Underappreciated historical weapons: THE STICK!!
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GET STICK!! In this video we look at the MIGHT STICK and how great it is in a historical context AND a modern context.
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Dude you are 100% correct when you proclaimed that a visible weapon wards off would-be assailants. I've worked with a number of ex felons in my life, one used to be a mugger. Even though he robbed people with a pistol he looked for people who felt like the least amount of trouble. People who had visible expensive items, who didn't have good situational awareness, baggy clothes, looked weak etc. The second they looked like they were trouble he didn't bother and yes that included people with canes. So I bought myself a cold steel axe head cane, I don't wear headphones, and I wear a leather jacket that makes my arms look thicker than they are. Since making those changes in my early 20's I haven't been jumped in a decade. I can't say for sure that it's my appearance doing the entire job but I think it helps. I'll take anything that helps even a bit since I live in Baltimore, America's third most violent city (but I promise we're trying to be better lol)
Clarification I just realized I need to make. I have had the cold steel cane only for a year, but I've been carrying one kind of cane or another for about a decade.
Midwestern here. Been to your city once it was lovely. But you guys aren't lying when you say it's bloody violent. I was only 19 and in the 16 hours we spent there I had 3 attempted muggers, thankfully I was able to grab a local chicken and propel it into the strike zone causing the whole city to attack once and two spontaneous flocks of feral chickens to descend on the hapless would-be criminals.
In all seriousness, it was one attempted mugging and he had a small knife. I pulled my bigger "farm kid sized knife" and he left quite quickly I might add. But that is the story of the only time I've ever had an attempted mugging.
Cold steel blackthorn walking stick (shillelagh) is a monster. Nigh-unbreakable, and good weight , length, and width.
Concealed weapons are good for the attacker, not the defender
Or u can just open carry...
“Sticks aren’t swords” I felt a great disturbance in the force as if millions of kids cried out in disappointment
Are you saying The Stick I found in the wood is not a Holy Weapon?!
Well sticks aren't, but the tube from the wrapping paper is
Why so? Swords are just the sticks made from the iron. Every weapon is the stick! Al hail the mighty stick!
Well, not if your name is Shang Bu Huan.
A sword is just a small stick with a long blade.
"There is no shame in deterrence. Having a weapon is very different from actually using it."
Ghandi, Civ 6.
*proceeds to nuke every city he can*
@@vilkarmooringstead5346 and complains about your troops on his border when he has even more on yours
Nuclear Ghandi moment
That's a nuclear hot take right there.
lafifi true few infantry and maybe a plane but ghandi has death robots and heavy tanks
If he makes a video comparing sticks vs. rocks, it should be called "Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, But Which Will Break Them More"
PLEASE
😄😄😄😄
This brings me joy
depends on the flavor of rock
they're much more unwieldy, so there's that too
sticks and stones may break your bones, but together they steal your soul
My grandfather HATED having to use a cane as it made him feel weak when he spent his whole life preparing for old age... until he realized how cool he looked with one and started showing it off with his suits.
stick wins on style aswell, truly an excellent weapon
@@Helperbot-2000 the one reason I as a young lad want a stick. It certainly gives a more aged vibe which I often go for alotm
my grandfather loved having his cane
because he practiced Kali/arnis for long time
so he feels safe with it
he knows how to use it and the advantage having it than none
bonus with looks :>
Straight from Dark Souls PvP
"I do not fear a man with a giant sword in full plate. I fear a naked man with a stick."
Praise the Sun 🌞
Just for those who didnt👍praise the Sun.
Peaple in DS which run around naked with broken swords probably have 4000h on it and find game is too easy.
It i more likely that they doge your attacks and parry every other.
Praise the sun
If someone has the balls to strip naked in Dark Souls, stay away or hold them close because they *will* kill anyone who pisses them off.
As a wise man once said: "I fear no man, but that ... thing ... it scares me."
@@trutyatces8699 Discarding the armor leaves more carrying capacity for arrows. I’m not really naked - I’m dressed in a suit of arrows. Then I return dressed in loot that the dragon dropped.
"the length matters"
- Shadiversity
there you have it, confirmed by an actual scientist
Now this is some Solid stuff here
@@eisenkrahe7125 I see what you did there
Length _absolutely matters_ but girth is even more important
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"I walked in with my walking stick in casual dress"
I'm just imagining him in the hardware store with his brigadine and walking stick
I had a spine surgery a few years ago and needed a stick for some extra support. As a young man this telegraphs an "easy target". The amount of times I've been surrounded by a group of people acting aggressively is rather ridiculous. All I ever had to do is get in more of a rooted stance and lift the stick upwards. Faces drop and people leave. I never even had to swing it 😂 no one could even get close and would more than likely debate whether they were prepared to get a smack 😂 stick is friend
at this point I'm just convinced shad is actually just an overexited Golden Retriever that magically turned into a human in the middle of chasing the stick his owner threw for him
Lol this comment is to good actually made me chuckle out loud. XD
Beard is the right colour as well
Basically the opposite of Kain Pathos Crow
Sounds like the concept for a great movie.
I feel like I've watched an anime like this 😂
Shad is talking about not having to conceal the stick, but in the same time uses the stick to conceal the fact that he is carrying a pommel.
Best comment. You win the internet sir.
