You would think they'd draw parallel between not cutting their fingers off with a knife while preparing food and swinging around a much larger blade, but ignorance is more punishing than any weapon.
I do as well and still am able to understand that sharp object that I swing against somebody will hurt them. Fucking obviously. You do not have to be a chemistry teacher to know that. The saddest part is he is suppose to be the knowledgeable one.
@@SlicedHackedAndGrinded Most people are pretty casual and careless with knives, too, though. So honestly, they probably were drawing a parallel. Just not in the way you'd hope.
I remember we did something like this in our job the game industry. We wanted to know how real sword fight look like and feel. So one guy of us brought in 2 trained hema fighters. One teacher and his student. When they where fighting we had to stand far away, because shrapnels of metal could also fly around. The swords where blunt but you never know. We could touch the swords and hold them but they forbid us to point them at each other. They are weapons!! This is how you do it in save environment. Not in a classroom!!
@@nigeldepledge3790 The risk is mostly in democrat ruled urban areas (or "containment zones", as enlightened Americans call them), and Skallagrim is only partially right. While students in democrat run shithole schools usually don't have to worry about swords, knifings and shootings are pretty common (at least, among certain demographics).
I've specialized in mind-altering substances, but Albuquerque schools won't have me! I might be a crazy person, but it's not like I'm crazy or anything. Whoooop whoop whoop!!
Only when you think you know how stupid people can be. Truth is you can NEVER have a hope of a chance to even FATHOM the sheer depth of Human Stupidity.
Honestly, I wouldn’t even feel comfortable letting a group of high schoolers handle blunted metal swords. Synthetic practice swords would be as far as I would even consider in that situation
I'm a fan of the Karlsson style of leather Dussack with synthetic scales. Tolerably cut and thrust safe (though you can still get a booboo if you get hit by the spine, or the scale, rather than the edge. Fun weapons that shine when used top cut into a bind then wind or grapple to create a safe, controlled opening. (with an option to alternate long/short edge) to cut behind a 'good' pary, or to change through. They are light, short and 'fast' - so unless you are a master at distance control - just attacking with them, even from a good position will frequently result in doubles or afterblows before a retreat is possible if you are not careful to create safety on the way in. Positive (if fleeting) control of the weapon/hand is a really good way to deny any counter while making your cut(s)...
It *might* not be bad with appropriate equipment and proper training on safety. (Whatever is considered the best practice in HEMA outside a high school classroom.) And somewhere there's plenty of space. And if you don't want to have every student get a shot, and just have a couple students demonstrate it, you could make sure to have a couple students you trust to follow instructions. (Setting aside legal issues and school policy.) Though perhaps better if there's another adult at the school who would be available at the time and willing to help demonstrate.
lol Yes, what a terrific role model that teacher is for his students lol :P "I only did it, cuz last week the math teacher brought in a Glock to teach the kids how to count." lol
I had a finger cut open in Biology class when a classmate thought it was a good idea to mess around with a small but razor-sharp knife (a bunch of which we were supposed to use for examining samples of pig kidneys or whatever the topic of the day was). Half of the finger's nerves were damaged to the point I lost sensation from one side of it but luckily nothing worse. That was over a decade ago and the finger is fully functional but still feels weird and is a bit sore from the side that was cut. Teenagers can turn any lesson into a lesson about first aid even when the blades are small and NOT meant to be pointed at each other. So, when big blades are purposedly twirled at fellow humans in the classroom, I'd consider it a miracle if all participants walk away uninjured.
I got stabbed twice with a chisel that had just been sharpened when I was in school. The other kid was 'fake stabbing' me and grunting- while it was funny at first, it wasn't anymore once I noticed blood splattering on the floor and my sleeve being crimson.
My girlfriend had a friend who lost his finger in shop class using the band saw....lol and my shop teacher showed the class how dangerous a lathe is, by wrapping my shirt up in the wingnut with the lathe off, but I now realize it was not OFF, he just didnt hit the on switch, he coulda hurt me....retard lol still plugged in 100% sure.
Only once did I ever see swords in school. A historical reenactment group was brought in for a demonstration on arms and armour. BLUNTED weapons only, and we weren’t allowed to play with them. And thank you for giving a few examples of good gloves, it’s always useful to know.
I am flabbergasted that in the 2020's a teacher thought this would be a good idea! In 1973, my senior year in high school (in San Jose, California of all places!) we had an elective PE class for fencing. This was with blunted foils, no edges, no sharp tips. We used fencing jackets and masks. Since I had transferred into the school in the last quarter (ick) I had fencing two periods in a row so the (female) instructor would use me as her demo for the second class. One day, in the first period, we were drilling on en garde in sixte/parry 4/thrust/lunge. Over and over and over. In the second period, my instructor got me up in front of the class to demonstrate. She was only wearing a light t-shirt, and no mask. I was 17. She asked me to demonstrate en garde in sixte/parry 4. What did I do? En garde in sixte/parry 4/thrust/lunge. I made a perfect hit on her right nipple! I never recovered from a lunge so fast in my life. For about 15 seconds I was en garde for real! She was really embarrassed in front of a class of 17 and 18 year old boys. I don't think she ever made that mistake ever again. It could have been really bad! Between that and a climbing accident a few years later, I have a real bee in my bonnet about safety!
Thank God. I was afraid I was going to read about you accidentally putting your point in her eye. Never, ever would I feel safe in front of a kid with an epee or foil while I was maskless.
I wish I had had your class... The fencing class I took in middle school had one period of teaching us how to thrust, lunge and parry... and then it was sparring every day.
I never met someone who wanted to become a teacher that failed to accomplish it. Becoming an educator is remarkably easy and there is such a shortage they'll take anyone.
@@strawpiglet I did that to my coach with a plastic rapier waster. We were mostly a longsword hema group but we were experiementing with different wasters. Without masks. He came up to me with a messer and told me to parry, and I wound my blade straight into his eye. His eye was fine, but he went into shock from the pain. I know now that it wasn't my fault, and his responsibility, but it was a huge shock for me.
It's remarkable to me, that in an era where people are terrified of guns, they treat swords like little playthings that they can screw about with and have no consequences. I take mine out and cut water bottles and fruit with friends sometimes, when the weather is good, and there are typically two views toward the sword: completely harmless, or, "It'll kill me if I look at it," nothing in-between. I always have to have a pretty thorough safety talk with them before we start. These things used to be used to slice opponents into bits you know...
First of all, the arent terrified of guns, thats the problem And 2nd, peoplenhave no fucking idea how dangerous swords are. I had to hand one my sister to make her believe they are not heavy and cumbersome as fuck and you can only attack 2 times before your stamina bar is depleded.
I've "played" with swords since I was a kid, and always treated them with the respect owed. Nobody taught me. My dad just collected a few in his adolescence and didn't hide them as well as he thought with such a curious and tall son in the house. Once I knew they existed, i couldn't be stopped. . But I never tried to use them on my friends, I did show them off unfortunately, but never let anyone play with them. I never cut myself, never even came close. I would go through the motions in the yard when nobody was home, and in my high school years even felt mild amusement at the sword bearers in the color guard who looked deathly afraid of the Mameluke sword they carried. Always angling their head away as they shouldered the blade.
Anything swordy was used for an impromptu duel, no matter what it was or where it was found. Would've used nuclear material had it just been laying around, likely mistaken for some weird variation of rebar, and never mentioned even as our hands ballooned days later for no apparent reason. I remember having a lightsaber duel using those long office lights. It wasn't painful when one broke against me, but the addition of broken glass on the floor didn't make it any safer, let alone the gas and other chemicals that probably got breathed in. Great times though, foolish innocence.
@@what4521 I mean my friend group in primary school were fans of medieval fights so we did actually fight with wooden swords - yeah, it did hurt but I can't say it wasn't fun
I got a lacerated tendon at work, hands are very delicate compared to anything steel, i dont think you can fix severed tendons, they are just little strings, real essy to cut
Tendons are surprisingly strong against tension, but for the price of being barely living tissue. Once harmed, they heal poorly if at all. Nerves can heal, but need continuity. Even if wrongly reconnected, nervous system can figure out how to adjust. But regrowing nerve? That's rare.
@@fuzzynipplemanit depends, with lacerations yes, but with crush injuries you can recover. I had to learn to walk again about 25 years ago after a crush injury and I just have a little numbness now. I feel bad for the person in this case.
