“I went to wizard summer camp” is the best thing I’ve heard all day.

i would have LOVED that as a kid

​@@goldensloth7 not if you were the one dislocating your knee 😂

sounds like a cross between harry potter and percy jackson

Go to camp in the summer and Hogwarts for the school year

Absolutely, He entretains us and now I think we should entretain him

Everyone are spitting bars rn

he's sitting on a golden throne with a crown and maniacally laughing as 2 greg's brawl in suits of armor

Absolutely agree I volunteer

Come join the SCA! We have swords and kings and mead......

DANNY SEE THIS NOW

If you want Danny to see this it might be a good idea to email him. I don't think he reads the comments on here.

@@yourshoulderdevil5229 Yeah. Definitely shot him an email! Looking forward to it!

omg I need this to happen

@danny-gonzalez DANNNYYYY

looking forward to seeing him trying to stand up in it!

This feels like such an intimidating threat

EMAIL HIM THIS HAS TO HAPPEN

@@froggy5748 it really does LOL its sweet though

Notice how they don't stab each-other; that's the main difference between this and real armoured combat, chiefly because stabs are incredibly more dangerous than cuts and if they were allowed in modern sports like this there would be... issues. Also, armoured combat had a tendency to end in a sort of horrific dagger-armed wrestling match which is likely too grotesque, and *definitely* too dangerous, to incorporate into any sort of legal modern sport. In most other forms of combat you at least have a good chance of dying quickly, not struggling desperately for three minutes straight in dirt and mud while your adversary repeatedly tries to slip their blade between your armor's plates and nick your femoral artery.

Nah, 2nd & 3rd fights are more representative - the guys in the first fight just forgot they had weapons in their hands and started wrestling lol ukposts.infoG4rnn7kZU9Y?si=s0_nxTolCEy0PgaD These guys are also wearing medieval kit, but their technique is far far better

"bonk" xD

@@melanoc3tusii205even with foam swords, stabs are brutal

Nah they just can't swordfight 😅

The sword here is sadly not very useful, anything they could do with it actually risks heavily injuring their opponent

​@@perfectpomegranate8193 not with the armor, though, right?

@Saga_Anserum Even with the Armour. Swords weren't made for bypassing armour like this, but if you found yourself fighting someone this heavily armoured with a sword there were three main options (that I know of): Halfswording: Halfswording is where you would use one hand to hold the handle of the sword and use the other to hold the blade and guide it through the plates in their Armour to impale them. Even with a blunt weapon this can pierce through flesh and risk the Armour breaking the sword and turning said blunt weapon into a sharp. Pommeling: To hit your opponent in the head or face with the very back of your sword. Hitting someone with the pommel is almost equivalent to hitting them with the ball-peen of a hammer. I have personally seen someone get a concussion from an accidental pommel even through their extra-padded helmet. Mordhau: Literally translated to murder-stroke. The Mordhau is where one turns their sword upside down and holds it with one or both hands from the blade and uses the guard and pommel to beat their opponent. All of these options can injure or kill someone in metal armour.

@@perfectpomegranate8193 don't mind me, just gonna frantically write all those down for use in writing and drawing! Still, wouldn't there be a way to enforce rules about it? I did fencing when I was younger, and I know there's some variety of rules amongst sabers and epees, and with haedong kumdo.

​@@perfectpomegranate8193Mordhau must be a German word?

No

@@pap-fr ...yes? I'm confused what don't you agree with?

That’s so cool omg

What team do you fight on?? I fight for Ordo Draconis/Warpigs out of California.

@andrewbarron6303 I fight for slc crusaders! Hey you guys did awesome at carnage! It's always a treat to watch 😁

I dont want to be petty, but the people at medieval times do not know what they are doing with their swords

Thank you for your service sir 🙏

​​​@@TheBuddel not the average peasant or commoner, and who knows what it was like during an actual battle (probably less graceful lol) sure, but swordfighting has always been its own martial art.

i was just wondering about the equestrian side of doing that. i own a horse and was wondering how many time you've fallen off doing that???

Question: Does learning the choreographed fights give you actual usable fighting skills? Like if you where teleported to the actual medieval period, could you competently fight? As a fantasy writer, I've always been curious.

