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[Music] yeah [Music] breaking a spare shaft with a shield would that work probably not you can cut through a spear shaft but it takes several blows with a sharp sword it's not a lightsaber hi I'm Matt Easton hi I'm Toby capwell my name is Jim Ken hi my name is Shane Adams the owner of the Knights of Valor my name is David rolling of the London long sword Academy my name is Jamie yankovitz So today we're going to be looking at some pole arm combat scenes horseback fighting medieval arms and armor nunchuck scenes we're going to be looking at some archery scenes from TV and film and seeing how kind of realistic they are [Music] he's got what we call a cant on the bow there I tend to shoot with a with a little bit of a cant it opens up the site windows up if your bows up Straight Like That generally the thing you're trying to shoot is going to be hidden by the bow so I tend to drop the the bow out of the way a little bit which is what he's doing he's clearly pointing one way but you can see the arrow on his hand pointing the other way and a lot of people call that the Arches Paradox The Arches Paradox is the fact that the arrow is pointing off to the to the left when you're actually pointing at the the target at the right that's the Paradox and it's the flexing of the arrow that that makes it uh travel downrange could I kill this dude running away distance I'm only really accurate up to uh probably about 30 meters I'd get him eventually see I'd be zigging and zagging I'd be I'd be Serpentine and there is a type of archery called a clout typically done by English Longbow arches which is long distance shooting um where you shoot at a flag in the ground sort of you know 180 200 yards away shooting up shooting down closest to the flag so there are people that can shoot very very well at long long range medieval Longbow archers were you know could be pretty accurate the bow looked like it had what they call Pony limbs where you've got the basic bow and then you'd have another set of Limbs that come off the front so that limb is attached to that Limb and that limb is attached to that Limb and that gives you way more power so it would be perfect for that kind of you know killing dudes running away kind of archery I'm going to give him a nine for Game of Thrones I think [Music] compound bow is typically sort of either a Target style or a hunting bow you can you basically you can adjust the angle that the limbs are at uh and if you wind them in it gives you a little bit more power and I think what he's doing there is maximizing his power on his compound bow now you can buy arrows that come in parts that's not how arrows work that's that's just asking for trouble there are points in an arrow that that flex and if you are cutting an arrow into three and assembling it it's not going to behave like it should now that there that's that's John Rambo's grenade tipped Arrow there was a type of Broadhead you could buy and it came in a case like that I think that's just the case of a Broadhead sprayed bronze [Music] left-handed so that's okay but I know it later on he shoots he shoots it right-handed the arrow flight on that is is utter garbage maybe he's shooting okay he's shooting a compound off his fingers which is which is fine compounds tend to use a release Aid which gives you a much straighter release well I mean this type of bow the further you pull it back the higher the poundage gets a compound bow starts high and gets lighter so you can hold it at full draw for long periods of time a little bit more sort of fast a bit more powerful grenade tipped Arrow yeah they do exist whether or not they're commercially available I I don't know everything else look really good the way he was setting up the bow the way he was changing his poundage and everything I like that and the fact that he shot the arrow it flew like garbage but if you you know got a Grenade sitting on the end of The Arrow it probably would fly like that so weirdly I think it's probably quite realistic I'm going to give Rambo an eight [Music] there's a huge tennis ball on the end of her Arrow the more weight you put on the front of an arrow the the less efficient it's going to be it's just not going to go very far let me just fix this give me a second yeah is it a little Grabber or something on the end of that Arrow again that's going to add even more weight it's not a case of one Arrow fits all uh arrows come in spine weights and that refers to the stiffness of the arrow and obviously certain bows need a certain spine weight so the higher the poundage the bow the stiffer the arrow needs to be and vice versa so by adding a lot of weight to the front of the arrow you dynamically weaken the spine of the arrow so therefore the arrow would be out spine and it would probably just Veer off to the to the right and not hit the bell at all you can shoot something called a blunt which is a flat Arrow Head which would be for either stump shooting shooting tin cans you know that kind of thing or small game hunting she's moving her arm up and when you're shooting at distance whether it's it's low down or high up you don't really move your arm you you move from the waist so you kind of pivot your whole body not just your arm up and down that's something I I just spotted [Music] oh the shot itself not very realistic at all but her shooting is is pretty good we'll go five five out of ten in the middle you've got really long arrows there it looks like she's only using two fingers on the string one above one below I've seen people do that she's got quite a quite an overdraw there she's got this explosive release which again in order to make a good archery shot you need to keep it concise and simple because something like that you're not going to be able to repeat it time and time again if you've got a simple release that comes back you can repeat that you've got to be safe with everything you film and I imagine that bow is probably a very real bow but it was probably such low poundage and had such a stretchy string that it goes straight back to being a straight piece of wood the distance between the the lowest point of the bow and the string that's called the brace height if your brace height is too low your bow becomes very noisy it becomes quite quick but it becomes very noisy and you're really really in danger of getting some real nasty string burn on your on your arm shooting multiple arrows off a bow at the same time what happens is because you've got all the energy comes from from the limbs and pulling the string back and what that does it pushes the arrow forward and the heavier the arrow that it needs to push the more energy it needs to to sort of get that Arrow to where it needs to go but if you're shooting multiple arrows essentially the bow doesn't know there's multiple arrows on there it just thinks there's a really heavy Arrow two arrows is double the weight you know and the more arrows you put on the the heavier weight that bow is going to need to push push the arrows through the air and it basically just takes all the guts out the boat we'll give Wonder Woman a five they did all right rest in order to shoot well you need to be able to move so I think the fact that they've got her in a tight thing and she can't chew properly I think it's brilliant archery is all about keeping everything straight the less influence you can have over the bow the better the arrow is going to fly so if you're influencing the shot the shot's not gonna go right so if you can keep everything nice and simple what she's doing she's coming back on the same plane as the arrows going forward archery is all about being able to repeat the shot time and time again there's a famous book called The Art of repetition which is all about archery and if you can replicate your shot time and time again you will be a fantastic Archer she seems to have a nice repeatable kind of form there look at look at this loose the trick is with archery is you don't let go of the string the trick is to try and no longer be holding the string so you've got to relax your hand let the hand flow back if you're kind of trying to open your hand as as hard as you can you'll never beat the string the string is going to be quicker than your reactions across the board so if you can just just get to your Anchor Point and then relax your hand and let it come back you're going to get a much smoother release and you can see your hand just just relaxes a lot of people think Arrows fly straight they don't if you watch an arrow in slow motion it's like a wet noodle uh going down range which is Robin hooded and arrow which is where you shoot an arrow down the back of another arrow and the grain tends to split but the grain never runs perfectly parallel down the back of an arrow it will always kind of peel off it's actually really hard to do with wood Narrows so it's a lot easier to do with with sort of modern one arrows because they're a tube of carbon and and it's easier to kind of putting an arrow down the back of another one that's ten one of the best representations of the way uh an arrow and a bow work together trying to work out what bow that is obviously it's got some gadgets on it it could be a modified Hoyt Buffalo spray black he's using a finger and thumb drawer which which isn't really necessarily gonna going to work for that kind of thing Hawk has a bit of a mess dude he's got a shooting glove which is good to see actually got a couple of arm guards on there as well that's what's called a biter arm guy that's just a make of arm guard thin strip of plastic and it just protects you from the from the the sort of the string as as it sort of vibrates back to to where it's supposed to go sometimes it can just catch your arm um let me just give you a little sting so you tend to have a little bit of an arm guard who just protects you traditional arches tend to wear like a bit more of a leather kind of bracer you wouldn't wear too unless you're doing something really wrong well they can't bank with a dam if you can't look at it how are you going to shoot it the trend with these kind of dynamic things is is that there's never any kind of Anchor Point it's always just pull it back and let it go from whatever position you're in which which is fine but you're not going to get that kind of level of accuracy that he gets like he's he's shooting moving targets now there is a famous trick shot but you're looking in a mirror and I've tried it and I'm almost succeeded [Music] he's got what maybe 36 arrows maximum when he first starts it's like films with guns you get people shooting and they never seem to have to reload but it looks like it's fun so I'm gonna have to give it four okay come on people can um knock arrows out of the air it's not something I would recommend trying because if you get it wrong you only get one chance I want people to enjoy archery but I also want people to be really safe when it comes to archery there's a huge safety element to it although a bow isn't classed as a weapon it's classed as Sporting Goods it can be used as a weapon they're shooting arrows at the guy and he's knocking them out the air I'd hate for some kids to think hey let's try that and and do it and get her it will break my heart try the other side I'll save you a second on the reload foreign he gets to show him a different way of shooting now this this all came from Lars Anderson video that came out a few years back and it kind of turned the archery World on his head and he suggested that you took the arrow from the left side of the bow to the right side of the bow which which goes from essentially a a western style of archery to an Eastern style of archery changing anything in archery is a slow process takes time for your body to get used to such a change and going from from one side of the bow to the other it would take time [Music] shoot the arrow on the right side of the bow with a Mediterranean release one finger above the arrow two fingers below what happens is the arrow V is wildly off uh to the right which is an ideal and there are people that can shoot a Mediterranean style release like like the way they get Robin Hood to do in this film I've got to pull pull the bow out this way if you're doing big Dynamic movements to try and get the arrow to go straight they're very difficult to repeat so you're not going to be fantastically accurate with them is there something that I personally I'm not a huge fan of there are people that shoot hybrid style sort of east and west at the end of the day you've got to shoot in a way that you've that's comfortable and that puts the biggest smile on your face because it does require a certain amount of Fitness certain amount of stamina to shoot because it's that you know they're they're not easy to pull back and you've got to hold sometimes tremendous weights for you know a good few seconds before you make the shot you know various lifting weights isn't necessarily going to work the archery muscles that is actually a good archery muscle is working there that's going to do more for him than bench pressing Wheels you can use stretchy bands things like that that sort of builds up muscles and and whatnot see I want to give a really low score but I like the working out with the with the ropes so I'm going to push it up I'm going to give it a full she's using sound to make a deer move into a more accessible shot which is fine but I would imagine a deer would have just bolted at that stage there you know from my experience they're pretty skittish things what are you gonna do with that when you kill it I like it personally when you're at full draw you come you come to Anchor and you're there you know if you're doing all this the shot's gone you need to have Focus she actually has beautiful form in this film and she was coached by an Olympic Archer called the katuna loric an American Olympic Archer again a fantastic Archer so her form is is an Olympic form which is which is fantastic for target archery now she's in a hunting scenario that type of archery isn't necessarily going to work fantastically well in this sort of scenario there's so many variables you're uphill you're downhill there's there's you're waiting at full draw for something to to come into to shop she's doing a bit of wing shooting there she's shooting a bird shooting a moving Target is also difficult um and you wouldn't be able to to use an Olympic style of shooting to shoot a moving Target now they look like a huge plastic feathers um and she's shooting off the shelf that's not necessarily going to work out too well the sort of bow she's got there is is not Million Miles Away from from this type of bow that's called a shelf so the arrow sits sits on there and as the arrow passes over the reason why uh traditional archers use feathers is because they compress and they don't really cause too much of an issue where if you're shooting plastic feathers like those that they're not going to compress like a feather wood and that's going to that's going to cause some fouling on the on the Shelf yeah shooting a Broadhead which is a hunting Arrow it's a two-bladed Broadhead and it's stuck into the target quite realistically that's kind of how a Broadhead would stick into a hard target even a light poundage bow would probably do that it's not hard wired into the pig's mouth or anything it was just resting there so I don't think it would take it take a huge amount I mean I've tried to shoot apples before um and