Why doesnt this have more likes
Classic sleight of hands
Let's carry him to the top pals!
Because you can end them rightly with a stick without using the pommel 😉
Consider adding a metal cap to the lower end of your walking stick. Helps against wear on the wood and provides defense against splitting.
Also gives your stick a weighted end for extra damage.
Shillaleagh. "Wot, Oi can't 'ave a walkin' stick? Oi'm old, Oi am!"
I love that he calls nunchaku "Physically disabled sticks"
What is brown and sticky?
A stick.
What are nunchucks then?
Crap on a stick.
because they are
„Sticks with erectile disfunction“ as he called them once
@@Tylorean That's even better! 🤣
@@chazzplaysytcopper554 haven’t seen the third video in the nunchuck series huh? Watch it, it’s great!
Nunchucks: ''Are you actually saying i am worse than-''
Shad: ''Whatever you are about to say, yes, 100% of the time yes''
AAAAAAHHHHH!!!! PAAAAAIIIINNNN!!!!!!
I broke my hand yesterday because of the hate comments I get all the time. I was so angry that I punched a hole in my computer. Please don't hate me, dear tau
Well I know who isn't going to be getting his grain threshed anytime soon.
@@xXnoscopeheadshots you know you can thresh grain with a regular stick, right?
@@gormauslander Damn it, just let the nunchucks have this, they don't have much else going for them
@@xXnoscopeheadshots They can't have this. Nunchucks cannot thresh grain, I've tried. The shaft needs to be at least twice as long as the head (hehehe).
When mages get angry, they cast their most powerful spells.
When they get enraged, they beat you down with good ol' stick. 'wizard staff'
Wizard while beating an orc with his staff: “WHY. WON’T. YOU. DIE!
games always have wizards using a magic pixie dust bolt from staves now. but hardly any have wizards defending themselves by using say a metal staff or magical wood staff to inflict blunt force trauma.
Ah yes. This reminds me of high school D&D. Everyone chanting to the low level druid "Hit it with a stick! Hit it with a stick!"
@@mx_nana_banana “Nanomachines, boy! Dey harden ‘n response ta physical trauma! Ya kan't hurt me, 'umie!”
@@mx_nana_bananaOrc: BECAUSE. WIZARD. CAN'T. CAST. SHILLELAGH
WAAAGH!!
Shad quoting Teddy Roosevelt is peak big stick energy.
Also, I agree Shad. Everyone should normalize open carrying again.
i am glad youre sticking with this type of content
I see what you did there. 😂
The art of bonking your enemy to death is underappreciated, really.
Is that a tf2 reference?
Bonking with girthy shafts. Shafts that can have grips that slide up and down said shaft without uncomfortable friction.
I'll see myself out.
Phrasing!
But first you have to throw a jar of milk at your opponent then bonk them to death
@@blackjacktrial Bonk! Go to Horny jail!
Gandalf: "You would not part an old man of his walking stick?"
TSA: "Yes, and your knitting needles too."
walking stick for sure. but how many men knit?
Dumbledore did...
And your nail-clippers.
And of course the VERY DANGEROUS DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE and the container that it comes in.
Re-read that and remember chemistry.
Some call it...
WATER!!!
The TSA would be more like:
"Your magical staff is completely fine Gandalf; but that pointy hat!? That's a level 3 safety violation!"
One of our employees loves how you say "Stick" so much that he wrote a joke reference to it in a recent blog article. Seeing this myself, I get the appeal now😆
Ireland has a similar thing where we just use our hurleys. And it's hilarious to think about how no-one really considers them as dangerous when one of our most famous myths involves the hero killing a guard dog with it and being made to replace it cause he was more effective with his hurley
Cu culain?
@@mercwiththemouthsnewphone6798 Ya
same same here in portugal with roller hockey sticks
"I've found there are very few fights you can't win with a few whacks from a good, strong stick." - Roran Stronghammer, _Brisingr_
This is true, when you aren't a Dragon Rider with Elf like strength given by the spirit of the dragons during the festival in Du Weldenvarden (can't remember the name) because if I recall correctly, Eragon broke said stick within the first few chapters
Awesome books
@@derpy_mushroom531 the Agate Blodren
@@derpy_mushroom531 He didn't break the staff, although he might have if he didn't give it to someone else.
Completely unrelated to the video, but it's such bullshit that Roran didn't get the third dragon.
A pimp with a cane never looked as impressive as Shad with a stick.
wild west pimp style
Cane? STICK!
Though if I'm going out with a cane and want to use it as a weapon, it's gonna be a sword cane
That the power of the Brigandine. More fashionable than a fur coat and pimp cane. 😆
"Dont you mean a Chad with a stick!"
As someone who wears 2-4 piece suits on a regular bases I love my walking stick. Metal core with a hound dog on the handle. It's also an umbrella. It's a great poking or bludgeoning weapon. I'm 22 with no real reason to need a walking stick. I normally don't even walk with it. I just carry it. Great weapon.
