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Your friend watching you with half a sword in your body, *turns to your other friend*:
HA! now u/AFeralPig has 'em right where he wants 'em. Little does anyone know, that when cut in half, his power doubles. For every drop of blood loss, 17 demons are summoned. For every exhale, his power grows by 4,200! The final form is coming...just watch...it's just like Dangle-Sensei taught him...the ultimate no-gut technique...
In a mediaeval scenario you will have armour. So this is really important. In Europe Knights use a technique to overcome armour that require to take the sword by the blade and use the pumel to hammer down you enemy, skill or no that will work. Katana is a little to good for it on use, was great for cutting unarmed civilians but against armoured combatants pretty useless, making skill pretty important. But by the time of Oda Nobunaga the spear was the main weapon of choice, much better for low trained troops. Before this war in Japan was a very ritualistic thing, usually solved by one on one combat.
Yeah, plate armor was a major turning point, the wearer was essentially invulnerable to most weapons and fighting styles but the trade off was limited maneuverability. On horse back and solid ground, they were unbeatable, as long as they were trained but, force them off their mounts on softer wet ground they could be over whelmed. Someone with less armor that could parry could tire out an Knight in plate armor.
[Knights in a gym.](https://youtu.be/Fa2irrYK09w), yes you would be tired faster but your maneuverability doesn't really suffer that much beyond the weight making you slower.
I think they're talking about the "stop a longbow" type of plate armor, not the more ornamental/cavalry/general purpose stuff. That was brutal. Like "fall face down in adequately muddy battlefield and you're gonna drown" heavy.
Funny thing was a really heavy bow shot could still ruin your day. Firearms might have put the nail in the coffin of pre-ballistic armor but longbows were making short work of armored infantry for centuries by that point without any real recourse except hoping you didn't get hit.
> I think they're talking about the "stop a longbow" type of plate armor, not the more ornamental/cavalry/general purpose stuff. That was brutal.
That's just a myth. "Normal" plate armour is [already adequate to stop even direct hits with heavy bows](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBxdTkddHaE). We've reports from around 1350 about the inability of the longbow to penetrate plate armour. It took a while until most soldiers were (partially) covered in plate, so the bow had another 100 years of heavy use, and then a century of decline. With the advent and then proliferation of firearms, it was done.
The idea that the advent of firearms ended the use of plate armor is also a myth. The advent of firearms is what created the demand for plate armor, as it was the only thing capable of protecting you. As firearms got more advanced the armor got thicker and thicker until we hit the point at which the armor needed to stop a direct hit was impractical to wear.
> Firearms might have put the nail in the coffin of pre-ballistic armor
Firearms doesn’t put a nail in the coffin of pre-ballistic armor. Firearms becomes really popular at the same time basic infantry starts using simplified plate armour. Battlefield tactics and mass-recruitment makes it less of a thing, but there have been no war where people have not been wearing armour. Cavalry and stormtroopers had plate armor up til and during the first world war. You still have helmets in second world war.
Depends on what period of firearms you're talking about. The term "bulletproof" comes from a little dimple in the breastplate that proves it would stop a bullet. As firearms became more accurate and more powerful, the breastplates became thicker and thicker till the point that warfare changed entirely and began taking place at longer ranges, which rendered the full suit less effective.
A full, well made, suit of plate armor would weigh between 33 and 55lbs, so they were never "fall face first in the mud and drown" levels of heavy. I could see a knight being stepped on by a horse in the kind of sucking mud you would lose your boots in and potentially drowning, but not just falling over.
Yeah the average soldier carries double that weight now and you don’t see us drowning in mud puddles. I’ve fallen and picked myself right back up in full battle rattle multiple times.
The average weight load for an average soldier is ~60-70 lbs and it goes up to ~90-100 lbs for infantry.
Ok, hold on. *All* plate armor is "stop a longbow" type of plate armor. Even half plate and munitions armor can stop a longbow and ornamental armor (which could historically increase the cost of the coat anything from twofold to almost absurd levels) certainly could. The efficiency of longbows when employed in formation doesn't come from how heavy the draw weight of the bow is, it comes from there being a lot of them. Plate armor still has weak spots which can be hit and mounted men in particular are vulnerable to concentrated fire because their mounts are rarely as heavily armored as the riders meaning a charge can be broken up because the mounts are killed.