what tends to happen is the arrow just goes straight through the the Apple so you knock it off whatever you're shooting but I I I've yet to pin one to a wall the type of archery I do it's called instinctive archery is I don't use a sight and I let my my mind and my brain and my muscle memory work subconsciously to let me know where to shoot that's what she's doing there I would imagine she's she's although she's got a very limpic style where she's looking at something and she's just bang and and she nailed it I've always got a soft spot for The Hunger Games do you know I'm gonna give it seven the whole battery of archers is gonna is gonna really mess some Orcs up which is which is what's happening there I can't see the types of Arrow points they're using but I I've seen a lot of films people using broadheads and shooting at Armor and that wouldn't work there were certain Arrow points that were designed to go straight through armor like a Bodkin it's pointy but it's bulbous and it's stiffer and it was designed to kind of punch through armor his elbow is a bit High but you know I'll give him that when you've got some big orc dude with a stick coming at you you're not always gonna get a chance to set and make the perfect shot but in order to speed shoot to that kind of level you'd need a pretty light poundage bow I'm gonna go four but it's cool this is more of an Eastern style his arrow is really short and it's actually he's got like a piece of bamboo on the Arrow attached to the bow where the short Arrow will because obviously the longer the arrow the heavier the shorter the arrow the lighter the lighter something is the further it's going to go the faster it's going to go so it means you can pull the bow back all the way and put maximum maximum juice into that little arrow he's using his thumb uh typically the you over you over draw with that style of archery you relax that hand and come away from the thumb and let the string you can see the focus in his face breathing is is a weird one some people hold their breath some people breathe through the shot if you're hunting uh and and you're waiting for a deer to sort of come interview you could be holding for a a good 10 15 20 seconds Olympic arches um tend to hold for a lot longer some people are even even quicker some people come to full draw and then make the shot I guess if you can't drop him straight away you can you can wound him and then I'm gonna chase him down and poking with something else obviously if there was a Barb on it you couldn't pull it out you'd kind of have to pull it through which I manually would be Agony that to me looked like a sharpened stick so yeah you could probably pull that out medieval arches used to do um when they put their Arrow points on they would put them on with um wax if they hit you I pull it out the the the point's still in you or if you missed it landed on the floor the point would come off so it couldn't be then be shot back at you but weirdly archers nowadays are more likely to be injured by the knock end than the the pointy end because when that's in the target people walk up and stumble and things and that can be quite sharp I'm gonna give that one nine hey there my name's David rolling of the London long sword Academy I'm a full-time swordsmanship instructor and today I'm going to have a look at a load of clips about sword fighting and slack them off hideously so basically what I have with me here is a long sword long sword for me is generally a sword which is held in two hands so it doesn't matter whether the grip is short or long it doesn't really matter you have a pommel a cross card a grip a blade usually within fencing we divide that into two halves but different authors divide it into different different divisions so we'll have a strong half which is the half from the middle to the hilt and then from the middle down to the point is the weakest part and we're just really looking at geometry and Leverage that you get this big thing in historical European martial arts as I do but you're not allowed to carry swords on your shoulder because that's really really frowned upon and no one would ever do it except there's actually critique in manual saying that you shouldn't do it which implies that people do do it so carrying the sword in your hand is a very very good thing and you see this a lot people holding a sword on their shoulder and just walking around with it without a Scabbard on necessarily so it's ready to use I have issues with this particular fight because there's a lot of reverse grip with the sword being held backwards down here it's not a good way for you to use the sword you sacrifice your ability to defend above very very clearly you have not got any reach it's not safe how do you change grip yay oh and he's back I like how he moves I think he's got a good organic feel to him generally the sword is being moved in front of him which is a very very good thing it's very rarely just kept behind him so he's closing the space off between him and his opponent with the sword one of the things I like about some of the witcher's fight scenes is that there is this idea of moving between the opponents and you see this in things like godino where the idea of spinning something which people really really quite often frown upon within the Hema Community is very much used because you're trying to keep opponents away from each other so it's not just about fighting you and concentrate and moving into you it's against driving you back and then hitting the next person the next person the next person so these spinning moves actually become quite important and this angled Sinister Straight Into You idea goes out the window it's not this focused suddenly it's much more wide and it's a flurry the thing is is most of my judgment on this fight the fight scene is actually Henry Cavill being very very good physically and what is shown in this fight scene being probably the most disappointing fight scene in The Witcher so for Henry Cavill it's going to have like an eight for actual quality of fighting it's going to have about four [Applause] [Music] thank you so there's bits in there that actually aren't too bad looking at it there's evasions of the blade from the emperor which could be accidental but you have these movements of just moving around as the as the Paris coming in that's actually not too bad you see this kind of thing quite often you see in distress when opponents are moving around each other where a Parry comes in you disengage underneath as it's happening so you have potential for some actually quite interesting movements in there foreign good Parry you see that Intel Hoffer usually accompanied by a wrap because of the closure in the close distance kicking up the heels is referred to in quite a few treaties quite often accompanied by a movement onto the jaw as well so potentially within this fight scene I'd say in those last two actions from the cover to the uh to the kick with the legs the sweeping up of the heels I'd say those are actually quite good actions usually you'd see more control of the opponent's weapon arm or their balance with the offhand as well but that part's actually reasonably good so for that I'm actually going to give it a six because I think those two aspects save it slightly [Music] yeah okay so again we've got some very very good bits on this the first bit of this is the the shunting away of the opponent I really really like this he creates distance between the two opponents now you could argue that maybe he'd want to push the opponents into each other but he he has a very very good instinctive response push one away get the weapon from it and then on to the other one and then a good clean finish on one of the cuts nothing Posh just as simple cut a wrath in effect pretty good I'd give that a seven I think that's quite a comfortable thing again I think it's very easy within uh judging this from a human's perspective to get very focused on an individual and this is showing good awareness of space maintaining that distance and then simple finishes nothing posh [Music] so immediately the first attack is this big Spa I'll spin at you I'll expose my back and the distance is so bad that he could just be stabbed in the back yeah it's it's a broadsword or or a saber or something therefore you have to go and cut candles or scenery you don't use this like this this is terrible foreign in Japanese swordsmanship you're moving the glass deposits the slab deposits of actually silicon deposits that can be in steel you're moving those throughout the entirety of the length of the blade and through those foldings you basically you spread that out so you make sure that your blade hasn't got one particular area of weakness now with European swords before we had that consistency we did something very similar except that we Twisted them like string so that if one thread was weak then that's necessary could be a problem in itself but you're having multiple threads and twisting them around each other you create something stronger but that said swords do snap swords do Bend and there's always a fine point and you can't guarantee the process is not perfect even nowadays with much more clear definitions of how steel should be made and produced blade still break so it's not impossible for this to happen so this is where it really gets quite terrible there's this insane idea that somehow long swords are really heavy clumsy weapons they are not you can move a long sword much more quickly and much more dexterously than you can a rape here it still balanced as if to be used in one hand but you have the advantage of being able to move it around this position the position of the forward hand now even the most barbaric moment of a long sort of barbaric Technique we have a technique called the strike of Wrath which is a strike that uses the entirety of the anterior oblique slings that's the most powerful strike you can do but it's not done foolishly it's done as a mechanic it's a way of claiming space in front of you claiming that space for yourself killing with it if you can and then going on to pursue your opponent through that wide swings don't serve anybody and they represent the actual piece of equipment very very poorly doing a spin when you're not engaged with the opponent's blade is insane because you don't know what their sword is doing and because you're so close and you don't know where that sword is obviously they can cut you freely because they're still facing at you they still have all of their requisite safety in their hands three four out of ten this in case you didn't know it is the best fight scene ever in any film ever the fencing in it is completely irrelevant the fencing is part of a narrative device it's not meant to overwhelm you it's just there happening while the dialogue does [Music] I thought of fitting considering the rocky terrain there's references to benetti's defense I don't even know and you know what that is but references to Tebow and Tebow is one of my favorite systems but they're not showing any awareness of Tebow Tebow operates on the idea of the perfect angle that you see in a lot of Spanish swordsmanship and distress are particularly here where you have a 90 degree angle which is maintained as much as possible and you don't make lateral movements with your arms but all of this is what we call vulgar angles where the point is higher than the hilt and lots of lateral movement naturally you must expect me to attack naturally Rapier some people call it a side sword the divisions are really a later thing we don't worry about it too much it's a sword that you hold in one hand now again we have the equivalence quite often or could be just like the cross guard in effect quite often people would hold this simply like so without their finger over the bars and these extra Rings would be to stop things from landing on your fingers when you're holding the sword normally and this allows you to put your thumb on there later on you start seeing people holding the sword like so okay but it's not Universal sometimes it is just use like this okay sometimes these are very very ornate as you can see here there's a lot of wire around here and then sometimes it's just a simple cup there's something I want to tell you tell me I'm not left-handed either the idea of being able to fence with both hands shouldn't be necessarily a problem um fighting somebody who is differently handed to you as well shouldn't be an uncommon experience so this this kind of thing although it's amusing you don't want to do this sort of thing at close distance because obviously while you're busy changing your sword hand your opponent can stab you and this kind of thing here you have a bit whereas the blade comes through it disengages so you're having the blade changing from one side to the other and in order to fight that what you're doing is rather than doing lateral powers like this you're wrapping the blade and you're staying engaged to it and that can be used to throw the opponent sword out their hands so there's there's a degree of reality in that it's good technically wise I'd still give it sort of like a six seven even with its parody fencing it still has better fencing than um than a lot of the others that's quite nice because in effect you have a very very nasty version of a movement of conclusion this is basically where in using a sword to Parry here we then do something with the offhand if we were to inverted there the idea would be to restrain the opponent's weapon hand so it can control it and we can choose whether they live or die and we can show Mercy at this point if you're doing this this is lovely he doesn't have to worry about the guys offhand so much because the guy has both hands on the sword there's a closure off of the line and the guy giving him the distance because he doesn't have to move his feet the guy's going to come and hit him anyway he gets to push it aside he gets to thrust through he's got control of the opponent's sword still and he gets to finish him so that I actually quite like that's pretty good I'm not entirely sure holding your hand Palm down with the longsword is a good way not to get the sword taken oh my goodness this is terrible there is so much bad in this again we're back on this idea that if you've got a long sword you have to do this with it and it has to be wide and spinny and it has to be these big moves it's meant to be dexterous you have this idea that there's basically half an hour the idea of being this kind of space here rather halfway between here and here you don't want to be more than this way far away from your opponent with the points at all times so if they drive you away you're trying to find a way to get your point onto them most long sword is intrinsically trying to dominate a space very very close into the core of your opponent if they move you sufficiently around you're immediately back at another opening if they stay tight on the blade and the angle's tight just enough to Parry like so you'll try and drive the blading still maintaining contact on that all this wide around movement is complete nonsense okay knocking the blade down and striking back up now you could argue that this is almost a nodding in effect the idea of beating someone's blade down and then hitting back up with the false Edge here you see where the sword is sweeping wide and one person is standing with their point right in front of the other you don't Parry then come back here you stand here and