Material of the stick really matters. When i was a kid other kids used to play knight with wooden swords in my neighborhood. I asked my dad to make me one too. He cut down a springy branch from the old tree in our backyard and polished the handle part and gave it to me. There wasn't any intact sword left besides mine by the afternoon. 😈🤣
Don't forget about sticks in sports! There are a lot of sports where sticks hit things:
Stick hits ball: Baseball
Stick hits smaller ball: Golf
Stick hits a circle: Hockey
Pancake stick hits ball: Tennis
Stick hits stick: *duel of the fates starts playing*
Stick hits person: *duel of the fates intensifies*
Stick is person and hits another stick person: Those stick fight animations
Stick is used by dog to hit other dog: Jail
Flat stick hits ball: cricket
@@V2ULTRAKill While the list of things sticks can hits as activities provides some iconic examples, it is far from complete. Thank you for playing your part in expanding the stick hit list.
Wait...
*bonk
Bonk
@@gentlecaringviolence BONK
Shad: "The stick is also a walking stick."
Me: Has flash backs to Gandalf concealing a magic staff.
It wasn't a magic staff. It was a WALKING STICK. Gandalf knew how to play the game.
Wormtougue rolled a 20 for perception there
I love that during the entrance scene, Ian McKellen holds his staff at an angle to the camera so that you hardly see he's holding it.
"I might compare rocks later"
I bet Slingers used to be horrifying before the bow and arrow became a thing. There are biblical legends surrounding the darn things!
*The gun before the gun...*
The arrow can have a sharp point and is more accurate at long range. Otherwise the sling is better, but the former two are important enough to prefer the bow
A small note: the visible weapon thing kind of reverses when you are involved in a shooting. Then they will likely shoot the biggest threat first. If multiple people are armed, however, I think that it will get a little less likely.
in ninja turtles:
donatello, the smart one that did rocket science, creature vaccines, robots, flying cars, and hacked computers, used a boh staff (a bigger longer stick) as a weapon.
Meanwhile, michaelangelo, the dumbest turtle that did not have common sense or situation awareness, used nunchaks.
Coincidence? I think not
Excellent observation, Donatello.
Michelangelo is also seen as the most naturally talented of the turtles, and thus was given the one that requires the most discipline and skill to use effectively
@@fangsabre yes, kind of a wasted talent on him, imagine if he trained like leonardo and/or just used a decent weapon, he would be probably the best one in combat. He already proved he can defeat raphael in the multiverse tournament even with nunchanks (tought he kind of make him ragequit, but still counts)
@@chabri2000 the current comic run is actually about Mikey being the last turtle standing, and now hes out for revenge and using all the weapons
How about diplomatic, culturally most informed and best at solving disputes? He relieves pressure when things get tense and deliberately uses most complex and versatile weapon. He is just as skilled as his older brothers are despite being laziest and goofiest of them. Not to mention being extremely dangerous when angered.
There are more reasons to appreciate this weapon than you can shake a stick at.
My dad uses a cane. Online, he got a sheleliegh, which I have no idea how to spell. It looks really nice, especially when he wears it with his full Scottish dress. It is basically a stick with a mass of metal weight concealed in a handle. I hope he specifies in his will who is to get it, or there may be a fight over it. It is gorgeous.
I always found it funny that lords would put so much cash into outfitting knights, when 3 peasants with heavy branches could beat the beat them to death
If they didnt die that is. The armor exists for a reason, some guy in heavy plate armor can shrug off hits long enough to slash three times and kill the guys easily. Yes, he likely can be hurt really hard, but an unarmored guy wont be able to shrug off a wound from a sword
@@snowdrop9810 And that's why you use FOUR peasants.
@@snowdrop9810 I'd like to raise to you the exponentially increasing difficulty that it is to win a fight when outnumbered. Sure, the scenario is entirely hypothetical, but three peasants with big sticks would both overwhelm and outrange a knight in combat on foot with a sword, especially so because knights were trained as mounted soldiers to use lances, and both weighed down and half blinded by his armor. There's a reason there aren't many historical heavily armoured ground troops.
@@nightmarechameleon7502 actually, I’m think heavily armored ground troops did exist, but USUALLY with large armies .When you have 20+ thousand men in heavy armor, kinda hard to outnumber and overwhelm them, especially if they are on a hill/have something on their flanks to make surrounding them harder. Plus, in that scenario, a bunch of peasants with big sticks wouldnt be able to do as much as they would fighting a small force or a single person.
@@nightmarechameleon7502 I suppose to add onto this scenario; there's a shit ton of variables. The peasants would have to have balls of steel / some really strong fucking willed people, deciding to fight a knight kitted in his armor. The peasants may not be as trained but I'm sure there's a morale effect for the knight knowing he's got quite the advantage. The peasants are wielding sticks against a man that just has to slash or thrust his blade into them once and they're probably out of the fight while he's kitted in armor that lessens the power of their blows. Kind of fucks with your mind even if you outnumber the knight. They're also presumably entirely untrained if they decided to use merely just sticks and not... a pitchfork, something with proper weight at the end, etc.
>"There's a reason there aren't many historical heavily armoured ground troops."
Isn't it more or less cost / the difficulty of making said armor? You'd have to (usually) get the person's measurements, then go through the task of making all of the armor, which is expensive, time-intensive, and exhausting surely? It's a lot of material and something hard to make and I doubt many blacksmiths would even have the knowledge or skill to properly make said armor either on a large scale. (if that's the proper word? Armorsmiths? I'm not familiar with terminology.)
