NOT a reply to SHADIVERSITY! Scholagladiatoria makes HEMA videos 

I really like and respect you both.

I guess I wasn't looking at the comments enough... Didn't realize people were making pokes at people's...

I don't really follow the new videos. Quite surprised people had gone with the extremes in their responses.

seriously. had to stop reading the facebook comments because they got so toxic.

​@@mandragoradravgis Same here.

But are those dogs truly historical? Won't insist on European since there was a trade in dogs between Europe, Asia and Africa already in classic antiquity.

Once more unto the breach!!!

can we imagine Shakespeare as a RU-vidr?

@@nowthenzen I imagine him more as the ultimate memelord on reddit.

Release the Cane Corso!

Here before this blows up. Love your work Shad!

But it would be epic for Lloyd, Matt and you to do a video together. Think of the science, the glory. The great content from the conversation alone on a simple thing as safety before a battle of epic warriors... With Lloyd being ref!!! For GLORY and content!!!

@@spacesquirrelthemajestic3973 They did, and more. Loyd, Shad, Matt, ModernHistoryTV and Metatron sometimes meet at Shad's sideproject Game Knights. I saw only one episode, but it seems to me like Shad and Loyd outhaming each other while the rest watch with amusement.

Fight fight fight fight fight kiss kiss kiss

@@Nick-ce6lt ok Joel

lol

Spittin' facts straighter than the orange and black flag

lol

Facta non Verba. When you learn to translate the Latin before you speak, you will know the answer. You also know, by virtue of the way that you started off, I didn't wait for you to respond. I know that is very important that you realize, you are about to become the focus of that internet war. If you even try to reply as if you are going to pass off what you type, as another old f-cker, not worth listening to. Any response is like hitting a restart button on an internet war or just trying to be funny. You must have old enough when you began to type, to know the consequences of a rather obvious point is made as a joke. Now what I expect out your sorry ass, is nothing beyond waiting a little while I to stoop to eat a little sh-t, because I stopped to do more that scroll past the point of pain to make sure that anytime I pass by another entry with only a joke dumb enough see how long it take me to sag back into my chair. As oppose to anything else. Before making sure it is worthwhile to take enough time to stop while angry enough to get up those damn stairs, before I make is a policy to be a threaten before it becomes necessary to make it perfectly clear to be the reason not to bury the lead. Next time you respond to someone, make sure it around Fact non Verba the hard way. Next time you run into anyone FROM the FGH, tell hi, as message that ran into. Tpr Stadler

@Manos That was a pretty funny take on the video :)

@@chuckhainsworth4801 WTF are you even talking about?

@@jamesfstokes Why do you make me answer you, because I am already sure I will start to stutter, among all the clues. I have already made care to show that I am aware that I Facta non Verba Simjply by waiting to know why I started my first warning, with how you bury the lead, if there is one fragment I will finish a sentence where I have been rather carefully leaving easter eggs clues, instead of a clearly worded an insult, as repeating. Facta non verba. It means "words not deeds". Now get out of here before I decide to stoop again, before I make it perfectly clear why . . . The only reason that I don't edit a piece, is that I am reasonable confident, I have a way of detecting. The one way of understanding, I have to make it through a whole editting session before I burn what I have been saving as the longest editting session, I have ever stated what I think. I left the "facta non verba" like I Did. I happen to be really born near the beginning of the Cold War, not play a little game . . . I know why Moscow Rules is so important, finally.

@@jamesfstokes congratulations. Sh-t head.

....and I will continue to be a small, 8 legged violin called Rrrrroberto. ...wibble. ..

I agree there is something wholesome about it. I wonder if it’s Matt himself who makes it seem wholesome or something deeper

yeah, but only if you really are Matt Easton

Well I wouldn't expect him to be Skallagrim

@@paleposter I would love it if Skallagrim did say "I will continue to be Matt Easton" ngl

Pretty sure a good portion of people never could say that in their lives! Mostly on account of them still being underaged.