you stab them immediately because the blade has moved out of presence well that was good yep if someone has got their back to you and you have a spear do stab them in the back of the leg that again redeeming feature that's that's given another point so I quite like the fight scene between Brienne of Tarth and Aria I think that's quite good it's cohesive it has that real Focus to it so the movement is constant neither of them is really sacrificing there's no great pauses there's always I want to be back in the fight I want to be back in it I do like in general the Hound fights because they are just like men that's good and I think having that idea that a blade is intrinsically there to either stab someone or hit them with it and remove all the sort of like fussy detail is a very good thing to have in a series first the twirling is Dreadful but the the blades are all over the place there's no safety in them and now we're being focused on a single opponent we could use the sword in a much more efficient way even if I were to twelve the swords towards you you'd always want one blade in presence always one blade doing something never having the swords over here at that point I think the idea of restraining to weapon hands becomes more important than actually taking the weapons out of the hand so at that point I would suggest that potentially you're looking at a way of either throwing the opponent as far from you as possible throwing them down the really big hole on the other side of you might be a good thing up two yep she's dead now yeah you're really looking at just absolute theater here and that's that's fine it is what it is uh but it's it's terrible terrible sword fighting this idea of driving people apart to fight so you don't want to be standing still you don't want big people to be managing the space while your space is getting more and more cramped one of the things that uh is misunderstood quite often is that impact molded blades quite often these were given mirror polishes and I believe unless this is anecdotal um that there's reference to people blowing on the blades so that the the breath actually brings out the pattern world for a moment so you can see it so yeah blades historically are incredibly highly Polished in various different places certainly in Japanese stores that's the thing certain European sort of thing interesting tactical decisions here so you have a point where somebody has control of the blade and if you think like a parrying dagger you have have really options to take the blade of the opponent on your dagger or to take them on your sword and to attack them with the other but in order to do so you'd want to maintain that contact so to do an action like this with the opponent's blade still directly in the middle doesn't make any sense really so you had a point of control or a point of control both of those have been sacrificed it's amazing that one of these people didn't die in the process of this they should have either been disembowelling or a stab or whichever or the other person should have plowed straight through the middle in the space for from the point of viewpoint of a good cohesive fight scene that involves realistic technique I'm going to give that two [Music] okay the first miracle of this fight is that they don't manage to kill each other um there there are forms which consist about fighting around somebody usually the other person is disabled so that they're kind of in a position where you don't have to worry about them they'll be prone or something like this or perhaps you'll be bodyguarding someone so it's a way of moving around each other I would not really like to have my back to someone who was swinging something sharp or Bernie so much of this is almost a method to show how he feels so you have an expression of emotion going on in the fight scenes rather than necessarily being this very very tight cohesive fight his anger is always explicit everything is these white powerful slashes that aren't necessarily good for defense it's so heavily stylized I think in things like the um Revenge of the Sith you have these very very Dynamic fight scenes between Obi-Wan and Anakin and those I think are much more expressive at combat even if the distance is a little bit funny even if they're standing toe to turn waving the swords around there's a lot more aggression and interaction in that as such I think I'd give it a 5 out of 10 as in it has aspects that I really enjoy if I was going for my enjoyment of the fight scene it would be innate I really really love the Yoda fight scenes I I always have um again it's that point where you separate any desire for reality it doesn't have to be real you know if it's got dragons if it's got the false it doesn't matter it has to be something expressive of all the things you want in there yes absolutely if you can cut flesh you can cut fabric it's again it depends on on different things like how sharp the sword is but they are made to cut things the horses were very realistic let's give it a one hi I'm Toby capwell I'm curator of arms and armor at the wireless collection in central London since I was a kid I've been riding horses and fighting in armor I've taken part in competitions armored combat all over the world today we're going to be looking at the treatment of medieval arms and armor in cinema oh stop stop did you see that he just got shot in the armor and it knocked him but it didn't stop him and you know in a complete armor a medieval Knight can suffer horrendous physical punishment that would kill an unarmored person like that but you can take the hits and in armored combat there are times when you decide to let your opponent hit you because you know you can take it and you're going to do something else you're not going to waste time defending what doesn't need to be defended and the armor in this clip takes on again narrative significance it's storytelling he can take a shot right in the chest that's a pretty big character Point wouldn't you think he's not clunking around all cumbersome he moves like a real Knight I've been jousting and fighting in armor for 30 years you know I built a lot of different kinds of armor working with different Craftsmen all over the world real armor of the late Middle Ages the Renaissance is like a steel skin it's not bulky it's your shape the armor should fit you like a skin it should follow your musculature it doesn't have to be a lot of space under there it's fitted it moves with you the plates are hardened and tempered medium carbon steel so they don't have to be thick and chunky they need to Glide over each other and move like you move out of here without killing you he hardly ever takes his helmet off and yet you know everything about his expression his feelings his character historically a knight has a very close personal relationship with his armorer that armor is responsible for his safety but he's also the guy who's going to mold your character that's never really been explored you know until this I said where are they it's got a couple of possible sources of inspiration on the one hand it looks a lot like an ancient Greek hopalite's helmet the ancient Greek heavy infantry of like 500 BC of thereabouts these these very distinct spectacled helmets with these like eye cutouts the nasal for the nose and then the cheeks brought in in the Bronze Age they're trying again to get as much protection for the face and the head as they possibly can so that's where that really closely set kind of spectacled profile comes from that was then imitated in the Renaissance you know in the 15th century in Italy and very rapidly everywhere else people were became fascinated with the classical world again and they started looking back to the ancient Greek and Roman precedent and this style of helmet became fashionable again in Italy and Venice in the Venetian Empire specifically in the 15th century most used by infantry shooting crossbows and and firearms and more lightly armored troops and in the ancient Greek period they they were the heavy infantry but um they still had Shields to hide behind and they're actively protecting their faces as well as as well as relying on their armors I'd give this a 10. absolutely Vikings is a fantasy you should really treat it as a fantasy there's a lot of things to like about this show and that makes it almost the more tragic for me because those Anglo-Saxons are all wearing late 16th century helmets the bergenettes with the high comb and the peak they are 800 years wrong the leather biker gear There is almost no historical evidence for leather clothing almost across the board people in the past did not make clothes out of leather it's a distinctly modern thing it acts is fine I don't have a problem with the ax I do have a problem with none of the main characters wearing helmets you can't go anywhere near a battle like this without a helmet so I mean someone like Ragnar lothbroker someone of that stature would have amazing male coat he'd have jewelry he'd have big thick gold stuff on him he'd have a gilded sword he does not have to look like a pile of leather crap I'm gonna give it a three could not be undone that is metal nothing else looks like metal but metal in close-up all that decoration is etched into the steel with acid this is film armor As Good As It Gets now there are lots of great spraying techniques and you can spray plastic to look reflective and increasingly it looks more and more like metal but it doesn't behave like metal their armor is a little you can see it's a little bit too flexi there's something about metal that it has a weight it has a rigidity that rubber and plastic and polyurethane don't have he walks into the in into the battle and you know everything you need to know about this guy and it's all coming out through his gear they've taken real 15th century armor Styles mostly German and then turned it up to 11. Sauron is wielding a mace and mesa's are real it's a hafted weapon with a wooden or a steel haft with a flanged or bladed head on one end so all the weight of the weapon is balanced to the end and it's a concussion weapon and you're trying rather than to cut or pierce your opponent you're trying to smash through their defenses that is way bigger in proportion to him than any real maces were a real German Gothic High medieval maces of the 15th century are they're usually pretty short they're like just a little bit you know more than a foot or a bit more long the heads are quite small but they got these really sharp blades on them and you're focusing your energy on a really small area a weapon doesn't need to be massive to have the effect that it needs to have but massive always reads well on screen especially when you've got a dark lord of Mordor and and how successfully does it use armor and weapons to bring its characters and its themes across I gotta give this 10 as well poor old r-pats looks like a pile of garbage I'm afraid this is a mishmash there are a couple of elements the shoulders and the body armor that are vaguely 15th century but they're about a generation too late for Agincourt his helmet is just ridiculous I mean that has a vaguely 16th century profile to it but it fits badly it's too big it's clunky oh come on man what is this well this is obviously supposed to be the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. at the real Battle of Agincourt it was very muddy the French had ten thousand fully armed Knights that was the entirety of their army they had archers but they didn't use them the pada Calais mud is like this thick gluey clay stuff very difficult to move through and it would be difficult regardless of what you're wearing armor often gets blamed for the French defeated Agincourt as if the French were wearing heavy armor that the English didn't were too clever to wear or something the fact is the English including Henry V here were wearing full plate armor of the time the English had 1500 fully armed Knights whose job it was to protect those famous archers foreign they go about it sort of the right way in that this night is someone who's been trained to fight and kill people since he was a child and he's very very good at it the only way you've got any chance of this if you're an Archer an English foot soldier or whatever is to get six or seven or eight of your friends and Pile in all at the same time don't take turns he will kill all of you you gotta all go together and four or five of you got to hold him down and then one or two of you have to stab him in the eyes and in the gaps in the armor you don't stab through the armor when uh King Richard III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth they immobilized him they held him down someone took his helmet off they probably cut the chin strap and took the helmet off and then they can do as they like they cut off the back of his skull they stabbed him right through the brain they did whatever they wanted I'll give it a one because they've got mud and archers working together but I can't give it any more than a one it's it's a it's a massive lost opportunity [Applause] it's a legal procedure where they're determining the ownership of territory with a trial by combat they're attacking each other on the wrong side if you can see they're passing right to right which is wrong they shouldn't be doing that because your your rain hand is in your left hand so it can't wield a weapon your rain hand is in your left so your left side is more exposed so that's where your Shield goes your Lance is in your right hand nobody's allowed to be left-handed in the Middle Ages in traditional nightly mounted combat like this you always pass left side to left side unhorsing someone is very difficult and it only happens when certain key factors all come together the timing's got to be right the impact the placement of the lands on the body's got to be right where he is in his stride of the horse when he gets hit all those lots of things that kind of contribute to the likelihood of being unhorsed but as a general rule it's very very difficult to separate a good Horseman from his horse if this was a later period in in like the 15th century full play when you have full plate armor you can be run over by a horse in full plate armor and you'll be just fine I've seen it happen this is kind of a weird choice in this film because el-sid Rodrigo de vivar is a real person but he lived in the 11th century in the the late 1000s it's largely looking like the early to mid 14th century uh oh the 16th century two-ended swords are coming out now we assume for some reason that a bigger sword hits harder than a little sword that you know these are not Firearms this is not a higher caliber sword you know they didn't have two-handed swords in in l-sid's lifetime what you're seeing Charlton wearing here is what's traditionally referred to as string male it's a knitted garment knitted with big knitting needles so you've got big Loops in the in the weave of the knitting and then they iron it flat spray it silver and it looks like mail or they think it does it doesn't really look that much like mail but it's it's been the male substitute for years and years and years and it's fine you know for the background and I'd still pass it for the background but you can't have it in the foreground 5 out of 10. and a diving suit is is very much like armor in the sense that it protects you from a hostile environment of a different kind it's a complete fantasy because he's not got an Air Supply diving suits are