>"both weighed down and half blinded by his armor"
I believe there's actually been some tests (albeit it, varying in quality, armor designs, etc) on the maneuverability in a man in plate armor and they're usually as fast as a soldier in the modern era. On-top of this, unlike a modern soldier's kit, most of the weight is spread out all over their body rather than merely being on the shoulders/back, while also weighing almost the same. Of course with varying designs, tending to sometimes be as heavy or barely heavier than a modern soldier. He could still move rather fast while walking or run if he had to.
I'd honestly say the biggest dis-advantage would actually be the knight's helmet since it'd limit their view and (I believe? or so I've been told) it makes it harder for the person beneath to breathe. To point out even how many more variables there are, what if they have short sticks / one handed? Then they're dis-advantaged, if it's as long as the knight's sword, roughly equal, longer? Well, those are better odds at least but you probably won't do much poking the guy.
This also ignores the.. I don't want to say fact, but I can't think of any other word. But, the only place you could reasonably harm him would be the head, which some people wore slight padding below their helms iirc. Hitting the chest? He'll laugh and gut you. Limbs? Goodluck trying to hit something that he'll probably just move out of the way. Head? Well, assuming he doesn't have /any/ padding and is just wearing a helmet for some reason. He won't be standing still so it's already a hard target.
If he decides to rush you, well, you're probably fucked. You could turn tail and run for a few seconds but then you've left your buddies in a 1v2 against a man in plate armor and a sword against untrained peasants with sticks, even if for a moment.
In the end; tldr. Don't fuck with a knight in armor even if you have buddies if you just have a stick. There's far too many variables and you're probably just going to get gutted trying to get a single blow that will actually do any harm to him. It just takes one mistake for a peasant to get gutted and taken out of the fight while the knight has backups to fall back / rely on, like his armor.
several edits were made for clarification, breaking up ungodly text walls, my terrible grammar, and editing my wording / mistakes.
"You can grab any length of the shaft you want."
You can see the split second of realization as Shad realizes how that sounds before going "Fuck it, let's roll with it."
"Sticks and stones may break my bones" is a saying for a reason
"...but nunchucks never hurt me."
You speak truth, wise one.
@@Biele98 more like 'but nunchuck will bonk your coconut too'
@@Biele98 Ach, you beat me to it by 12 minutes!
@@Biele98 and only hurt me when I use then
actually a note on wood crafting, you can use a center screw but you need to support the outside "wired" is an OK way to do it, but a proper metal cap thats tight fitted and fastened with both some adhesive and some tacks, is going to hold up much better, and make the thing even more lethal...
you can also notch the endand fit a "t bar" type grip with the same cap(or even wire) method, and make it VERY strong...
if you are going to wire something like this, i strongly recommend a SMALL hole to start the wire from, and using adhesive of your choice, something strong, under and between the layers, lacker as used in old electronics can work great for example.
^^^ i have made MANY canes, walking sticks and tools over the years when we didnt have what was needed but, i could make it using what we did have around... one "limb hatchet" i created when i was in highschool in the 90's, is still being used by the family today, used an old really good quality long hard wood "stick" they had in the barn, and some metal from a broken leaf spring, heated it and rolled one end ended up carving the stick so the blade would slot threw, and wire wound the head onto the stick AND re-enforced it at the same time.. i then went one further and used the old mans home made forge/foundry setup, and turned the wire into what looks like a solid cap by fluxing and flowing over the wire till it was a solid surface... we did that because grandad suggested trying it and showed us the way they use to do stuff like that when he was in the army eng corps during WWII... and... some of those skills are still useful today and in the future.. almost lost arts...
oh it wasnt solder or fishing/pure lead we melted over it, it was some alloy powder the old man mixxed up before sticking it in to melt the fact its still being used to limb fruit trees along side a modern tree saw....
we had a spot we couldnt get the saw and move it..but a hatchet could fit..just nobody crasy enough to stand on a fruit picking tree and swing at it around... so...i made a tool.. the back in was rolled for the extra weight but also for the ability to use it like a hammer/club when needed.... like knocking down wasp nests... blade cuts in.. back in knocks off rather then breaking in... we use to try and make them fall in a trash can and get the lid on as soon as it fell in.... sort of a game... but also... one of the teachers paid for the hives as undamaged as possible so. often we just took the whole can over with one in it and let him bring the can back(always had leaves and such in the bottom from the yard so it didnt hit hard anyway) once his cousin tried to do it herself and..she got the hife on the blade then managed to cause the whole thing to land on her head/torso... she was stung up pretty bad... we heard the screaming and.... yeah.... wasnt kind but her mother and father saw her and started laughing knowing instantly she had tried to do what she did... alone... "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" was a saying she said as they said it to her... very common around here bakc then..
Put a screw insert in end and then a brass cap with hole drilled through it, gives strength and allows you to screw in different attachments to it. I use a gear shift knob, sharpened bolt, a wide hook to grab things, need to make a trident for things such as frog gigging,
Shad: The stick is underappreciated in history.
Me, an Asian who grew up watching Sun Wukong : The most badass asian mythological weapon was a frigging stick!
Growing up in Australia watching Monkey, the 70s Japanese tv series, my brother and i destroyed every rake and broom my parents bought.
"You filthy demon!" Whack, thump, ow.
that's a 17,550 pound iron pillar though, I don't think most people can carry something like that
@@8-bitsarda747 My point is : He could've chosen any of the magical weapons that the dragon kings offered him but no. It HAD to be the S T I C K!!!