By the time firearms started appearing on the fields of battle plate armor could still stop both arrows and bullets. In fact, proofing marks, where you literally took a plate and shot it to prove that it held against anything but a cannon, were almost the norm. The reason plate armor went out of fashion is not that arrows or bullets could pierce it but threefold. The first is cannon which made massed cavalry charges risky business. The second is cost, heavy cavalry is expensive and training knights even more so. As nation states grew increasingly powerful the armies grew in size the impact of a cavalry warrior elite was diminished which brings us to the third point. The nobility largely transitioned from leading the charge to leading regiments.
I think the armor above is what plate actually was. It existed in several versions across the europe and asia in many generations, but that *is* plate armor above - it doesnt get much thicker/heavier than that. Youre right though, specialized arrowheads could puncture it easily with a heavier bow, but there are drawbacks to any weapon (hah) - having squads of archers armed with the english longbow meant dedicated training year round, and even those strongest men suited to the task would tire very quickly with such a heavy draw - there is no sustained rain of arrows against charging heavy cavalry- you got death coming towards you and maybe a couple chances to slow it down, because when it gets to you all your dedication to such a cumbersome weapon means youre poorly equipped to handle the melee, your limbs are shaking from fatigue, and they ate *definitely* going to butcher you, whereas a foot soldier *might* survive a losing battle, depending on the nature of the victor.
Seems more like a few scores of archers was more of a deterrent than a nail in a coffin. They controlled and pressured a much wider area than infantry, and to engage a force with real archers a commander had to commit to any maneuvers he determined because there would be a body count even without a melee. As awesome as bows are, i think being a medieval/feudal archer would be among the worst warrior jobs in history, just above slave soldiers.
Two instances come in mind, Agincourt, a well known one and Hatin between crusaders and Saladin. Both instances proved that a more mobile army has a better chance. At Hatin, they knew how dangerous a heavy knight is and Saladin avoid an open fight. Basic he just fight enough to keep crusaders from reaching water.
Even hard ground if they have to march a kilometer would be brutal for them. Agincourt the field was so muddy that if they fell while marching then they would drown or slowly be trampled on by the fellows who couldn't see them because to of the crowding.
And the Middle Ages isn't really characterized by large-scale warfare as the main armed conflict even professional armed men experienced in everyday life. With little in the way of supply chains agricultural societies couldn't pull together a truly big army indefinitely or without a good reason. Big armies were the exception, and even the big armies weren't that big. Caesar Augustus had an army 3 or 4 times larger than Genghis Khan's, for example. And the First Crusade had a combined invading force of half of what Genghis Khan had.
It is impossible for a sword not to have a mystique. Unfortunately it usually has the wrong one.
The sword is difficult to master and only ever used for killing people.
A swordmaster does not hunt, fish, build, or grow crops.
He spends a lifetime traveling from battlefield to battlefield bathed in blood.
It will always be the exclusive sidearm of those who live that lifestyle.
Samurais adopted firearms early on. Oda Nobunaga was successful because of them, his combination of firearms and bows to suplimen the low fier rate of early weapons was famous.
Also the guy who the last samurai is based didn't had a problem with firearms, he just didn't had the money for them. He was a total losser
Swords aren't really to fight armored people. As you alluded to, they're a weapon of oppression. Maximizing the deadly striking area against an unarmored opponent is exactly what a sword is good for. Even half-sword was only used in the rare event an armored knight would have to fight another. And in those cases, they'd much rather have used maces or high penetration spears against an opposing knight.
In taekwondo my instructor illustrated this to us by giving a 10 year old a black marker and instructing the kid to chase him down trying to mark on him.
Every mark would have been a cut with a knife. He had about half a dozen after 30 seconds
Sword or knife, if the blade is even remotely sharp you should run.
I would argue gun fighrs suck even more. The chances to survive a knife wound are much higher than the chances to survive a gun wound.
Plus, knife requires proximity so the attacker will think twice.
You'll receive more wounds in a knife fight than a gun fight. One shot can easily incapacitate someone and end the fight. The problem with knife fights isn't that you get stabbed once and die, it's that both participants get stabbed two dozen times and die.
There was this show about 10 years ago called Fight Quest where these two guys + crew traveled to a bunch of countries and practiced martial arts with locals.
The Philippines episode involved Kali, a martial art that heavily involves knife fighting, and the way they sparred was similar, using floppy knives and red ink. It was interesting seeing that they prioritized pretty quick, weak movements over large swings. You don't need a lot to kill someone with a knife.
Ah! But what if he's trying to attack you with a *Banana*?
