I appreciate Your support. This whole thing has been a ridiculous debacle. What I've learned is, Shad likes initiating drama. Thanks to creators like you who hold him accountable, so I had a better understanding of why this happened. Funny enough, the footage you pulled up with me is nearly two years old now, and I've gotten a lot better with a longsword😊
No problem dude. The stuff with Shadiversity is crazy, because he's basically started flak like he did with you with every community he's done content in. Art, movies, technology, anime, politics, literature, it's wild. The dude starts stuff with pros in that field and then cries foul when he's met with any sort of pushback. Either way, your content is fire and hopefully this irritation hasn't wasted too much of your time lol Thanks for commenting!
@@westsidetyler thanks! Yeah, I've noticed how many beefs he's gotten into. He's not taking seriously at all by the part of the swordsmanship community that actually practices and fences, but he has a lot of weight with new or aspiring people who don't know better yet. It's sad that he uses that influence to crap on other people, and to mislead his followers. Hopefully incidents like this help people better understand his true nature. Digging your analysis though, was insightful and hilarious 😂
Tbh, shad is one of the big reasons I'm not that afraid of speaking on things I don't really know much, but that was when he used to come off as someone who didn't mind being corrected in turn. I didn't think much of it, but I slowly stopped watching as he seemed to prefer talking authoritatively on seemingly low hanging fruit. Haven't heard much about him until this, and it's really disappointing. That being said, if he wasn't so toxic, he's still kind of a great nerd showman where experts tend to be too technical. Like, as a kid I remember liking Skallagrim because of his old job working at a place that sells swords. It was boredom and pivot to other interests that kept me watching Shad for sword and castle content, even when it's clear he isn't nearly as good as everyone else. Edit: I still really like Skall, but my point is Shad just seems to have a faster pace than everyone else
David (Sellsword) is a great guy, making proper HEMA videos and being an active member of the actual HEMA community. It's crazy that it should be controversial to state that the best people to be taking advice about HEMA from are people who actually train/teach/compete in HEMA regularly. Like, on what planet is that controversial? Anyway, as I'm mentioned here, I thought I'd drop in and say hi, and thanks.
I too train Muay Thai and they immediately tell you the Thai stance is completely optional. You can just stand like a regular Irishman it's totally valid. Boxing between the Thai and British had fully cross-pollinated by the mid 1800's. You can tell because the Thai words for all the big signature punches are in English while the kicks and bone strikes are not. They wholesale adopted British punching for its superiority. EVERYONE chooses the Thai stance anyway, including me.
I did Kendo in highschool with my 5' nothing girlfriend, She got challenged to a "duel" by a guy with a shinai at a festival giving off insane weeb vibes. She just beat the shit out of his hands with the most basic strikes. This happend more than once. And with more than one 'challenger'. World if full of weirdos.
I've been doing Kendo for over 20 years and yeah, this unfortunately happens (but it's rare). I don't even acknowledge weebs like that and just keep walking. No benefit to spend time on someone like that.
@moritzmehno770 means five foot tall. Usually there would be a #" to show inches after the 5' so if someone was exactly Five ft tall or you just want to exaggerated the shortness a bit the phrase "Five ft nothing" is a pretty common phrase
It's really annoying how Shad kept getting Sellswords name wrong in his video. Like if you're gonna make a video about him, at least learn his name dude.
Here's the thing, Shad would make a response to video to any video he thought he was being called out in, but not named. So if someone made a video about how she was assaulted but wouldn't name or hint at her attacker, Shad would be dumb enough to do a response naming himself as the target of false accusations.
There was also skallagrim drama. Skallagrim tweeted something (unfortunately, i don't remember what he said, but it wasn't anything controversial) that shad got insecure and offended by. Shad even said I thought we were friends. Skallagrim apologized for offending him, but also said that they weren't friends, just acquaintance. Shad then proceeded get mad and hasn't spoken with him since.
It’s was a tweet Skall made responding to someone else making fun of shads thumbnail for a Barbie Movie video. Basically saying “yeah it’s pretty silly to get worked up over it”. Which in hindsight is hilarious for how angry shad got in response
@@outsideiskrrtinsideihurt699Honestly I don't remember if that was the first comment he freaked out over but I know before that all he said was he couldn't watch him anymore because he was too ranty and click-baity in reply to someone else and Shad lost it over that too. The Barbie thing came after and he ALSO freaked out over that
Someone in chat said they were sad Skall wasn't linked in sellswords shout outs. And while I like Skall as a person, I can see that he is very much in the same kind of camp as Shad _in a practical sense_ but I think Skalls knowledge is far better. He's also _better_ HEMA wise but I can see why Sellsword wouldn't rate him. (Skall atleast uses more practical tests for what he's talking about)
HEMA exists in a strange spot where it is effectively experimental archaeology, historical study, and a dude bro sport all at once. I can see why it gets messy quite a lot. Thankfully its good cardio even tho i only have a weekend Warriors education in using a tachi so not rly HEMA but u get it
@@DarkMark-cf1ecSure dude but its still a combat sport. Its goofy to pretend its not combat just because you can't do literally anything and murder your opponent. That's war and murder combat doesn't have to be lethal to still be combat. There are in fact shades of gray here. Hell WAR even has rules so I'm not sure what you're on about unless you only consider full no rules no nothing barbarian murder combat.
@BlazingSteel funny story about armchair warriors. There is this fellow by the name of Sir George Hope who dedicated his early life to reading and studying French swordmanship. He posted a Manuel, which as you said had allot of guidelines and worked in French on French swordsmanship. After releasing his book, he was invited to a park to fence some hillbillies... and he got his SHIT ROCKED. So there is even late medival Manuel's that where written by armchair warriors
Just to give everyone as brief as possible overview of Shad related controversy, that I am familiar with to give a bit more context. A few years back Shad made a video about using the English longbow in an unconventional way, ie shooting the arrow from 'right' side rather than 'left' with a 3 finger draw, making the point that artwork from or at least about the medieval period showed this being done so it must be right. A few archery experts told him he was wrong about this even giving reasons why shooting this way with this draw was dangerous to the archers body. Shad 'knew better' and did at least one response video targeting Nusensei more specifically since Nusensei had made a video response. He even took some clips of Nusensi out of context to treat Nusensei like he was a liar or a fool who didn't know what he was talking about. In general he's had some of his historical facts about castles pointed out as being wrong, including pronunciations and even the usage of certain items. He's also done videos about metalwork which had wrong details called out by blacksmiths. You can guess what Shad's response was to all of that. Sometime after that was his Knightwatch channel, which is just bad reviews and bad takes on various pop culture related TV shows and movies and similar that draaaaaaaag on and on... It's just rage reviews where everything bad because of how 'woke' it all is. These reviews have featured him making homophobic remarks about gay people being groomers, and gay relationships being disgusting... He also makes a lot of misogynistic remarks, like losing his mind about Prince Peach wearing pants and being a 'girl boss' because apparently she only wears dresses in the games (This was her Mario Kart outfit. And she's the regent of her kingdom, first in line to the throne, of course she knows how to lead, she's been trained since birth to become a monarch!) Then there was the attack on Jack Saint, which had Jack do a long response that Shad oddly didn't reply to, but did end up attacking Angry Joe because Joe made fun of Shads Knightwatch Barbie Movie thumbnails (the original thumbnail was titled 'feminist cancer') and asked if he was 'the sword guy' The first Twitter meltdown at Skallagrim was last year, when Skallagrim responded to a tweet highlighting some of the nastier KW thumbnails, stating that was why he didn't watch Shad anymore, pointing out it was just supposed to be the left who got triggered. Cue. A. Very. Angry. Shad. If you think my wall of text here is a lot, imagine even more like this over several very long tweets by Shad, each one getting more and more pissy. Then there was the Scholagladiatoria aka Matt Easton drama. Shad had gotten the money together for a trip of a lifetime to visit England (not sure if he went to other parts of the UK) and met up with Matt, Tod from Tod's Workshop, Llyod from Lindybeige and Jason Kingsly OBE AKA Modern Histroy TV, all history youtubers Shad's had contact with over the years. Shad, Matt and Tod all put the same group pic on their facebook pages, only for Matt and Tod to take them down a day or so later after several people pointing out Shads behaviour. Tod left it at that, Matt did an explanation post about why and did not name Shad. Cue. Shad. Going. Monkey Poo on twitter and naming himself as the person being abandoned by Matt and Matt getting a lot of abuse from Shads fans. A few months later there was more twitter drama with Skall when Shad started accusing Skall of encouraging people to physically harm Shad, because Skall liked a hand drawn image of a cartoon knight throwing their sword pommel at the back of Shads head. Apparently the two took it to PMs and both deleted their tweets regarding that. Now there's the stuff with Sellsword... And it all basically boils down to Shad thinking he's infallible God, that was a lot more text than I meant to write... Might make a nice dramatic reading though :D
My partner was a fan of Shad and thought Shad was well read when talking about things, but I had issues with some of the things he got wrong and his melt downs. Not to mention, certain key words he uses a lot that just did not sit well with me. Then he made his stupid boob armor video going off about how women need that in order to wear armor at all and justifying it. I knew right then there he was an idiot who knew nothing as well as his political views. So his second channel and the takes he has didn't surprise me one bit. But this is something Shad has always done. He is a talentless nerd who thinks he knows everything and anyone who calls him out on being wrong are just haters who are "attacking" him.
@@klausd.6285 honestly, i don't hate boobs armour, but when nerds go berserk on it because it is "unrealistic" and then suddenly start defending it because "some leftie meltdown"... It's just hilarious.
@@AaSs-ln9mmThere are accounts of women who have had boob armour made and they've regretted wearing it when competing in jousting contests. Instead of deflecting the lance away from the armour it just channels it into the armour, making it easier to get unhorsed and putting the wearer in a lot of danger of injury. One woman stated she almost wound up with a broken sternum from that very incident and refuses to ever wear boob armour again.
@@aureliodeprimus8018 And this is me trying to not go into too much detail. And that's almost impossible to do because of how much drama Shad has created.
"I eat hot pockets" is going in my vocabulary as slang for "I also enjoy trash content, that doesnt mean its not trash" and I want to thank you for that.
I trained for several years in HEMA & related “western” martial arts (including boxing), and every serious practitioner I showed Shad to was laughing about him within minutes.
My favorite part, is when Shad shows the clip of Sellsword talking about weird techniques, reverse grip, giant swords, etc. He just assumes all of those were about him. Like dog! Everybody on sword YT was talking about reverse grip and giant swords for a time. Hell, the channel DigitallyTwistedOutlaws started specifically for giant swords! Shad is just a straight-up anime villain; assumes the whole world revolves around him.