@@katsukamijo3943 this is true. He got STICK
Also in greek mythology Hercules only carried two weapons, a club and a bow. And he used his club quite often ^^
As someone who walks with a limp due to a motorcycle accident and as someone who actually has been "held up" before, I can tell you, my walking stick is an INCREDIBLY functional self defense weapon.
Do people give you weird looks for using a walking cane or is it generally accepted? If they do, do you feel cool in a way that makes up for it?
@@TheAlison1456 being that I'm only 35 I get some looks, but once they see the limp they usually mind their own. As for feeling cool? Eh? Maybe? I need it to be mobile so...
We really need to make walking sticks cool again!
Yoda beat the crap out of R2 D2 with it. Very effective.
I'm a heavy dude so I use a walking stick to help with slopes. Very useful.
In Rimworld the Club (stick, tapered) is the best initial melee weapon due to its ability to subdue, not kill, allowing you to gain more colonists through taking prisoners
For many years I have occasionally carried my traditional cane (solid oak) and I am not in the least bit handicapped in anyway. At first I was amused by the number of people who would go out of their way to hold a door open for me or go out of their way to somehow assist me. It eventually began to annoy me. One guy in his car held up traffic insisting that I cross the street. I had to yell at him and explain I was not wishing to cross the street, I was just standing there deciding where to eat breakfast.
Great video. Thank you for your words of wisdom.
"You wouldn't part an old man from his walking stick" Gandalf understood the concealability of stick. Also Little John is the only famous character I know who consistently is armed with a quarter staff.
And quarterstaffs are devastating weapons.
Dang you beat me to it! Lol
“Only” is a bit of a stretch I think. I can think of several fictitious characters who use quarterstaff’s and the bo staff was a prominent self defense weapon in ancient China for a long time and even has a modern competition centered around it, “Gunshu.” It unfortunately not as cool as other weapons so doesn’t get much love in stories, whether fiction or not.
@@Elementaro17 Cool! I said he's the only one I knew of. I don't know everything.
Donatello had a quarter staff!
Goes to GameStop, clerk says, "Sir, we don't allow weapons in this store."
"I like the stick."
Nobody questions it if you carry a cane and fake a limp.
One of my favorite scenes from the Wheel of Time series is the one where Mat defeats Gawyn and Galad with a quarterstaff even though they had swords and were fighting him together. The key was the greater reach and the momentum that could be generated at the end of the staff.
Imagine taking that walking stick and painting it a smooth shiny black, replacing the knob with a solid brass one, and putting a hard brass cap at the bottom.
Shad pre 2021: today we will talk about medieval castles
Shad post 2021: I sell stick and stick accessories
That lockdown hit the economy _hard,_ eh?
D^mn you... I just heard the post 2021 one in Hank Hill's voice and still laughed.
"peace means having the bigger stick than the other guy"
~howard stark
We all know the old Latin saying: "Si vis pacem, ligno portare!"
I absolutely love the excitement that shad gives into this video.
stumbled into your channel by accident and now I am deeply invested in stick and rock lore
Shad has too much fun making fun of nunchucks and this is the logical conclusion.
Now I'm just waiting for the rock video
“Axes, oh my god axes... STICK!” - this video has so many quotable moments
Right?😄i can't get enough of it😄😄
Great Vid man! as a former practitioner of the Filipino stick arts (Escrima and Kali), I know how deadly sticks can be. And they're cheap. and everywhere. The tip of a fighting stick can easily be travelling at over 200mph at the contact point, and if you know how to align your bodyweight behind it, that's a huge amount of kinetic force. A rattan stick is tough enough to literally stand on over blocks of concrete, and yet I've shattered them with one blow against a hard surface.
Even if a piece of armor could block it, I guarantee that kinetic energy will still transfer, and bones will break. Oh yea, and most wood handles are made of Ash, and it is definitely a hard and reliable wood. solid, but far more flexible then open grain woods like oak. Rattan is better, but it's obviously used in select situations, and is optimal with proper training.
And we've tested Rattan sticks against bladed weapons, and they can take a ton of abuse from blades, even catching them in the stick itself which can help with controlling the blade to your benefit. It take a big blade and a ton of force to directly chop through a rattan stick, even when secured to prevent bouncing and ricocet.
NOTE: on the topic of concealing weapons: Statistics over here in the US (not the politically charge junk, real stats) show that an exposed firearm can actually prevent more encounters then a hidden one. As the old saying goes, "An armed society is a respectful society".
Thank you shad, for showing me the way of the bonk, I now know that every Assassin in Assassin's Creed should wield a walking stick along with their hidden blade (seriously, that walking stick argument with it simply being fashion, or being aid is a seriously good argument as a ""concealed weapon"" as it literally fits with their rule of "Hide in plain sight")
When Shad was unscrewing the top of the walking stick, did anyone else think that he would “end us rightly”?
yep thought the same
18:48 The one in the right hand!
Never thought I'd see medieval Teddy Roosevelt talking about caring a big stick
Medieval Theodore Roosevelt is exactly the best thing to describe Shad. Thank you.
Do pre-historic?
Oh my god! Shad is a reincarnation of Teddy!