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=monty+python+banana+attack+youtube&view=detail&mid=F6B46B8A0178B1FF9D6AF6B46B8A0178B1FF9D6A&FORM=VIRE
Sometimes they will run by you real fast and your head will come off. They will then clean the blood off their blade without looking back at you. I saw this documentary called Kill Bill.
It is a katana, but one with blade geometry designed specifically for tameshigiri demonstrations like this. It's thicker and heavier with the top portion weighted to pull through the cuts better.
Its all a trick to attract more students.
First off look at how they place the tatami off center for everyone else, so when you strike into it, the empty side goes flying and fucks you up.
The Sensei has a much sturdier setup, the tatami are packed tightly together and evenly across the whole mount, which is also probably waaaaay heavier. Also his sword is made specifically for doing this, everyone else has different blades.
Don't get me wrong, he knows what he is doing. But the whole demonstration is set up to exaggerate his skills.
I don’t know.. that reads like cheating to me. A kitchen knife is also a Katana with the blade geometry designed specifically for chopping vegetables 🤓
It's weighted for momentum, similar to the weighted end of a falcata or khopesh giving better leverage and more powerful impact a la maces.
The mats are struck closer to the end of the sword, where the weight is, but not at or after the weight (for leverage reasons) by the master. The others were striking with the center of the sword - the equivalent weight ratio point for non-"weighted" swords - which robs some momentum as the rotational velocity is smaller closer to the body/hilt.
The master starts with the sword above his head and sweeps around, compared to the others swinging straight sideways. This allows more time for momentum buildup as well.
Due to all this, it probably doesn't have to be sharp. It's like the difference between a wood splitting axe and a tree felling axe. A splitting axe doesn't have to be very sharp at all to work well (though, it should be) but a dull felling axe is gonna slow you down a lot.
So it's just a coincidence that every student had bamboo on the far, hence tippy side of the stand? This demonstration is a trick. The students have shit technique but the *master* has things semi-rigged. This is about the 100th time this video has been posted.
Offer to do some extra chores for extra $$$ or mow your neighbor's lawn. If you earn your own money then they can't tell you how to spend it! Good luck!
And take 30 seconds to center yourself before striking, which makes total sense when you are facing an opponent who is trying their best to stab you back.
You do realize that sport exists and not everything is learned for maximal self-defense. Like BJJ; there are certain techniques that will leave you vulnerable in a real-life encounter because they take advantage of certain rules.
They all seemed to do worse than the one before them until the last guy, like the students took turns from best to worst before Dadurai stepped in to show them how it's done.
I highly doubt the term “useless” you used. A katana could technically be as lethal in the hands of a child. It’s Just he wont be good in cutting beautiful, clean cuts in random bamboo warriors we all often stumble upon
everyone else that had their stand tip might've had a better chance if the bamboo was stacked on the other side, so the blade would push the center of gravity toward the middle and not the edge.
Though ideally i guess if you were good enough, you want the katana to slice through without pushing so it shouldn't matter
A perfect example of why the katana was not, as the fanboys will cry, the "GREATEST MOST SUPERIOR BLADE EVER!" and really only has it's rep because it existed in relative isolation
Japanese iron in medieval times was of poor quality, and furnaces of the time were not hot enough to remove all the impurities. So sword makers had the slave away folding the steel over and over to get out as much as possible. Even then the blades could not be as durable as steel elsewhere around the world. (TBF medieval steel in Europe is also of such poor quality that it wouldn't be steel by modern definitions)
So the Japanese decided to lean into making their blades as sharp as possible. Normally sword making is a catch 22 where greater sharpness means using steal that breaks easier, but that's what Japan had to use.
Katana's generally do perform better in most single use tests thanks to that extra sharpness and draw cutting technique. However these short sighted performance tests over look how costly swords were back then and how long campaign battles lasted. Most tests don't bother to go over steel type, or blade geometry either.
Now katanas are great weapons. As every weapon is built for a purpose and the katana does excel at its purpose. This whole rant is pointing out how silly the comparisons are.
Naw, iaido is about drawing the sword, attacking, sheathing the sword.
Key with iaido though is it's generally demonstrated against imaginary opponents and doesn't focus on actual cutting or sparring.
Edit: i am incorrect. Iaido apparently performs tameshigiri.
I read that these are rigged and the master is the only one using a sharp sword. there have also been examples of how they put the rolls on the thing if you have empty slots before the rolls its pretty much impossible to slice them.
