensive light up sabers would usually just break. But the shorter Wal-Mart ones that fully retracted? Those things would either end friendships, or create blood-bonds stronger than durasteel.
Ahh the nostalgic knuckle scars....
Or a tree branch you are pretending to be a light saber spilts your friends fingernail open. Freaking lightweights in here. Now, who's got the lawn darts?
I remember a friend of mine and i were fighting with sticks and i ended up cutting his forehead in a way that looks exactly like harry potter's scar lmao
Ah yes. I remember being a stupid kid too. Got hit right on the fingernail and it created a blood blister that i eventually had to drill into to release pressure and the nasty old blood in it🤢
Ah i see what they're doing. Training to use their bones to stop attacks if the shield fails...it's an advanced technique, pioneered by the Russians and perfected by Florida man.
Go home everyone. The winner is thus! You sir, madam, or w/e, are the champion of this comment section.
Of course it's Florida
Florida man gets shit done.
Flórida man straps the shield on his neck.
I’m a Florida boi I’m currently training my alligator to use a katana so when hurricane dorian hits we can ride through the wind on a skate board with a umbrella like a B2 and slice a atom with the katana so we can nuke the hurricane away. This was a technique passed down from Florida man to florida man every hurricane it’s a sacred Florida tradition and a noble sacrifice between florida man and gator kind.
That wound was honestly way smaller than I expected. That could have been a whooole lot worse
Maybe it's worse than it looks.
The hatchet could have hit about 4cm lower, and would have cut even deeper for sure.
Puckosar yeah in the beginning of the video, after seeing the axe, I thought “this dude is lucky if he walks out of there without a broken bone and an inch and a half deep gash in his arm”
Imagine had it not cut him on the second strike, and a third followed once the shield was compromised. There is a reason that a high proportion of wounds suffered against the Vikings in melee resulted in the loss of shield arms and hands.
I thought there would be a missing limb. Was almost looking forward to it.
Doctor at hospital: "So let me recap. You made a shield out of some low grade thin DYI wood. Strapped it to your arm so all the force gets absorbed by it and the arm. Had no actual protection for your arm whatsoever and ended up here. Well that certainly makes sense."
homie could have thrown on anything. Anything. gambeson sleeve. thick hoodie. leather bracers. and maybe he wouldn't have gotten such a deep cut. But no
you should do a video destroying that type shield with your axes and a dummy arm.
That's a great question to axe skalagrim
@@berzerkerdude655 ...leave
Context is important. Label that video as a warning of what can go wrong
Thats more of a cold steel thing
Skall did, and it prove 1 thing.
Axe are OP
Axe chops wood. Shield is made of wood. Flesh is weaker than wood.
_Crom_
To quote a certain space captain: "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised."
Harvard wants to know your location jajaj.
That's not a wood chopping axe.
@@KurNorock Seems to chop arms just fine though
"Astonishingly reckless."
Five minutes later: "Astonishingly neckless."
😂
congratulations, that was the first time in a long time a UA-cam comment made me actually laugh
Seriously, this is getting out of hands! At least it didn't go over my head!
underrated
Amazing comment
That "instructor" looks like the kind of person who believes that abusing students is the way to educate them. If all you learn from a class is that the person in charge thinks of himself as a tough guy, that's not a good class to take.
Greg Camp Haha! Lesson one, you should've used armor! Stupid student.
Plus the instructor is a convicted murderer, sooo
это такое русское фрик шоу, жестокий юмор, не нужно принимать это всерьёз
It's barely bleeding! Come on you pussy!
Only a pussy would sue me btw...
Seems like a viking way to teach them haha
Cheap shield + real axe = hurt arm.
This is not a complicated equation.
Actually, cheap shields tend to be overbuilt. If it was a more historically accurate shield it would have been even worse
DynamicWorlds Modern cheap shields tend to be made of plywood, which tends to have very questionable strength when it comes to splitting. Historical shields were made of hardwoods and would vary in quality from maker to maker, but they were also made to keep its user alive in combat. The assertion that historical shields would be less protective is erroneous and too much of a nonspecific generalization to be held as true.