Haha not sure if you looked it up but it’s a themed restaurant experience where you eat “medieval food” and are the audience to a scripted knight battle that happens in the arena in front of you. It was featured in the movies Cable Guy and Garden State. I think they have locations in California and Vegas. Maybe other places as well.

Same 😭 genuinely made me laugh anyway though

​@@heyjustjThey have locations all over the U.S. probably with the exception of the midwest

@@oo4758 Yeah they're all over the place! I've been to the Baltimore one twice! Personally - I love it. 😂

⁠@@oo4758they have one in the Chicago suburbs

Especially when armor became too powerful to be effectively defeated with a sharp object. At that point people began to use maces and other heavy blunt weapons so that they can cave in armor and win fights that way.

@@Mayflower-Yev in a lot of ways armor evolved past even heavy blunt weapons being useful, in duels half swording was predominantly used

Yup. I would choose a good shield over a sword any day. People often don’t realize how you could use them not only to block as a defensive weapon but to punch like the dude in the first fight. Getting pounded by the edge of a sturdy shield is brutal… especially if it’s made out of vibranium.

@@Mayflower-Yev Not exactly. Armoured combat revolves heavily around wrestling, but it very much involves sharp weapons. The idea with using a sword in armoured combat is that it's a nimble in-fighting weapon that can be maneuvered to exploit gaps in the impenetrable plate defence. These gaps are generally covered by more flexible chainmail, which is still mostly impenetrable, but thrusts to such areas are still very useful. Firstly, the tip of the blade can still cause shallow injuries through the chainmail; obviously, if you're about to go into a life-or-death wrestling match, bleeding freely from your armpits does not give you good prospects. Secondly, planting the sword in your opponent's mail gives you an opportunity to control their movement: if they press forward, the combined force from both sides can force the sword through the links and turn a small cut or stab wound into a fatal injury; since they can't effectively push back against you, this also allows you to force them to the ground. Given a stab wound followed by a hard impact with the ground, your opponent is thus less likely to effectively resist your putting them in a hold and stabbing them in the thigh/throat/face/etc. with your dagger. Maces, hammers, axes, and other top heavy weapons, meanwhile, work in a very different way - instead of exploiting gaps in your opponents defence from up close, they deliver powerful impacts from arm's length. Ideally, you manage to land a powerful blow or two to the head (not likely to be lethal or anything through all that armour, but as before with the stab wounds, this is an every bit counts kinda situation) or to joints (with the hope of damaging the armors articulations, thus mobilizing your opponent, but also because articulated sections of extremities tend to be somewhat less well defended and you have a greater chance of actually damaging something underneath. The problem, however, is that to generate sufficient power for this sort of thing to work, you really need some space to get a proper swing in. Bludgeoning your opponent at that range still isn't usually going to be lethal, and often doesn't even have much stopping power through all the armour, so there's a real danger that your opponent just tanks a hit or two as best they can while closing the distance, and now they're within measure and your weapon becomes fairly useless. This is why swords remained extremely popular sidearms throughout history and up through the heights of plate armour use, while hammers and axes saw use rather more rarely, and usually in mounted contexts, where riders have more difficulty getting into or staying in close quarters, for obvious reasons. And finally, it's always prudent to remember that the sorts of swords, maces, etc. referred to above (often single-handed, always portable) were sidearms; the first weapons an armoured fighter would resort to in combat would be lances, any of the obscene plethora of halberd-like two-handed polearms, and pollaxes (the short, heavy, brutish cousins of said polearms, made for close single combat). Those could actually fuck someone up without the rolling around in the dirt.

The shield bash is a true classic, you really can never go wrong with that.

Not very knightly of you to steal signs Fr tho thanks for the comment!

Super cool!

Please I need to know everything about this journey you've gone on. How did you find a knight? Why is he your knight? Are you his squire?

first of all, this is actually cool and a very unique and interesting hobby. secondly, there are a lot of parallels here to furry culture and i think that definitely says something about humanity. /pos

@@Cationna Knights at Tourneys and Jousts used to knock other Knights off their horses and steal their stuff wholesale. It's unchivalrious, but actually VERY knightly to steal signs. They're just keeping the tradition alive!

I read that as butthurt

So cool

How is this different from SCA or LARP tho?