Also modern walking sticks, where you have 2 of them, sometimes have a rubber cap that you can take off to unveil the metal ~spike that's meant for slippery terrain.
A lanyard is quite standard for them as well. Similar to a (summer) ski pole...
A good book to have read is "The Walking Stick" method of self-defence it is a great place to start learning to use a stick to defend oneself.
Broke: Hiding a sword in a cane to surprise an attacker.
Woke: Bludgeoning the attacker with the cane itself.
Bespoke: drawing a sword from the cane *and then using both.*
Stroke: Pulling a stick out of a cane to surprise an attacker
This is why I carry a Madrone walking stick. Its lighter then oak but more flexible and stronger, but it has a very decorative look to the grain so it looks less like a club and more like a fancy cane.
ascended: hide copious amounts of drugs in the stick. apply either to attacker or yourself.
Bloke: Shoot the attacker with the your rifle cane.
This is the most convincing salespitch for a walking stick/cane, and I want one now.
check out skinny ebony canes, they're low key very good. look innocent but are strong & heavy. popular in africa, called rungus in kenya, can get em cheapish off ebay.
And for Open Carrying, too. xD
@@papalegba6759I’ll keep my eyes open and look them up.
I know I have already commented on this video, but I just had a scary experience where a big stick came in very handy. My mother-in-law brought some garden produce in a box. With the peaches and tomatoes was a BLACK WIDOW SPIDER. Didn't know it was a widow until I got the box outside and carefully removed the produce. We didn't have any means of killing it, and we don't like killing spiders anyway. Carefully I put the box in my daughter's wagon and pushed(so I could see the spider) to the nearby park. Before I left, I grabbed a nice big branch I have used as a fire poker. The stick is taller than me with a bit of hook on the end. I am very glad I did. On the way, the spider left the box and went under the fold down seat. Using STICK I got the box out and lifted the seat so could see it. Until it went under the other side and seemed to disappear. Again, using STICK, I turned the wagon offer and saw it had gone through a hole onto the pavement. I grabbed the wagon upright again and got out of there. It was nearly where I wanted it.
I am still shaking. When I got back, I literally said "thank God for stick!"
Why I adore the shillelagh (aka: stick with knot on one end). Genius, simply, and deadly
*"Speak Softly And Carry A Big Stick; You Will Go Far."*
~Roosevelt
The original Teddy Bear
Great American
That man was the Platonic Ideal of a Chad! 🇺🇸
Ive got a better version:
Speak softly... and drive a big tank!
Who cant tell me where thats from?
@@ct7567CaptRex Patton? Even if it's not I'm still saying Patton.
"No, you would not part an old man from his walking stick?" right before Gandalf started beating the fuck out of some Rohirim guards.
To be fair, if he was just a regular Joe with a stick he wouldn't have standed a chance
@@Supermegamanuel01 He would've stood even less of a chance if he didn't have a stick, though.
Interestingly enough I just watched that scene yesterday, and it's actually his companions that beat the guards, Gandalf focuses solely on the king
Your point still stands though!
The silly part is that almost literally everybody in the entire world knows Gandalf and that he's a fu@$ing wizard, which makes anybody letting him keep his staff a complete moron.
@@Astraeus.. that's true, but a part of me also thinks that at that point most of those closest to Theodon would have realised something was 'wrong' with him... so letting Gandalf come in with his 'walking stick' may have just ended up fixing him... which was exactly what happened.
1:55
First of all I think you need to give stick props for the fact that it is actually the foundation of so many other important weapons
Kali stick users in warzone: finally I am not useless
Finally someone understands the power of the stick and its the greatest weapon in history
Listening to an Australian man elaborate on the virtues of a stick for half an hour is peak Shadiversity and I love it
@@_Green_Onions_ sticks are also versatile as tools, you can clean dirt of your shoen with it. when i was a kid i sometimes used small sticks to open the chocolate milk when i had lost the straw
If gun isn't an option, choose stick.
Shad missed his true calling as a Stick infomercialist.
stick is like that one starter weapon with so many upgrade paths that its still viable in the endgame
Shad quite literally sold me on the idea of using a walking stick. I am now going to purchase one. Thank you, Shad.
The Dragon Quest/Dragon Warrior series (depending on localisation) has a stick as a beginner tier weapon. Specifically, it's a stick made of Cyprus wood. Fun fact.
Not only does shad have better armour than me, but he even has a bigger stick. Let me catch a break man :(
Owning a large stick is a pathway to many (bonking) abilities some consider to be *unnatural*
Is this "Shaft-envy?"
Don't worry size doesn't matter its how you use your stick.
Assert thy dominance!
@@lord2.0works is it possible to learn this power?
the sheer boyhood joy of just whacking things with a stick, this is we love you shad.
When I was a child we always had firewood laying around but me being clever went to find the best stick that reminded me of a broom. I realized how powerful it is when me and another kid struck them together and he dropped his from the shock from his hand that I made. A stick is an underrated weapon. Especially with how easy it disguises itself with the natural environment of a home no matter the class difference say for how obvious it shows on the lower end but that's from experience.
When shad took the handle off I thought he was gunna end us rightly by unscrewing the pummel.
Honestly I thought he was about to make a pommel joke too lol
Break stick in half? Now there's two stick.
Stick win every time.
