“I had little injuries” , a minute later: “I broke my hand 7 times… bone coming out of my hand..” . Like a boss.

This guy could be a character in Game of Thrones and I would totally buy it

and the award for "most forgiving expert so far" goes to... seriously. other experts on this style of breakdown video are like "lance is 7 inches too short and the helmet is missing a rivet. 2/10" , but this absolute legend is like "I love what i do, im very knowledgeable but also just a tiny bit insane... everything gets a progressively higher and more forgiving score just because im getting visibly excited talking about it" bring this guy back please.

This guy not just explain by talking. He also shows us what some of those equipments actually look like. Definitely need more videos of him.

“Flying through the air is easy… it’s the sudden stop that sucks”😂

This guy is awesome! Clearly a different cat, but also a well spoken, articulate, and knowledgeable dude who is sharing about his greatest passion in life. More experts like this please!

I love how he said: "And the horse realizes it's stupid" 😂

Not gonna lie, loved it when he said "punching the lance will break your arm". I'm trained with using spears and polearms on foot and have this chain and hitch that links my weapon and gauntlet together so during sparring my weapon doesn't go flying. I have a friend who raises horses and once I asked if I could take one of his plow horses for a spin and attempt a cavalry charge. I used my footman's pike which doesn't have the lance's choke, thinking that the chain will be enough. Basically what happened was the impact of the pike hitting the hay bale we set up as a target and the ensuring yank snapped the chain, the pike shaft, and BOTH my forearm bones, and I was wearing my armor that had reinforced steel strips along the arms for extra protection and structural integrity, if I had not been wearing those gauntlets I won't be surprised if my entire arm got ripped off. Needless to say, I've never tried that stunt again, and I don't plan to, not until I've learnt proper horseback combat.

I performed on the stage next to Shane Adams & the Knights of Valour for a decade. He's one of the most knowledgeable and capable horsemen I have ever met. Excellent choice for this video! Great to see him again. Shiver your timbers, Sir Shanton!

I've never thought to myself what an 'average jouster' looks like but Shane just gave me my new mental image lol

2:30 was intentional murder by the Mountain and probably Cersei. It's heavily implied in the first book. The guy who died was Jon Arryn's squire newly knighted where his own Lannister squire 'forgot' to put his gorget on. It meant Ned couldn't interview him for information.

I’ve seen him running jousting competitions twice and boy is it impressive. I have two of their broken lances mounted on my wall. Equestrian sports are extremely dangerous as is (I know from personal experience) combined with a full contact combat sport is insane. However the most impressive thing about this guy is how much he truly cares about the welfare of the horses. You might expect a sport like this to be really rough on the animals, but his care for the animals and implementation of rules for their protection is unmatched in any other equestrian sport.

Wish they spent more time on Knight's Tale, it's a sports movie for jousting. That scene with the crappy helmet was intentional, the "knight" was broke and his incorrect and cobbled together gear was to show him as an underdog.

This guy looks like he’s one second away from proclaiming someone the King in the North.

HOLY CRAP best one ever Not only is he knowledgeable but the dude is so badass he called them Goblins.

Normally the accuracy is the thing i appreciate the most in these. But the care for the horses, both in his actual life and in his explanations, was a special treat.

"I haven't had many injuries while jousting" but "I have broken my hand 7 times while training to joust". Lol.

I would love to see more of his reactions. Great information, not too negative, honest and clear. Please book him for a part 2

I've met Shane and conversed with him several times and even was fortunate enough to go to his stables. He truly is a genuinely good human. So cool to see him do this video!

Love all of this. Will say, for the lord of the rings part, Theodin was injured just before the ride, so makes sense he would wobble in his seat. Then you have the actor who probably struggled in the armor, which is the real reason he wobbled. Love how coincidence fed into the realism of the scene

I judged this guy in the first 30 seconds and shame on me, this guy is extremely knowledgeable, funny, intelligent and an absolutely amazing teacher during the entirety of the video. Bring this man back. I couldn't be happier to be wrong.

One thing that I loved about the Duel was the that armor actually worked! Swords and axes does not slice through plate armor like paper. There were multiple times in the scene where the sword struck the armor with no effect. love it.

This is why I watch this channel. The level of professionalism and knowledge, while still trying to be 100% honest and true. It's amazing.

