When sword pedantry GOES TOO FAR!

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baking Volume 2 as good as it will be we are hard at work making these books the very best quality possible the leather bounds are going to have emboss and d-boss effects with foils they're going to be absolutely amazing I can't wait to get you your copies there is a link to the kickstarter page in the description and once again thank you to everyone who has backed this campaign greetings I'm shad and I have a passionate subject to talk about which is sword pendantry this is something I'm very familiar with because I think there is absolutely a place to be a bit pedantic about certain historical facts but then we can clearly go too far to the point where we start to demand certain standards that are bizarre unreasonable and found it completely on bullcrap like like the reasons why you should do your ex or not do y nonsense and people kind of latch onto them as almost a means to exert their own intelligence and Authority by being able to say well you should really do it this way when it's not the case at all and I'm going to go through some unique examples but I'm going to start with an interesting one that's already kind of gone through the sword community and thank goodness Common Sense won out in this instance but not in every instance but in this run it did and I was with a unique debate about which way should you block an incoming sword strike with a Medieval sword you don't have a back Edge that's blunt and blocking with the edge will damage the edge so then should you even block with the edge at all in actual fact there was a couple of people who became very passionate that no no you should always block with the flat of the blade because you're not going to damage the edge that way it was a very insistent thing and they and there was even claims of it being this is how they did it historically and thank goodness Common Sense did win out because in reality there's some unique interesting elements about just the biomechanics of blocking if you block with the flats well the Flat's more flexible and has a higher chance of you know breaking your structure and breaking through but if you block with the edge you have far more structure to be able to knock or stop a sword strike and if you're actually In the Heat of a real battle your life is of Greater importance than the welfare of your sword and a lot of people just kind of realize the common sense that no no I like really In the Heat of battle you're going to do what is most effective in the combat situation that gives you higher chances of winning but this is the actual reality do what you like doing if you like blocking with the flight of you strong that's the meme if you know the history flights of my struggle that's kind of the was the death note of that where it just got memes into a bit Oblivion flat of myself if you want to do it that way fine do it that way but don't say to everyone if you're doing it with your heads you're wrong you're not historical and you're not a true song I'm exaggerating it but that's kind of the underlying thing this isn't just the only example right there are common ones even right now that people are trying to perpetuate and you might have figured out what some of those were by the cold open and by this this beautiful display of weapons behind me is it is just this is like a work of art I actually I think it actually has more more effort put into it than a lot of modern art pieces and if you're going to judge art by what can cause an emotional reaction in people this is this is legitimate art my goodness don't you think so Nate I mean it definitely evokes a demotional a responsible response it is interesting because there are certain things that get repeated a lot that when people then contradict or do it against they actively cringe at for what I have a very valid reason why I created this one in particular one in particular has some validity it does but not universally no so like the reason that I cringe at that as the club my club and I we do training on grass and if you stick that into the grass and it happens to be a burr or you happen to stick it into dog poop or something like that then you've got a chance of causing injury but in warfare that's a better thing and sticking a sword into a ground if you don't have anything to lean it against no and you just need your hands free it's a very functional thing you can do it's still going to make me cringe that's because it's the constant repeating that you should never do this that causes people to be like [Music] but the reality is right the potential damage that can come to the sword is equivalent to doing this actually that's probably worse this is probably worse okay why your hand is greasy it has salted and everything like that and acids and acids if you do not clean it that area is going to rust really quickly actually I've got a very good example of that the helmet video that we just did I happen to have my helmet here with all the hand prints from not even a week ago so yeah let's let me grab that perfect perfect example so even here like there you can see all the little bits and pieces of rust on it but like this part here is just from when I was talking about armor angling and I must have had a greasy finger same here this big spot here was like when I was talking to Tyrant about where it was going to hit and then these Marks here are just from me yeah I'm gonna have to clean it I didn't clean it last time just from me doing that and this is a reality of carbon steel carbon steel rust and fingerprints are particularly you know uh potentially damaging they are but is there any complaints about it being on the ground no actually we do this at training all the