Review: Musashi Naginata - Well, it's... Cheap 

Dafuq?

Dreams are great lol

'murica'nuff said

if only Toys R US wasnt ded

Akenraes Vakreander Was there a halberd or poleaxe aisle, too?

I think I've read that they were favored for women, the idea being that it allowed them to engage (or just keep) a male attacker at a distance, where his physical strength was less of an advantage.

@@JasonJrake If I remember, that was a recent development? In historical Japanese combat (prior the 14th century), naginata were often used by foot retainers due to their ability to fend off warbands of armored samurai and other similarly armed retainers. Plus, it was preferred over shield + weapon for the reasons I've just mentioned.

@@JasonJrake Forgot to add, but the naginata began to fall out of favor amid the 14th and 15th centuries as it could only fill a few niches at a time when spear formations became the norm.

@@jonajo9757 Samurai would have used them too or a similar spear lol....Katana was a side arm not a main weapon....

Genshin impact, they have nagintas, but it’s only one weapon and kinda doesn’t look like a naginta, but if u want the weapons name it’s called engulfing lighting

Yup, normal occurrence after polishing a blade ...

phileas007 I guess he was treating the shaft too roughly

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Split Was Taken Clearly he's talking about metal polish.

Split Was Taken Oooooooh myyyyyyyy...

Speak for yourself.

It gives him a temporary magic damage buff.

“Pale pine resin” amiright?

BoS Knight on his shaft or pole sounds better and is still true

It happens when around a lot of cleavage and jiggles

well at least it deals more magic damage right?

@@Akario3 maybe it can give aids to your enemies

Seiran its a decent sword type. There are much better swords like the longsword and the scimitar.

It depends on what they're used for.

Where do you get that in Europe? My russian AK bajonet has grease inside the sheath to prevent rusting I believe.

Krokmaniak it's not screwable tho, so you can only end them kinda rightly but not really

You can end them somewhatly

IzKnowWhereYouLive *leftly

Actually, that is perfectly fine to say. 薙刀 is naginata, 刀 means blade, and pronounced on it's own as, Katana. Or in chinese, dao. (tou in japanese style chinese pronunciation) hence why some words have that suffix like tantou or nihontou (japanese sword, japanese person would call a katana that to you most likely) and so on. other ways it is pronounced are are -achi and -gatana. I have no idea why it becomes naginata and not nagatana or something, that is beyond my limited knowledge. However, I do know that 薙 (nagi) meant to weed, so I believe it literally means "weed cutter" And being that it is a blade, not a speartip, and it is not common for a sword to be on the end of a pole, I think it is fair to say that the handle on the katana looks odd ;) Also the most literal translation for a naginata I believe is scythe. (or at least scythe sword or something like that) Thus I guess you would "mow" with it.

Carbon 12 Dammit, why did you have to say it first? I was gonna say that! Nerd.

Carbon 12, wait, so daoism is sword-ism?

Carbon 12 Interesting. . . Thanks for the Etymology lesson! :)

Nuada the silver hand ... I see what you did there... you sly dog...

I know, we're awful lol Cheers

Who is nobushi?

OSHITE MAIRU!

Agent_monkey 334 I'll bring the law to them

Our scabbards are quite loose baby.

How does it come off from itself? That's like saying you put your face behind your face.

Copperman 👀 or we think about this more Clue: Finish him with the pommel

But i do put my face behind my face.

R I G H T L Y

Automatic rightly ending... Has science gone too far?

Yes! And this white stuff gets everywhere in the blade!

And its also loose

They have to do that for shipping reasons. When I was ordering my nagamaki I was told that there are length restrictions for pretty much anything being shipped out of China at a reasonable price.

yeah, you would expect a longer blade and certainly longer shaft. Though, they are nothing like as long as yari can be. very odd to see one with the blade not starting past head height though. Naginata tended to be used by samurai, and they did use shorter polearms than ashigaru etc. I think Katori shinto ryu particularly favours are more middle grip iirc, and thus makes better use of a longer naginata, wheras others use it at one end in a particular way, making the longer ones less useful. Obviously, if you are 6 foot or something, a longer naginata is a much better fit. Samurai were rather consistently around 5'4 in the sengoku period. Makes the 2.1m yumi pretty damn amazing x)

I'm glad others are pointing this out. I've never understood the super short polearms being called naginata.

@Carbon 12: Yeah we use Onaginata with middle Grip in Katori Shinto ryu. So we can use the blade and the Ishizuki(Stonebreaker/Buttcap) to attack and deflect. But still even in modern Naginatado they use a 2,12m high Naginata. Skall says he is of average height(~1,75m in my Book) So the Naginata should towering over him. Everythink else should be a joke(or Skall a dwarf). Also i'm thankfull for kidthorazine's explanation, but that doesn't change anything that this Naginata seems to be pretty shitty. It's to short, The Saya isn't fitting right and skall Says that he fears using the blade on harder material.

