"They're bollocks." That's the wrong kind of dagger entirely.

@alfatazer_8991

8 жыл бұрын

coincidentally bollock or ballock daggers did exist and were quite phallic in appearance hence the name:)

@iseeicyicetea

8 жыл бұрын

not a coincidence, that's the joke ^^

@Second247

8 жыл бұрын

Yes. I must say Matt rarely makes mistakes but this was clearly one of 'em. :)

@joost1120

8 жыл бұрын

It wasn't a mistake, it was a joke.

@johnharvey5412

8 жыл бұрын

*whoosh!*

Incredibly professional sir. Just recently discovered your channel. Enjoying your videos immensely thus far.

The trainer swords cold steel makes are made of polypropylene, but trainer knives, like the Bowie you were holding is made of Santoprene. Santoprene is a little less sturdy then polypropylene. And I have sparred with the swords, I own the gladius and the medieval arming sword trainers, and have used both. I very much like them, and my friend has the hand and a half sword trainer as well as two tomahawk trainers, and he likes them as well. So yeah, they are very nice.

Cool stuff. I study Japanese swordsmanship and I'm considering training with the European long sword from home just for fun. I have to say I have the Cold Steel O bokken and the bokkens are way too pointy also so much that I actually got cut with one, so at my dojo we typically round the tips on the Cold Steel bokkens but other than that they're pretty good, perhaps a bit heavy but not that bad when u get used to it and definitely sturdy enough. Thanks for the review :-)

I've wanted to learn some HEMA, but the closest one to me that teaches is 2 and a half hours away. Really enjoy your videos.

I recently just bought one of these, more for my own reference vs use (since there are no HEMA clubs remotely near me.) so I'm glad to hear that its actually a good purchase.

a hands-on vid on different training weaponry material such as plastic, polyanything, and/or handmade materials would compliment this video in my opinion.

Completely agree re Cold Steel plastic training sword. It's essentially an offensive weapon. I was given a pair as a gift and they are haplessly balanced, we use them for strength training because they are also quite heavy so Matts waggle exercise works well once you've already built some forearm strength. I keep one by the front door instead of a baseball bat, they appear to be made of the same polymer as Cold Steel's weaponised walking sticks, they are devastingly effective clubs so I don't understand why they think their plastic swords are training weapons, if you walked someone hard enough with it it could break bones or kill.

Magazine daggers. Short of wrestling, the absolute cheapest way to get into HEMA.

@Mtonazzi

8 жыл бұрын

Actually, if you fold a non talboid double page from a newspaper very tight and then you fold it by half, you have a mighty makeshift club.

Its good to see Cold Steel making more flexible practice daggers. I have a couple of their older style practice daggers with the crossguard; they're made from a much more rigid plastic and while in the pictures it looks like the tip is blunt, the tip is pretty pointy and you could seriously injure somebody with it if you're not careful.

It's interesting how close some rondel daggers look like samurai tanto.

You have to wonder what these companies are thinking to put corners, edges and spikes on sparring weapons...

@BIIGtony

8 жыл бұрын

It make them look more edgy.

@JimGiant

8 жыл бұрын

I see what you did there!

@scholagladiatoria

8 жыл бұрын

Yep, it's very dumb. They could make a perfect product just by asking 2 or 3 HEMA clubs for feedback. It's arrogance I guess.

@Riceball01

8 жыл бұрын

Or just laziness, cut a few corners and make a couple bucks more.

@Silirion

8 жыл бұрын

Producing something whilst being only semi-informed of the actual functionality and user friendliness once a product i applied for use is arrogance and laziness. I agree. Also a bit on the "it needs to look cool"-side of thinking.

Easiest solution for all those poly trainers I have from Cold Steel is to sand the mold-seams. Overall, they are good. I do agree the weight and handling is a wee bit off on the swords. However, it does really force you to have proper stance and technique. Same thing applies regarding the mold-seams and points too. The biggest advantage I have found with them is they are far more resilient to abuse (mild to moderate). They are rather cut resistant which is nice. For me the biggest thing I like is they are not affected much at all by temperature or humidity. Which is important since I live in a location where summers tend to be hot and humid.