a real historical thing there are designs going back to the 14th and 15th centuries in the late Middle Ages of designs for diving suits the skills of the armorer would be recruited for doing something like this they work purely on a basic system of of water displacement the suit is not watertight the water can get in you pump air into the helmet and it displaces the water below your face but the water as the pump is going up and down the water goes up like this and it sometimes covers your face and sometimes goes down and you hope they pump hard enough to keep you from drowning it's dicey but it's possible I give it a seven it's very very interesting thank you hey what's he doing stop that oh can't do that that's not how you take a sword apart I'm sorry this whole idea of melting a sword blade down and then recasting it in a mold which is what they're doing you can't do that if you reduce the the iron or the steel to its liquid state you lose all of the properties that you want if you melt and cast iron in a mold it's cast iron and it becomes really brittle and you can't temper it and you can't heat treat it you know when you have a lump of iron ore as it comes out of the ground yes they heat the iron ore to to separate the iron from all of the silicates and the the rest of the stuff that it's mixed up with you never fully melt it you don't bring it up to the full melting point you heat it up until the chemical reaction occurs in the ore which separates the iron from all of the other junk and it sort of gloops down into the bottom of the bloomery weaponsmiths are very very careful never to fully melt anything you cannot melt armor down and make new armor I don't care if it looks good on screen it's dumb I like some of the things that that Game of Thrones does with armor but that's a fail that's a zero I love the sort of evil Statue of Liberty sort of you know aesthetic here I I think the the star of that scene is the flail real flails are derived from farm implements they articulated staffs that are used for threshing wheat and if you have a feudal peasant Army and they need to take whatever hurty things are to hand a flail you know agricultural implements are good it's a staff with just an eye bolt articulation and then another piece of wood when such an idea is weaponized more extensively they add a short length of chain between the staff and the head flails almost exclusively are a lower class common Soldier infantry weapon the knights didn't use them because they're kind of scary and they have an inherent mechanical Intrigue they've become much more famous and much more popular to the kind of popular conception of the medieval night than than they really deserve to be but it's great here I mean again it totally works here no flail was ever that big no flail ever had a chain that long but in this context it works great I can't think of another weapon that would have the kind of Visual and Story character driven impact that this has in this scene it's got to be a 10 out of 10. he'd be dead be very dead one man can't attack a shield wall like that nobody ever used rectangular Shields I mean that's ridiculous it's stupid and real early medieval Shields which were all circular as far as we can tell if air can get through then a lot of other things can get through most real Shields of this period are made out of uh of boards placed you know edge to edge sort of like this but they're placed properly edge to edge and they're glued and they're sealed and you know there's there's arguments good arguments be made for them then being edged with uh Rawhide or sometimes covered with hide or textile and glue you should not be able to see that much air through your Shield [Applause] he's been stabbed right through the chest between those plates they're showing you how their own made-up silly armor doesn't work you know now maybe if he gets hit full in the chest with a spear that's wielded by someone who knows how to use it his padded textile and male armor uh which is what he should be wearing or even maybe a scale arm or maybe it wouldn't stand up either no I can't I'm sorry I I can't find anything to hold on to that's a zero [Music] Badlands technique I'll give them a pass on that because they wouldn't have known what good Lance technique is it's a very common thing in jousting sequences in movies that they lower their lands to a horizontal and then they kick on and Gallop along and they're Galloping along with their Lance on the level you don't do that you're sitting on a horse you've got 12 feet of pine Lance and the horse is going up and down like this and you've got it here it's inevitable that it's going to start to do this and pretty and it's got a steelhead on the end there's weight right out on the end of that and pretty soon this thing is going up and down and you couldn't hit a you know a barn door with the thing you've got no chance of controlling where that spear goes and you get the horse going and then you don't have to worry about your opponent until the last second or so of the interaction and then it comes down boom it takes practice if you're too late you miss if you're too early you get tangled up and look like an idiot but if you get it right you're always you're always on a Lance came down it got tangled up with my Lance and a jousts and it came down and the steel spearhead which has three prongs like this two of the prongs went past my hand and the third one bypassed the defenses of my armor The Gauntlet it went just under the plate through the leather glove and into me I finished the competition before I even realized I needed to go get sewn up yields her I have the advantage now again this is all metal armor it's all aluminum aluminum sprayed black or aluminum polished but look how good it looks they worked hard to do what they were doing and they knew what they were doing and I think it deserves a seven [Music] traditional ranged weapons like the Longbow and the crossbow um you know the projectile you know isn't moving that fast but it's still moving way fast enough you you can't you can't block arrows remove the hood in The Mask [Laughter] it's an interesting outfit he's got on you know who's he come as he's got a vaguely 11th or early 12th century helmet but he's got full plate armor under there like the 16th century or something I'll give it a two because it's funny and it's Nicholas Cage what business there's an elf a man and a dwarf having the Ridder Mark let's speak quickly yeah this is a great entrance or a character you know Tolkien imagined the rohiram as Anglo-Saxons who fought like Knights on Horseback because the Anglo-Saxon didn't they rode horses but they got off to fight they didn't fight on their horses the design of the helmet is derived from early medieval examples he really should have his chin strap done up the helmet is riding a bit too high on his head the brow of the helmet the the vert the horizontal Edge there should be right down on his eyebrows to really protect the front of the skull you want to bring that down as far as it can go and it can go right down onto your eyebrows so I'll stick this on all right this is one of my own made for me okay now you see that brow is right down on my eyes and it's sticking out beyond my skull right so a weapon comes in it can't get to me the skull it might get there but that's still safe give me your name horse Master you know things are often more highly decorated even for practical fighting than modern people often imagine they're going for armor that looks kind of architectural like the dwarves build you know caves and they work with you know rock and it's under mountains and stuff so they're they're looking for a kind of Blocky aesthetic it's starting to look a bit too much like like polyurethane here to me something about metal that it has a weight it has a rigidity that rubber and plastic and polyurethane don't have I gotta dock them a couple of points here for the fit and the chin strap but it's still got to be like an eight out of ten doing I think his son was already a knight at this point I don't know why he feels the need to night him again this is a this is a total mishmash of pretty good and pretty not so good the male that you're seeing in close up here is real mail and you can actually even see the rivets that are closing each of the links it's not fitting him well and it's not tailored to him it's something that's been just hiked out of a van and stuck on the actor a lot of uh film mail is just like plastic links butted together sprayed silver for a lot of uses is fine but they don't have the rivets real mail is you know Iron links riveted closed I appreciate the fact that he's got a lining under there he's got padded textile under the mail which you have to have otherwise it is going to do precisely nothing for you a lot of exposed throats there and they've stuck random articulated shoulder plates over the male shirt this is Robert the Bruce in the early 14th century they were starting to introduce more hard armor they're a long way from Full plate armor at this period there are significant Way Away really from articulated constructions like that that look a bit like the tail of a lobster or whatever it's a later thing and the shoulders were less of a priority in this period if you're going to put plates on a guy in this period it should be on the elbows and the knees and here you can see his male is a little off center his bagging around his throat just as bad the key thing about a male hood is that it has a piece called a ventail which comes up and ties up to the chin and it's sculpted to protect the whole throat you know this is this is armor that's doing nothing because I can stab him straight through his windpipe this film is is actively engaging with real heraldry heraldry is the system of colors and shapes put onto Shields as a form of visual identification so when all these guys are in armor it's hard to tell who's who heraldry was the answer and it works very well they got things wrong that they didn't have to get wrong but they still did a fair amount that's right seven out of 10. what nothing I like this little scene because it shows that getting shot with arrows isn't immediately fatal and Gilda Ray here Jones companion who is incidentally a serial killer in real life he was a quite pretty despicable child murderer and but anyway he knows that he can take a hit she's not wearing armor in this scene he is shot for shot a long bow arrow has very little chance of hurting a man inside you need the kind of mass volume that Henry V organized in his armies to put so many arrows downrange that somebody's gonna get hurt no matter what I asked for grandiose coronation and this is what you get this he wouldn't do that almost certainly he'd wear his coronation robes and all of his nights certainly wouldn't wear armor to a coronation certainly not Rusty banged up stuff like that most of this is aluminum this armor is made by Terry English who's one of the most famous modern armors working in cinema he's made armor for lots of things he made Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr Freeze armor for the Batman movie he's made Space Marines armor for the aliens and he's done a fair amount of historical stuff the king here is putting on gold armor it's gold colored and this is actually this is actually good this doesn't look like gold armor but fully gilded armor where you have steel armor and then it's copper plated and then it's fire gilded where you mix gold with Mercury and you apply this Mercury gold mixture if you then heat that mercury up and you boil it off it leaves the gold chemically bonded to the steel normally most people wouldn't be able to afford that I mean really only Kings can afford this and not all Kings but the French Kings like this it was it was a distinctive uh thing actually it creates an image of a king as like the sun manifested in human form like a superhuman being but it would have been nicer if they'd given Terry the budget to Guild it properly I'll give it a 4 out of 10. we've already been through this before we both know you haven't got it in a sword is not a gun pointing a sword at someone out of range with your arms fully extended so you have nowhere to go with it doesn't achieve anything except making you look like you've never held a sword in your life you point your weapon out there like that he's going to take it away from you [Music] there's often not enough color in medieval depictions in cinema medieval people loved color bright color and richness it didn't populate their world very much otherwise okay so you've got your leader your king leading a cavalry charge he they're in wedge formation with the king at the point of the wedge which is great this is how it's done the guy on the point of the wedge is steering the whole cavalry charge he's like the guidance system on a missile the wedge formation is one of the most effective formations for a heavy cavalry charge these guys chin strap done up love that he's still got his visor up which is good because at this stage he's still far enough away from the enemy where he's got other things to worry about a cavalry charge might start when you're Maybe 600 meters away from the enemy line but you're not going to be full Pelt straight off you need to start the charge in good order he's got to look around and make sure his formation is maintaining its position they're keeping their cohesion if he starts running too fast then they then they have to catch up and then they start getting too spread out they've got to stay close he's got to be watching that fine but now the real test of this sequence and the thing that Hollywood hates to do is cover its famous actors faces but in a real cavalry charge this guy once he's got himself set up he needs to close that visor and let's see if they do it he could close it right about now would be good ah he's closed it I give it a seven if I could change one thing I would change this he's wearing his courgette on the outside of his breastplate the gorgette is that neck plate he should actually have plates covering his throat the gorgette has neck plates in here and it comes down and has this larger chest plate that chest plate should be underneath the breastplate the breastplate has a turned Edge to stop things sliding up into your face but if anything does get past it hits the gorget but in Game of Thrones they habitually put them on the outside and it's a it's a howler that I just I can't abide and fire arrows were a thing especially in Naval Warfare when you've got key pieces of equipment you want to set on fire like sails and rigging and things fire arrows as a rule get get way overused in cinema these are a little more interesting though there's something more interesting going on you see it's not just a lump of burning material stuck on an arrow they've actually got some kind of explosive charge on these arrows that has a fuse and this is actually much more historically plausible there are early incendiary manuals from the 15th and 16th centuries that give designs for different kinds of gunpowder bombs and other explosive devices to be put on arrows and crossbow bolts I love this right here that's armor doing its job you know an arrow when it hits you in full armor it'll probably glance off that's what Armor's designed to do but if it hits you square and it gets enough purchase it can it can start to bite into the steel and if it hits you somewhere on the arm or the shoulder where