The two things i never want to lose are tendons and nerves. That just makes my skin crawl knowing that in that moment he probably looked down at his hand, saw the gouge, and didnt feel the pain he should have felt from what he saw
Oh dont be confused, when you cut a muscle/tendon its excrutiating, it feels like a "cramp from hell" if your foot ever cramped in the middle, and was painful, times that by a hundred, it felt like my arm hurt more to keep still, so i moved it, blinding pain, but thgen holding it still was blinding pain, and when I tried to "move my hand" with my forearm muscles severed, it felt like someone was breaking my arm repeatedly, it was so painful. And if you cant see a surgeon when it happens, they literally just stitch up the surface skin, leaving the wound and severed tendons underneath, then the next day you get the surgery which you have to be fully put under for, and I have had permanent painful nerve damage ever since. It feels like someones stabbing me with needles when I brush my fingers over the scar. And thats 10 years of healing. Its honestly brutal. Half my left forearm is numb and feels like rubber (wrist to elbow)
@@realchilldude1271 very interesting! I imagine the pain must come solely from cutting the tendon; I once had a severe laceration on the outside of my forearm, which severed the nerves and muscles responsible for moving my wrist and fingers up and down; it was like the original commenter suggested, no pain at all in the area. It only hurt when i tried to use my arm. Yet it was still very distressing in a way that is quite hard to explain.
@@HrrrrrrrrrrengHe was referring to an incident that happened in Nova Scotia, the province in which he lives, where an almost 90-year-old man had to wait on the ground in his driveway for hours until an ambulance arrived to treat his injuries and take him to the hospital.
I had a writing teacher who believed that Ancient Africans built the Great Wall of China. She kept talking about it class after class. The school system is horribly dysfunctional. Granted I also had some pretty amazing teachers over the years too.
@@neurofiedyamato8763 at least it's still better than the people who think people in Africa were too dumb to build anything grand so OBVIOUSLY the aliens built the pyramids
Feels strange to watch this as a chemistry teacher who likes swords. Can confirm I have no plans to bring any into the classroom, and definitely would not ever bring sharp & pointy ones!
Has that Chemistry Teacher been partaking in their own mind-numbing, chemical cocktails or something? How utterly stupid of them encourage their students to have a "sword fight" with metal blades! Even ones that are dulled (say use in fencing) They can still injure someone if they are not wearing protective gear!
You do GREAT content. Damn this algorithm though. I sparred years ago without knowing really what i was doing with blunted steel swords. One moderate crack on the knuckles and my hand was out of whack for a week. You can learn the hard way why armor is needed lol.
Imagine interviewing for that guy's position after he got fired. "So, tell us about your background in Chemistry." "Well, uhh... I watch a lot of Nile Red." "A very informative channel, but not what we would call a formal education, or certification." "I won't cut off my student's hand with a sword." "You're hired."
1992, I was sent to WALK with my classmate to the nearest emergency care (3-4 km? i actually didn`t know where, but that buddy claimed he knew) with what turned out 3rd degree eyes chem burn (dummy from desk behind decided to put sulfuric acid into tube and heat it up on burner - it boiled when i turned my head towards him. vision was going fast, regardless that i jumped to tap immediately, before anyone reacted at all and kept washing out, was like thru milky glass by then, we walked out the school and i said i we run to you (he lived ~300m down from school) and call emergency. so we did - by the time i got to burn center docs couldn`t say if i see again. made it though, a few months later:)) guess sometimes people just can`t assess the situation correctly. i was 16 then , month after bday. looking back - was thinking faster all adults at school including nurse, at that specific case, doesn`t mean i didn`t do my share of stupidity in life generally either. don`t ask where and what school - no need, but story is real - too stupid to make it up. ps - feel sorry for kids AND that teacher with swords. blaming is easy, living with a blame - is not
When the chem teacher comes in and says, "Today we will begin our experiment on how human blood affects the oxidation of steel" you know he's going to be the most interesting teacher you'll ever have.
Thank you for reminding the public that weapons were made to hurt other people. I say that non-sarcastically, since so many still need that reminder, evidently.
The surprising thing here is that you'd expect an incident involving irresponsible handling of swords would have been the fault of Florida Man. And yet, here we have the incident taking place in New Mexico
So the teacher used his privileged position as a faculty member to smuggle deadly weapons onto the school premises and encouraged his students to play with them resulting in severe injury, but no criminal charges were filed?
My friends and I as teenagers used to do swordfights with synthetic bokutou/boken. Considering the nasty bruises and lost fingernails, perhaps not a great idea, but teen boys are prone to such things. Even we had the sense to not try with metal blades.
I actually got some stitches on the back of my head from a sparring fight lots of years ago. We got way to close, I'm going in for a grapple (essentially) when my sparring partner's sword was behind my head. When they tried to back off I got the cross guard in the back off my head between the "retaining bar" of the mask and the edge. I did not have a full cover on the back of the mask... I did not feel much at the time, it just stung a bit. Later, in the shower when I started washing my hair I thought "my scalp feels weird" and got my father to have a look. He said that we should go in to the hospital and get it sewn up. Luckily, there were a nurse/doctor in training that needed practice in sewing and instead of the ~1-2 hours of standard wait time we were out from the hospital in ~20 minutes. So after all it was rather undramatic and everything turned out well. I got a full cover for the back of my mask after that. Use protection people!
It's not ONLY the teacher's fault. Some school administrations have extremely WEIRD regulations on dealing with student injuries. Usually, school nurses, due to fears of liability suits, are not even permitted to TREAT an injury; all they're allowed o do is EVALUATE the injury, then call 9-1-1 if it seems to be serious. If it DOEN'T warrant a trip to the ER, they can only advise the student to see their own doctor. The TEACHER calling 9-1-1 may have been against school policy, as well.
A friend of mine and I handmade a sword recently with a straight wedge edge at about 30-35°. It’s just about razor sharp, takes hairs off the arm with minimal effort and cut a water bottle in half lengthways through the cap. Cut myself pretty good just handling it a little carelessly. It’s no joke, these things are deadly.
Wow... just... wow. How did this total fail of a teacher expect a sword fight to teach any of these students ANYTHING about metallurgy or chemistry or smithing or any other related field, even including self defense techniques.... this is barely a step above an amateur knife fight to those kids! o.O
she has pink hair.... this is warning sign one. NM is a dem state.... sign two. the teachers were taught to be irresponsible. they pass it on to the children... who were stupid enough to listen to the trolldoll cosplayer.
I did both; European and Japanese fencing, and we were always made to wear protective equipment. In fact, the fist days, were always about the equipment; like what was needed, why you needed them, ordering your equipment and so on, before we even started learning how to use them. Anyone that does not press the use of the right equipment, or uses the real weapons, needs to be kept away from kids, as well as anyone else. This is a great show of why.
Exactly! This is a science lab. The kids should’ve been wearing goggles, lab coats, and gloves. What if they knocked chemicals on themselves, during the sword fight?
This makes me angry because a kid got unnecessarily hurt, and because the incident and the teacher's stupid enthusiasm ruins people's image of this sport & hobby.
High-School Physics teacher brought in a .22 rifle...to illustrate conservation of momentum. Rifle suspended on wires, target (log) also on wires. Fire the shot, measure the swing of gun and target...math and that good stuff. 1974 was a very different time... Another time he lit the classroom using 'lime-light', gas-jets on some kind of mineral.
@pirobot668beta Even the 1980s were a "different time". I was 7 in 1974, so I was in Jr. High in 1980, and we had actual bows and arrows in gym class. Not the "Nerf" kind, either... you could go hunting with what we "played" with back then. Then again, it wasn't uncommon for older teens to drive their truck to school with a gun rack in the cabin, with at least one loaded rifle on it. I've been a knife and sword collector for decades. The "pride" of my collection was bought for me by my first wife (she died of cancer in 2006).... a high quality replica of Excalibur designed after the one used in the movie of the same name. That thing is sharp as Hell, too. But we were taught how to be responsible with such weapons growing up back then. They were nice to have, but "not toys" to be played with. Sure, we also had "toy" versions of guns, knives, swords, etc.... but we knew the difference between a toy and the real thing.
Just wanted to say thank you for the always entertaining and wholesome content. Especially at a time when some "swordtubers" are going off the deep end...😬
The first things you learn in chemistry are that you need to handle dangerous chemicals with care and that you always need to wear protective gear, such as glasses, a lab coat and gloves. *So why didn't she think that swords should be handled in a very similar way?*
Biggest regret with swords I have is I bought a couple swords as a costume piece back in college, and decided to order them sharp so I could test cut with them. I knew next to nothing about HEMA at the time and had and never have had a sparring school anywhere near where I live. A Halloween event had a “smashing pumpkin” part as an alternative to carving, with a tarp, pickaxe, sledge hammer, etc. and I wanted to chop it with my sword from my costume. A longsword chops a pumpkin very well, to the point people were a bit scared. Now I have a fun-looking sword but also kids and I am trying to make sure I can put it out of the way enough they can’t reach/find it and won’t mess with it and hurt each other. They’re small, but I’m seriously considering giving it away, which I wouldn’t have to do with a blunt sword.
I’m not sure how teachers like this exist in schools. How does someone who spends several hours every weekday with these students have this much of a disregard for their safety?