And are sharp so you can go stabby stab someone's eye
@@Irreverent_Radiation And if you don't want stabby stabby, just hold the other end of the stick and you still have bonky bonky
Stick never beaten, only beater
Attach chain between two stick? Now you've got ... never mind.
After you boink boink the guy you can walk away with style
The wizard’s carry: A staff with a knob on the end.
24:05 I have worked in electronics retail before where we stocked a big heavy metal torch. I bought one and went on a hike that went wrong and while treading through the darkness that night, I felt a lot better with that think in my hand than had I nothing. I've also recomended it to someone looking for a self defense item for a young family member who was being followed by a boy on her way home from school. The rationale being that it is heavy and baton shaped and blindingly bright to shine in someones eyes.
Shad starting the Cult of Stick is one the most wholesome things on the internet
What do you mean lol, the first five minutes of the video was just stick innuendos
Sir let us not compare length or girth but POWER
@@abdullahelnaas4473 the thumbnail, too.
Clearly, that's why his stick is in his hands
Not cult. Club
Fun fact: one underappreciated advantage of early firearms was their ability to transform into sticks in the middle of a battle.
to quote R Lee Ermmy "you fired your shot, then used your musket as a club."
And their ability to turn enemies sticks into nunchucks.
Later, they got a better idea by installing a long pointy dagger on the barrel for effective stabbing action.
@@emperorfaiz thus transforming it into a spear, which is a funny stick.
In the late 16th century, Spanish (& other) arquebusiers would use the arquebus to parry in the offhand in conjunction with a sword in the primary hand. It seems like walloping people with firearms became more popular a bit later on.
Christopher Paolini's book "Brisingr" actually does a good job showcasing the humble stick. I have the book open right now. If you go to Chapter 2, "Around the Campfire," Eragon is contemplating the hawthorn staff he got after Murtagh took his sword at the end of "Eldest." This is a quote from page 11 of "Brisingr":
"Leaning forward to take his weight off Saphira's sharp-edged scales, Eragon picked up the hawthorn staff that lay by his side. He rolled it between his palms, admiring the play of light over the polished tangle of roots at the top and the much-scratched metal ferule and spike at the base.... Remembering the staff Brom had always carried, Eragon had decided to forgo a new sword in favor of the length of knotted hawthorn."
It seems like Christopher Paolini, Eragon, and Shad all agree. A staff/stick is an amazing weapon.
"Surely you wouldn't deprive an old man of his walking stick"-Gandalf
We all know what happens next.
[DOOM Music intensifies]
Just wait until Shad hears about that newfangled invention called the bow and arrow. It shoots sticks!
No. The spear thrower "shoots" sticks. The bow shoots twigs.
We could put sharpened pommels on the stick thrower!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The bow a stick that shoots sticks
I guess we will have to stick around and find out.
@@kronoscamron7412 Haha! You can stick your funny answer in the ***! ;)
I've once made a character in DnD that was built entirely about making a regular-ass stick the deadliest weapon known to man. He was able to pick up any branch off the ground and slay a dragon with it. Fear the bonk dispenser.
Druid or Artificer?
@@maddie9602 Yes
I need more details
@@vastjack8090 if I can hazard a guess based on the above, Artificer/Druid multiclass, +1 enchantment and Shilleleigh are both involved?
@@maddie9602 Most of that, yeah.
Yes! I've been going out foraging in the forest using walking sticks I made, and had to use one to defend my dog against two bigger dogs. I started making it into a multi tool with lightweight paracord attachments and learning to fight with it, because I wanted to make it as worthwhile useful as possible. I soon discovered the regular J cane as a walking stick and weapon I could take anywhere, and I acquired one and used it clearing my paths along with my machete. It was powerful yet a dainty 7/8" beechwood, which I eventually snapped. I got a 1" Oak cattle cane from Tractor Supply, and then used my old sailor skills to armor it with cord drawn hard for rasping and striking. I have practiced fighting with it now for 6 months everyday. I beat it against standing dead trees for practice, and replace the cords as necessary, except in the dark I'll have to feel the difference when the armor breaks away. I kept going unheeding once and cracked my cane but enough cords were remaining to allow me to keep using it since, but it hits progressively softer now and I must cut away all lower cords and soak it in hardener to reconstitute it before constricting on more cords. All kinds of innovation has evolved on my cane. I got it so I can fully protect both hands behind the cane when blocking. I can one hand box with it powerfully while using a Kerambit with my other hand, and I can use some two hand cane strikes in my combo with the Kerambit in hand. A cane isa whip, a short staff, and a sword all in one with attributes of each, yet can be unquestionably carried at ready with no alarm anywhere. I will make a quick detachable sling for my cane using only cord, and I will make it so it can be carried loaded and locked with a cord toggle release. I always carry 6.5' Hank of Paracord sized Bankline in my pocket, and have done great things with it, because I got Marlingspike skills. So I'm interested in tactical pens/ flashlights, and also want two which can serve as marlingspikes, as that's how I draw the cord tight. I am into astronomy and celestial navigation, and I have a powerful green laser in case I ever had such chance as to share my knowledge, but now I realize it likely has more value as a blinding weapon and kubotan. Also interested in a combat umbrella, and I got unbreakable pocket combs with long pointy handles. I got some other super quick secret weapons I can wear also, which I make for myself. I'm actually learning a lot and am working hard at it, because it's empowerment and packages my skills and needs together neatly. I love the philosophy of the unhidden uncertain weapon, which can be carried always. I love the cane's simplicity and myriad effective powerful uses. I already am skilled in use of many types of knives and understand their designs and uses. As of now I am training myself and forming my own system, but I watch a huge variety of martial arts training videos on TH-cam, and I have distant past training and also lots of fight experience's including weapon's. Oh yeah, my cane is awesome for foraging. I can get low and back up, and I can hook high and bring low a berry laden branch to my waist basket. I can hook my dogs harness and take control of her until whatever interrupting crap has passed. I take it with me everywhere, everyday. I'm even getting a plastic cane and Kerambit for the shower. IDK, shower don't drain, so I got the Toilet plunger in there with me too. Might be over armed.
