Meet a Real Modern Gladiator
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- Опубліковано 5 січ 2025
- Jan Krüger is a "genuine," trained in Italy, gladiator living in Germany. He also trains and teaches at Trier Germany's UNESCO listed Roman amphitheater.
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"After fight, we take together beer." Well, said! Well, said!
Spoken like a true German! ^_^
That's how fighting sports/reenactments shall always end
;3
Would love to try this out if I had the chance.
Same
One of the best interviews I've seen. Thanks also for showing - based on experience - just how much hard work and training had to, and has to, go in to this.
That’s such an awesome amphitheater I went there with my family a couple years ago and it was an amazing experience to go under and see how stuff worked and how it would’ve looked back then.. Great video
Thanks! And glad you got to visit it too!
I was there with an exchange group from Poland, it was awesome, this guy, the Lanista, made us a fantastic presentation, you could feel the passion in the way, he talks about it. He though us also the technics of fighting with this shield, spear and net, I remember it, as it was yesterday
1:17 what was with that spin?
didn't you know turning your back to the enemy is what wins fights !
+mcpartridgeboy i thought backflips and ninja poses were what wins the fight. oh well, you learn something new every day
Let It Gogu no your right and I'm wrong, of course a front flip is the most practical way to get from a to b and those ninja rolls are obviously so much more practical than walking, obviously the more spins you do the more advanced you are !
He spins to get rid of the net
@@dogukanozturk8547 And promptly gets himself stabbed in the neck. RIP
i love ancient Rome, i need to go here
LabesCaenumYT let’s make a time machine
You need to get captured and enslaved first.
@@tooyoungtobeold8756 You could make friends with Commodus, he was a gladiator fanatic. Then again, you could get shot full of arrows.
You gotta learn how to speak Classical Latin first
I'd love to get lessons for this
if i wasnt in the other side of the World i would be there every single day to learn how is to be a gladiator.
This is the first infomercial I've ever seen that made me want to buy the product.
1:16 did he just spin, with a scutum?
speen ATTACK
tbh he was probably trying to get free of the net
It's called a pro gamer move
He got caught in the net so he spinned to get it off
It's due to kickboxing muscle memory, he imagined himself executing a kick. As a a pure boxer that wouldn't happen becauseboxers never give the back to the enemy or you will get rabbit punched.
this was a nice video, but gladiator is actually swordsman is latin, it comes from the word gladius
A DAGGER FIGHTER to be precise. Gladius - dagger, the larger would be known as Pompeian gladius or its original name XIPHOS. The large sword would be know as SPATHA.
What does that have to do with anything?
Nop gladius is a shortsword, not a dagger
Gladius is sword or short sword, Pugio is dagger. Right?
Provocateur actually, Real gladiators didn't fight in coloseum to the death, thats a common mistake. In truth it was a respected sport game like boxing, the only killing is accidental like 1/10 of the Time.
I'd love to train like a gladiator. Training is intense. This should be an Olympic sport. I could dedicate 2 years
Hi, what are the dimensions of the shields at 3:45 and what sort of shield are they supposed to represent from history? Viking shields were circular and Upright shields were usually held with a vertical bar grip -- I've never seen a horizontal bar grip so I'm wondering if there were any historical shields that did it that way.
***** Celtic shields and Roman shield were like that, hit it up on google images and get some good celtic shields, they're formed like that with the horizontal grip
Max Loh wich of the longer shield types are held with an vertical bar? The scutum is held by a horizontal bar and kite/drop shields are held by a straping on the back.
Scutums had horizontal grips it allowed you to hold it hanging from your arm so it put less strain on the shoulders and arm.
There's a lot of optimized modern fightstyles out there, so I think this is not a Self Defence fight style at all.
but it sure is a good Workout disipline, looks fun, and what I consider the most value, in my opinion, is the Historical Knowlege.
