I also have more issue with cutting than getting shot. My personal theory is that it's because I have more first hand experience with getting cut rather than getting shot, so it is more relatable and therefore results in more empathy.
Yeah, same. Hell, that's one of the reasons why some rifles still include bayonet attachments, even though bayonets are basically useless in modern combat and the bayonets themselves are often just small utility knives with the ability to be attached to the gun. That's because if you're doing riot control, or prison duty, having a knife sticking towards someone can be more viscerally understood than the muzzle of the gun. Yeah, logically the bullet is more deadly than the blade, but since everyone knows what getting cut feels like, a bayonet is more psychologically understood than a bullet.
from what ive heard from people who had also gotten the same experience, getting shot compared to even being stabbed by a knife is preferable. iirc being shot is largely he force of the impact and the shock of realising the injury, the pain itself is more like feeling a lump or a ball being lodged into you. whereas being stabbed or cut has all the pain, all the blood, esp if its not clean. A bullet for the most part penetrates relatively cleanly before stopping, a blade rips and tears unless it was particularly fast.
The question is, are you white meat, or dark meat inside? Trick question. You have red meat, like beef or really more like pork. Youre like 2 steps removed from a swine. At least in terms of flavor anyway lol.
@@lbochtler not really what else can you do different except they both show the videos one after another, hes just a different person with a different personality
The secret duels, conducted by a small number of university fraternities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, are all that remain of a once widespread practice called Mensur. In a Mensur bout, fencers display their valor through stoic endurance of an opponent’s blows. From the 19th century on, the practice flourished across Europe, before quickly declining after World War II. “In the past,” Hans noted, “only high-borns were allowed to carry weapons, but since students were in danger of getting robbed on their travels, the king decided to let them wear weapons too.
“I saw a lot of duels, and fuck, there’s a lot of blood.” Fearing reprisals, Hans, a student, insisted on using a fake name. He also asked us not to mention the fencing fraternity he defected from in Heidelberg, Germany. “It’s not a public thing,” he said. “You don’t go around telling people, and there are no videos of a real duel.”
I think this might also be harder to watch because basically everyone knows what a cut feels like, how easy it is to get a cut and what it looks like in real life, so its easier to relate to a sword cut even if its bigger than what one might have experienced themself, as compared to a gun wound which most people have never experienced
This, plus the vast majority of the average person's 'experience' with gunshot wounds is in movies. Remember the last action hero, where Arnold is dying then they send him back to movieworld and "it's just flesh wound" and he gets up and walks away. We're literally conditioned to not think of gunshot wounds as real. I've cut myself with knives a few times, so I have a basis in reality for being able to extrapolate what a sword cut would feel like. There's no similar thing for gunshot wounds.
That and you could see the damage much easier and know how bad it is, as opposed to the other one where most of the damage is internal and not visible....
@@jimmythecrow You're telling me that psychologically, seeing a gaping wound, isn't harder-to-look-at/cringe-inducing/empathetic to see, compared to something alot of people have a harder time relating-to/having a frame of reference for? Yes both are shocking, but one is much easier for the average person to understand just how bad it is
I've read arguments regarding us having a bit more genetically ingrained instincts about getting cut by sharp claws compared to getting penetrated by projectiles. Also read about a cop who would wave a knife in front of him to make people move out of the way, since the gun got no reaction at all.
As a fencer I was trying to figure out what happened, because you should use blunt tips for your weapons in fencing as well as protective vest, so it made no sense to me at first how the stab happened, as the blade didn't break to suddenly become sharp. Then I realised: they're practicing with SHARP WEAPONS, which you should never do in sport since it increases the risk of accidents from basically nonexistent to high.
There not sharp sharp goes through the vest. This went under his helmet probably stuck in his jaw. But to be honest sable fencers are made. They really charge. There is a lot of pressure there and it might get through. Got a nice little scar on my chest from a broken Epe (floret) on my chest. Most was stopped by my vest little point went through. Shit happens This was before the new kevlar vests do.
@@TheSeth256 no they are definitely not sharp swords. they are fencing with sabres, and in sabre you're supposed to touch with the edge. i don't know if the safety standards were raised since, but i have absolutely seen sabres for olympic fencing that didn't have a widened tip, only a slightly blunt tip. a bit like how a big screwdriver is not a very pointy or sharpened tip, but it's not safe for stabbing either. also, sabre are much less flexible than epee or foil, so if both fencers are running hard against one another, it's no surprise than it manage to poke through.
That last clip....that actually WAS a sharpened sword... I think the dude got sued by the organizers of the Reenactment for bringing an actual Sharpened blade to the thing, when they were supposed to take from the 'weaponry' supplied by the organizers.
So the saber fencer guy was actually a youtuber and he talked about it. Basically the tip got damaged and it got lodge in his jaw. He survived the incident with minimal injury. A lot of videos have disappeared because he got hacked.
@@GlitchedUtopia even then I don't believe it's up anymore because they got hacked. And I'm not saying you would but they're kind of in a vulnerable state and would rather let them be.
Gun wounds are less uncomfortable to watch because: A: You are more familiar with swords. B: The worst sword wounds are more likely to get on TH-cam tan the worst gun wounds. C: There comes a point where we as a species can academically understand what happened in a wound, like a gun shot wound, but we truly can't wrap our heads around it until we're really exposed to it for years of study. The human mind struggles to actually process 3000FPS impacts. 80MPH sword slices is much more understandable. It's the same reason once you've broken a tooth, watching someone get hit in the mouth becomes so much harder to watch.
Let's also add that the slash wound usually covers more surface of a body and causes more visible bleeding. It's kind of similar to the eternal cut vs thrust debate: thrust it on-point and may cause devastating internal damage, but be almost invisible from the outside. While the cut, even if it doesn't do terrible "structural" damage like a cut-through or amputation, delivers visible and psychologically significant harm.
Only because in most wounds with bladed weapons there's no intent to kill so the strength put behind those strikes is scaled accordingly while you can't really scale the strength of a gunshot. If you compare the typical gunshot wound to machete attacks with intent to kill, the latter will be far nastier.
About the first video Those are germans (you could tell by the writing) and the hurting each other/ wounding each other is actually intended. Its still stupid and wrong. But as a german myself i will translate: "Till first blood. ... yes, and sometimes second or third ..." Very stupid very dumb very dangerous but sadly intended by this group.
@@jackmcslaymost wounding from gunshots will be internal. The effects in the wound track of a gunshot wound are far worse than a simple slash in many cases.
With sport fencing the foil/epee tips are little pressure switches that indicate thrusts of proper force. The sabres don’t use the switches so have a rolled tip. I love how the watermelon cutter put the cutting board down, thinking it would protect the table. I heard from several sources usually reenactors that during the American Civil War, there was a school of thought that Calvary Sabres should not be sharpened because a sharp blade could cut into an opponent and become stuck, causing you to lose your weapon. I don’t know if it’s true, but as seen in this video a blunt blade from horseback would effectively end your opponents day…
I was an armourer for my local fencing association, and I never seen anything like that second last clip. If you look up the "FIE material rules" you will see the diagrams of the specific dimensions of each part of a weapon. A sabre is generally a length of metal sheet rounded over at the end. What you will generally see if a blade breaks is a 2-5 inch piece of metal flying away that should be easily seen on camera (at least frame by frame). With sabres, they generally will bend (and stay that way) rather than break, but older weapons will fatigue and snap. It is possible that the bade snapped and kept going, but it is hard to tell. The way the blade makes contact and sticks leads me to believe that the weapon had a broken tip to begin with, but it is hard to tell. On one hand, they don't have the metal pistes on the ground which makes me wonder if they have a lower budget and might not have basic equipment checks. On the other, the clothing the fencers are wearing look high quality, which would cast doubt on the sabre being a cheaper design, or one not up to (most) FIE regulations (which is seen in local tournaments). Only the cheapest designs I have seen cut corners with the size of the tip though. I am not familiar enough with brands to tell what is worn in this video, but there is fencing clothing that is made of lesser Kevlar, or other material not up to the FIE standard of 800 newtons of resistance (for each piece of clothing) which is commonly uses in amateur events. For sabre, the silver metallic jacket won't give much protection, but there is the universal fencing jacket underneath, and a sous-plastron under that which protects the forward facing part of the chest and shoulder. Sometimes the wearing of the sous-plastron won't be enforced.
@@Taoscape we had a cheap practice Sabre blade break into 5 pieces and a few of the ends were scarily sharp. Not surprisingly that same weapon had to have the guard replaced because it bent and folded in the first practice. So yeah some of the cheap stuff out there is downright dangerous.
@@rburch20 Wow! 5 pieces is impressive. Also must have been lucky, since I imagine there wasn't much blade left to make contact with the opponent. It is unfortunate that maraging blades are still expensive. If they were more accessible, they would some most of the issue.
@@Taoscape yeah I was helping a group trying to start a club at the local college and we had a couple kids who wanted to try Sabre but didn’t have any sabres. Thought a couple of cheap eBay ones would let them try it but within a month the only part that wasn’t replaced was the grips.
@@rburch20 Yeah. Local/regional venders, especially the mom and pop shops, are a cornerstone of any fencing community because they learn these hard lessons, so we don't have to. Of course the caveat being that they have been around a while. Some people become vendors and try to get the best deal they can.
On the bonus clip, that guy either has a traumatizing story to bring up in therapy or a neat explanation for a scar, depending on how he recovered and the degree of damage
@@void4001 The last guy on the horse getting hit in the face by another rider. That's like getting hit with a crowbar, the weapon wasn't sharp but it's still steel being swung with some speed and the blunt force alone could have knocked him out.
@@Kr0noZ as somebody who has been hit with a crowbar before, yeah it does way more damage than people think. Got confused because it didn’t seem like the type of injury to leave a very noticeable scar so I thought he was mentioning a different clip.