Great video as usual. Can you do a video where you construct those magazine and tape practice daggers (and variants)?

i wholehartedly reccomend the NOK hardcontact trainers. we sparr full contact with them and although they dont currently have a rondel dagger, but as they are handcrafted they do make customized trainers to your specifications.

Those plastic ones are also very good for practising your wingardium leviosa spells!

@ei96byod

8 жыл бұрын

It´s Wingardium Levioooosa :-)

There's undoubtedly something terrifying about the Rondel in particular

go to bed Matt

@scholagladiatoria

8 жыл бұрын

Going right now.

@sparkymmilarky

8 жыл бұрын

+scholagladiatoria good lad

@mta9375

8 жыл бұрын

He did look shattered, has to be said

@scholagladiatoria

8 жыл бұрын

I've had a bit of a bug/cold the last few days.

@jaimemunoz5920

8 жыл бұрын

If you can order it and you have money you should totally do a review on the cold steel tactical rondel dagger. And also do a review on their regular rondel dagger

I agree completely. Great video.

Rubber weapon? But I hardly know her!

Funny thing is, I actually have the Cold Steel Rondel trainer, as well as the CS parrying dagger, but my training sword is from Rawlings.

Thank you for the tips !

Funny because ive had these cold steel rondels in my cart for a while now, looked at them again just today and almost ordered.

Ya, my roommate and I sparred with the Bowie knife as a seax before I discovered that purple heart armory sold dedicated seaxes.

I just ordered 2 of dem Bowies

About damn time. I know you have a life an all, but some of us start to wither and die after a week without you, Matt.

@scholagladiatoria

8 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately I've had too much 'life' in the last week - shitty work to be specific.

@Tullio238

8 жыл бұрын

Here was me assuming it was gallivanting off with daughters on school holidays

@scholagladiatoria

8 жыл бұрын

Sadly not - well I was at the weekend, but the week days have been a fucking nightmare recently.

@CarnalKid

8 жыл бұрын

scholagladiatoria Hang in there, man. We all love ya.

i use the cold steel training wasters but not for HEMA or historical swordplay like you would. my medieval reenactment group use them to train beginners in slow, minimal contact training to build up wrist strength. but we do know that they aren't good models of real swords which we use in our reenactment.

Plastic tent stakes work alright as knife stand-ins. Though they are not really long enough to simulate something like a rondel dagger.

I definitely second the point on the "teeth" on the rondels. We use those daggers in our club all the time, and I have had my fair share of nice zipper shaped bruises from disarms and grappling.

@ariochiv

8 жыл бұрын

Can't you sand them off?

@daleutt

8 жыл бұрын

For sure, or wrap them in tape. It would just be nice if maybe in their v. 2.0 they smoothed out the rough edges (literally).

@lucasriley874

8 жыл бұрын

if you know anyone with a bench grinder it'd prolly take all of 20 seconds to smooth those edges off.

A few minutes with a dremel tool and you could easily take off those weird spike things.

Yo do Rondel technique videos!!!! So untapped.

Reassuring to hear your opinion on the training swords; I own Cold Steel's Hand-and-a-Half polypropylene trainingsword and the weight always felt off, and I wasn't sure if it was just me. I own most of the training daggers though and I'm really pleased with all of them.

Could you do a video on flamberge rapiers. Those rapiers with a wiggly edge that supposedly cut better and allow for a thicker blade but with not so much more steel.

