How effective are GIANT SWORDS in combat? TESTED! - Making a FUNCTIONAL GIANT SWORD! Part 3
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- Опубліковано 24 бер 2023
- Let's test GIANT SWORDS and see how effective they would be in real life.
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I LOVE how the weapon community has turned from "big weapons are stupid" to "big weapons would be the most OP thing ever.... IF we could use them"
It's the perfect example of "it's not stupid if it works"
Basically saying things people knew all along. Sigh.
@@greyngreyer5 for real...like, if you had the inhuman strength, it’s a no brainer.
@@greyngreyer5losrt
Loser
Shad: "Due to a medical condition, I won't be doing as much physical activity in future episodes"
Also Shad: "GIANT SWORD GO HRRRAAA!"
Titan Swords have +100 Health Enchantments
@@astranix0198 definitely needed when carrying a fuck off massive sword lol
Shad had surgery a while back to get it fixed! You probably know that but I just wanted to make sure that's clear lol
@@aaront.6717And the surgery hasn’t fully worked as I recall, this is like, his one big burst of activity he’s allowed so to speak.
@Starlitsoul 0359 Yeah, they found more issues after surgery. Basically more issues than just what they thought it was. I'm glad to see him on his feet, though. Still love the videos, but his presence has been missed.
I love that Giants Swords have turned from "this is impractical" to "modern materials make this pretty good, actually"
Modern problems require modern solutions
Back when I was a semi-pro pirate duelist (Renfaire stuff, but we knew what we were doing), our captain's favored weapon was the Popcicle. 6" total length greatsword, carbon fiber & closed cell foam, wrapped in a removable drawstring cloth wrapper (hence the name - it was RED).
Very similar technique.
Too bad with modern materials swords aren’t the best in modern wars
@@Chunk_McSnifferthing would be so much better is swords were the best warfare weapon available.
@@WingedEspeon it’d be pretty awesome to see how powerful our sword designs would be, since they’d be seen as a necessity still
Shad and team just further enforcing the truth: Guts is indeed a God-tier swordsman.
Guts, the S-tier swordsman
@@SwiftyEmpire He's in a tier all his own, Guts needs that fabled Z-Tier treatment
I'm so going to hell for this...
Guts is also an S-tier swordsheath
You called?
@@user-ot2ld8lw2w Donovan approves
shad and the gang figuring out plausible ways fantasy giant swords would work is simply fascinating and makes my inner child giggle. Looking forward to the complete sword build!
It is actually quite helpful for us writers.
@@SergioLeonardoCornejo That's what I'd like to imagine Shad is going for with a lot of these. If he can realistically justify 'giant sword', why not use that as a tool for writing, not only for him but for others? It's great.
if a sword does not work, use bigger sword
agreed
Winter is coming? People from Australia or from other countries of the southern hemisphere, tell me one thing. Is your calendar "reversed", i.e. it is September now in the south, or you just call June, July, and August winter?
You know your job is great when you play test swords edit: holy cow I've never gotten this many likes thx
Find the job you enjoy and you will never have to work single day.
@@SapphirosCZ master oogway
Or your job is horrible when you just test swords.
@@davidkippenhuck5963 true
*without dying
Seeing Shad and friends playing with giant foam swords in such juvenile & innocent joy brings warmth to my heart
They’re not playing, they’re “experimenting” on how giant swords would be used in actual battle.
It counts as scientific research because they’ve documented everything.
@@The_Racr1Nigga their playing like kids. Come on now. And you and I both know that you and I would play swords if given the chance
@@The_Racr1 You must be real fun at parties :/
@@D.e.l.i.r.i.u.m i’ve never been to a party, and i’ve never wanted to go to one
Seeing a sword that huge actually moving around in real life with legitimate German maneuvers looks damn intimidating! Always been a fan of using the giant weapon classes in games, I love that this thing would be so effective in real life if we can only get the weight and durability problems fixed.
I think another big part of why they were never a thing is because of how much metal it would take to produce compared to a regular sized sword. I imagine you could easily produce 10 or more regular sword with the materials used to make just one of those giant swords, so cost effectiveness would be rock bottom regardless of the durability/weight issue.