@@Kr0noZ You could really see how this guy was barely holding on and trying his best to stay conscious. This one looked painful as hell just by looking at his reaction even without a clear view of the wound.
I used to do a lot of larping in the 90's and early 2000's and all of my friends in the LARP all had and practiced with real steel, but in safe and controlled ways. A good number of them worked for ren fairs and places like King Arthur's Castle/Medieval Times restaurants. On more than one occasion a know it all troll would want to join us and get upset when they lost to us using our "boffer" swords and most would insist that it would have been different if we had used real blades. On one occasion, one guy, who was upset he lost, we called him Gobbo cause he short and wirey like a goblin, got really pissed off and ran off to return with his mall ninja "sword of darkness" IYKYK, and went after my brother who had beaten him with a boffer sword and dagger earlier that evening. As Gobbo came in looking for a fight several of us tried to warn him away before he got hurt, but had a real mad on and was not rellenting. So my brother picked up his Scottish claymore, which he had been using as a giant kabob to cook some dinner, slid the meat off (thankfully, we were all hungry) and stepped to Gobbo telling him to take the shot if he wantex too. Gobbo looked nervous for a sec then decided he was more mad than sane and tried to swipe on my brother. My brother waited until he had committed to the swing then slapped the sword out of his hands and rested the blade on his shoulder. Gobbo went from angry to terrified to needing fresh pants real quick. No one got hurt in the end, but it could have gone a lot worse. Unfortunately idiots can get their hands on cheap swords much easier than they can firearms, so morons like this are a dime a dozen.
Is it possible to get Brandon on an episode of this? I know he's not a sword guy but it'd actually be interesting to get the opinion of what an inexperienced person would do in these situations.
While it would be interesting to do a video call reaction like when Shad joins Nerdrotic, I think it would be tougher to schedule with Brandon, since most of his videos seem to be more "I have an hour free, so I'm gonna make a quick video to fill time between bigger videos" rather than something he would want to set time aside for.. Also I am pretty sure after last time he collabed with an Aussie, he's gonna be distrustful about letting someone he doesn't know well edit the video
I think the reason many find cut related injuries worse to watch than gunshot related is due to the visible external damage. You can see the actual cut and the damage inflicted, so it seems like more damage than a gunshot, which is typically "just a small hole". So the wounds themselves are bigger externally when caused by sharp objects like knives, swords, axes, etc, and thus often seem more severe. That being said, gunshots are indeed often more lethal due to the internal damage; depending on the caliber, it can literally scramble intestines.
I'd rather you shoot me with a 9mm than have a longsword jammed in my gut still. My intestines being scrambled is probably more survivable than having them spill out on the floor. Obviously in a fight I'd rather have the gun, but that's more y'know speed, range, strength independent, hard to defend against...
Years ago, me and my friends took up reenactment fighting at first to use it on stage and then later to use it on knight battle field using blunted real weapons which was a lot of fun. At first the use of blunted weapon was just to make sure the sounds the weapon made was right, the weapons was custom made blunted sword, dagger, axes, spears and more. And even there we learned quickly that we really needed protection or someone would get hurt badly enough to leave the practice each blood time unless we all learned to fully control the weapons we used and all of us had do use protections. Especially to protect our hands, we learned that after a few broken fingers. We also had a trainer that was part of this group studying the old techniques which we learned a lot from and we quickly learned that even blunted weapons use right or wrong depending on your goals could easily kill some one. Sharpened weapons was used on a dead pig just to show how badly those could hurt someone, so anyone using sharpened weapons against any one had to realize that it would only take a tiny fault and then someone would get badly hurt or killed. During a couple of the weapon meet up all over Europa at the time, there were actually 3 deaths due to blunted weapons due to lack of protection or someone stumbling at the wrong moment. People need to understand that our ancestors used such weapons to kill other humans so weapons are something they should have respect for blunted or sharpened. I'll admit as we got better, we could control the weapons well enough to do a half and half directed fight so that each fights looked really real without our training protections, but that would be only a few minutes of a fight and then it would be over. The damages usually happened when people get tired and their controls begins to lack. Back then I had a lot of fun learning to fight with knives, wearing protections of course, but one thing was bloody clear almost instantly. With knives both side would be hurt possibly badly, so the winner was nearly always the one that waited for the other to attack, it was bloody rare, but reacting to that attack let you control the first move so you could block and then cut the other. Back then we used a trick and big coloring pointers along with wearing white shirt to show someone how badly it would go very quickly, and especially for someone not using protection. The fact that idiots today can think that playing with weapons might be safe are about as dumb as a sheep, because weapons and especially sharp swords and other things are weapons made to kill and hurt others.
Gloves are a must, helmet or at least a padded cap is highly recommended. And still you have to pass the "egg test". Egg test is simple. We put an egg on a log, bench, something like that, about 5 centimeters (2 inches) from end. One guy holds a metal bar (or sword) protecting the egg and you start swinging at it. It must make a nice sound of clashing metal. Then suddenly he drops or raises the protection and you must not hit the egg. If you crack it, you lose. If you manage to stop, you switch sides. First guy to break five eggs makes scrambled eggs for whole group and cleans the dishes. I highly recommend adding this to your workout every other month or so.
Oooh, cool editing style for you and Tyranth cameras, love the close-ups. Edit: I'm with Shad on this one, I cringe way more when I see injuries that aren't gun wounds, even if some breaks a hand or leg or something, it just feels worse. Maybe it's because I somehow see a gun wound be more fatal (thus in a way less painful, since you'd die quicker on average I think) so whenever I see a "normal" injury from blades or whatever, I somehow feel it more and it's super painful to even watch.
I think it also has to do with our instincts. We know what sharp things do. Sharp things have been killing and maiming for millions of years. A fear of sharp things is programmed into us. But a big boom and then you have a hole in you is far less common. There may still be some fear of loud noises and we know a hole in the body isn't good, but nature didn't have much that could pull that off. So a hefty fear of it didn't get programmed in. At least not to the extent sharp things were.
Me and my mates used to buy cheap blades from the Indian market in Durban, we used to really go in on banana trees, really fun to cut. We never had an accident even though we were like 10-12yo. It became very apparent that the cheaper blades with shit tangs just didn’t feel safe. It was a lot like that episode of South Park that goes all anime halfway through, although we didn’t have a Kenny, and we all thought throwing stars were lame compared to weighted throwing daggers. If you haven’t already I’d love to see some basic throwing principles or a comparison between throwing stars and daggers. TBF there is probably a video on your channel somewhere on this i just haven’t looked.
This series is so valuable for awareness of proper weapons-handling for traditional-arms: this is not only a great video-idea, but a valuable service to all. 😊
Sword and knife injuries seem worse to me because one is way closer to the victim; gun injuries are almost always from a distance, so it’s not as intense to me. Cool video!
Maybe gunshot is less "personal"? With sword (or other medieval weapon), you are pretty close. You see each others eyes. You see the connection of head-body-hand-piece_of_metal-other_human. With a gun there is some space between them (usually), so it is not that connected.
You guys hear about the teacher in Chicago who gave her students swords in class and let them sword fight? A student got injured and the paramedics weren't notified until I think half an hour after it happened
That was utter insanity. The teacher 100% knew what would happen, unless they had some sort of brain injury. Even children with blunt sticks seem to have more understanding of physics than that teacher had, giving 2 teenagers real swords and telling them to spar. 🤦🏻
Well, to be fair, if it _was_ actually in Chicago then you could argue the teacher was training them on the most practical skills they might need for that environment.... 😏
The cringy part about sword injuries is that the people hurt are always alive and experiencing intense distress that lasts for a very long time. What we see on video is only a small part of it. Think about it. When the camera stops, the person's cut extremity is still bleeding and still hanging off by a thread all the way to the hospital. It is distressing. Gunshot wounds are devastating, but leaves people largely intact. On average, you get to keep everything after the hospital.
once at the bus stop I saw this bored guy jumping up and grabbing the rim of the bus shelter Then he seemed injured, and I'm like whoa mate what happened, and he had caught his ring on the edge of the thing and put all his weight on it, and driven it up into his finger. A maddening injury, since obviously it's gonna immediately swell up and make removal impossible. His friend came and picked him up amazingly quickly.
@@caracoldeleche annoys me so much how people keep saying 'ostomy' when they mean 'stoma' you get a procedure called a somethingostomy, and you end up with a stoma.
@@skeletalfluorosis There's a meme about "parts of the body where a gunshot wound isn't fatal" and it's just the entire body from head to toe in red with the slightest barely visible white mark on the edge of the hip. Guns don't mess around
This generalization makes no sense. You have light and severe accidental injuries with swords or firearms. I think a lot more firearm injuries don't make to the hospital..
Shad gets points for ap vs dc gun to blade and another point to each host for addressing armor simulating combat better because of commitment and adequate gear.
It's not even just that they're using sharp swords with zero protection in that first clip - it's also the fact they're doing it in some wooded area, likely fairly remote, which means if one of them does get cut badly enough - like arterial - the ambulance isn't getting to them in time, and the distance to the nearest hospital compounds how long they'd have to try and survive before getting proper help. And I'd bet they haven't even bothered to bring a basic first aid kit, let alone one that comes with any torniquets to stop an arterial bleed.
A gun is like a rapier. Often times it's clean entry, sometimes a clean-ish exit. But turns out going THROUGH a thing does a TON of damage to it. There's a degree of separation tho, because what you're seeing vs what is happening is vastly different with blades vs guns. But another important context is most people have been cut. Even if it's by paper. We have a better frame of reference of that pain and feeling. I myself cook, and have cut myself deeply by accident. When I see blade fails I get the same sense of feeling I initially got when I nearly filleted my finger. But I have NEVER been shot by a gun. I have been shot by an arrow, funny enough! But I have never been shot by a gun. I don't have the frame of reference for how that feels other than "dead" like we see on TV and games.