You should drop the links to the shops in the video description, Matt

For any kind of wrist stress people should learn how to do a good warmup and do wrist mobility work. I assume you do tell beginners to warm up and show the things but they may downplay its importance or not have a clear idea. I recommend to search a subreddit like bodyweightfitness, climbharder, overcominggravity, gymnastics, parkour. Those are a few that have information on preventing joint injury etc.

purple heart makes good wooden trainers

ARMOURED VIDEOOOOOO ! pleaseeeee, I've been asking for years! :D

@stevengood1812

8 жыл бұрын

he said he would but since the gaining of popularity of the Knyght Errant channel he has sent those armor hungry to him. I love his videos.

@hacheurdepoulet

8 жыл бұрын

I know, I love Ian, but i wanna see Matt in armour haha

@grailknight6794

8 жыл бұрын

Yes!!!!!!!

@stevengood1812

8 жыл бұрын

hacheurdepoulet I agree as to my knowledge he has some 15th century kit unlike Ian

@hacheurdepoulet

8 жыл бұрын

which is to me, waaaaaaaay cooler than 14th century stuff

Cold steel also do a practise tomahawk/trenchhawk that ive used a few times.

Please make a video talking about the historical in accuracies of this show called the Last Kingdom, it seems to be kind of popular on Netflix, but the inaccuracies are so bad... fur, leather, back scabbards, you name it, it's got it.

I heavily modified my cold steel sword and its ok. Not great though MATT, take some sand paper to the discks and enges

That t-shirt is awesome.

@belfastfreethinker

8 жыл бұрын

I think it's from the comic Battle from about 1979. I'd love to know where to get one and if other variants are obtainable

@scholagladiatoria

8 жыл бұрын

The Bovington Tank Museum

@belfastfreethinker

8 жыл бұрын

scholagladiatoria Thanks

"just to put it into context" Take a drink!

Id love to get involved in HEMA, in fact there is a school nearby, but they don't teach sabre (which is my favorite)...

What about a stiff dowel with a sliding handle secured with friction? that way if you stab the handle slides off. you can 1. thrust safely 2. use techniques that require stiffness 3. detect thrusts better.

i was wandering if there is any mention of off-hand strikes and or knee strikes in any medieval tresses on dagger fighting? as much of the video hema stuff have seen on KZread dose not relay show knee or offhand strikes .

Cover the new rondels in gaffer tape, less sharp edges and fixed in 30 secs.

I remember some cities banned foreigners and aliens carrying daggers and only the burghers of a town were allowed. On holiday, saved the references at home if anyone would like 'em.

What about the Cold Steel bucklers and their hatchet/tomahawk/ Medieval Daggers made out of the same material?

The real rondel dagger at the beginning of the video is beautiful, exactly the style I'm looking for. Is there a website I can buy one like that from or was it custom made?

@scholagladiatoria

8 жыл бұрын

Tods Stuff makes the nicest ones 'off the shelf' or try a custom maker like Fabrice Cognot.

I'm thinking of making some rondel blades with a rolled tip for knife sparring. I'd love suggestions from people who already practice with daggers. Thanks in advance.

I've been looking into 15th-ish, century weapons for home defense against non-firearm incidents. I went with a glaive and winged spear, so far, as main weapons. I prefer the Glaive. Gladius as back up. Looking at shields now. I like oversize bucklers with the gladius.so far. I invite any feedback on this topic. Thank You.

@lemonvariable72

8 жыл бұрын

How the hell you gonna wield a 8 foot spear in your house? Most houses do no that kind of space, and even if you do in some rooms, you wont be very effective in a fight. I have a 6 1/2 ft spear and thats enough of a pain. Also with a spear, if they get past the point your dead. I'd use a roman gladius, maneuverable in tight quarters, can cut decently and stab very well.

@AcidbrainwashEffect

8 жыл бұрын

lemonvariable72 Not just inside the house. Got the Gladius for CQB. Using the spear to stab with is very dangerous, inside a house. I do have guns. I just want to be able to defend myself with out bullets too.

I have the Cold Steel Long-sword. Got it for thirty bucks. Price tag says it all. I did find some use in it as a weight trainer, to get myself in shape, but other than that, they aren't worth the 30 bucks. The Arming sword 'trainer' is even worse than that.