@@Dovahkiin106 On a battle field, a weapon like that would be utterly useless. It is too slow. and if you knew what you did, it would be easy to make an enemy with that kind of sword, overextend, so you can zoom in close, and deliver the deathblow.
@@palmarolavlklingholm9684 Did...did you not watch the video? The discussion is how effective it'll be at a reasonable weight. We all know it'd be too heavy if made from normal steel. If they could make giant swords a decent weight back then: the reach, mass, and momentum swings of this thing would make it extremely effective as a battlefield weapon. Heck, the science is that a longer blade creates a higher tip speed, so that paired with the greater reach would actually make it the faster weapon, hitting the opponent quicker and while the user is at a safe range. They even point that out, surprised at how fast the thing is despite using lighter and smaller weapons of the same material, even shields that would block most of the body. And despite switching, whoever had the giant sword won more exchanges, so it's not just Shad or Nate being the better swordsman, the weapon itself was the variable.
@@ryuuronin9852 I see your point. But nah, the broadness of the sword would create too much air resistance for it to be an effective weapon, No matter how light it was. You would still need wrists of titanium to properly wield it. But I have nothing against seeing it in Manga/anime. It sort of belongs there, and looks cool.
@@palmarolavlklingholm9684 Too much air resistance?
Right, so you definitely didn't watch the video... 26:03
So, seems like giant swords are perhaps very effective if you can actually manage to lift and use it.
And have few enough opponents to not wear you out.
@@Unsensitive Oh absolutely, you can see just how worn out he is just from a few quick exchanges with the foam version. Now imagine trying to do that with a genuine steel recreation. Now granted, I understand that Shad doesn’t have the ideal physique for a weapon like this but I’m sure we can at the very least use him as a point of reference when imagining how an ideally well muscled individual would handle this sword. Looking at it and basing my opinion on my own personal experience with weight lifters and the sort I would think even they might tire pretty quickly with a steel version of the sword, though I shutter to think what sort of destructive power they could get out of it in a real fight.
With the arcane's anti-grav hextech, it would work
@@VidelxSpopovich in all fairness when this would utterly destroy several opponents in a short time frame it the opponents wont exactly feel confident in going after them, not to mention it has range over most weapons, imagine if the said muscleman wielding it is himself like 6’4? Even more range to overcome and a lot of destructive power.
Yeah is is a very good combo so two handed hammer, spear and sword benefits at the cost of much harder to use, if you have the stamina and strength to use it easily it would be scary effective
big props to whoever added the sound of the swords clanging 😂🙌
Big....prop....tee hee
It took me way too long to realize those were being added in. I thought the foam sword just had a metal core at first and that’s why it was making that sound.. but as the video drug on I realized they were adding it in anytime anything was hit.
Should've been the Berserk '16 Dragonslayer clang.
People hated it but it was the one saving grace of that show imo
@@Snulge "Big"....tee hee..
I'm disappointed that they didn't include a Berserk CLANG
Shad is seriously living his best life in this video. I'm sure all of us dream of being able to be an adult frolicking in the fields while wielding a giant foam sword.
I think a large sword like this would be quite enviable in the beginning because as you guys are showing it's really odd and awkward to deal with. Can you imagine coming across someone on the battlefield with it and you'd never seen it before they don't give you time to like figure out how you're supposed to combat it you're probably just dead before you realize it. Y'all are like strategizing and trying to figure out how to deal with each other.
I think it's fair to strategize against it since if swords like this could exist by what ever logic, it would also be logical to be wide spread, and know someone that uses weapons like this that you can spar with.
The meta is falling in the floor, and killing the oponent with dagger,
Only in fantasy. In reality if it was made of metal, it would be way too slow and unwieldy. The wielder would have trouble raising it off the ground, without falling over, let alone swinging it at a speed that would be at all effective.
@raifthemad I think that was the reason for the repeated use of the term super strength they used. A normal human couldn't do it, but a fantasy super strength one could
@@landonlegrand4328 They not only need super strength, but also fantasy physics, because otherwise, not to fall over, or get pulled along with the sword, they would need two of them, always staying on the opposite side of each other, to balance the contraption they would form, and only move they could make is spin like a blender. :D
I just wanna say, I love this content so much.