the steel is thinner it might even get through chances are most arrows are not going to get through enough to do meaningful damage the person inside but they are going to get stuck and seeing a knight fighting on the walls in a Siege with arrows stuck in him is the best thing I've seen all day 10 out of 10 absolutely just for that hi my name is teclaudeva I'm a stunt woman and martial arts world champion and I've been doing nunchucks and martial arts in general for about 18 years today we'll be looking at nunchuck scenes in movies it's very traditional nunchuck style it's a lot of the passing under the hand stuff which is super cool and like more old school the longer chain ones might be more practical the longer the chain the further your reach is this is about the length I think that they were in that last clip because the ones I compete with it's a shorter chain so you can do more like flourishy things with it not only did he hold it normal grip which is your thumb facing the chain pretty much but whenever he switched his his hands he had them backwards uh a few times you don't see that often it's a style I think it's like knife you know you have like your regular standard grip and then you have like ice pick where it's upside down so I guess that'd be like the ice pick version which is cool this is the normal grip but it's neat to see it this way because obviously it works the same way but it's just cool you don't have to start under the armpit I think that's another just traditional move that usually like spin it catch it under the armpit and then shoot it back out again I think maybe that's more of a sneaky way to do it as opposed to like being loaded here right you're here and then everyone's like oh there's no way and there's like traditional weapons especially come from like farm tools this was just for like smacking grain out of hay and like wheat and stuff and then someone's like hmm this works on grain I wonder what it'll do to someone's face I can't write Bruce Lee 10. all right maybe maybe nine because he showed off for way too long you can kind of see a little bit and some of it where maybe the actress isn't completely that well versed with the nunchucks they're a little bit slower she's kind of using more of her body and like more of her arms and stuff instead of just like moving the nunchuck very skillfully but obviously she's quite skilled there's a few cool moves though the neck sliding under the legs and hitting him it's pretty cool but it's definitely not as realistic to think that she wouldn't just be grabbed or something if she's being a lot more like calculating and like choreographed with it the last move where she like puts it on her foot and kicks it I've seen actually like done in forms I'd say like seven but I still love it oh double there we go he's just doing the same combo over and over I love it it's funny how often it's just like the demonstration of the weapon especially with nunchucks is like the bit that that is so highlighted he did a good job like obviously it was him doing it and like the move where he like crosses them isn't very easy to do if I were to be in a fight with nunchucks I think I would just try to make the big swinging strikes the best one's probably from top to bottom at the angles you do side to side or like a nice uppercut anything else ends up being a lot more specific also I mean growing knees those are always like defaults for self-defense moves and a nunchuck to the kneecap wouldn't be very comfortable so that'd probably be a good one too like what he did you know just like wailing on him was probably like a really you know good default I want to say they're foam ones in that scene too just by the weight that it looked like they had when it bounced back real nunchucks are made out of wood they're illegal in California it's just always such an interesting question that like people ask that kind of confuses me sometimes about like are they real if you're training with a sword if it's made out of metal it is but if it's not sharp then I guess it's not real like these are real they're just foam so it's like a weird you know like what the definition of a real weapon is he just did the demonstration which was really cool but the actual fight bit was like three moves and the nunchuck bounced back so like a five yes concealed carry nunchucks so cool I've been known to just keep them in a backpack or a purse because I forgot that they're there so they are very like concealable I don't I love that he used it to take on a bunch of people surrounding him because I feel like that's probably the best use of it just because if you spin around fast enough like people aren't going to want to attack you I think that is a really good use of a flaily weapon like if you had a stick someone might grab it like disarm them or you know like it's it's an easier thing to catch when it's like one stick but when it's an unchecked like it's terrifying it's scary for the person wielding it much less someone in front those swords are made really well because they're like layered bits of bamboo together I think it would have to be a really like perfect storm for that to actually happen seeing as how like these aren't very sharp but it's Donnie in so you know like it's possible if they wanted to swarm him they could have like beaten him but I I think it's a really good way to capture the like efficiency and the use of the actual weapon so I don't know nine a fellow Checker eh yeah I mean rolling it over your hand is all always harder it involves letting go of one of them and just letting it roll over your hand and get to the other one it's hard to do with the longer chain because you have to be able to get that so I'd say like straight strikes are the easiest and then something with a spin and then something with a release as far as difficulty tears so like that difficulty scale and those speed I think are pretty good signs of like expertise you gotta love Ninja Turtles it's like the Dueling Pianos thing keep practicing see this is where nunchucks get a bad rep they're like oh no one's actually doing anything with them and then the guy with the stick comes in and beats everyone up but if they actually got close enough where ducks would hit someone maybe the guy with the bow staff wouldn't have to be there they showed some good expertise with the nunchucks but there was Zero fight actual interaction so I'll have to give it like a two or three but again for the demonstration bit maybe like a six or seven so pass around the back nice again with this you see a lot of just straight strikes not so much fancy stuff when you're actually interacting with people with which again like it's the diagonal strikes the sideways ones upwards hitting the guy out of the air was probably the least practical thing I still liked Donnie Yen's version better with like everyone attacking at once because again this was a little more choreographed where like all the bad guys come in at their designated time which is plausible you know of course but I think if you're a mob trying to end up hurting someone you just like go like one two three let's go oh finishes them off with a kick he used a lot more you know like martial arts kicks and and other other movement as opposed to just swinging the nunchuck around because obviously someone who can do nunchucks should have some background in martial arts it made it feel more realistic because of that as well the strikes were awesome but then there were a few of the more intricate things like it when he like wrapped the guy's arm which I feel like took a little longer than it probably practically would like you if someone's punching you don't really have all that time for that to happen it's plausible of course like while it still fell very specifically choreographed it was a lot more believable than the Kick-Ass one where there were just like such so many specialty moves but really sucked to get cracked like across the jaw or like the eyes obviously a sharp weapon is more practical in a real fight if you're actually wanting to like hurt people that bad but I do think you know what you're doing they end up being like a stick I used to think that they're not as effective or as good because I thought they'd like bounce back but again if you don't hit with anything but the last bit it just whips by a little bit and then you have a lot of power in that last bit maybe not the easiest thing to use in a real fight but I do think they could probably be pretty devastating if you know how to use them right maybe like a seven that would suck I feel like the physics of that doesn't quite work but it's a cool move you know I liked the Bruce Lee character dodging he's very skilled to dodge that close to the nunchucks but I liked him going stepping offline and like punching the guy and taking the nunchucks which is what you want to do with disarming a weapon of any sort right like you want to kind of get in past it and get past the like that end where that's the most power is there was one bit where he like hits the pipe and then hits the guy's hand which is really like a cool take on it because like hitting fingers would suck whereas you're not gonna disarm the pipe out of someone's hand important muscles for using nunchucks uh one of the main ones is actually your wrist for the more intricate movements and then obviously your arm and your back and power comes from your hips range of motion is very important arguably more important than muscle mass this one's tough because I liked this one showed like a variety of styles but like if we have to rate it on practicality like seven or something Jackson these people need to start holding on to their weapons a little better yeah it's funny to keep seeing that theme of just people taking nunchucks from other people in all of these I've never noticed that until you have them back to back you're like what is going on I don't know if I would block an ax with it just because I'm not sure how sharp the ax is and how heavy and like it's kind of a small chain so it it's not unlikely that it might snap it there's also other blocks like this ends up actually being a block as well because you're here you're blocking all that and then you can also kind of block if you just hold them their stick on your arms so that's a good block as well again like I don't think they're the most secure things to block with but that's not a horrible move especially if you're stepping off to the side just to like ensure you're gonna not be hit if something does happen probably Perry instead of just block straight on I don't think it showed off like the practicality of nunchucks all that well you'd have to be very skilled and very specific with your movement to be able to pull that off at all and I wouldn't recommend it so maybe like a five but it was a cool little scene oh there's that move again I mean he obviously knows what he's doing based on our criteria from earlier like the intricacy switching hands and the speed at which he's moving them and the spins and everything so that's really cool to see I grip it like uh maybe a thumb width away from the chain and the top because that's where you have the most control over the other stick as well I guess for like distance and like just the straight strikes you might grip it a little lower and then also depending on the intricacy of your movement sometimes for some moves you want to grip it a little bit lower so that you can get it around your hand for that or you want to grip it a little higher if you're doing like a finger spin or something but generally speaking you want to be close to the chain on top and then all you have to worry about is where the chain is flinging the rest of it so it's a lot more controlled I don't do the like eyes fluttering thing it is kind of indicative of not knowing the distance and like location of the nunchucks or any weapon really like I think people do that with both staff and sword and stuff as well even if it's just foam like if I throw it and lose track of it then I do that obviously but I I do know where they're going most of the time but you definitely hit yourself quite a bit especially at first when you're still learning and if you're not being smooth a lot of times it's like Funny Bone which is fantastic back of the head which I'm not even sure how that gets there but that's a good one also makes a really good sound they're definitely special but I've never like knocked myself out with them or like anything horrible so practicality wise I mean like probably like the four or five again just because like some of the strikes didn't look like they hit exactly oh this is the quintessential scene I can't rag on this canceled immediately I like how I feel like it is realistic how few times they hit each other with them and how much more it is kind of like a distraction like that first move he did he does like a briefly just like a distraction move and then kicks him in the uh like the ankle to throw them off so like that stuff's more practical I think it felt maybe not like gritty realistic but it did feel realistic within like if you're sparring with someone you're gonna show off your moves and everything and like kind of like test the waters and the distance which they were doing a lot during like demonstration periods and just kind of showing off a very simple straight across strikes which would work but yeah I think that's one of the best ones we've seen for sure I'd say that's the 10. oh so the spear kind of beat the nunchucks in that I think even though she won definitely less intricate movement it was kind of nice that there wasn't a demonstration of skill in this one it was just like it went right to the fight maybe the nunchucks weren't the right choice for that girl to use in that fight against the spear it wasn't bad I just I think the other ones obviously were much stronger showing the benefit of nunchucks and like the practicality of it and the impact of them because even in this like she hit the girl across the face but like there wasn't a lot of impact on how that would actually feel and I think the distance again looked a little off because they were so close so a lot of her strikes ended up being a little weaker looking the distance felt a little off and the filming didn't quite showcase the nunchucks as well as some of the other Clips would have so maybe like a four or three hi I'm Matt Easton of scholar gladiatori and I teach people how to use things like Spears and swords and daggers and I also deal in antique weapons I've been teaching people how to use weapons for 20 years so today we're going to be looking at some pole arm combat scenes from movies foreign okay so stabbing the foot there that was really nice and I think a lot of people might think that's silly but funnily enough there's an anonymous treaties from the early 16th century that's repeatedly talks about stabbing the opponent in the foot and stabbing them in the crotch uh so so absolutely it was done this kind of distraction tactic is in medieval treatises though I love it okay whoa whoa there's there's lights flipping this spinning this thing around so this is a thrusting weapon but she is twirling it around like a snooker queue in a bar fight that's not going to have much effect on people it's not a good striking weapon thrust with it it's a spear taking turns so this is this is a favorite way for multiple people to attack a hero in a movie or a big villain is to take turns at attacking them just