Man, I would love to live in a grown up world. I wonder if I can emigrate to wherever this grown up world is. Maybe I could get a work visa.

The internet needs a lot more people with this attitude, and less shit-stirring keyboard warrior crap :)

"we're grown ups living in the grown up world", No we aren't, nyaa nyaa nyaaa! ;D

I demand that statement be supporter by mental health personel... He said looking at the prop castle

Frankly it was a misuse of everyone's weekend.

That's what I was thinking. It definitely looks like somethings been happening. Beyond that I'm clueless.....

Not really any drama, just scholastic nitpicking.

@@thedingleberrybush6076 Yeh i feel if This conversation had happened without internet comments it would had been a pretty good conversation.

@@thedingleberrybush6076 the perfect definition of what is happening.

You forgot 69% penetration.

and 100% badassery

This being a Matt Easton channel, "context" deserves more than 10%. It is one of his favorite words.

@@MrJustinreese not more than the words he reserves for innuendo though

This Fort Minor rewrite would not have gotten me pumped in NBA LIve 2006

Yeah but Shad sucks and Matt's content is actually good.

@@Nick-ce6lt Dude, screw you! Are you twelve?

@@stefanfranke5651 why cos daddy Matt told us to be nice? Shad makes garbage content, deal with it.

Different taste i guess...

@@Nick-ce6lt I would much rather watch Matt. He seems alot more mature and experienced. I tried to watch Shad and I can't. Not for me. But there are alot of people that love him!

Where is Jay? Now you say it, I realise I haven't heard from him for ages :-(

@@scholagladiatoria During sparring he attempted to become one with the force like Obi-Wan. All they found was a kilt and a bandana.

In all seriousness, no idea. Heard it was a work related issue that required him to go dark for a bit. I miss his lockdown videos, they were what got me into HEMA.

Only a few viewers are fighting, they must be bored or something. Quoting Matt: "get over It".

"we need to stop fighting". Isn't that what HEMA is all about! Fighting. In. A. Historically. Accurate. Context

i think they should have a duel to the death.

This did not age well at all.

@@SkeletonXin every single time :(

@@shadpant9255 The fault lies on Matt IMO, refusing to associate with somebody because you disagree with them is not the sign of an open and mature mind, especially when it's so obvious he's doing it now that he's gone mainstream and is afraid of controversy.

I didn’t even saw any kind of aggression or ill intention from one side or another whatsoever. Both points of view are quite interesting and I enjoy them all. I just like cold wars a bit too much, just for the sake of village granny gossip.

I don't want genuine drama, but they could probably make bank by hamming it up a bit.

@@ricardodemarco3486 Nah, the aggression and ill intent is entirely in the comments. Both of these gentlemen, and a large part of the YT sword community, are mostly non-toxic.

"We have always been at peace with Shadiversity."

It's usually some viewers

no, i will argue with you, I NEED MORE ARGUMENTS

@@misadate8688 Well I find arguments are one of the best ways for me to learn new information, so is there anything you would like to argue about?

Shad's arguments were on what seems IMV to be petty semantics and obnoxious "i gotta win so I will try to win on a technicality" that I wouldn't even consider them arguments. And I love Shad. I just couldnt stomach his video. I had to just stop halfway bc it was so obnoxiously "that guy". I have low tolerance for "that guy" who likes to argue just to argue. And usually I like that, but this drama was boring as shit on Shad's video. Matt was at least entertaining with his reply.

An argument!

Nunchaku are the ONLY weapon that can defeat the mighty Katana. Shuriken are the ONLY weapon that can defeat the mighty Nunchaku. Katanas are the ONLY weapon that can defeat the mighty Shuriken.

There's only one way to settle this... a duel.

@@peterfinland1370 Imagine flying all the way to/from UKAustralia for a 1 second duel. Quite expensive for an unspectacularly instantaneous fight between a master and amateur.

