Biggest KATANA misconceptions DEBUNKED 

Now that's a good grade for a book, I've experienced a few such reads/listens myself :)

dude. you didn't even look at the swords when you sheathed them. that was unexpectedly badass.

The only time that's happened to me what when I read Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way

The only non 40k book on my audio library.

it is one of the most unique worlds I have ever read in any book. only a few chapters in but already amazed at the world building aspects of it. quite good I must say.

dude on god

You should see how he loves his wife and children

They're gonna make a video talking about your sharpness, durability, and curves.

@@kinguin7 "It's very durable, but it's not the best at thrusting. The range isn't very good either, but it gets the job done."

@@oolooo I forget which video it was, but just the thought of something happening to his family brought him to tears. I had no lack of respect for him, but that just made me hold him above every other RU-vidr or online personality

Wouldn't you?

Hahaha and at the end he sheaths the katana without looking.

@@thearisen7301 Massive Flex.

Is that Leah from Stardew Valley on your profile? She is best girl!😂

I wanted to comment the same thing.

Somewhere else, something suddenly split in half.

I wonder how many takes it took to get it that good.

@@carsonburkholder1548 Take it from a guy that trains with katana in a proper dojo. Sheething a katana without looking, in the way that Shad does it here, is easy :)

Yup. I don't like pinching the katana blade the way Shad did as he sheathed it. Please don't touch the blade, even when sheathing? Not good for the metal.

@@Krishnaeternal Our school does cover the koiguchi with the pointer finger and thumb so the blade doesnt make contact with the saya. But we dont touch the blade with our fingers. The blade only touches the hand between where the thumb attaches and the part next to it, if that makes any sense.

You just need the power of friendship

and a rival that goes "M-masaka?!" everytime you breathed differently

Maybe you just need to fold it more.

You need to learn a type of breath first and master it

@@ub-4630 katana form 3 folding

How do I like this twice? XD

Neighbor: Honey... the sword nerd next door’s yelling at a camera about his weeb stick again!

Husband: Baby, bring me my Katana and a camera, I have a new lesson planned for the day...

Sounds like something my dad would do.

@@alexrobinet7576 I like your like.

proud of u without knowing u

lol same

~You need Metalurgy to research Rifling

See I dont watch shad anymore his videos I used to take as fact but I've noticed he injects his opinions above the actual weapon I wouldn't say katana is the best but id say its cut ability is better than longsword and broad sword, want proof have shad try both against a tatami mat

Curve doesn't help with cut ratio?? Shad are u getting stupid? A curved blade is tried and tested to increase cut capacity

Bruh

Dude you're not wrong. You find find images and books about them everywhere. People say they're over rated but if anything they just were pushed everywhere for some crazy reason.

Katanas are way too publicized and marketed... I personally like katana’s because it is cool to hold it... but I would also love to wield a zweihander, long sword, or Scimitar. Because it is cool... I’m just too poor to afford a cheap long sword, Scimitar, etc...

@@glasslicker2829 haha, yeah, the Zweihänder looks so cool, the guys got double pay even back then, although it soon proved to be virtually useless. But yeah, for a decent cutting device, the katana feels darng ergonomic. A bastard sword, although maybe more versatile, feels much more like "aehrm, ok....blunt end, pointy end, ok....how am i supposed to use this? Is there a manual?"

It really doesn’t help that cyberpunk latched on to them early and hard

Tasty

Therefore katanas are one of my favorite pastries

Mmhh japanese butterloaf. Can get it here in Hawaii from local japanese baker. Almost asvgood as the swiss original.

Gives a new meaning to the phrase "taste my blade"

@@modulo3664 where the hell is that a phrase...genuinely curious

*Laughs in executioner sword*

*Laughs in anime giant shark laser fuck you sword*

*Laughs in daemonic Acursed Croxius*

Damned pole arm users.

*Laughs in Katana R1 running poke*

I see Skyrim reference, I upvote.

Australia is akavir confirmed.

Red Floyd they both have enough super deadly stuff on them.

Wooooh, wait wait wait, hold up! The nords are surprised about scimitars, but the blades walk around with (curved) katanas. I just had an aneurysm. . .

@@DrownedLamp Remember, the Blades were basically the Secret Service. Not exactly the most public figures.

"So I flung his videos into demonitized and now the fool seeks to return to the home tab to undo his subscriptions to the anglophiles and weeaboo." (Couldn't help myself)

*Samurai Shad music plays*

@Sightless_Seeker Ah, but you underestimate the power...of his Machicolations!

@@VikingBadass94 while eating spaghetti bolognese !!!

@@majdjinn5042 i see we have a man of culture here !

underrated comment

Is that??? A fate reference

Ooooh thats why clocks have only 12 hours on them.

@@nimra_4679 only in the us

@@jibrilherrcherofhorny4448 actually, analogue clock have 12 hours everywhere.

but greatsword is greater

Except he would never call that length a greatsword. The thing on his back is a long sword.