Yeah I really wish a company would find a workaround for this, like importing blades and fittings from China but making the shafts in North America, it might add a bit to the price but it would be well worth it, as is you can order a decent Naginata blade from Kris cutlery for about $100, and haft it yourself, or pay someone to do it, but that tends to cost a lot and you still have to source the fittings, which isn't cheap or easy. Of course that doesn't help if you want to get an Odachi or Nagamaki in a length that is properly proportionate for a modern person, like for example my Nagamaki ended up being ~54'' long in total (27.5'' blade ~26'' tsuka) which is historically accurate, but designed for someone standing about 5' 5''.

Ħakito Better yet, spend it on pommel pommels. They're pommels with pommels on them.

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FeathersOfA Dinasour :D

It's a fable game

Its highly pay to win/play

You'll get a massive bone..us

It made him get white stuff on his blade

original naginatas were made this way lol, just stick a sword to a long shaft and you get a polearm

Fun fact: in a previous life, I was a medieval Japanese sword-smith...

SuicideNeil I am a undead pagan crusader so you being a reincarnated Japanese smith is highly likely.

I believe they were the same in the mid kamakura period (literally when naginata first appear). They grew that more distinct shape over time, I guess when they were popular enough to be more unique. I think you guys might be right, that is was the brainchild of a sword smith when his wakisashis were not shifting but there was a big demand for yari.

The blade is too shit to be worth the effort I say. Sell it for scrap metal.

planescaped why sell it for scrap when you can put it on your channel and make money off of it?

naginata naoshi is the term for a naginata blade made into a wakizashi

IPostSwords i had no idea it was an actual thing thats pretty cool.

planescaped even a shit blade can make a good review

Zulikas69 "There's no looseness, when you handle it." Skall 2017

Zaxio 005 nope

You should try Dead or Alive extreme beach volleyball. Lots of jiggles and you can't even call it cleavage anymore. PS, I never played the game and have no intention of. Just, internet has ruined me.

naginatas weren't used on horse that much, it's mainly for foot

ThatGuyYouKnow wrong. Naginatas where common on horseback and almost as used as tachis and yumis. They where great anti cav weapons. Again, 2nd mongol invasions onward the yari was superior against heavy armor and in formation use and cheaper to make thus replacing naginatas that need more room to attack with.They where commom on horseback and took inspiration from ancient China(see Guan Yu for the idolized use of pole swords). Naginatas where used alot in the early samurai days as dueling on horse back as well. Due to yaris and heavy infantry rising,they became mere female weapons and relics.

Yari wasn't used on mass until pretty late 15th century tho, and cavalry charges weren't really done until Takegawa made them popular, japanese cavalry was for a long period mounted archers.

@@kyomademon453 I know it's been two years, but... Who's Takegawa? Did you perchance mix Takeda and Tokugawa into a new household my friend? XD I couldn't really comment much because I know next to nothing about Japanese warlords' strategy, but I think you're right about the Japanese having a lot of Cavalry Archers. Again, I know next to nothing about the strategy, so please do tell me if I'm wrong.

They really aren't. With the naginata's construction, any hit against a solid object is going to put a tremendous amount of strain on the tang. Even the best naginata is going to inevitably break with use. But they were made to be easily repaired.

This is a very late reply, but I believe you are referring to Gochi-in no Tajima/Tajima the Arrow-Cutter, and he was a sohei/warrior monk instead of a samurai. It was at Yodo River in the Battle of Uji in 1180 during the Genpei War. Although many sources cite this incident from The Tale of the Heike, it was compiled from oral story telling traditions sometime prior to 1330, and in some accounts, it was a long sword instead of a naginata. It tends to vary.

There's kind of no way you're not going to damage the blade with a grind like that on a polearm.

Don't forget the stick with metal studs

I'm glad someone else noticed. A real shame.

If you also like the earlier wakisashi bladed ones, you could always buy a nice wakisashi with a good blade and use that. Can come with a nice sheath, be a bit more value for money too. Also if you are interested in doing that, you could make it the right length either way. At least a couple of metres. This one is limited by transport restrictions of long items (ie would get wayy too expensive to ship)

He most likely got rid of the Hunwei one once he was done with it since he needs cashflow to keep buying new weapons to test.

looks like raccoon..it's a raccoon in my book edit:Don't correct me, it's pointless.

I know (even put a picture of a red panda in the video). But come on, it's just the red panda version of Rocket Raccoon. :)

Thank you Skall 😊 they happen to be a severely endangered species because of illegal fur poaching

a communist panda?