Interesting history about the charging into spears part (just adding to what you pointed out) during the last large scale Crusade in 1396, against the Ottoman Empire, during the Battle of Nicopolis, the French avangarde (made up of young, inexperienced and impetuous knights and mounted archers) were defeated because of riding into stakes fixed in the ground, archer fire and spearwall. The interesting part is that they managed to win the first charge, after which they took out the stakes to make way for the rear lines of knights and managed to rout the first Ottoman lines - made up of inexperienced conscripts. Then they decided to pursue the first lines of the routing Turkish conscripts uphill, into the second line of defense - well trained spearmen and archer infantry. They actually had the option to wait for the Hospitaler and Templar knights, and the rest of the allied contingents - especially the Bulgarian, Wallachian and Hungarian armies whose rulers already had extensive knowledge about anti-Ottoman tactics. But they still decided to charge, and in the chaos and enthusiasm they fell into a deadly trap which generated a chain of events that led to the defeat of the crusade. There are various sometimes conflicting sources, but the fact that knights charged into spearwalls, that spearwalls were not always the shotgun to the cavalry seems to be agreed upon. I believe that in a Western European conflict, where most wars were fought between nobles of various standings and later with mercenaries, the scope was to prove might, to intimidate and show off your valour on the field, not to kill your expensive horses into spears. That is why there was such a revolution and an offence from the part of the English to train and employ peasant archers, to use fire and stakes or horse traps into their armies during the 100 years war. On the other hand, in Eastern Europe, where all able bodied peasants, brigands and various mercenaries were levied and hired to fight armies made up of hundreds of thounsants of slaves, mercenaries and sometimes even brigands, you would rarely see chivalry, prisoner exchange or protection for their animals...one brutal tactic was killing all livestock, burning all the fields, poisoning the wells and demolishing buildings in the way of invading armies. We tend to give medieval people too much of a modern sensibility sometimes. Some things were pretty similar to our modern view upon the world and some things were utterly barbaric and alien to us.

I like how this guy LOOKS like he’s outta the medieval times

Did this guy really call the mighty Uruk-hai of Isengard "Goblins"? Probably the worst way any Uruk has ever been insulted.😁

This one was great! He offered so much information and it was relevant to each clip while also talking about his own experiences. He also has a ton of knowledge of jousting history without technically being a historian, great video!

I love A Knight's Tale. it's just a fun film that tries to translate the sport of jousting to a modern audience in a fun, touching way. there's no weird colour shading, no trying to convince us everyone back then was covered in filth, no grimdark edginess trying to be cool... it's just such a great movie!

I´d love to know how they manage to keep finding such extraordinary people

He looks exactly what i imagined a cavalry expert looks like... only thing missing is his horse with a strange medieval name like "Ama'ury" and he gets really mad if you dont pronounce it with a medieval german accent.

I enjoy the fact that every battle-related movies breakdown, whether made by Insider or GQ, always features scenes from LotR.

It's also logical to throw away the reins. Horses were expensive (and good horses still are) and if you fell and the horses didn't, well, it saved a lot of money. Also, when a horse falls onto you, you can break much more as if you fell alone. So, it's always more intelligent to not fall with a horse.

I like how he and the other warfare expert react to the calvary charge on pike formation differently yet came to the same conclusion that direct head on charge in horses is not a good idea.

Calls The Mountain "The Hound". 1/10 He knows his stuff regarding actual jousting, though, so 9.9/10 overall.

This was fascinating. Shane is a really engaging speaker about his sport, which I didn’t know was being preserved to this extent. I’ll go look up some jousting videos, and maybe see where there are events to spectate from the crowd. Thanks for the video!

Excellent information, beautifully done, thank you.👏🏻

Video only just started and immediately I want This guy to have his own UKposts channel. 🖤

FINALLY one of these is a professional rider reviews movies! This was missing for a long time. The kneeling archery scene in Battle of The Bastards in GOT is still the most impressive in my opinion.

You can tell he loves what he does and appricates the skill involved in all of the productions from the High marks he gave almost every scene

I'm going to watch this video with my dad. I took him to his first joust three years ago and he had been hooked ever since. Great job explaining jousting!

Anyone else love listening to experts talking about their passion no matter the topic?

13:01 lets not forget: the highest payed athlete in history was a chariot racer: "Gaius Appuleius Diocles" is said to have won over $15 billion in today's dollars.

I met Shane several years ago in 2012... then 2014... and many times after that. Shane is the mosy humbling and wise person that I've ever spoke to, especially as someone that has had a TV show and so many titles. I was a young teen that loved horses and wanted to joust myself, and he showed nothing but kindness. He made every effort to make me feel welcomed and special, including giving me a signed piece of a broken lance that I still have today! I would love to be able to see him joust again, especially after all these years.