attack them at the same time don't go one two three four so if they are trying to surround him they should still have their spare points forward predominantly and form essentially a ring of points around him perhaps the only excuse you could give them is they're trying to capture him rather than trying to kill him one of the things that really bugs me about spear use in Black Panther is that the spears are used more like quarter staffs now not to say you can't use a spear like a quarter stuff you can strike with a spear it's just not the most efficient and effective way of using a spear if you've got a sharp Point use the sharp points so I've got to be honest I am going to give it a 3 out of 10. so tridents absolutely were used in combat most famously by Roman gladiators of course that's the most famous example but tridents did continue existing into the medieval period the fact that you've got multiple projections at the head the fact that they are heavier this is a heavier weapon designed for fighting against armor in that sense that makes them more like this polax here he seems to have a secondary cross guard a little bit lower down which is quite interesting because there's a parallel with European pole axes there as well which has a hand guard here that's not only to protect the hand but it's also to give more Force to the push so if you're fighting an armor and you plant the cross as it's called in their armpit and you want to push them it gives you something harder to push against so that one of the first things to note is how twirly this light is I'm not a huge fan of such turning I mean they turn their backs on each other so much so there's a really nice technique there where he basically turns the back end of his weapon around his opponent's neck in order to throw him it's sort of an impression of some of the techniques that we do see in historical treatises and in armor this is a very good way of overcoming someone if they can get up but it's not that easy and it's not very quick that gives you the opportunity to um to attack them while they're on the ground and disadvantaged and you can look for the gaps in the armor like their armpits there's a really nice technique there um where the bad guy at one end of his weapon is is locked up and so he swings the other end of the weapon round to strike with the back end and again that's completely typical of polax combat if one end gets occupied or dealt with then that being pushed aside you immediately come around with the other end or the middle I would give this about a five so Troy is really really interesting because it's one of those rare occasions in uh movie fights where we see them actually attempting to use Spear and shields together you know the spear and shield was absolutely the this standard dueling weapon for Heroes to fight with in the ancient world and you only have to look at ancient Greek vases to see the two Heroes standing in front of each other with the spear raised and the shield in front of them Achilles lances his spear out at maximum length with a Thrust and that is predominantly how Spears are supposed to be used you grip it as near to the back of the shaft as you possibly can it's actually remarkably difficult to find an opening to stab with a spear if the opponent has a large Shield as here that's why people used them pretty nice detail there we see Achilles switching um the the spear around so he's using both ends of it and in fact we know in the ancient Greek World Spears often have two ends on them throughout history a lot of types of Spears have two ends on them so you can stab with the main principle end but you can also stab with the the foot end or the heel it's not usually so sharp or so big because it has to stand on the ground at all the time but nevertheless if you're being stabbed with it it's fairly unpleasant so there was one little Minor Detail there that kind of bugs me a hectare basically kind of slashes with his Spear and now with a typical spearhead like this it's not going to have a lot of cutting potential so you know I suppose it's fair that it in a pinch you might do this to make someone back off especially if it's kind of face level so it's going to make a person Flinch or move away but even if it had connected it wouldn't have done an awful lot of damage it would have been like being hit with a stick basically resting the the spear on his kind of back and thrusting over the top of his shield this is incredibly short range and I think of dubious use breaking a spear shaft with a shield would that work probably not look at movies where things like this spear are chopped through with a sword we've done experiments we've tried to do it you can cut through a spear shaft but it takes several blows with a sharp sword but it's not a lightsaber breaking through one with a shield even less likely so really spear shafts are designed to be relatively durable relatively light but not super light but pretty strong if they're not strong then they're not going to work as effective weapons we see uh Achilles's spear get broken by being stamped on now this is slightly more plausible I don't think it'd be as easy as it's shown here however it's more plausible than breaking it with a shield an eight out of 10. [Music] this is a very special Javelin but this is an Olympic style Javelin it's not really a weapon if it's the same as a typical one it's an aluminum tube with a kind of slightly pointy end so this is not something that's designed to you know penetrate thick clothing or go through armor or anything else and I have to say they're not terribly strong either I mean if you stepped on one you could quite easily bend it [Music] she's using it like a giant lightsaber as if it's it's magically cutting through people but I don't understand how or why [Music] finally a stab or a double stab so finally she thrusts with it I have no issue with that of she actually used a spear like a spear eventually but you know what's all the swinging it around it what's it it's not going to cut anything I'm going to give this uh a one out of ten it really really bugs me how he uses this spear it is the most stupid way that he could have used this spear basically he could have won this fight in the first few seconds if he just used it like a spear instead he uses it like I I don't know like a broom handle he thrusts with the wrong foot backward giving himself the minimum reach he's got enough space especially in the corridor to occupy that space with the point of the spear and keep the opponent in front of him so the main advantage of any pole arm but particularly of Spears is reach but with reach also comes leverage the two things go hand in hand a small movement at the back end needs a large movement at the top end so quite simply if you're trying to get around an opponent's Shield you can go from high to low you could go above the shield and below the shield in the blink of an eye which takes longer to do with a sword the usual balance is a spear person can beat two swords people if there's no armor and no Shields involved a spear is a game changer yeah the spares can can block with with any part of the shaft you can block with the tail end sometimes the middle of the shaft can be used the problem with using the middle is it means any defense is closer to your body but most predominantly Spears are used with the pointy end projecting forwards and most of the defense will be done with the front end the way he used this spear is infuriating and at one point he's even got the spearhead pointing backwards away from the opponent while holding the blunt end outwards I mean he doesn't even have two spiky ends it's an entirely metal spear which is unusual generally you wouldn't want to make a spear entirely out of metal because although it would be stronger it would be so heavy that it would give up the advantages that the spear has if you make it heavy it also makes it far easier for the opponent to grab although they have a lot of advantages of reach and leverage they are way way easier to grab the opponent to grab hold of than something like a sword a sword is mostly blade so it's harder to grab this particular fight will get a really low score of two out of ten yeah I love this episode but this fight just sucked oh foreign too much swinging of the spear not enough thrusting frosting doesn't look as impressive on screen it's also slightly more dangerous for the actors as well despite the fact that in the modern world we probably think of axes or swords associated with Vikings in any army in the so-called Dark Ages in the early medieval period the spear and shield was the primary weapon of battle they fought in Shield walls with a spear yet richer people might have a sword and other people might have an ax but those are weapons that are only really useful once you're you've closed Beyond spear range thank you one of the great things about Spears is they are one of the best hand weapons that you can have in your hand and they're also a really good missile weapon at any moment they can get thrown and psychologically that makes a huge difference within the fight even if the opponent doesn't throw the spear the knowledge that they could throw it at any moment as Javelin really changes how you fight it makes sure you keep your Shield up it makes you very wary I've once been in a fight in a tournament in fact where the opponent had a spear and shield I had sword and shield so I'm up there preparing to protect my my head and my and my torso against the spear throw and I get a spear right in the leg and if that had been a real Spear and gone through my leg then I wouldn't have been fighting anymore Throne Spears are incredibly powerful they will stick deeply into a shield if they hit you in the body um you're in big big trouble I mean they'll go through a person's torso and they'll also penetrate certain types of armor I would give this six out of 10. so what we see here is the famous Pike Phalanx uh these are macedonians but Pike phalanxes were used all over the ancient world they were used by the Romans initially as very good against Cavalry it makes it very difficult for Cavalry to operate on the battlefield these are very very long Spears you're far more limited than how you can use them you don't generally turn them around and use the back end although these Pikes do have a counterbalance on the back end with a spike on it now that's partially so if the pike gets broken you can turn it around and use the other end still as a weapon also it provides a counterbalance so you can hold more of the pike out in front hop lights were quite characteristic for using the pike two-handed they needed to use it two-handed because it was so big and relatively heavy but they also use Shields and so what they did is they strapped the shield in such a way that they can hide behind the shield to some degree obviously protection against arrows but also protection against enemy Pikes this has been represented very very well very accurately so against arrows it's difficult because you you know you're holding a great long Pike with two hands and you kind of got the shield suspended it's not that easy to at that point put your Shield up because you're not really holding the shield in the typical way and also the shield doesn't cover your whole body the problem with arrows is they'll they'll find it doesn't matter how good the armor is or what Shields you're carrying they will find gaps so absolutely peppering a Phalanx with arrows it is good advice look like the pike is traveling very very quickly and piercing bodies and the one thing you have to say about Pikes is they don't move quickly because they only move as quickly as the pipe block moves you can stab a bit with the pike but it doesn't go through an awful lot of motion eight out of ten so it's a massive massive glaze yeah glaive is an English word for for a weapon that's essentially like a a falcon or Broad Sword on the end of a stick so it has the reach of a pole arm but it has the cutting and thrusting abilities and type of a sword and it would be a form of Dal a Dao is a single-edged weapon so it's something that's very effective at cutting that's a very very big glaive head so this is this is a heavy pole arm foreign like The Cutting mechanics that he's doing they're pretty pretty good but why have they got to grappling distance he shouldn't have allowed The Swordsman to get that close if you get to grappling distance The Swordsman has the advantage just spinning around the neck it's not something you'd really want to do in a real fight at all unless you wanted to lose I wouldn't say really holding it in the most logical logical because he's given up all of his reach Advantage by holding it across his body the opponent's got a sword he's got a weapon that's twice its length so he should be using the reach Advantage I mean it's beautifully choreographed but a lot of it is totally unrealistic to how you'd actually use those weapons and that goes for the swords or the pole arms three out of ten so the the bad guy has what we would call we'd probably call it a form of halberd so a halberd is essentially an ax Blade with a with a rear Spike and usually they have a top Spike but if the ax blade is shaped to have a top Spike already then you don't need an additional top Spike foreign it looks comedic but actually can you think if you're occupying a space how intimidating that would be this is a weapon which weighs probably if it was a real one and if it was steel probably about six pounds if someone's got a six pound weapon of which about five pounds of that is the end and they're whirling it around that's really really intimidating one hit from that and you're going down absolutely the right thing against the pole arm wielders I really really liked it as a fight an eight out of ten hi I'm Shane Adams the owner of the Knights of Valor full contact jousting company I've been jousting for well over 25 years since I have 20 International jousting championships under my belt today we're going to be looking at horseback fights and movies they hit but it was just a a glancing blow there is no penalty for missing your opponent but you're going to be uh you know behind in points if you hit the target whether it be a a smooth plate or whether it be a Target Shield you get a certain amount of points and ultimately if you unhorse your opponent in the full contact style that's the maximum amount of points there there's you know probably well over 19 20 25 different styles of jousting foreign yeah see that Ridge around that Shield bad news you don't want a lip around the shield you don't want any spot where that Lance is going to connect and lock into the lip you want to be able to deflect the Lance away from your body so it's a completely wrong Shield the jousting that was there for a theatrical style joust if there were true Knights they wouldn't be holding their Shields like that they're leaving themselves completely exposed from the top of the shield to your throat had that scene where the horse actually does fall into the joust list usually it would be the opposite way so the person would be getting hit coming off to the right side based on the fact that we do real full contact jousting we always drop the reins so that way there if you get off balance you're not going to be pulling your horse to the extent that you're going to be pulling your horse down onto the ground with you I'm 265 pounds add my armor I'm 415 pounds