Realistically no sword is the best sword as they all have a particular purpose even differing in the same purpose for example while a Katana is great for cutting, but it is designed for two hands and there are other swords that are also great for cutting, but only require one hand so on and so forth

@@tyrant-den884 except you missed the joke

@@NobodyDungeons yep🙂 uwu falchion.

Love how he really makes sure to look like he doesn't focus on it, which kinda gives it away :D

@@buttan3399 my guess is a lot xD

That happend so naturally, i didn't even notice it.

Awesome!

@@buttan3399 Right. There is that ominous cut right before the nonchalant successful sheathing ...

Hahaha. Good one

@BoringBone If you additionally grow out a full neckbeard with that Fedora, you will be granted an extra +20 slashing attack ability bonus.

That depends. How long have you studied the blade?

That's a misconception, though technically true A katanas cutting power increases with raw charisma and sexiness, which is increased significantly by wearing a fedora

No, its cutting power increases only if you're using the Hiten Mitsurugi style of sword fighting. ;)

forgoing effectiveness for style points is a very respectable thing to do.

katana- Really good cutting and dedication Longsword- Swiss Army knife of swords. good cutting, stabbing, and craftsmanship.

Katana is cool but i prefer mace

While I like European swords on the effectiveness stance, I'd agree with the 1500's Dutch in that katanas can be really pretty.

for me, I would just use the katana as a display only cuz imo, I like the sabres better

abnd a M16 and Ak47 in his hands :)

@Wil E MONADO BUSTER

@Wil E They took a lot of greek inspirations in the series. And now Monado is technicaly also an Aegis sword. It's also nice to see another man of culture here.

Both weapon are good on their own term

Hadinata Santoso that’s the same discussion as “katana vs (sword)”

They already do.

You think the human race will be alive in 400 years? Here's to optimism

@@collinderrick2159 I thank all you edgelords for providing immediate cringe for the rest of us to enjoy (:

Thank you the insightful comment. Highly appreciated.

you realize the folding stage was primarily used for the inner steel right? So that whole rant about how folding makes it weaker just goes up in smoke because its supposed to be weaker to absorb more shock. And its not iron its the weakened softened folded steel that is the core for katanas. The moment you started saying “i love katanas but” i could tell from your tone your just mad that katanas were better than medieval swords

@@sincerelymine I said that my clan's samurai, and going back as far as our daimyo during the Sengoku period, loved guns more than they loved swords. My great great great grandfather had routinely carried pistols in place of the traditional daisho set, with his daito as a backup in some circumstances and his wakizashi in others.

@@sincerelymine Bruh you're probably like 13, the only thing weak rn is your grades

@@sincerelymine "the folding was for inner steel" doesn't make sense. They draw and forge the whole thing. You wouldn't forge weld 2 separate pieces like that, and I dont even know how you would. I blacksmith, and im a welder for a living. I know metallurgy. What you said doesn't make sense.

I think that's something that a lot of people miss in these topics. Yeah, people go over-board with over-stating how good katanas are. But.. their blacksmiths were absolutely amazing. If you pluck the best Japanese blacksmith and put him in Europe, where some of the best iron was and steel was produced, he'd probably make some of the best weapons in the world. Not to say there aren't good blacksmiths in Europe, but the Japanese ones had to work much harder and innovate more to compensate. Which is why some of their techniques is used now, elsewhere.

That’s a complete bullshit myth promoted by American steel companies in the 1980s. Japanese still is high quality in terms of carbon content, but very little of it actually exists in japans natural landscape. Shows what you know fool. You just bought into moronic British and American propaganda from the 80s Japan boom. None of that is based on reality.

America is a rogue state that has invaded far more countries than Japan bigot boi.

@@horusschnopp1882 One of my great uncles had a story about coming home after WWII. He was on a supply ship that carried spare parts. They were just getting going when they cracked a propeller drive shaft. They had spare parts for practically every kind of ship in the fleet... except their own. They were also one of the last to leave, so it would be months before a replacement could arrive. So they asked the locals about who in the area might be able to make them one and got pointed to this old blacksmith up the mountain. They dragged the broken shaft and a spare for a larger ship up the mountain to this fellow's little forge and told him through an interpreter that they needed him to make the new shaft into an exact match for the old one. He took some measurements, thought a bit, and said it would take him three days. Two days later they received word that he had run into some unexpected difficulty since the shaft was too big to fit in his forge and it would take some extra time. Two weeks later they finally got word that the new shaft was ready. When they arrived to inspect it they could hardly tell them apart. Length was the same... Diameters were the same... Bearing races were exactly right... And they were both cracked in exactly the same spot and the crack was very nearly the same shape... They called the interpreter over to ask the smith about that and his answer was that he was sorry it took him so long, but he hadn't seen that crack when he was first inspecting it and since he'd never tried to do something like that on purpose before it took him some time to work out how to make a steel shaft fracture like that and then more time to scale his tools up to do it on one so large. He was very proud of himself (and rightly so!) They explained that the crack was the reason they needed the new shaft and that they'd really like one without that feature and with another spare to start with he banged it out for them in three days. Never underestimate what a skilled smith can accomplish with simple tools.