time because this is the interesting thing right the moisture in the ground is going to be less damaging to the potential rusting of the sword than actually touching it even spitting on the blade like I did in the right another thing that bothers me and yet and yet that's how I clean my blades when I clean them with wet and dry you see and there's another element to this where people will cringe because you're disrespecting the blade I'll talk a bit more about that a little later because you don't get to dictate what someone else does with their sword okay if you want to respect it you can respect it however the way you want all right but there I've literally met some people where never even like finger on the blades like I don't even touch it and even touching it right yes it's potentially damaging you know what you do afterwards clean it clean it it's all we have to do and it's not a problem and you know it's like cleaning yeah there is I I really feel like going and getting the WD-40 we're boiling it will protect even more it will and you do proper cleaning afterwards and yes the most potential problem with stabbing in the ground is actually hitting rocks where it might Dent it because you can't predict where rocks are in the ground but if you want to take the Gamble and you think you're on soft ground or there's no rocks go to town and the idea that is first rust then people say it will blunt in the blade by stabbing it into the ground the ground is fairly soft yeah that maybe the tiniest times no to do it even once or a couple of times the difference is going to be so negligible to not even notice in reality right you you would blunt in a sword more chopping into tummy mat okay that is coarse and resistant than soft ground easily now if it's really hard ground might be different well if you're stabbing it into stone yeah it's a rocky ground right and then even if someone is aware of all this right yeah I think is there a problem if they're not aware to say all right here are the pros and cons yeah about you know doing that but once they know they can do whatever they forget how they want yeah if it's there so then and they have certain rules around their sword then that's fine but it's like that's your sword and you pass to me be like oh you can throw it on exactly if this was someone else's sword right I would be respecting it as I don't know what conditions they have about their own sword maintenance and care and so I wouldn't do this with someone else's sword but your own blade but if it's my sword because what the hell I want with it I can snap it into and throw it in the trash if I want it it's mine I have caveats if it was a historical replica with actual greatest significance but if it's just something that you bought online and it was made for you and it's yours or whatever in terms of money sure do what you want you did bring up a point before about Edge versus flat I might grab tire and we'll see if we can get something ready with a couple of actual action shots of that for later to see yes okay absolutely all right so there are definitely better practices that you can do to help maintain the quality of your sword like cleaning them regularly keeping them oiled uh you could just avoid touching the blade altogether if you want to avoid the fingerprints it doesn't mean you can't ever do it but if you do it yeah clean it this is objective actual factual things that will help you know you maintain your sword quality but then there is pseudo-intellectual bull crap that people perpetuate for the sake of keeping a sword from getting damaged or blunt and everything and interestingly enough a good number of them arose from my recent Katana video and I was I was quite amused at some of these okay where unironically what I did just then you should never do like I don't know you should never do that it would damage just saw it are you kidding me have you ever handled a sword right you would need to do it so much more forcefully to potentially damage the sword or the Sayer right or even if just like that see this is it is it triggering you is it true no it's my sword I can freaking choose how to put it in the thing and also that's not going to do any considerable acknowledgable damage over the short term all right and it's even questionable if it will do damage over the long term because if it's a well-made sword it's sturdy this is fine okay if you don't want to do it good but to try and perpetuate a like a complete bullcrap that doing this is going to damage the sword in your short period of eye or even at all is nonsense now I might say well I did it in a damaged mine well maybe you're Scabbard or a sheath or whatever you say up was weak or anything like that and even if you want to continue telling people it's their choice okay and honestly honestly all right having handled swords for many many years yeah it's nothing it's not it's not damaging I can observe I've done it for a very long time literally I've even like I'm a this one it's really hard because you can do that trying to get it in the sheath is a bit you know thing to like okay done it for a very long time never damaged it at all and so a lot of these you know supposed sword things that I say you should do this that's why can be debunked by your own direct experience the other one that people were quite vocal about a lot of people believed this piece of bull crap so I'm interested to know where this comes from right is that katanas should never be displayed Edge down and I'm not kidding the reason why they gave it is because holding an edge down or damage or blunt in the blade and I was just like who on Earth is spouting this bullcrap like I know how strong carbon steel blades are I've used them for a while and having it simply