I can’t even imagine how long a wholestaff must be.

@mehmeh1999

3 жыл бұрын

4 time both the girth and length.

@celtic9558

3 жыл бұрын

Probably 24-36 ft lmao

@IceWolfLoki

3 жыл бұрын

@danger man So a wholestaff is really just a battering ram.

@iguire1095

3 жыл бұрын

danger man PfFt YoU pEOpLe KnOw NoThInG aBoUt ScIenCE

@iguire1095

3 жыл бұрын

danger man lmao

"I don't think the English can claim to have invented the big stick" Oh yes we did, how dare you! Unpatriotic! Treason! Shame! All sticks were small to medium sized until we came along! Call Yourself an Englishman?! Love your videos btw, thanks for this.

@zacharyclarke4240

3 жыл бұрын

to be fair, slightly-larger-than-average sticks did also exist pre the big sticc

@johnwickinyt3017

2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure trees invented big sticks

@jw04429

2 жыл бұрын

FUNNY !

@-whackd

Жыл бұрын

It is called Bo or Jo in the Asian martial arts.

@NemoOhd20

10 ай бұрын

maybe just compared to the French and their tiny sticks.

The French were also masters in the Quarterstaff. Oh wait, those were Baguettes...

@Unknown-gf6mk

4 жыл бұрын

Try harder

@Corindon

4 жыл бұрын

Va chier

@d.b.cooper8379

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, I have used baguettes in battle! In WWII at the Battle of Vordan, I killed about a dozen nazis

@ll2240

4 жыл бұрын

I just watched The King and now I can only see The Dauphin with a baguette.

@patrickcannady2066

3 жыл бұрын

old, inedible baguettes, perhaps

"Actually, it's a buck and a quarter quarter staff, but I'm not telling HIM that!" , Daffy Duck

@chrisgeorge7261

3 жыл бұрын

almost 40 years since I heard him say that and it's STILL the first thing I think of whenever a quarter staff is mentioned! 🤣🤣🤣 well played!

@Chowder12345able

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well

quarterstaff the preferred weapon of wizards throughout history.

@diceman199

7 жыл бұрын

Those are not wizards staffs. Wizards staffs have a knob on the end :-)

@NDOhioan

7 жыл бұрын

Odds are a street-smart wizard could still give you a good thwack with it.

@lillithyukiutacrow2532

7 жыл бұрын

TheBarser if a wizard physically hits you with his/her staff the wizard has ether ran out of mana or you've really pist him/her off

@thefurrybastard1964

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but a Wizard's staff has a knob on the end.

@TheBarser

7 жыл бұрын

In most D&D games it is just called quaterstaff, and can look like whatever, which is what you wanna give to your wizard. Wizards just love big sticks to swing around and yell "you shall not pass", and whatnot.

Is an expert with a quarterstaff called a quartermaster?

@photographymatt

8 жыл бұрын

+Carl Street quarterstaff master maybe?

@blakehahn1375

8 жыл бұрын

Staff Sergeant, I'd say.

@CarlStreet

8 жыл бұрын

+Blake Hahn To staff or not to staff, that is the sticking point...

@andrewsilver2611

7 жыл бұрын

What wood you say about this prestickament? Perhaps we should look for its roots in where it originated to come up with a more well oriented name, because I'm pretty stumped at the moment. If you work in an office, you might want to get the staff to log it down.

@andrewsilver2611

7 жыл бұрын

The name still isn't quite sticking with me.. If only there were a grain, or branch of hope..

I imagine that sometimes an iron ring would be added on each end, not only for the extra weight, but also in case the wood should start to split on impact, the rings would help hold the staff together a bit longer, which you'd definitely want if you were in the middle of a fight. Same for wrapping cord, or leather strips around it.

When I was a teenager, a long time ago, I called it a walking stick or hiking stave. A friend and I hiked with them and they were useful for making our way through brush, up steep hillsides, through swampy water . . . We never needed them for self defense. But we had them.

"You want the shaft to be hard and stiff and be able to slide it around in your hands". Oooookaaay

@electriccerix

8 жыл бұрын

+TheRealXartaX I'll show you "ancient poll form" (1:41)

@40kaway

8 жыл бұрын

+TheRealXartaX That's how I like my quarterstaves

@NanfoodleTB

8 жыл бұрын

+TheRealXartaX yeah, i lol'd!