@LilFrg for instance, I've fought in something called 'Dynamo Cup' which was an invitation only tournament held in Russia. It was the highest level of fighting at the time, I took an axe to the hip and had an open wound about 10cm wide by about 6cm deep and that went through 3 layers of padding. It's an actual fighting sport wear you need to have you armor dialed in or you can and will be hurt. There's always a lesson to be learned.

@@__julia___749 I read it right the first time, but I went back to read it as Butthurt after reading your comment. Your way is better.

Heavily disagree. If you’re trying to kill each other you just need to change the way you use a sword.

Depends how big the sword is, looking at some larger ones I imagine you could just kinda use them as a baseball bat

@@ItsDesca Any sword is deadly, and yes, you do kinda use them like a baseball bat. Baseball bat and close range spear, or you just stab with it.

Yes and no. Any sword can be deadly but there are ways to minimize the risk. For one, banning thrusts. Thrusts were illegal in duels and if you thrust your opponent you were tried as if you had the intent to kill them. A popular German sport all the way up to WW2 called Mensur involved fighting each other with sharp swords with only the head as a target as that considered less deadly. All they had was goggles as protection

Using a sword as a baseball bat would be very ineffective most the time. It takes quite a bit of skill to hit with the sharp edge of the blade correctly, failing to do so wouls end in results closer to hitting someone with a metal ruler than a bat and risks injuring yourself. The handles of Swords aren't circular, so hitting with the flat edge without meaning to risks the sword rolling and breaking the structure of your wrist, sending all the energy from the impact back into it. If you want to bludgeon someone with a sword, you use the back end, the pommel. Pommeling someone is so dangerous that it's banned in most tournaments, even when your opponent is fully geared. When it is allowed you're only allowed a light tap or even to mime and call out that you would be pummeling them.

''It was holding him back''

In the UK we have lots of living history events at castles and historic sites, the fighting is unscripted and you get to see people cook and craft

I still liked medieval times more than I expected tbh. But I may have been older? I was like 19 the first time I went.

medieval times is live theatre, of course its scripted and choreographed. theyre actors, not mma fighters. even with all of the safety precautions they take, the knights get injured often. if they genuinely fought, it wouldnt be sustainable due to the amount of injuries there would be

Buhurt is not "choreographed " it's a live combat sport like boxing or mma Theres Buhurt or hmb Sca Hema Larp Then theres reenactment which is "choreographed"

gregnant

Real

PREGANANANT!? Only the og’s know that video.

Yeah hes a Gregther

gregnant?

Danny is a legend.

@@Ringos_mom genuinely ❤️

The way you worded this makes it seem like Danny is in heaven watching this lol

The way you worded this makes it seem like Danny isn't human

Of course, Danny is a robot. Don't you know that? ​@@s-viper1462

chill bro

🧠 Damage: "Am I a joke to you?"

@@markdotinc8371still less brain damaged than football players

Why does this make sense?

I'm an American that fights in this sport and the buy in is extremely expensive

Non American because it’s Russian or non American because knight culture has never existed in America? I don’t really see where America fits in here

@@user-du7if7xq3k american because it's considered "american" to do stupid shit like this for fun. non-american because it's russian.

@@user-du7if7xq3kbecause its so cringy, thats where america fits.

Hinterlands

Now, all I can think of is getting slapped by a knight's glove like in Men in Tights

I mean you have like a whole ass gauntlet on that shits gonna HURT

My brothers and I had a variant game where we'd turn off the sound for TVv shows and talk for the characters. I have a feeling these two concepts could be combined, with great success.

My friends seem to think I'm weird for watching things without volume when stoned so thank you.

I love how no matter obscure the subject is that Danny covers, there's always someone in the comments going "HELL YEAH THAT'S MY SHIT" because I think it's a testament to how diverse an audience Danny has :D

Damn cool ass idea! Dude and what if you got you and your friends to do this in person and fight between yourselves?! Maybe I will see to that with my friends 👀

you’re a genius

that makes sword actually usless so it make sense not to use them kinda lmao so maybe they should use only maces and stuff

definitely read that as butthurt at first

@@JonasTheBonas that would cave in the armor and actually hurt the person inside, blunt weapons are usually banned. Think of the weapon more as a tool for spacing, disorientating, and grappling against your opponent.