Hey could you do a video on how to make the magazine rondel?

how many people needed a weapon for everyday life? i could see people/ commoners carrying using knives for both work and defense, but did they need a dedicated defence weapon? ty

Matt , Have you ever seen/used a Kattari ( or katar ) dagger ? . is it possible to make a video on the dagger ?

@scholagladiatoria

8 жыл бұрын

Yes I have a couple of old ones. I think I have a video or two on them, but do plan to do more.

what do you think of cold steel swords,axes,spears ect...

review the cold steel training kukri

Also, wouldn't making a plain smooth discs and stiff round rods be easier to manufacture be more benefical as a training weapon?

i bought a cold steel bastard sword and the pommel was so sharp and pointy i wound up sanding it

Was a Rondel dagger also used as a tool? Would they be used for working on wood or food as a sort of multitool?

@scholagladiatoria

8 жыл бұрын

No.

What do you think of Cold Steel's buckler?

A Game of Thrones question. I seem to remember you briefly mentioning that scene where that Faith Militant fanatic somehow pierced the Mountain's breastplate with a spiked cudgel/club. If someone said that that was pefectly acceptable, do you have any videos or other sources you'd show them to counter that? A question for anyone, really.

the reason the edges and rondels on the cold steel dagger are sharp is because it isnt marketed towards people who want to train legitimately with it. more towards people who want to swing it around or maybe practice with their friends, and want it to look close to the real deal. im surprised that they even put a ball at the tip, to be honest

Matt are there similarities between medieveal dagger techniques and WWII Knife fighting ?

@scholagladiatoria

8 жыл бұрын

Yes, lots of similarities. Same for Japanese techniques as well.

What a ancient weapon lol

I like their polypropylene bokken and O bokken. I agree that the European trainers cold steel makes are balanced horribly.

I dont know when my ancestors lost their status as a part of the nobility, but i think they lost it somewhat around the 19th century, where it lost most of its worth anyways, so I probably would come away with carrying a sword around.

why didn't you practice the wrestling section from Fiore? It overlaps with the other sections and wrestling and grappling teacherd are relatively common.

@scholagladiatoria

8 жыл бұрын

We did.

@TheVanguardFighter

8 жыл бұрын

Can you talk more about that? I don't see any mats or padded surface where you train now and ive never see you post vieos about wrestling. I know you are friends with Martin Auswick whom went to some catch seminars though. Id like to hear more about that.

Cold steel are competent at making plastic in to a knife shape I'll give them that.

More like rondel dagger stimulator am I right?..

do you ever get that feeling of the sweet release of death?

@scholagladiatoria

8 жыл бұрын

No.

@wendel5868

8 жыл бұрын

Everyday.

@ShaggyLunchCake

8 жыл бұрын

You should probably not answer first comments Matt, just saying this for the sake of your sanity.

@Eric-sy1xu

8 жыл бұрын

I love this chain so much

I have the CS KaBars. Seems to be the exception to the rule of the material being good in knife form, as it hits pretty harshly. I also wrote a review on a steel practice rondel a little bit back: sbg-sword-forum.forums.net/thread/47687/training-rondel-dagger-triangular-blade

Can you show academic fencing?

I'd love to learn historical swashbuckling sword style. can you do a vid on it?

@jaredblocker2263

8 жыл бұрын

you'd probably would enjoy military saber then :)

@stevengood1812

8 жыл бұрын

that's technically sword and buckler trainer. so longsword and buckler or rapier and buckler.

@elgostine

8 жыл бұрын

well golden age of piracy was a combination of cutlass, (firpirates and sailors)or smallsword (for other officers, and civilians) with a few oither peoples like the colichmarde and spadroon for officers but those would jut fall under the fencing styles of using the smallsword anyways

@Bastet674

8 жыл бұрын

Steven Good well steven swashbuckling is what the term for ship board fighting is. so longsword and buckler don't work.