He is an unathletic guy who did 1 year of tkd as a kid, did a bunch of larping, got kicked out from the local Hema clubs, then continued his martial art journey by playing with sticks in an overpriced pijama at his backyard. His skills reflect the exact same thing. I checked chatgp for BJJ and yoga and if the Hema answers are as accurate, probably it is literally better to learn from chat gp than Shad gp
His brother recently posted a video about art book scams which he also highly suspects to be AI generated. Jazza makes wonderful art, Shad should be ashamed that he considers his self on the same standing.
Im a gunsmith and firearms salesman and i can't even begin to tell you how many mf fudds and airsoft larpers give absolutely horrible gun advice online. Idk shit about hema or swords but when i see shad i see the same larpers i have to correct constantly at work 🙄
I'll be honest, I thought everybody knew Shad was definitely a professional larper. The man is guilty of huffing his own farts and everyone telling him it's premium gas. The King with no clothes comes to mind. 😂
Shad said he did real martial arts, and knows facts about things like the medieval times, fighting, swords, etc. So of course some people will trust him.
Shad is the embodiment of "This could have been an email." There's no reason to take 10,000 words that ultimately says nothing, being more verbose doesn't make you more right.
That’s Shad’s “dilemma,” so to speak. He’s wrong, and his pride won’t allow him to stop being wrong. Which means that he has no way to actually be right, so the next best thing is posturing
Fun story, Shad sent an email to an archery youtuber called NUSensei asking why he didn't ask for Shad's opinion first when NUSensei was debunking an archery video on a reddit thread.
shad's incompetence at HEMA is my motivation for getting into fencing (if he can be shite at it and have a following that means i can at least give it a go)
As an Irish person, it warms my hart to see somebody randomly use the term shite. Being good at something is relative, and given you're up against Shad, well...
As someone in HEMA, DO IT!. We all start as beginners and take time to learn. If you happen into a club with weird vibes, don't give up, there are great people here
To be fair, Shad never complained about "gatekeeping". He absolutley complains *about* gatekeeping. He just can't use the word because it's not politically correct in the cicles in which he runs. Cucked Shad.
Thing is Shad would have just kept to the Nerd shit and kept making Nerdy videos in the "Fantasy re-armed" series it would have been great. But NO he HAS to have a word on people that are better than him. Clutter that with his political takes and AI shit and now we have the quintessential neckbeard nerd at the Peak of the Dunning-Kruger
Eh the reality is that most of his content is pretty bad once you learn even a little bit, his videos on like combat and fighting styles are like literally shit he made up in his head with no research, a lot of his political views really warp his perception of history. I used to enjoy him but its like man i go back to his content, and its like ive seen behind the curtain, and realised he's actually just a moron who doesn't know what hes talking about
I've seen Sellsword in person. The guy is very impressive. I used to watch Shad, and it's crazy how stupid he is in literally every facet of his person. From what I've seen of Sellsword's fighting both in theatrical and HEMA, he's a really competent fighter. From what I've seen of Shad's fighting, he stated that he was good enough and doesn't need to improve at all. I don't believe he doesn't need/want to improve. He can't improve and is salty and coping about it like all of his other hobbies. He's a pro artist, writer, and swordsman according to himself.
He actually has chronic fatigue so I think even if he wanted to get better he can’t unfortunately, he is overweight and sickly which is like 2 of the worst combinations.
maybe Shad M Brooks should stop for a second and think about why Matt Easton and Skallagrim chose to cut ties from him. But i know he would never critically think about what he's saying
@@grahamcarpenter691I don't believe he is...? He doesn't really share much about his politics... his content ACTUALLY focuses on HEMA, so... there's no much room for it. But Shad is Mormon and far right, homophobic, transphobic and... sexist AND vocal about it. Regardless of Knight Watch, it leaks into his main channel, and its rife in his horrific "novel" that he can't take criticism on.
I've LRPed for over twenty years. Please don't compare us to Shad. There are LRPers out there running around in real full platemail, fighting from 10am to 2am never taking it off and not even slowing down. They could be doing reinactment or actually teaching medival history, but they choose a well-made foam sword and fantasy because they just want to have fun with it. They are hobbists, but they know their shit. I learned so much history from LRP than I ever did at school when I was starting out. There are so many knowledgable LRPers out there that would put Shad in his place with a very short conversation. I don't think I know anyone who LRPs for more than a year who'd be wearing Shad's armour, it's such a noob-with-a-bit-of-cash set up. It's rack bought beginner stuff. Anyone squaring up to Shad would take one look at his kit and go easy on him, assuming he was new to the hobby. Most LRPers who decide to stay would trade that kit to their group for something better (a lot of long term groups have a group kit chest for those that can't afford it), save up for a better kit after some advice, or learn how to make something practical for themselves. A few weekends messing around in a forest in that kit and you'd nope out and find something better. It restricts movement, will make you sweat absolute buckets and it probably chafes in some very sensitive areas. The castle in the background makes me laugh as well, it's so cheesy. A LRP I go to has factions, with faction gates and a pretend wall around the camp laid out with string for the boundaries (can't be anything more than that for safety and ambulance routes, etc.) For three years straight these LRPers who were engineers for a living rocked up with a van and made us a wooden gate that was so sturdy you could walk the ramparts on it. They just decided to do it for fun and it was done on a budget for shits and giggles. It doesn't even look like you can lean on Shad's castle and the the doors would fall off if you tried to open them. He's just such a tacky little man. In everything he does.
I’m genuinely curious what is so noob like about his costume? Isn’t he wearing brigandine? (excuse my spelling) I know for sure he has a foam light version and an actual plate version of brigandine which look farely cool , I don’t like tyrants outfit too much his looks a bit more cosplay party city vibes and Nate just looks like an average peasant which I think is fun to look at.
@@santi_super_stunts2573 Okay before I start I'm going to get a few things out of the way. I'm not a 'full immersion' LRP Elitist. You need to wear a watch under a flap of leather on your wrist because you don't want to miss an In Character meeting? That's fine by me. I'm not going to make fun of Shad's shoes. Foot care is important when you're miles away from anywhere and potentially walking/fighting for over twelve hours a day. Most LRPers put a fake boot over their shoes, it isn't an issue for me. I also don't care if you just turn up to the big field LRPs and want to sit around drinking and talking shit with the occassional wander over to a battle. It's a hobby, do as you please. I'm also not a reinactor, or knowledgeable about medieval history beyond a layman. I'm looking at this from a pure LRP perspective. I'm also going to be talking as a player who enjoys being a medium armour fighter, because that's what Shad's outfit in the video would be classed as. I don't do full plate or chain myself, so I can't speak to how they keep it practical or how they run around like it's nothing all the life long day. Shad wants us to believe that he's a fighter, so I'm going to judge him by that standard. How I'd view him as a seasoned LRPer seeing him rocking up to a high-risk combat event. First that isn't a 'real' anything. You can buy that armour from any LRP trader at any standard event. Not so much the under armour. Combat LRPer's don't wear it. If you're a combat character you'll be fighting, scouting and guarding a lot. Padded under armour pulls the sweat out of you. You can overheat/dehydrate very quickly. It also slows you down and messes with your movement. LRP combat, due to its low risk of actual physical harm is a lot more vicious and requires more dexterity from a defender. It has distinct differences from fighting with a metal blade. You can get outflanked and taken out very quickly. There's also no cohesion to his outfit, mismatched colours, those adorable little shin guards. It looks thrown together, not well-thought through. There's no real character concept there other than 'I want to look medieval.' There's no mud or grass stains, Shad has never fallen over in that armour. There are no creases to the leather. He might wear it all the time, but he's never put it through any combat wear and tear. He's never practised properly in it, he's never destressed it to stop it chafing when you're running for your character's life in the middle of a wood. LRPers wear practical stuff, that outfit is not practical. It doesn't fit him properly, it has no little tweaks that long term combat LRPers put in to make the armour more comfortable. From his outfit I would judge him as a new player and make the mental notes to look out for him in the middle of a skirmish to make sure he's okay. I'd make sure that I, or someone in my group, had water on them at all times to keep him hydrated. We'd point him out the the healers to keep an eye on him because he's going to go down a lot. He'd be a weak link in the line and we'd adapt accordingly to make sure our characters survive, while still making sure he had a good time. Seeing someone in that outfit, any competent, seasoned LRPer would put in a little prep to make sure the new player had a comfortable ride. But if he came in and assured us he was a full combat LRPer with experience and then tried to talk big wearing THAT outfit... We'd still be nice, but we'd all know he was full of shit.
Although I watched the VOD, I just watched SellswordArts response and I am disgusted, although not surprised, by the disgusting comments from shad fans.
If shad just kept making silly pop culture sword videos and admitted he was just a nerd like most of us, (and maybe he could have ~not~ written that book) He wouldnt have become a sword world lol cow.
He got away with the book, because no one read it, it honestly makes me question a lot of book youtubers because quite a few read it and no one really pointed out how troubling the book was, i truly think he could have gotten away with it because nobody but his worst sickophants read that
The reason he's out of breath after walking in a circle is he has chronic fatigue. So no surprise he doesn't walk the walk on HEMA... He literally can't for medical reasons.
@@westsidetyler He said he has that thing where you constantly stop breathing in your sleep. ...which can be caused by body weight. Though he already had it when he was slim(mer). The way I see it that's his villain origin story: He can't actually do the stuff in practice, so he has to be right in the theoretical field, he can't concede there too.
Chronic fatigue is not an excuse for poor technique. My older sister who does Mau Rākau (full contact with wooden weapons) has chronic fatigue. She is a good fighter. She spends time drilling and sparring with people better than her on a weekly basis, she has been doing this for years now.
When I got into HEMA, I lost 2 kilos of body fat in the first three weeks of training (diet was part of the training). Seeing how plump this mofo is tells everyone who's anyone what his actual prowess in the art is lmao.
On one hand, he does have a health disability that limits how much he can work out. On the other hand, he shouldn't claim expertise in something he can't do.
Build tells little of man's fitness. Seth Adams (Sensei Seth) has very similar build to Shad, but unlike Shad you see him move gracefully and with true skill. He is real martial artist.
Especialy sellout-sword. He does HEMA and fencing, both sports.. not combat, like armored combat. In battle you use whatever works, not "honour of ze battlefieeeld, desu desu" like Daniel speaks
@@DarkMark-cf1ec yeah Shad does more sword fighting that would be before the manuals or if you learn just by swinging your sword around (like they did before the manuals), and manuals were mostly for the rich and powerful the common man at arms who made up most of the armies were self taught. Cause both or even after the Commoners couldn't get the manuals but people in HEMA think that everyone had them or fencing is the only way to sword fighting, but Vikings never fenced and they had some brutal swordsman.
Sellswords point was that you should be critical about who you take advice from. Make sure they know what they are talking about. That's actually good general advice, one of the golden rules of academia is to cite your sources, so that those sources can be checked. Sellsword didn't mention Shad, in fact, he didn't mention anyone he thinks of as being a bad quality content creator in his field, he mentioned some who he thinks do good content and gave good general advice for evaluating the level of expertise a person may have. Shad however took it as an attack on him, which raises the question of why? Had he not responded, while a few people might have thought this was about him, nobody would have said much, but by making that video he is putting his hand up and saying "It's me, I'm the charlatan he's talking about".