rest in this position will not damage it or even blunt the blade like and even if it was it like blunted to the small screen it would be so insignificant that you wouldn't even be able to tell the difference in actual fact if you really wanted to talk about this right drawing the the sword even upside down and because when you draw it upside down right and you angle it the blade still rubs against the top of the sheath in a lot of instances okay drawing it like this will have such an insignificant negligible amount of damage on the edge buttoning The Edge right but even that where it would do more in planting The Edge than just having the sword rest with the blade down and also it's not like they're sitting blade down and they're constantly rubbing it no they're just sitting like that it would not damage or blighten the blade at all just sitting like I said you will blunt the blade more when you actually draw it and also you're saying you should never draw a sword from the saying now holy crap it's nonsense and you know the other thing that'll blooden avoid infinitely more than having it wrist blade down chopping it to Tommy Matt I mean my goodness and so this level of pendantry is such useless nonsensical bull crap that I am quite interested in who started perpetuating and this one in particular strikes me as the type of thing that people kind of use to present their knowledge and Authority it's the kind of thing that was bred out of maybe tradition where it got repeated once and then repeat it again and again and again again to the point where they latched on as this interesting factoid that makes them look more authoritative and knowledgeable on the topic it's bullcrap oh they're testing The Edge versus flat let's see the results shall we we have Nate and Tyrant here just to quickly demonstrate a very significant difference between Edge versus flat I just to show you how nonsense the whole you should never let it block with the edge because there's another very significant Point Nate which way is the cross guard pointing on a sword I think it's that way that the same same direction as the edge I think it's that way same direction as the edge that might cause some very important biomechanical interactions between the blades I usually like keeping my Knuckles yeah yeah yeah which we'll find out about in a second let's watch and find out okay go again just to get a couple of cuts and now I'm going to do it on the flat so the thing is going to bounce oh all right hold it hold it like when that was angled up yeah that was on my nose that was resting on your knuckle and the cross guard tried to block it I can I can try to lean back to get the exact angle but the problem is I lose structure in my wrist I need to pull my wrist in for strength that's my thumb that's if I'm gone this has purpose but that's better most of the time and so if you want to block with the side like a flat or even the back if it's a single-edged sword do it as you want but if it's going to be more expedient or if you feel it'll be more experient blocking we need to do with the edge that's fine how about given that it's so hot we pulled the table to here because this is nice and Shady this is so much better we're doing it here now there is a different discussion about this in regards to tradition if there is a traditionally historical way that was more often done and I Say More Often for an important caveat right then if you want to be a respectful tradition that's fine but if you actually like the look or you want it you know whatever way you want do it the way you want but I was very specific with my wording when I said more often done historically because one thing that I've learned in studying history you should really draw Universal absolutes and say it was always done X or Y because a lot of instances when you do that sometimes you do a bit more research you can be completely debunked and completely false and the other thing is that people historically they're people okay if someone did something different even stupid with a sword in the modern day it's probably very likely that someone in the past did it as well uh because they use swords more often now far more prevalent in their time it's not to say that there perhaps wasn't far more common things historically and has also fine to say that if there's no evidence at all for something it doesn't mean just because of the possible and likely exceptions you can just say well it's clear that medieval people had elephants in their home because you know absence of evidence isn't as evidence it's a absence absence of evidence and uh there's nothing contradicting of course you can take that philosophy way too far but there are definitely reasonable not out of the ordinary things that people might do historically that they just wanted to do and then going over top saying you should never display a sword Edge down if they try and appeal to it the Practical reasons that I mentioned those reasons are false it's not that you would never blunt in the sword by having it rest Edge down to any degree that is worth even acknowledging okay but if it's a traditional thing and you want to do it the traditional way okay like you can promote that but if the person still says no I like it this way what are you going to do about it because there's another interesting thing that came up was the side in which the katana points on a display like this that when it's displayed with the handle pointing to the right that was uh was it the way of war or the water wartime display there's interesting like logic behind this in regards to biomechanics and if it was to display the other way it was peacetime the reason being if you are right-handed and you wanted to grab a sword from a uh a thing and draw