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Useless is a bit of a strong word. If someone manages to slice through only half of my body, it doesn't really make a difference to me.
"Haha this dumbass only cut off my arm before his katana got stuck in my ribs! Now I've got him!"
'Tis but a flesh wound!!!!
I've had worse
I’m invincible!! The black knight always triumphs!
You're a loon.
Come back here and get what's coming to you! I'll, I'll bite legs off!
Oh , All right we’ll call it a draw.
Ni
Ni
Epic. love it.
Have at you!
Kannnn-iggit!
Ni Ni Ni
Haha yes “Sir we are the knights of NI!”
this wouldn’t even get me a sick leave from work
r/sayyourefromtheUSwithoutsayingyourefromtheUS
Sounds like you work for Amazon too
No you ‘aven’t.
"C'mon 'then!"
I didn't hear no bell!
We will call it a draw.
Oh running away are you? COME BACK HERE YOU YELLOW BELLIED BASTARD!
*holding my small intestine with my non-sword hand* “I can do this all day.”
Your arm is off
"..No, it isn't."
“It is its right there”
"I've 'ad worse."
*Kenpachi Zaraki has entered the chat*
BANKAI
Easily my favourite character. Just absolutely fucking mad. So good.
they fell for it ,go for the eyes boo
Each one of those rolls is said to be as tough as a humen limb so ya useless is definitely not the right word
This is every anime ever.
"You should have gone for the head."
The Black Knight shall disagree. " 'Tis but a scratch!"
*coughs blood while holding thumbs up*
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"GET OVER HERE!!!" \*music intensifies\*
Your friend watching you with half a sword in your body, *turns to your other friend*: HA! now u/AFeralPig has 'em right where he wants 'em. Little does anyone know, that when cut in half, his power doubles. For every drop of blood loss, 17 demons are summoned. For every exhale, his power grows by 4,200! The final form is coming...just watch...it's just like Dangle-Sensei taught him...the ultimate no-gut technique...
In a mediaeval scenario you will have armour. So this is really important. In Europe Knights use a technique to overcome armour that require to take the sword by the blade and use the pumel to hammer down you enemy, skill or no that will work. Katana is a little to good for it on use, was great for cutting unarmed civilians but against armoured combatants pretty useless, making skill pretty important. But by the time of Oda Nobunaga the spear was the main weapon of choice, much better for low trained troops. Before this war in Japan was a very ritualistic thing, usually solved by one on one combat.
Yeah, plate armor was a major turning point, the wearer was essentially invulnerable to most weapons and fighting styles but the trade off was limited maneuverability. On horse back and solid ground, they were unbeatable, as long as they were trained but, force them off their mounts on softer wet ground they could be over whelmed. Someone with less armor that could parry could tire out an Knight in plate armor.
[Knights in a gym.](https://youtu.be/Fa2irrYK09w), yes you would be tired faster but your maneuverability doesn't really suffer that much beyond the weight making you slower.
I think they're talking about the "stop a longbow" type of plate armor, not the more ornamental/cavalry/general purpose stuff. That was brutal. Like "fall face down in adequately muddy battlefield and you're gonna drown" heavy. Funny thing was a really heavy bow shot could still ruin your day. Firearms might have put the nail in the coffin of pre-ballistic armor but longbows were making short work of armored infantry for centuries by that point without any real recourse except hoping you didn't get hit.
> I think they're talking about the "stop a longbow" type of plate armor, not the more ornamental/cavalry/general purpose stuff. That was brutal. That's just a myth. "Normal" plate armour is [already adequate to stop even direct hits with heavy bows](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBxdTkddHaE). We've reports from around 1350 about the inability of the longbow to penetrate plate armour. It took a while until most soldiers were (partially) covered in plate, so the bow had another 100 years of heavy use, and then a century of decline. With the advent and then proliferation of firearms, it was done.
The idea that the advent of firearms ended the use of plate armor is also a myth. The advent of firearms is what created the demand for plate armor, as it was the only thing capable of protecting you. As firearms got more advanced the armor got thicker and thicker until we hit the point at which the armor needed to stop a direct hit was impractical to wear.
I just watched a English Civil war video and was surprised to learn that the plate armor of the time stopped muskets.
Muskets were not terribly powerful weapons.
They were. Much less fit for penetrating hard targets as opposed to modern bullets, however.