It's like watching Top Gear for fantasy medieval nerds.
THATS WHAT THE VIBE WAS omg ur right
omg that's it!
Top (Armour)Gear you mean?
That’s actually a great comparison.
*TOP SWORD*
Honestly, I love the innovation on the channel. It was the perfect time to hire a team. And though it doesn't feel 100% shad anymore...it feels 200% more shad now. Perfect fit
I don’t know if I’d say it feels 200% Shad, but it feels natural. I love the chemistry between the three of them.
@KainaX122 that's really what I mean, shad with a perfect chemistry paints a more dynamic picture of the hobby and topics shad loves. Even when he's not on camera I know he's still enjoying the content.
When he first got these guys I was afraid I would miss him, but I feel instead like I see him more
Same, it feels like we are getting more of what we like rather than less.
shadness has reached a total of.. 300 percent
These new videos are fantastic. It’s so much fun to see this skillful team putting wild ideas to the test.
One thing I hope makes it into an epilogue for this series are the logistical issues outside of combat: how hard they are to carry long distances, how many calories burned carrying them, how long one can reasonably sustain their use in an extended conflict, how expensive they would be to make historically, so on. A lot of the less 'fun' but still useful stuff for us fantasy writers to play around with.
It would need to be carted around outside of battle and probably a blunt-ish edge for dragging the rest of the time. Maybe a shoulder pad might be needed to hold the weapon up during early engagement?
@@ishtarfolmagi3829that’d be one of the biggest issues; how to handle it with your shoulders. Even with padding and armor it’d dig into your body, even with a blunt edge.
As far as transport, that’s what horses and carts are for.
I kinda can’t help but love and get a kick out of how much fun they’re having with this whole concept.
Knowing how much shad is actually suffering in his health, its great to see that he still finds the sparring so fun that he can deal with it.
what's wrong with him?
@@Lotvk he has chronic fatigue syndrome and sleep apnea
What happened?
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@@Lotvk Chronic fatigue and some inflammation related to his heart, if I remember correctly.
Love how they went from all the sophisticated analysis and design work... to now Shad is just like "ALRIGHT TIME TO HIT THINGS! BWAHAHAHA!"
Sometimes ya just gotta fuck around and hit things with big things
Remember those swords with one handle and two parallel blades? Imagine something similar, turned into a giant sword, with a thin metal sheet connecting the two curved swords from the base to the tip. Maybe even have a sword made out of wood, and have a metal edge for it, so you have less metal, and thus less weight, but still have the advantages of giant swords. Worth a try, I think, to see how it works.
Had the same idea, that seems like it would be a good design lol
Actually genius.
I think once the Titan sword is built, it would be really fun to bring out another swordsman/content creator and have them give it a go with no prior testing/experience. Someone like Sellsword Arts could be great (he’d love the meme material).
Or robinswords, he's pretty good with a Montante.
Seki Sensei would be an awesome crossover~
This aged in a funny way. 😂
Now we know why the Zweihander has a second upper crossguard on the blade.
Why not just have a longer handle?
@@elio7610 I’m guessing that would be a swordstaff instead.
@@elio7610I’d like to introduce you to the Nagamaki
I guess the Zweihänder offers more protection than a swordstaff.
The moment when running away actually becomes a useful tactic in sword combat 😂
Remind me of Kenshin the Vagabond anime. at one point, he explain how, during the war (when he became known as "the Manslayer"), since they were outnumbered, the main tactic was literally to provoke the enemy, then run away to spread them out, and only then to turn back, engage and murder them one by one...
@@pierre-mariecaulliez6285 Sounds like running around dumb AI enemies until they form a neat line lol
@@hayond656 welp, in real battle, humans are much better
@@shawermus I mean, kind of what I think the Mongols did
@@pierre-mariecaulliez6285 improvise by going into a narrow alley way
I feel like you guys should get a zweihander expert to help test out the effectiveness of the giant sword for an episode.
Because a lot of their techniques may solve some of the problems you and the team had.