I live only a few hours way from Trier and I never knew this was a thing haha
Más videos como estos, un deleite de ver en la tarde y con un buen te, me e canta
like he said, they more than likely survived. gladiators were investments and weren't thrown away by their trainers. gladiators main goal was to entertain, get cut up a bit, and get stitched up for next time
I have been to their show in Trier during Brot and Spiel festival days
I would love to participate in this training camp! So it's mostly held in Germany?
Man... it's stuff like this that makes me wish I live in Europe. Hahaha! Thanks!
@@GuroFerd Same!
"We are fighting real"
sees the wooden knife.
rofl
+Lichlord Kazam Yea and his he is a real Gladiator. Not a reenactor. A real gladiator would be in prison right now dont you think
Paul A yeah, but i mean they could rather use some metal blunt knifes and shortswords.
***** What I am sayin is why not just call yourself a reenactor if thats what you actually do. I dont see any problem with being a reenactor.
are you that stupid to think that they would fight for real?
Haha idiot, say that after you get your ribs broken by being stabbed with a "wooden knife".
The only legal metal weapons allowed are only in M1 and Knight Teams Vs* and even then they are made dull and you are not allowed to stab only slash.
The stupid ignorant OP bait Troll is not impressed huh
Gladius, buckler(Sun ray shaped sword catcher design), gauntlet for shield arm.. Full shield is only for open battle field against archers. Helmet should not impair your vision and need only protect the eyes from slash and I would wear a thick scarf around the neck. Weapon hand tends to be my favorite target until a mistake is made and you can generally use your enemies weapon to guide you to target. They should have combined gauntlet and gladius into one to free up the hands for grappeling and other things.
Very good démonstration ! i am french, and i am in the historical reconstitution in the XIVe ! but i like the fighting of Gladiator ! very good work ! Sorry for my english who is bad. :D
your English is probably the worst I've seen on youtube.
Anyone know that this is still a thing today, or is it not anymore?
I believe it still is! At least, these guys are still in Trier!
@@AdventuresofaTravelButterfly ahh I see, thank for letting me know. :)
3:53 on, is that joergsprave aka the slingshot channel? :o (the guy to the left)
No.
At first I thought it was a 3d animation his skin and armor looked so clean
Nice way of keep fit and must be funny as hell!
i really love to be in that training
Thought I was watching a Marc Felton productions video for a sec 😂
I would love to watch this even if they scored it with red paint... so cool
This looks fun, I would love to try it
OMG!
This is some awesome stuff!
But that class with no armor is some crazy stuff!
We need a lot of conditioning we need a lot of strange. Know the feeling I like me some strange as well
Hahhahahhaah!!!
You want strange? Try to piss,shit and run simultaneously.
Thank you for making my point
I recognize the 3rd century Dura Europos (eastern Syria) rectangular scutum.
I have the same since I now reenact a Crisis of the Third Century legionary.
I would really like to try it.. But im kinda far away from germany
From now on a million people will be following you down the road :)))
This have to be something special for all Ancient times fans :)
what is the song in the beggining, it sound gripping
Gladiator actually meant swordsman/ wielder of a gladius as that was what the original (as in the first) gladiators used and what their name is derived from
That's what he said
I ended here after watching Metatron's video about gladiator classes.
Same, I wanted to see the net guy in action 😂
OMG I WAS JUST THERE
Were some of the students her Belgian/flemish by any chance? Thought i picked up some dutch/flemish
-_- I was here like 1 day ago with school lol
Lol
I think the HMB or BoTN are pretty hardcore too, saw bunch of people with head bleed even in helmet.
I want to join this programme but I live in India
maybe one day we'll have a world wide international gladiator compitition.
What's the song at 0:01
i would love to see it back in old glory, sand, blood and beasts
I wish we had something like this here...I really do
The net that guy is using is very very light
+Cummajainen /// it has to be throwable and quick to use. What good would a heavy net be if it took a long time?