Oh comeone, SSA liked a bunch of comments on his own video that were saying it was about Shad. Targetting a group and then claiming you didn't target anyone individually is just a weak move. You don't even have to agree with Shad on anything else to see that.
@@shis1988 It might, but atleast be honest about who you are calling out. SSA made a mistake in this case because when you push him on the matter he says anyone who has ever done a day of HEMA can give solid advice... That means he either made his video about people on youtube who have never done HEMA which would be the small youtubers with 100-1000 views or he's lying and he means Shad among others. So he's either punching down or lying.
“HEMA related activities such as sword collecting and knowing-abouting” is a phrase that cuts me to the quick. That’s exactly the type of nerd I was years ago, and having been that kind of nerd is exactly what drew me to Shad’s channel. But once I joined a Facebook group of his fans, I found out how insufferable knowing-abouting can be. Also half of that group was full of racist little shits LARPing as Vikings
@@shis1988I wouldn't go that far, but we certanly know scandinavians interacted with people from MENA, we know that trade with them was incredibly strong especially Byzantium (Varangian guard for instance); and black africans, whom they called Blue men and referd to them as great warriors (which I just think is cool). But then again, most scandinavians weren't Vikings either, as Viking was a verb meaning to go sailing or raiding. Unless we're talking about raiders from other parts of the world, which likely would also be refered to vikings in reference the scandinavians.
Can I also say that Shad wearing the same fucking Gambison for years now since he bought it along with having his Eunichs wear matching Gambisons bothers me. People who actually practice Hema wear their equipment out over time pretty quickly because they are practicing with swords and it's dangerous to wear old shitty gambisons like it's a superhero costume.
HEMA is a joke that thinks sword fighting is only fencing and they gate keep like what about fighting like a viking (some of the most feared fighters with axes and swords can't do fencing with an axe), or how most if not all COmmoners never had manuals to learn to fight with cause the manuals were for the nobles or rich.
@@imperialgaming6899 my brother in christ if you carry a weapon you need DISCIPLINE to wield it. I realize this is a foreign concept for United Statians but JESUS F H CHRIST
@@imperialgaming6899 Yeah, it has to be something that's written down because it's literally called Historical European Martial Arts, not Speculative European Martial Arts
Don't know if this is worth a whole other stream or your attention in general. But Sellswordarts made a short response to that Video AND invited #SadShad to an online talk. #SadShad of course, being the putty baby he is, responded with a 45 minute Video, just to say : "nu-uh".
@@AegixDrakan basically. I mean. Its Shad, so he was also a lot in regards to "Argh my pride!". But when all cards are down. Yeah. Doesn't want to talk. Just rant. And Sellswordarts of course had non of it. Just made a short and told him, very friendly, to stick it and that he continues doing cool sword stuff.
Shad literally said in that response that he thinks Sellswordarts wasn't actually being honest when he invited him on to his podcast. The dude was dodging lol
I'm amazed at how can anyone watch Shad, with all that gut and double chin, dressed in some chainmail pajamas (tho this time at least he put the quilted stuff on), holding duct-taped foam swords in front of a (plaster? plastic? cardboard? don't know what cheap crap that thing is made of) cartoony miniature of a castle gate, and still think "hey, this is one guy that really knows about this shit".
He once made vids about history but when his ship, called Marbles, sailed away his content went in some direction. Don't know what direction but it's A direction.
@@batonnikus yeah I used to watch his old videos, back when he talked mostly about castles and medieval stuff in general, but considering how much he's proven to not have any idea of whatever he talks about as if he were an expert (swordfighting, movies, writing, art, politics, etc), I wonder if it couldn't just be that we were unable to notice how bad his takes were even back then.
Shad, who wants all women on the basis of their gender to stay out of things we enjoy doing, calling someone out for "an elitist standard and an attempt at gatekeeping" is just gold xD.
One Dude in a gambeson is filming another dude in a gambeson, just made me think of the Monty Python sketch where everyone is dressed like Superman and one of them has to change into his secret identity of Bicycle Repair Man to save the day!
The footwork thing reminded me a lot of when I did Olympic fencing as a middle schooler and how much I *hated* footwork drills but they were fundamental! I haven't fenced in well over a decade now and I miss it. It's a full body workout for sure.
I used to watch Shad's content years ago, I found him through I think a video about Skyhold from DA:Inquistion and its accuracy/practicality as a real castle, and I liked it, so I subscribed. But as someone interested in medieval stuff (not an expert by any stretch, just well wikipedia'd) I soon started feeling like he isn't as much of an expert as he thinks he is and I also started getting some weird insecurity vibes from him. Then he started letting his "politics"(aka bigotry) shine through more and I unsubscribed (Side tangent: How can a bigot like Dragon Age? Like, it's very gay, lots of female characters who fight and/or are in positions of power, and Inquisition even has trans representation (technically Origins has too, but not in a good way), so like, what?! How? They get upset about the slightest bit of queer representation, even if it's just implied, and then they play Dragon Age of all things? Tangent over). I found Sellsword Arts a while ago and only watched a few videos so far, but he seems waaaay more competent and knowledgable (and likable).
I've never seen any of the long-form content from SellswordArts, but I've watched tons of his shorts and the guy definitely knows his stuff. I don't remember his name, but I have lovingly bestowed upon him the title of "HEMA Rizzler With The Cold Ass Drip". It is a work in progress.
I do a mix of HEMA and kenjutsu (at the same club no less!) and I have to admit I love Sellsword's videos, I used to be a Shad fan before I actually started to do swordsmanship but the more I practice the more I see how lacking his knowledge is
One of these days it's probably gonna turn out Shad doesn't even know anything about castles (to be honest I doubt it, I think it's the one subject he can be reliable on).
He's truly the kind of man who is a real asset if you have invented the crossbow. Many a peasant became a fearsome warrior the day point-and-shoot was an option.
It's already happened. He has gotten some things wrong about castles and was called out about it and did the same thing back then as he is doing now. Playing the victim and clipping people out of context to sick his fans on that person. None of this is new behaviour. The dude is an idiot about everything he talks about. That includes castles and what little he does get right you can just google and read off of Wiki.
@@klausd.6285 and there you go, fair enough. See I thought he was only presenting surface knowledge stuff that would be hard to get wrong, but I don't doubt what you're saying.
I only ever knew of shad from his castle videos. I do recall a long time ago he’d pronounced some thing wrong, which I noticed but chalked up to him being foreign & having an Aussie accent that he tries to make into a posh Brit accent. But apparently he got called out for a few castle inaccuracies 😂
I find it funny that he’s mad about vagueposting while he has an entire video about how everyone loves his book that doesn’t reference the clear reason why it was made
you know your a snowflake when someone makes a wide statement about something and you get so triggered that you make a hour long whine video that "they were attacking me specifically"
I've been working out regularly for about a year and a half now and I can confirm: Being in decent shape has done wonders for my posture and silhouette. I was hideously chubby for some years and there are still times where I'll straight-up not recognize myself if I catch myself reflected in a window or something.
Good advice for posture around the 15 minutes mark, Tyler. I had bad posture because of weak back muscle but while it didn't gave back pain it messed up my breath for most of my life because it was almost impossible to have diaphragm breathing like that. For anyone who has breathing problems, jaw and/or shoulders tensions I suggest looking up information about proper posture because the solution may be that.
What made me realise how little shad actually knows about swordsmanship is in one of his videos he claims that a dual sided lightsaber doesn’t work because wherever one sword is your opponent will know where the other one is, which is dumb because canonically you can just turn the blade off, in any situation where a dual blade isn’t beneficial you can just choose not to have one, it really opened my mind to how little Shad opens his. Also feints exist, the fact that Shad didn’t even consider feints as something that a dual sided lightsaber would be incredible at is just further proof that he has an artistic eye. He knows fuck all about swords even on a nerdom level and that’s quite a feat
God Shad isn't merely a right wing narcissist, he's downright deranged. He literally spent an hour freaking out about a guy who didn't even talk about him, and spent a great deal of that 1) building a case that he was being talked about and 2) building a case why actually *he* shouldn't be listened to, based on claims Shad further builds a case that he *actually* meant, while other points the guy "wasn't being honest about what he actually believes" He literally... LITERALLY Made up a guy to be mad at
Anthony Fantano constantly does that and he'll also talk about how people are playing their instruments wrong and don't know what they're doing like all the time.
I'm here from the AI art controversy 😄good to know the visual arts and martial arts communities are united in calling out Shad as a charlatan who doesn't actually practice either.
The one good thing that came out of this stupid drama was I got a bunch of cool new channels to follow, who actually know what they're talking about! Woot!
Absolutely insane how shad wasn't mentioned in the first vid. He does practice hema (not saying he's good but he does practice) but immediately assumed he was being labeled an armchair swordsman. The vid he made did all the damage. My man sellswordarts literally did nothing wrong
The fact that Shad is walking around complaining about a Sellswords arts and having someone record this as some unscripted bit makes it even more cringe. Doesn't Shad have a tripod?
should be noted that as far as armour in "hema" goes, it's very very uncommon in serious practise as a suitable set of gear runs you as much as a second hand car. the kind of gear Shad is running is off the shelf LARP stuff and there's really no connection at all between the two. "Hema" really concerns itself with historical practise and the more speculative, the less valid it is. "Hema" people also tend to travel to expose themselves to people who can contradict them and beat their ass, in order to learn. Shad does not do this. There is a chance you'll get commentary from people who do LARPing adjacent activities or the HEMA equivalent of tai chi, defending "big tent" hema, but don't get it twisted, these people are totally entitled to their activities but don't give themselves many opportunities to learn about fencing at all.
ive just started doing deadlifts and yeah form is the most important part, the actual lifting comes from the drive from your heels up your legs, i cant lift much weight just yet either but its super rewarding and you should give it a chance :D
27:24 This bit in particular reminds me of the first time I realised someone on TH-cam was a charlatan, or might I say, the first charlatan I saw get himself "EXPOSED" - and that charlatan is GradeAunderA. Back when TH-cam drama was getting really out of hand due to Drama Alert and other actors actively going out of their way to make the site a more combative and overall toxic space, Markiplier and several other big TH-camrs spoke out about this drama problem and how completely out of control it was getting. Grade was never actually named by them, but apparently a lot of people knew exactly who this applies to even though most likely none of these TH-camrs even knew who tf he is. So anyway, Grade made this very vicious attack against especially Markiplier for reasons I never quite understood, and he even proceeded to claim the false high ground that he tries to stay as far away from drama as humanly possible. GradeA "EXPOSING other TH-camrs left right and center" underA was trying to stay as far away from drama as humanly possible. A ton of his content was just "[Insert other TH-camr here] EXPOSED" type videos. "Stay as far away from drama as humanly possible" my ass. And here he was actively creating more drama in the same video he claims to try and stay away from it, even making personal attacks against someone who never even mentioned him by name. Guess the people tracing this broad message about TH-cam's drama problem back to him specifically weren't that far off afterall.