American school...safe space????? Hell, I am 52 years old and I don't remember anything about my own schooling being safe, and it's about 100X worse now. We didn't have as many shootings. Oh, we had some, but not as many. I went to heath High School in Kentucky and about 10 years after I graduated, a prayer group was shot up. We had 2 stabbings when I was in. This isn't some urban school with a lot of kids. Heath was a rural, farm school with about 400 students. Murican skool ain't never been 2 safe or 2 gud.
What I would like to see more of: This type of video. Not just educational or demonstrative (which I do enjoy), but safety specific, with real-world examples. Like, here's a video of idiot A and idiot B practicing sword fighting with real swords and no protective gear... ouch! That had to hurt! They should have been wearing *holds up specific piece of protective equipment* this. *Proceeds to detail what the protective item is, how it functions, and any interesting historical tid-bits*. You could even analyze idiot A's form and demonstrate how he should have guarded against idiot B's wild swing.
I legitimately cannot even imagine what they were thinking, it's so far beyond me that even as a teenager I knew to duel with sticks instead of katanas
@@cautemoc4624Hell, even as a kid playing with toy swords if we’d duel we’d use the plastic swords because those wouldn’t hurt as much as wooden swords. What kind of idiot duels with metal weapons without any protection?!
@@DanDanDoe I think unprotected dueling with sharps is stupid, but so long as everybody gives informed consent and knows the risks I'm fine with it, it just ain't for me. This didn't have that. I feel really bad for all the kids involved
A buddy who is NOT into medieval recreation or anything like that is the only person I know who has been in an actual swordfight. He had a drunken roommate who was trying to pick a fight with a mall ninja sword. My buddy was able to get the blade away from the guy, and then used it to hold off the now angry drunk, giving him a nasty gash on the arm. Once blood was spurting, the drunk got a lot less combative and was cooperative with the EMTs.
I have a cousin who on their way to their HEMA practice session, was attacked by a druggie with a stick (presumably trying to steal his bag of stuff) The druggie backed off real quick when my cousin whipped out his practice sword (steel saber) and fencing mask. (My cousin was running away while getting the gear out) Luckily the druggie didn’t actually continue attacking though. A steel practice/sparring sword isn’t the most ideal weapon, especially to someone on drugs.
There was an episode of COPS back in...late 90s, early 00s maybe. Dude broke into this woman's house, and she grabs her son's sword. Apparently it was either a wall-hanger or an outright plastic fake, but the dude was on meth and crazy paranoid, so all he sees is an Asian woman coming at him with a weapon, so he runs like hell. Other cops catch him shortly afterward and it's actually pretty sad, dude thought his wife and daughter were in trouble so was running around looking for them, and turns out they'd left him way before because he wouldn't stop the meth.
@@wilburabrams6519 Yeah, but it looks REALLY bad for a legal self defense case. I can already hear the lawyers talking about how mentally ill he is for carrying a sword for self defense (yes i know he didn't intend that, but lawyers and DA's don't care. They just paint a narrative and prosecute.)
I actually had a project in school on swordsmanship, it pained me to blunt and round the edges and point of the blade but that was the only way I could bring such a large blade to school and perform the demonstration. So no one got hurt, I got an A and went home with no incident. Of course this was 23 years ago...
Try to cover topics about recent pop culture trends for more relevance/ visibility. For example Dune - looking at the weapons and fighting styles and similar stuff.
Man, social atomisation sure is a thing when teachers just give their students a sword and then the reaction to one of them getting hurt is to *try and get the students to delete evidence of his fucking negligence*.
Oh man Skall. Hate to hear that, as swords already get bad press whenever they are brought into the greater public media. Absolutely folks are too cavalier with their blades and accidents will continue to occur. I laud you for very consistently being a voice over the years that has been willing to be 'playful' and show how much fun swords can be, yet never treat them with disrespect and ensure that there is a minimal chance for accidents to occur. It's a great model for others who are interested in getting into collecting to follow.
See it all the time with any object that's potentially dangerous. Guns are an obvious example. Another is an amateur using an axe with a short handle to chop wood (I say chop because they're using an axe rather than a maul).
I have handled swords sharp enough to snick a hand off (snick being the sound a very sharp bade makes when it cuts very cleanly) No way in hell would i even dare do any sort of sparing with something like that i mean what the hell was this teacher smoking? I have had broken bones from boken hits that did not even seem that hard and they sure did not look like it on video LOL
Meanwhile in my country swords are looked at seriously as a potential threat, but also as a symbol of chivalry, bravery etc. Yes, i'm from europe so we have a history of swords... especially sabers. Everyone i know, they find it interesting when i tell them i train sword fighting.
Honestly, my favorite content that you make is the longer form stuff. I don't know how well it performs versus these shorter videos, but I absolutely love the amount of insight you bring to every topic you address.
This is shocking. I've been fencing modern foil since I was 7 and despite using a blunt weapon that's literally designed to flex so that it can't hurt you even without protective gear, I have never had a private lesson or drill without wearing at least a mask and glove. I've never fenced an actual bout without full protective gear, and I literally got benched for a week because my coach saw me fence a warm-up bout in shorts once. HEMA/Kendo/fencing when practiced responsibly are some of the safest sports on the planet. But we've got to have one or two idiots who have to screw it all up.
While watching this video I was waiting for the details of the story to add up because I couldn't make sense of it. Like it seems like information was missing. Took me a bit to realize that, no that teacher just allowed students to play-fight with sharp swords without any protection! Nothing missing, just stupidity.
@@Skallagrim I’m going to be watching. Can’t believe I’ve been watching your content for around a decade! I hope you’re still loving it, man! Good luck!
Slicing a nerve is no joke. I was a stupid kid once and grabbed an exacto-knife (box cutter we call them now) to take it out of my friend's hand and pulled a bit harder than I should have. I sliced through a nerve and a tendon on my index finger between the first and second knuckle [yes, I was a DUMB kid]. It was 10 years before I had full feeling in that finger. Nerves DO regrow, but at a painstakingly slow rate. I was exceedingly lucky - Louisville, KY was home to Kleinert & Kutz, the leading experts in hand surgery (nerve and tendon repair, reattaching hands, etc) back in the 70s and 80s. But even with the best care available - yeah...10+ years before the finger stopped tingling every time I touched the edge of the fingernail.
I sliced a finger nearly in half between the second joint. I still get that tingly feeling after 30+ years so I’m happy to hear yours resolved in a little over ten. Hopefully mine comes back before I die in about 30 years😂
I was in boy scouts a day and an age ago, my neighbor was also part of my boy scout troop. One year when we were at camp together, my guy was whittling with a blunt pocket knife in order to get a totem made. He was doing a paring cut in his right hand while holding the wooden totem in his left. I kid you not this felt like it happened in slow motion. He hit a knot in the wood, the blade skipped and he gouged the webbing between his thumb and index finger. It was like an inch and a half deep, almost to the bone, And it got lodged in there. I immediately jumped into action, Alongside his dad who was sitting with us; he got the isopropyl alcohol, I ripped my shirt off and started applying pressure as soon as it was clean and the blade was removed. Paramedics were called, and he had to be medi-vac'd to a nearby hospital (we were deep in the woods in kentucky) luckily they saved the thumb, he lost all feeling in his first 3 fingers for years. We were just 9 and 12 at the time. I hope he's doing okay. 😅
Don't worry about the algorithm, it's likely an AI. Not even YT likely knows precisely why it reacts how it does. It does an infinite pattern match between any number of input. It tries hard to predict the fickle nature of the internet. You do what you feel and like, your heart is the highest value you have.
Ah yes, nothing can best human stupidity when it comes to swords, no gambeson, no buff coats, no coifs, no helmets, nothing to protect them from the sword. Yikes, that must be really bad.
Not to say that this is the only or even the primary causal factor here, but the shocking immaturity and irresponsibility with which American gun culture approaches weapons, often treating them as nothing more than props, probably doesn't help Americans see other, "lesser" weapons as also deserving of reasonable safety precautions.
I don't even understand how anybody can even come up with such nonsense in the first place. It is just so bizzare to me how anybody can be THIS out of touch with reality. Not to mention all these students that didn't even consider it bad, didn't spoke against it or even reported it.
As much as I always lamented the fact my teachers would never let us fence with the metersticks from the physics department, if it means keeping my fingers and eyes, or in this case nerves, so be it.
As an American "This should be a safe environment" That gallows humor is real man. We feel it. Joke or cry Sometimes you have to pick the former, especially when you are calling something out.
I saw the thumbnail and thought "This sounds like the kind of dumb shit we would do in high school". Little did I know this is gonna be about a teacher... Jeez.
You are talking as if the student was a victim... Like what did he expect when he agreed to fight another untrained person with sharp swords??? Or did the teacher force them to fight?
Gave you a thumbs up, and here's my comment, would sub again if I could. I appreciate your content when I first experienced severe anxiety your relaxing voice and super interesting content helped me when I was too anxious to leave my room for months, I owe you atleast a comment and like
I don't know which video you did, but it was a video that broke down proper cutting technique for cutting tests. Thank you for that and the other safety tips. I've cut down countless trees and shrubs on my property while practicing my sword cutting and haven't been injured once, thanks to years of practice, but also to Skall!