Skallagrim lol agrees totally but I'm no video gamer but I carves spoons by hand in old medieval way its very therapeutic allow you to relax and think too bonus you get something useful at end too I uses my blades I has quite a few head cleavers too 👌🐺🐾

That's probably the inspiration

I identify as an attack helicopter and get very upset when my historical strategy games do not let me build helicopters. I think my sexual fetish and orientations should be catered for in every game even though they are not the majority of the player base (as far as I am aware). Having said that, there are WAY more sexualised men in videogames than women... Jesus everyone is muscle heavy and well endowed. Also, there are games, such as the later saints row games, that DO have ballsack physics. And furthermore Loner, my fiancee loves sexy women in her videogames, and she is a woman last I checked, you sexist, internalised homophobe. I really do think you guys are kinda gross to think that women playing games don't want big breasted women, and realistic body physics, and others cannot think that it can be artistic and beautiful without playing with one hand. And playing with the other hand. Basically, if i want to play with handsome muscly well endowed men and petite well endowed women whilst I eat pizza and fart, well, you guys just don't understand what it means to be a gamer. And I am well aware that apache longbow was the last good helicopter videogame. And it won't run anymore. I cry myself to sleep sometimes. I miss the good old days when I could grab a joystick with each hand. alas.

I am just saying when I want to see bewbs, I watch porn (not that that's a good thing), when I want to game, I play games, I don't really get the point of trying to combine them. I'm not suggesting to sexualize or desexualize them even more for either sex. If you like that stuff whatever.

It all depends on the price range. You really have to spend a minimum of 200$ to get anything remotely decent. But there are of course exceptions.

i bought three $20 decoration katanas some 13 years ago. one day i stopped caring about them so took a swing at a tree with one of them and it became a sickle. not even kidding, the blade wrapped around the tree, it did a 240 degree turn on the edge axis. the handle pretty much exploded. thankfully i was wearing tick gloves, because the iron part inside the handle was just a thin square maybe 7mm wide. i tried to pierce a door with one of the others and it bent in half (this time the way you'd expect, along the side of the blade) like cheap cutlery. although it did make it to the other side. the other one just rusted to death.

I found two machetes a few years ago. I restored them, got the rust off, hammered the blade back into shape (they were had my bent) and then when all was said and done I used it on a tree. After three swings I looked at the blade. It looked like a noodle. Each time I swung the blade broke and bent inward. :(

W Winterheart yeah I know, but it should be able to take at least some abuse without being completely destroyed beyond repair. It was a stress test. They failed.

@@GraveUypo they are decorative... they have no tang and that's the softest and cheapest steel ever

You should be happy that hes getting sponsorships. HES MAKING MONEY.b

Don't have a problem with that, I am just annoyed because RU-vid demonetizes all his videos....

Why the hell would they do that? Not like he's telling people to recreate a medieval army to go People's Crusade on anyone's ass... Then again they do this but don't remove a bunch of blatantly racist crap, so it's not like I'm surprised.

Nagamaki's have katana like blades and are almost 1 to 1 handle to blade. You're right in that it's too short though. It should be 2/3 the length of the blade longer.

no, nagamaki doesn't have a "yokote" like katana and tachi blade, their blade are more like naginata blade ( without yokote) but longer and the tang are also longer and curved. And also a naginata of the edo period can be short ( if the idea is that the samuraï's wife could be in a position to defend herself indoor... having a long polearm wouldn't be a good idea)

some nagamaki do have a yokote, and a lot of the surviving ones don't have curved tangs, it depends on when it was made and whatnot. But yeah this is not a nagamaki, wrong blade length and shape.

naginatas can be as long as yaris(not the pike type) but often pretty short considering samurai were very short, also it could be they work the same way poleaxes did in europe, made mainly for foot soldiers

He is using a short naginata. Naginatas are mainly calvary and anti cav weapons. Yaris where superior against armor and in formation and thus replaced naginatas from the 2nd mongolian invasions onward.

Is that such a problem?

Soviet Pigeon yeah.

Soviet Pigeon then again, its not skalls fault.

No, it is not a problem at all. It does not matter at all.

Soviet Pigeon not for you. For me it is

tom possessed It actually seems to have a pommel. They thought of everything. Now we need a weapon that's all pommel

Clearly it has one..Clearly 12 people didn't bother watching the full video..Clearly 12 people are not fans .

Clearly... You guys need to watch the viper trolls series of age of empires...#clearly. I find your use of 12 offensive.

But, the end came off. Then Skall glued it back on. What a waste.

If you have a better way of compensating for the dramatic income loss since the Adpocalypse, I'm all ears (or eyes).

Have you tried eating nothing but cans of tuna and instant noodles to save money? That could work. -/s-

Have you tried not eating? I mean it seems to work in Africa...

I prefer Skall's ads to ones youtube would put on the video. You get sarcasm and its most likely more relevant to the content of the video as well.

singer3188 Precisely. With RU-vid whoring out those YTRed and YTMusic ads nearly every second video, a human doing a live read before some actual *content* is a welcome change.

Its flurry but it does look like it says furry