@stevengood1812

8 жыл бұрын

+Shadow Lander maybe now but the term comes from the sounds of duelist kit swashing around on there pants

san mai 3, if anyone still remembers, hehe

It's a copy of their rondal dagger. They make 2 versions. Polypropylene take some stick

Any interest in talking more about Rondel techniques?

Did you call me a commoner? That's ghastly.

I believe it is called polypropylene

@stevengood1812

8 жыл бұрын

+Caramel Johnson every time

@flametitan100

8 жыл бұрын

I thought the Polypropylene was specifically their larger swords, which have no flex to them whatsoever. These have some flex, which to me suggested that they're a slightly different formula.

You say commoners like us, and yourself, wouldn't be allowed to wear a sword in the 14th/15th century. My question is although you're not a knight, as an instructor, would you have actually been allowed to?

"There's the word." lol

cold steel makes their products of polypropylene

the coldsteal sword are durabal.

@dfcvda

7 жыл бұрын

YEAH, i HAVE TWO people hate them but they keep you fit.

The Cold Steel daggers are polypropylene.

Have you ever known any of youe training swords to splinter?

@PJDAltamirus0425

8 жыл бұрын

Have you ever known your nylon swords to split?

@scholagladiatoria

8 жыл бұрын

Wooden ones have splintered. The nylon swords tend to snap in one line when they break, but it happens rarely. They do get a bit chewed up against fencing masks and buckler edges.

lets just come up with a scenario where a untrained man is about to go out to war and he has little time to learn fighting, which would be better to learn: how to fight a heavily armoured opponent, or someone "just" using mail, gambeson etc. so which one would be better to know on the battlefield?

@JustGrowingUp84

8 жыл бұрын

Give him a spear, it's easy to train and effective against everybody. That said, heavily armoured people are extremely difficult to fight against, let alone defeat, especially if you are fighting one alone, so you guy should avoid them at (almost) all costs. If he finds a group of people attacking a lone knight or something, then he may join in. This is true regardless of whether he's a rich person who can afford heavy armour, or a poorer person, like a peasant. Although if he can afford heavy armour, he probably is well trained as well.

@noruv3816

8 жыл бұрын

TheFilthyCasual thats what im trying to figure out here, if you learn how to fight lightly armored normal soldiers you can fight most people, but if you happen across someone in plate youre screwed pretty much and your chances of getting help is pretty low if we are realistic here, everyone is going to be busy. And depending on the skill of your opponent that spear can actually be the death of you, but i doubt only learning how to fight heavily armored opponents will come in handy too often but then again is it a risk worth taking?

@JustGrowingUp84

8 жыл бұрын

Maxwell Murders I don't think that fighting someone in heavy armour (or a lighter armour, for that matter) requires a lot of specialized training. The basic rule is to you just target the least protected areas. I know that there are some specialized anti-armour techniques in some treatises, but if you only have a small amount of time for training, it would be far better to train that person in using a weapon and the basics of combat (timing, distance, etc.). Additionally, if he's going to fight as part of an army, then you also need to teach him the basics of fighting in formation, and maybe also some commands.

@dwightehowell6062

8 жыл бұрын

I say the best way to fight a heavily armored person in the old days is in a group with a spear from behind going for the back of the knee or the neck if exposed. Course a good hard hit to the side of the knee with a stout club is not to be sneezed at. Of course a real solid blow to the head with a stout club is likely to ring their bell and do neck damage.

probably polypropelene

Haha I like his bluntness on making comments

Do you play Cricket?

@scholagladiatoria

8 жыл бұрын

No.

Cold Steel products on Matt Easton's channel?? Brexit must have made brits desperate..

@scholagladiatoria

8 жыл бұрын

I've reviewed Cold Steel stuff before - the thing is, with rondel dagger simulators, there isn't much else out there. At all.