@@gibsonflyingv2820 lmao weeb mad that their shit country isnt number one unlike the USA lmao stay mad lololol

You can wield that though

This made me lol

yes

@@tjthegreat7 Well not as a sword. It be pretty hard to swing it around only at the end of the handle the way you use a sword

That thing was too big to be called a sword. Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron.

He's a Level 45 Swordartist

Shad in this video has AT LEAST gotten Extra Attack. Probably has his level 7 fighter archetype feature too.

By 2025 he'll be dressed in full plate (or foam/leather larp plate) in order to demonstrate dominance

Angry Skeleton by 2030 he’ll be on horseback in all of his videos

@@etienneruche2844 He's totally a Battlemaster

Facts...

id say its mostly the situation your in.

Every sword is suited for it's own purpose in it's own time period

Wrong, the cavalry saber is the best sword

​@thesmogo in the 18th century it would be amazing, now send a cavalary sword to a 14th century battlefield and let's see its performance against a fully plated knight with a lance and an armored horse

dinliner08 try bleaching it

@@FortuneBlackAnimations W.I.N.N.E.R.

it's ok, you can still unlock shikai once you learn it's true name

@@FortuneBlackAnimations GENIUS

@@ChineseWinnie don't get my hopes up

Lol. Guess u could use that sword to whack people as well

Iron sword eh? Good for catching butterflies..

hey look on the bright side. once you hit a low enough carbon content, you won't need to heat it up for forging any more. and just so you know, cold forged iron blades are as sharp as it gets, they make scythes out of this stuff to this day even when mild steel is actually cheaper than pure iron.

@@UnholyTerra Le gasp! Why would I want to use it on a poor defenseless butterfly?! I use it for slaying dragonflies, thank you!

Hey, keeps the fairies away.

Only with reverse grip

Well, apparently both can’t be switched off and on in battle. And both are missing a pommel. So it’s essential the same. 🤔

Also the other way around since using kendo with lightsabers would be quite silly when they don't have any blade weight. Nonetheless George Lucas liked samurai movies lol

@@Sheepyhead Didn't the blade of lightsabers have weight in Legends?

That's obviously ridiculous. A katana will cut clean through a lightsaber.

Yep. One of the reasons the saber was the sword of choice for cavalry... you can't really focus on proper edge alignment while controlling a horse and swinging at people trying to dive out of the way of being trampled.

I instantly became a curved sword fan.

I always wondering what the advantage was, because I always felt it had to be more aesthetic

@@Rainbowthewindsage Shad has a video demonstrating the increase in edge-length on a curved sword. This has big benefits for cutting.

But.. but.. muh Judgement Cuts. - *Made by the Vergil gang*

Katana doesn’t have a plural form Same with all Japanese words

But is it an instrument?

But the literally do cut through Space Time.

zelith fang. no it is a tool

Beware of the german guys. Heard they are coming to the Hood

@@sirxarounthefrenchy7773 Guten Tag, wie kann ich behilflich sein?

@@sirxarounthefrenchy7773 i'll be sure to avoid the danish straits anytime soon.

Beware XENOS CHAINMAIL IS HERE

Why don't just wear power armour? 😂😂😂😂

You missed the point. All weapons are not equal, some armor is factually superior, more durable and lighter than others.

@@crazylegs5063 funnily enough, _you_ missed the point that Steve was making, so, ...as much as you saying he missed the point, you did so too by a greater amount !

Ikr

He has gotten better at sheathing his blade too

I'm going to call all back scabbards "shabbards" now

I really need to get around to making a shabbard for my grosse messer.

Shadbard !!

Same

Same

Yes! I was searching for another one who was as excited about it down here in the comments. Loved the way how casual he is about that as well

Not just me, then...

I puckered my butt when he did that downward slashing motion toward the upturned blade.

Quite sure the blades are dull enough for them to not be a worry.

@Todd Jenkins No. Even razors don't cut you unless you move your hand ACROSS the blade, or force the edge into yourself by pushing it with more force than what's required to grip it. You can grip the blade of a sword and swing it around if you want so long as it doesn't slide. Look up 'mordhau' or 'murder stroke' where the weilder grabs fully on the blade and strikes with the crossguard. Or in some cases, halfswording, where the weilder grips up onto the blade to use it like a shorter blade/dagger. I'm saying with how Shad moves his hands *moving* them around the blade I worry he'll cut himself. He hasn't done it yet I don't think she'd usually shows us those sorts of accidents. I'd be more ok with it if her actually did grip the blade and hold it instead of moving his hand around it so much lol If by 'tapping' or 'touching' you mean you smacked your hand on it, then that's enough movement to cut you. If you mean *touching* it, not swinging your hand at it, then it won't cut, so long as you don't move along the edge, or apply too much force.