Sometimes I think Shad wrote a book just to call himself a writer and nothing else. Like, I don't want to call myself a writer, handing titles to myself would be disingenuous if I prove to not be worthy of them, but for what It's worth I'm a sort of practitioner of it. I haven't published shit and I'm stuck on chapter 5 of book 1 (I plan to make several for myself), but writing is something you have to be committed in order to be good at it, at least that's what I think, maybe Tyler knows more than I do. In any case, I enjoy writing for myself and try to find a style that matches what I want, finding a middle on my stories is hard when all they have is a beginning and an ending, but this journey made me appreciate a lot more this little fictional world my head made at random over the years. I say this because Shadiversity, for all his undeserved subscribers, has proven to be nothing more than an egotist surrounded by yesmen trapped in an echo chamber of his own creation. He hasn't made a new book since 2019 and that says a lot about how much he liked the process of writing, but let him discover ChatGPT and he'll be making a sequel right away. Poor HEMA content creator, awful writer, fraudulent artist, anti SJW, and Mormon who would make God shut down Heaven on his face without hesitation. That's all Shad M. Brooks will be, because people like him don't like change, they like to always be in the right.
Content creators all know how frustrating it is to have to create content that they aren't passionate about. I do not know why Shad has such a difficult time understanding that. Pleasing algorithms sucks, just ask any artist who's ever made fanart, or writer who's had to write news articles to pay the bills...
Glad I found this channel, it's really cool to see someone who doesn't actually do sword fighting so consistently *get* it. Goes to show how universal some things in martial arts are, like footwork and awareness of things like reach and "danger zones". Good stuff, Tyler 👌
Lol, and everybody and their grandma who had ever touched a bow or learned about its history called him out for it but he just doubled down with longer and longer response videos where he showing a crappy artwork from the middle ages where everything is off, and him holding a bow akwardly in his backyard proves everybody wrong somehow
Haha man when I was training in judo its drilled into you from day 1 to never cross your legs. That club blessed me with great footwork. I knew it too because of how I could apply it in other sports and it worked.
Lol, thanks for pointing out literally all the stance deficits I've been trying to unlearn for five years of gladiatura (and you're correct on all counts) 😂😅
34:42 As an epee fencer (epee is the sport fencing weapon based on small sword fencing, which resembles rapier quite a bit), you're completely correct. His posture, his guard positon (what I would call an engarde), his advances and retreats, his lunges, his bouncing, et cetera... they're great! When I teach new fencers, I don't let them use blades (or any other gear) for the first few sessions, I just drill them on footwork. It's how I was taught back when I was 11, and first learning to fence, and it's the best way to learn a martial art. As you clearly understand, footwork is absolutely vital. Also your point about crossing legs was great. In epee fencing, we only cross our legs in a specific attack called a fleche, where a fencer extends their arm, rebalances to their front foot, and pushes forward off their front foot into a run. This is intended to catch the other fencer off guard, and to be as fast as possible. It's also very risky, and most of the injuries in sport fencing (that I've seen) happen when a fencer attempts a fleche.
the mention of the fleche being usually the main source of injury reminds me of a funny mistake I had in fencing practice once, where I tried a fleche but for some dumb reason didn't even run past the guy and just hit them with an elbow right in the head, luckily he wasn't hurt and it was mostly just really funny
I did Olympic Fencing from 13-19. I have over 5 lbs of medals in my closet, many of which are gold, all won in co-ed competitions. Maintained a C rating for years. Any chick from my old club would have annihilated him 15-0. I personally have dueled plenty of egotists like Shad and they're honestly some of my favorite fights due to the amount of screamer butthurt they display when they inevitably lose.
Speaking of weebs there's a man from my country that was in the news because he struck his friend with a bolo knife. He then explained that he struck him with the non-sharp side of the blade, copying Battousai.
Honestly it’s a fascinating discussion when it comes to what your body does in regards to anything. Have had a lot of friends realize how much more complex even sports are, and how these guys have trained, learned footwork etc. Made them do a double take on “dumb sports guy”.
Him going on about how "we should never tell the plebs not to watch each other's videos even if you think mine are shite" reminds me SO MUCH of the long-standing blacklisting Sam Seder, the political commentator, is on... Because he's made it very clear that he WILL NOT play the TH-cam game if you're interviewing him. He will come to your platform because he thinks you're a bad person and a bad influence and that you should be stopped. Because that's what you do if you take your job seriously... You don't just politely nod while someone is ruining your entire field's credibility.
I did eastern European sabre for over a decade and seriously. I don't understand why anyone goes to shad for information. I have retired but I have not forgotten. Here's the thing I don't understand why anyone would dissect combat scenes in movies. Movies are never going to actually portray real combar fighting. The 2 joined swords is the most rediculos thing I have seen being hailed as something historical? There is a indian weapon like this but far shorter dagger length and it makes sense this however is going to hit anyone in your shield infantry regiment. You maim more of your own guys. So with my experience am I a expert? No I have know idea what it is like to fight for your life. I did however go up against allot of weapons from spears axes other swords in armour maile and helmet or unarmoured with friends and we trained weekly. I also became a weaponsmith in the very early days of reenactment. It gives a good understanding of what works and what doesn't. I have been wrong in the past and I just don't understand why he always needs to be right. I live in Australia and know people in his state who have never seen him fight at all. And that blue black brigadine he wears clearly looks modern, his idea of historical accuracy is very different to mine. It looks like garbage. His weight actually is not a issue it does give you a low centre of gravity and as long as it doesn't interfere with your cardio is absolutely fine. Compare his battle field job to that of a forward playing rugby. His footwork does need work as does his weird head. I actually prefer WW1 reenactment as I am older now and have great historical interests in more than one period. I am reenacting AIF, Australian infantry and French troops too. I am a historian who collects authentic reproductions or original pieces. But I still don't know the full horror of war you have to be in one to know this.
Shadiversity always fights his peasent-looking overweight employees. The guy he demonstated his double-whammy of a sword with wasn't even _attacking_ him when he presented 'how fast he could swing that thing around.'
34:40 I think I know about only a couple martial arts where crossing your legs is even a thing you consider doing, one of which is capoeira, and the second one is Meyer's rapier irongate guard I think it is called? It's really only done there because you lean on your forward leg so much that if you wanna quickly reposition yourself you wanna engage your rear leg first.
8:28, my first comment was gonna be something like that. That’s the get-up of a dashing swashbuckler, give ‘em a little Zorro mask and BAM, complete Princess Bride thing going on.
I appreciate Your support.
This whole thing has been a ridiculous debacle. What I've learned is, Shad likes initiating drama. Thanks to creators like you who hold him accountable, so I had a better understanding of why this happened.
Funny enough, the footage you pulled up with me is nearly two years old now, and I've gotten a lot better with a longsword😊
You're awesome
No problem dude.
The stuff with Shadiversity is crazy, because he's basically started flak like he did with you with every community he's done content in. Art, movies, technology, anime, politics, literature, it's wild. The dude starts stuff with pros in that field and then cries foul when he's met with any sort of pushback.
Either way, your content is fire and hopefully this irritation hasn't wasted too much of your time lol
Thanks for commenting!
@@westsidetyler thanks!
Yeah, I've noticed how many beefs he's gotten into. He's not taking seriously at all by the part of the swordsmanship community that actually practices and fences, but he has a lot of weight with new or aspiring people who don't know better yet.
It's sad that he uses that influence to crap on other people, and to mislead his followers.
Hopefully incidents like this help people better understand his true nature.
Digging your analysis though, was insightful and hilarious 😂
Tbh, shad is one of the big reasons I'm not that afraid of speaking on things I don't really know much, but that was when he used to come off as someone who didn't mind being corrected in turn. I didn't think much of it, but I slowly stopped watching as he seemed to prefer talking authoritatively on seemingly low hanging fruit. Haven't heard much about him until this, and it's really disappointing. That being said, if he wasn't so toxic, he's still kind of a great nerd showman where experts tend to be too technical. Like, as a kid I remember liking Skallagrim because of his old job working at a place that sells swords. It was boredom and pivot to other interests that kept me watching Shad for sword and castle content, even when it's clear he isn't nearly as good as everyone else.
Edit: I still really like Skall, but my point is Shad just seems to have a faster pace than everyone else
Shad is just a reactionary drama queen at this point lol
David (Sellsword) is a great guy, making proper HEMA videos and being an active member of the actual HEMA community. It's crazy that it should be controversial to state that the best people to be taking advice about HEMA from are people who actually train/teach/compete in HEMA regularly. Like, on what planet is that controversial? Anyway, as I'm mentioned here, I thought I'd drop in and say hi, and thanks.
Oh, and quit ragging on the Brits, Tyler. 😏
Thanks for stopping by! Yeah, I think it goes back to the old adage about reading a few books before you try to write one lol
File it all under "bantz" 😁
@@westsidetyler advice sahd himself needs to take up lol.
@@avlaenamnell6994
I too train Muay Thai and they immediately tell you the Thai stance is completely optional. You can just stand like a regular Irishman it's totally valid.
Boxing between the Thai and British had fully cross-pollinated by the mid 1800's. You can tell because the Thai words for all the big signature punches are in English while the kicks and bone strikes are not. They wholesale adopted British punching for its superiority.
EVERYONE chooses the Thai stance anyway, including me.
Its great and damn it it looks and feels fucking cool too.
God I love Muay Thai
Thai stance is garbage for anything other than Thai fighting.
Evil Shad be like: "I think women should have rights and be able to wear pants."
🤣🤣🤣
I did Kendo in highschool with my 5' nothing girlfriend,
She got challenged to a "duel" by a guy with a shinai at a festival giving off insane weeb vibes. She just beat the shit out of his hands with the most basic strikes.
This happend more than once. And with more than one 'challenger'.
World if full of weirdos.
just asking cause I wonder but what is a 5`nothing girlfriend? Is that a reference to her hight?
I've been doing Kendo for over 20 years and yeah, this unfortunately happens (but it's rare). I don't even acknowledge weebs like that and just keep walking. No benefit to spend time on someone like that.
Yeah but shad read a lot of books (about 3) so he's an expert dontcha know
@@Mehno97 It means she is exactly 5 feet tall (quite small). 5 feet = 152cm
@moritzmehno770 means five foot tall. Usually there would be a #" to show inches after the 5' so if someone was exactly Five ft tall or you just want to exaggerated the shortness a bit the phrase "Five ft nothing" is a pretty common phrase
It's really annoying how Shad kept getting Sellswords name wrong in his video. Like if you're gonna make a video about him, at least learn his name dude.