it as fast as possible if you're right-handed most people are having to sort of point to the right is one motion where you grab it and draw it and you go but having the sword on this side if you're right-handed you're going to have to grab it and switch hands or do something or just grab it like this and flip it around so I can see the logic why such tradition might be the case but what if you're left-handed do they honestly think that every single person in feudal age Japan would always adhere to such a specific thing like that you think there was no one that just displayed it however the hell they friggin wanted of course all right this is where our tradition and appealing Traditions can go way too far because then they can exaggerate how prominent something was really was historically there is an interesting factoid that Nate actually brought to my attention was that people say as a point in feudal Japan where Samurai were forced to train with their right hand this type of thing is interesting because it strikes me as a similar type of thing as the interesting fact a lot of people say that medieval people only drunk ale or never bathed or something like that where you can find points in history where these kind of um you know practices did exist you can find points in the middle period where ale was drunk a lot more than water like in a city when a lot of the water sources were really you know bad and you could get sick by drinking them and so at the very least uh drinking ale because of the process can get rid of the they didn't know germ Theory and there would be cases where the Working Man if they had the preference and I was available that would be all happily drink ale sometimes it was really watered down and barely alcoholic At All by the way but they'll drink that far more often than water and they wouldn't go around sloshed because it was mostly non-alcoholic as it was so so small in it but then to apply that universally over the entire medieval period okay in every single region is complete nonsense just by the nature of people to say that Samurai would were always universally forced to only fight with the right hand right I one that's not going to be over the entire history of the Samurai in Japan and two even in times when perhaps it was a more active kind of practice you really think there was not a single Samurai in the entire of Japan that wasn't left-handed Common Sense can actually debunk a lot of these things that we apply far too universally this goes to the same thing as facing the right or facing the left okay if you wonder kind of acknowledge tradition perfectly fine but to insist that that was the universal way it was done historically one I call bullcrap on and two people can display it however the hell they want right as their swords and to say that you're doing something wrong like what wrong in what way what universal truth are they offending by displaying a sword however the hell they want same thing with how you wear say swords like this applies to both Japanese swords and medieval swords right uh if you're right-handed usually you'll have the sword on your left side but guess what sometimes people did it on the right there are instances historically what was more often on the right specifically in Roman times they had shorter swords and so they could do it on the right and they say it's really difficult oh wait oh wait I I just drew the sword uh you know and uh well it might be a bit more fiddly might be out of the way but there might be instances where having a sword on the right where look I can switch my hand draw it fine okay and so that's not a problem and if someone prefers it that way to get bent out of shape and just think oh you're doing something wrong by having the sword on this side is ridiculous so one there's preference if they prefer that way let people wear the source however the hell they want and two there's actually sometimes valid practical reasons why they might want the sword on this side archery do you know having a long sword on this side pointing out like this when you're drawing the string can often hit the sword will fall in between the string and can mess it up okay and so to avoid that you either need to push the sword way over here which is really harder to draw or guess what you can just keep the sword on this side and you say it's pointing out but the string is coming up on an angle and so when you go to full draw it's never going to hit the sword okay and so you can be right-handed and prefer it that way because there's a this is one reason there's a lot of reasons why someone might prefer having the sword on this side so once again to get better out of shape and try and you know adhere or promote that there is a universally correct way to do this is bull crap and it's annoying our next interesting kind of over pendantry that exists in the sword Community is terminology the names we use to define certain things some of them I think are valid in objecting to specifically when they are spreading misconception okay a good example is misidentifying the Fuller like when they say it's a blood Groove I think you're perfectly fine to actually no no no no no it's called a fuller by calling it a blood grief you're actually perpetuating something that's completely inaccurate that they were put on there to allow the blood to drain off some even say by having a channel blood Groove here when you stab someone and it makes a channel to allow air to seep in to make it easier to pull the sword out of but that's not the actual reason why um grooves are put on blades it's to reduce weight but not structural rigidity okay that's the main reason and it's called a Fuller and so by saying it's a blood Groove for the blood to drain off is wrong it's