5:28

Good way of putting it, but the water is still pretty damn clean.

analogy doesn't work great.

@@NafedalbiFilms it's a perfectly good analogy actually

And in the end, distilled water is still more pure than filtered water, the same way crucible steel is the purest

@Sewer Inhabitor and there we have the next myth. That only works in cell cultures, not human bodys. You're totally fine if you drink normal amounts of dist. water, but with water with ingredients, it depends on these. Sure there is mineral water and shitty mineral water, but dist. water is allways as good as the best mineral water, because the "good" minerals are in such low concentrations that they do not realy matter, as long as we talk about water and not for example beer. You take those in with your food, not your water. Google it if you dont trust me. Kinda like with the Katana steel vs crucible steel. Most filtered water atleast in Germany does a decent enough job, so you do not need dist. water, but it is never worse. A carbonfibre reinforced magnesium-titan sword would be beer in that analogy. That is also good to know, if youre somewhere where you can not be sure, about the quality of the water you can get. Just buy some dest. water at the gas station and you're allways fine. But it will taste like nothing. The Katana steel looks better, so i gess the analogy is even correct on this point.

Same

Yep, sadly yep

For me it was more like Adult me: Yeah he’s *bamm* Teenage Me: Shut it old man. Katanas are friggen cool.

/\ found the weeb

David Pena by the 1700s it was probably true that the average steel used in Europe was better than the steel used in Japan. However the average Katana was very comparable to European swords of the time (sabres, cutlasses etc) because after the crossbow and then gun was in common use efficient cutters were all that was needed because people didn’t wear Plate armour or even chainmail anymore. So we would have to compare swords from the Middle Ages in both Europe and Japan to see a big difference and most of the examples we have from both places of that age were prised possessions of wealthy families and were likely very well made for the time.

Nope but he might with a gun....

And that’s exactly why he will

Good for the intruder

@@machinaanguis4998 shadows are our friends

@@machinaanguis4998 And that's why I have my gunsword. Shoot AND stab.

But it IS a very cool sound effect

Back when I did re-enactment fighting I sometimes let the sword slide softly on my mail hauberk when I drew it, just to get that sound ;)

Sarumano Well.... You can kinda do it. If your Scabbord has metal on the top where the hole is you can slide the blade across it while taking it out. That was a strange explination.

@@sirsmellybottom7480 That's true, actually. Hadn't thought about it, but then I checked my sword scabbards and found a parade sabre scabbard that did just that. I don't know if real sharp fighting weapons would use that kind of scabbard, though. I feel like it would ruin the edge.

I actually installed a small metal plate into my katanas scabbard on the back side so it doesn’t damage the edge just so my sword goes shinnnnnnggg when I draw it. I love that sound lol.

Also, people misunderstand what it means to fold steel. There are people, even famous fantasy authors, who seem to think it means you start with a thin sheet of metal, and with repeated folding and welding of that sheet you somehow end up with a bar of strong steel that can then be essentially carved into a sword. Madness!

Yup, that's exactly how I thought of it too

562,949,953,421,312 will be around 100km thick.

Because science.

@@evennot No because you hammer it back to the desired thikness every time you fold it

So there was a zoro in Japan once

I don't think it would have. Japan is a lot smaller than most feudal kingdoms would have been in medieval Europe, so each lord in the Sengoku period would have had more relative power to the whole of the archipelago, and I'd think wars would affect each fiefdom's ability to function more than a larger kingdom like France. This is just a hunch though, so be nice.

@@gangrenousgandalf2102 Japan is not really small though. Honshu alone is larger than Great Britain.

I don't know, but there is precedense for wars and conflicts and worsening quality of equipment over time here in Europe. In WW2, many T34 tanks differed quite a bit (for worse) from how they were intended to be equipped so as to speed up production.

​​@@gangrenousgandalf2102 I don't think that is accurate. Japan may have been smaller that European nations in the High Middle Ages and early Reneisance - both in territory and land suitable for cultivation - but the population was much higher. 16h century Europeans were utterly schoked at the size of Sengoku armies. I think it has something to do with rice vs wheat/barley as staple crop. It supports larger populations.

Except "nihonto" means "Japanese sword," actually a more accurate translation would be "Japanese blade."

@@corneredfox Yeah, but tell that to the guys that made the movie

As far as I can see, "katana" comes from "kata" (one-sided) and "na" (edge/blade). So it means "one-sided blade".

@@Liggliluff katana consists of only one kanji. The kanji for one-sided is completely different.

@Dreyarde I've been in Japan for 30 years (link to my website is in my profile). Katana just means sword. The interesting thing for me though is how did the Japanese in medieval times look at western swords, what did they call those? I'll have to check that out one day.

@@rhcpdragon746 Show us on the dolly where the bad man touched you.

Whether or not you stole this comment doesnt matter, its a funny comment! If your wondering, there is a comment posted 4 months ago that starts with the same few sentences

@@ZLemons I dont bother reading that far down into the comments. I just imagined my weeb mates reeling at it. Obi Wan was the first thing that came into my mind.