Guns do the most damage when the projectile doesn't leave the target. When the projectile goes straight through, it disperses less kinetic energy reducing the amount of cavitation in the wound if not eliminating it completely. Miracle survival stories such as Phineas Gage and Saburo Sakai often involve exit wounds
One thing about being shot by a gun is there are many different types of ammunition for the many different types of guns. A light high-velocity/armor-piercing rifle round is going to do far less damage going straight through a person than a slow heavy lead shotgun slug.
Those first few clips appear to be of Germanic fencing. IIRC the tips of the sabres are sharpened, and the winners were either the first to draw blood or the last to submit. The old (pre 1930ish) rules were aimed around light slashes at the face to "build character" and leave charismatic scars. It's the reason why so many German WWII officials had facial scars. The new rules shifted the focus away from the face. The idea behind it was that it taught toughnes, resilience, and control, as you would still get charged for assault or murder if serious injuries were incurred.
The thing with people finding the swords fails harder to watch could be from most everyone had a cut of some kind of weather it be a paper cut or trying to open up something with a knife and slipping, Compared to how many ppl can really say they been shot in someway.
i think it’s simpler than that: unless it’s a shotgun injury, most nonfatal gun shot vids you find online tend to be from pistols, so you rarely see more than blood starting to pool. a lot of sword injury vids include flaps of skin and pieces of people being mostly severed. basically, the vids (and the wounds) tend to be a lot more visceral and gory looking. also, it’s been a long time since the days of Live Leak, so most gun vids are heavily censored
I have a story about a fencing accident. I was in a fencing club in high school and it was years ago but they were playing a war game we call stair wars. We split into teams, one team defends the ”castle” at the top and the other tries to get through. This is normally completely safe we set rules and guidelines to protect everyone. Anyways they were using epees for this game and someone’s point broke off without anyone realizing. This person lunged and hit someone. The dude that got stabbed didn’t feel anything different than usual until a little later when he felt a little light headed and they heard a sucking sound when he breathed. The broken epee had punctured his lung and touched his heart. He was rushed to the hospital and is ok now. He was my moms cousin I believe and since then epees were only used in duels and banned in all war games
I think the first clip was actually supposed to be a take on "Mensur" or "Acedemic fencing." And old German tradition where they would use a type of sword called a "Schager", which was designed to leave rough but shallow cuts that would result in scars that would be seen as a symbol of bravery. The difference is that in Mensur; both participants are supposed to remain static at a set distance away from each other. It was basically a game of chicken with swords.
@@michaelmason1659 You mean the part where the nazis tried to ban it because they considered ties to traditional culture and values to be a threat to their control over the population? Or are you referring to the part where it was so popular amongst the wealthy and well educated prior to the Nazi party’s rise that many of their officers not only had scars from the practice, but were willing to break the laws banning it and continue the tradition in secret?
@@michaelmason1659 exactly, a lot of generals and high standing people had fencing scars on their face, and wore them as an act of bravery and manliness
@@michaelmason1659 it was because mostly of the officers got involved in the ''sport'' back in the german empire times, and funnily mustache man actually banned the practice as it was associated with the old aristocratic class
Not many movies do a very good job of depicting what real injuries look like. They often shy away, and a lot of times it's not only more graphic, but they overdo the sound. In real life, sometimes it is more subtle.
I personally find it more difficult to watch knife related injuries because I can see the thing doing the injuring actually making contact with the person getting injured. With a gun, you shoot, you don't typically see the bullet hitting the person without special cameras.
He was lucky to still have an arm. And unlucky to meet an idiot. He doesn't look like someone with fencing experience. Maybe he was on LARP or two (the shield definitely looks LARPish), he knows a bit about proper stand, but he doesn't know how to lean in it or how to hold the shield against a real blow... To me it looks like a LARP gamer standing against power tripping troglodyte. Let's give him the best scenario. They had an argument, the LARP guy said something about how he would absolutely win in a fight and they agreed on testing it. I saw arguments like that, once I even was the fencer! But I didn't use a sharp axe, I used my good, blunt sword. And then baton. And then nothing. But I'm not a "only blood can wash away this insult" moron. In the worst scenario it was a LARP guy that wanted to learn HEMA and he brought in his things on the first training and this guy wanted to humiliate him for doing LARPs.
There is a video of a reenactor that used a real sharpened sword during a reenactment. Similar situation to the bonus video. Luckily, the man he hit wasn't killed, and I think he was charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
OK, internet, this needs to happen: Brandon Herrera on Shadiversity to train with swords, and Shad and Tyranth doing a range day with the AK Guy and company!
Yea, But Shad is in a Country that is fake and doesn't exist and Brandon is in the US. It would be cool, but i think it's not likely to happen. (Australia obviously exist, it was a joke)
I think Brandon isnt into swords and medieval stuff, its more possible to invite and do collab with Administrative Results because he does shoot english longbows
This is your second episode of the series and I'm already watching this whenever Brandon is in between making his Darwin award vids. Even though Darwin award vids have been around for quite some time already, the whole "sword fail reviews" idea is unique and awesome! Keep at it!
Using inspiration from the previous video's replies (thx guys)... The 4 rules of sword safety revised (byw yes this is a riff on the rules on gun safety) 1. Treat every blade as if it was sharp 2. Know where the edge and tip are at all times 3. Don't swing at anything your not willing to destroy 4. Keep the sword in its sheathed until ready to use Follow these simple rules so you wont have to be the recipient of a darwin award (Rule #5: dont trust an idiot with a sword i.e. someone who won't follow the other rules above)
I know exactly what Shad is talking about at beginning, I pretty much same. Like I can separate virtual injuries from films and games, but IRL it can be rough sometimes. It also is about getting used to it, like people in serve on police are used to it, because they seem is so many times, while you don't came to regularly to IRL injuries that much.
In the bonus fail, the video is on TH-cam and the caption says: "Fortunately, the blade did not penetrate all the protective layers, and he wasn't injured." So, good news for the fencer. Also see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Smirnov_(fencer) a Russian fencer killed in a competition.
The original (?) fencing video has this caption: "A fencer competing in the Sabre competition has his opponent's blade find a small hole in his lamé. Fortunately, the blade did not penetrate all the protective layers, and he wasn't injured."
I dont think people are more afraid of blades whatsoever. At least in America. In America everyone thinks life is like a video game where guns do more "DMG" on hit or something (aided by media hysteria over firearms but I digress). Plenty of people have little to no reaction seeing someone brandishing a blade (often with sad results). You can find recent footage of my fellow Americans scoffing at a literal axe-wielder (????). Mind-boggling. Basically I figure Americans generally see anything less than a firearm as "non-lethal" (doesn't help when the president says a 9mm will blow someone's lung out of their body). Now, blade INJURIES are more cringe inducing simply for the fact that a blade is long and the wound is long and a bullet is small and the wound small (proportionally).
16:26 as someone who dated and was trained by an Olympic fencer, this confuses me, typically fencing blades have a button at the tip of the blade to be pressed when landing a thrust, so IDK what the hell even happened there
If it’s saber, not foil, then they are using slashing weapons, not thrusting ones. I’m not entirely sure what’s going on either though. I presume they just moved into each other strangely or something, and something just happened to slip under a mask. I train in epee not saber so I’m not sure exactly how that would happen either, but I could see it if things just happen to line up correctly.
@@Terrivel119 I used to train saber ages ago and we're taught to use both cuts as well as thrusts. As far as the end of the saber goes, I dn't if they've changed any, but back when I used to fence saber way back in the '90s, they had rolled tips.
@@Riceball01 Wait, hold on, you can thrust with them too? What? That sounds… not super safe. The one I have is pretty rigid compared to an epee or foil because of how it’s built. Again, I have no actual saber experience, so I technically have no frame of reference, but thrusting with those seems crazy to me. They don’t seem built for that
I occasionally use my own katana for cutting around my family farm, and one day I was in a field during this summer cutting cattails along a fence line. One of my swings was low and while I was slightly distracted, I bumped my shin with the tip of the blade. It did not register that I had done any damage because I had enough control to slow it down, thus the bump was no different than a tap on the bone. When I looked down, however, I found that it went clean through my sweatpants, and as I concernedly raised my pant leg to check for injuries, I found a 2cm cut that went straight through the fat layer. I still have the scar. The moral of the story here is that katanas, even $300 CAD ones, are sharp.
I can watch just fine but melee wounds feel far more visceral to watch. I think it’s because how it’s not a sudden wound like a gun, you can see the meticulousness of the violence.
The Saber fencing was electric score, the lines are attached at the back on auto reels. They have threaded buttons/switches attached on the tips. I can only assume the threads broke off. These were both amateurs. Neither tried to beat or parry and gain right-of-way.
The saber part is quite frequent, which is why fencers have unique kevlar clothing. I know some fencers, and I have done a bit of so. I remember once it happened in a small club. The tip of the sword broke, and it had deeply cut the finger of the opponent. It was a nasty injury. That is why they are carrying multiple swords and blades for their competition.
In my opinion many people are more afraid of blades than they are of guns! I think this is at least partly due to movies. In movies gunshot wounds are usually either just "flesh wounds" or they just end you. With swords and knives they are portrayed as a far more lengthy and painful way to go and I think that makes a big impact on peoples perceptions.
It's also the fact that, for millions of years, our ancestors were hunted by animals that killed with sharp things. Claws slashed, teeth stabbed. But outside of a volcanic explosion nothing put a hole in you after going boom. So, nature programmed us to be afraid of sharp things and have less fear of loud ones. Because sharp was far more relevant.
Then nastiness of a relatively low-powered gunshot is often on the inside, where the deformed bullet devastates the body in spite of a relatively small entry wound. Cutting weapons deliver less "sneaky" wounds.