Unironically, the way it's shot and edited, I think it's intentional
@@westsidetyler I wouldn't be surprised
@westsidetyler i was convinced of this, myself, when i watched his video
I love that the original video didn't mention Shad even once and somehow he spend an hour responding to it like it was a personal attack lmao
Right!? I don't typically call people lolcows but seeing shad tell on himself like that? Amazing
Sells word mentioned the double sword video which I don't know of anyone else put out. Shad then went full Mormon
@@thac0twenty377 But that was a whole different video than the one, Shad was responding to :D
@leichtmeister you know- I don't keep up as well as I should but really, it's Shad, his arguments always the same lol
Here's the thing, Shad would make a response to video to any video he thought he was being called out in, but not named. So if someone made a video about how she was assaulted but wouldn't name or hint at her attacker, Shad would be dumb enough to do a response naming himself as the target of false accusations.
There was also skallagrim drama. Skallagrim tweeted something (unfortunately, i don't remember what he said, but it wasn't anything controversial) that shad got insecure and offended by. Shad even said I thought we were friends. Skallagrim apologized for offending him, but also said that they weren't friends, just acquaintance. Shad then proceeded get mad and hasn't spoken with him since.
It’s was a tweet Skall made responding to someone else making fun of shads thumbnail for a Barbie Movie video. Basically saying “yeah it’s pretty silly to get worked up over it”. Which in hindsight is hilarious for how angry shad got in response
@outsideiskrrtinsideihurt699 lol that's funny
@@outsideiskrrtinsideihurt699Honestly I don't remember if that was the first comment he freaked out over but I know before that all he said was he couldn't watch him anymore because he was too ranty and click-baity in reply to someone else and Shad lost it over that too. The Barbie thing came after and he ALSO freaked out over that
@@outsideiskrrtinsideihurt699 conservative fragility is real
Someone in chat said they were sad Skall wasn't linked in sellswords shout outs. And while I like Skall as a person, I can see that he is very much in the same kind of camp as Shad _in a practical sense_ but I think Skalls knowledge is far better. He's also _better_ HEMA wise but I can see why Sellsword wouldn't rate him. (Skall atleast uses more practical tests for what he's talking about)
HEMA exists in a strange spot where it is effectively experimental archaeology, historical study, and a dude bro sport all at once. I can see why it gets messy quite a lot. Thankfully its good cardio even tho i only have a weekend Warriors education in using a tachi so not rly HEMA but u get it
So the manuals are more... guidelines than actual rules?
Hema is a sport, not combat. You're literally not allowed to kill your opponent nor can you use pocket sand or bash your opponents shoulder broken.
@@DarkMark-cf1ecSure dude but its still a combat sport. Its goofy to pretend its not combat just because you can't do literally anything and murder your opponent. That's war and murder combat doesn't have to be lethal to still be combat. There are in fact shades of gray here.
Hell WAR even has rules so I'm not sure what you're on about unless you only consider full no rules no nothing barbarian murder combat.
@BlazingSteel funny story about armchair warriors. There is this fellow by the name of Sir George Hope who dedicated his early life to reading and studying French swordmanship. He posted a Manuel, which as you said had allot of guidelines and worked in French on French swordsmanship. After releasing his book, he was invited to a park to fence some hillbillies... and he got his SHIT ROCKED. So there is even late medival Manuel's that where written by armchair warriors
I hate that "Experimental archeology, historical study and dude bro sport" describes it so perfectly. Thank you for summarizing it 😂
Just to give everyone as brief as possible overview of Shad related controversy, that I am familiar with to give a bit more context.
A few years back Shad made a video about using the English longbow in an unconventional way, ie shooting the arrow from 'right' side rather than 'left' with a 3 finger draw, making the point that artwork from or at least about the medieval period showed this being done so it must be right. A few archery experts told him he was wrong about this even giving reasons why shooting this way with this draw was dangerous to the archers body.
Shad 'knew better' and did at least one response video targeting Nusensei more specifically since Nusensei had made a video response. He even took some clips of Nusensi out of context to treat Nusensei like he was a liar or a fool who didn't know what he was talking about.
In general he's had some of his historical facts about castles pointed out as being wrong, including pronunciations and even the usage of certain items. He's also done videos about metalwork which had wrong details called out by blacksmiths. You can guess what Shad's response was to all of that.
Sometime after that was his Knightwatch channel, which is just bad reviews and bad takes on various pop culture related TV shows and movies and similar that draaaaaaaag on and on... It's just rage reviews where everything bad because of how 'woke' it all is. These reviews have featured him making homophobic remarks about gay people being groomers, and gay relationships being disgusting... He also makes a lot of misogynistic remarks, like losing his mind about Prince Peach wearing pants and being a 'girl boss' because apparently she only wears dresses in the games (This was her Mario Kart outfit. And she's the regent of her kingdom, first in line to the throne, of course she knows how to lead, she's been trained since birth to become a monarch!)
Then there was the attack on Jack Saint, which had Jack do a long response that Shad oddly didn't reply to, but did end up attacking Angry Joe because Joe made fun of Shads Knightwatch Barbie Movie thumbnails (the original thumbnail was titled 'feminist cancer') and asked if he was 'the sword guy'
The first Twitter meltdown at Skallagrim was last year, when Skallagrim responded to a tweet highlighting some of the nastier KW thumbnails, stating that was why he didn't watch Shad anymore, pointing out it was just supposed to be the left who got triggered. Cue. A. Very. Angry. Shad. If you think my wall of text here is a lot, imagine even more like this over several very long tweets by Shad, each one getting more and more pissy.
Then there was the Scholagladiatoria aka Matt Easton drama. Shad had gotten the money together for a trip of a lifetime to visit England (not sure if he went to other parts of the UK) and met up with Matt, Tod from Tod's Workshop, Llyod from Lindybeige and Jason Kingsly OBE AKA Modern Histroy TV, all history youtubers Shad's had contact with over the years. Shad, Matt and Tod all put the same group pic on their facebook pages, only for Matt and Tod to take them down a day or so later after several people pointing out Shads behaviour. Tod left it at that, Matt did an explanation post about why and did not name Shad. Cue. Shad. Going. Monkey Poo on twitter and naming himself as the person being abandoned by Matt and Matt getting a lot of abuse from Shads fans.
A few months later there was more twitter drama with Skall when Shad started accusing Skall of encouraging people to physically harm Shad, because Skall liked a hand drawn image of a cartoon knight throwing their sword pommel at the back of Shads head. Apparently the two took it to PMs and both deleted their tweets regarding that.
Now there's the stuff with Sellsword...
And it all basically boils down to Shad thinking he's infallible
God, that was a lot more text than I meant to write... Might make a nice dramatic reading though :D
My partner was a fan of Shad and thought Shad was well read when talking about things, but I had issues with some of the things he got wrong and his melt downs. Not to mention, certain key words he uses a lot that just did not sit well with me. Then he made his stupid boob armor video going off about how women need that in order to wear armor at all and justifying it. I knew right then there he was an idiot who knew nothing as well as his political views. So his second channel and the takes he has didn't surprise me one bit.
But this is something Shad has always done. He is a talentless nerd who thinks he knows everything and anyone who calls him out on being wrong are just haters who are "attacking" him.
@@klausd.6285 honestly, i don't hate boobs armour, but when nerds go berserk on it because it is "unrealistic" and then suddenly start defending it because "some leftie meltdown"... It's just hilarious.
Wow, it is almost enough for a dramawiki page at this point....
@@AaSs-ln9mmThere are accounts of women who have had boob armour made and they've regretted wearing it when competing in jousting contests. Instead of deflecting the lance away from the armour it just channels it into the armour, making it easier to get unhorsed and putting the wearer in a lot of danger of injury. One woman stated she almost wound up with a broken sternum from that very incident and refuses to ever wear boob armour again.
@@aureliodeprimus8018 And this is me trying to not go into too much detail. And that's almost impossible to do because of how much drama Shad has created.
Came for shad shade. Stayed for posture advice
Oh my god, dude. Shad's ability to speak at length while actually saying basically NOTHING rivals that of DarkSydePhil.
oh damn, the legendary Phil
Shad is just DSP but with a sword
"I eat hot pockets" is going in my vocabulary as slang for "I also enjoy trash content, that doesnt mean its not trash" and I want to thank you for that.
I trained for several years in HEMA & related “western” martial arts (including boxing), and every serious practitioner I showed Shad to was laughing about him within minutes.
My favorite part, is when Shad shows the clip of Sellsword talking about weird techniques, reverse grip, giant swords, etc. He just assumes all of those were about him. Like dog! Everybody on sword YT was talking about reverse grip and giant swords for a time. Hell, the channel DigitallyTwistedOutlaws started specifically for giant swords! Shad is just a straight-up anime villain; assumes the whole world revolves around him.
Shad’s sword combat skills are as if he studied sword martial arts from an AI generated guide book.
Which is impressive, since he’s been doing this since before AI could actually “do” that
He is an unathletic guy who did 1 year of tkd as a kid, did a bunch of larping, got kicked out from the local Hema clubs, then continued his martial art journey by playing with sticks in an overpriced pijama at his backyard.
His skills reflect the exact same thing.
I checked chatgp for BJJ and yoga and if the Hema answers are as accurate, probably it is literally better to learn from chat gp than Shad gp
More like he learned it from larping
His brother recently posted a video about art book scams which he also highly suspects to be AI generated. Jazza makes wonderful art, Shad should be ashamed that he considers his self on the same standing.
@@katokianimation Spelling and grammar, on the other hand should not be learned from you.
Im a gunsmith and firearms salesman and i can't even begin to tell you how many mf fudds and airsoft larpers give absolutely horrible gun advice online. Idk shit about hema or swords but when i see shad i see the same larpers i have to correct constantly at work 🙄
I'll be honest, I thought everybody knew Shad was definitely a professional larper. The man is guilty of huffing his own farts and everyone telling him it's premium gas. The King with no clothes comes to mind. 😂
Shad said he did real martial arts, and knows facts about things like the medieval times, fighting, swords, etc. So of course some people will trust him.
Clothless king reminds me of the American president
@@Emppu_T. UNITED STATIANS.
I can't fathom what a continental president would be like, but US presidents only rule the US, not America.
Shad is the embodiment of "This could have been an email." There's no reason to take 10,000 words that ultimately says nothing, being more verbose doesn't make you more right.
That’s Shad’s “dilemma,” so to speak. He’s wrong, and his pride won’t allow him to stop being wrong. Which means that he has no way to actually be right, so the next best thing is posturing
Fun story, Shad sent an email to an archery youtuber called NUSensei asking why he didn't ask for Shad's opinion first when NUSensei was debunking an archery video on a reddit thread.