Entertaining as hell. The new Team arround and with Shad harmonize very well and naturally.
And as a Friend of big swords I am completely interested in that matter👍⚔️
It's great that Shad has so many colleagues to play with swords
Woah woah woah bro, they're doing very scientific research, I mean look at how historically accurate this is
@@lategamer6684 And Very IMPORTANT Research.
Playing with giant foam swords seems fun.
We usually call that LARP combat. 🤣
What you do in the bedroom is no concern of ours. :P
Oh, it is.
This makes my inner child so happy, seeing two full grown men playing with foam swords is like a childhood dream come true.
It looks like you had so much fun here! The mass of the sword either blowing through a block or being so resistant to being knocked aside would be highly dependent on if the sword is heavy or not though; if it was made of a super-light material then it would presumably handle more like a normal sword in these situations.
i love this so much, it's really interesting how the big boi isn't just _not useless,_ but surprisingly very effective for a lot of things, the ability to just ignore a sword guard or destroy a shield is particularly interesting.
Portable cavalry charge.
The big think is that Shad’s sword to make it light enough to be used and able to be gripped multiple ways means it can be thrust through very easily. The shield sword doesn’t have that problem but doesn’t have the verstality. So, fantasy lightly armored, shield sword and back up weapon, heaving armored, titan sword
@@PJDAltamirus0425 theoretically if you have a functional titan sword you could probably put a light wood or maybe even a sort of stretched chain or gambison material on one side. That way you’re still able to grab the handles and use it effectively but you can’t force a sword through the inside especially if it was partially covered in wood. It would remove some of the versatility because you can only grab the handles from one side but it’s still very Versatile and light without sacrificing defense. If you wanted to use such a weapon to larp or something you could even put a crest on the shielded area similar to a crest painted on a shield.
Props to Shad for powering through the sparring with his chronic fatigue!
I hope he discovers fasting.. I did keto, then fasting, which is easy when you're in ketosis. Solved all my physical problems in a jiffy.
@@ysteinberg5084 everyones different, it might do nothing or even make things worse
@@ysteinberg5084 yeah, but he has medical conditions, including heart inflammation apparantly. also something that he needed surgery for, but im not sure what.
@@destroyer68175voice of reason, is that you?
@@ysteinberg5084 Considering his religion.... You're preaching to the choir. Also, what works for you, may not work for everyone. I have some pretty severe medical conditions when I fast for example.
The way you've set this video up in regards to the setting and the costume I feel like I'm watching a semi-fantasy medieval training montage. Two veteran knights in informal dress bantering and discussing their techniques while a bunch peasants/laymen stand around watching them. I love it, keep up the good work, Shad!
Shad keeps creating new functionally complex and competent weapons . Giant swords are awesome, but what’s even better is a Titan sword! A sword keenly built on functionality of giant swords used in fiction.
I need more doses of Titan sword videos, and I need a Titan sword of my own.
Shad created a back sheath, a book, now a Titan sword!
What next, a potion for super powers!
Keep up the great videos with Nate and the others, Shad-Sama.
😅T
Shad - I am getting some more team mates cause outdoor videos are exhaustive. I need to save my energy.
Also Shad after getting team mates - Alright, we are gonna get some gigantic swords and fight with them in the sunlight.
Gotta love this guy. One of my favorite UA-camrs ever. Love watching him.
I came here to leave tha same comment. can't blame the guy it's a gigantic sword!
And doing a few hours of something you like is lots different than doing a few hours of something you like then hours of editing.
Don't forget, wearing brigandine and what seems to be black wool. I almost went into heat stroke, just watching it. When he gets excited about something, the man defies the laws of nature.
Imagine a sunforged version of the completed design. You could even sunforge the pieces individually so the blades could cut better and the handles could have increased grip or leverage. I thing a master of the sword with that could even give Dalian a run for his money.
sunforged?
@@heygek2769 it's something from Shad's book.
@Hey Gek More specifically, sunforging is a process in Shad's book where a mage replaces the matter in an object with a magical material. This magical material will be the same density/weight as the original, but will now be invincible. So, swords are sometimes carved from light wood, like balsa, then sunforged; for a strong, light, long, and impossibly shaped blade.