@@shmekelfreckles8157The same goes for knives in movies that end a person within a few seconds. The only exception I know is Neflix's "All Quiet on the Western Front" where the German main character stabs a French multiple times in the chest and it took a felt eternity for him to die. That was very drastic.
I used to do quite a bit of fencing. For saber sword is usually circular at the tip, for foil or eppe the tip has a rubber tip on the end of the sword. The saber tip went under his lapel and up to the neck.
I would say the Bonus clip was a perfect example of stupidity actually. The rider chose to ride in pretty forcefully and delivered a strong cut to someone's face with a steel bar, fashioned like a blade. Even if that thing isn't sharp it will force the flesh apart with sheer horsepower (hehe) alone and aiming a blow to the face. On the flip side, we now have a perfect example of what a saber delivered cut can do. Even blunt the damage that blow dealt was devastating.
Regarding movies: I have the same thing myself. Like, when we talk about movies - I love gore in horror and action flics, but IRL I can't handle such injuries. I believe that, by default, when we watch a movie - it is genuinelty exciting to see something like this, because our brain understands that this is not real, but realistically broken fingers or sliced limbs work as a testament to the skill of VFX artists more than anything else. But when something like this happens IRL the brain goes "This is a problem! This person needs attention!".
1:39 I agree and I also believe it's for the same reasons: except hunting, I grew up watching my dad cutting meat for meals, going to the butcher, seeing the meats hanging and the blood dripping. I don't have issues with Blood at all, I do very well around it and never felt sick. As for the fact people get more uncomfortable around white weapons wounds than with black weapons, even though I don't have sensibility towards blood, I can see why and it definitely makes sense even for me why some feel like that around them; they tend to be way more grievous and nasty than bullet wounds. Not saying bullet wounds can't get nasty, but wounds by cutting/blunt strikes are almost always very graphic and raw.
Aside from being more messy, most of us know what an injury with a sharp object feels like so our mind subconsciously extrapolates from our previous experiences and projects what we're seeing might feel like. Since you've never been shot, you don't have anything to reference off of... like, sure, you can consciously _imagine_ what it might feel like, but your body has never actually experienced it so it doesn't know how to react.
I'm 31 now, but when I was 17 I was messing around with one of my swords. I was holding it normal then flipping it around so I was holding it backwards, being a complete dumb ass, and I think it was the 4th or 5th time the blade slid across my knuckles, had to get 6 stitches and I have a scar. That was my learning experience of play stupid games win stupid prizes, haven't done anything that stupid since.
Over time I have grown more squeamish with injuries on other people, back 20 years ago I could have watched someone get melted and not even blink- but now, I just think of how the injury will impact the rest of their life and how they have to live in that moment of injury. I've sustained a LOT of damage over the years, but seeing it happen to someone else is harder to witness- especially if they are shrieking. I think it comes down to empathy, at least for me. Back then I didn't empathize with people much, but now I do.
@@KairuHakubi True but I started slowing down in my mid teens, about in middle school. I would get cuts and deep bruises and scrapes and the callouses torn off my palms, those took forever to heal even back then. I was fairly uncaring to people back then, this probably had something to do with the school bullying and events from that time and twisted my perception of people.
Mentioning Brandon Herrera at the beginning now makes me want to see a collab between your channel and his. I know Brandon likes older guns, not just new stuff, soooo... Maybe you two could do a video and range day about SWORD GUNS!!! If you guys can't get a hold of a real sword gun, well, he could probably make one for you, or knows someone who could make one. Man, now I gotta see this video made! Brandon Herrera is my favorite guntuber, and you're my favorite... blade...tuber? I dunno, I love both guns and swords. They are so freaking cool, and if my two favorite weapon guys did a collab that brings both guns and swords together, I just might soil myself with joy.
Notification came in a bit late. That aside, Shad explained that sensation perfectly. The thing that freaks me out with knives more than guns is the idea of either losing a digit, losing the ability to use a digit, and in a morbid sense, how stealthily yet quickly they can be deployed and used for harm, and how bad the injuries can be versus a firearm
I think the reason that blade injuries are harder for many people to watch is because everybody's been cut at some point in their lives but not many people (comparatively speaking) have been shot and therefore have a harder time relating to the pain of a bullet wound VS a wound caused by a blade.
I almost seriously injured one of my fencing partners when my blade snapped and the broken sharp part went through his jacket and part way through an additional layer of cloth only that guy wore and then it ripped his shirt and broke the skin but did not pierce.
ive been playing with knives and sword for 30 years, but I still "#¤" my self sometimes, last time I was using a cheap sharpener with a cheap knife and it slipped out and gave me a 5cm gash, in to the bone on my point finger,,,,made a cool scar now, but oh man how much the fingers bleed lol, my kitchen looked like a crime scene, blood on walls, ceiling and floor lol
Everyone has cut themselves to some degree at some point in their lives (be it a paper cut or a slip of the knife) whereas very few people have ever been shot with a gun, thus it is much easier to imagine and relate to the pain of a sword fail rather than a gun fail.
In point of fencing with minimal Protection, there was historically the "Mensur", a type of Academical fencing that's more akin to ritual scarification than actual fencing. Altough they moved more in that video, they did show off their scars proudly wich would fit in that direction. The rest all falls under natural selection except for the last two videos. Best wishes to all those involved in those accidents.
My fencing instructor had and accident in a tournament where his safety tip had broken off and was not noticed. It has been a long time since it happened but to my recall when he thrusted at the opponent, the blade went in through the jacket, deflected off a rib and came out the top of the shoulder between the scapula and clavicle.
I also have more issue with cutting than getting shot. My personal theory is that it's because I have more first hand experience with getting cut rather than getting shot, so it is more relatable and therefore results in more empathy.
Yeah, same. Hell, that's one of the reasons why some rifles still include bayonet attachments, even though bayonets are basically useless in modern combat and the bayonets themselves are often just small utility knives with the ability to be attached to the gun. That's because if you're doing riot control, or prison duty, having a knife sticking towards someone can be more viscerally understood than the muzzle of the gun. Yeah, logically the bullet is more deadly than the blade, but since everyone knows what getting cut feels like, a bayonet is more psychologically understood than a bullet.
That is absolutely it.
I my thoughts exactly.
Yep - most people have been cut and know how it feels / happens - so there's a more visceral reaction to seeing it happen.
from what ive heard from people who had also gotten the same experience, getting shot compared to even being stabbed by a knife is preferable. iirc being shot is largely he force of the impact and the shock of realising the injury, the pain itself is more like feeling a lump or a ball being lodged into you. whereas being stabbed or cut has all the pain, all the blood, esp if its not clean. A bullet for the most part penetrates relatively cleanly before stopping, a blade rips and tears unless it was particularly fast.
"People are just meat" bro went full Jaime Lannister
A bag of meat with bones
Or Hannibal Lector.
"never go full meat..."
"Pork Sausage...."
The question is, are you white meat, or dark meat inside?
Trick question. You have red meat, like beef or really more like pork. Youre like 2 steps removed from a swine. At least in terms of flavor anyway lol.
I'm gonna need the Darwin Awards to be a permanent thing! I love Brandon's version, and these are a great addition!
his way of presenting is far more entertaining though.
Surely there isn't enough content to continue making Darwin award videos
@@lbochtler Tbf, they have wastly different ways of presenting content.
@@lbochtler not really what else can you do different except they both show the videos one after another, hes just a different person with a different personality
agreed! please as long as you have videos to review, also seems like the videos where you guys review a sword from a game do amazing
The secret duels, conducted by a small number of university fraternities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, are all that remain of a once widespread practice called Mensur. In a Mensur bout, fencers display their valor through stoic endurance of an opponent’s blows. From the 19th century on, the practice flourished across Europe, before quickly declining after World War II. “In the past,” Hans noted, “only high-borns were allowed to carry weapons, but since students were in danger of getting robbed on their travels, the king decided to let them wear weapons too.
“I saw a lot of duels, and fuck, there’s a lot of blood.” Fearing reprisals, Hans, a student, insisted on using a fake name. He also asked us not to mention the fencing fraternity he defected from in Heidelberg, Germany. “It’s not a public thing,” he said. “You don’t go around telling people, and there are no videos of a real duel.”
I think this might also be harder to watch because basically everyone knows what a cut feels like, how easy it is to get a cut and what it looks like in real life, so its easier to relate to a sword cut even if its bigger than what one might have experienced themself, as compared to a gun wound which most people have never experienced
This, plus the vast majority of the average person's 'experience' with gunshot wounds is in movies. Remember the last action hero, where Arnold is dying then they send him back to movieworld and "it's just flesh wound" and he gets up and walks away. We're literally conditioned to not think of gunshot wounds as real. I've cut myself with knives a few times, so I have a basis in reality for being able to extrapolate what a sword cut would feel like. There's no similar thing for gunshot wounds.
That and you could see the damage much easier and know how bad it is, as opposed to the other one where most of the damage is internal and not visible....
@@General_Kenobi_212 lol, you have no idea what youre talking about.
@@jimmythecrow You're telling me that psychologically, seeing a gaping wound, isn't harder-to-look-at/cringe-inducing/empathetic to see, compared to something alot of people have a harder time relating-to/having a frame of reference for? Yes both are shocking, but one is much easier for the average person to understand just how bad it is
I've read arguments regarding us having a bit more genetically ingrained instincts about getting cut by sharp claws compared to getting penetrated by projectiles.
Also read about a cop who would wave a knife in front of him to make people move out of the way, since the gun got no reaction at all.