And as he said, a lot of shields would have a metal boss to prevent exactly this.
The notion that a historical shield would not have worked is also ludicrous. If historically accurate sheilds were unable to protect you how on earth did the roman shield walls work so well for so long? (Yes different kind, but valid point nonetheless)
@@dynamicworlds1 uh-huh
@@dynamicworlds1 Sorry m8, but your logic is flawed.
Blood for the Blood God!! He cares not where the blood comes, as long as it flows!!!
BLOOD!! BLOOD!! BLOOD!! BLOOD!!!!
Grandfathers putrid blessing upon you
It also gains you god favor points, if you are playing nords.
Khorne for the khorne flakes!
@@uninspiredname4445 they're grrrrreat
*canadian man tries to not be polite 2019 colorized*
He's low key passive aggressive whenever he tries to be polite
@The King
He's from Germany.
*Slovenian
@The King he lives in Canada
The rarest of anomalies in canada
"What is a man? A miserable little pile of I can't even." Skall Probably
I liked your comment, but then I immediately disliked it because it was the 70th like
@@erlonbrunosouzamiranda8525 now it's 123 as of now. *You're not just a clown. You're the entire circus.* Besides, everyone knows 6.9k is the real goal!
lol
But does he steal mens' souls and make them his slaves?
@@erlonbrunosouzamiranda8525your comment is only 3 years old but it reads like it's 13
The bald dude's stance at 3:54 looks just like a videogame villian :D
He legit looks like the lvl 2 boss or something. You know the one that gets demoted into a regular minion by lvl 5
He kind of looks like one of those sword test dummies, who is now seeking revenge for all the years of swordtesting >:D
He looks like a double dragon boss, he has three moves, but he KO's you on first hit anyways
I wonder how they train with guns
"Stay still for a few more seconds!"
don't worry i'll hit the apple...
There are a fair share of idiots out there doing "bullet proof best tests" while wearing the damn thing
Russian "confidence" drill is close enough
@@FairlyUnknown Thinking about it there's a video of italian guys doing just that
@@bloodking73 Yeah :D if anybody here doesn't know what that is, google it and watch the video Larry did on that. But to be fair, the confidence drill has a lot of merit. Sure there is risk involved, but the training benefits outweigh it a lot imo.
His name is Максим Новоселов, in 1993 he was imprisoned for 14 years for murdering people while being a gang member also involved in robbery with actual firearms, his mental state is unstable so don't ever try to do this at home
Лол, интересные подробности.
@@quint3ssent1a известный упорант же )
I heared he is neonazi too quite fitting combo if you ask me
I don't speak russian, how it's his name is write un our alphabet?
@@SaurusWarriorSotek Maxim Novoselov
A gambeson, leather armor, a leather motorcycle jacket, hell, a magazine wrapped around the arm with duct tape, anyyyyyyyyyything to protect yourself? Nah, a thin plank of wood will do just fine.
Necropost, but:
Hell, I could go to the backyard and pick up a 1cm thick plank of wood and have more protection.
None of those even really matter when it comes to axes. They are heavy. Even with protective gear it can still break bones
@@trequor a broken bone is easier to recover than a chopped off arm. Neither is pleasant, but I'll take the blunt trauma over a cut.
@@verybarebones yes, and no.
@@trequor I'll take blunt trauma over blunt trauma and a cut, thank you sir.
Hi im Johnny and welcome to Jackaxe!
I shouldnt laugh at this... but i giggled. Take my thumb
well played
Uses wooden shield to block sharpened axe (which excel at destroying wooden shields), axe breaks through shield and injures arm.
*Surprised Pikachu Face*
The shield is bogus.
To be honest I had no idea you needed a metal piece to protect your arm/hand on a shield like the one he showed. Though, despite that I would never try to use a shield against a real sharpened axe like these two schmucks did.
Common sense is the key word.
Well yes because axes are used to chop wood.
RadioactiveRat but you see, common sense is TWO words. There is not the “key word” and therefore these people ignore it.
@@ashhinman1919 True, as they say, common sense never really is all that common.