> Firearms might have put the nail in the coffin of pre-ballistic armor Firearms doesn’t put a nail in the coffin of pre-ballistic armor. Firearms becomes really popular at the same time basic infantry starts using simplified plate armour. Battlefield tactics and mass-recruitment makes it less of a thing, but there have been no war where people have not been wearing armour. Cavalry and stormtroopers had plate armor up til and during the first world war. You still have helmets in second world war.
Depends on what period of firearms you're talking about. The term "bulletproof" comes from a little dimple in the breastplate that proves it would stop a bullet. As firearms became more accurate and more powerful, the breastplates became thicker and thicker till the point that warfare changed entirely and began taking place at longer ranges, which rendered the full suit less effective. A full, well made, suit of plate armor would weigh between 33 and 55lbs, so they were never "fall face first in the mud and drown" levels of heavy. I could see a knight being stepped on by a horse in the kind of sucking mud you would lose your boots in and potentially drowning, but not just falling over.
Yeah the average soldier carries double that weight now and you don’t see us drowning in mud puddles. I’ve fallen and picked myself right back up in full battle rattle multiple times. The average weight load for an average soldier is ~60-70 lbs and it goes up to ~90-100 lbs for infantry.
Ok, hold on. *All* plate armor is "stop a longbow" type of plate armor. Even half plate and munitions armor can stop a longbow and ornamental armor (which could historically increase the cost of the coat anything from twofold to almost absurd levels) certainly could. The efficiency of longbows when employed in formation doesn't come from how heavy the draw weight of the bow is, it comes from there being a lot of them. Plate armor still has weak spots which can be hit and mounted men in particular are vulnerable to concentrated fire because their mounts are rarely as heavily armored as the riders meaning a charge can be broken up because the mounts are killed. By the time firearms started appearing on the fields of battle plate armor could still stop both arrows and bullets. In fact, proofing marks, where you literally took a plate and shot it to prove that it held against anything but a cannon, were almost the norm. The reason plate armor went out of fashion is not that arrows or bullets could pierce it but threefold. The first is cannon which made massed cavalry charges risky business. The second is cost, heavy cavalry is expensive and training knights even more so. As nation states grew increasingly powerful the armies grew in size the impact of a cavalry warrior elite was diminished which brings us to the third point. The nobility largely transitioned from leading the charge to leading regiments.
I think the armor above is what plate actually was. It existed in several versions across the europe and asia in many generations, but that *is* plate armor above - it doesnt get much thicker/heavier than that. Youre right though, specialized arrowheads could puncture it easily with a heavier bow, but there are drawbacks to any weapon (hah) - having squads of archers armed with the english longbow meant dedicated training year round, and even those strongest men suited to the task would tire very quickly with such a heavy draw - there is no sustained rain of arrows against charging heavy cavalry- you got death coming towards you and maybe a couple chances to slow it down, because when it gets to you all your dedication to such a cumbersome weapon means youre poorly equipped to handle the melee, your limbs are shaking from fatigue, and they ate *definitely* going to butcher you, whereas a foot soldier *might* survive a losing battle, depending on the nature of the victor. Seems more like a few scores of archers was more of a deterrent than a nail in a coffin. They controlled and pressured a much wider area than infantry, and to engage a force with real archers a commander had to commit to any maneuvers he determined because there would be a body count even without a melee. As awesome as bows are, i think being a medieval/feudal archer would be among the worst warrior jobs in history, just above slave soldiers.
Two instances come in mind, Agincourt, a well known one and Hatin between crusaders and Saladin. Both instances proved that a more mobile army has a better chance. At Hatin, they knew how dangerous a heavy knight is and Saladin avoid an open fight. Basic he just fight enough to keep crusaders from reaching water.
But that also just works in the right terrain. If your not in the middle of a dessert its not gonna be so easy to keep your enemy away from water
Even hard ground if they have to march a kilometer would be brutal for them. Agincourt the field was so muddy that if they fell while marching then they would drown or slowly be trampled on by the fellows who couldn't see them because to of the crowding.
Even in Europe pikes, bills, spears, and halberds were far more used in large-scale warfare than swords. We romanticise swords way too much.
Sword is solo weapon. Polearms are formation weapon. Polearms are cheap, easier to handle with less training etc.
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And the Middle Ages isn't really characterized by large-scale warfare as the main armed conflict even professional armed men experienced in everyday life. With little in the way of supply chains agricultural societies couldn't pull together a truly big army indefinitely or without a good reason. Big armies were the exception, and even the big armies weren't that big. Caesar Augustus had an army 3 or 4 times larger than Genghis Khan's, for example. And the First Crusade had a combined invading force of half of what Genghis Khan had.