riding a 2 000 pound horse charging at 20 25 miles an hour against the same opposing force it it's a car wreck so when we hit there is a lot of force being generated both guys were not wearing proper equipment as far as Gorges to protect their necks because the Lance can hit and come up and straight into your throat you could tell right away looking at the tips of the lances the hounds Lance didn't have a Cornell on it didn't have like a tip on the end it was a sheer Point nights back in the olden days the nobility were the ones jousting they didn't want to go out there and kill each other and the ends of the lances had Cornell's put on them again to disperse the impact force on the knights armor it's like a cast fist put on well if you don't do that you have a scene possibly like this and historically that that could have definitely happened so I'm a total Game of Thrones geek and I love the show however I have to give it our four they you know utilize just that connection with the horse without the Stirrup the Stirrup didn't really come into play until the Battle of Hastings in 1066 a Roman Calvary it's great Riders because they're basically rotting just with that feel and connection underneath them where the percherons are now you know 17 18 19 hands tall they would have never been that tall they were a lot shorter back then as a matter of fact they were more almost the size of a large Pony to be honest with you 14 to 15 hands his horse was tripped Up Down the Horse went and down down Hugo how does it feel to uh to come off of your horse while flying through the air is pretty easy it's the sudden stop when you hit the ground that really sucks just to be honest with you he rolled uh so he was fine it's a muddy muddy terrain there's been times when I've you know come off my horse that I've landed on my feet next to the horse holding on to the reins stay on your horse but if your horse is going to go down uh it's best for you to get clear of your horse because you don't want that 1 500 to 2 000 pounds horse body slamming on top of you my jousting career I have very little injuries from my full contact jousting career the more injuries I've had are training horses for the sport of Joe Osteen and you're getting on a horse in a an outfit from Battlestar Galactica Cylon you know I mean like that that's going to freak a horse out I'd give the whole scene a definite eight so you have two different styles of jousting you have Heath Ledger um you know with a targ shield and you have um his competitor coming down and full plate harness uh more of a a you know Northern Italian style where he had no Shield where they were saying get it in the Cradle get it in the Cradle before the Cradle was the uret and on the ends of the lances they'd have a small disc of wood or um a ring set in place to be able to catch this a rat so when you bring that Lance down the Lance will slide in and lock into that eret and so it'll stop the Lance from going any farther back so all that pressure comes onto your body and you're able to give that much more of a forceful hit with your body to be able to break those lances and ultimately unhorse your opponents try and hold on to 1 800 pounds of force I I hate to admit this but I broke my hand seven times trying to learn how to give devastating hits and I don't know how many times that a bone has been sticking through my thumb in an actual jousting competition and even in this movie you see these horses completely decked out but it's deceiving some a lot of people think well they're wearing that armor to protect the horse well the horse was never a Target as a matter of fact back in that period of time if you struck your opponent's horse you'd be stripped of land and title why'd they have armor well it was more of a a car show they didn't want to bring their Volkswagen they brought their Ferrari hey check me out and that's that's what that horse armor was for remove your helmet right the final blow of the Lance was bent it onto my head where it smashed in his helmet um and he can't get it off still happened back then and still happens today's modern time as well one of my dear friends took a shot in the helmet and spun his entire helmet around breaking his nose so it looked like it it looked like literally it spun his head like a top of course we're having problems getting it off because his whole face was all smushed up in there you even left the target's down here you know often you do get hit in the head of course Heath Ledger's helmet no person in their right mind would have worn that helmet you do not want the Lance to get in towards your face this helmet you'll see a lot of different designs uh this is called a Sparrow's beak Helm it's there because when you receive a direct Lance hit you don't want a flat surface like Heath Ledger received in that hit where it caved his helmet in it's very very difficult to cave this style of helmet in and that's where I use it for my for my jousting career full contact is probably one of the stupidest thing a man could ever do I'd give it a seven and a half [Music] the Goblins open up the door and they charge down that's a true maneuver that can easily happen and I'm knocking down because they caught them at surprise and you you take 10 guys and put them behind each other and take speed a horse that two thousand pounds or 1 500 pounds for a lighter horse charging into that it's a bowling ball knocking down bowling ball pins so that the question is can you keep up that inertia and keep on going so the the initial knockdown will knock the wind out he might not kill you but it's the other 50 hundred thousand two thousand three thousand horses trampling over top of you just like cutting grass on the Sunday afternoon you're going to mow down what's in front of you so very true and could easily happen and uh it did happen you know historically absolutely [Music] King field and uh you know kind of wobbling off balance a little bit it could be the fact that the actor wasn't comfortable in the saddle it picking up a weapon and wielding it on Horseback again is is that much more attention to the weapon and less attention on what you're actually riding when I train people how to joust I always tell them from the hips down rides the horse from the hips up does the task so the upper body can stay you know glued and have a good platform to be able to wield that sword or couch that Lance or you know spear that ring or whatever your job entails on that given specific day all the Goblins this time prepped and prepared with the long pull arms you know locked down and locked in place a truly historical defense against the heavy horse charge um to the extent that they actually stopped a lot of the knights would stop doing that heavy horse charge because that horse was worth so much to them if they actually had to fight sometimes they Dismount and run in and fight on foot and not take their horse you can train a horse all your life to do this one specific job and all of a sudden it's it's go time and the horse realizes it's really stupid and he'd rather you just go and fight yourself and he was going to go back and hang out with the Sumpter they had a lot of good historical elements in there and a lot of good action that could have been seen on a battlefield so I actually give it as a seven [Music] so in this situation a loud bang would just make the horse run faster it's not going to know where that's coming from it would shy more of the motorcycles coming up beside it than it would anything else it would not want to be near the motorcycles um but again in that scenario where you have cars on left and right the only way it really can go is forward so the horse is steering himself at that point if you have a super fast Thoroughbred you're you're talking down a street like this easily 35 miles an hour it looks like Keanu Reeves did all of his own stunt there you have to be in great a great Rider to be able to do that and he pulled it off you know you could tell he added stunt saddle on they had a really high pommel that he was able to grab when he put his foot in the strip to go to the side of the horse to be able to you know shoot from the front barrel of the chest in real life you wouldn't have a pommel that high you know in front of you to be able to grab you would find that for stunt riders not to say that a good equestrian can't just on a western saddle be able to be able to do that it was a really good stunt very realistic and could could easily happen I'd probably give it an eight foreign this whole scene is absolutely fantastic back then they didn't have a green screen or just CGI they knocked it out of the park that is 100 percent what I believe historically a chariot race would have been like a lot of people died in the in the chariot races it was a very dangerous thing I drive a chariot um the more horses you add the more power and more dangerous it gets chariots back in that time were were pulled by one two three Four Horses of course you see all these you know cars doing drifting on tracks well you know that's nothing because uh we can do drifting with a horse and a chariot it's amazing those horses are connected by rains from from the lead horses all the way back to the driver sitting in the Chariot in the rider's hands in this point he would have a set for the left the left horse is in the set for the right horses being able to control that some Riders would have every horse Reigns coming into his hands and there is so much power and force that those drivers to get those chariots to stop because there really was no breaks would often have to put their feet up on the front of the Chariot to be able to pull back with all their might to be able to get those horses to slow down in front of them and no CGI no green screen that is definitely a 10 for a chariot race in my book if you have a good riding ability and a good horse you can do anything on top of that horse how the rider steps off and a flying y or you know it switches around for a w because he comes back up around the other way and sits back up on that horse and once you form that partnership with the horse again you can do anything with that horse cool I wish I was that good a lot of trick riding there the the bow that they have is is a mounted archery bow um they use thumb release which is again another you know tactic for mounted archery so historically a Mongolian Archer is not somebody you want to meet in the back alley absolutely not so yes it is difficult but you have to realize that they've been rotting since birth I think it's a great scene but I'm not going to say it can't be done absolutely it can I'd give it a nine [Applause] the style that they're doing is is open field uh meaning that there's no actual list they stopped having open field Jose because the horses were colliding into one another and they didn't again want those injuries happening to the horses these were definitely war horses to have two horses charging at one another is something a normal horse just does not do you know their flight fleeing flight animals they are not turn and charged down animals unless it's a mare chasing off a stallion or another stallion fighting for for Turf with another stallion the lances they could have done a better job the lances you could tell have a tip on them so there were a tournament Lance it's it's a cost saving Factor um and they put new tips on an actual joust of War which would have been a solid shaft and would have had the pointed cornells like not the blunted Cornell like or the flared Cornell they would have had like points on them I'm not sure who was teaching them how to Jost but punching with your Lance like that not good you want to hold that Lance as tight as you can to your body because that's what's going to give that strength you're not going to get anything by throwing a punch except for a broken wrist or a broken hand so when you duck down the Lance also tipped down and unfortunately killed that horse this is the chess piece for a horse the Patroll is what it's called now again it would you know there to protect the front of the horse's chest it still gives enough room for the horse to move its legs underneath but behind this plate you know ultimately is the horse's heart and that's where the heart is and one of the vulnerable spots uh in Warfare uh to strike to strike a horse and that's why they protected it immensely with these plates [Music] oh this is a grief um and the thigh piece is a queeze back in that time the French had the best armor so it kind of carried through in today's modern day translation as well this piece right here this is you know would go on my left side of my bottom leg but you notice there's nothing on the inside well there's nothing on the inside of my calf because that's how I control and feel my horse and the reason this is open is so my calf the inside of my leg can feel the barrel of my horse and be able to give cues whether it be left right forward or back man if they could have not punched with the lances and had a solid wooden Lance it would have been indefinite 10 but I'm going to have to give it a nine explosive powders As Weapons or distractions is [Music] foreign foreign go tomorrow foreign [Music] uh you know this is area that is foreign foreign Orange [Music] um huh YouTube his name foreign over here tonight Focus ninja ninja today [Laughter] [Music] foreign foreign foreign [Music] [Music] awesome hey man come on everyone is where are you [Laughter] um foreign foreign [Music] foreign [Music] snare almost unrivaled receipts universe young race is foreign [Music] foreign Academy we use the indigenous fighting Arts of the Philippines also known as Kali Arness or escrima today we're going to look at some of the movies that have popularized Filipino fighting Arts he has to be very careful the situation even though they're in a public setting this is a Close Quarters combat fight this is them getting very very close to each other and him not having a lot of time to respond to the blade the Winter Soldier throwing the blade and catching it seems very flashy it doesn't seem to be quite useful it's not very realistic more seemingly for the movie effect and then there's a moment where the blade is actually coming at the Winter Soldier right there so in that moment where he's trying to grab the arm underneath we wouldn't recommend that kind of response so the reason being is that the hand that's holding the blade is again with that ice pick grip the blade is coming in right here on the face and we would encourage students to get on this side of the blade on the outside or try to bring that arm another way it it really makes you think about your ability to learn these kinds of techniques and the truth is that it really depends on the student it depends on you know the style of fighting that you're learning um we would have to give Captain America a 5 out of ten just because it wasn't too realistic oh as exciting and great as it is Uma Thurman shows exceptional reflexes maybe super power ones we would recommend in survival arts training is the way that we step out of the situation with 45 degrees and we try to be on the outside of the body and the outside of that bladed Edge so we're seeing Vivica actually stab and try to kind of like hit in these broken strikes but never actually fully commits to full fluid strikes which would make her movements a lot more realistic and believable and effective in trying to kill the main character the proper way of