It's hard for me to see but IS THATS A FRANSISCA AXE? aren't this designed to destroy wooden sheilds???
Also designed I believe (or an axe by a very similar name) for throwing quite deeply into wood and targets. Basically no matter what way it is used save for handle first....this thing goes into shit and wrecks face.
The signature 'hook' at the bottom is so when the axe goes through the shield you can claw it out of their hand or at least move the shield enough to hack at them with something else. Very cool design. Very stupid to knowingly fight against such a thing with unreinforced shield. Even stupider to do so in modern times.
Not a francisca. Early medieval bearded axe.
@@rollothewalker5535 yeah figured that out awhile back when I rewatched using wifi rather than 2 bars of 4g but the point still remains thats designed to smite the crap out wood shields and then faces
The first lesson should always be done with a sharpened an axe and a shield. Put the shield on something and hit it with an axe, then show everyone the penetration. Then tell everyone to always use the appropriate gears for training. Guaranteed to reduce the level of jackassery in a group.
that something however should not be the training partners arm^^
@@Metalhammer1993 Right. It should be strapped to the opponent's groin. If ya that stupid to, then you shouldn't breed.
Swords, certain axes, and certain blades without a doubt, are tools primarily for killing people. This is on the same level as using real rounds and person to test a bullet proof vest/armor.
And yet, crazily enough, people do test live rounds on bulletproof armored people.
"Hey Curtis! Check out this home made bullet proof west I'm wearing! Made it out of old T-shirts and JB weld. Get yer .45! I wanna feel it stop a bullet!"
"Hell naw you idiot, that's far to dangerous! We'll start with a .22."
N.B.: The ax in question *_is_* one of those aforementioned types of axes.
@@Grrxmistress The inventor of the first modern body armor actually demonstrated the effectiveness of his vests by shooting himself with one on.
@@Riceball01 yes... but he was selling a product and probably tested the shit out of it before doing that. normal people are just stupid
"I need to lose 5-10kg"
"Sure, i know a good place, let's train some martial arts"
"by Tomorrow"
"... The axe-course it is"
*Volume on*
Guy: BLYAAAATT
Me: Of course it's Russia
Reminds me of the boy that collapsed a pillar with a thrown brick. The most recognisable word in the video?
'BLYAAAAT!'
our nazies isn't wery strong by head, yeah
@@ЕгорЖуйков-щ8ц
What? What did you try to say? Where did nazis come into this comment chain?
@@SangerZonvolt Guys in a video are nazi.
@@SangerZonvolt I think they assumed the axe guy to be a nazi based on his axe with the star that a lot of Russian nazis incorporate into their symbology.
After some googling I did not find a confirmation for that though, only that the guy apparently is a former sportsman/gangster with some time behind bars and some mental problems. So, he'd fit right into the Russian neo-nazi croud, but I am not %100 sure he's part of it.
Everybody gangsta until their thumbs be rolling around on the floor...
It doesnt even need to be my thumb
Everybody's gangsta until it's 7pm and the street lights go out and their mom is yelling to get home
"That's beautiful, man. That's what you get, dumbass."
~Ghosts of Mars
You want weapon that crunches arm? Try axe! You want weapon that ignore enemy armour? Try axe!
Try axe now and you will get not just one, not two but TRHEE chopped of fingers gratis. Stop experimenting with inferior weapons right in this moment and call 800-345-0000 or 800-TRYAXE-NOW!
It won't ignore plate armour tough
@@civilprotectionunit8145 turn around
@@ungobungo7986 why
Warning! Sharp learning curve ahead!
When your +3 ax makes contact with a goblin's shield.
I am picturing goblins screaming "BLYAT!" now.
A dragon born barbarian in the campaign I'm in married a white dragon. It's not relevant to any of this....... I just can't get over it😂😂😂😂
@@darren4586 are you a red dragon born naturally inclined to the whims of EEEEVIL!!?? If so that must be some mighty fine persuasion and charisma you got there.
@@draconisthewyvern3664 nice puffin forest reference. It's not my character it's another member of the party.
Goblin?
As someone who's been chopping wood for 8 years now. - every fall. I can tell you like he does DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE AXE.