@@gaznixon5161 hahahahahahaha

@@noone-io4yj A weeb is a sad pathetic individual who believes that Japan has the best culture on the planet and aspire to be Japanese themselves. It's incredibly cringe worthy.

lel

Jacob Nion I’d love to own a katana, but more so with a proper European sword.

@Sightless_Seeker do it anyway, but ensure it stays sharp. The more souls it takes the stronger it becomes.

Yeah, I think European and other Asian swords should get more attention. And the sword equivalents for indigenous people around the world.

@Sightless_Seeker you can just hang it higher beyond the reach of people.

@Sightless_Seeker That's pretty normal, now if you can talk it into being nice, you've got a nice sentient sword there. Currently I'm working on my own I've called her excalibur, she demands the blood of frenchmen sometimes but i just dunk her in red wine and she's fine after that.

That's why it has that long handle even with its relativly short blade.

Euro swords are far lighter, longer and agile but also need more skill(edge alignment) to cut well. Which is another jab at "Katana mastery" when its more of a noob sword for being more forgiving there. Euroswords have much better protection for your hands and allow many more techique including anti armour ones. You cant use katana as a battlehammer with european sword you can. And if you want to just make katana completely irrelevant with few adventages it may have - late medieval kriegsmessers from germany they are superior in every single way to katana robbing it from last couple benefits like forgiving bad skill with edge alighment, single edge etc. While having even better cross guard with protection for knuckles.

@@Kacpa2 length is overrated a sufficiently skilled fencer can easily kill someone using polearms. Also being lighter Also brings it's own problem with It, as being harder to parry blows from heavier weapons. Moreover the differences is top small in both weight and length to even count as an advantage. Last but not least, no it's not harder to use a longsword

@@Kacpa2 Being forginving in a real fight is quite a good advantage. No matter how skilled you are, it is not like your opponent will let you have a perfectly aligned cut on him. Being more dificult to use is not realy something you want from a weapon on a life or death situation.

@@bloody4558 Length isn't overrated. A sufficiently skilled fencer can easily kill someone using polearms, if this person is less skilled than the fencer. A fencer will almost never win against an equaly skilled opponent who is using a polearm

​@Rex Francorum And as he has slayed a snake himself he is a Dragonslayer. ;-)

Beuwen does not approve! They have a peace treaty going though.

It's refreshing to hear facts instead of hyperbole about these swords. I have an acquaintance who actually believes that, if one had an original Japanese katana, made during Japans Edo period, it could cut through an engine block.

@@donmiller2908 It could cut through an engine block but only an engine block from Japan's Edo period.

can't end him rightly? 0/10 worst sword ever made

But what if... You get a katana specifically made with a pommel, now then.. then people would rightly fear you

@@mxri2019 a katana with a pommel? What an unholy thing to look at lol

POTATO JUICE maybe.. but mighty powerful

Throw the handle then

And idiots confuse curve with elegance.

This is why warhammers are my favorate

@@kylemurphy8255 because they are both?

@@charlesraccoonington9280 no my good sir. I prefer warhammers and hammers in general can forge more then just weapons. *pauses for dramatic effect* IT CAN FORGE A MAN

Truly the Lizzo of swords.

I can't speak for more accurate, but the curved shape does allow an easier draw from what i've seen

I think so too, a self-defense advantage in a surprise attack.

Lol speed drawing

@@nucklehead718 ..battojutsu ?!

Wait until he gets his hands on a montante.

i'm on the edge of my seat at 3am hoping that he won't accidentally cut himself swinging the sword and nonchalantly touching the sharp edges.

5:28

Something tells me it's not sharp just like the longsword isn't.

My son bought a cheap katana on ebay, it looks terrifying, and when i realised how damn sharp it was I was horrified to have it anywhere in my house. Like a 30 inch razor. No WAY would you swing it around like that, or rest it on your arm. If you touch the blade, it cuts you. But I think anyone who like to use their swords like Shad does would wisely not keep them sharp!

Wtf... Firstly, no sword ever made then or now can cut through a steel even a shit one (Edit: I think I was high when writing this comment)

@@arewe9647 Um... that doesn't have anything to do with @DrewPicklesTheDark 's comment.. Wtf to YOU sir! :P

@@arewe9647 that’s not the point a long sword can cut and stab while a katana can only cut he never said anything about cutting steel

Lul longsword is unwieldy as fuck. Have you seen those clowns that reenact medieval wars swing them around?

@@superizillian957 It can stab but I have heard practitioners of Japanese sword martial arts preferring the cut over the stab so you do have a *ehem* point there.

If I came with something so cool, you bet I would be using it all the time. Now Shad can easily go shopping without having to knock things off shelves with a longsword when turning around.

TVlord5 That does make a lot of sense.