Cool video. If you wanted more content, could have added some comentary on footage of someone making a mistake and saving his life or face thaks to protection.
I only have one sword a replica civil war it’s very blunt and doesn’t have a point but I hardly ever take it out of its case I can’t remember what it’s called at the moment
Statistically there are more serious knife crimes per capita in the United States than there are in the uk, it just doesn't get reported on as often because there are also so many shootings
@@Lilith-Rose No, there's more ARRESTS for knife crime. Just because the UK police close their eyes and cover their ears doesn't mean it's not happening.
@@Lilith-Rose More stabbings than shootings. The media jumps on the shootings, which indirectly causes more. They make it always be in the forefront of peoples minds, thus normalizing it. The people who die in shootings should be remembered, but the media constantly making stories on shootings causes kids to think that it's a dramatic and cool way to get revenge. If people were EDUCATED on firearms, there would be less shootings and accidental shootings. We also need to take the mental health crisis seriously, instead of only focusing on the tool used by the mentally ill people.
I'm a teacher in England. We have much safer schools than America. We don't have to walk through metal detectors either. As someone else said, America has more knife crime per capita than the UK.
@@jakestevenson6388 True, but do have a leader of Isis as the Mayor of your capital, literally millions of Islamic terrorist supporters, and an absolute fucking flood of islamic rape slavers. But congrats, you don't need to worry about guns...
When in high school, our class did a stage play, and in one scene a character would threaten another by drawing a sword. Someone's father was in the military and had a parade sword, so they borrowed it, thinking nothing wrong would happen, after all there would be no sword fight. During the first performance, the guy with the sword misjudged the distance and thrusted the other guy right in the NECK! Even though It was a parade sword it was still pointy and pierced the skin. Luckily, it didn't go any deeper than the skin (he wasn't trying to, after all) and the wound wasn't serious, but it could have gone so much worse.
For goodness sake .... I got in a smidge of trouble at school for making wooden swords in high school... however my woodwork and metal work teachers had my back ...and nothing came of it.
Remember that sword story in the news about 10 years ago when a couple of drunk dudes performed a stunt where one clutched a sausage in his teeth and the other one proceeded to (accidentally) cut off that guy’s nose? Gnarly. And stupid. Usually when swords are mentioned in the news, it’s not good.
Technically referring the student to the schools nurse office was the thing to do... But yeah, I'd have called 911 and played the "hey, I panicked." It 100% tracks that a teacher this irresponsible was also more concerned with covering his ass. I just about guarantee that he is one of those. "This generation needs to be raised up like real men!" Ass holes. I had a teacher bring swords in to class. We were reading the Hobbit, and it was awesome. We were not allowed to touch them, much less handle them. It was still awesome.
That's not the point. The teacher didn't want the cops to show up. In the US, police have to arrive to clear the area before paramedics come in. Why? Paramedics get robbed in some cities.
Usually if you have health insurance, it will cover it, but you usually still have copay/coinsurance to deal with, even with proper coverage, welcome to America
Honestly, I had an experience like this. I was messing around with a cold, still katana machete and I accidentally cut an artery so this really does piss me off that I teach would let kids play with real swords.
@@noahswordofarms4033 Oh they'll cut something, sure, but they suck. I took a grinder and cut off the tip and flattened the edge of my "cutlass-machete" to make a fire-poker, now I have something useful.
"Welcome to this film class about the movie Highlander. Students, you know what to do. There can only be one A+."
Best comment right here
HERRRRE WE ARRE
@@functionatthejunctionBORN TO BE KINGS
We're the princes of the universe
This made me laugh harder then it should have.
People put 'sword' and 'fantasy' in the same category mentally.
You would think they'd draw parallel between not cutting their fingers off with a knife while preparing food and swinging around a much larger blade, but ignorance is more punishing than any weapon.
But-But- violence only existed in the world after the invention of guns!
Guns: evil, scary. Swords: whimsical, funny.
I do as well and still am able to understand that sharp object that I swing against somebody will hurt them. Fucking obviously. You do not have to be a chemistry teacher to know that. The saddest part is he is suppose to be the knowledgeable one.
@@SlicedHackedAndGrinded Most people are pretty casual and careless with knives, too, though. So honestly, they probably were drawing a parallel. Just not in the way you'd hope.
Incidents like this serve as stark reminders that swords were literally weapons of war for thousands of years, and should be treated as such.
Imagine if he had brought guns to the class, this would immediately have become an American culture war thing.
You need to be reminded? Hey be careful, fire burns.
@@FoxtrotFleetyou'd be surprised how many people don't seem to realize that ancient weapons will kill you just as dead as any modern one
@@TrueFork Some fucking people laugh at the idea of rocks being thrown as a serious threat. As if humans evolved above blunt force trauma.
Scarier still is the pen.
I remember we did something like this in our job the game industry. We wanted to know how real sword fight look like and feel. So one guy of us brought in 2 trained hema fighters. One teacher and his student. When they where fighting we had to stand far away, because shrapnels of metal could also fly around. The swords where blunt but you never know. We could touch the swords and hold them but they forbid us to point them at each other. They are weapons!!
This is how you do it in save environment. Not in a classroom!!
Still cool and safe :D
"Usually students only have to worry about getting shot, and not stabbed or slashed by a sword" is a sentence I never thought I'd hear
'Murica.
@@nigeldepledge3790 The risk is mostly in democrat ruled urban areas (or "containment zones", as enlightened Americans call them), and Skallagrim is only partially right.
While students in democrat run shithole schools usually don't have to worry about swords, knifings and shootings are pretty common (at least, among certain demographics).
That wouldn't be news worthy though, oh it's monday...
Well in the UK they're gonna ban them all so you'll all be "safe"...
Here in Albuquerque, that's a very common concern.
I thought chemistry teachers in Albuquerque specialize in mind-altering substances...
They forgot their one rule; not trying their own product.
I've specialized in mind-altering substances, but Albuquerque schools won't have me! I might be a crazy person, but it's not like I'm crazy or anything. Whoooop whoop whoop!!
The teacher must have been on a mind-altering substance to think this was at all a good idea so it checks out
@@Victor.-.E its a breaking bad joke and now you look like you ate fent laced coke
Albuquerque has schools? 😅
Wonders of human idiocy never cease
Only when you think you know how stupid people can be.
Truth is you can NEVER have a hope of a chance to even FATHOM the sheer depth of Human Stupidity.
Let's see if this tops the Russian (1/2)
axe swinging guy (2/2)
People wonder why I describe EMS as "the lifeguards for the shallow end of the gene pool"
Never underestimate the stupidity of idiots.
Honestly, I wouldn’t even feel comfortable letting a group of high schoolers handle blunted metal swords. Synthetic practice swords would be as far as I would even consider in that situation
I'm a fan of the Karlsson style of leather Dussack with synthetic scales. Tolerably cut and thrust safe (though you can still get a booboo if you get hit by the spine, or the scale, rather than the edge.
Fun weapons that shine when used top cut into a bind then wind or grapple to create a safe, controlled opening. (with an option to alternate long/short edge) to cut behind a 'good' pary, or to change through. They are light, short and 'fast' - so unless you are a master at distance control - just attacking with them, even from a good position will frequently result in doubles or afterblows before a retreat is possible if you are not careful to create safety on the way in. Positive (if fleeting) control of the weapon/hand is a really good way to deny any counter while making your cut(s)...
Even with synthetics, permanent eye injuries could definitely happen.
I'd go foam and bring in a real one and show them what it can do, but don't let them use it, lol.
It *might* not be bad with appropriate equipment and proper training on safety. (Whatever is considered the best practice in HEMA outside a high school classroom.) And somewhere there's plenty of space. And if you don't want to have every student get a shot, and just have a couple students demonstrate it, you could make sure to have a couple students you trust to follow instructions.
(Setting aside legal issues and school policy.)
Though perhaps better if there's another adult at the school who would be available at the time and willing to help demonstrate.
In some ways its safer than letting high school students play football, for instance. If done properly.
if the student had brought a sword to school he'd have been expelled and charged with a felony.
lol Yes, what a terrific role model that teacher is for his students lol :P "I only did it, cuz last week the math teacher brought in a Glock to teach the kids how to count." lol
And?
a bit excessive
I had a finger cut open in Biology class when a classmate thought it was a good idea to mess around with a small but razor-sharp knife (a bunch of which we were supposed to use for examining samples of pig kidneys or whatever the topic of the day was). Half of the finger's nerves were damaged to the point I lost sensation from one side of it but luckily nothing worse. That was over a decade ago and the finger is fully functional but still feels weird and is a bit sore from the side that was cut.