There are, of course, major differences between a battle axe and a chopping axe. To my knowledge, a chopping axe is generally heavier, and is generally thicker with an edge more favoring durability over absolute sharpness. Of course, this is not to say that a battle axe is less dangerous than a chopping axe. Any axe will have a respectable amount of inertia in that head, and at that point you don't need much of an edge to still do serious damage. Even without the axe penetrating the shield, without any padding the blunt impact could easily cause severe bruising of the arm and possible bone fractures.
@@reaganharder1480 the thicker axes are splitting axes, like to cut firewood. Actual tree cutting axes actually look decently similar to battleaxes.
@@lordderppington4694 I had the opportunity to tend to a "racing axe" a little while ago, used in lumberjack competitions. What a beautiful tool that was. The perfect axe.
@@lordderppington4694 that actually depends, i commonly backpack and do a lot of stuff like that, it depends on what ax, the "usual" ax i use is as big as my arm bc i dont need to split big logs and with correct technique it will do
Even a blunt axe can do serious damage. It's no different than a mace at that point.
@@angryskeleton5676 yep, I've actually cut myself with a dull axe. It bounced off the wood but cut my leg. Thankfully it was not serious
A friend of mine build a shield for a LARP-event (wooden core shitload of foam around it). After he returned he showed me the damaged shield and told me "an orc hit it with an axe." 😂
Seems that even a LARP-axe can be a serious thing, if the user is absolutly reckless.
A sharp mace
@jeff deathrage 🤣🤣🤣🤣 while they all watch and enjoy the show of a man training
"Bro you know that axe that cuts through wood? Hit this wooden shield that I'll be holding!"
Correction Axes dont cut they chop a chopping and cutting action are 2 very different actions with a blade
@@bluehornet197 SIGH , even as a fully licensed smartarse pedant, this one was hard to read.
@@bluehornet197 Do you really think anyone who is as stupid as to propose this would be smart enough to know the difference?
@@Aracnah please make articulate sense so I'm not reading gibberish that doesnt make sense what you typed isn't even English mate and also lighten up its called being a smart ass dont have to get your panties in a twist
@@EarlHare i was being smart ass get over it
A modern trial by combat situation, perhaps?
Seriously though, I am always super impressed by your safety conscious videos; you are an exemplary UA-camr.
"Recklessness is not a sign of manliness, it is a sign of immaturity."
-Skallagrim
Hema: *Exists*
Hema: *Uses blunt weapons against armor*
Random weight loss trainer:
*uses sharp axe against unprotected oponnent*
Hema: Am I a joke to you
Hey look he's gonna be a lot lighter without all that blood in him
@@BemusedOwl or an arm cut of
That's just natural selection at this point
"unprotected oponnent"? He had a 1/4 inch plywood shield. What more could he possibly need? :-)
@@shunvanmeenen716 we need it badly these days. As far as I'm concerned, the more of these idiots we lose, the better for the gene pool.
Russian axe weightloss trainer: almost cuts student's arm off
Student: blyaaaaaaaaaaaaat
I mean, he nearly lost some weight fast.
Trainer: Cyka...
I mean yeah, that's what a lot of people say when they are in massive pain, what's the point of the memefication?
That guy has UA-cam channel called "Михаил Новосёлов". He's kinda famous in Russia but this isn't the type of fame that you want to posess
Equivalent to flordia man fame?
This guy killed one or several man and been in jail for that btw
@@282ML22 makes sense
Now it makes sense. I were once on an event with reenactors in Russia where one guy spontaniously decided to go against more experienced textolite sword armed opponent using real knife. He got his knife back in his own stomac. And that's how everyone found out it was real
Is he like a naziskin or something? He has a black sun on the axe...
Some people are examples, others are warnings. Those two seem to be applying for Darwin Awards.
If an ikarus award is real.
As a species, we are efficient and prolific breeders. It helps against self extinction.
Historically that may be the 'only' reason we are still here. There was a time (about 80,000BC) when the entire human population had declined from huge numbers to fewer than 1,000 breeding pairs world wide. Many other primate and all other hominids disappeared at this time. Possibly the first virus to attack primates, but no one alive knows as no records survived the Great Ice Age of 35,000BC.