Man with the fencers you can genuinely see how he's instantly concerned for the other guy and is trying to help
As a fencer I was trying to figure out what happened, because you should use blunt tips for your weapons in fencing as well as protective vest, so it made no sense to me at first how the stab happened, as the blade didn't break to suddenly become sharp. Then I realised: they're practicing with SHARP WEAPONS, which you should never do in sport since it increases the risk of accidents from basically nonexistent to high.
There not sharp sharp goes through the vest. This went under his helmet probably stuck in his jaw.
But to be honest sable fencers are made. They really charge. There is a lot of pressure there and it might get through.
Got a nice little scar on my chest from a broken Epe (floret) on my chest.
Most was stopped by my vest little point went through.
Shit happens
This was before the new kevlar vests do.
@@TheSeth256 no they are definitely not sharp swords. they are fencing with sabres, and in sabre you're supposed to touch with the edge. i don't know if the safety standards were raised since, but i have absolutely seen sabres for olympic fencing that didn't have a widened tip, only a slightly blunt tip. a bit like how a big screwdriver is not a very pointy or sharpened tip, but it's not safe for stabbing either.
also, sabre are much less flexible than epee or foil, so if both fencers are running hard against one another, it's no surprise than it manage to poke through.
The guy with the axe fighting the "shield" guy, I dont think any of those two realized the axe went through the first time
Clearly the guy holding the shield had no idea, his eyes weren't even open.
@@Xyponx 🤣 I know right, thats the moment he should have realized this game aint for him
It's weight loss right? They cut off your extra weight
@@Xyponx He looked straight at the hole in the shield after he opened his eyes again and even seemed to comment on it.
I think the sun wheel on the skinheads axe tells us everything we need to know. They're not that smart.
Props to the reenactor for keeping his horse under control after that nasty hit!
This show must continue, watching sword fails are almost as entertaining as watching Shad's reaction to the sword fails.
That last clip....that actually WAS a sharpened sword... I think the dude got sued by the organizers of the Reenactment for bringing an actual Sharpened blade to the thing, when they were supposed to take from the 'weaponry' supplied by the organizers.
Shad cradling his Emotional Support Sword. So cute.
And Tyren low key almost admits to cannibalism. "People are also just made of meat." 😳
Should've been Emotional Support Zweihänder
Like a weighted blanket, or a smooth stone. Probably autism.
Edit: I'm joking
@@WEKMNo what you are thinking is when murders compare people to objects and how easy it is to manipulate them/ kill them
Told my girlfriend it was a thing...
So the saber fencer guy was actually a youtuber and he talked about it. Basically the tip got damaged and it got lodge in his jaw. He survived the incident with minimal injury. A lot of videos have disappeared because he got hacked.
You know he's name?
@@GlitchedUtopia yes but they also had mental health problems so I'm not going to name them for now.
@@allstarwoo4 i want to see the videos and not bully him. I'm curios.
@@GlitchedUtopia even then I don't believe it's up anymore because they got hacked. And I'm not saying you would but they're kind of in a vulnerable state and would rather let them be.
Gun wounds are less uncomfortable to watch because:
A: You are more familiar with swords.
B: The worst sword wounds are more likely to get on TH-cam tan the worst gun wounds.
C: There comes a point where we as a species can academically understand what happened in a wound, like a gun shot wound, but we truly can't wrap our heads around it until we're really exposed to it for years of study. The human mind struggles to actually process 3000FPS impacts. 80MPH sword slices is much more understandable. It's the same reason once you've broken a tooth, watching someone get hit in the mouth becomes so much harder to watch.
Let's also add that the slash wound usually covers more surface of a body and causes more visible bleeding. It's kind of similar to the eternal cut vs thrust debate: thrust it on-point and may cause devastating internal damage, but be almost invisible from the outside. While the cut, even if it doesn't do terrible "structural" damage like a cut-through or amputation, delivers visible and psychologically significant harm.
Only because in most wounds with bladed weapons there's no intent to kill so the strength put behind those strikes is scaled accordingly while you can't really scale the strength of a gunshot. If you compare the typical gunshot wound to machete attacks with intent to kill, the latter will be far nastier.
@@jackmcslay Depends on caliber. 9 pellets of buckshot will do a gruesome amount of damage to someone.
About the first video
Those are germans (you could tell by the writing) and the hurting each other/ wounding each other is actually intended.
Its still stupid and wrong.
But as a german myself i will translate: "Till first blood. ... yes, and sometimes second or third ..."
Very stupid very dumb very dangerous but sadly intended by this group.
@@jackmcslaymost wounding from gunshots will be internal. The effects in the wound track of a gunshot wound are far worse than a simple slash in many cases.
I completely understand where Shad is coming from with separating gratuitous injuries in movies vs. real life injuries.
yea, A Movie is not real, a real wound is REAL.. obviously it's harder to watch, depending on the injury.
Literally just monkey brain moment, fantasy injuries/gore just don't hit you as hard simply because at the back of your mind you know its not real.
With sport fencing the foil/epee tips are little pressure switches that indicate thrusts of proper force. The sabres don’t use the switches so have a rolled tip.
I love how the watermelon cutter put the cutting board down, thinking it would protect the table.
I heard from several sources usually reenactors that during the American Civil War, there was a school of thought that Calvary Sabres should not be sharpened because a sharp blade could cut into an opponent and become stuck, causing you to lose your weapon.
I don’t know if it’s true, but as seen in this video a blunt blade from horseback would effectively end your opponents day…
I never understood the glass table thing. "See this glass, it's easy breakable and makes an annoying sound. Now let's use it as a Table"
I was an armourer for my local fencing association, and I never seen anything like that second last clip. If you look up the "FIE material rules" you will see the diagrams of the specific dimensions of each part of a weapon. A sabre is generally a length of metal sheet rounded over at the end.
What you will generally see if a blade breaks is a 2-5 inch piece of metal flying away that should be easily seen on camera (at least frame by frame). With sabres, they generally will bend (and stay that way) rather than break, but older weapons will fatigue and snap. It is possible that the bade snapped and kept going, but it is hard to tell. The way the blade makes contact and sticks leads me to believe that the weapon had a broken tip to begin with, but it is hard to tell.
On one hand, they don't have the metal pistes on the ground which makes me wonder if they have a lower budget and might not have basic equipment checks. On the other, the clothing the fencers are wearing look high quality, which would cast doubt on the sabre being a cheaper design, or one not up to (most) FIE regulations (which is seen in local tournaments). Only the cheapest designs I have seen cut corners with the size of the tip though. I am not familiar enough with brands to tell what is worn in this video, but there is fencing clothing that is made of lesser Kevlar, or other material not up to the FIE standard of 800 newtons of resistance (for each piece of clothing) which is commonly uses in amateur events. For sabre, the silver metallic jacket won't give much protection, but there is the universal fencing jacket underneath, and a sous-plastron under that which protects the forward facing part of the chest and shoulder. Sometimes the wearing of the sous-plastron won't be enforced.
Thank you for the educated perspective.
@@Taoscape we had a cheap practice Sabre blade break into 5 pieces and a few of the ends were scarily sharp.
Not surprisingly that same weapon had to have the guard replaced because it bent and folded in the first practice.
So yeah some of the cheap stuff out there is downright dangerous.
@@rburch20 Wow! 5 pieces is impressive. Also must have been lucky, since I imagine there wasn't much blade left to make contact with the opponent. It is unfortunate that maraging blades are still expensive. If they were more accessible, they would some most of the issue.
@@Taoscape yeah I was helping a group trying to start a club at the local college and we had a couple kids who wanted to try Sabre but didn’t have any sabres.
Thought a couple of cheap eBay ones would let them try it but within a month the only part that wasn’t replaced was the grips.
@@rburch20 Yeah. Local/regional venders, especially the mom and pop shops, are a cornerstone of any fencing community because they learn these hard lessons, so we don't have to. Of course the caveat being that they have been around a while. Some people become vendors and try to get the best deal they can.
On the bonus clip, that guy either has a traumatizing story to bring up in therapy or a neat explanation for a scar, depending on how he recovered and the degree of damage
"It was the year of our lord 2020, and that degenerate Andrew missed his mark..."
Wich one was the bonus clip?
@@void4001 The last guy on the horse getting hit in the face by another rider.
That's like getting hit with a crowbar, the weapon wasn't sharp but it's still steel being swung with some speed and the blunt force alone could have knocked him out.
@@Kr0noZ as somebody who has been hit with a crowbar before, yeah it does way more damage than people think. Got confused because it didn’t seem like the type of injury to leave a very noticeable scar so I thought he was mentioning a different clip.
@@Kr0noZ You could really see how this guy was barely holding on and trying his best to stay conscious. This one looked painful as hell just by looking at his reaction even without a clear view of the wound.
I used to do a lot of larping in the 90's and early 2000's and all of my friends in the LARP all had and practiced with real steel, but in safe and controlled ways. A good number of them worked for ren fairs and places like King Arthur's Castle/Medieval Times restaurants. On more than one occasion a know it all troll would want to join us and get upset when they lost to us using our "boffer" swords and most would insist that it would have been different if we had used real blades. On one occasion, one guy, who was upset he lost, we called him Gobbo cause he short and wirey like a goblin, got really pissed off and ran off to return with his mall ninja "sword of darkness" IYKYK, and went after my brother who had beaten him with a boffer sword and dagger earlier that evening. As Gobbo came in looking for a fight several of us tried to warn him away before he got hurt, but had a real mad on and was not rellenting. So my brother picked up his Scottish claymore, which he had been using as a giant kabob to cook some dinner, slid the meat off (thankfully, we were all hungry) and stepped to Gobbo telling him to take the shot if he wantex too. Gobbo looked nervous for a sec then decided he was more mad than sane and tried to swipe on my brother. My brother waited until he had committed to the swing then slapped the sword out of his hands and rested the blade on his shoulder. Gobbo went from angry to terrified to needing fresh pants real quick. No one got hurt in the end, but it could have gone a lot worse. Unfortunately idiots can get their hands on cheap swords much easier than they can firearms, so morons like this are a dime a dozen.