@Modighen

8 жыл бұрын

I now have a second opinion on the CS training swords. Their price is attractive, but if they're that dangerous, I'll look into something else.

@uomosenzanomo6465

8 жыл бұрын

+scholagladiatoria The great Matt Easton replied to me! *fangirls and faints* Sorry for that, Matt. Im not used to youtubers of your caliber replying.. Could you please make a video of physical fitness in medieval times or the rennasiance? Im interested of some workouts men at arms, knights, archers, crossbowmen, pikemen, arquebusiers and other soldiers of that time might have thone

@dwightehowell6062

8 жыл бұрын

If you are talking about the long weapons you have a point. I have a practice version of one of the none edged steel bladed weapons that is clearly a super effective blunt object. If you are talking about the rondel, ten or so minutes with sandpaper fixes the problem which caused scratches. If that scares you day hiking is a good activity that is pretty safe.

@scholagladiatoria

8 жыл бұрын

Not 'great', but thank you. I'm just a guy with a HEMA club, lots of weapons and a camera. Physical fitness in the medieval era is not something I have really researched, though I know people who have and I have listened to their lectures. Overall, most people at that time didn't 'work out' as such - they just exercised a lot due to the nature of life at the time - lots of physical jobs, lifting stuff, walking, riding etc. There are a few historical sources that specifically talk about exercise for the sake of fitness and they recommend climbing, vaulting, throwing, running and swimming. There are also sources that recommend using weapons often for solo drills and using heavy weapons especially for that.

Why not just whittle one out of wood or rattan? These small objects can be made by even those who never worked with wood

@scholagladiatoria

8 жыл бұрын

Because they are too stiff for sparring unless lots of protective gear is worn.

daaam i bought 5 different swords

under 40 viewers club

Why would you carry a rondel dagger around in a city? Surely it's inferior to cut and thrust daggers unarmoured against other unarmoured targets. Surely anyone who can afford heavy armour can afford different types of daggers for different situations.

@E1337N3SS

8 жыл бұрын

I know nothing about this; it's all guessing, mind, but if I were a blacksmith and I could only make one type of dagger, I'd rather make a dedicated thruster that has a use against both armored and unarmored people as opposed to a dedicated slasher that is pretty much only going to be used in street fights and muggings.

@Robert399

8 жыл бұрын

Xavier Well yes but that's the point I was making: anyone could afford multiple daggers.

@E1337N3SS

8 жыл бұрын

But if you can afford to buy armor and have multiple daggers for specific scenarios, at that point you're probably someone who can carry a sword, right? And if not, you probably wouldn't be wasting money on multiple daggers when you probably won't ever actually use them. Again, I don't actually know. I'm just assuming that the typical working class man would buy whatever's cheapest and works, and something double edged or designed to be a good slasher was probably more expensive to make.

@Robert399

8 жыл бұрын

Xavier An average peasant could afford multiple daggers. Absolutely any soldiers definitely could. Economy's not an issue in my question.

@E1337N3SS

8 жыл бұрын

In that case I'm kind of lost myself. Seems like you'd only want to carry around one of these if you were planning to have to fight against someone wearing armor or against someone with a sword, using the think stock to compensate.

Commoner? We are free people in the rest of the Earth. Except for you, english royal subjects :) Then again, middle class in UK is dying anyway, so neo-feudalism can be a thing.

@theproblemator7296

8 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, the english were much freer than the rest of europe during the middle ages, not to mention the queen is more like a mascot than an actual monarch.

@JanetStarChild

8 жыл бұрын

If you're from the States, then I hate to break it to you but freedom in the US is an illusion. I could try to explain to the skeptics, but George Carlin has already done far better than I ever could.

@gryf92

8 жыл бұрын

JanetStarChild Meh, freedom is no more in the US. You have debt slaves in form of studentas, blacks with destroyed mindset due to years of slavery and goverment controled by lobbiest. Now the US is rather plutocracy/corpocracy than what they used to be.