nonsense there are other interesting ones like for instance calling uh Viking period swords Viking swords that one's mostly harmless but there is a misconception you're perpetuating that these swords are only used by the Vikings when they're actually sorts of the period that multiple cultures were using but then there are ones where it doesn't matter especially when it's not perpetuating any inaccuracy broadsword is an interesting one people don't like the term broadsword when they refer to medieval swords they'll often refer to arming swords or even broad-bladed long swords like this as broadswords the thing that's historians and history enthusiasts can get bent out of shape with this is that there was a historical term broadsword that didn't refer to any of these swords the term broadsword historically when it appears references what you would more understand as being a Scottish basket hilted broadsword but guess what you know I thought those swords were also called historically Claymores and we call Claymores only the big Scottish songs but no the one-handed Scottish basil Brussels were also called Claymores historically So within calling that broadsword wrong as well okay what about Rapier like people say you know yeah I I swept Hilt thin bladed sword is a Rapier but more often historically that wasn't referring to that type of sword in English that's that Rapier was a term often referred to what we call side swords and a Rapier sometimes was even called a long sword in English and you know long sword long side isn't a term that was used commonly in English to refer to two-handed you know middle range kind of two-handed swords that were sometimes called together swords bastard swords but the actual long sword word referencing the historical thing more comes from German which was Lang schwert they called it longsword in Translation but in English we didn't so does that mean we should stop calling so the point about terminology people called sorts of different things in different regions of the medical period and different periods as well and so which one takes precedence to call it this name when it was called a different name in a different region even in English or in Germany or in other languages because we use other language names as well also on top of that English is a language that evolves throughout the period and so if you spoke Middle English or early it's like another language you can't understand a thing of it and terms that might have me meant long or broad or anything like that was probably pronounced completely different there was a massive Vowel Shift that even pronunciation is completely different and sorry if you see a word and you're reading it and it says I don't know two-handed sword or Rapier or something like that in certain historical texts you're probably pronouncing it completely different to what how they pronounce it and so the Quest for complete accuracy and sword terminology is fruitless I well when I say fruitless it's fruitless in terms of communication it's really valuable to be educated on what historical you know language was that's great I love it but the purpose of language is to communicate to convey to the person you're talking with understanding of what you're referencing and that's the purpose okay and so it actually doesn't matter what any of these swords are called you could call them a dingle hopper right and if that word association has become established in the language to the point where you're the person you're talking to understands exactly the sort you're referencing when you say dingle hopper guess what that's the useful name to use and broadsword this isn't a reality in common language in common vernacular has come to mean double-edged medieval swords more often than not okay and only particularly historical pendants like myself I agree I thought I have petried as well would understand broadsword to reference a Scottish basket hood of broadsword but even pedantic people like me have acknowledged and realized we've lost the fight because whenever we reference the sword that was often called broadsword historically right we by necessity have to caveat it with a Scottish basket hilted broadsword just so people know what sword I'm referring to because most people when they hear broadsword they're not going to think of that sword they're going to think of something like this to cool people up and say oh you must stop calling you know this sword X or Y uh you should never call it a broadsword it's it's not actually useful now okay um it's useful for historical accuracy education and things but the purpose of language is to be understood and this is the same like it's an interesting discussion about Katana right because Katana even the kanji was a term that just meant sword or really single-edged sword in Japanese but in modern vernacular and Metatron is the one who confirms this because he does he has a video on it and he lives in Japan he speaks it fluently and said the katana now in modern you know use of the word even in Japanese more often refers to this sword specifically not every type of Japanese single electron even though the kanji the actual you know written you know symbol for it well it isn't used now to like it's used in conjunction with other swords and so and other symbols to reference other swords and they can't you just even singular by itself in common language in Japan is reference is used in rev in referring to a standard Katana as we understand it in English so this mentality of excessive pendantry when it is not only unneeded but can actually be well this is the the other part it can be detrimental to the uh quest to understand what the historical periods really like that we like to emulate when we muck around with historical