@stuchly1

8 жыл бұрын

+TheRealXartaX you want it to be smooth rather than rough and knobbly

@mikkaluoto5293

6 жыл бұрын

There's too dick jokes

Quarterstaff: A retired spear that got fat & lost it's point.

@weirdscience8341

7 жыл бұрын

Maraak .Nor this deserves way more likes 😂😂

@slydoorkeeper4783

6 жыл бұрын

Maraak .Nor Sounds like a fair portion of feminists. Minus the spear part that is.

@gorillaau

6 жыл бұрын

Drew Dorman I'm not sure that many of them had a point to begin with.

@Relhio

5 жыл бұрын

More along the lines the staff is really good versus sword, put a pointy end to it and you got a perfect weapon.

@diagorosmelos3187

5 жыл бұрын

Maraak .Nor haha. i see this in the mirror every morning!

"There's nothing like a nice piece of hickory." ~Clint Eastwood

@donc2446

3 жыл бұрын

Unforgiven!

@badnewsBH

3 жыл бұрын

@@donc2446 Technically it's from Pale RIder, but close enough. XD

Hmm, coming from a woodworking background, I believe that 'stave' is a term for a split blank, mostly from the old bodgers/chair makers. That is the proper way to make a staff. The ash one you hold in your hand is obviously not split and has cross grain in the top part of it, which will guarantee a crack following the grain eventually. A ferule on the end, which would have meant the iron rings you mentioned are for preventing cracking on the end, especially under heavy use. This is on all wood lathe tools. I have wondered about the Wing Chung staff, which was long and tapered. I have wondered if the design came from using a branch, which does taper from one end to the other. Bamboo would not work well, but the rattan I have seen is all fairly even thickness. The way it flexes as it is used adds another technique to be used...

"Big sticks that you hit people with" That's what brings me to this channel :-)

@PACKERMAN2077

3 жыл бұрын

That's what brings me to p****** too

@motazfawzi2504

3 жыл бұрын

8:30

"a really big stick is pretty difficult to beat" That one has to be deliberate :)

@mathswithgarry7104

2 жыл бұрын

@Joel Roy Pretty sure he got it.....

“I’ve also seen quarterstaffs made with an iron cap on either end, sort of a tube...” OH GOD DONT RUIN IT PLEASE DONT RUIN THE COOL QUARTERSTAFF “...that is perfectly feasible.” OH GOD YES

8:42 "Scouts were scouts in these days, they learned whacking each other with sticks, they got to carry proper knives, they did responsible things and... well, that's been lost". 100% about the Soviet pioneers.

@71simonforrester

3 жыл бұрын

And the scouts when I was in them in the early 80s! I used to borrow my dad's Fairbairn Sykes as a sheath knife. It looked cool but it was crap for bushcraft! 😂

@jamesharding3459

3 жыл бұрын

@@71simonforrester Mora > Most knives. Quite a good bushcraft knife, and for $15, quite a steal.

if you think about it the quaterstaff is one giant pommel.

@bracket8706

8 жыл бұрын

You could end the fuck outta someone. Rightly to!

@wyrmwood9457

8 жыл бұрын

ohhhhhhhh my gooooooooood

@wolfpax181

8 жыл бұрын

+shanefm02 If you're going to finish someone rightly by throwing a stick at them, at least go with a caber.

@theviper1999uk

8 жыл бұрын

+Luca Carter fucking hell end him rightly is such a well known in joke in the Medieval weapon community

@obi-wankenobi9871

7 жыл бұрын

use the pommel to end them righly.

All weapons are derived from "The Big Stick". After all, hammers and poleaxes/polearms are "Big Sticks" with tactical attachments. And swords are sharpened "Big Sticks" made of metal, with optional guards. And arrows are short "Big Sticks" that you fling with elasticated launch mechanisms.

@blaziiclan8846

7 жыл бұрын

Said elasticated launch mechanism is in of itself just a big stick.

@IceWolfLoki

7 жыл бұрын

How about most weapons are specialisations of either "the big stick" or "the big rock"?

@matthewpicchu8232

7 жыл бұрын

Chemical explosives? What about those?

@rabasiticamphibian

7 жыл бұрын

+Matthew Picchu also nuclear and biological weapons.