@WIKIPEDIA Homo sapiens didn't actually "beat" homo neanderthalis in such a context, all kaukasians have ca. 4-6% of the neanderthal genome.
So we most likely didn't outright kill them, we just assimilated them.
Are we sure about Homo neanderthalensis being smarter? I know they have a bigger brain overall but most of the "extra" brain is in the occipital lobe, which imply better vision. Whereas Homo Sapiens has a straight forehead and a bigger frontal lobe, responsible for planning and decision making, which is a bit closer to what we might call intelligence.
@@kenibnanak5554 I think it was 3000 breading pairs, which would have put the total population at about 8000-10000 (the extras are the people too old or young to breed)
@@SiriusMined LoL, pretty sure someone counted the same couples multiple times.
And don't forget ladies and gentlemen. The guy with the axe ACTED like he really knew wtf he was doing. NEVER put your livelyhood in the hands of someone dumber than you.
Dumber? I'm convinced that man with the axe is a sadistic psychopath who takes pleasure from this.😶
Never fully trust any martial marts experts.
Even with boxing and Jiu jitsu
Why is baldur teaching people how to fight like kratos?
I didn't notice that.
God of War videogame reminiscences have nothing in particular with real life, dude
deepV01D It’s a joke, dude. You can make video game references for a joke. It doesn’t all have to be realistic, dude.
"a miserable pile of I can't even" ~Skallagrim 2019
The axe guy is from Chelyabinsk. Let's just say that even in Russia people from there have a very... special reputation.
According to that rep, training with combat-ready weapons would be a pretty regular occurance.
Is it just Russia's Florida?
@@modernminded5466 Like the opposite of Florida. It is rumored that only the toughest can survive there.
'Chelyabinsk men are so tough, they shave with chainsaws".
and stuff like that.
@Chichopuente "Chelyabinsk virgin girls are so tough, their partners cry in pain from slamming their dick against hymen".
@@SinaelDOverom the fuck that's hilarious 😂
@@SinaelDOverom A place like that exists in 2020?
of course Dracula is pissed, he's an historical accuracy fan (I mean, he is pretty "historical" after all) and has had generations of Belmonts throwing giant double headed axes at him instead of using them properly to hack him to pieces...
"Hey, this ax chopped through some wood. Is it supposed to do that?"
Yes, it's supposed to do that. That's what it does. Axes chop wood. Okay, now repeat that back to me...
"Axes chop wood."
Very good. What do axes do?
"Axes chop wood."
Very good. We'll check you again tomorrow to see if you can remember it.
- Witches are made of a wood! If someone weighs as much as a duck, she is made of wood, and is therefore a witch. What do we do with witches? We burn them! Why do they burn? Because they are made of wood! What else can you do with wood? You can chop it! Aha, here you go. If you can chop into somebody's arm, that somebody is made of wood and is therefore a witch!
@@u.v.s.5583 ‘‘tis but a scratch”
@@u.v.s.5583 The fallacy goes one layer deeper!
What is a Skallagrim?
A miserable little pile of axes.
But enough talk, have at you!
You sir, you know your games.
@@BelleDividends it was not by my hand that i was once again given flesh, but yes thank you good sir! Good to know there are still castlevania players out there.
@@BelleDividends I mean, we're basically getting whacked on our heads with castlevania on this video, it's not too surprising of a reference.
2:24 someone has to make a meme out of that face
Gotcha bro...
When u find out Area 51 raid is a thing
definately
I also noticed that face is the thumbnail face
Yes! Absolutely, definiely, yes!
"Oh its just a fleshwound!" Monty Python ftw
So does the big guy go on to smash the buff guys brains out with the mallet? He should have!🤦🏼♂️
"What's that i'm feeling?"
"Oh right, it's Fleshwound Friday"
*AAAAARRRRGHHH* YOU CUT MY ARM OFF.
_RUB SOME _*_CONTEXT_*_ ON IT... IT'LL BE FINE._
No, sometimes context doesn't matter.