weapons I had a very interesting controversy in the recent history here on shadowversity regarding which side of the bow should you rest the Arrow when shooting medieval Longbow because I found it very intriguing that a lot I've made you a lot when I say a lot I mean a lot of medieval art depicts archers using a longbow but also short bows as well with the arrow resting on what is called the outside of the bow the right side of the bow or over the knuckle not the inside the the the inside of the bow or over so over the thumb so it's over the thumb that's over the knuckle so on the inside of the boat is over the knuckle and that is the conventional more standard way that we see done in modern day target archery but there's all this many art showing it on the outside and I was really intrigued by that and so I started exploring and holy my goodness the crap storm that kicked up in a certain archery communities online was amazing I am not kidding and people were accusing me of some pretty horrible things and they were trying to say this is utter nonsense they never did it historically all the art depicting that way is exaggerated which was a false like really an uneven standard because what makes you assume it was on the inside is then the correct way the art did it what if that was exaggerated but no because there was a proper way to do it and they were claiming one I'm not kidding that you wouldn't even be able to draw the bow with the arrow resting on the thumb without it falling off that it would fall off most of the time and it's completely unusable an archery instructors were the one saying that literally saying that this is impossible and by the way you can see in real time the issues short on the side right I need to get that out of the way but literally saying this and I can do it with the thumb down is impossible that on fall off and the easiest way is to hold the thumb up when you do it and then lower it when you're ready to lose and there was so much egg on their face so to say they even tried to Gaslight me and say we never said it was impossible when I have the quotes right here like he literally said fall off most of the time but then they shifted the goal post saying I I if you did it with a heavy War bow you'll injure yourself I've done it for years now I'm at 110 pound no injury there's no more detrimental than the common risks you have when drawing heavy bows because you can injure yourself drawing heavy bows regardless what side okay it can be dangerous if you don't do it right and then they said it was inherently inaccurate that it'll slap the side of the shaft and never be able to get a clean release so I did that as well as well and so these things that they adhered to that it must always be on you know the inside of the bow for xxxy whatever I systematically debunked every single one and they thought that they were being historically accurate by adhering to this standard but what it really was was a misconception that arose through tradition and people repeating just oh we're assuming that because most people do it this way that's the best way to do it but when looking at historical art no actually historically they did it on both sides and it was preference of the Archer whatever they preferred and there's really interesting benefits and genuine benefits shooting on the outside of the bow with a heavy orbo and so this is just one example of excessive pendantry achieving the very opposite of what people are assuming by being so pedantic which is historical accuracy but they legitimately started to try and spread the falsehood that medieval archery saying that it was only ever done one way and this way was never done it all and when I say these were actually respected people in the medieval archery Community archers instructors Warriors and everything and the amount of nonsense that they were trying to Gaslight me with about this was next level a lot of it came I think it's my own opinion perhaps I'm really too much into it but I think a lot of the resistance came from feeling threatened to their own credibility because they had claimed a certain way was this way for so long that when some weird guy on YouTube comes along and proves them all categorically wrong they felt that a threat to their Authority and they double and tripled down even in the face of categorical evidence to the contrary and there's a lot more in regards to Medieval archery that I think I might do a dedicated video on regarding misconceptions about medieval orbos because there's a lot but we're not done I mean it goes again and again you probably know heaps of kind of pendants you know objections people raise right that are actually nonsense if you do share them in the comments I'll be interested because sometimes they're not nonsense sometimes there's validity but sometimes they are tyrants you have something to share on this topic yes I am the devil's advocate for this video genuinely you are I agree with you in a lot of these circumstances however a point where I would interject is a lot of it can be brought down to best practice for example let's talk about how which way you would store the blade I agree that it's not going to blunt the blade especially if you have a very very well crafted sheath or whatever you want to call it but best practice storing it down then you have absolutely well you have absolutely zero chance of it blunting the blade at that at that point except when you draw it and it can rub the top that is true but best practices I don't know it's one of these things because most people don't have an entire wall of sorts most people have one but see this is the thing right the amount of potential damage that you could give a sword right from it resting like this is nowhere near