@j.p.5013

7 жыл бұрын

u

I could imagine a fort or castle having a BOX full of quarter staffs. That way they can be grabbed and used as needed by staff or extra people or for building or whatever. General purpose well stocked amount of staves for your quarters.

@fransmars1645

10 ай бұрын

They would have ended up being used for fire wood, broom sticks, whatever. The "quartermaster" (see what I did there) would have had conniptions.

The dire quarter staff, a 6 foot quarter staff with a 6 foot quarter staff on each end

2 quarterstaves should be an halfstaff, isn't it.

@ryanhouk3560

5 жыл бұрын

I know your joking... but a halfstaff is the English translation for the word Hanbo. Or, 3' (ish) long fighting stick fromJapan. (Pretty much the same weapon as an escrima). ... its half a staff

@CrystallizedBlackSkull

4 жыл бұрын

Quarterstaff Halfstaff Wholestaff

@dagda1180

4 жыл бұрын

@@CrystallizedBlackSkull With the whole staff, you'll be able to shatter your opposition's spine and flesh suit; at the cost of turning the staff into a half stay probably.

@arpadpinter6050

4 жыл бұрын

Four pairs of two quartestaves glued together make a twostaff

@Charlie_the_Chair

4 жыл бұрын

dear god imagine a fullstaff

I think the reason there is no evidence of metal capped quarterstaffs is because all who had to face those weapons were ended rightly.

@user-yx7dp2pl8t

4 жыл бұрын

guycxz interesting comment,

@krownedkhaos4281

4 жыл бұрын

Skallagrim and for honor.

@thatfishdude789

4 жыл бұрын

Rightly indeed.

@robertredroff2161

3 жыл бұрын

Monkey magic had a metal capped wishing staff

@artifex2.080

3 жыл бұрын

De belgian goedendag i guess, but that also has a spike on the metal cap

Lindybeige talks 10 minutes about sticks and we are listening :) such an amazing speaker!

5:10 - "It's probably because it's a quarter of a tree" - I've always thought of the term "quarterstaff" as being more closely related to "quarter" as it is used to describe combat - "close quarter combat," "give no quarter," etc.

@random.3665

4 жыл бұрын

The quarter in "close quarter combat" and "give no quarter" does not reference combat, it references space (as in land, area, room). Close quarter is a location where everything is close to one another - for example, inside a house our narrow road. "give no quarter" refers to holding your position/prevent your enemy form advancing, thereby preventing them from taking (a part of the) land. So you could basically also say "give no square-foot" or "give no m²", but since the saying comes from a time where measuring was done a lot differently, we still use the old saying.

@vaclavjebavy5118

3 жыл бұрын

@@random.3665 Quarters are a lost art.

@andrewpenn1145

3 жыл бұрын

By that logic, you could also call it a quarrelstaff.

@L1Run

3 жыл бұрын

@@random.3665 I didn't say "close quarter" references combat, I said it describes combat. The term "combat" is the one that references combat. When talking about combat, we don't say "room." We say "quarter." In this case, close quarter combat is probably most relevant, since that's exactly what the quarterstaff is for. Makes a heck of a lot more sense than the staff being a quarter of a tree.

@random.3665

3 жыл бұрын

@@L1Run Good thinking, but close quarter combat is actually not what a quarterstaff is for, in fact, that is when it becomes impractical as a weapon. A Staff's main advantage over other melee weapons (note that both the name quarter staff AND referring to enclosed spaces as close quarter is older than modern weaponry, meaning most fighting was done with melee weapons) is reach. if you are in very tight quarters, that advantage of the staff is completely negated, and in fact turns into a weakness (its length making it cumbersome). So i would be pretty certain that the phrase "close quarter combat" is not the origin of the weapons name...

Oh Lindybeige you fool. You said hard and stiff in a KZread video.

@oz_jones

9 жыл бұрын

Multiple times, too!

@arthurdent6256

8 жыл бұрын

***** And how everyone has them

@Psycosmurf43

8 жыл бұрын

+Nathan C. And that you thrust with them.

@arthurdent6256

8 жыл бұрын

Psychosmurf43 And how a proper one is wielded with two hands.

@mert_the_gert

8 жыл бұрын

+perochialjoe And that you need something smooth, rather than rough and knobbly.

You would not part an old man from his walking stick?

@shorelockhomes943

5 жыл бұрын

genola allright Gandof. I agree with you.