Treyr? That's AUGUSTA TREVERORUM - a former Roman colony, turned into a city over the centuries, right?
*****
Posso chiedere se "BARILLA" è il tuo "nick" o il tuo cognome? :)
...e comunque - sì - grazie! Lo sapevo era solo una domanda retorica.
Quello che non sapevo era lo "spelling":
"Trier"!... :)
Are there more gladiator schools in Europe?
Germany
We need to use shields as melee weapons more often, right?
Were do i sign up for this to real gladiator and fight with a real swords
Damn , i wanna do this , hopefully i will get a chance
What web site do you go to for this
One thing that I hate is when people try to relate or contrast a separate Asian martial art that they train, with a historical European martial art, when they are completely different combat systems and share practically no similarities . Kickboxing = Gladiatorial combat system, WTF mate!
+Chrominance87 really, it's all using the same human shape, all truly useful martial arts are broadly similar. I also think he more meant that it was a combat sport, like gladiatorial combat was.
When you are fighting for your life martial arts don't matter, it's all about surviving.
I can't do these activities. I lose my temper sometimes and I always get dark in my mind.
Great job done by this remarkable man. When I think of Gladiators and what they went through and look at the world now I don't see many changes. We clothe men in beautiful outfits, fill them up with mainly falsehoods of bravery as in bravery equated with death which is completely wrong, and they die. The Gladiators were brave men for sure, but their death was pointlessly gruesome and tragic. I wish I could time travel, though, and go back and see how mankind has evolved through the ages. Until that impossibility becomes real I will go with we have learned nothing. The modern world is the worst man has ever been. I wish the 21st century hadn't been a fucking dark age nightmare, but we are stuck with a lot of idiotic people and stupid means you get a lot of power intelligent and sensitive means people hate you. As you can tell we've learned nothing at all.
Sometimes it was out of the trainer's hands... the local magistrate or title-bearing person decided the fate of the defeated based on the mood of the crowd
never been in a sword fight in his life
I wanna go there
I want to train. I am group fitness instructor, strength and conditioning coach for sports combat, MMA coach (amateur), and 20 year martial arts. if I had the money, I'd train with you guys.
And, bring that knowledge back home.
This is awesome as hell
undoubtedly fun :)
Where can I buy equipment?
Probably Amazon - they seem to have everything.
6 days a week at 10-12 hours? Do these guys not work?
Looks like your fighting with cast arm and leg.. Lol.. But this is awesome tho.. Those Helmets in days must be very weighty.. And you have any Gladiatrix?
So if go to your gladiator ring
Then can fight you with real weapons
Not wood swords
Yeah but opponents are only allow to injure each others. No killings allowed ...
Slayer agreeable
yeah, I think the video said that gladiators would fight to the death about 4 times a year.
I mean maybe hes not a real gladiator because they dont kill each other, but thats kind of a good thing like if you lose or make a mistake your not going to die and you can come back and keep having fun. but has others said earlier gladiator reenactor, not real one.
Look at that scar on his eyebrow. Did he get that from gladiator fighting or kickboxing?
4:06 Are these guys Flemish, it doesn't sound German
My brother stayed in Trier for 5 months
For free?
What kind of helmet is that?
any of this in usa illinois?
We must bring thia back
I’m gonna start my own lanista
Sorry to say, but I don't think retiarius was fighting like showed here, and his net probably looked different ( with main rope around net , end kept between fingers to catch and bond oponent like lasso, and probably with small metal weights around net) . and they probably didn't wave net all the time, they kept it for ideal moment . sorry but waving net like that is a little bit useless, could be better to use spear or trident by both hands instead .
I would absolutely do this everyday for 12 hours
Lol, did that guy just do a spinning attack at 1:16 that left him completely exposed, which then got stabbed in the chest? Too many Hollywood movies.
I want to do this
4:33 is that a swastika on the scutum?!?!
It is. And so fucking what? The Swastika has a deeper history than the Nazis.