That's a good point - that it's a sidearm. I've heard it's widely forgotten that the samurai were archers first, swordsmen second.

yes, katana is a side arm. It's the back up of the back up of the back up. If a samurai on battle field had to resolve to his katana, he is fucked either way.

@@kimjiro4591 "backup of a backup of a backup of a backup." What in the world?

@@eagle162 on the battlefield, samurai are archers, gunmen, then they would use polearms, or tachi. Hence, if a samurai had to use his katana, he is fucked eitherway. The romatization of the katana came much later in literatures and films.

Agreed, swords are usually for that specific purpose, with addition of stabbing. If you are up against armor, a simple bludgeon is far better than any sword from any place, any era.

@@nenadmilovanovic5271 if the other guy has full plate armor, you have three choices: half hand the sword and use much like a short spear, run the other way, leave the sword and pick up a mace. with spikes. on fire

When you use something like 52100 or 5160 steel and temper it accordingly, companies like Miller Bros Blades and Zombie Tools make swords and katanas that can cut trees and split logs. You can use this type for meat, but you definitely cannot use the traditional meat ones for hard objects..

Do you have any links to that? I am curious to see it

@Data User 0001 Pretty sure Shad knows more about swords and steel than you

Captain Context is a good looking dude.

@@davidtuttle7556 he is very entertaining and shows his opinion in a very precise way

@@Preuen-zs1fz He has a penetration intellect. The thrust of his arguments are quite illuminating.

Well, if we go by pictures and what Shad said in this video the advantage of the Principe is it's width, allowing it to have a longer edge bevel despite being double edged. Someone that actually held the sword IRL correct me if I'm wrong.

Felix Felice weight contributes a lot to cutting power.

@@jjf3161 well not necessarily

an axe is better

@@mikejohnstonbob935 but the spear is the best

I split my thumb to the bone with a pair of scissors once when I had to jerk my hands out of the way of my running kid.

@@davesunhammer4218 he was talking about scissors? 90degrees tho

No doubt. I worked at a factory that made semi truck beds once and I was on the line that put the floor together. Long story short, one night while attempting to clean the conveyer that brought the wood down, I slipped on some of the glue leftover on the conveyer and smashed my shin against the edge of the metal "table" below it. It wasnt even the actual "corner" of the table but it put a hole in my shin all the way to the bone while, at the same time, failing to cut through my pants... weirdest way Ive ever been injured. Was like a hole formed out of sheer impact force of a non-sharpened edge.

@@paulpierce1001 happens when you get bitten by a large dog through jeans as well.

@@paulpierce1001 That doesn't sound fun

They can cure syphilis by cutting the head off like any other sword

Define cure? Cause, depending on the definition, maybe it can. As for cutting through tank armor, sure it can, just need maximum effort (or steel that is actually magical).

@@darkrite9000 just take atoms from katana and put them into a particle accelerator lol xd

@@ceoofthen-word8849 Then what, wait for it to explode and hope we get the flash but with katanas? That may or may not be just as cool as it sounds in my head, not sure, would need a second opinion.

@@darkrite9000 I meant that the particles at close-to-light speed would probably penetrate tank armor. Wouldn't probably look even remotely katana-like but technically that counts. My point was, you CAN do anything with a katana if you are creative enough

I guess a katana in your belt is excellent for getting yourself stuck inside that flaming Zero.

"Any officer who goes into battle without his sword is improperly dressed." -'Mad' Jack Churchill

Well your sword won't run out of bullets like your pistol will if you have to bail out behind enemy lines. It was definitely useful. Also, hard to chop wood for building an emergency shelter with a survival knife. You can't even hack off a small tree branch with one of those. The sword, though.... useful for that survival stuff if you don't have a hatchet or axe. Your uncle is badass. That is cool, man.

@@captaindred342 man please dont try cutting wood with a katana i think you would probably prefer the knife

@@prizmatik8696 It's like you didn't read my post. I said it's useful for building an emergency shelter, cuz it can cut branches off trees. You don't need giant ones for a shelter and a fire, yo. If you don't have a proper axe or hatchet, the katana would be better than a survival knife or swiss army knife for that. A machete would be useful in that situation too.

A katana is a scalpel; a small tool used for specific situations with an emphasis on precision. A longsword is like a surgery robot. Good at many things, not really great at anything. A claymore is like a sledgehammer. Get in my way. I dare you.

@@ladywaffle2210 With the correct technique you can cut just as well with a longsword. It just requires more practice but once you are skilled you have a weapon which is much more versatile than a katana. It’s great not just for cutting but for thrusting as well.

@@arminius504 In a duel between two equally-skilled, high-level opponents, one with a longsword and another with a katana, I think it would be a toss-up. At lower levels, it becomes more and more longsword-biased.

@@ladywaffle2210 wrong. a longsword is great at everything.

@mcchickenz Did you not pay attention to the section of the video where Shad explains that the katana will bend? The katana won't be salvageable, but it won't shatter, either.

Good perception. And in the katana sheathing right afterwards as well. Double self-satisfaction !