I would like to add: Matt, in slow motion: pppeeennneeetttrrraaatttiiiooonnn. Shad, amplified: MACHICOLATIOOOOOOONS-a!!!

Completely agree

"Martial art" is just the practice and application of combatives. I would disagree that common soldiers weren't practicing martial arts when they were practicing with their weapons without formal training. Many martial arts have their origins in the lower classes without formal instructions and historically many didn't rely on manuals or treatises (for example Savate). The term "art" here is misleading because it really isn't an art as defined as: "the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects" but rather as: "skill acquired by experience, study, or observation" When combined by the term "martial" it really just means "fighting skills". If practicing by trial and error is going to make you a better fighter, then it absolutely is categorically practicing a martial art.

@@colbunkmust I like your reasoning, this is why I’d love to see a video from Matt about this subject! I think my point still stands though - you couldnt expect to practice with hands and feet and expect to recreate karate without some instruction, just as you couldn’t practice with a bo staff and expect to recreate shaolin longquan staff.

@@The_Captain40k I agree that an individual may not be able to re-create a specific martial art form without the influence of specific source material, as with your with example of Karate, but that separate development in and of itself is its own martial art in its own right.

Who ever has the spear will win, probably.

Matt would beat them easy.

@@fatthorstumtum6593 He is the Hema guy

Such a good castle. One of my favorite I've visited. Has a nice collection of antiques in it

Lindy for the diplomacy win. Doesn't matter what weapon you take to that fight, he has a brain and a jumper that will be victorious.

Same. We must have missed it?

@@muhammadujaama631 If we did i don't feel like we've lost out on much.

Me too.

A lot of it is contrived from the "community" as is a lot of internet drama. People with more time and interest in drumming up drama than participating in the hobby imo

I missed most of the drama. I just assumed there was some, because two people online disagreed. Therefore someone has to make drama about it. It's like an internet law.

@Ford It appears the overly vocal and emotionally guided minority has found me. If your argument is the truth it'll speak for itself. Acting terrified of a lone actor just makes the chosen position look downright disingenuous, manipulative, and dishonest as if what they have to say could rip the entire charade apart. Pretty sure the entire point of this video was to tell people like you to bloody well cool it, which based on my experience was wholly unnecessary, but yet you prove me wrong. So, good job? I guess people are that immature over this?

@Ford You're the new evidence. That was clearly explained. No clue how there's confusion surrounding that. Also, you use deliberately emotionally charged language and display personal offense over an Aussie whipping foam phalluses around in the woods while claiming it's "dangerous" to ignore him. You cannot reasonably expect anyone to assume on any believable level that you're speaking as an actual third party to the situation. I'd seriously like to know how it's "dangerous" for me to decide to ignore Shad's opinion because he clearly has no authority on the issue at all because he's not part of a controlled group, see very little evidence of people wanting to start a tween rampage between adults, and don't feel personally attacked because there's some guy surrounded by Kookaburras saying something demonstrably false. With that "logic" in mind I should feel fear because there's somebody online somewhere out there who could be saying an arming sword is a longsword, and assume that could bring the entire institution of HEMA down to a state that will never be recovered from. That's bloody ridiculous. This "Shad said a thing and people need to get fired up over it" is literally a non-issue, which happens to be Matt's entire point in making this video. But, yeah, go ahead and get riled up because someone doesn't see the need to broadcast a nothingburger in the first place while inserting an opinion you claim isn't your own while asserting that if I don't hold the same one it's "dangerous." I think it's adorable. By all means, continue to windmill yourself endlessly. It pleases me.

@@danorris5235 Yep, there's few people like that trying to stirr up shit in the comment sections of all these reply videos. I think vast majority of "drama" came from dozen or so idiots with rageboner for Shad.

@@IamOutOfNames Thanks for providing me with some actual clarity and a baseline to go off of.