@cypresshill9276

5 жыл бұрын

Mithrandir :))

@DonaldJDuck-ql3jj

5 жыл бұрын

I love you for that reference

@Loreman72

5 жыл бұрын

You bring bad news,Gandalf Stormcrow!

@MaestroRigale

4 жыл бұрын

@genola icwudt @Loremaster72 That line always interested me. “Lathspell,” meaning “Ill-news” (or bad news), related to the word gospel or godspell, meaning good news.

Lindybeige, I love your videos. You have a great sort of charisma about yourself. Seeing you light up when you talk about history and weapons makes me happy. Thank you.

when you put 4 quarterstaffs together, do you get a whole staff?

@jabberw0k812

4 жыл бұрын

You get a tree.

@ClearSummerSkies

4 жыл бұрын

@Thomas S. Thanks for making me laugh! 😂

@pladimir_vutin

4 жыл бұрын

@@jabberw0k812 welcome to minecraft: the English version

@michaeldavidson2073

3 жыл бұрын

Just a staff. If you put 8 together you get 2 staves. Get with the plan.

British engineering = Claims to invent a big stick ;D

@grabakasennin2763

7 жыл бұрын

oh.. oooh...!!! We invented the Tallystick too I tell ye! *TWO STICKS!*

@RinoGato

7 жыл бұрын

One of the oldest tally sticks was found in Kongo, was about 20.000 years old. So I doubt that the british invented it.

@petermarsh4578

7 жыл бұрын

nice profile pic :)

@The_RoboDoc

7 жыл бұрын

Peter Marsh thanks

@superpepleen

7 жыл бұрын

French engineering = white flag German engineering = anything that was made 50 years ago and still works today Italian engineering = pizza Spanish engineering = ....give it a minute... mismatched clocks? African engineering = mud-huts Greek engineering = choir boys

Hey, it may just be a big stick but it's OUR big stick. No one tells the mongols off for being the iconic horse archer to most people because a lot of other people had sat on a horse and shot a bow.

@faolan1686

8 жыл бұрын

But it's equally iconic in Okinawa.

@alvarodiaz2221

7 жыл бұрын

Well, the english have some things that make me wonder why would they think they are unique in the first place. Things like drinking tea or fish and chips, I mean seriously? You thought no one ever thought about having fish and potatoes fried? I guess the nick lies in having something, not necessarily unique, but give it a unique name and make it take an important place in your culture, then it's yours. If other people wants to have that thing too, then they should call it by another name and assimilate it as fuck in their culture, eventually both things will differentiate from each other.

@jonathanccast

7 жыл бұрын

Alvaro Díaz I'm quite sure nobody but the English ever thought of frying fish and potatoes. Because that makes absolutely no sense.

@alvarodiaz2221

7 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Cast I know, right? Just like ridding on a horse in the battlefield.

@GR-cf4qh

5 жыл бұрын

I suppose that in Europe and Asia the Mongols were the iconic horse archers. To those of us in North America however it would be the Sioux.

I also do Wing Chun, so I am delighted to listen to your excellent and witty commentary as a brother-in-arms, as it were.

Another great video! Some points I would add: 1. *Name:* Staff, Bo staff, or long stick. I've never heard people call it a quarter staff before. 2. *Ideal length* (for how I was trained to use one) is up to about the eye level of the user. Why? You have to be able to manipulate the weapon using rotation. If it gets too long, the end will strike the ground while the user is trying to re-position it for another strike or block. 3. *Ideal width* (1 inch, maybe 1.25 inches). It has to fit comfortably in the hands so it doesn't get dislodged during combat. Also, it isn't a heavy weapon because then it can't be manipulated quickly. 4. *Flex:* Some bo staffs are made of wax wood and have flex to them so that they don't break when they hit a solid object. While it may seem counter-intuitive, they have more than enough force behind them to knock a person out. 5. *Battlefield usage:* The staff is a great training weapon which leads nicely into more dangerous battlefield variants like: --- spears --- naginatas --- halberds --- etc. While it wouldn't be used to fight a war, it's a great "general purpose" weapon to have while travelling the countryside in medieval times. Why? The staff could be used as: --- a walking stick --- a way to carry items over the shoulder in sacks --- a tool to reach things in trees (like apples for example) --- a fishing rod (just bring string and a hook) --- a tool to disarm traps --- etc. It's like an ancient swiss army knife. It's hard to imagine something it couldn't be used for. :)

@mikefule330

5 жыл бұрын

Quarter staff is a common name for it in England and has been for a long time.