True, but a sunforged giant sword like that would run into most of the same issues as sunforged plate armor, most notably the glaring weakness.
Do keep in mind, that unless sunforging makes the edge of a blade monomolecular in sharpness, you'll loose cutting power. Two handed weapons benefit more from their mass than having a sharp edge.
It’s honestly so awesome to see that in this day and age, finding your niche and doing what you love can genuinely give you a career :)
I fought with giant foam swords for about 7 years, i found that keeping a secondary "catching" dagger in your off hand which is used kinda like a gauntley in order to redirect the momentum of the large sword in order to reduce wasted energy. In addition, as you learn to feel the weight of the sword you find you can rotate the large sword around its center of gravity with far less effort then moving the center of gravity so learning to use your footwork to move around the center weight of the blade makes for an easier time positioning the large blade for blocking.
The offhand catching blade can also be used for close range surprise attacks when distance is closed.
As a bigger dude who's always dug big ass swords, I'm thoroughly invested in this project. 😂
I always loved how realistic most people in Berserk fight. Half swording and going for gaps in the armor and having stances etc. And then Guts seemed like an interesting fantasy counterpoint to that. What if there was a super human fighting in this wildly unrealistic way with a giant impractical sword.
Now even though his sword was still ridiculously impractical, this series has shown that his techniques and just the giant blade in general, weren't as unrealistic as I thought and that's very cool.
it drags him along with each swing but if a tiny warhammer can dent plate armour imagine a 300kg slab hitting you the same speed
There was real historical figure that Guts might be based on and his name is Pier Gerlofs Donia or well known as Grutte Pier (Giant Pier) and he was mentioned to wield 7 ft great sword with such efficiency that he was beheading multiple rank and file opponents with his swings.
This is what you always see when Guts fights ordinary humans. You literally can't defend against his attacks, trying to parry his attacks is literally a death sentence because the Dragonslayer will just break through any attempts at defense, unless you're bigger and stronger than Guts and his Dragonslayer, like most of the Demons in Berserk are. Or in the case of the Godhand, just bend reality to make it impossible for Guts to land a hit.
There's also a lot of debate where even dragonslayer doesn't weigh all that much (300-400 lbs). So someone with his build and stature could swing that with some struggle (considering my mans is wielding that thing with 1 functional flesh arm), the fantasy aspect that came in with the berserker armor, that helped make it make more sense. His Golden age swords (not including zodds thrown to him against the black rhino knight) have probably weighed as much as common two handed long-swords. And Studio 4°c is killing it with making his swords logical.
casca: training and hard work and experience, striving to beat out her larger, stronger opponents with quick movements and thinking
guts: drops a giant piece of metal on his opponents
Shad has had more than a few tough times recently, so it's great to out see a video where Shad is having fun and doing a load of enthusiastic gushing about sword-based things.
You could see the childlike excitement of fighting with new toys here. 😆 The analysis was a lovely cherry on top.
Thanks for the update about the titan sword -- I'm actually getting kind of excited for it! 😁
Thank you for justifying my character with a giant sword in our realistic fantasy setting XD My DM used to be of the mindset that giant swords were useless, but these videos have made them change their mind!
They're never useless, they're just risky. You're trading really useful defensive and evasive ability for a guaranteed offensive ability. You essentially make it so that the worst case scenario is that both you and your opponent die. But all it takes is one opponent to make that trade.
They’re useless in that they’d be unusable due to weight and point of balance.
@@CorwinTheOneAndOnly Exactly, my DM was of the mindset that it would be too big to utilize, but now they agree that if you have the strenght then it has the offensive ability to counter the lack of defensive. And since we're playing a TTRGP that in many ways is very realistic (that being riddle of steel), simulating it wasn't hard. So now my character has the ability to cut people in half, but has to rely on dodging for defense.
@@Neptune0404 There's a guy here on youtube that does training with an actual 50 pound berserk sword. He definitely can't do any of these maneuvers, but the big takeaway from his videos is that it doesn't matter. The *point* of a superheavy sword IS the weight. You just need to be strong enough to hold the thing, and you can just let gravity to the work from there. If someone charges you, all you have to do is drop your sword on them, and they WILL die.