worse than when you take it out of your sheet and you're handling it you're moving it in natural fact moving around like this that's what will cause it to rub against the edge more and when you do this and put it on I see no damage that you could possibly get I said I agree with you however when it comes down to a lot of these things a reason why I would say tradition I would say more best practice when you're trying to extend the shelf life of your ah see this is where because in this instance specifically the way that the sword is right I can see no actual functional validity to the claim that this is a better practice holding it like that on a sheath especially if your sheet on display is perfectly crafted I wouldn't even want the sheath touching the edge of the blade if I knew it was terribly and I knew that it was going to rub on that edge I would store it like this just to be sure well see I think personal preference exactly do it the way you want but to try and claim that even with badly made sheets that is going to damage like to me that's that's just nonsense it's not going to do it that is ah that is true good point though thank you because that's the thing it's personal preference right but it's the appeal to oh you have to do it because of this and and the categorical assertion that it will damage something also that I like is I like wielding katana's one-handed and I know that's a No-No I know you're not supposed to it's supposed to be a double-handed weapon did anyone notice that that Katana is in the wrong Scabbard the wrong Sayer I could do it literally doesn't fit uh I personally believe and I'm ready for all those comments that if you're strong enough and you have enough in your wrist and in your forearm strength to wield it one-handed now I know you're not supposed to but I personally prefer to this is interesting because if you like it that way all power to you right like would you have anything in your off hand because I would say if you're not using your off hand for anything what are you losing out and using two hands versus one different strikes feel more comfortable you know something in addition right and some people don't know this is that you can get more reach in one hand versus because to get two hands on it you have to actually pull it back and you can't reach as far and so that's a perfectly valid reason to prefer one and if you've got the strength and you can handle it I feel like I'm able to move more fluidy uh fluid fluid fluidly fluidly yeah fluidly move more fluidly with one hand and I can still guess what the person with the greatest insight as to how effective and comfortable you use a sword is you ah isn't that crazy and how stupid would it be for me to come and say no you're gonna be better doing it this other way a if you have valid reasons and you have found in practice that you fight better this way versus the way I'm trying to force you to do and more often than not I feel like using two hands hamstrings me and it makes it actually harder for me to move you're the one who has the insight to that okay and then to appeal to the fact that most people do it with two hands and you're just completely wrong right just contradicts the fact that you know you better than me now it's different if I went out there and said this is the way you've got to do it yeah then it's a different story but to say this works better for me is completely valid and I have an exact equivalent example in this which is the next Topic in regards to swordsmanship techniques it's the wrong right do you want to put in the right one yeah yeah let's just do it I had this interesting discussion someone was criticizing a swordsman for his technique and they said he was leaning too far forward and I responded in saying I don't see an issue with that I like to lean forward in fact when I sometimes I even hunch in my swords sword stance where when I'm like this I will hunch a bit like that because it helps me rest more in between bouts and if I have medical issues in which my fatigue is a big problem and so taking on a stance in which I can conserve energy like that is actually way more beneficial to me but I kicked off this debate with a specific uh individual but he was like saying I shouldn't do this it's wrong in every instance and I was thinking no no hang on this works for me this is what this is how I choose to do it and my largest point is that leaning forward in a stance is perfectly fine in fact very valid and there's nothing wrong with that and even if you hunch a bit leaning forward if it works for you do it and then to to appeal that there is a universal way that you must States in every single instance that's wrong to argue that there's certain benefits to standing a different way that might work for some people fine but then to say You must do it this way because it will work better for you but hang on you're not me you don't know how I fight and what's better for me the way I personally view it my personal philosophy on it is things like martial arts or whatever School of training you're learning is the guidelines they will teach you how to do it properly and safely but then you are yourself some things won't work for you sometimes we're the way you're standing it won't feel right it won't feel natural it might hamstring you I feel like a tailored approach for any of these things is always the way this is why I love Bruce Lee's philosophy it's the philosophy of je kundo absorb what is useful reject what is useless and keep what is essentially your own I was going to bring up but I didn't know if you'd know what I said no I know it exactly I love that philosophy when I was getting to martial arts that was the philosophy I followed where I just wanted to absorb anything that