Hahahaha thank you for this!😆
It does though.
If the context of the situation is "person was trying to kill me", then cutting off his arm is a perfectly reasonable solution.
Context. Always. Fucking. Matters.
@@GuitarGuy057
That Stawman you built has weaker limbs than the "context" you built to cover this situation... No axe necessary to disarm it. 😉😂
@@bluefalconssuck5881
That's not what a straw man means.
@@GuitarGuy057
Wrong again.... This was a _Training Session_ involving 2 idiots doing idiot things for idiot reasons resulting in an Idiotic outcome.
You BUILT another senario in order to insert your "context" in order to prove a point not related to the subject at hand... *_STRAWMAN 101_*
The evidence of this is in the very first word you used in your explanation... *"If"*
When I clicked the video, I was expecting something like a guy chopping wood with a double bit axe. Then winding up the axe far enough that he hits his own back with it and injures himself.
Didn't expect something this stupid.
The best Part is the shield with the wood aligned vertically
I knew exactly what would Happen here before, the Axe split the shield pretty much
Yeah, which really screams that, even if they were using proper protection, the dude was not using the shield right for that particular opposition.
ah yes lemme just attack this wooden shield with my axe, a tool majorly used for wood chopping. what could possibly go wrong
It's not as bad as the guy that chopped off his friend's nose with a longsword*... but still pretty awful.
That was a longsword, if I remember well.
@@davidbence485 The one I saw was a katana and a water bottle I believe it was.
@@paulaassis3065 Then thats another one. I saw one when the guy takes a sosuage in his mouth then the other tries to cut it with a longsword. The sousage guy's nose then just flaps sideways, kept in place only by a little skin.
Here it is:
m.ua-cam.com/video/19tmtA-BK5o/v-deo.html
@@paulaassis3065 The follow up. Actually he cut out a peace.
m.ua-cam.com/video/n6CSqZlp2uQ/v-deo.html
So any idea if that guy's nose was fixed? Or did he just become voldemort?
Axe: Made to chop through wood.
Trainer: "Here, use thin wood shield."
Skal, your bewilderment at "no real reaction" to the injury speaks of your human quality. You have a soul! But a good deal of people don't - I recall target practicing at one indoor pistol range, when the motorized target support came back too far and the angled piece of steel hit me in the face - I was bleeding profusely. The range master reacted with: "MUH. A piece of jacket must have come back." While on my short-lived stint with the HEMA I witnessed equal callousness of (some!) people whenever somebody would get hurt. Regretfully, this is the norm, and having to deal with such types was why I quit martial arts altogether.
Well remember, there isn't any university course for how to love your mother, but they need an entire academy to teach someone how to kill. Makes you think, doesn't it?
Mercy is for the weak & the dead...lol😈
@@masterpoe4942 QED
@@andrew_owens7680 I have never heard that before. It does make me think...
@@geddon436 It's my own saying. I came upon it after thinking.
Christ almighty! I taught Kali/Escrima for years. We *never* trained with live blades, junior students didn't even get hardwood sticks!
Skal: "Its going to be very hard to not be a dick"
Me: "Do it! Do it! DO IT!"
6:36 "What is a man but a miserable pile of I can't even"
I love that. I want it on a shirt. Skall, get that shirt into your merchandise already
Axe does not have to be sharp, it has to be heavy. Sharp Axe is the most hardcore weapon, I work a lot with axe in woods (it is not the battle axe) and I can tell you this weapon (sharp or dull) and the damage it deals is to be feared.
Im thinking twice about juggling hatchets now.
Sharp axe is pretty good but to be honest at low levels you’re better off with a Raw axe for higher base damage.
Jay Middleton yeah you dont really get much dex scaling low levels anyway
a dull axe is just a mace
Dull axe ~ mace
Train as if your life depends on it, because in this case it does
Maybe he should take up farming!
Farming is actually a dangerous job so probably not the best idea.
Look at him men, look at how terrible he is
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@@CrudeConduct666 It's a Mordhau reference.
That's not a trainee, that's just food for the crows!
>Sees ancient slavic symbol on axe
Yep this is perfectly normal!