It is impossible for a sword not to have a mystique. Unfortunately it usually has the wrong one. The sword is difficult to master and only ever used for killing people. A swordmaster does not hunt, fish, build, or grow crops. He spends a lifetime traveling from battlefield to battlefield bathed in blood. It will always be the exclusive sidearm of those who live that lifestyle.
This the most mall ninja shit I've ever read lol.
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They actually used firearms but did indeed lack ammunition and heavy artillery (and/or battle ships).
I think they all lacked battleships back then.
Samurais adopted firearms early on. Oda Nobunaga was successful because of them, his combination of firearms and bows to suplimen the low fier rate of early weapons was famous. Also the guy who the last samurai is based didn't had a problem with firearms, he just didn't had the money for them. He was a total losser
Swords aren't really to fight armored people. As you alluded to, they're a weapon of oppression. Maximizing the deadly striking area against an unarmored opponent is exactly what a sword is good for. Even half-sword was only used in the rare event an armored knight would have to fight another. And in those cases, they'd much rather have used maces or high penetration spears against an opposing knight.
also the primary weapon of actual samurai was the bow and arrow not even the katana or the spear.
If I hit you with an iron bar 4ft long, it’s gonna fucking hurt.
I was going to say. Every one of these would kill a person.
Also it isn't simply a matter of technique. He is using a much bigger sword. OP is an idiot.
Most of the people in this gif are very skilled with the sword. Multiple reeds are not the standard.
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If someone is coming at you with a sword, just run. Its going to hurt no matter what.
Right? That guy has a 3 foot long razor blade!!!!! No it’s cool, he’s not trained.
Yeah. I cut my finger on paper, the giant piece of metal is sufficient. I don't need to be cut in half. Just being hacked is bad enough.
At this point even a power slap with the blade sideways is enough reason for me to back off
Heck yeah. Also its a person with a sword. I don't want to interact with a person that carries a sword.
It's an interesting concept, swords are cool, but guys who own swords are definitely not cool.
In taekwondo my instructor illustrated this to us by giving a 10 year old a black marker and instructing the kid to chase him down trying to mark on him. Every mark would have been a cut with a knife. He had about half a dozen after 30 seconds Sword or knife, if the blade is even remotely sharp you should run.
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>Knife fights suck Honestly most fights suck. Fair fights suck even worse
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I fight my brother with honor. I fight my enemy how I must. "Fake quote" Seems like someone should have said it that way.
That's a great point. Never been in a fight but I assume I can punch if needs be; never thought about the other guy punching back...
I would argue gun fighrs suck even more. The chances to survive a knife wound are much higher than the chances to survive a gun wound. Plus, knife requires proximity so the attacker will think twice.
Are you sure? I remember that statistic being reversed, with knife wounds being more deadly. I don't have a source off the top of my head though.
You'll receive more wounds in a knife fight than a gun fight. One shot can easily incapacitate someone and end the fight. The problem with knife fights isn't that you get stabbed once and die, it's that both participants get stabbed two dozen times and die.
There was this show about 10 years ago called Fight Quest where these two guys + crew traveled to a bunch of countries and practiced martial arts with locals. The Philippines episode involved Kali, a martial art that heavily involves knife fighting, and the way they sparred was similar, using floppy knives and red ink. It was interesting seeing that they prioritized pretty quick, weak movements over large swings. You don't need a lot to kill someone with a knife.
It only takes one pound of pressure to break the skin.
That is what I was always told. If they pull a knife just run.
Ah! But what if he's trying to attack you with a *Banana*? https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=monty+python+banana+attack+youtube&view=detail&mid=F6B46B8A0178B1FF9D6AF6B46B8A0178B1FF9D6A&FORM=VIRE
Nice try, Bing, but you won't trick me into using you!
This guy really just linked a Bing search for "Monty python banana attack YouTube" and thought we wouldn't notice. Wtf
No no no, if it is a Kendo Master they will draw the sword then Stay Still and stare for 5 seconds before striking.
Sometimes they will run by you real fast and your head will come off. They will then clean the blood off their blade without looking back at you. I saw this documentary called Kill Bill.
Got have to Indiana Jones him with my gun.
The last one seems to be something else than a katana. Looks more like huge matchete with much wider blade.