So awesome that people keep historical realism alive. I really want to start being a part of recreating these eras. I've bought some weapons and now want to start buying the clothing and light armor and joining guys like this.

You should have stunt scenes from Polish film "Teutonic knights". The film was made in 1960, I think, and has some amazing stunt performance of the battle of Grunwald. One of the biggest battles of medieval Europe.

This guy is a Rohirrim for sure. A warrior of Eorlingas. 🐴

love his hair his personality his thought process! i want more of him! :D thanks for having him on

Please invite this gentleman again! It's a delight to hear the explanations but also watch someone who enjoys the good scenes.

Shooketh first time I’ve even seen an expert rate one of these clips a 10. Ever. This man truly must be an expert.

I've never met him, but he's a legend, and justifiably so. The only thing I wold criticize is more in the scope of the video itself. Horsed combat is a truly huge and really fascinating subject. Shane Adams could easily reel of a hundred entertaining hours or more merely within his own specialty, but even more there a few hints at some of the vast areas not even touched on in the video. The scene from John Wick, I am told, was inspired by the native American horse warriors, who rode rings around the professional military forces. The use of the horse as cover is obvious, less obvious was that sometimes that horse was chased for long seconds before the white guy realized the warrior was gone, off to surprise his squad mate, and him drawn away. Their inventive tactics and theleticism coupled with incredible skill was never equalled, unless by the mongols, and other steppe peoples, who invented the stirrup and made heavy lance combat possible at all. Two huge subjects there, and then a third. I said, 'heavy lance'.... But the earliest lances, and the last to become obsolete were six -8 foot slender straight grained spears, designed for strength and flexibility, with wickedly sharp points. In complete contrast to the heavy lance, these were always used with a thrust, and thus could at the last instant be redirected anywhere. After a charge, lancers would fence with their lance, much as a rapier swordsman night with a sword, and the skills of lancers were legendary. Many of the best came from India, and in fact the British subjugated at least one country to the empire largely to co-opt their nearly invincible regiments of lancers. The light lance is a more subtle and less spectacular way to fight than the heavy, but as gunpowder made even the heaviest armour obsolete, jousting became a relic, no heavy armoured horsemen took the field once a single sunstone could knock them from the saddle dead as a doornail a hundred yards away. The heavies adjusted to the crossbow, to the vicious welsh longbows, the cunning pit traps, but the gun proved too much. There are those who believe we stand at the brink of another such change: That the modern main battle tank, the direct heir of the heavy armoured lancer, is now too vulnerable to the modern gunstone, the missile. It remains to be seen. Great video.

Probably the best movie analysing video I’ve watched. Really interesting, cheers 🍺🍺👍

I like that he brought gear with him and explained so much about it. Learned a lot from this guy, and sure could learn alot more!

I really enjoyed this one, he explained very well, without the unnecessary comments about how it's not realistic.

This guy rocks! Very informative, crazy (in a good way), clearly wonderfully nerdy and so much fun to listen to. More please! :)

love hearing from him! such a unique and fascinating perspective.

I really enjoyed this video, he seems like an immensely likeable and knowledgeable guy, could have listened to him for an hour

Didn't expect to see Shane Adams here. I Remember seeing a short documentary about his jousting team. I hope they bring this sport back one day 😎

Can we get this guy to review the cavalry charge in Return of the King?

Thank you for the Battlestar Galactica cylon reference, lol. Made my morning ;)

This is no rabble of mindless Goblins. These are uruk hai. Their armor is thick and their shields broad.

Another great expert, thank you for these videos!

Fantastic Review

This is very interesting!! I'm going have to remember to look for this next time I have more time.

When he actually looks like a medieval old man of the Lord of the Rings, you can trust him

“Stay on your horse” spoken like a true trainer

Got to see the Knights of Valor back in 2017- whole tournament was wonderful, including a double-unhorsing. Hope to see another show someday, it's such an invigorating sport to witness.

This guy is awesome! Gotta do a part 2!

Next up; dreadlocks expert rates various experts' hair.

Judging by what he's saying, he's giving quite a high numerical rating. Every time he describes the scene I think he's going to give a rating that's 2-3 points lower than what he actually gave :O

Most entertaining video I have seen about movies for a long one

I love how it's "who cares about riders, SAVE THE HORSE!" I appreciate that stance 😆

Hahahaha! " How does it feel to come of your horse? Flying through the air is easy, its the sudden stop when you land thats devestating" I think of Douglas Adams perfect explenation of how to fly. Just fall and miss the ground...