Except he almost lost 2 fingers, hope the katana was not sharp. Sheathing a katana can be dangerous :) ..

@@MrLeoPanthera Katana has single sided blade

@@StevexupenNo kidding^^. Still he almost lost his index and thumb , depending on the sharpness of course.

@@MrLeoPanthera yeah nah, hes sliding them down the blunt side, locates and guides it into the sheath and turns it AWAY from his fingers while sheathing. So might as well say he almost lost an eye depending on the placement of his glasses

Isn't it called nodachi or am I wrong?

Yep you got it

Odachi and nodachi are separate things

No they aren't, they're two different names for the same sword. "Odachi" (大太刀) means «Big Sword», "Nodachi" (野太刀) means «Field Sword», but they are indeed the same.

Unsurprisingly there's a Metatron video about it. Is there like a Skallagrim/Metatron/Shadiversity's Law wherein if someone brings up something about Vikings/Feudal Japan/Medieval Europe there's a video about it by the relevant expert? If not, we need them. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8KIb3YYQMrM.html

Science for the science god

science and magic are arguably one in the same

Guard: you’ll choke on 3 pounds of steel! Shady:well, actually..

Toss a coin to your witcher.

@@phillipyao4260 bad song change my mind

Bro witchers know all sorts of monsters and remedies... pretty nerdy imo

He is the spitting image of lambert with glasses

"And now he's coming towards me!"

Shad: "It's not a knife! Look at the hilt! Does this look like a knife hilt? Could a medieval German knife-makers-guildsman make such a hilt? I think not!"

I do that all the time, wait is there something wrong with wearing my half arsed short sword(more like a short cut less) to the milk bar?

Isn't the point of a saber that it's to be used on horseback, thus one-handed? Wouldn't a two-handed saber be more or less pointless?

@@chuckschillingvideos I meant on terms of the design. Horseback Swordplay wasn't really a thing in feudal Japan. Horseback combat was for archers and spearmen.

Basic mechanics also says that a two hand grab of a sword doubles the power then using one hand during a correctly executed slice.

@@enby_kensei Pretty much all combat was archery and spears. Katanas were the equivalent of modern day military sidearms. If you had to draw it, shit had gone very wrong, your primary weapon was gone, and you were most likely about to die.

@@chuckschillingvideos doesnt matter how you use, still has a point

And it looks AWESOME!

@@claylings7383 Yeah. And it looks awesome.

More like, "through a series of happy accidents, the katana is a unique and pretty single bladed sword."

Lmao, they turned the katana from anime into a real thing

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it's more like... it was the best sword because japan is surrounded by oceans and not really afraid of foreign invaders. Most of Japan's fighting history is... against themselves. Who wears light/exposed armor. That's why the sword has any use.

@@Frzned9x Even then, they mostly use the spear and bows anyway.

@@prophetmuhammad3890 yeah, the katana was more of a tradition (a fairly effective one). They carried it around for when they dont have other weapons and for duels

@@prophetmuhammad3890 Samurai used the Katana extensively. Yes they used bows (Yumi) but because Samurai's duties involved more than just open battlefield warfare, their weapon needed to be able to be used with very short distances and very fast response times and you'd have to be inhuman to pull a bow off of your back and nock an arrow within a few seconds of finding someone trying to fight in melee combat. Now if they used Spears (Yari) or polearms (Naginata) more than their Katana is questionable and there's likely no real way to know.

@@Frzned9x Japan had frequent problems with China attempting to invade them. A lot of times China was successful, but the Samurai have been conditioned to unwavering loyalty and will fight to their deaths if their Daimyo commands it. Light/Exposed armor? Lol. The armor of the Samurai were pretty protective. It was scaled mail and plate armor, which is specifically good for deflecting sword cuts and blunt strikes (albeit to a lesser extent). I would wager that the armor worn by the Samurai (called O-Yoroi, or Do-Maru) is pound for pound equally as protective as European brigandine with a full plate helmet, which Shadiversity talked about brigandine pretty thoroughly in a separate video. Samurai weren't just fighting in loincloths bro. At that point, you could kill someone with a sharpened stick at less than a sliver of the cost that the armies spent on buying weapons/armor. The other soldiers were fighting in less armor, yes, but it was still scaled plates (Ashigaru). If the Katana wasn't so effective, then the Samurai would be forced to adapt to use another weapon. Which they didn't really do until matchlock guns replaced their bows (Yumi). But bows were really only seen on the battlefield. Samurai had a lot more duties than simple military officers. Bodyguard, cop, tax collector, basically whatever the Daimyo they served wanted of them.

Shad is just another milk drinking Imperial!

As if we don't have enough trouble, now we have outsiders with curved swords . . . curved swords!

a guard from whiterun named guard skyforge steel is legendary

@@IPA300 he is probably an imperial he's from whiterun after all

Lmfao xD

Ah a man of culture I see

Yeah thats cool, not as cool as the sun obviously

Zoro

That's nothing. Frog from Chrono Trigger can cut a mountain with only 1 sword.