@agustinl2302

5 жыл бұрын

@@mikefule330 Yeah. OP called it a "Bo staff" which means he's probably referring to an East Asian weapon. Quarterstaff is the usual English name for the European one.

A gentleman's got a walking stick. A seaman's got a gaff. And the merry men of Robin Hood They used a quarterstaff. On the Spanish plains inside their canes They hide their ruddy swords. But we make do with an old bam-boo And everyone applauds!

@blshouse

8 жыл бұрын

+James Lewis Excellent reference! I wonder if there is anyone else old enough to recognize it. There is a very entertaining video here on the youtubes of this for those who happen to find it. :-)

@jamesh1866

8 жыл бұрын

+Bryan Shouse old enough to get it? Pretty much everyone has seen the film, unless they were born in the 2000s

@blshouse

8 жыл бұрын

James Howse That movie came out in 1968 iirc, perhaps if people are showing it to their great grand kids. ;-) However, it seems to be more well know these days for being the inspiration for a skit on the animated show "Family Guy" than because people watched it as children, sadly enough.

@jamesh1866

8 жыл бұрын

Bryan Shouse really? because before the current generation of shit tonnes of kids films there weren't nearly as many. I'd have though most parents would have shown their kids all the Disney classics. I was born in 1995 and I must have seen it loads of times. I don't know whether your right and I'm an odd one out, or if your just underestimating it

@dublowduck7823

5 жыл бұрын

Don't worry, some of us have

I never get tired of these informational videos. I've learned more about ancient weapons and strategy from this channel than I ever did in school. Also the boy scout bit makes me wish I had been a boy scout in the 1890's instead of the 1990's where I basically just learned to shoot arrows and tie knots all day.

@EclipsisTenebris

9 жыл бұрын

You really should watch scholagladiatoria Lloyd is more of a hobbyist

@victoriansword

9 жыл бұрын

JOSHItheDrako I would like to them do a few videos together.

@Cliffdog01

9 жыл бұрын

JOSHItheDrako There is nothing wrong with a hobbyist. There was a time when most of sciences best achievements came from those who practiced it with no formal training. For example the discovery that all the world once existed in one giant super continent was first made by geological enthusiast/hobbyist Alfred Wegener (www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/wegener.html). It isn't a PHD that makes what you know have merits it is how the person goes about retrieving it that matters most.

@GrrrIamMad

9 жыл бұрын

You are lucky you got to tie knots and shoot arrows. I only learned how to turn on a camp stove and set up a tent.

@murrylancashire

9 жыл бұрын

JOSHItheDrako Scholagladatoria has great info. But man i find him annoying to listen to.

That's a smart move having that lego man come out and yell "Lindybeige!" I remembered your channel from videos I had seen a couple years ago

"Now I think it'd be best to remind ourselves; It's a big stick"

I wish a quarterstaff was literally a quarterstaff

@lindybeige

9 жыл бұрын

What would that be? A staff that offered mercy? One of four pieces that clipped together to make a wholestaff? One fourth of the number of people required to run a company?

@b33lze6u6

9 жыл бұрын

Lindybeige a staff of american 25 cent coins welded together

@ARSP333

9 жыл бұрын

Lindybeige Maybe a metal staff forged together out of american quarters.

@b33lze6u6

9 жыл бұрын

***** ding ding ding you win the grand prize

@ARSP333

9 жыл бұрын

b33lze6u6 what do i get?

"...actually, it's a 'buck and a quarter' quarter staff... but I'm not telling him that!" ~ Daffy Duck

@martinlong4641

8 жыл бұрын

Joe Stubbernubbensteingenson Well said sir, I'm glad someone appreciates the classics.

@superdave54811

8 жыл бұрын

+Joe Stubbernubbensteingenson That cartoon was probably banned for its violence.

@gorillaau

6 жыл бұрын

"Duck Season!" ~ Bugs Bunny

@dylanmorgan2752

5 жыл бұрын

+gorillaau “Wabbit season!” - Elmer Fudd

@gorillaau

5 жыл бұрын

Dylan Morgan Why are you hunting rabbits with an elephant gun? You should be hunting elephants.