@@CorwinTheOneAndOnly Can you fetch a link for that? It sounds cool as hell
Have to give props on the sound effects during tests. It's a bit uncanny, but it's an excellent way to communicate hits, misses and blocks without being visually distracting.
Right. Some creators go with the "blood spurt" visual effect. Not my favorite.
This comment needs more likes! Those sound effects made it MUCH more fun to watch!
@@markfergerson2145 vfx like that sound awful for stuff like this, i prefer little circles pinpointing where the hit was
That beautiful epiphany:
"It's like a spear, but times a hundred!"
"It's good."
The attack pattern of these “colossal swords” is similar to the claymore and zweihander but you gotta use a lot more body weight to physically use the sword and switch only your body to get the sword on your shoulder again this can be seen in games like the soulsborne or monster hunter you can also hold the sword in a way to use it like a shield due to its enormous size so overheads slow side attacks and tackle will work with it
I’d like to imagine Tyranth’s just like behind the camera shedding a single tear while watching his swords get destroyed
Shad- "I'm too tired to make videos"
Also Shad- "I'm using the big sword!"
Nothing can beat your enthusiasm shad lol
You have my full attention with this project. Love to see the updates, but fully understand the time it will take. If it gets put off till next summer, make sure you do it right and don't try to rush through the process. Very excited to see the realization of this crazy idea.
It makes sense, but I did notice how the most effective attack styles mirrored naginata and other polearm techniques. Naginata often have a bit of a knob on the ishizuki, or butt, so you can do those big circular swings and allow the weapon to be at the absolute limit of reach.
I haven't quite gotten through this series of videos, but I'm curious if you'll chosen to add a bit of a flare to the butt of the final sword.
Your functional fantasy videos are so much fun. Great work from you and your team, Shad.
Hearing Mauler say "No one wants to read a ten paragraph essay" is the funniest thing I have heard all week
I’m a fan of the new direction with the channel. It’s different, but it still has the same vibe. It also allows Shad to not over exert himself.
You guys are having way too much fun doing this! It's a delight to watch. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 However, it seems to me that the Achilles heel of the giant sword would be anything other than a wide-open space (trees, walls, large rocks, formations on a battlefield), but it's still really cool that you guys were able to wield them effectively. I look forward to seeing the carbon-fiber giant sword in action!
I'm so happy for you and your channel, and all the people you've brought on. I've been watching more than ever lately. ❤
When I was teen playing AMTguard I built the McCloud FF7 sword. When I presented it to be inspected for safe use the guy laughed and said size didn't matter. "Let me show you", he said. Then I proceeded to destroy him. Basically everything you guys are going through right now was all the older gents trying to figure out why it worked so well. Thanks for the wonderful memory I had forgotten about. ❤
Bro didn’t know that Omnislash technically broke the 9999 damage cap with all of its strikes.
So not only is it a massive sword with a lot of range, but it almost works as a shield in close range as well!
I was thinking about that while watching. It’s a very defensive weapon.
That's how Monster Hunter 4 handled it
That shield usage is the key to using big swords
The Shword!
shad youre the reason ive gotten in to medieval fantasy. even more. thank you.
The giant swords were far more effective than I thought. I thought they would be too slow, but the range combined with the ability to change guards and the challenge with deflecting such a heavy weapon make it far more effective.
No shit, Sherlock.
@@danielantony1882 get bent
They would be way slower than in the video, my buddy is using a foam sword, but managing that amout of steel will make you WAY slower and dont allow any flexibility at all per strike, if you notice most of the attacks he manages to hit is changing the direction of the strike mid attack, which is impossible with a heavy object like that
@@amarokCA But his own version of the big ass sword is mostly hollow, so lighter.
@@amarokCA did you not even listen to the video?
That sequence from 3:33-3:42 was INCREDIBLE like HOLY CRAP motion-cap that and put it in a game!