I feel like they need to wear ear plugs because that would be so dang loud getting banged on the helmet

was wondering what that hashtag meant

POLAND MENTIONED

i love finding more SCA folk on the internet

@@sierrasmiley9638 Nothing brings more of a smile on my face.

This isn't SCA and you know it lol. Sca plays stick tag, this is actual fighting with weapons. This is buhurt. Don't lead people astray by telling them its a different sport. Buhurt is one level up from sca.

@@andrewbarron6303 nobody said this was sca andrew

@@andrewbarron6303 Buhurt is pretty cool, and definitely more intense then the SCA. I got a few buddies that do it. I'm a smaller fighter so any game where the only kill that counts is if you're opponent is on the ground, like in a Buhurt Melee, is not really my cup of tea. The singles could be cool but I haven't been impressed with any of the swordsmanship, at least not yet. The sport is still young so that could develop. What can I say, I like the stick tag 🤷.

I assumed it was just in the backlog as most youtubers have a ton a content backed up

@@abysmalwilson6597 no, it was his small child. stop spreading misinformation

@@latioslad1 uhhh...i was going to write a funny reply, but i genuinely cant tell if your comment is satire or not...soooo...this is awkward edit: imagine there is a comment above mine and im not just responding to myself like a strange person

@@WoolyCow In that case there's only one way to settle this. I'll get my armor and axe. We shall settle this matter of honor at the Medieval Times. (I wasn't paying attention to the OP comment and only saw yours out of context while scrolling. So R.I.P my humor detectors I guess LOL sorry about that)

@@latioslad1 A DUEL YOU SAY? Why my record of medieval fighting is a flawless and categorically undefeated 1-0 (i am too scared to get back in the ring as last time, despite my heroic victory, i broke my collarbone, four ribs, lost one finger and my dignity with it) but for you i will make an exception! on the forth toll of the 6pm bell i will lay siege to your person in a brief yet equally bloody display of my physical superiority! umm...so...uh, is thusday good? i think the steaks are half off that day, could we maybe also get some drinks while we're there?

It’s also entirely historically accurate

Is your dad in the SCA?

​@storyranger From what he described it sounds much more like HEMA or Buhurt.

Your dad sounds really bad ass

Same

they have an event like this in aigues-mortes in the south of france and it's usually quite fun to go and watch (usually the russians win everything tho)

SAME

SAME

Imagine not going to medieval times. Couldn't be me.

@@yourshoulderdevil5229 How good is the internet there?

@@nourhanaboulnasr6566 Good enough to watch UKposts lol

Was looking for this comment! HEMA is awesome, been doing it for a few months now, mostly focusing on longsword but dabbling in quarterstaff and dagger. Its so much fun

They could call it the reach around.

Thats what they do in UFC and Boxing depending on the set up they have at a venue

nope, that’s called Sleepy Sparring

no that's called bedtime battles

nah that's bed wars

no that’s called nightly knockouts

Nah, that's called Tired Tussle.

Ah! Prosím pěkně pod čím mám hledat takové eventy? Hrozně ráda bych se jela podívat ale do teď jsem ani nevěděla, že se konají celé bitvy 👀

hope things are less stressful for you now, take good care of yourself! wishing you all the best man :>

Made me lose it

He is an immortal being

Ok now that I have finished the video: Yeah buying the armor is very expensive, however these organizations are aware or it, and some will have loaner gear for new people. If you're interested in a local group with Armored Combat. SCA is the most popular one, and they definitely keep loaner gear. They consider themselves a "historical reenactment" group. So you would see fights like Samuri vs Knight and that's usually because the player has chosen that esthetic and the really committed ones will fight with that style. There tends to be strategy in the 1 v 1 fights, but big army battles not really, just hit as many of the other guys as you can. SCA however doesn't do competitions like you were talking about (they do have internal tournaments, but they are usually very local, and they're not sending an official team to compete nationally or anything). Armored Combat League on the other hand is international, and they do have group fighting that has strategy. Another thing to note is that both of these groups have safety standards the fighters must meet with their equipment. For example the bare minimum for SCA is all of your joints have to be protected along with your neck and head, from there long sleeves and pants as full coverage, and torso padding. Obviously in large competitions people are going to protect themselves much more, but the minimum isn't uncommon in a practice setting amongst friends that you trust not to injure you. The general idea with the safety standards (similar to most Combat sports) is having good fights, but also keeping the players safe enough that they can fight more later. As I tell people when teaching Combat for my larp: we want our friends to come back so we can hit them more.