worked for me and if something worked for someone else and I tried it wasn't as good for me but because my natural reflexes the way my body move my inclination philosophy of how I think when I fight it just didn't work for me it's like no I'm not going to use it and to say that I must you know but when I applied like when I applied this to Hema I made a video a long time ago called the problem with Hema where I pointed out that there were people in the human Community I think it's less now um even Dave Rawlings recently did a video that said this issue doesn't exist anymore where a lot of people in the human Community are perfectly happy for you to do things your own way and that's great that's great but when I made this video I was pointing out because I had Direct people coming to me saying you're doing XYZ wrong it must be done this way and I was like what if it doesn't work for me I'll take issue with it is if you're trying to teach people like if you're saying that this is the way to do it and it's your personal there are instances when people are teaching legitimately bull crap techniques like mcdojos and stuff I agree with you I absolutely call out the bull crap but there are some instances where someone is doing something that just works for them and if it's actually working you can see it working in fighting a spot right and winning the exchanges well there's a reason why the UFC became so big is because all of a sudden all these fake martial arts and all these techniques that don't work in a realistic situation like for example I'm not going to call out any specific uh uh martial arts but there are dong versus traditional Chinese you're a legend there are specific techniques that only work against other practitioners you are being very submissive and complex and once you apply that to uh a resisting opponent it's a difference it's bullcrap yeah but I just wanted to add that a lot of it could be boiled down to just best practices not that I agree I'm just saying if I was to advocate I can say I would put it in that category in some ways I would fight for and agree but other ways I would say it's not a best practice the the what you're trying to appeal to as a best practice isn't even that other times to like at least claim the sword after like this best practice create if you don't want him to rust it's not to say never touch it so there's actually a lot more you probably know more that I haven't even mentioned so I was sincere I'd like to hear them in the comments below where people say you should not do X or do y and this is more in relation to modern day practices not necessarily about historical information about what sorts of well I know we have mentioned sort of terminology the modern day Nate mentioned an interesting one that people have told him literally in real life that if a shield doesn't have a boss it's not a real Shield it's just like what what is it what is that yeah very weird uh there are some people who say you should always hold a shield like this up against the body and then say no better practice up like this whatever works for you you try both and see because this is more rested and it's easy to maintain but perhaps use both who knows all preference one if it works for you okay there's a lot of it you see it in comments you see it on the internet and I got a wave of comments of people losing their crap about the way a katana was being arrested like rested on a storm stand and the direction I was pointing and I was just like the reasons they gave okay there are some like I mentioned traditional things if you want to be traditional but outside of that okay let's not take it so far all right and if so if and even if people want to abuse their swords if they know that like if they have reasons to do it just let them it's their swords don't get bent out of shape as long as you get to do what you want to do with your swords I get to do what I like to do with my swords and we should encourage everyone to be safe but don't go Karen on everybody it must be like this way or that way okay so I wanted to share that with you get it off my chest as it were thank you everyone for watching and uh I will see on the next video here on shadowversity until that time farewell I wonder if I can draw a sword in this position actually it works it works [Music]

Channel: Shadiversity

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Length: 45min 10sec (2710 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 29 2023

Reddit Comments

[u/the_lullaby]

Laughs off the ability of a poor noto to damage a saya.

Demonstrates with a koiguchi that has obviously been trashed and will no longer maintain a friction fit.

So far, this video is even worse than Matt Easton's uninformed "I don't know katanas but I know a guy who does so I'm going to make pronouncements anyway" katana videos.

[u/Still-Standard9476]

Yeah don't go spitting on my fucking swords. I'll slap the shit out of a person for that.
Respect other people's belongings. Just common courtesy. If it's yours, by all means do whatever you want with it.
When friends hand me anything that belongs to them I treat it like a polished diamond with a lot of care. I will not disrespect the owner of the blade by doing any of that shit.
Honestly this is such a non issue because it just shouldn't be happening. It's common sense.

[u/MichaelRS-2469]

The response from Matthew Jensen...

https://youtu.be/67CvuTK885E

[u/JarlJarl]

Why is he constantly shouting?

[u/jonithen_eff]

Clickbait garbage.

[u/moviefactoryyt]

Usually don't watch shad because he talks out of his ass a little too often for my liking. What was his point in this video tho? It sounds like shizo rambling about how you shouldn't listen to anyone because it's your property