Is it possible to get Brandon on an episode of this?
I know he's not a sword guy but it'd actually be interesting to get the opinion of what an inexperienced person would do in these situations.
I dont think Brandon is into medieval stuff... but Administrative Results do likes English longbows
Pretty sure most of his answers would be “shoot them” but yes, it would be fun!
While it would be interesting to do a video call reaction like when Shad joins Nerdrotic, I think it would be tougher to schedule with Brandon, since most of his videos seem to be more "I have an hour free, so I'm gonna make a quick video to fill time between bigger videos" rather than something he would want to set time aside for..
Also I am pretty sure after last time he collabed with an Aussie, he's gonna be distrustful about letting someone he doesn't know well edit the video
@@apollohateshisdayjob9606what happened with editing?
Jack Black and Brian Zane have matching pyjamas 😂
The guy on the horse got real lucky, and that fencer is lucky his opponent missed his heart. Great vid, very insightful breakdowns.
I think the reason many find cut related injuries worse to watch than gunshot related is due to the visible external damage.
You can see the actual cut and the damage inflicted, so it seems like more damage than a gunshot, which is typically "just a small hole". So the wounds themselves are bigger externally when caused by sharp objects like knives, swords, axes, etc, and thus often seem more severe.
That being said, gunshots are indeed often more lethal due to the internal damage; depending on the caliber, it can literally scramble intestines.
I'd rather you shoot me with a 9mm than have a longsword jammed in my gut still.
My intestines being scrambled is probably more survivable than having them spill out on the floor.
Obviously in a fight I'd rather have the gun, but that's more y'know speed, range, strength independent, hard to defend against...
Years ago, me and my friends took up reenactment fighting at first to use it on stage and then later to use it on knight battle field using blunted real weapons which was a lot of fun.
At first the use of blunted weapon was just to make sure the sounds the weapon made was right, the weapons was custom made blunted sword, dagger, axes, spears and more. And even there we learned quickly that we really needed protection or someone would get hurt badly enough to leave the practice each blood time unless we all learned to fully control the weapons we used and all of us had do use protections. Especially to protect our hands, we learned that after a few broken fingers.
We also had a trainer that was part of this group studying the old techniques which we learned a lot from and we quickly learned that even blunted weapons use right or wrong depending on your goals could easily kill some one. Sharpened weapons was used on a dead pig just to show how badly those could hurt someone, so anyone using sharpened weapons against any one had to realize that it would only take a tiny fault and then someone would get badly hurt or killed.
During a couple of the weapon meet up all over Europa at the time, there were actually 3 deaths due to blunted weapons due to lack of protection or someone stumbling at the wrong moment. People need to understand that our ancestors used such weapons to kill other humans so weapons are something they should have respect for blunted or sharpened.
I'll admit as we got better, we could control the weapons well enough to do a half and half directed fight so that each fights looked really real without our training protections, but that would be only a few minutes of a fight and then it would be over. The damages usually happened when people get tired and their controls begins to lack.
Back then I had a lot of fun learning to fight with knives, wearing protections of course, but one thing was bloody clear almost instantly. With knives both side would be hurt possibly badly, so the winner was nearly always the one that waited for the other to attack, it was bloody rare, but reacting to that attack let you control the first move so you could block and then cut the other. Back then we used a trick and big coloring pointers along with wearing white shirt to show someone how badly it would go very quickly, and especially for someone not using protection.
The fact that idiots today can think that playing with weapons might be safe are about as dumb as a sheep, because weapons and especially sharp swords and other things are weapons made to kill and hurt others.
Gloves are a must, helmet or at least a padded cap is highly recommended. And still you have to pass the "egg test".
Egg test is simple. We put an egg on a log, bench, something like that, about 5 centimeters (2 inches) from end. One guy holds a metal bar (or sword) protecting the egg and you start swinging at it. It must make a nice sound of clashing metal. Then suddenly he drops or raises the protection and you must not hit the egg. If you crack it, you lose. If you manage to stop, you switch sides.
First guy to break five eggs makes scrambled eggs for whole group and cleans the dishes. I highly recommend adding this to your workout every other month or so.
Oooh, cool editing style for you and Tyranth cameras, love the close-ups.
Edit: I'm with Shad on this one, I cringe way more when I see injuries that aren't gun wounds, even if some breaks a hand or leg or something, it just feels worse. Maybe it's because I somehow see a gun wound be more fatal (thus in a way less painful, since you'd die quicker on average I think) so whenever I see a "normal" injury from blades or whatever, I somehow feel it more and it's super painful to even watch.
I think it also has to do with our instincts.
We know what sharp things do. Sharp things have been killing and maiming for millions of years.
A fear of sharp things is programmed into us.
But a big boom and then you have a hole in you is far less common. There may still be some fear of loud noises and we know a hole in the body isn't good, but nature didn't have much that could pull that off.
So a hefty fear of it didn't get programmed in. At least not to the extent sharp things were.
Me and my mates used to buy cheap blades from the Indian market in Durban, we used to really go in on banana trees, really fun to cut. We never had an accident even though we were like 10-12yo. It became very apparent that the cheaper blades with shit tangs just didn’t feel safe. It was a lot like that episode of South Park that goes all anime halfway through, although we didn’t have a Kenny, and we all thought throwing stars were lame compared to weighted throwing daggers. If you haven’t already I’d love to see some basic throwing principles or a comparison between throwing stars and daggers. TBF there is probably a video on your channel somewhere on this i just haven’t looked.
“People are meat” way to sound psychopathic lmao 😂
Exactly what I thought haha
He's not wrong though.
@@AmorphisBob sure if you break a person down it some of its basic elements, like a Psychopath! Lmao 😂
At least he didn't add "and taste like chicken."
@@TheDoomedI guess you're a psychopath if you use any type of logic now
This series is so valuable for awareness of proper weapons-handling for traditional-arms: this is not only a great video-idea, but a valuable service to all. 😊
Sword and knife injuries seem worse to me because one is way closer to the victim; gun injuries are almost always from a distance, so it’s not as intense to me.
Cool video!
Maybe gunshot is less "personal"? With sword (or other medieval weapon), you are pretty close. You see each others eyes. You see the connection of head-body-hand-piece_of_metal-other_human. With a gun there is some space between them (usually), so it is not that connected.
You guys hear about the teacher in Chicago who gave her students swords in class and let them sword fight? A student got injured and the paramedics weren't notified until I think half an hour after it happened
That was utter insanity. The teacher 100% knew what would happen, unless they had some sort of brain injury. Even children with blunt sticks seem to have more understanding of physics than that teacher had, giving 2 teenagers real swords and telling them to spar. 🤦🏻
Chicago? The one I heard about was in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Please tell me there wasn't another "teacher" doing this...
@@Reyn_Roadstorm Would you be surprised? they hiring everyone nowadays.
Well, to be fair, if it _was_ actually in Chicago then you could argue the teacher was training them on the most practical skills they might need for that environment.... 😏
@@Reyn_Roadstormyeah, i don’t see anything about Chicago, just Albuquerque. not sure where the other guy got chicago from 🤷♂️
The cringy part about sword injuries is that the people hurt are always alive and experiencing intense distress that lasts for a very long time. What we see on video is only a small part of it. Think about it. When the camera stops, the person's cut extremity is still bleeding and still hanging off by a thread all the way to the hospital. It is distressing. Gunshot wounds are devastating, but leaves people largely intact. On average, you get to keep everything after the hospital.
once at the bus stop I saw this bored guy jumping up and grabbing the rim of the bus shelter
Then he seemed injured, and I'm like whoa mate what happened, and he had caught his ring on the edge of the thing and put all his weight on it, and driven it up into his finger. A maddening injury, since obviously it's gonna immediately swell up and make removal impossible. His friend came and picked him up amazingly quickly.
After a gunshot is far more probable that you end up with a ostomy bag due to intestinal damage.
@@caracoldeleche annoys me so much how people keep saying 'ostomy' when they mean 'stoma'
you get a procedure called a somethingostomy, and you end up with a stoma.
@@skeletalfluorosis There's a meme about "parts of the body where a gunshot wound isn't fatal" and it's just the entire body from head to toe in red with the slightest barely visible white mark on the edge of the hip. Guns don't mess around
This generalization makes no sense.
You have light and severe accidental injuries with swords or firearms.
I think a lot more firearm injuries don't make to the hospital..
I vote to call them the Scarwin Awards.
Shad gets points for ap vs dc gun to blade and another point to each host for addressing armor simulating combat better because of commitment and adequate gear.
How many episodes before the nunchaku special? It could be a 12-hour livestream with the amount of videos out there.
You think Shad wants worse-than-stick on his channel more than it already has been? xP
😂 the nut cracker special !
I have to agree with Shad, it is the blood and messiness of an edged weapon. Plus, like Tyranth, the level of stupidity hurts my feelings more.
It's not even just that they're using sharp swords with zero protection in that first clip - it's also the fact they're doing it in some wooded area, likely fairly remote, which means if one of them does get cut badly enough - like arterial - the ambulance isn't getting to them in time, and the distance to the nearest hospital compounds how long they'd have to try and survive before getting proper help. And I'd bet they haven't even bothered to bring a basic first aid kit, let alone one that comes with any torniquets to stop an arterial bleed.
A gun is like a rapier. Often times it's clean entry, sometimes a clean-ish exit. But turns out going THROUGH a thing does a TON of damage to it. There's a degree of separation tho, because what you're seeing vs what is happening is vastly different with blades vs guns.
But another important context is most people have been cut. Even if it's by paper. We have a better frame of reference of that pain and feeling. I myself cook, and have cut myself deeply by accident. When I see blade fails I get the same sense of feeling I initially got when I nearly filleted my finger.