Great video and energy! keep STICKing to what you do best😉
Guys I am scared Shad went from being a educational Medieval TH-camr to "return to monke".
Ok but seriously when is the "Rocc vs. Sticc" video coming out I need it in my life.
@Enderlance Yeah, bringing the entire TH-cam squad into the Sticc vs. Rocc debate is just what we need to survive through corona.
You mentioned monke. Now I want Shad to review Kong's axe from Godzilla vs Kong.
He's always been return to monke tier...
the true best weapon is rocc on sticc
@@phoenixeye4610
A C E N D E D
I feel like Shads casual dress is something like: "Squire, fetch my gambeson, but leave the brigandine for today."
What about for sleepwear, does he have a sleeping gambeson or just the regular tunic?
I'd imagine his children are his squires
I now imagine the scene at the store less like 'it's a walking stick, no worry' and instead 'it's not one of his swords, he's going casual'.
I've been thinking about the ending of R. Bradbury's short novel A Piece of Wood's ending while watching this video, it's such a great and accurate piece showing that even when guns are unavailable, people (especially the military ones) can and will make a deadly makeshift weapon even from a broken wooden chair.
Yet another work that's looking more and more like prophecy.
As an student of Eskrima/Kali/Arnis, I can tell you that a simple stick is _very_ effective
Same here!
To be a student is to be indoctrinated. Ever tried it?
I agree btw
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, and nunchucks will only ever hurt me"
And the user.
@@Felipera_ Cowabung-ouch!
@@Felipera_ that’s what the OP said “hurt ME”
Your sticks and stones may break my bones, but my nunchucks will only hurt me.
No that is not the quote I hear.
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me."
12:10 - Shad unscrews the "pommel" of the walking stick
Everyone - "End him rightly!"
OI you got a loicense for that stick?
You beat me "End him rightly"
TBF, that's what you do when you've bludgeoned your opponent savagely and he's trying to crawl away: End him rightly with the pommel to the back of the head.
Pommels of Mass Destruction!
Insert persona 3 reference here.
Shad is really at his habitat with the BIG STICK ENERGY! And I love it! XD
Never thought i could watch a twenty minute video of Shad being really excited about a stick
My take away from this episode of shad rants is "embrace stick" and "walking sticks are cool no matter what you are wearing "
Reject pure aesthetical reasoning, return to stick
Best stick I saw was in a market inCyprus I was fiddling with it thinking of a souveier and found out it was a bloody pigsticker as well
@@Greideren Yes.
On a related note it also means mages staves can't be dismissed as a physical weapon
@@Dragrath1 d6 is a decent damage
Next time on Shadiversity: Underappreciated Historical Weapons: THE ROCK!!
"if you have enough of them, you can make a castle!"
And we had to share the rock
It can double as a melee weapon and a throwable range weapon.
"Guns are basically glorified way of throwing rocks!"
JOHNSON
I never thought much of stick until I read mistborn. There are people (I forget what they were called) specifically who had sticks and wood shields, and were specifically trained to take out mistborn, which were the powerful magic wielders in the series. Normal men taking down magical people with sticks. pretty epic.
The first weapon we all picked up, great video!
"the sword is not a stick like weapon, you can't grab it in any place" *cries in halfswording*
Am I the only one who was just thinking of EFAP when he said a sword isn't a stick like weapon?
*Cries in Mah-Rey-Suuuuuueeeee*
The sword is two generations removed from the mighty stick. Someone put a blade at the end of a stick and saw that it was good. Then they pondered, "What if I remove all of the stick but the hand hold and replace it all with blade?" And thus was the first sword born, AND IT WAS GREAT!!
It's ironic that I'm reading Musashi translation atm, so often than not this historic character defeated his opponent with a stick, albeit hard n shaped.
The often quoted school of his father teaching him the wooden truchen (aka STICK)
“When I first joined the Corps we didn’t have these fancy shmancy tanks! We had STICKS! Two sticks and a rock for an entire platoon! And we had to share the rock!”
Just bonk the elites on the head!
@@twiddlerat9920 “Wort wort wort!” *bonk* “WUUUAHHHHHHH!”
"who has taught you these lies?"
I thought of this quote too when I saw this video!
You forgot to say: And we liked it!
Whenever I go biking around the city near me a always have my walking stick I carved myself on my back. It’s got a good sized club like head and is a decent length as well. I fashioned it after an Irish shillelagh fighting stick.
This is my favorite Shad video...hands down.