Have you heard of Chael Sonnen?
he's incredibly verbose ugh
@chaos_omega I loved chael sonnen, dude had absolutely savage roasts.
shad's incompetence at HEMA is my motivation for getting into fencing (if he can be shite at it and have a following that means i can at least give it a go)
As an Irish person, it warms my hart to see somebody randomly use the term shite. Being good at something is relative, and given you're up against Shad, well...
As someone in HEMA, DO IT!. We all start as beginners and take time to learn. If you happen into a club with weird vibes, don't give up, there are great people here
I'll say it again . Shad whining about gatekeeping is hilarious.
To be fair, Shad never complained about "gatekeeping".
He absolutley complains *about* gatekeeping.
He just can't use the word because it's not politically correct in the cicles in which he runs.
Cucked Shad.
Thing is Shad would have just kept to the Nerd shit and kept making Nerdy videos in the "Fantasy re-armed" series it would have been great. But NO he HAS to have a word on people that are better than him. Clutter that with his political takes and AI shit and now we have the quintessential neckbeard nerd at the Peak of the Dunning-Kruger
Eh the reality is that most of his content is pretty bad once you learn even a little bit, his videos on like combat and fighting styles are like literally shit he made up in his head with no research, a lot of his political views really warp his perception of history. I used to enjoy him but its like man i go back to his content, and its like ive seen behind the curtain, and realised he's actually just a moron who doesn't know what hes talking about
I've seen Sellsword in person. The guy is very impressive. I used to watch Shad, and it's crazy how stupid he is in literally every facet of his person. From what I've seen of Sellsword's fighting both in theatrical and HEMA, he's a really competent fighter. From what I've seen of Shad's fighting, he stated that he was good enough and doesn't need to improve at all. I don't believe he doesn't need/want to improve. He can't improve and is salty and coping about it like all of his other hobbies. He's a pro artist, writer, and swordsman according to himself.
He actually has chronic fatigue so I think even if he wanted to get better he can’t unfortunately, he is overweight and sickly which is like 2 of the worst combinations.
@@santi_super_stunts2573 On the other hand, if you're not capable of doing something, don't lie and pretend you can.
I suggest seeing more if you think that the overly staged performance on Sellsword or Shad's videos looks anything but staged.
@@YTPrule?
@@YTPrule your comment makes no sense
maybe Shad M Brooks should stop for a second and think about why Matt Easton and Skallagrim chose to cut ties from him.
But i know he would never critically think about what he's saying
Ouch! Isn't Skallagrim a sorta-kind right winger? That really means something if even he's like "this guy is too conservative, I'm out"
@@grahamcarpenter691I don't believe he is...? He doesn't really share much about his politics... his content ACTUALLY focuses on HEMA, so... there's no much room for it.
But Shad is Mormon and far right, homophobic, transphobic and... sexist AND vocal about it. Regardless of Knight Watch, it leaks into his main channel, and its rife in his horrific "novel" that he can't take criticism on.
@@grahamcarpenter691 no, Skallagrim isn't a right winger, where did you get that from?
@@grahamcarpenter691 like, srs, he has never stated any political or religious belief, I'm curious where you got that information
@@grahamcarpenter691you might be confusing him with metatron
I've LRPed for over twenty years. Please don't compare us to Shad. There are LRPers out there running around in real full platemail, fighting from 10am to 2am never taking it off and not even slowing down. They could be doing reinactment or actually teaching medival history, but they choose a well-made foam sword and fantasy because they just want to have fun with it. They are hobbists, but they know their shit. I learned so much history from LRP than I ever did at school when I was starting out. There are so many knowledgable LRPers out there that would put Shad in his place with a very short conversation.
I don't think I know anyone who LRPs for more than a year who'd be wearing Shad's armour, it's such a noob-with-a-bit-of-cash set up. It's rack bought beginner stuff. Anyone squaring up to Shad would take one look at his kit and go easy on him, assuming he was new to the hobby.
Most LRPers who decide to stay would trade that kit to their group for something better (a lot of long term groups have a group kit chest for those that can't afford it), save up for a better kit after some advice, or learn how to make something practical for themselves. A few weekends messing around in a forest in that kit and you'd nope out and find something better. It restricts movement, will make you sweat absolute buckets and it probably chafes in some very sensitive areas.
The castle in the background makes me laugh as well, it's so cheesy. A LRP I go to has factions, with faction gates and a pretend wall around the camp laid out with string for the boundaries (can't be anything more than that for safety and ambulance routes, etc.) For three years straight these LRPers who were engineers for a living rocked up with a van and made us a wooden gate that was so sturdy you could walk the ramparts on it. They just decided to do it for fun and it was done on a budget for shits and giggles. It doesn't even look like you can lean on Shad's castle and the the doors would fall off if you tried to open them. He's just such a tacky little man. In everything he does.
I’m genuinely curious what is so noob like about his costume? Isn’t he wearing brigandine? (excuse my spelling) I know for sure he has a foam light version and an actual plate version of brigandine which look farely cool , I don’t like tyrants outfit too much his looks a bit more cosplay party city vibes and Nate just looks like an average peasant which I think is fun to look at.
@@santi_super_stunts2573 Okay before I start I'm going to get a few things out of the way. I'm not a 'full immersion' LRP Elitist.
You need to wear a watch under a flap of leather on your wrist because you don't want to miss an In Character meeting? That's fine by me.
I'm not going to make fun of Shad's shoes. Foot care is important when you're miles away from anywhere and potentially walking/fighting for over twelve hours a day. Most LRPers put a fake boot over their shoes, it isn't an issue for me.
I also don't care if you just turn up to the big field LRPs and want to sit around drinking and talking shit with the occassional wander over to a battle. It's a hobby, do as you please.
I'm also not a reinactor, or knowledgeable about medieval history beyond a layman. I'm looking at this from a pure LRP perspective. I'm also going to be talking as a player who enjoys being a medium armour fighter, because that's what Shad's outfit in the video would be classed as. I don't do full plate or chain myself, so I can't speak to how they keep it practical or how they run around like it's nothing all the life long day.
Shad wants us to believe that he's a fighter, so I'm going to judge him by that standard. How I'd view him as a seasoned LRPer seeing him rocking up to a high-risk combat event.
First that isn't a 'real' anything. You can buy that armour from any LRP trader at any standard event. Not so much the under armour. Combat LRPer's don't wear it. If you're a combat character you'll be fighting, scouting and guarding a lot. Padded under armour pulls the sweat out of you. You can overheat/dehydrate very quickly. It also slows you down and messes with your movement. LRP combat, due to its low risk of actual physical harm is a lot more vicious and requires more dexterity from a defender. It has distinct differences from fighting with a metal blade. You can get outflanked and taken out very quickly.
There's also no cohesion to his outfit, mismatched colours, those adorable little shin guards. It looks thrown together, not well-thought through. There's no real character concept there other than 'I want to look medieval.'
There's no mud or grass stains, Shad has never fallen over in that armour. There are no creases to the leather. He might wear it all the time, but he's never put it through any combat wear and tear. He's never practised properly in it, he's never destressed it to stop it chafing when you're running for your character's life in the middle of a wood. LRPers wear practical stuff, that outfit is not practical. It doesn't fit him properly, it has no little tweaks that long term combat LRPers put in to make the armour more comfortable.
From his outfit I would judge him as a new player and make the mental notes to look out for him in the middle of a skirmish to make sure he's okay. I'd make sure that I, or someone in my group, had water on them at all times to keep him hydrated. We'd point him out the the healers to keep an eye on him because he's going to go down a lot. He'd be a weak link in the line and we'd adapt accordingly to make sure our characters survive, while still making sure he had a good time. Seeing someone in that outfit, any competent, seasoned LRPer would put in a little prep to make sure the new player had a comfortable ride.
But if he came in and assured us he was a full combat LRPer with experience and then tried to talk big wearing THAT outfit...
We'd still be nice, but we'd all know he was full of shit.
@@frostrider3704as an armor whats wrong with it
Although I watched the VOD, I just watched SellswordArts response and I am disgusted, although not surprised, by the disgusting comments from shad fans.
shads fans are just a bunch of neckbeards
@@excuse_me_but_wtf Shad fans are coping.
If shad just kept making silly pop culture sword videos and admitted he was just a nerd like most of us, (and maybe he could have ~not~ written that book)
He wouldnt have become a sword world lol cow.
He got away with the book, because no one read it, it honestly makes me question a lot of book youtubers because quite a few read it and no one really pointed out how troubling the book was, i truly think he could have gotten away with it because nobody but his worst sickophants read that
@@synthiandrakon Yeah its very obvious the book is just a vehicle for some of his uhh more unsavory opinions.
The reason he's out of breath after walking in a circle is he has chronic fatigue. So no surprise he doesn't walk the walk on HEMA... He literally can't for medical reasons.
Bro's just out of shape lmao
@@westsidetyler He said he has that thing where you constantly stop breathing in your sleep.
...which can be caused by body weight. Though he already had it when he was slim(mer).
The way I see it that's his villain origin story:
He can't actually do the stuff in practice,
so he has to be right in the theoretical field, he can't concede there too.
Sleep apnea lol
@@nouhorni3229 sleep apnea can be cured
Chronic fatigue is not an excuse for poor technique. My older sister who does Mau Rākau (full contact with wooden weapons) has chronic fatigue. She is a good fighter. She spends time drilling and sparring with people better than her on a weekly basis, she has been doing this for years now.
When I got into HEMA, I lost 2 kilos of body fat in the first three weeks of training (diet was part of the training). Seeing how plump this mofo is tells everyone who's anyone what his actual prowess in the art is lmao.
On one hand, he does have a health disability that limits how much he can work out. On the other hand, he shouldn't claim expertise in something he can't do.
Build tells little of man's fitness. Seth Adams (Sensei Seth) has very similar build to Shad, but unlike Shad you see him move gracefully and with true skill. He is real martial artist.
Especialy sellout-sword. He does HEMA and fencing, both sports..
not combat, like armored combat. In battle you use whatever works, not "honour of ze battlefieeeld, desu desu" like Daniel speaks
@@DarkMark-cf1ec yeah Shad does more sword fighting that would be before the manuals or if you learn just by swinging your sword around (like they did before the manuals), and manuals were mostly for the rich and powerful the common man at arms who made up most of the armies were self taught. Cause both or even after the Commoners couldn't get the manuals but people in HEMA think that everyone had them or fencing is the only way to sword fighting, but Vikings never fenced and they had some brutal swordsman.
If someone has chronic fatigue, this one's an ouchie
Sellswords point was that you should be critical about who you take advice from. Make sure they know what they are talking about. That's actually good general advice, one of the golden rules of academia is to cite your sources, so that those sources can be checked.
Sellsword didn't mention Shad, in fact, he didn't mention anyone he thinks of as being a bad quality content creator in his field, he mentioned some who he thinks do good content and gave good general advice for evaluating the level of expertise a person may have.