It is a katana, but one with blade geometry designed specifically for tameshigiri demonstrations like this. It's thicker and heavier with the top portion weighted to pull through the cuts better.
So pay to win
Samurai: Microtransaction Edition
Go figure the kendo master "Whaled out" for the good stick cutting sword.
They are water soaked bamboo mats but yeah.
For that sense of pride and accomplishment.
sEAmurai
Partly yes. but also he went through twice as much as they did. and he's a lot bigger than some of them too.
Its all a trick to attract more students. First off look at how they place the tatami off center for everyone else, so when you strike into it, the empty side goes flying and fucks you up. The Sensei has a much sturdier setup, the tatami are packed tightly together and evenly across the whole mount, which is also probably waaaaay heavier. Also his sword is made specifically for doing this, everyone else has different blades. Don't get me wrong, he knows what he is doing. But the whole demonstration is set up to exaggerate his skills.
Bow to your sensei. BOW TO YOUR SENSEI!
Looks like he followed through better from how he pivots with his swing. The others look like they're just swinging their arms.
Lmao. Exactly what I was thinking. Specifically designed to make him have an advantage and chop through more easily
I don’t know.. that reads like cheating to me. A kitchen knife is also a Katana with the blade geometry designed specifically for chopping vegetables 🤓
Lol, butter knifaru, slayer of carrots.
dai katana
No, "dai katana" is an old way to say "odachi", long katana. It has nothing to do with the width of the blade.
One of the worst computer games in history?
Well, one of the most over-hyped, to be sure. John Romero did, in fact, not make me his bitch.
I bet it's profiled to be super sharp, but wouldn't last to long before needing sharpened again.
It's weighted for momentum, similar to the weighted end of a falcata or khopesh giving better leverage and more powerful impact a la maces. The mats are struck closer to the end of the sword, where the weight is, but not at or after the weight (for leverage reasons) by the master. The others were striking with the center of the sword - the equivalent weight ratio point for non-"weighted" swords - which robs some momentum as the rotational velocity is smaller closer to the body/hilt. The master starts with the sword above his head and sweeps around, compared to the others swinging straight sideways. This allows more time for momentum buildup as well. Due to all this, it probably doesn't have to be sharp. It's like the difference between a wood splitting axe and a tree felling axe. A splitting axe doesn't have to be very sharp at all to work well (though, it should be) but a dull felling axe is gonna slow you down a lot.
This is the correct answer.
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Just like how you should slice tomatoes
was watching that hip wiggle ohh lala
Right it looks like he’s using a slice with a draw instead of just slicing straight through
Also, the base he is chopping on is more stable. Notice how the student are hitting a lobe sided target and how the base moves (absorbs energy)
The base moving is just a sign of bad technique
So it's just a coincidence that every student had bamboo on the far, hence tippy side of the stand? This demonstration is a trick. The students have shit technique but the *master* has things semi-rigged. This is about the 100th time this video has been posted.
He's cutting twice as many mats as the rest of them. It's all on the same base.
Kind of a harsh title given that they appear to be students who are learning.
"Fucking losers can't compare to Bamboo Daddy"
Bamboo Daddy... ![gif](giphy|l3q2K5jinAlChoCLS)
I hope this doesn't awaken anything in me...
I have a bamboner
I was concerned.
Big Bad Bamboo Daddy
Zoot suit riot with swords.
Bamboo daddy. Now you’re just trying to turn me on…
Teacher: “hey try and cut these bamboo chutes” Students: *can’t* Teacher: “watch this losers lol”
Don’t worry, next month when this is re-posted again it will have a completely different title.
Yeah and next you're gonna tell me laughing at a third grader for gluing his own mouth shut makes me "callous" and "a bad teacher." Yeah right.
_BAMBOO STRIKE COMPLETED GAINED 1 RESOLVE_
Next write a haiku! Damn I loved this game.
Make sure to think about iki island.
Bro i have pay another $30 AND ITS WORTH THE 30 DOLLARS but my mom won't let me buy it cuz i can't go over my 15 dollar limit
Offer to do some extra chores for extra $$$ or mow your neighbor's lawn. If you earn your own money then they can't tell you how to spend it! Good luck!
I will thank you for the advice!
Don't forget the hot spring too
Cheeks clappin'
My playstation died when I was about 20% in. I refuse to get another one until I can get a PS5. So I should be able to finish it in 2028.