I really love this new series of experiments you're running! VERY interesting stuff. Definitely looking forward to when you guys manufacture that test sword, excited to see, and hear of the results
The sparing matches were thoroughly entertaining, Along with sound effects and proper maneuvers this was better than half the sword fights we've seen out of Hollywood
anyways well done I hope the progress on the titan sword pays off.
I don't think anyone on UA-cam is having more fun that Shad.
It's sort of like the Mike Tyson of swords. Sure, you can block against it and it might not kill you immediately, but you won't be blocking for long.
Um...They had difficulty blocking it when it was foam...If both swords were metal, even if both users would have superhuman strength...yeah. Blocking would be virtually impossible. Growing weight does not have a linear effect. That's why a giant-sized beetle wouldn't have even half of the strength (relatively to its body weight) as a small-sized one.
Not to mention, the smaller weapon would be at a very high risk of being destroyed if you add the full weight of such a giant blade, gravity AND super-human stregth all working together.
So, I'll repeat again. If weapons were real and both parties had their strength raised to viable use the giant sword, blocking it would be virtually impossible due to how that increase in weight would affect the interactions.
@@kikixchannel yeh, exactly. You won't be blocking for long. Because it'll punch right through. Like Mike Tyson. Hence the joke.
Are you OK?
@@callmequaz9052 I think he's just trying to tell this to longsword freaks who think fighting a Giant Sword is easy.
Eww, what kind of comparisson is that?
This video made me remember that a few years ago I was actually trying to field test if the fighting style of the Abyss Watchers from Dark Souls 3 is doable in real life, and the results were surprisingly mostly positive despite the seeming impossible dual wield of a two-handed sword and a curved dagger. Since you are wielding a large sword in one hand, the dagger is absolutely vital for defending against opponents as you build up momentum and distance for a big attack. The signature sliding sweep cut surprisingly works as well, although I didn't have the pyhsique necessary for the comeback spin (and obviously not for the sommersault XD). But I'd be curious to see Shad's thoughts on it along with other fictional fighting styles that use big swords with acrobatic movements.
In regards to the actual video, the one thing I was missing in terms of testing was the giant sword vs the actual historical zweihander swords. Since those two categories are the closer to each other and most zweihander techniques are very much usable with giant swords as we've seen demonstrated. But doesn't this also mean that a weapon of similar working logic could effectively counter the giant sword? Just some food for thought there. Along that pattern, I'd be very much interested to see a part 2 with assymmetric pairups: that is, giant sword vs not sword weapons. Polearms, flails, axes and so on.
Also, floppy tip swords XD
This GIANT SWORD saga is really speaking to the Knightmare player in me. Man, I can't wait for you guys to get the titan sword made and put it through it's paces. Great stuff, Shad!
Interestingly enough, that "kung-fu maneuver" that trapped the sword between his arm and knee tells me that the "last clap" maneuver from Stormlight makes a lot more sense with the sort of giant swords they're using. Previously I thought it was kind of unrealistic.
That gave me Fate: Stay Night UBW vibes, cuz this exact technique was used there to catch a regular sized invisible blade.
@@FerunaLutelouDawg, don't even remind of that.
Yeah, sure, Medea gave a few magical buffs to Kuzuki's speed and strength, but that man *DAWGED* on Artoria with his skills! Like... I REALLY felt bad for her!
He looked like Killer Bee from Naruto😂
True though!
@@MrDibara He just caught her off guard in the first fight. iirc once she had fought him once his style didn't work on her because she knew his tricks.
Shadiversity with just Shad is starting to feel like "Top Gear with Just James May". Sometimes teamwork really does make the dream work.
Can't have enough of the passion radiating from these videos!
AAAHH MY GOSH I LOVE THESE PRACTICAL TESTING VIDEOS!!!!!!! please do more!!
Finally, a saga worth keeping up with.
I would be curious how it would fare against a traditional Zweihänder, or polearm. The thought experiment turned proof of concept stuff you're doing as a team is so much fun to watch.
Yeah I'm interested in how the zweihänder's parrying lugs will fare.
this brings me joy. never stop being awesome.
This just gave me an inspiration. Thanks Shad and team.