Teenagers can turn any lesson into a lesson about first aid even when the blades are small and NOT meant to be pointed at each other. So, when big blades are purposedly twirled at fellow humans in the classroom, I'd consider it a miracle if all participants walk away uninjured.
"Teenagers can turn any lesson into a lesson about first aid" is an amazing quote
I got stabbed twice with a chisel that had just been sharpened when I was in school. The other kid was 'fake stabbing' me and grunting- while it was funny at first, it wasn't anymore once I noticed blood splattering on the floor and my sleeve being crimson.
@@candyvampire3393 classic High School/Middle School shop class moment lol
My girlfriend had a friend who lost his finger in shop class using the band saw....lol and my shop teacher showed the class how dangerous a lathe is, by wrapping my shirt up in the wingnut with the lathe off, but I now realize it was not OFF, he just didnt hit the on switch, he coulda hurt me....retard lol still plugged in 100% sure.
Sounds like a scalpel which is crazy sharp, and they’re lucky they didn’t do more damage. I’m sorry that happened to you, that’s horrific.
Only once did I ever see swords in school. A historical reenactment group was brought in for a demonstration on arms and armour. BLUNTED weapons only, and we weren’t allowed to play with them.
And thank you for giving a few examples of good gloves, it’s always useful to know.
I am flabbergasted that in the 2020's a teacher thought this would be a good idea!
In 1973, my senior year in high school (in San Jose, California of all places!) we had an elective PE class for fencing. This was with blunted foils, no edges, no sharp tips. We used fencing jackets and masks. Since I had transferred into the school in the last quarter (ick) I had fencing two periods in a row so the (female) instructor would use me as her demo for the second class. One day, in the first period, we were drilling on en garde in sixte/parry 4/thrust/lunge. Over and over and over. In the second period, my instructor got me up in front of the class to demonstrate. She was only wearing a light t-shirt, and no mask. I was 17. She asked me to demonstrate en garde in sixte/parry 4. What did I do? En garde in sixte/parry 4/thrust/lunge. I made a perfect hit on her right nipple! I never recovered from a lunge so fast in my life. For about 15 seconds I was en garde for real! She was really embarrassed in front of a class of 17 and 18 year old boys. I don't think she ever made that mistake ever again. It could have been really bad! Between that and a climbing accident a few years later, I have a real bee in my bonnet about safety!
Thank God. I was afraid I was going to read about you accidentally putting your point in her eye. Never, ever would I feel safe in front of a kid with an epee or foil while I was maskless.
I wish I had had your class... The fencing class I took in middle school had one period of teaching us how to thrust, lunge and parry... and then it was sparring every day.
I really wanna know what her thought process was. Unfortunately she is refusing to comment and so is the school
I never met someone who wanted to become a teacher that failed to accomplish it. Becoming an educator is remarkably easy and there is such a shortage they'll take anyone.
@@strawpiglet I did that to my coach with a plastic rapier waster. We were mostly a longsword hema group but we were experiementing with different wasters. Without masks. He came up to me with a messer and told me to parry, and I wound my blade straight into his eye. His eye was fine, but he went into shock from the pain.
I know now that it wasn't my fault, and his responsibility, but it was a huge shock for me.
It's remarkable to me, that in an era where people are terrified of guns, they treat swords like little playthings that they can screw about with and have no consequences. I take mine out and cut water bottles and fruit with friends sometimes, when the weather is good, and there are typically two views toward the sword: completely harmless, or, "It'll kill me if I look at it," nothing in-between. I always have to have a pretty thorough safety talk with them before we start. These things used to be used to slice opponents into bits you know...
Of the populace were terrified of guns, they'd be banned
Give it a few years, that's the direction we seem to be going!
First of all, the arent terrified of guns, thats the problem
And 2nd, peoplenhave no fucking idea how dangerous swords are.
I had to hand one my sister to make her believe they are not heavy and cumbersome as fuck and you can only attack 2 times before your stamina bar is depleded.
I've "played" with swords since I was a kid, and always treated them with the respect owed. Nobody taught me. My dad just collected a few in his adolescence and didn't hide them as well as he thought with such a curious and tall son in the house. Once I knew they existed, i couldn't be stopped. .
But I never tried to use them on my friends, I did show them off unfortunately, but never let anyone play with them. I never cut myself, never even came close. I would go through the motions in the yard when nobody was home, and in my high school years even felt mild amusement at the sword bearers in the color guard who looked deathly afraid of the Mameluke sword they carried. Always angling their head away as they shouldered the blade.
Oh ! A nice suprise ^^
Not some drunk teenagers but an actual teacher in school? Absolutely horrifying...
The only difference between a stupid teenager and a stupid teacher is student debt.
Skall your videos really have higher quality now, it is real fun again to binge them
Glad to know!
Moral of the story …never bring a sword to chem lab
Now I have the imagine of a Chemie teacher getting attack with knifes or swords and improvising gunpowder.
Jessie we got to spar
I'll bring YOUR sword to MY chem lab! How much nickel you got in there buddy? Whooooop whoop whoop!!!
Don't bring swords to chem fight.
moral of the story ..bring chainmail and plate
As crazy as we were as children, we use wooden "swords". And is still was traumatic sometimes.
Anything swordy was used for an impromptu duel, no matter what it was or where it was found. Would've used nuclear material had it just been laying around, likely mistaken for some weird variation of rebar, and never mentioned even as our hands ballooned days later for no apparent reason.
I remember having a lightsaber duel using those long office lights. It wasn't painful when one broke against me, but the addition of broken glass on the floor didn't make it any safer, let alone the gas and other chemicals that probably got breathed in. Great times though, foolish innocence.
''trauma'' from playing. spoken like a true soyboy
@@Zona-w9iSounds like you haven't hit anyone with a wooden sword or been hit by one. You would know better if you had...
@@Zona-w9i "In my time we were beating the crap out of each other, the winner was the one who broke more bones, AND WE LIKED IT!"
@@what4521 I mean my friend group in primary school were fans of medieval fights so we did actually fight with wooden swords - yeah, it did hurt but I can't say it wasn't fun
Nerve damage is scary...
I got a lacerated tendon at work, hands are very delicate compared to anything steel, i dont think you can fix severed tendons, they are just little strings, real essy to cut
And permanent
Tendons are surprisingly strong against tension, but for the price of being barely living tissue. Once harmed, they heal poorly if at all. Nerves can heal, but need continuity. Even if wrongly reconnected, nervous system can figure out how to adjust. But regrowing nerve? That's rare.
@@fuzzynipplemanit depends, with lacerations yes, but with crush injuries you can recover. I had to learn to walk again about 25 years ago after a crush injury and I just have a little numbness now. I feel bad for the person in this case.
I had an approximately 1/4" long shard of glass stuck in my wrist about 20 years ago and I still have numbness.
Albuquerque…
New Mexico…
Teacher…
Chemistry…
Almost sounds like a plot for a TV show 😂
The two things i never want to lose are tendons and nerves. That just makes my skin crawl knowing that in that moment he probably looked down at his hand, saw the gouge, and didnt feel the pain he should have felt from what he saw
Oh dont be confused, when you cut a muscle/tendon its excrutiating, it feels like a "cramp from hell" if your foot ever cramped in the middle, and was painful, times that by a hundred, it felt like my arm hurt more to keep still, so i moved it, blinding pain, but thgen holding it still was blinding pain, and when I tried to "move my hand" with my forearm muscles severed, it felt like someone was breaking my arm repeatedly, it was so painful. And if you cant see a surgeon when it happens, they literally just stitch up the surface skin, leaving the wound and severed tendons underneath, then the next day you get the surgery which you have to be fully put under for, and I have had permanent painful nerve damage ever since. It feels like someones stabbing me with needles when I brush my fingers over the scar. And thats 10 years of healing. Its honestly brutal. Half my left forearm is numb and feels like rubber (wrist to elbow)
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I've pulled all the tendons in my foot and that was 10x more painful then when I broke my leg.
@@realchilldude1271 very interesting! I imagine the pain must come solely from cutting the tendon; I once had a severe laceration on the outside of my forearm, which severed the nerves and muscles responsible for moving my wrist and fingers up and down; it was like the original commenter suggested, no pain at all in the area. It only hurt when i tried to use my arm. Yet it was still very distressing in a way that is quite hard to explain.
Only a 2 hour wait for an ambulance in Nova Scotia? You sir have more faith than I do in our healthcare system.
It was longer than that, and they had to send an ambulance that was HALFWAY across the province. Idiocy.
This happened in the United States, New Mexico.
Not Nova Scotia, Canada. Look it up.
@@Hrrrrrrrrrreng check 3:40 in the video, Skal says "If it happened in Nova Scotia..."
@@HrrrrrrrrrrengHe was referring to an incident that happened in Nova Scotia, the province in which he lives, where an almost 90-year-old man had to wait on the ground in his driveway for hours until an ambulance arrived to treat his injuries and take him to the hospital.
@@HrrrrrrrrrrengHe's talking about the mention in the video, watch it.