So a lot of very great information, but the one knit pick I have is that Stirrups definitely *existed* in the world before the battle of Hastings in 1066, they were not common Europe until the advent of Knights, but in Asia and India they existed far earlier. He is accurate that the introduction of stirrups in to England was in large part facilitated by the Norman Invasion and the battle of 1066, as the Saxons, Danes, and Celts of Britain at the time did not use much in the way of heavy cavalry.

I like the fact that he's explaining what's going on and what the pieces of armor do. Thank you sir

That was just great to watch. So much information

When are we gonna get "the queen rates royal scenes"?

He has the face of a modern bald guy... I guess jousting makes you happy enough to not loose your hair. Such a happy camper. I just fed from his enthusiasm. Love this video. Great video! I am going to go about my day now "riding" this feeling! 😁👍 I'll let myself out. 🤣

Loved this interview. Guy seemed to know his stuff.

I love history and have studied it pretty extensively yet today I learnt what 'list' meant. I thought when they said things like 'Daemon will be there, he can't avoid the lists' they meant the 'list' of knights competing, rather than the wood dividing them. Thank you! This guy is amazing. Love his passion.

I would have loved to have seen you look at some older ones like the 1952 Ivanhoe movie and that whole tournament they shoot in that movie. Also the 1961 El Cid movie as well there are some great Jousting tournaments that you should look at.

In regards to the Keanu scene, it makes me think of the book “Empire of the Summer Moon.” In true historical fashion, the Comanche tribe members were capable of straddling their bareback horses to the side to launch arrows from their bows during combat. Tragic (and rather recent) history but fascinating skill; I highly recommended the book.

There needs to be a part 2 with this guy. He's great.

Shane I loved watching you in this video! I am the Templar that goes to the Ohio Renaissance Festival. You are incredible for all you do with rescuing horses and every time I go I make sure that I donate as much as I can.

"I'm a total GoT geek." "The Hound's lance."

14:06 I'm surprised he didn't mention that Mongolian archers could shoot behind them while seated normally in the saddle, making that cool turnaround move unnecessary.

Such a cool dude. I especially appreciate him talking not only about historical accuracy, but also about dramatic jousting, choreography and stunts

I was waiting for Antonio Panderas in th3 original Zorro film. I loved his horse riding scenes since I was a kid in the 90s, but his comment on the Mongolian flip had it close enough. Great video sir

Huge game of thrones fan, yet called the mountain, the hound 😂 nevertheless a great video

"They've been riding since birth." Crazy as it may sound, that statement is actually very literal. Horse cultures like the Huns, Mongols, and even the Native American Commanches are all people that learn how to ride a horse BEFORE they learn how to walk.

What a lovely person. Full of life, knowledge and joy.

He is very good as a person. Informative, not too much negativity and critique while staying true based on his experience. Please, get him, the ditch guy and Mr. Toby to be in the same video! that would be an absolute masterpiece!!!

Great insight! But i'd like to correct you on something: stirrups did come into play before the Battle of Hastings, and specifically in the western world we have reconds of being used in the Battle of Tours in 732 A.D.

Great breakdowns loved it. Wished the had Arnold riding the horse in True Lies because you know he would have given that horse a 10 when it realized Arnold wanted to jump to the next building and stopped dead flipping Arnold off its back.

ong i was just thinking ! this guy is really good at explaining and i luv the examples he uses "your mowing down grass"💪🏾💪🏾

This guy was so cool, definitely one of better guests we need him to come back for more vids

Excellent video. One of the best break down. Very interesting on how horses were protected in jousts. How about horses charging cannon in the likes of Charge of the Light Brigade? This would be another movie to break down is Excalibur. What about Jackass BMX joust? "For fun, a break down of 'horse' riding . . . . " "You mean coconut riding." " . . . . in Monty Python and the Holy Grail." "But they didn't fight from horses . . . . " "Shh! Shhhhh! Sh!"

this guy is awesome. definitely want more of him. also i think the lances in The Duel didn’t have coronels because it was a duel to the death so ya know. stabby was okay.

Great vid! Thanks :) In Mulan the archers do not use thumb-release , but the western foot-archer style 3 finger release. But the modern Hungarian horse archery school uses that too...

This was so awesome

I think the title is a bit misleading - jousting and cavalry are kind of different things. Cavalry is more about how mounted formations or squadrons fight, than one on one champion fights. Good content nevertheless - though I'd've punished the Rohir longspear suicide severely.