Hahahahahah Cannot believe there's another Mythics fan in the comments, I was deadass about to send this video to Beau

@@bookfreak360 Glad to see another person with first hand knowledge! It's such an amazing sport, I hope to bulk up and get enough endurance to join my friends team some time.

cool!

Hey Cincinnati Barbarian here would love to come fight with y'all some time!

I hate that this is so accurate💀

Your cats playfight in armor 😂 ?

​@@Cipher_PaulIf they don't then they should! 😹

omg exactly i was like ‘why is this happening in my country’

TRUE

I heard that and I was like bruh no

Robert is a true greg

Lots of my partner’s Buhurt group wears 80 or more lbs of armor!

God I’d love to watch that

Yall should look up Battle of the Nation's 150vs150. That was intense to fight in. It was in Serbia a few years ago. Precovid.

Exactly

you mean robert

why do people always do the “can we appreciate” thing like I can’t tell if it’s satire or not anymore 😭

Nuh uhhh

Idk how he'd bleed by sitting there and being him but I mean I sure do appreciate the uploads and his humor x)

Kinda. The way that they use the weapons to make it safe make fights happen this way, if they used the weapons as intended in an actual duel to the death then the weapons would become a whole lot more effective.

no but in the times they also used more blunt weapons because it's naturally more effective against people in armor@@samnunnink7575

lunch at 5pm?????

time zones ​@@riley33987

@@riley33987time zones exist lol

@@alhol7558yeah it’s 3 for me😭😭

@@riley33987is that abnormal?

I don’t think he called them nerds, they’re using real weapons, and the only one that’s really like larping is the last one but yeah I agree with you

I will note that war hammers being able to break bones through armor is somewhat of a misconception. In reality, armor is really really good, and you're much better off getting in-between gaps or tackling your opponent and trying to remove their armor. Blunt weapons have considerably concussive damage at times, but really don't cause permanent damage to a target, polearms are effective because of their range and leverage. I think this misconception comes from places such as D&D or video games, where in order to find a good balance to make blunt weapons good, they get modifiers that do additional damage to armored opponents because that seems realistic.

I feel like it look me way too long to find a comment that mentioned the SCA (I’m a proud Calontir). I love Danny’s surprise and confusion when this is a normal weekend for me 😅

Do HEMA guys do this "sport" or what? Because all these guys seems to be bonking each other as hard as they can with no technique, even the "pros". From What I can tell.

and there's no one complaining about Taylor swift coverage in knight fighting

There's world championships for this so there are some extremely skilled fighters out there!

Lack of documentation and the presumption that there was no cultural advancement of society after the fall of the roman empire. :3c

Another addition! In HEMA (this sport), you absolutely can spar without too much equipment! They also use training swords made of either wood or hard plastic (I personally think hard plastic is safer if you don't have protection bc I have had a wooden sword break off on my shin before and that HURTS)

oh

@@gracielalalaa oh

All over? Like machetes too??

@@oo4758 the rule is if there's a historical writing explaining how to fight with it, it's fair game!

@@vickygayming dang, that's actually pretty cool. But does that mean that cultures with less or no written records can't use their weapons? or are they allowed to make new written records so they can fight with them now? I feel like there are a few cultures automatically excluded

Your cat is a real one

@@sakareeh and another video on Valentine's day, I'm planning the wedding for them now

that is awesome

Real

I used to fence (without interior armor/padding because I'm poor) and while it definitely looks boring to watch, it can be genuinely brutal for the people competing, even with the padding

I fence Sabre. This is fencing but both combatants are 12 yo boys with crippling legend of Zelda addictions. (From experience)

@@justayeet5905 lol true. Also ive always wanted to try fencing, any advice ti beginners?

@@RavnicaRaven of course! It’s an amazing sport with so many great people!! I’d say find you a good studio with good teachers. If they do group classes, start with those. Ask if you can borrow gear before buying your own cause it can be very expensive. Also, do some research on what style you’d like to do! There’s 3 main styles: foil, Sabre, and epee and they’re all pretty different. Figure out which one you think you’d enjoy the most and find a studio that specializes in it. Good luck man!!

@@justayeet5905 thanks!

Wait or is Danny onto them???