A bit too close to a black sun for my taste.
I mean, we don't know if polonium was involved or not but yeah
Fairly certain I'm friends on Facebook with the guy who owns that touchmark can't remember his name though I have hundreds of bladesmith friends
@@moirakadhan745 You are a bit too uneducated about Pagan symbols for my taste.
@@redsimonyt Oh I probably am.
Skal, this is on a whole other level, I wouldn't be surprised that if he gets wind of your video he will respond with a challenge video saying he is a "real man" and boast how he could demolish you in any type of situation. Compared to those guys US gun culture and toxic masculinity is playground stuff.
Count Dante school of 'full contact' Axe fighting. LoL
Well, it is an MMA fighter - supposedly also convicted for murder. The way he´s looking, I d say he´s not sad he hurt him, more like sad that they are just training.
Considering all of the flexor tendons (that control the fingers) run along the top of the forearm, that is one of the dumbest things I have every seen in edge weapon training(?).
Nothing like, "Oopsy. Sorry you lost the use of your hand." or at best, JUST your grip strength/fine motor control.
"Just a flesh wound"
Hey Skall I disagree as this is all about weight loss. Blood is weight, so are limbs, so what better to take that weight off than by hacking it off with an ax?
You have a point
the guy with the axe even looks like a generic axe bandit from any game ever. lol
I'm fine with reckless behaviour when you're only putting yourself at risk. But when you subject someone else to risk and injury through reckless behaviour, then you're really crossing the line.
In any weapons training, never use a live weapon, unless you intend to injure or kill the person opposite you! All my gun safety training was screaming at seeing this!
Tell that to the military who train with live blades for realistic combat awareness those guys dont fuck around and they dont want to hurt there training partner yes I get there highly trained servicemen but that statement simply isn't true that if you train with live blades that you are only looking to hurt or injure your training partner thats just pure ignorance there are hundreds of videos of military training programs that get the soldiers to use live blades again that doesnt mean they want to injure hurt or kill there training partner
@@bluehornet197 At least in the US military, we don't train with sharp bayonets against fellow trainees. We do use them against tires or other dummy targets but never a living being. For all practice involving human partners, we use either a synthetic poly-plastic knife that is far too wide to do any cutting but still heavy enough to simulate accurately, or we use extensively blunted blades in SLOW, PRACTICE motions, not forceful attacks. Any videos you see with live blades need to be flagged; they are violating the UCMJ and should be punished accordingly, and having such videos removed is important. Never, ever, ever, ever, use a weapon ready for war against a human you don't intend to kill. You're a living example of stupidity if you do this.
@@bluehornet197 You are dumb as fuck, No fucking armies on this earth allowed their soldier use sharp bayonets against other fellow soldiers in training. It is so fucking stupid like saying they use live ammo to shoot each other in military exercise or the air force use real missile to shoot down their pilot in training.
No, James is right. At the end of selection they have a 100 man battle royale - those who survive get to join the army. Those that don’t? Why do you think we have so many remembrance days?
Treat every axe as if was loaded.
And for this years Darwin Awards we have some honorable mentions...
This is our madman, Max Novoselov.
His motto: "Dementia and courage!" Would you see what he does with AK... Hello from Russia
......I'm worried....what does this man do with an AK?
@@fablesguykol3025 trains guys to deflect AK bullets with wooden shield? I don't know. xD
@@authenticbaguette6673 if a man can teach such a skill I fear that man.
@@fablesguykol3025 If by "teach" you mean make students bleed out on the dojo floor because it builds character... Yea, I guess the video actually teaches people that a sharpened axe (or any combat-ready weapon) is not a harmless toy and should be treated with the uttmost respect.
If I had students and they were being macho, I would gather them, put a shield on a dummy, then split the shield in half to teach them not to mess around.
Tune in next week for practice with live hand grenades. ( Plus this; replacement sparring partner wanted. see above)
Axes, weapons known for their effectiveness in delivering a strong hack that has cutting power and a lot of blunt power.