Hi, Stoccata have been around for ages and their main instructors are pretty famous. I have met/trained with Paul Wagner a couple of times and he is doing good stuff, but really you need to attend classes for yourself and make up your own mind. I know there are other HEMA clubs in Australia, but I don't have enough exposure to any of them to really be giving much advice, other than find a club that suits you. Everyone has different needs and tastes.

I've trained with stoccata in the past, whenever I had a chance. They're a good club, lots of locations, very competent instructors. I'd recommend them

I can't imagine Matt would have a lot of experience with specific HEMA schools in Australia. I'd recommend reaching out to the HEMA community in Sydney, or in Australia more broadly, and seeing what they think. Many HEMA schools will give you your first lesson free, so it could be worth going to a few to try them out, _and_ to ask their opinions of other schools. The HEMA community (at least up in Brissy, and I would assume the same is true down south) tends to be pretty supportive of each other as a default, so you shouldn't have to worry about getting a negative review out of their "competition" unless there are some genuine problems.

Stoccata are great! Although, I'm biased as I run two Stoccata clubs. All the Sydney guys are well-experienced, quality teachers. Have a chat with whoever is local.

@@scholagladiatoria Thanks Matt! I'll definitely go look for myself once Covid has calmed down abit here and I look forward to trying it out.

Yeah I realise the timing may have made it seem like a response, but it 100% wasn't. It was just another HEMA video like my hundreds of others :-)

Sorry if I missed the joke, but this seems serious, so... The interpersonal friendships of youtube content creators really is none of your business.

@@nowayjosedaniel first off, you are more than welcome to hold that opinion, just don't expect other people to be silent just because *you* think they should. To answer: if he really didn't care about our opinions he wouldn't have made a reply video *to the audience.* Further, if RU-vidrs, such as Matt, believed (like you do) that it was really none of our business, then they would either just not talk about it or say, "that's none of your business." In every other Community of the Sword video I've seen when they're disagreeing and replying to each other, all of them always make sure to point out that they're all friends, or at least get along generally. Matt did nothing of the sort here. I don't particularly care about his personal feelings, I care about the cohesiveness of the community that these RU-vidrs ("The Community of the Sword") claim to have.

The drama isn't from the youtubers but from their fans.

Exactly, me too. To me, his patrons seem to immediately want to shut down any and all discussion. Just my opinion though.

Shad was respectful, but it was clear as day he is arguing to win an argument, not to actually make solid points. Shad eithet wants to drum up drama for fun (i hope this IS the case) or his ego is growing a bit too large bc his arguments were petty semantics and obnoxiously pretentious, being "that guy" who argues to win not for the actual discourse. Matt is classy to stay out of it bc it would be an Expert punching down at an Amateur. It's an intellectual historian who lives history vs a dramatic entertainer who loves history. No contest. Matt would end up humiliating Shad, and Shad would end up exploding the drama and his ego. Plus you know how youtube drama goes down. Shad has more passionate/young fans willing to troll for Tribalism rather than actual argument, while Matt has more adults and a more mature audience (hence the sub comparison; RU-vid caters towards kids and entertainment more than to adults and intellectualism / education). And the problem is less the content creators and more the trolls/kids who would tilt heavily on Shad's side despite Matt having the win in actual argument. Not worth the trouble.

Just have Bloke on the Range act as chaperone for them. He'll keep them in line.

The violent world of greengrocers.

@@stevenpremmel4116 Proctology is not for the fainthearted.

Ever heard what's said in kitchen when it gets busy? Most people would lose their apetite...

The duel would be unspectacular, as you have a Master & Teacher vs an Amateur & Entertainer. Doesnt matter if the beef is online or offline, it is classy that Matt doesnt want to punch down at Shad.

@@nowayjosedaniel ...and here we have prime example of the kind of people stirring this shit up.

There is hema and there is cosplay, if there is. No script its just foly.

You should watch Shad's video then, he makes very good points too. You'll see that there's litterally ZERO DRAMA but a conversation between adults. But then, some men-child prefer to see "drama". Personally, I blame Jake and Logan Paul for that toxic culture. Because why not :p