I understood that reference.

@Rotten what? What about the chinese and korean? The country who hate japan the most. I hate japan too btw,and its not only nk and communist china, South korea too and sk is boycotting japanese good and burning japanese flag. I personally hate japan

@@Ami-gu5zi but why though? they're a country not the mongols, hating all of japan is kinda dumb, not wanting the mongols to invade has clear reason

@@lurr875 he says he hates japan, but probably watches anime and faps to hentai

@@Ami-gu5zi I too hate japan. No, not it's people, just Japan...

@@veryangryduckpl2122 same i hate japan not its people but japan itself

He's just Australian - It's normal.

He's just excited. Steve Irwin was the same with a different accent.

@@ChannelNotFound Also, a big chunk of his country is literally on fire.

edo hadz he has delt with far to many mall ninjas

I feel like it's because he's so fed up with all the misconceptions surroundings the sword to the point he gets irritated when talking about true facts.

I was just thinking about this... and to think (I believe) there's some sorta idea with Japanese swordsmanship that to be able to cut through tatami mats you need long training, when in reality it would seem that they're just using the easiest thing for the job to do the job 🤔

@@finnishfatman The katana does a good job of doing the job it's supposed to but the job itself is hard so the katana does a good job of the bad job. Now take a shot everytime I said job

RedHawk99X or go from a fkn butchers cleaver to a normal ass katana lmao

Dont know man. I did, and added some "Senbon Sakura Kageyoshi". My neighbour burstet..

@@Fantazy1028 lol I was gonna say the same thing. Say bankai and it'll become a normal sword with a charm on the end lol

Hitsugaya would be proud

No..normal people can't achieve bankai!! Don't you even know that??!

hope so

someone robs his house with a knife and he explains why if he would use a sword it would be better

@Edward Chan in one end out the other and stuck in the wall

Now and then it happens. Google for "student armed with a samurai sword killed a suspected burglar" and you'll find 2009 news pieces about such an incident.

nah hed just pull his broadsword or claymore on them

The katana shape and swordsmithing came to Japan through Korea.

why not put all 9-year-old misconception while at it.

No magic powers either👿 damn cartoons

@@masamunetozzi No, holdin' it out, and spinning around won't suck yer enemies into the blade. XD

I have four katanas and, unfortunately, am still very much american.

Wait, really?

Blood for the blood god!

Half zaitiochi

Some say to this day that brand of swords drive people who wield them to kill.

heresy

I don't know exactly what that's a reference to, but it reminds me of Nightblood, the sword from one of Brandon Sanderson's books. Not quite the same, but close.

The swords the Japanese military made during westernization were very interesting, the styles were European, but with Japanese decorations.

Most wartime swords were not heat treated so they were soft and bendable, if you had a hardened blade you were untouchable

It's just anime dude

Using your sword to parry, block ang generally defend yourself is common practice amongst pretty much all swordplay in the world. I think you have a point about it being easier if your sword vibrates less and wobbles nothing.

Also, I've seen styles that emphasize circular motions - combine parry and cut into one fluid motion.

@@konstellashon1364 Also reminds me of Lichtenauer's "Master Strikes".

@@guillermorelobalopez7553 I think he means a contratempo motion.

duuuuuuuude......

thats too funny

Lmaoo

Your going to the pungeon for that

@@dancingsilence7828 no u

You can imagine the old sword smiths trying to make the first katana can't you? 'Why must we fold it so much master?' "Because it's crap steel."

@@mattkennedy9308 And then someone goes "Heeyyyyyyyy excellent *marketing* idea"

It's only bad when they are suddenly silenced. That means they are out looking for even more things to disagree with.

Yeah, this guy has no idea what he is talking about. Like, he didn't even mention the magical projectiles.

I own a katana and this guy isn’t wrong. It doesn’t just slice through things like the show in movies. Though I have been surprised with ease sometimes, you usually have to put a certain amount of force.

But I was angry when he was talking about top heavy swords and didn’t mention a claymore or great sword.

well he is wrong on the folding metal part.. it does make the metal stronger.. and thats exactly why the samurai sword forging Masters did it. lol

That boss was a big bitch, and a really cool thing to throw off the rest of the game.

I never used the axe, just parried and kept attacking and he went down really fast

ROBERTOOOOOO!!

I have never heard anyone use the axe on him before

*on a bridge But yeah, one of the more interesting set pieces in that game. Also sad.

Him and JoergSprave are slowly but surely causing the notion of a kind of Middle Ages +, type world to percolate in my head. Maybe some mild magic, that's based mostly around a Ki like lifeforce type thing, so no fireballs and most spellcasters are more like Illusionists, Druids, & Necromancers. Though I have always wanted to do a Magic system based off the song of the spheres. Regardless you would have things like the Shabbard, and the Semi-Automatic Longbow, almost like steam punk but with simple machines and a touch of magic instead of steam.