I love this, Theory vs Practice! Watching you and Skall for years bashing huge fantasy swords and efficiency of them with pure logical thinking, but when placing them into practice whole different story.
they should also make a single sided giant sword where the handle itself partially goes into the back of the blade, and there is a space between that handle and the body of the blade itself
I baaically thought of this same idea. A good example to look up would be the sword of "ragna the bloodedge" as it's basically exactly what you describe, but it is, an explicitly anime weapon, but the concept is there, also, instead of leaving a hole in the middle of the sword, make "swoops" in the back, against the rod that would act as the "spine" of the blade the the sharp edge would protrude from such that you would have a big "reasonably easy" to grab section in back to grab and manipulate, behind the blade.
The disadvantage of that is many of those draw cuts would become much less effective
3:35 Shad just looks like a madman with nothing to lose and this is why I subbed.
I love how much fun you guys are having.
It would be cool if when the Titan sword is finished he tries to bring it to a hema contest
Shad Fact: Those first few swords were - in fact - not foam. They were real, and Shad has bestowed extreme burst healing on his employees. He already had is, of course.
Awesome stuff, really interesting. Thanks again.
This was fun!! Looks like y’all had a blast too. Always good to see some excitement.
Love the sound effects, looks like so much fun
This is actually really interesting. What a great project for the channel -- I can easily see you do 10+ videos just on this sword.
I just love watching you guys do some fighting practice.^^
This is insane! I never really thought about how much the weight would come in to play and wow. I'm a game dev with some games with big swords in the works so this is really cool to see!
Keep at it guys, y'all are amazing!
Y’all look like you are having so much fun lol
Right, for your next test. REVERSE GRIP GIANT SWORD!
Imagine having the longest and heaviest sword possible and then negating all the benefit you would have gotten from that. I would still like to see it tried though, but I seriously doubt it could work, the balance would just be so fucked.
I appreciate that you guys get the historical facts right and help people understand how historical fighting really worked, but also can have fun with “but what if this did exist?” It especially makes it kind of fun for people who also like fantasy combat to see what is still pure fiction and what might be possible. It also makes you think differently about how you’d have to fight from a historical context.
This looks unbelievably fun.
You know, seeing how you guys fight with the titan swords, it makes me think there could be some validity to the fighting style of Siegfried and Nightmare from the Soul Calibur games. Using the blade as essentially a shield, keeping momentum going, and large quick strikes that would disarm the opponent
Trust me, if this was a more realistic scenario, albeit fantastical, the giant swod guy would kill the longsword guy in a single strike. People think you need to raise the sword to hit but you don't. If you have superstrength, all you need to do is provoke the normal sword user and chop him in half when he tries to go for your gaps.
@@danielantony1882 that's the Guts way. XD
This has me genuinely excited for the titan sword debut. I'm cautiously optimistic about the durability of carbon fiber, but the revelation of exactly how practical a giant sword can be is shocking and seriously cathartic to younger me!!
Catching up on y 'alls video's that I missed....you guys had WAY too much fun with this lmao. I love it.
I need a game with these moves in it! It looks so amazing! Thank you for your hard work gents!
These dudes are living their best lives. Like kids in a candy shop... a very sharp candy shop. I like to think that my recent Shadow of the Conqueror purchase is funding the Titan Sword.
It’s a blessing to see Shad with so much energy.
The added sound effects doubled the quality of this liked and subscribed
Thank you for making this video.
Also, finding Tyranth and keeping him was a miracle. He took oz's spot perfectly and it sucks Marcus had to go but I'm glad you kept Tyranth. Loving the new videos here and on knights watch.
A couple of years back 'Jairus of All' did a carbon fiber buster sword. While your project isn't exactly a one-to-one, you might maybe get in contact with him to get some build ideas and insight on big sword building.
Also, ngl, would be cool to see Shad's crew and him talking wild projects lol
I totally agree! I was thinking the same thing😁
You two are so cute and wholesome to watch, like childhood best friends who never got lost in the trappings of mundane adulthood. It makes my heart really happy to watch you play together! ☺️ thanks so much for sharing
Love all the clanging lol so glad to see Shad again!
I really like the Crew you got Shad.
Sure I miss Oz but these guys are pretty awesome too!