Shad however took it as an attack on him, which raises the question of why? Had he not responded, while a few people might have thought this was about him, nobody would have said much, but by making that video he is putting his hand up and saying "It's me, I'm the charlatan he's talking about".
Aside from Dunning-Kruger syndrome, he also has Main Character syndrome.
Oh comeone, SSA liked a bunch of comments on his own video that were saying it was about Shad. Targetting a group and then claiming you didn't target anyone individually is just a weak move. You don't even have to agree with Shad on anything else to see that.
@@suckieduckie if the brigandine pajamas fit...
@@shis1988 It might, but atleast be honest about who you are calling out. SSA made a mistake in this case because when you push him on the matter he says anyone who has ever done a day of HEMA can give solid advice... That means he either made his video about people on youtube who have never done HEMA which would be the small youtubers with 100-1000 views or he's lying and he means Shad among others.
So he's either punching down or lying.
“HEMA related activities such as sword collecting and knowing-abouting” is a phrase that cuts me to the quick. That’s exactly the type of nerd I was years ago, and having been that kind of nerd is exactly what drew me to Shad’s channel. But once I joined a Facebook group of his fans, I found out how insufferable knowing-abouting can be. Also half of that group was full of racist little shits LARPing as Vikings
Hobbies with shitty sub communities can still be cool though, take it from me, I watch anime
Fun fact, POC were also vikings.
@@shis1988I wouldn't go that far, but we certanly know scandinavians interacted with people from MENA, we know that trade with them was incredibly strong especially Byzantium (Varangian guard for instance); and black africans, whom they called Blue men and referd to them as great warriors (which I just think is cool).
But then again, most scandinavians weren't Vikings either, as Viking was a verb meaning to go sailing or raiding.
Unless we're talking about raiders from other parts of the world, which likely would also be refered to vikings in reference the scandinavians.
Can I also say that Shad wearing the same fucking Gambison for years now since he bought it along with having his Eunichs wear matching Gambisons bothers me. People who actually practice Hema wear their equipment out over time pretty quickly because they are practicing with swords and it's dangerous to wear old shitty gambisons like it's a superhero costume.
But Shad isn't even in HEMA :D
True, they despise him.
HEMA is a joke that thinks sword fighting is only fencing and they gate keep like what about fighting like a viking (some of the most feared fighters with axes and swords can't do fencing with an axe), or how most if not all COmmoners never had manuals to learn to fight with cause the manuals were for the nobles or rich.
@@imperialgaming6899 my brother in christ if you carry a weapon you need DISCIPLINE to wield it.
I realize this is a foreign concept for United Statians but JESUS F H CHRIST
@@imperialgaming6899HEMA specializes in learning and mirroring unarmored duels, not battles
@@imperialgaming6899 Yeah, it has to be something that's written down because it's literally called Historical European Martial Arts, not Speculative European Martial Arts
10 minutes in, only comment I have to make. Sellsword is the most dashing rogue you ever seen and I would love to have dinner with him
If it's on a train and the dinner gets interrupted right as they bring the dessert? Phew
I’d swordfight with him 😳
Cringeversity
Don't know if this is worth a whole other stream or your attention in general. But Sellswordarts made a short response to that Video AND invited #SadShad to an online talk.
#SadShad of course, being the putty baby he is, responded with a 45 minute Video, just to say : "nu-uh".
He made a 45 minute re-response that amounts to "nuh-uh"? :( oof.
@@AegixDrakan basically. I mean. Its Shad, so he was also a lot in regards to "Argh my pride!". But when all cards are down. Yeah. Doesn't want to talk. Just rant.
And Sellswordarts of course had non of it. Just made a short and told him, very friendly, to stick it and that he continues doing cool sword stuff.
@@AegixDrakanHe always does. That's basically his MO right now.
Shad literally said in that response that he thinks Sellswordarts wasn't actually being honest when he invited him on to his podcast. The dude was dodging lol
I think Shad is milking the drama for all it’s worth in order to make 💰
ive seen sellsword fight in-person at a couple of tournaments now. i would bet my entire life savings on him against shad.
I'm amazed at how can anyone watch Shad, with all that gut and double chin, dressed in some chainmail pajamas (tho this time at least he put the quilted stuff on), holding duct-taped foam swords in front of a (plaster? plastic? cardboard? don't know what cheap crap that thing is made of) cartoony miniature of a castle gate, and still think "hey, this is one guy that really knows about this shit".
He once made vids about history but when his ship, called Marbles, sailed away his content went in some direction. Don't know what direction but it's A direction.
@@batonnikus yeah I used to watch his old videos, back when he talked mostly about castles and medieval stuff in general, but considering how much he's proven to not have any idea of whatever he talks about as if he were an expert (swordfighting, movies, writing, art, politics, etc), I wonder if it couldn't just be that we were unable to notice how bad his takes were even back then.
Shad: "It's so disingenuous that he directly targeted me without ever mentioning me in his video!"
Shad, who wants all women on the basis of their gender to stay out of things we enjoy doing, calling someone out for "an elitist standard and an attempt at gatekeeping" is just gold xD.
I don’t think anything sums up Shad better than that fantasy DIY bodge job he’s holding while talking about respecting the community.
The heck is a "bodge"?
One Dude in a gambeson is filming another dude in a gambeson, just made me think of the Monty Python sketch where everyone is dressed like Superman and one of them has to change into his secret identity of Bicycle Repair Man to save the day!
In shad's meltdown, his acting like a victim and making everything about himself gave me serious darksydephil vibes.
Shad grinding up to get that lol cow status.
The footwork thing reminded me a lot of when I did Olympic fencing as a middle schooler and how much I *hated* footwork drills but they were fundamental! I haven't fenced in well over a decade now and I miss it. It's a full body workout for sure.
I used to watch Shad's content years ago, I found him through I think a video about Skyhold from DA:Inquistion and its accuracy/practicality as a real castle, and I liked it, so I subscribed. But as someone interested in medieval stuff (not an expert by any stretch, just well wikipedia'd) I soon started feeling like he isn't as much of an expert as he thinks he is and I also started getting some weird insecurity vibes from him. Then he started letting his "politics"(aka bigotry) shine through more and I unsubscribed (Side tangent: How can a bigot like Dragon Age? Like, it's very gay, lots of female characters who fight and/or are in positions of power, and Inquisition even has trans representation (technically Origins has too, but not in a good way), so like, what?! How? They get upset about the slightest bit of queer representation, even if it's just implied, and then they play Dragon Age of all things? Tangent over). I found Sellsword Arts a while ago and only watched a few videos so far, but he seems waaaay more competent and knowledgable (and likable).
i'm a swing dancer, everything you said about footwork, shifting weight, posture, and moving with your whole body applies there, too
Also PLEASE make a continuation of this episode continuing Shad's response!
I've never seen any of the long-form content from SellswordArts, but I've watched tons of his shorts and the guy definitely knows his stuff. I don't remember his name, but I have lovingly bestowed upon him the title of "HEMA Rizzler With The Cold Ass Drip". It is a work in progress.
I do a mix of HEMA and kenjutsu (at the same club no less!) and I have to admit I love Sellsword's videos, I used to be a Shad fan before I actually started to do swordsmanship but the more I practice the more I see how lacking his knowledge is
Shad couldn't possibly look more "armchair warrior", even if he had two armchairs taped together. 😂
SNAP!
One of these days it's probably gonna turn out Shad doesn't even know anything about castles (to be honest I doubt it, I think it's the one subject he can be reliable on).
He's truly the kind of man who is a real asset if you have invented the crossbow.
Many a peasant became a fearsome warrior the day point-and-shoot was an option.
It's already happened. He has gotten some things wrong about castles and was called out about it and did the same thing back then as he is doing now. Playing the victim and clipping people out of context to sick his fans on that person. None of this is new behaviour. The dude is an idiot about everything he talks about. That includes castles and what little he does get right you can just google and read off of Wiki.
@@klausd.6285 and there you go, fair enough. See I thought he was only presenting surface knowledge stuff that would be hard to get wrong, but I don't doubt what you're saying.
I only ever knew of shad from his castle videos. I do recall a long time ago he’d pronounced some thing wrong, which I noticed but chalked up to him being foreign & having an Aussie accent that he tries to make into a posh Brit accent. But apparently he got called out for a few castle inaccuracies 😂
@@klausd.6285 What did he get wrong about castles?
I find it funny that he’s mad about vagueposting while he has an entire video about how everyone loves his book that doesn’t reference the clear reason why it was made
you know your a snowflake when someone makes a wide statement about something and you get so triggered that you make a hour long whine video that "they were attacking me specifically"
as opposed to this cuck who makes video after video on this dude.. yeahh. you guys are so much better.. jesus christ.
I've been working out regularly for about a year and a half now and I can confirm: Being in decent shape has done wonders for my posture and silhouette. I was hideously chubby for some years and there are still times where I'll straight-up not recognize myself if I catch myself reflected in a window or something.
Good advice for posture around the 15 minutes mark, Tyler. I had bad posture because of weak back muscle but while it didn't gave back pain it messed up my breath for most of my life because it was almost impossible to have diaphragm breathing like that. For anyone who has breathing problems, jaw and/or shoulders tensions I suggest looking up information about proper posture because the solution may be that.
What made me realise how little shad actually knows about swordsmanship is in one of his videos he claims that a dual sided lightsaber doesn’t work because wherever one sword is your opponent will know where the other one is, which is dumb because canonically you can just turn the blade off, in any situation where a dual blade isn’t beneficial you can just choose not to have one, it really opened my mind to how little Shad opens his. Also feints exist, the fact that Shad didn’t even consider feints as something that a dual sided lightsaber would be incredible at is just further proof that he has an artistic eye. He knows fuck all about swords even on a nerdom level and that’s quite a feat
God
Shad isn't merely a right wing narcissist, he's downright deranged. He literally spent an hour freaking out about a guy who didn't even talk about him, and spent a great deal of that 1) building a case that he was being talked about and 2) building a case why actually *he* shouldn't be listened to, based on claims Shad further builds a case that he *actually* meant, while other points the guy "wasn't being honest about what he actually believes"
He literally... LITERALLY
Made up a guy to be mad at
I used to watch Shad because some of his videos were pretty fun. Now he's basically just a drama TH-camr in all but name.
I’m so happy to know that Skal doesn’t like Shad
I think it's common knowledge that the HEMA community has no appreciation for Shad.
@@dragondelsur5156 yeah but Skal is the only one who’s content I genuinely enjoy lol
Anthony Fantano constantly does that and he'll also talk about how people are playing their instruments wrong and don't know what they're doing like all the time.
I'm here from the AI art controversy 😄good to know the visual arts and martial arts communities are united in calling out Shad as a charlatan who doesn't actually practice either.
The one good thing that came out of this stupid drama was I got a bunch of cool new channels to follow, who actually know what they're talking about! Woot!
