There's some testing you can still do even broken; it's a test we don't do with steel swords because we know by now how steel reacts to being hit by steel, but we don't know how carbon fiber holds up when getting hit by sharpened steel. After all, if this is to be a functional sword it needs to be able to hold up against clashes with steel swords. So mount the sword somewhere, and hit with various strengths starting with gentle parry behavior, to full strength strikes with a steel sword.
So when they couldn't win fairly, they tried dirty under-handed tactics. Viper, muscles and legendary, jokes more like. Even when the defenders while outnumbered, respected the raid rules. That's why I don't like PVP no honor or respect, courtesy people want to win so badly they will cheat to do it, which is modern video games.
Shad you should revisit fire arrows. Tod's Workshop did a video on fire arrows showing actual historically accurate fire arrows that won't got out with stronger bows and will stay lit under water.
"Do we blame the camera or the individual for childPor****" thats so true, but people just braindead and cant look over the fact that you can just blame the tech, tech is never the issue
There were blade length adjustment knobs on Anakin/Vader’s lightsaber, and was apparently something of a common feature to have. I also remember reading somewhere about the size of the blade increasing, not just in length, but width, through some kind of expansion of the field that is generating the blade. This required more power and drained the battery quickly, so it wasn’t used often. The Darksaber, as it is shaped, isn’t a lightsaber, it’s a vibrosword with a beskar hilt, however, since Disney has taken over, the way things classically should and shouldn’t be done has been thrown out the window, and suddenly there’s a black-bladed lightsaber with a blade that isn’t round like what a magnetic field would produce, and you get the other questions that were asked in your video. Classically beskar caused lightsabers to turn off, so the Darksaber couldn’t be a lightsaber because it would continuously be powered off by its own guard. The armor the Mandolorians wear would make them virtually immune to lightsabers, and very deadly opponents to Jedi and Sith. Disney has since modified this to where beskar is just hardy enough to “repel” lightsaber strikes and blaster bolts, “fixing” an error that they made for themselves by not following the original rules and cannon in the first place. Go figure, it’s Disney. They’ve messed everything else up, why not this?
Shad you talk way too much for this to be the main channel. I keep going down sidetracks which, yes may help me understand more but it’s not digestible for newer people.
Hey Shad. Fellow Australian here. I'm vaguely interested in the HEMA and traditional weapons scene and I want to ask, how do you have a hobby like this in Australia? I know our laws surrounding weapons and armour essentially boil down to "you can't have them."
OMG. Your videos are invaluable and precious for all swords enthusiasts and even historians. I can believe that after 20 years of martial arts, practicing, teaching and reading I'm still learning. Learning while being flabbergasted with my jaw on the ground. In theory I knew a lot about the medieval swords and steel, the inferior quality of the katana, but this is outrageous. Were they fighting with toy swords? You Shad, you are the real teaches' teacher. Thank you
Wasn't external whitewashing a more Europoean continental and North African thing? I'm not so sure british castles were generally whitewashed. Perhaps a few. And, true, the armour and weaponry displays tended to be Victorian gothic revivalists with arms and armour from various periods.
Some of the issue here seems to be manufacturing flaws. Find your local university rocketry team. They likely do custom carbon fiber layups, have very high build quality standards, and are likely to have free time in July to help out with a cool project like this one.
You havee literally made a sword katana that looks almost identical to the sword katana in bloodborne. I forgot what it is called but basically you literally made one of the bloodborne weapons from bloodborne
anti-ai art is the flat earth of 2024. so much false information garbage created by degenerate artists who are bitter about the technology making them feel inferior. you cannot steal ai art even if you tried. no ai hater can ever prove it. you can instruct the ai art to steal art and it refuses to do so. ''van gogh rats painting'' as a prompt will never give you his actual painting or anything close to it. meanwhile these artists are the real crooks who steal art routinely. kind of ironic how the anti-ai debate is one big gaslight.
Hey shad I can show you how to equivalently match Tyranth's power swings, it's half in the mind half body control. Think of yourself in body as a spring collecting power, and in the mind see it like an electrical capacitor storing energy. Focus both and don't hold back, give 100% of your "electrical" power to the nerve impulses in your CNS and "unwind the spring" 100% to the muscles. It's like standing still and imagining yourself exploding in force. Granted Tyranth is a larger person and somewhat more "designed" to do brute output, but I can see from your form that you have perhaps 15-20% more to give in your maximal effort hits. As they say in boxing and martial arts, power comes from the ground through the hips. Visualize "exploding" your "stored energy" as rapidly as possible, and simultaneously as collected into one single force-motion as possible. It's very tiring, much like doing a 1-rep-maximum weight lift. But I see through your body mechanics that you have a considerable amount of what I call "burst effort" speed of motion left in reserve - stop reserving it, think of yourself as a stored-energy-and-wound-spring combination, and train to unleash true maximum output and you can as I said see 15-20% better pure force strikes. After all, it's been proven that nervous control is the better half of physical strength limits refer to the NCBI.nlm.gov article "the cortex as a critical determinant of muscle strength". In a more esoteric summation: Mindforms are more powerful than body training. If given a set mass then the only variable is velocity. Rev up those nerve signals and hit harder.
What this shows me is club weapons are superior battlefield picks, up to the era of spring steel technology. What was the name of that iron-banded greatclub they also had in Japan? Clearly, those rocked. Swords were simply more convenient for everyday carry and use on regular clothie peasants.
How did you get a Gladius from United Cutlery to Australia? The site sends me to budk in the US which doesn't do international, it then redirects to another site which does not respond to queries.