striking would be to do fluid strikes whether you're doing it with a Long Blade a stick a short blade and so you'll be you know moving in a more effective means and also not wasting any movement so basically when you're holding a knife you're going to be looking at um two main grips so we're going to be looking at this very common kind of night grip which moves in this kind of motion and so you'll see here that Vivica is actually using this night grip okay and then you'll see in comparison that Uma Thurman is holding it in this knife grip which is the ice pick grip also very effective so these are two of the best knife grips that you want to understand and also be able to respond to you know you can hold it in one hand switch to the other hand switch back you know depending on your agility so the idea is that you're never stuck with that one movement or that one grip you're always trying to figure out in response to counter the other person so our critique of vivica's movements are that they're a little bit exaggerated and not quite real so we're seeing a lot of wasted movement here and a lot of openings for her to also be attacked for this kind of movie we would have to give a score of 4 out of ten but it is a lot of fun and we are big fans of Kill Bill at first he has no weapon fighting against multiple weapons and somehow manages to get a weapon so that's great that he was able to actually disarm and it shows the different kinds of weapons that we actually trained in colleagues so you know we work with single sticks and double sticks and in this particular film they're working with batons a baton is just another form of stick work oh so having a baton and being able to use that with the fluid strikes with against multiple ones is actually recommended we can trace the roots of these systems as early as the 12th century or the 15th century when the Spanish colonized the Philippines and a lot of systems are even traced to 1898 when the American Colonization period during these times weapons were confiscated and banned by the colonial forces so indigenous peoples creatively hid in different ways so for example the blade was taken away we replaced it with a stick and the stick represents the blade and so that's why we always train with the stick first we also need the movements of the fighting Arts within dance okay so right here where Liam Neeson actually takes the stick off of his opponent where he disarms and uses it you wouldn't want to step into that weapon or close the distance unless you were absolutely being offensive on the way in when you're thinking about going against opponents with a weapon or attackers with a weapon you would never want to turn your back to that person the right way would be to come into the attacker being offensive you know with a an attack to the face and an elbow to the face anything that is coming in to to do some damage in order to get close to that weapon and then disarm it clearly Liam has also trained in a lot of martial arts in Kali and other martial arts because you can see it in his movements we would give him a 7 out of 10 but taking away some of the points because of the technical errors that we notice the knife is coming and Jason is responding he's parrying here he is also maintaining control by staying close to the attacker so in a close quarter situation every movement every second counts and as you can see from Jason Bourne's movement every touch is offensive and that's very much in the Kali style this is that that famous scene where he uses a pen and it's an everyday object that is really quite dangerous and can be utilized Just Like a Knife a key can be used a shoe a magazine rolled up a newspaper these can be very powerful weapons he was trying really hard to kind of get that knife out of that situation for us and Kali we would just break the arm or we'd step around to the outside a little bit more foreign right there we see just a quick movie camera mistake or camera cheating thing here the opponent actually throws a left hook but Jason suddenly catches his right arm and tries to disarm that so for The Bourne Identity because of its great fight scene we would probably give this score a 9 out of 10. only docking a point for a mistake actually that we noticed here you see that the woman fighting is getting cut Elsa and then the man is also getting up but yet they still continue to fight even though they're getting kind of slashed in different parts of their arm their back some of the knife attacks that are coming in seem a bit wasted a trained knife fighter or someone who's trained in the Arts would be more aware to attack more of the vital zones so you know cutting the neck or cutting the arteries um go for going through some of the kill shots rather than just you know cutting in random spots that that won't stop the attacker from attacking our goal would be to move on the outside of the body in order to capture the knife hand or kind of get around the knife hand and go for that that back of the neck shot so this the area around the neck or this whole neck area is very vulnerable as a Kill Zone that's why we teach for example to have your hands up protect your neck you know keep your eyes and your hands moving and keep them available so that if there are attacks and you know you're able to kind of move around you have elbows you have you have things to utilize that are your own body as weapons but the technique that's being demonstrated here not so much there's few moments that happened here were Elsa actually climbs up on her attacker so there's a moment where she steps on his leg in order to cut him on the other side and then does it again in a more exaggerated form for her and kills and then again climbs all the way up here we go using the leg lifting herself up there seems to be a lot of time here and the person is holding a blade and not using it there were a few shots where technically that person should have been dead already because I saw a knife shot to the neck and then suddenly you know they're able to back up create space and come in again we would probably give this a score of 6 out of ten just because it's exciting to see a woman you know fighting so powerfully but at the same time just doesn't seem so realistic this scene is great you know you can see a lot of technique here there's a lot of resourcefulness being shown clearly a lot of Kali training and we see a lot of similarities here in the film to the training that we teach you know he picks up a very small kind of like personal hygiene item this can be very deathly when used in the correct way especially with that knife grip that he used and so Craig actually used a knife grip just like this like an ice pick and is you know jabbing and stabbing his opponent with that weapon very effective that's another thing that distincts Filipino fighting Arts from other fighting Arts is the footwork and is the stancework you know a lot of fighting Arts are actually very linear they may be something like karate for example you're moving you know kind of like in this position of of linear movement but in a Filipino fighting style our movement is always based on the triangle or triangular kind of motion and so our footwork would reflect that in side stepping you know to the side or stepping 45 degrees which Craig really demonstrates for the effectivity of the technique and the movements Quantum of Solace we get an 8 out of 10. this is a fantastic scene um first and foremost it is great because it gives credit to the Filipino culture where this knife came from so the bali song is another name for the butterfly knife which originated here in the Philippines it actually came from a region in Luzon called Batangas and it is a butterfly knife because of the way that it opens up like a butterfly and has double edged blades on each side so it's very very dangerous that's probably something that you first learned when you learn while these song is how to open and close and so it's very very you know exciting and fun there is moments of where she's using the blade to actually tap or hit on the body that is quite realistic smaller caliber version of what design uh Eugene Stoners Arrington now Kali is for everyone it's especially useful in situations of survival because of the way that we are able to respond to a weapons attack even without a weapon it's particularly useful for women and children or smaller folks to protect against a larger attacker our family system is called pikiti tersha Kali and it originates from the Western visayas of the Philippines and this blade culture has been protecting the family since 1898 and even traces its roots to more than 2 000 years ago we would definitely give this a 9 out of ten just because we love the technique that Chloe is doing but we would like to see a little more offensive with the knife itself true we have someone coming in with the straight grip and we have someone coming in with what looks like a Karambit which is coming on the on the back side of that bleed when you get real real close to the weapon the weapon then becomes rendered useless which is the point sometimes right like sometimes you need to step into that that weapon hand or get close offensively in order to take control of that weapon or you need to find a way to distract and knock the senses in other ways in order to get out of that situation so very intense Close Quarters situation with blades but also very yeah I would just say very interesting you know when it comes to strength and size it doesn't really matter when it comes to the bleed so you know the blade is The Equalizer here because the other person fighting may be smaller or you know not as strong it doesn't mean that they're not as effective with the use of a knife you can always throw elbows and use the elbow as a weapon so he's grabbing and kneeing and hitting over the head when he could easily just cut that hand that he already has in his hand in his power so that was technically a moment where we would say isn't very realistic and is a little more exaggerated for camera there's like a big open swing and they're extending the fight where they don't need to those are usually in movies you'll see like total Destruction and chaos and and collateral damage and collateral murder but in this case you know they kind of stop and wait for everyone to pass and they get right back into it so it's it's kind of funny probably give it about a 7 out of 10 because they did great you know with the with the knife grips but technically speaking there were a few errors that we noticed that kept the fight scene a little too long that it had to be so right away we're seeing a very familiar Filipino martial arts double stick drill one of the first things or one of the early things that you would learn when you're learning how to utilize a double stick or double sticks as a weapon so this is a great drill we often call this upper six or Heaven Six the actors are not properly chambering their weapons so that's something that wouldn't be seen in a real Filipino martial arts training when you have the sticks every time you strike you chamber so the idea is that you're always bringing the stick back before hitting again is a bit of a camera cheating angle that's happening so the way that we do this particular drill is with a lot of footwork you'll see us you know moving with the double sticks and moving um forward and back exchanging um feet and moving around in a circle most importantly at first glance you might think oh well they are moving around in a circle until you look carefully and realize that the actors are actually not doing the footwork and it's the camera itself that's moving around in a circle they do the drill and one of the guys hits the other one if you're doing the drill correctly you wouldn't get hit because you continuously be doing the drill so that's another thing that we notice like oh you know that doesn't seem too realistic because they stopped why did they stop we would probably give it a 4 out of 10 for realism it's one of the greatest movies and it definitely demonstrates a ton of Kali work I mean Denzel here is using a Long Blade he's fighting against multiple opponents he's using all kinds of slashes circular movements lateral strikes he's thrusting he even puts the blade down at one point and then brings it back out so this is really a great demonstration of extensive coffee training um I do know that Denzel did train with Jeffrey Monda at the Dan and santovic Academy in Los Angeles to develop these skills Jeff and Marta does train at the Innocence Academy where we've trained with our Grandmaster we've had the pleasure of meeting Jeff we're talking great classic choreographers here he is countering every single attack that is coming his way that's the mindset of Kali that instead of you know moving around and trying to go after each person if you stay in one place and wait for the attack to come but be able to move the feet and the blade in an effective way then you're able to respond very effectively this is a great example of not having to do too much but also doing a lot in that one space that you're combined in this weapon looks like a machete a machete here in the Philippines would be called the bolo you know it would be considered an everyday blade something that would normally be used to you know cut sugar cane or to you know engage in farming or fishing or building your house so it seems like you know just an everyday kind of Blade but the way that and and the length of it so the length of it is is quite long it's considered a long wait range weapon and because of that it can be very effective with fighting against multiple opponents there's even a scene in the beginning of the movie where he's on a highway patrol and someone tries to attack and he kind of just slices the handoff in a swift single motion that is the kind of movement that we are trained to also develop we have to give it a 10 out of 10. excellent technique great execution Gotta Love Lucy Lou you know she comes storming in with power with confidence and she's got not one but two weapons so you're seeing a lot of exciting movement here she's attacking different levels high low you know arms heads feet it's just such a great scene uh and an example of how a double weapon can be used against multiple opponents especially in the distance that she's maintaining with them that every every these people are fully padded in a ton of gear because we would doubt that those batons would do that much damage to these trained men that are all padded up with that kind of gear and also the fact that everyone here that she's fighting against has a major weapon they have a gun and they're not using it they're just kind of being thrown on the floor no one's picking it up because she's utilizing both of the weapons um she's extending her arms and she's moving in full circles you know that's very effective that's the kind of stuff that we teach um to be able to you know maneuver for one opponent to the other you know hitting Folks at the same time she has good motion range of motion with her weapons she Chambers them brings them back to the body hits again you know multiple attacks here against that last person you know a lot of circular movements the realism of the scenario we'd actually give this probably a six out of ten um just because we think Lucy was doing great work just doesn't seem so realistic compared to her opponents

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