Dude thinks his gambeson hides his flabby body. Dude thinks wrong.
Absolutely insane how shad wasn't mentioned in the first vid. He does practice hema (not saying he's good but he does practice) but immediately assumed he was being labeled an armchair swordsman. The vid he made did all the damage. My man sellswordarts literally did nothing wrong
Imagine listening to armchair bodybuilders for advice.
SellSword could re enact the Mihawk vs Zoro fight with Shad
Shad is a master of talking at length without saying anything of substance, somehow saying everything and nothing at the same time 😂.
Shad would be more believable if he wasn't almost dying every time he walks around carrying his DIY saberstaff.
The cool thing about the stuff regarding foot placement and martial arts is that it also applies to shooting guns.
Tyler asking viewers to watch peoples feet
Probs to Sellsword Arts for fighting an actual opponent (the dude looks like a trained professional)!
YES I'VE BEEN CALLING SHAD A LOLCOW FOR A LONG TIME FINALLY SOME WHO MAKES VIDEOS AGREES AND SAYS IT IN A VIDEO😂😂😂😂😂
Well its shadiversity not chadiversity for a reason.
Title should be Chad swordsman vs Shad/sad/fat backyard larper
The fact that Shad is walking around complaining about a Sellswords arts and having someone record this as some unscripted bit makes it even more cringe. Doesn't Shad have a tripod?
Yes, it's called his long-suffering wife.
He spend too much money in renaissance fair decor to afford one.
@@theressomelovelyfilthdownh4329 That, or his yesmen, I'm surprised his wife hasn't divorced him, I thought she did.
should be noted that as far as armour in "hema" goes, it's very very uncommon in serious practise as a suitable set of gear runs you as much as a second hand car.
the kind of gear Shad is running is off the shelf LARP stuff and there's really no connection at all between the two.
"Hema" really concerns itself with historical practise and the more speculative, the less valid it is. "Hema" people also tend to travel to expose themselves to people who can contradict them and beat their ass, in order to learn. Shad does not do this. There is a chance you'll get commentary from people who do LARPing adjacent activities or the HEMA equivalent of tai chi, defending "big tent" hema, but don't get it twisted, these people are totally entitled to their activities but don't give themselves many opportunities to learn about fencing at all.
Deadlifts scare me. Every time I try them I feel like I'm about to tweak my back.
Gotta work on form from super light weight. It sucks but theyre great when you do them correctly
ive just started doing deadlifts and yeah form is the most important part, the actual lifting comes from the drive from your heels up your legs, i cant lift much weight just yet either but its super rewarding and you should give it a chance :D
27:24 This bit in particular reminds me of the first time I realised someone on TH-cam was a charlatan, or might I say, the first charlatan I saw get himself "EXPOSED" - and that charlatan is GradeAunderA.
Back when TH-cam drama was getting really out of hand due to Drama Alert and other actors actively going out of their way to make the site a more combative and overall toxic space, Markiplier and several other big TH-camrs spoke out about this drama problem and how completely out of control it was getting. Grade was never actually named by them, but apparently a lot of people knew exactly who this applies to even though most likely none of these TH-camrs even knew who tf he is.
So anyway, Grade made this very vicious attack against especially Markiplier for reasons I never quite understood, and he even proceeded to claim the false high ground that he tries to stay as far away from drama as humanly possible. GradeA "EXPOSING other TH-camrs left right and center" underA was trying to stay as far away from drama as humanly possible. A ton of his content was just "[Insert other TH-camr here] EXPOSED" type videos. "Stay as far away from drama as humanly possible" my ass.
And here he was actively creating more drama in the same video he claims to try and stay away from it, even making personal attacks against someone who never even mentioned him by name. Guess the people tracing this broad message about TH-cam's drama problem back to him specifically weren't that far off afterall.
Sometimes I think Shad wrote a book just to call himself a writer and nothing else. Like, I don't want to call myself a writer, handing titles to myself would be disingenuous if I prove to not be worthy of them, but for what It's worth I'm a sort of practitioner of it. I haven't published shit and I'm stuck on chapter 5 of book 1 (I plan to make several for myself), but writing is something you have to be committed in order to be good at it, at least that's what I think, maybe Tyler knows more than I do. In any case, I enjoy writing for myself and try to find a style that matches what I want, finding a middle on my stories is hard when all they have is a beginning and an ending, but this journey made me appreciate a lot more this little fictional world my head made at random over the years.
I say this because Shadiversity, for all his undeserved subscribers, has proven to be nothing more than an egotist surrounded by yesmen trapped in an echo chamber of his own creation. He hasn't made a new book since 2019 and that says a lot about how much he liked the process of writing, but let him discover ChatGPT and he'll be making a sequel right away.
Poor HEMA content creator, awful writer, fraudulent artist, anti SJW, and Mormon who would make God shut down Heaven on his face without hesitation. That's all Shad M. Brooks will be, because people like him don't like change, they like to always be in the right.
I'm waiting for his mum to call him in from the bottom of the garden because dinner is ready.
Content creators all know how frustrating it is to have to create content that they aren't passionate about. I do not know why Shad has such a difficult time understanding that. Pleasing algorithms sucks, just ask any artist who's ever made fanart, or writer who's had to write news articles to pay the bills...
Glad I found this channel, it's really cool to see someone who doesn't actually do sword fighting so consistently *get* it. Goes to show how universal some things in martial arts are, like footwork and awareness of things like reach and "danger zones". Good stuff, Tyler 👌
He had a whole arch where he taught how to use a bow wrong for months.
Lol, and everybody and their grandma who had ever touched a bow or learned about its history called him out for it but he just doubled down with longer and longer response videos where he showing a crappy artwork from the middle ages where everything is off, and him holding a bow akwardly in his backyard proves everybody wrong somehow
Haha man when I was training in judo its drilled into you from day 1 to never cross your legs. That club blessed me with great footwork. I knew it too because of how I could apply it in other sports and it worked.
Lol, thanks for pointing out literally all the stance deficits I've been trying to unlearn for five years of gladiatura (and you're correct on all counts) 😂😅
34:42 As an epee fencer (epee is the sport fencing weapon based on small sword fencing, which resembles rapier quite a bit), you're completely correct. His posture, his guard positon (what I would call an engarde), his advances and retreats, his lunges, his bouncing, et cetera... they're great! When I teach new fencers, I don't let them use blades (or any other gear) for the first few sessions, I just drill them on footwork. It's how I was taught back when I was 11, and first learning to fence, and it's the best way to learn a martial art. As you clearly understand, footwork is absolutely vital.
Also your point about crossing legs was great. In epee fencing, we only cross our legs in a specific attack called a fleche, where a fencer extends their arm, rebalances to their front foot, and pushes forward off their front foot into a run. This is intended to catch the other fencer off guard, and to be as fast as possible. It's also very risky, and most of the injuries in sport fencing (that I've seen) happen when a fencer attempts a fleche.
the mention of the fleche being usually the main source of injury reminds me of a funny mistake I had in fencing practice once, where I tried a fleche but for some dumb reason didn't even run past the guy and just hit them with an elbow right in the head, luckily he wasn't hurt and it was mostly just really funny
“Sartre could not have predicted this.” Has earned you a new sub sir
can’t believe some one said Shad had Temu gambeson, never thought I’d have to say this while temu isn’t great that’s just doing them dirty
Damn, shadiversity has really changed his speaking style to be more like Ben Shapiro since the last time I’ve seen any of his videos
I did Olympic Fencing from 13-19. I have over 5 lbs of medals in my closet, many of which are gold, all won in co-ed competitions. Maintained a C rating for years. Any chick from my old club would have annihilated him 15-0. I personally have dueled plenty of egotists like Shad and they're honestly some of my favorite fights due to the amount of screamer butthurt they display when they inevitably lose.
Speaking of weebs there's a man from my country that was in the news because he struck his friend with a bolo knife. He then explained that he struck him with the non-sharp side of the blade, copying Battousai.
Honestly it’s a fascinating discussion when it comes to what your body does in regards to anything. Have had a lot of friends realize how much more complex even sports are, and how these guys have trained, learned footwork etc. Made them do a double take on “dumb sports guy”.
The MMA references were fantastic here hahahah. Thank you for the comparison and roasting Shad as always.
Him going on about how "we should never tell the plebs not to watch each other's videos even if you think mine are shite" reminds me SO MUCH of the long-standing blacklisting Sam Seder, the political commentator, is on... Because he's made it very clear that he WILL NOT play the TH-cam game if you're interviewing him. He will come to your platform because he thinks you're a bad person and a bad influence and that you should be stopped. Because that's what you do if you take your job seriously... You don't just politely nod while someone is ruining your entire field's credibility.
I did eastern European sabre for over a decade and seriously.
I don't understand why anyone goes to shad for information.
I have retired but I have not forgotten.
Here's the thing I don't understand why anyone would dissect combat scenes in movies.
Movies are never going to actually portray real combar fighting.
The 2 joined swords is the most rediculos thing I have seen being hailed as something historical?
There is a indian weapon like this but far shorter dagger length and it makes sense this however is going to hit anyone in your shield infantry regiment.
You maim more of your own guys.
So with my experience am I a expert? No I have know idea what it is like to fight for your life.
I did however go up against allot of weapons from spears axes other swords in armour maile and helmet or unarmoured with friends and we trained weekly.
I also became a weaponsmith in the very early days of reenactment.
It gives a good understanding of what works and what doesn't.
I have been wrong in the past and I just don't understand why he always needs to be right.
I live in Australia and know people in his state who have never seen him fight at all.
And that blue black brigadine he wears clearly looks modern, his idea of historical accuracy is very different to mine. It looks like garbage.
His weight actually is not a issue it does give you a low centre of gravity and as long as it doesn't interfere with your cardio is absolutely fine.
Compare his battle field job to that of a forward playing rugby.
His footwork does need work as does his weird head.
I actually prefer WW1 reenactment as I am older now and have great historical interests in more than one period.
I am reenacting AIF, Australian infantry and French troops too.
I am a historian who collects authentic reproductions or original pieces.
But I still don't know the full horror of war you have to be in one to know this.
Came for the Shadbashing, stayed for the ridiculous ‘Drip drip drip… drip’😂
Shat-iversity amirite 😂
Loved to see like a at dawn duel between these two
Shadiversity always fights his peasent-looking overweight employees. The guy he demonstated his double-whammy of a sword with wasn't even _attacking_ him when he presented 'how fast he could swing that thing around.'
34:40 I think I know about only a couple martial arts where crossing your legs is even a thing you consider doing, one of which is capoeira, and the second one is Meyer's rapier irongate guard I think it is called? It's really only done there because you lean on your forward leg so much that if you wanna quickly reposition yourself you wanna engage your rear leg first.
8:28, my first comment was gonna be something like that. That’s the get-up of a dashing swashbuckler, give ‘em a little Zorro mask and BAM, complete Princess Bride thing going on.