Yeah let's use it on this wooden shield that it's known to be used AGAINST.
ofc your wallet is THICC after taking this sponsorship :D
Skall has grown from edgy blade nerd to wise blade dad
This is why it's important to wear chainmail or a gambeson.
OR BOTH
Both
Yeah I'd rather do both.
I spied that Indestructible T-shirt my guy
Also, these guys were IDIOTS. Completely defies common sense.
I mean, I would've expected a more serious wound. I hit my leg once with a wood axe after it bounced off a log, and it bled like you wouldn't believe
I don't know much about axes or woodcutting but i think wood axe is many times heavier than most combat axes. Takes more time to swing wich makes it impractical for fighting, but carries alot more force and when it hits does alot of damage.
Not sharp but can still rip skin easily.
"For The Views"
Some people would actually die for their viral spotlight on youtube to be famous & rich.
So I'm going with that reason since while everyone else is going with "Morons". Lol
I liked the T-shirt in the ad! I also like the What is a Man shirt
"I'm feeling quite hungry"- Henry the blacksmith (Kingdom Come: Deliverance)
I see Skall dont know much about the internet. But the internet gives us one good thing, you can see what would happen if you are stupid enough to do such things.
I have a strange feeling that the bald dude is the type frequently rant about SJWs and how "back in my day, we didn't wear helmets".
I feel like you just picked a random thing that makes you butt hurt to preference the "back in my day" obvious stereotype. XD
I have a great method I use to figure out if something is a bad idea, I write it down first.
As an example: “so I’ll be sparring with a sharp axe today “ would get shot down quickly
I got asked recently why viking shields had bosses and struggled a bit with the explanation. Next time I will show them this video.
i dont even know if it would be better to have a boss, as it would mean being held in a "on hands" type of shield, and the way that axe hit, there's a chances that it would bite into the boss and directly into the guy's hand.
Marcos Danilo It would be, steel is always better than wood when an axe is involved.
like i said, yes, its better, but at the same time, because of how axes are designed, there's a chance, and not a small one, for the axe to actually bite into the boss.
the problem is NOT the boss, but the handle that is behind it.
IF, the axe does bite into it, it WILL hit the wielder's hand, probably chopping off a few fingers in the process.
@@marcosdheleno if he hits that hard that he smashes right through the boss the lower arm would be gone for sure. Crushed. And he would be the Hulk. He would dent the boss and the hand would maybe go limp but he wouldn't go through the boss.
@@marcosdheleno You've got a point there - even if the chances are low (as you say), since the axe would most likely glide off of the round boss, IF he hit the right spot, the hand would've been crippled. Then the question would be what's more effective against axes: A well padded strapped on shield or one with a boss.
There's a lot of not very intelligent people out there.
natural selection
Gentlemen! BEHOLD! I, have lost weight!
haha ye lookin' good
Yes. All sugars gone. Manually! WITH THIS! *REVS CHAINSAW* I NEED TO LOSE TWENTY MORE POUNDS OR I'LL NEVER BE PRETTY!
That's what came to mind for me too.
Dancing is forbidden!
I read this in CallmeKevin’s voice 😂
2:40 what do you mean. You are Canadian, it's your job to be polite
He's Norwegian.
@@MadSwedishGamer he's German, not Norwegian.
@@Iceberqe AFAIK, he lived in Germany, but he´s NOT German.
@@edi9892 his accent is obvious, it's German not Norwegian, just as his wife's. I don't know why he's puts so much effort into hiding it, in every faq this question comes up an he refuses to answer it.
@@Iceberqe I thought he originated north of Germany. However, it could be well that he´s somewhat like me:
I´m Austrian and my parents never wanted me to speak Austrian German in order to integrate better into Germany, but I still sounded Austrian and got bullied and discriminated for it and in Austria people treated me like scum because I´m Austrian but don´t speak Austrian German... Trust me, that hurts a lot when you feel that you´re nowhere at home. That would explain his odd behaviour.
BTW: since I grew up in Germany, but hated it, I became more and more Austrian over time, but I never had a chance of really learning my native dialect, thus I´m like in English, where I cycle between different dialects (which is something you can see quite a bit, when you had e.g. a British teacher, but grew up with American movies)