This is the MOST informative and humorous videos on the Staff I have EVER seen! Brilliant!

Quarterstaff: Proof that a weapon is just anything with enough force.

Always good to have your hands on a hard, stiff object for beating.

@The_Paradox__

7 жыл бұрын

TranscendentLion I wouldn't expect anything less from the island dwellers

@calciam1

7 жыл бұрын

+The_Paradox__ You wouldn't happen to be a filthy colonist would you?

@The_Paradox__

7 жыл бұрын

Dan Bowers oh no you dirty islander European wannabe

@NDOhioan

7 жыл бұрын

You forgot to mention that it's made of wood.

@csonkaperdido

4 жыл бұрын

I'm a filthy colonist in Florida, And I must say... These must have been an ineffective weapon - because we won. And now you guys pretty much follow us around like an annoying younger sister. Yes, I'm just trying to ruffle your fish and chips. I've been to the UK and it was AWESOME and I'm extremely jealous that you get the EPL and we have MLS. Friggin Millwall would beat most MLS teams. The fat keeper who ate the pie to win that prop bet in the FA cup is MLS quality.

Hybrid quarter staff/ morning star= morning wood?

@balintkristof8442

7 жыл бұрын

quarterstar

@chephalonkappa9282

7 жыл бұрын

Mark van Werven well done?

@Mediamarked

7 жыл бұрын

Medium rare.

@nikitamalikov6683

5 жыл бұрын

A quarterstaff with a mace head on each end.

@Yumao420

3 жыл бұрын

@@balintkristof8442 I'm using that for something. It's to good to let it go

I love this channel, I drive 3 hours+ a day and it makes it so much nicer listening to these

I was a boy scout in the 1960's, and yes, we were trained in how to use staffs, it was great fun being in tne scouts then. We were taught how to use and sharpen an ax, how to shoot a 22 rifle, how to shoot a bow and arrow, how to snare animals, and other outdoor skills. We went on camp outs every month, and we even camped in the snow. We all carried boy scout knives wherever we went. Those were good times.

@johnsshed995

3 жыл бұрын

The days we could go out and leave the doors unlocked and let our kids play in the woods . when the only car in the village belonged to the doctor and we all grew our own vegatables . And they call what we have now progress ....mmmm

@zahktuthalxalyrion6364

Жыл бұрын

I was born in 1991, and was in Boy Scouts. Lemme tell ya, if the scouts were like you described, I would've had a lot more fun....

Now a days we scouts cant even throw snowballs at eachother. DARN YOU INSURANCE COMPANIES!!

@captaintimcurry1713

5 жыл бұрын

Nowadays boy scouts are actually girls!

@zacharyelliott7161

3 жыл бұрын

@@captaintimcurry1713 The world is a strange place indeed.

I have a theory: Quarterstaff refers to "military version" because the military planners meet at the Head Quarters, so they discuss there abour how to war. The staff used by the elder members could help them to stand, the young and not-so-young members could use it to fight. About the length of the quarterstaff: - It cannot be 9 feet tall, a traveler would have problems entering with it into an inn. - It would be better if the height of the user is the base, because one can learn the most adequate skill that fits one's height. Making it less usable in the hands of the opponent. This is an easy weapon to drop if your hands perspirate during the fight. - You could do calculations based on your own height if you know your staff is equal to it. -You can cover it with the same cape that covers you, protecting the staff from the elements (Moisture can affect its stiffness)

I love the thwack and crunch comment about 3:15 into the video. It reminds me of an opportunity I had to swing a mere, when I handed it back I said that I wouldn't want to be hit twice with it, the owner told me that it was designed to smash the skull with the first blow, therefore most people didn't need to be hit twice.

Very natural enthusiasm. Very infectious I enjoyed that. Well done.

"You want it to be HARD and STIFF." Lindybeige 2015

I suppose whether you prefer a heavy thwacking staff or a thinner sproinging staff would depend upon what school of staff combat you followed; Robin Hood, or Three Stooges.

@Rachel-fi4sc

6 жыл бұрын

That comment made my day!

@christosvoskresye

6 жыл бұрын

The latter technique is properly called "Shtick Fu".

@gorillaau

6 жыл бұрын

christosvoskresye I prefer to learn the ways of Eckie Thump.