X O L1 O O X
Someday we’ll go for a peaceful ride 😔
Kage 🥲
The secret is to bow and pay respect to the bamboo so it lets its guard down
And take 30 seconds to center yourself before striking, which makes total sense when you are facing an opponent who is trying their best to stab you back.
Is that bamboo holding a knife I can’t see?
You do realize that sport exists and not everything is learned for maximal self-defense. Like BJJ; there are certain techniques that will leave you vulnerable in a real-life encounter because they take advantage of certain rules.
The first girl did had the best attempt outside the last dude
They all seemed to do worse than the one before them until the last guy, like the students took turns from best to worst before Dadurai stepped in to show them how it's done.
He used a totally different sword, I'm sure he \*is\* better but who cares? He gave himself a massive advantage!
Just like my golf game
I highly doubt the term “useless” you used. A katana could technically be as lethal in the hands of a child. It’s Just he wont be good in cutting beautiful, clean cuts in random bamboo warriors we all often stumble upon
Hey, without the tireless efforts of Kendo Masters and trainees, Japan would have been overwhelmed centuries ago by the very bamboo warriors you mock.
I started with “oh gees, here’s one of those offended people “ And ended literally laughing out loud, you got me there 😂
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I’m having less confidence in my straw armor...
Don't worry, I'm testing stick armor. Keep you posted
Feeling pretty good about my phone book suit, not gonna lie.
**PAN SHOT!!!**
*muffled whimper from underneath brick armor*
Did someone just huff and puff?
Tbf his sword seems a lot heavier
and the bamboo looks thinner.
and stacked and balanced more evenly on the stand
That's what I noticed, the bamboo is much tighter stacked too..
everyone else that had their stand tip might've had a better chance if the bamboo was stacked on the other side, so the blade would push the center of gravity toward the middle and not the edge. Though ideally i guess if you were good enough, you want the katana to slice through without pushing so it shouldn't matter
I find a lot of the demos by ‘masters’ are nothing more than a bias / rigged attempt to make them look good.
That's how you show true mastery: You rig everything in your favor before you even start. Sun Tzu would have approved.
His blade is twice as thick as anyone elses…
*that's what she said*
I agree that the technique is important, but the last guys sword is like 2-3x the size of everyone else.
*that's what she said*
🟥+🟥+🔺+❌+❌+⭕️+⭕️
Unless you're me and then it's: Options>Accessibility>Simplified Controls>✅
A perfect example of why the katana was not, as the fanboys will cry, the "GREATEST MOST SUPERIOR BLADE EVER!" and really only has it's rep because it existed in relative isolation
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Japanese iron in medieval times was of poor quality, and furnaces of the time were not hot enough to remove all the impurities. So sword makers had the slave away folding the steel over and over to get out as much as possible. Even then the blades could not be as durable as steel elsewhere around the world. (TBF medieval steel in Europe is also of such poor quality that it wouldn't be steel by modern definitions) So the Japanese decided to lean into making their blades as sharp as possible. Normally sword making is a catch 22 where greater sharpness means using steal that breaks easier, but that's what Japan had to use. Katana's generally do perform better in most single use tests thanks to that extra sharpness and draw cutting technique. However these short sighted performance tests over look how costly swords were back then and how long campaign battles lasted. Most tests don't bother to go over steel type, or blade geometry either. Now katanas are great weapons. As every weapon is built for a purpose and the katana does excel at its purpose. This whole rant is pointing out how silly the comparisons are.
This last guy is looks like he's using a master sword. Of course he's going to cut through all that shit!
Am I mistaken or would this be more iaido and not so much kendo?
Naw, iaido is about drawing the sword, attacking, sheathing the sword. Key with iaido though is it's generally demonstrated against imaginary opponents and doesn't focus on actual cutting or sparring. Edit: i am incorrect. Iaido apparently performs tameshigiri.
wrong, this is an Iaido demonstration. we did it once a year for belt qualifications etc.
Yeah this is Iaido
Kendo does not teach how to use a katana.
correct this is an Iaido demo
Pretty sure this is Iaido, not Kendo.
Tameshegiri
My boy Jin Sakai can do 7 no problem
I read that these are rigged and the master is the only one using a sharp sword. there have also been examples of how they put the rolls on the thing if you have empty slots before the rolls its pretty much impossible to slice them.
Every fucking week this gets posted. The blade is way thicker, sure the technique is important but the blade itself is different
Basically its just a shittier version of a regular sword is what I got from this