I can't imagine how a teacher thought letting a 16 year old play with a real sword was a good idea.
My guess is 'arrogance and gross idiocy.'
Considering some of the other things going on in schools these days, I’m honestly not at all surprised.
I had a writing teacher who believed that Ancient Africans built the Great Wall of China. She kept talking about it class after class. The school system is horribly dysfunctional. Granted I also had some pretty amazing teachers over the years too.
@@neurofiedyamato8763 at least it's still better than the people who think people in Africa were too dumb to build anything grand so OBVIOUSLY the aliens built the pyramids
16 year olds used to go to war it’s not an issue of age it’s an issue of being retarded lol
Feels strange to watch this as a chemistry teacher who likes swords. Can confirm I have no plans to bring any into the classroom, and definitely would not ever bring sharp & pointy ones!
Halberds are still in the curriculum though, yes?
What about daggers? I am more of a spear fighter, long pointy stick that I don't need to worry about align or anything, just point it and thrust. 😅
20 years from now in a bar:
Stranger - "Dude, how did you get that scar on your wrist?"
That Kid - "You're not going to believe this..."
so true
Your channel is very underrated and deserves more views!
For the Algorythm!!!
There’s an amazing “You studied X while I studied the blade” joke in here somewhere
"While you studied the blade, I studied chemistry. I mean, it's obvious I know nothing about blades."
Has that Chemistry Teacher been partaking in their own mind-numbing, chemical cocktails or something? How utterly stupid of them encourage their students to have a "sword fight" with metal blades! Even ones that are dulled (say use in fencing) They can still injure someone if they are not wearing protective gear!
Well, it *was* in New Mexico.
@@comradeborkAlberquieee too lol
You do GREAT content. Damn this algorithm though.
I sparred years ago without knowing really what i was doing with blunted steel swords.
One moderate crack on the knuckles and my hand was out of whack for a week. You can learn the hard way why armor is needed lol.
Its almost like swords are made of hardened steel 😂
Its ok though at least you learnt a valuable lesson and werent turned in to Anakin post-mustafar
@@dosidicusgigas1376 oh yah lol. Talk about a BITTER lesson that should have been obvious in hindsight.
Ha, swords can pierce armor with a slash 😂. Movies teach me that much.
Imagine interviewing for that guy's position after he got fired.
"So, tell us about your background in Chemistry."
"Well, uhh... I watch a lot of Nile Red."
"A very informative channel, but not what we would call a formal education, or certification."
"I won't cut off my student's hand with a sword."
"You're hired."
1992, I was sent to WALK with my classmate to the nearest emergency care (3-4 km? i actually didn`t know where, but that buddy claimed he knew) with what turned out 3rd degree eyes chem burn (dummy from desk behind decided to put sulfuric acid into tube and heat it up on burner - it boiled when i turned my head towards him. vision was going fast, regardless that i jumped to tap immediately, before anyone reacted at all and kept washing out, was like thru milky glass by then, we walked out the school and i said i we run to you (he lived ~300m down from school) and call emergency. so we did - by the time i got to burn center docs couldn`t say if i see again.
made it though, a few months later:)) guess sometimes people just can`t assess the situation correctly. i was 16 then , month after bday. looking back - was thinking faster all adults at school including nurse, at that specific case, doesn`t mean i didn`t do my share of stupidity in life generally either.
don`t ask where and what school - no need, but story is real - too stupid to make it up.
ps - feel sorry for kids AND that teacher with swords. blaming is easy, living with a blame - is not
When the chem teacher comes in and says, "Today we will begin our experiment on how human blood affects the oxidation of steel" you know he's going to be the most interesting teacher you'll ever have.
I would prefer a bit less interesting teacher. But that's just my personal opinion...
Thank you for reminding the public that weapons were made to hurt other people. I say that non-sarcastically, since so many still need that reminder, evidently.
Right? We should next do a PSA about putting foreign objects in your mouth hahaha :P (thats a dig at the teacher not at the poster lol)
A chemistry teacher. In Albuquerque, New Mexico. Who acted recklessly flouted the law. Walter White, is that you?
I immediately thought of this.
The surprising thing here is that you'd expect an incident involving irresponsible handling of swords would have been the fault of Florida Man. And yet, here we have the incident taking place in New Mexico
nope; just a pink haired DEI hire.
@@ShishouDzukiZaManako r/whoosh
@@FrozEnbyWolf150 ah... one of them is here.
So the teacher used his privileged position as a faculty member to smuggle deadly weapons onto the school premises and encouraged his students to play with them resulting in severe injury, but no criminal charges were filed?
My friends and I as teenagers used to do swordfights with synthetic bokutou/boken.
Considering the nasty bruises and lost fingernails, perhaps not a great idea, but teen boys are prone to such things.
Even we had the sense to not try with metal blades.
I actually got some stitches on the back of my head from a sparring fight lots of years ago. We got way to close, I'm going in for a grapple (essentially) when my sparring partner's sword was behind my head. When they tried to back off I got the cross guard in the back off my head between the "retaining bar" of the mask and the edge. I did not have a full cover on the back of the mask... I did not feel much at the time, it just stung a bit. Later, in the shower when I started washing my hair I thought "my scalp feels weird" and got my father to have a look. He said that we should go in to the hospital and get it sewn up. Luckily, there were a nurse/doctor in training that needed practice in sewing and instead of the ~1-2 hours of standard wait time we were out from the hospital in ~20 minutes. So after all it was rather undramatic and everything turned out well. I got a full cover for the back of my mask after that.
Use protection people!
Don't messer 'round, kids!
Oooooooo groaner!
Did you have to post such a swordid comment?!?
(Of course, I suspect other folks wanted to do so first, but you foiled their efforts, Khopeesh?)
Truly a rapier wit...
At this rate you'll be in a bind
@@jeffanderson8165 LOL! Thanks for the guffaw! I needed that!
God this news made me angry at the sheer irresponsibility of the teacher.
It's not ONLY the teacher's fault.
Some school administrations have extremely WEIRD regulations on dealing with student injuries. Usually, school nurses, due to fears of liability suits, are not even permitted to TREAT an injury; all they're allowed o do is EVALUATE the injury, then call 9-1-1 if it seems to be serious. If it DOEN'T warrant a trip to the ER, they can only advise the student to see their own doctor. The TEACHER calling 9-1-1 may have been against school policy, as well.
A friend of mine and I handmade a sword recently with a straight wedge edge at about 30-35°. It’s just about razor sharp, takes hairs off the arm with minimal effort and cut a water bottle in half lengthways through the cap. Cut myself pretty good just handling it a little carelessly. It’s no joke, these things are deadly.
Love your videos and you got me back in to fencing. Massive thank you. Keep up amazing work
Wow... just... wow. How did this total fail of a teacher expect a sword fight to teach any of these students ANYTHING about metallurgy or chemistry or smithing or any other related field, even including self defense techniques.... this is barely a step above an amateur knife fight to those kids! o.O
she has pink hair.... this is warning sign one.
NM is a dem state.... sign two.
the teachers were taught to be irresponsible.
they pass it on to the children... who were stupid enough to listen to the trolldoll cosplayer.
I did both; European and Japanese fencing, and we were always made to wear protective equipment. In fact, the fist days, were always about the equipment; like what was needed, why you needed them, ordering your equipment and so on, before we even started learning how to use them. Anyone that does not press the use of the right equipment, or uses the real weapons, needs to be kept away from kids, as well as anyone else. This is a great show of why.
Highly agreed
If a professional uses safety gear, it's ALWAYS for good reason!! Never assume you'll never need it!!
Exactly! This is a science lab. The kids should’ve been wearing goggles, lab coats, and gloves. What if they knocked chemicals on themselves, during the sword fight?
This makes me angry because a kid got unnecessarily hurt, and because the incident and the teacher's stupid enthusiasm ruins people's image of this sport & hobby.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein
Waltuh... put the sword away Waltuh
Jesse, we need to spar
Yo chill, BITCH !
High-School Physics teacher brought in a .22 rifle...to illustrate conservation of momentum.
Rifle suspended on wires, target (log) also on wires.
Fire the shot, measure the swing of gun and target...math and that good stuff.
1974 was a very different time...
Another time he lit the classroom using 'lime-light', gas-jets on some kind of mineral.
@pirobot668beta Even the 1980s were a "different time". I was 7 in 1974, so I was in Jr. High in 1980, and we had actual bows and arrows in gym class. Not the "Nerf" kind, either... you could go hunting with what we "played" with back then. Then again, it wasn't uncommon for older teens to drive their truck to school with a gun rack in the cabin, with at least one loaded rifle on it.
I've been a knife and sword collector for decades. The "pride" of my collection was bought for me by my first wife (she died of cancer in 2006).... a high quality replica of Excalibur designed after the one used in the movie of the same name. That thing is sharp as Hell, too.