Your talks are brilliant, thank you, keep them coming! Thank you.

Hello Sir, I subscribed to you a few years ago. Now, with all this extra time, I've been watching so many things. I love it because it doesn't matter how old the video, the info is still good and accurate. I am so glad i subscribed many years ago and can't wait to see that 1 Mill Plaque someday hanging up! Best wishes - Timmy

This was another very good video Lloyd! By the way I love how you absolutely ignore dishonest people who sometimes disagree just because want to create a sensation and sway your viewers to become theirs. You are an intelligent, genuine and humorous man, and a good researcher, which, regardless of what some are persuaded to believe, is a quality that doesn't come from having swung a sword more times than other people.

@LaughingOwlKiller

9 жыл бұрын

Really to Whom are you refereeing? I have seen no one reply to Lloyd who was dishonest or vying for views. I have seen people with similar interests sharing their thoughts and indeed sometimes more experience on a subject Lloyd has spoken of.

@xenophon5354

9 жыл бұрын

Furthermore, swinging a sword around and doing good research are not mutually exclusive. Anyone whom I've seen disagree with Lloyd indeed did their research and swung some swords around.

@LaughingOwlKiller

9 жыл бұрын

Gongasoso Curiosity got the better of me. Why does he have a grudge against Matt?

@Gongasoso

9 жыл бұрын

I'll let Apocalyptic Knights answer you that. He'll probably deny it, but truth is he has just enough sympathy towards Matt to be considered respectful and polite...

@TheApocalypticKnight

9 жыл бұрын

Gongasoso In reality I don't hate people, but I do hate certain behaviours, so I don't view it as a valid personal question. Whoever it is, it is easy for them to stop being in that place by stepping out of attitudes, in the same way it's easy for anybody else to go to that place by gaining those negative traits. Of course I recognize that personal change is a difficult thing and takes some time, but the moment someone makes a decision, the signs that he made it start to show from day 1. I don't consider myself perfect, but there are flaws that I consider terrible (because the effect they create is bad), and they mostly revolve around things such as arrogance, dishonesty, lies and greed, and some people just happen to carry all that nasty baggage. Someone else may be more sensitive to other negative traits, such as for instance he doesn't like laziness in people. There are reasons why I'm sensitive to these and he is sensitive to those, but it's not the time or place to analyze that. Of course you may say, the world is full of people with those flaws all over, why focus on what one or a few do? The answer is simple. The others don't occupy themselves with something I directly love and care about. I hope I covered you, and please stop naming names and putting people in the spotlight. You may have noticed I don't anymore. It's not fair because it locks somebody in a position where I don't want them to be, they don't want themselves to be, nobody wants them to be. Every day, tomorrow may be a different day.

"Thank goodness such drivel doesn't matter in videos like this. You know what I'm talking about: big sticks that you hit people with." Just for this, you've earned a subscription.

love your stuff, Lindy

Your presentations are superb.

Little John (a giant of a man) and Robin Hood had a fight with quarterstaves on a log bridging a stream. Robin knocked John into the water, won the fight, but thought John had fought so well that he let him join his band of merry men. That's what I learned at infant school. Must be right then.

@rabele123

5 жыл бұрын

Other way round in the Errol Flynn movie.

Eastern versions of "big stick" had some elasticity. I guess that they had different type of wood. That would in turn cause different fight style for such weapons.

LOL. Love your expressiveness. Great vid. Subscribed!

Love your energy!

it was always my understanding that a pike being 24' long and the quarterstaff being 6' the staff is 1/4 of the pike staff

6:20 This is why the Japanese Jo(2.5ft-4ft) and Bo(5ft-6+ft) have different martial systems attached to them.

This is the video that got me to your channel back in 2015 and boy oh boy it was a ride since then. I really tried to watch EVERYTHING you did since the start of your channel which is basically impossible. Also I'm pretty positive taht you boosted my english vocabulary greatly. Also also, I'm pretty sure that you are never to read this, but well, that's what these comments are for aren't they? To talk to almost fictionally famous people without them actually knowing that they're being talked to.

You are quite interesting and fun to listen to sir. Very good job on the video production!

[07:17] - Capping the ends with iron would also makes the staff harder to splinter.

"Actually, it's a buck and a quarter quarterstaff. But don't tell *him* that."