Seth Delmar Interesting, as I believe the Swastika is illegal in Germany.
*In late 2005 police raided the offices of the punk rock label and mail order store "Nix Gut Records" and confiscated merchandise depicting crossed-out swastikas and fists smashing swastikas.*
Valchrist1313 The German Strafgesetzbuch (Criminal Code) in § 86a outlaws "use of symbols of unconstitutional organisations". This concerns Nazi symbolism in particular and is part of the denazification efforts following the fall of the Third Reich.The law prohibits the distribution or public use of symbols of unconstitutional groups, in particular, flags, insignia, uniforms, slogans and forms of greeting.[1]
Whoever domestically disseminates or produces, stocks, imports or exports or makes publicly accessible through data storage media for dissemination domestically or abroad, means of propaganda:
Whoever:1. domestically distributes or publicly uses, in a meeting or in writings (§ 11 subsection (3)) disseminated by him, symbols of one of the parties or organizations
2. produces, stocks, imports or exports objects which depict or contain such symbols for distribution or use domestically or abroad, in the manner indicated in number 1,shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine.
(2) Symbols, within the meaning of subsection (1), shall be, in particular, flags, insignia, uniforms, slogans and forms of greeting. *Symbols which are so similar as to be mistaken for those named in sentence 1 shall be deemed to be equivalent thereto.*
***** Yea i'm not saying the swastika is a bad symbol(i know it has a deeper history than Nazis) what i'm concerned about is that the symbol is illegal where this video was taken(Germany)
Seth Delmar Yes, the sole exemptions are religious institutions like Hindu or Buddhist temples.
Even ironic or outright swastika hating images can get you arrested. There's at least two distinct violations here as well, because it is both a publicly displayed image, and is being distributed digitally.
Germany needs to let free speech prevail though. It's gone too far when you censor art that is not hate-speech. (Wolfenstein)
and then when two gladiators fought each other? What happens with the 90% chance then?
WHERE THIS IS?
I M CATALAN,HOW I CAN TO MEET THIS PERSON?
gladiators weren't used in a war as he says they were good at man to man combat however the romans fought in a line of men so they only had to train them to thrust so they could make an army in no-time because training them for man to man combat like he also says takes a 3 years to become effective the roman training could get the same effecencie in months
Actually the gladiators were used in a civil war in the year of the four emperors. Otho did not have enough legions to face Vetellius so gladiators all over Italy were pressed into service.
you score by touches?
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE SONG IN THE BEGGINING
Is something like this in Poland ?
In Gdansk or so ?
He was using the net wrong.
where is this.
Trier, Germany. In former (Roman) times, the city was called "Augusta Treverorum." It is Germany's oldest city, having archaeological records dating back to its founding, around the year 16 BC.
+Wags Jr germany
Not necessarily true. Trier (Augusta Treverorum) is a hot contestant for this title with three other German cities:
Worms (Bormetomagnus),
Kempten (Cambodunum), and
Mainz (Mogontiacum).
Everybody gangster till gladiator pops the Glock
Where can you buy this shit i want it
Wow this is cool man
"real"
What a mad man!
I feel like going there
why hasn't the guy with a net got weights on it ? his net is practically useless without them
It's a training net - just like a wooden sword. A net with lead weights could also be used like a whip. Besides capturing, it could be used to stun or slash an opponent. It could actually do damage. These guys are just training. So, wooden swords and rope nets.
xkopp375 I gewt that but its daft because a wooden sword replicates how and were a sword hits, a weightless net wownt act at all similar to a weighted net
True. But maybe they just considered it too impractical/dangerous for training? I dunno. Maybe the video makers can explain?
Didn't gladiator fights have sort of a circusy or professional wrestling-esque amount of showmanship, or theatrics?
Its like the art of stabbing joints has been completely forgotten.
I don't think Gladiator means sports man. Given that it comes from Gladius which means sword.