But I have NEVER been shot by a gun. I have been shot by an arrow, funny enough! But I have never been shot by a gun. I don't have the frame of reference for how that feels other than "dead" like we see on TV and games.
Guns do the most damage when the projectile doesn't leave the target. When the projectile goes straight through, it disperses less kinetic energy reducing the amount of cavitation in the wound if not eliminating it completely. Miracle survival stories such as Phineas Gage and Saburo Sakai often involve exit wounds
I fear guns more than swords. Fair points.
One thing about being shot by a gun is there are many different types of ammunition for the many different types of guns. A light high-velocity/armor-piercing rifle round is going to do far less damage going straight through a person than a slow heavy lead shotgun slug.
Guns are more than just a rapier - because it goes so fast it creates a little shockwave or ripple effect, and that causes a lot of damage.
@@jackmcslay THIS
it's science.
Those first few clips appear to be of Germanic fencing. IIRC the tips of the sabres are sharpened, and the winners were either the first to draw blood or the last to submit. The old (pre 1930ish) rules were aimed around light slashes at the face to "build character" and leave charismatic scars. It's the reason why so many German WWII officials had facial scars. The new rules shifted the focus away from the face. The idea behind it was that it taught toughnes, resilience, and control, as you would still get charged for assault or murder if serious injuries were incurred.
The thing with people finding the swords fails harder to watch could be from most everyone had a cut of some kind of weather it be a paper cut or trying to open up something with a knife and slipping, Compared to how many ppl can really say they been shot in someway.
yeah I have an experience of cutting a fruit and it rolled to the side. Nearly cut off one of my fingers.
i think it’s simpler than that: unless it’s a shotgun injury, most nonfatal gun shot vids you find online tend to be from pistols, so you rarely see more than blood starting to pool. a lot of sword injury vids include flaps of skin and pieces of people being mostly severed. basically, the vids (and the wounds) tend to be a lot more visceral and gory looking.
also, it’s been a long time since the days of Live Leak, so most gun vids are heavily censored
I have a story about a fencing accident. I was in a fencing club in high school and it was years ago but they were playing a war game we call stair wars. We split into teams, one team defends the ”castle” at the top and the other tries to get through. This is normally completely safe we set rules and guidelines to protect everyone. Anyways they were using epees for this game and someone’s point broke off without anyone realizing. This person lunged and hit someone. The dude that got stabbed didn’t feel anything different than usual until a little later when he felt a little light headed and they heard a sucking sound when he breathed. The broken epee had punctured his lung and touched his heart. He was rushed to the hospital and is ok now. He was my moms cousin I believe and since then epees were only used in duels and banned in all war games
I think the first clip was actually supposed to be a take on "Mensur" or "Acedemic fencing." And old German tradition where they would use a type of sword called a "Schager", which was designed to leave rough but shallow cuts that would result in scars that would be seen as a symbol of bravery. The difference is that in Mensur; both participants are supposed to remain static at a set distance away from each other. It was basically a game of chicken with swords.
Totally agree, but I think you're forgetting to mention the nazi tie 😂
@@michaelmason1659 You mean the part where the nazis tried to ban it because they considered ties to traditional culture and values to be a threat to their control over the population?
Or are you referring to the part where it was so popular amongst the wealthy and well educated prior to the Nazi party’s rise that many of their officers not only had scars from the practice, but were willing to break the laws banning it and continue the tradition in secret?
@@michaelmason1659 exactly, a lot of generals and high standing people had fencing scars on their face, and wore them as an act of bravery and manliness
@@michaelmason1659 it was because mostly of the officers got involved in the ''sport'' back in the german empire times, and funnily mustache man actually banned the practice as it was associated with the old aristocratic class
@@michaelmason1659 But weirdly enough the little mustache man wanted this tradition to end because it was giving off a bad image.
Not many movies do a very good job of depicting what real injuries look like. They often shy away, and a lot of times it's not only more graphic, but they overdo the sound. In real life, sometimes it is more subtle.
This is why you don't give Shrek an axe.
I personally find it more difficult to watch knife related injuries because I can see the thing doing the injuring actually making contact with the person getting injured. With a gun, you shoot, you don't typically see the bullet hitting the person without special cameras.
The whole arm coulda been gone on the axe one.
He was lucky to still have an arm. And unlucky to meet an idiot. He doesn't look like someone with fencing experience. Maybe he was on LARP or two (the shield definitely looks LARPish), he knows a bit about proper stand, but he doesn't know how to lean in it or how to hold the shield against a real blow... To me it looks like a LARP gamer standing against power tripping troglodyte.
Let's give him the best scenario. They had an argument, the LARP guy said something about how he would absolutely win in a fight and they agreed on testing it. I saw arguments like that, once I even was the fencer! But I didn't use a sharp axe, I used my good, blunt sword. And then baton. And then nothing. But I'm not a "only blood can wash away this insult" moron.
In the worst scenario it was a LARP guy that wanted to learn HEMA and he brought in his things on the first training and this guy wanted to humiliate him for doing LARPs.
The axe guy looks genuinely excited that he hurt the guy. Looks like bloodlust lol
Okay lads... when are we getting a WarHammer chainsaw sword review? Come on big T, for the Emperor!
pretty sure shad allready did that a couple of years ago
@@vhaelen326 Did he now? Oh joy! I shall have to look into this
Brother! I require a sword brother!
@@EpicRandomness555 Damn the tall skinny ones, they never give us swords only oats.
They need to make a real life version.
Sparing with sharp swords is like Paintball with real guns, lol.
This is almost a short of Fight Autopsy but with awards
There is a video of a reenactor that used a real sharpened sword during a reenactment. Similar situation to the bonus video. Luckily, the man he hit wasn't killed, and I think he was charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
OK, internet, this needs to happen: Brandon Herrera on Shadiversity to train with swords, and Shad and Tyranth doing a range day with the AK Guy and company!
You know that will end with Brandon making a gun that fires swords, don't you?
@@madisonlink7141 The internet has spoken.
Yea, But Shad is in a Country that is fake and doesn't exist and Brandon is in the US. It would be cool, but i think it's not likely to happen. (Australia obviously exist, it was a joke)
@@hurricaneputz I'm not saying I'm against it, I'm just noting the destination.
We can call it the AK Swordy-seven
I think Brandon isnt into swords and medieval stuff, its more possible to invite and do collab with Administrative Results because he does shoot english longbows
This is your second episode of the series and I'm already watching this whenever Brandon is in between making his Darwin award vids. Even though Darwin award vids have been around for quite some time already, the whole "sword fail reviews" idea is unique and awesome! Keep at it!
Using inspiration from the previous video's replies (thx guys)...
The 4 rules of sword safety revised (byw yes this is a riff on the rules on gun safety)
1. Treat every blade as if it was sharp
2. Know where the edge and tip are at all times
3. Don't swing at anything your not willing to destroy
4. Keep the sword in its sheathed until ready to use
Follow these simple rules so you wont have to be the recipient of a darwin award
(Rule #5: dont trust an idiot with a sword i.e. someone who won't follow the other rules above)
I am going to screenshot this. Thank you for making this list.
I should add one thing to this:
Swords are awesome. Idiots are not. When we combine two, we might get the Darwin's Award.
Rule #6 wear protection.
I know exactly what Shad is talking about at beginning, I pretty much same. Like I can separate virtual injuries from films and games, but IRL it can be rough sometimes. It also is about getting used to it, like people in serve on police are used to it, because they seem is so many times, while you don't came to regularly to IRL injuries that much.
In the bonus fail, the video is on TH-cam and the caption says: "Fortunately, the blade did not penetrate all the protective layers, and he wasn't injured." So, good news for the fencer.
Also see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Smirnov_(fencer) a Russian fencer killed in a competition.
Oh good. Glad to hear the fencer wasn't injured. That must have been terrifying in the moment.
The original (?) fencing video has this caption: "A fencer competing in the Sabre competition has his opponent's blade find a small hole in his lamé. Fortunately, the blade did not penetrate all the protective layers, and he wasn't injured."
Nearly everyone has been cut, few have been shot; the personal frame of reference combined with generally more blood is what creates more “cringe”.
I dont think people are more afraid of blades whatsoever. At least in America. In America everyone thinks life is like a video game where guns do more "DMG" on hit or something (aided by media hysteria over firearms but I digress). Plenty of people have little to no reaction seeing someone brandishing a blade (often with sad results). You can find recent footage of my fellow Americans scoffing at a literal axe-wielder (????). Mind-boggling. Basically I figure Americans generally see anything less than a firearm as "non-lethal" (doesn't help when the president says a 9mm will blow someone's lung out of their body).
Now, blade INJURIES are more cringe inducing simply for the fact that a blade is long and the wound is long and a bullet is small and the wound small (proportionally).
I've been enjoying the changes. I particularly like the fantasy/movie weapon reviews. Thanks you gents
16:26 as someone who dated and was trained by an Olympic fencer, this confuses me, typically fencing blades have a button at the tip of the blade to be pressed when landing a thrust, so IDK what the hell even happened there
If it’s saber, not foil, then they are using slashing weapons, not thrusting ones. I’m not entirely sure what’s going on either though. I presume they just moved into each other strangely or something, and something just happened to slip under a mask.
I train in epee not saber so I’m not sure exactly how that would happen either, but I could see it if things just happen to line up correctly.
@@Terrivel119 I used to train saber ages ago and we're taught to use both cuts as well as thrusts.
As far as the end of the saber goes, I dn't if they've changed any, but back when I used to fence saber way back in the '90s, they had rolled tips.
@@Riceball01 Wait, hold on, you can thrust with them too? What? That sounds… not super safe. The one I have is pretty rigid compared to an epee or foil because of how it’s built.