But we were taught how to be responsible with such weapons growing up back then. They were nice to have, but "not toys" to be played with. Sure, we also had "toy" versions of guns, knives, swords, etc.... but we knew the difference between a toy and the real thing.
Just wanted to say thank you for the always entertaining and wholesome content. Especially at a time when some "swordtubers" are going off the deep end...😬
Drama gets views, I guess.
The first things you learn in chemistry are that you need to handle dangerous chemicals with care and that you always need to wear protective gear, such as glasses, a lab coat and gloves.
*So why didn't she think that swords should be handled in a very similar way?*
Biggest regret with swords I have is I bought a couple swords as a costume piece back in college, and decided to order them sharp so I could test cut with them.
I knew next to nothing about HEMA at the time and had and never have had a sparring school anywhere near where I live.
A Halloween event had a “smashing pumpkin” part as an alternative to carving, with a tarp, pickaxe, sledge hammer, etc. and I wanted to chop it with my sword from my costume. A longsword chops a pumpkin very well, to the point people were a bit scared.
Now I have a fun-looking sword but also kids and I am trying to make sure I can put it out of the way enough they can’t reach/find it and won’t mess with it and hurt each other. They’re small, but I’m seriously considering giving it away, which I wouldn’t have to do with a blunt sword.
With all the talk of clam shell and lobster gloves,now I want seafood
I’m not sure how teachers like this exist in schools. How does someone who spends several hours every weekday with these students have this much of a disregard for their safety?
Because teachers are still human, and a cast majority of adult humans still give the impression that they are just older high school students
Maybe you answered your own question. What if he did it BECAUSE he spends so much time with them =P.
@@neosavior9305..and a *_vast_* majority....
The school system can't even filter out the pdf files, and considering how common those stories are I think that should be a higher priority.
She must have been completely oblivious to how dangerous swords are, how, i don't know since they are literal swords...
Average public school experience
average private school experience
@@oscaranderson5719Nah, private school would have rushed to defend the guy who slashed the other guy's tendon and get the injured kid in trouble.
@@JohnnyWolfblood shit u right
Who ends up getting blamed, would depend on the relative status of the students in comparison to each other.
@@Raggart72 You must have been home schooled.
American school...safe space?????
Hell, I am 52 years old and I don't remember anything about my own schooling being safe, and it's about 100X worse now. We didn't have as many shootings. Oh, we had some, but not as many. I went to heath High School in Kentucky and about 10 years after I graduated, a prayer group was shot up. We had 2 stabbings when I was in. This isn't some urban school with a lot of kids. Heath was a rural, farm school with about 400 students. Murican skool ain't never been 2 safe or 2 gud.
What I would like to see more of: This type of video. Not just educational or demonstrative (which I do enjoy), but safety specific, with real-world examples. Like, here's a video of idiot A and idiot B practicing sword fighting with real swords and no protective gear... ouch! That had to hurt! They should have been wearing *holds up specific piece of protective equipment* this. *Proceeds to detail what the protective item is, how it functions, and any interesting historical tid-bits*. You could even analyze idiot A's form and demonstrate how he should have guarded against idiot B's wild swing.
I just heard about this story yesterday.
WTF was that teacher thinking?
They weren't
I legitimately cannot even imagine what they were thinking, it's so far beyond me that even as a teenager I knew to duel with sticks instead of katanas
@@cautemoc4624Hell, even as a kid playing with toy swords if we’d duel we’d use the plastic swords because those wouldn’t hurt as much as wooden swords. What kind of idiot duels with metal weapons without any protection?!
@@DanDanDoe I think unprotected dueling with sharps is stupid, but so long as everybody gives informed consent and knows the risks I'm fine with it, it just ain't for me. This didn't have that. I feel really bad for all the kids involved
Probably that only the strongest must live, like a real life Battle Royale, but on an incredibly tight budget.
A buddy who is NOT into medieval recreation or anything like that is the only person I know who has been in an actual swordfight. He had a drunken roommate who was trying to pick a fight with a mall ninja sword. My buddy was able to get the blade away from the guy, and then used it to hold off the now angry drunk, giving him a nasty gash on the arm. Once blood was spurting, the drunk got a lot less combative and was cooperative with the EMTs.
I have a cousin who on their way to their HEMA practice session, was attacked by a druggie with a stick (presumably trying to steal his bag of stuff)
The druggie backed off real quick when my cousin whipped out his practice sword (steel saber) and fencing mask.
(My cousin was running away while getting the gear out)
Luckily the druggie didn’t actually continue attacking though. A steel practice/sparring sword isn’t the most ideal weapon, especially to someone on drugs.
@@tricksterjoy9740Regardless of the blunt aspect, a steel saber with a trained user beats a stick pretty much every time. lol
There was an episode of COPS back in...late 90s, early 00s maybe. Dude broke into this woman's house, and she grabs her son's sword. Apparently it was either a wall-hanger or an outright plastic fake, but the dude was on meth and crazy paranoid, so all he sees is an Asian woman coming at him with a weapon, so he runs like hell.
Other cops catch him shortly afterward and it's actually pretty sad, dude thought his wife and daughter were in trouble so was running around looking for them, and turns out they'd left him way before because he wouldn't stop the meth.
@@wilburabrams6519 yes that’s true, but it’s still sub optimal, especially against a druggie.
@@wilburabrams6519 Yeah, but it looks REALLY bad for a legal self defense case. I can already hear the lawyers talking about how mentally ill he is for carrying a sword for self defense (yes i know he didn't intend that, but lawyers and DA's don't care. They just paint a narrative and prosecute.)
I actually had a project in school on swordsmanship, it pained me to blunt and round the edges and point of the blade but that was the only way I could bring such a large blade to school and perform the demonstration. So no one got hurt, I got an A and went home with no incident. Of course this was 23 years ago...
Try to cover topics about recent pop culture trends for more relevance/ visibility. For example Dune - looking at the weapons and fighting styles and similar stuff.
"Welcome to this film class about the movie Highlander. Students, you know what to do. There can only be one A+."
Man, social atomisation sure is a thing when teachers just give their students a sword and then the reaction to one of them getting hurt is to *try and get the students to delete evidence of his fucking negligence*.
Oh man Skall. Hate to hear that, as swords already get bad press whenever they are brought into the greater public media. Absolutely folks are too cavalier with their blades and accidents will continue to occur. I laud you for very consistently being a voice over the years that has been willing to be 'playful' and show how much fun swords can be, yet never treat them with disrespect and ensure that there is a minimal chance for accidents to occur. It's a great model for others who are interested in getting into collecting to follow.
See it all the time with any object that's potentially dangerous. Guns are an obvious example. Another is an amateur using an axe with a short handle to chop wood (I say chop because they're using an axe rather than a maul).
Collecting or HEMA.
I have handled swords sharp enough to snick a hand off (snick being the sound a very sharp bade makes when it cuts very cleanly) No way in hell would i even dare do any sort of sparing with something like that i mean what the hell was this teacher smoking?
I have had broken bones from boken hits that did not even seem that hard and they sure did not look like it on video LOL
@@nanaki-seto just gotta connect in the right spot and lots of damage can be done.
Meanwhile in my country swords are looked at seriously as a potential threat, but also as a symbol of chivalry, bravery etc.
Yes, i'm from europe so we have a history of swords... especially sabers.
Everyone i know, they find it interesting when i tell them i train sword fighting.
Honestly, my favorite content that you make is the longer form stuff. I don't know how well it performs versus these shorter videos, but I absolutely love the amount of insight you bring to every topic you address.
This is shocking. I've been fencing modern foil since I was 7 and despite using a blunt weapon that's literally designed to flex so that it can't hurt you even without protective gear, I have never had a private lesson or drill without wearing at least a mask and glove. I've never fenced an actual bout without full protective gear, and I literally got benched for a week because my coach saw me fence a warm-up bout in shorts once.
HEMA/Kendo/fencing when practiced responsibly are some of the safest sports on the planet. But we've got to have one or two idiots who have to screw it all up.
While watching this video I was waiting for the details of the story to add up because I couldn't make sense of it. Like it seems like information was missing. Took me a bit to realize that, no that teacher just allowed students to play-fight with sharp swords without any protection! Nothing missing, just stupidity.
Skall! What’s up, man?! I used to watch your channel everyday for years! All throughout high school, maybe before.
Glad you’re still posting videos!
Yep, still uploading every week.
@@Skallagrim I’m going to be watching.
Can’t believe I’ve been watching your content for around a decade!
I hope you’re still loving it, man! Good luck!
Slicing a nerve is no joke. I was a stupid kid once and grabbed an exacto-knife (box cutter we call them now) to take it out of my friend's hand and pulled a bit harder than I should have. I sliced through a nerve and a tendon on my index finger between the first and second knuckle [yes, I was a DUMB kid]. It was 10 years before I had full feeling in that finger. Nerves DO regrow, but at a painstakingly slow rate.