Again, I have no actual saber experience, so I technically have no frame of reference, but thrusting with those seems crazy to me. They don’t seem built for that
s curve developed
My guess is the blade broke, creating a very sharp tip that easily defeated the protective gear
My grandfather always said, Learn by others mistakes, It hurts less
Alright. So when we gonna get the Brandon Herrera multiverse crossover?
Do guns with bayonets Darwin Award clips. There has to be a couple out there.
First time I have seen your content and I love your logic and banter.
I was ninja running like Naruto with my Short Katana in the back yard and sent the point of the blade through my calf muscle 😂
Was it sharp or just a wall hanger?
I occasionally use my own katana for cutting around my family farm, and one day I was in a field during this summer cutting cattails along a fence line. One of my swings was low and while I was slightly distracted, I bumped my shin with the tip of the blade. It did not register that I had done any damage because I had enough control to slow it down, thus the bump was no different than a tap on the bone. When I looked down, however, I found that it went clean through my sweatpants, and as I concernedly raised my pant leg to check for injuries, I found a 2cm cut that went straight through the fat layer. I still have the scar.
The moral of the story here is that katanas, even $300 CAD ones, are sharp.
i just wish your content got more views , yall deserve it. keep it up, ill always tune in :)
I can watch just fine but melee wounds feel far more visceral to watch. I think it’s because how it’s not a sudden wound like a gun, you can see the meticulousness of the violence.
Hearing and seeing your reactions to these has been enjoyable, I'd like to see more.
The Saber fencing was electric score, the lines are attached at the back on auto reels. They have threaded buttons/switches attached on the tips. I can only assume the threads broke off. These were both amateurs. Neither tried to beat or parry and gain right-of-way.
The saber part is quite frequent, which is why fencers have unique kevlar clothing. I know some fencers, and I have done a bit of so. I remember once it happened in a small club. The tip of the sword broke, and it had deeply cut the finger of the opponent. It was a nasty injury.
That is why they are carrying multiple swords and blades for their competition.
In my opinion many people are more afraid of blades than they are of guns! I think this is at least partly due to movies. In movies gunshot wounds are usually either just "flesh wounds" or they just end you. With swords and knives they are portrayed as a far more lengthy and painful way to go and I think that makes a big impact on peoples perceptions.
It's also the fact that, for millions of years, our ancestors were hunted by animals that killed with sharp things.
Claws slashed, teeth stabbed.
But outside of a volcanic explosion nothing put a hole in you after going boom.
So, nature programmed us to be afraid of sharp things and have less fear of loud ones. Because sharp was far more relevant.
Then nastiness of a relatively low-powered gunshot is often on the inside, where the deformed bullet devastates the body in spite of a relatively small entry wound. Cutting weapons deliver less "sneaky" wounds.
@@shmekelfreckles8157The same goes for knives in movies that end a person within a few seconds. The only exception I know is Neflix's "All Quiet on the Western Front" where the German main character stabs a French multiple times in the chest and it took a felt eternity for him to die. That was very drastic.
@shmekelfreckles8157 true, but it's more common to see people just fall over dead instantly from gunshots.
@@shmekelfreckles8157 Every thrown weapon in a movie is one-shoot 😄
I used to do quite a bit of fencing. For saber sword is usually circular at the tip, for foil or eppe the tip has a rubber tip on the end of the sword. The saber tip went under his lapel and up to the neck.
I would say the Bonus clip was a perfect example of stupidity actually. The rider chose to ride in pretty forcefully and delivered a strong cut to someone's face with a steel bar, fashioned like a blade. Even if that thing isn't sharp it will force the flesh apart with sheer horsepower (hehe) alone and aiming a blow to the face.
On the flip side, we now have a perfect example of what a saber delivered cut can do. Even blunt the damage that blow dealt was devastating.
"axe weight loss training" One pound of flesh at a time 10:20
At least doing that shirtless means the wound will be cleaner 😂
Regarding movies: I have the same thing myself. Like, when we talk about movies - I love gore in horror and action flics, but IRL I can't handle such injuries. I believe that, by default, when we watch a movie - it is genuinelty exciting to see something like this, because our brain understands that this is not real, but realistically broken fingers or sliced limbs work as a testament to the skill of VFX artists more than anything else. But when something like this happens IRL the brain goes "This is a problem! This person needs attention!".
1:39 I agree and I also believe it's for the same reasons: except hunting, I grew up watching my dad cutting meat for meals, going to the butcher, seeing the meats hanging and the blood dripping. I don't have issues with Blood at all, I do very well around it and never felt sick.
As for the fact people get more uncomfortable around white weapons wounds than with black weapons, even though I don't have sensibility towards blood, I can see why and it definitely makes sense even for me why some feel like that around them; they tend to be way more grievous and nasty than bullet wounds. Not saying bullet wounds can't get nasty, but wounds by cutting/blunt strikes are almost always very graphic and raw.
Aside from being more messy, most of us know what an injury with a sharp object feels like so our mind subconsciously extrapolates from our previous experiences and projects what we're seeing might feel like. Since you've never been shot, you don't have anything to reference off of... like, sure, you can consciously _imagine_ what it might feel like, but your body has never actually experienced it so it doesn't know how to react.
sparring with live swords is like playing airsoft with a loaded gun
100% worse seeing cutting related injuries.
Just as I was about to go to sleep lol
UK?
I'm 31 now, but when I was 17 I was messing around with one of my swords. I was holding it normal then flipping it around so I was holding it backwards, being a complete dumb ass, and I think it was the 4th or 5th time the blade slid across my knuckles, had to get 6 stitches and I have a scar. That was my learning experience of play stupid games win stupid prizes, haven't done anything that stupid since.
Over time I have grown more squeamish with injuries on other people, back 20 years ago I could have watched someone get melted and not even blink- but now, I just think of how the injury will impact the rest of their life and how they have to live in that moment of injury. I've sustained a LOT of damage over the years, but seeing it happen to someone else is harder to witness- especially if they are shrieking. I think it comes down to empathy, at least for me. Back then I didn't empathize with people much, but now I do.
when you're younger, you heal a lot more quickly, so I think it's natural to shrug that stuff off.
@@KairuHakubi True but I started slowing down in my mid teens, about in middle school. I would get cuts and deep bruises and scrapes and the callouses torn off my palms, those took forever to heal even back then. I was fairly uncaring to people back then, this probably had something to do with the school bullying and events from that time and twisted my perception of people.
@@claytucker5025 ah yeah that'll do it. when everyone's against you, it's hard to work up that mood to advocate for anyone else.
@@KairuHakubi Yeah, thankfully it didn't stay negative.
Good on you guys for showing the blood starting to drip from the axe blow to show the extent of the injury.
Of course we want to watch more of them!
Awesome ones, thanks!
Mentioning Brandon Herrera at the beginning now makes me want to see a collab between your channel and his.
I know Brandon likes older guns, not just new stuff, soooo... Maybe you two could do a video and range day about SWORD GUNS!!! If you guys can't get a hold of a real sword gun, well, he could probably make one for you, or knows someone who could make one. Man, now I gotta see this video made!
Brandon Herrera is my favorite guntuber, and you're my favorite... blade...tuber? I dunno, I love both guns and swords. They are so freaking cool, and if my two favorite weapon guys did a collab that brings both guns and swords together, I just might soil myself with joy.
Notification came in a bit late. That aside, Shad explained that sensation perfectly. The thing that freaks me out with knives more than guns is the idea of either losing a digit, losing the ability to use a digit, and in a morbid sense, how stealthily yet quickly they can be deployed and used for harm, and how bad the injuries can be versus a firearm
I love the fact that you mentioned Brandon Herrera in this need to make this series permanent
I think the reason that blade injuries are harder for many people to watch is because everybody's been cut at some point in their lives but not many people (comparatively speaking) have been shot and therefore have a harder time relating to the pain of a bullet wound VS a wound caused by a blade.
I almost seriously injured one of my fencing partners when my blade snapped and the broken sharp part went through his jacket and part way through an additional layer of cloth only that guy wore and then it ripped his shirt and broke the skin but did not pierce.
0:42 I'm a very experienced breather. I've been doing it my whole life.
I love ALL Shadiversity videos!!!! ❤
ive been playing with knives and sword for 30 years, but I still "#¤" my self sometimes, last time I was using a cheap sharpener with a cheap knife and it slipped out and gave me a 5cm gash, in to the bone on my point finger,,,,made a cool scar now, but oh man how much the fingers bleed lol, my kitchen looked like a crime scene, blood on walls, ceiling and floor lol
I think it's also partly the speed. With a firearm, what happens is almost instant, with a sword you watch it start to finish
Everyone has cut themselves to some degree at some point in their lives (be it a paper cut or a slip of the knife) whereas very few people have ever been shot with a gun, thus it is much easier to imagine and relate to the pain of a sword fail rather than a gun fail.
Low-key. Those videos taught me more than you ever have.
8:03 How come the first guy gets a real axe, but the other guy only has a cloth mallet? That is unfair. They should both have fake weapons.
In point of fencing with minimal Protection, there was historically the "Mensur", a type of Academical fencing that's more akin to ritual scarification than actual fencing. Altough they moved more in that video, they did show off their scars proudly wich would fit in that direction.
The rest all falls under natural selection except for the last two videos. Best wishes to all those involved in those accidents.
Also, the fencing guy video description says he, thankfully, wasn't injured.
editor forgot to censor the blood with the axe the second time around
My fencing instructor had and accident in a tournament where his safety tip had broken off and was not noticed. It has been a long time since it happened but to my recall when he thrusted at the opponent, the blade went in through the jacket, deflected off a rib and came out the top of the shoulder between the scapula and clavicle.
I am one of those who flinch more from melee weapon fails then gun fails.
i would enjoy the format more if the videos were allowed to playout with out as many pauses . love your work shad!