I was exceedingly lucky - Louisville, KY was home to Kleinert & Kutz, the leading experts in hand surgery (nerve and tendon repair, reattaching hands, etc) back in the 70s and 80s. But even with the best care available - yeah...10+ years before the finger stopped tingling every time I touched the edge of the fingernail.
Yeah, it's all too easy to do long-term damage... the human body is fragile.
I sliced a finger nearly in half between the second joint. I still get that tingly feeling after 30+ years so I’m happy to hear yours resolved in a little over ten. Hopefully mine comes back before I die in about 30 years😂
I was in boy scouts a day and an age ago, my neighbor was also part of my boy scout troop. One year when we were at camp together, my guy was whittling with a blunt pocket knife in order to get a totem made. He was doing a paring cut in his right hand while holding the wooden totem in his left. I kid you not this felt like it happened in slow motion. He hit a knot in the wood, the blade skipped and he gouged the webbing between his thumb and index finger. It was like an inch and a half deep, almost to the bone, And it got lodged in there. I immediately jumped into action, Alongside his dad who was sitting with us; he got the isopropyl alcohol, I ripped my shirt off and started applying pressure as soon as it was clean and the blade was removed. Paramedics were called, and he had to be medi-vac'd to a nearby hospital (we were deep in the woods in kentucky) luckily they saved the thumb, he lost all feeling in his first 3 fingers for years. We were just 9 and 12 at the time. I hope he's doing okay. 😅
0:33 that clip of the test cut going wrong literally made me yell, turn away, not look, and flinch LOL
Don't worry about the algorithm, it's likely an AI. Not even YT likely knows precisely why it reacts how it does. It does an infinite pattern match between any number of input. It tries hard to predict the fickle nature of the internet. You do what you feel and like, your heart is the highest value you have.
Ah yes, nothing can best human stupidity when it comes to swords, no gambeson, no buff coats, no coifs, no helmets, nothing to protect them from the sword. Yikes, that must be really bad.
I like the attitude of: I'm about to do something dangerous. I'm going to take reasonable steps to make it safer.
"I'm in trouble. Delete the footage, NOW!"
Your content has gotten me through some rough times, thank you for everything skall
Senpai, notice him
Hope you're doing better!
I feel for the kid from personal experience.
Was stabbed in shoulder blade during work in a previous occupation.
Glad the kid came out ok.
Not to say that this is the only or even the primary causal factor here, but the shocking immaturity and irresponsibility with which American gun culture approaches weapons, often treating them as nothing more than props, probably doesn't help Americans see other, "lesser" weapons as also deserving of reasonable safety precautions.
I don't even understand how anybody can even come up with such nonsense in the first place. It is just so bizzare to me how anybody can be THIS out of touch with reality. Not to mention all these students that didn't even consider it bad, didn't spoke against it or even reported it.
As much as I always lamented the fact my teachers would never let us fence with the metersticks from the physics department, if it means keeping my fingers and eyes, or in this case nerves, so be it.
As an American
"This should be a safe environment"
That gallows humor is real man.
We feel it.
Joke or cry
Sometimes you have to pick the former, especially when you are calling something out.
Cartola has a song named "Preciso Me Encontrar" ('I need to find myself') where the chorus is that sentiment, "Laugh so as not to cry"
When the Venn diagram between "That's METAL" and "that's stupid" reduces to a single circle...
I saw the thumbnail and thought "This sounds like the kind of dumb shit we would do in high school". Little did I know this is gonna be about a teacher... Jeez.
You are talking as if the student was a victim... Like what did he expect when he agreed to fight another untrained person with sharp swords??? Or did the teacher force them to fight?
Gave you a thumbs up, and here's my comment, would sub again if I could. I appreciate your content when I first experienced severe anxiety your relaxing voice and super interesting content helped me when I was too anxious to leave my room for months, I owe you atleast a comment and like
Blunt practice swords are so easy to get and are so much less expensive. I bought them even 40 years ago when I was a teenager.
I don't know which video you did, but it was a video that broke down proper cutting technique for cutting tests. Thank you for that and the other safety tips.
I've cut down countless trees and shrubs on my property while practicing my sword cutting and haven't been injured once, thanks to years of practice, but also to Skall!
Cool video. If you wanted more content, could have added some comentary on footage of someone making a mistake and saving his life or face thaks to protection.
I only have one sword a replica civil war it’s very blunt and doesn’t have a point but I hardly ever take it out of its case I can’t remember what it’s called at the moment
Permanently damaged in school - that's the whole point of being "schooled" = permanently damaged mentally.
"They shouldn't have to worry about getting stabbed at school."
British people:👀
Statistically there are more serious knife crimes per capita in the United States than there are in the uk, it just doesn't get reported on as often because there are also so many shootings
@@Lilith-Rose No, there's more ARRESTS for knife crime.
Just because the UK police close their eyes and cover their ears doesn't mean it's not happening.
@@Lilith-Rose More stabbings than shootings. The media jumps on the shootings, which indirectly causes more. They make it always be in the forefront of peoples minds, thus normalizing it. The people who die in shootings should be remembered, but the media constantly making stories on shootings causes kids to think that it's a dramatic and cool way to get revenge. If people were EDUCATED on firearms, there would be less shootings and accidental shootings. We also need to take the mental health crisis seriously, instead of only focusing on the tool used by the mentally ill people.
I'm a teacher in England. We have much safer schools than America. We don't have to walk through metal detectors either. As someone else said, America has more knife crime per capita than the UK.
@@jakestevenson6388 True, but do have a leader of Isis as the Mayor of your capital, literally millions of Islamic terrorist supporters, and an absolute fucking flood of islamic rape slavers.
But congrats, you don't need to worry about guns...
Somebody better make sure that teacher knows that you're supposed to put the toilet lid up before you pee in it. 👍🏼
A chemistry teacher from Albuquerque New Mexico? Hmmm
Me whenever Skall uploads a video: "Lisan al-Gaib !"
Massively appreciate you and your work Skal! Thank you for being here
When in high school, our class did a stage play, and in one scene a character would threaten another by drawing a sword. Someone's father was in the military and had a parade sword, so they borrowed it, thinking nothing wrong would happen, after all there would be no sword fight.
During the first performance, the guy with the sword misjudged the distance and thrusted the other guy right in the NECK! Even though It was a parade sword it was still pointy and pierced the skin. Luckily, it didn't go any deeper than the skin (he wasn't trying to, after all) and the wound wasn't serious, but it could have gone so much worse.
comment for the algorithm, thanks for the vids as always Skal!
For goodness sake .... I got in a smidge of trouble at school for making wooden swords in high school... however my woodwork and metal work teachers had my back ...and nothing came of it.
Remember that sword story in the news about 10 years ago when a couple of drunk dudes performed a stunt where one clutched a sausage in his teeth and the other one proceeded to (accidentally) cut off that guy’s nose? Gnarly. And stupid. Usually when swords are mentioned in the news, it’s not good.
that sound mildly uncomfortable 😂.
man that would really suck...
Technically referring the student to the schools nurse office was the thing to do...
But yeah, I'd have called 911 and played the "hey, I panicked."
It 100% tracks that a teacher this irresponsible was also more concerned with covering his ass.
I just about guarantee that he is one of those. "This generation needs to be raised up like real men!" Ass holes.
I had a teacher bring swords in to class. We were reading the Hobbit, and it was awesome.
We were not allowed to touch them, much less handle them. It was still awesome.
These albuquerque chemistry teachers wildin
I guess at least he didn’t teach them any blue candy recipes.
googling a picture of her really explains it all.
@@johnracine4589 don't give them ideas man; they are a "border" town.
as if the border fucking exists.
I have an idea for more views you should prepare a full meal only using medieval weaponry 😂
Isn't it extremely expensive to call an ambulance in the US?
1.2k or 12k forgot which one
That's not the point. The teacher didn't want the cops to show up. In the US, police have to arrive to clear the area before paramedics come in. Why? Paramedics get robbed in some cities.
Usually if you have health insurance, it will cover it, but you usually still have copay/coinsurance to deal with, even with proper coverage, welcome to America
Depending if you live in hood or in the sticks, ambulance ride starts around $750. And only goes up from there if you require medical care on the way.
@@Marky-Mark1337both. Both is good.
Honestly, I had an experience like this. I was messing around with a cold, still katana machete and I accidentally cut an artery so this really does piss me off that I teach would let kids play with real swords.
All of those coldsteel "something"-machetes are garbage. Either get a real machete or get a real "something".
Speaking from experience.
@@ManDuderGuy shot tell that to my leg😂😂😂😭😭 it cut real clear.
@@noahswordofarms4033 Oh they'll cut something, sure, but they suck.
I took a grinder and cut off the tip and flattened the edge of my "cutlass-machete" to make a fire-poker, now I have something useful.
@@ManDuderGuy okay I got you but hey if you like sword and video games I got some videos if you want to give it a look
i nicked a vein with a penknife before and that bleed like hell