@rong1924

3 жыл бұрын

The only reason I clicked on this vid was to make this comment if someone hadn’t.

lindybeige: as always a class act... and first-rate interesting and educational videos. Many thanks. I hear one man with his back to a wall or in a corner, armed with a quarterstaff, can hold off a mob indefinitely. Mobs generally not armed with bows.

I absolutely LOVE this video!! So fun and interesting! Subscribed for more of your videos!

New here, but does Lindybeige always look like this or has he just survived a intense night of drinking?

@GurniHallek

9 жыл бұрын

Yes, he always look like that.

@Birdblizzard

9 жыл бұрын

These options are not mutually exclusive.

@bowlingpro127

9 жыл бұрын

First thing I noticed.

@Gongasoso

9 жыл бұрын

Both

@oz_jones

9 жыл бұрын

It seems that he has some Irish blood in him, then.

Instead of calling it a quarter staff, why not give it a joke name, like "Biggus Stickus"? (He has a wife you know.)

@josephshelton6385

8 жыл бұрын

+bpccDCin2020 Well done

@Spagghetii

8 жыл бұрын

+bpccDCin2020 A JOKE NAME!!! I have a friend in Rome named "Biggus Stickus!"

@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164

6 жыл бұрын

Incontinentia, yes, I dated her once ... just once.

@mrearlygold

6 жыл бұрын

That sounds Scottish

@carpenter155

5 жыл бұрын

What’s so funny about BIGGUS....... STICKUS?!? Lol

I told myself I’d be productive today, and here I am. Watching a video about big sticks.

Big thanks for the big stick vid sir.👍🏼👍🏼

English Quarter staffs are the best. Ours are the biggest, the quater-est, and the sticky-est.

Sir, You are a proper gentleman.

Just found your channel. Love it! I will definitely be watching this channel alot! Good job, ole boy! '-)

Another fine video by our Lindford Beige.

A big stick is also a part of many Japanese ancient self-defence techniques. They are usually called bo. And the smaller versions are called jo or hanbo (depending mainly of the size). I'm also pretty sure that the English weren't the only ones who thought of hitting people with a wooden stick. Also one reason I can think of practising to use a stick is that in a case of war your weapon of choise (a spear) might break and so you'll end up with a staff instead. It might be then a really handy to know how to fight with one.

@gorillaau

6 жыл бұрын

Jukka-Pekka Tuominen depends on the break, a broken spear staff could be quite formidable when jabbed into an exposed fleshy bit of the enemy.

so... the wood must be hard and stiff to make a good staff... makes sense to me!

Always well thought out and interesting

I really like your videos dude, cause I'm thinking of becoming a history teacher and probably need to use these videos and reference them.

I note that shorter sticks were popular in Victorian times, often weighted with metal - Doyle devotes an obsessive amount of descriptive prose to wooden metal weighted "lawyers" carried by characters in his Sherlock Holmes stories. Some were walking-stick/gentleman's cane length, others were shorter and couldn't be used as a walking stick and so were blatantly "heavy sticks for some serious thwacking". Whether it's the quarterstaff, a cane/walking-stick or a steel-shod "lawyer", the "+1 Stick of Gratuitous Thwacking" has ever been a popular weapon. Nowadays you'd probably get arrested for carrying a pencil in your pocket.

Make sure to mind the grain on that pole when making your poleaxe. The reason I say this is because the diagonal grain is not ideal for maximum strength. One thing I have learned from making (woodcutting) axe handles is that if you do not have a constant straight grain running the length they will always split along the grain. The best thing to do in your case would be to either have the bad end towards the axe head with iron running down the sides to reinforce it or to have it at the handle end to minimise the forces applied to that area. In any case study the wood long and hard before making anything and it will speak to you.

@purpleanex

8 жыл бұрын

Yep, this why arrows made from dowling are no good.

just a theory from an aussie woodworker; Quarterstave = quarter sawn stave of wood as quarter sawn timber is least reactionary to stresses and the most stable and least likely to warp. once a quarter sawn stave is worked into a round form it may then be referred to as a quarter staff or simply, a staff. (The alternative to quarter sawing is backsawn timber. backsawn has more interesting character however it is much more susceptible to twisting, bowing and reacting to the different stresses and forces naturally occurring in the timber.) just a hunch. Have a great day :)

Ok Lindy....you’ve hooked me...I am subscribed !

"Iron-mongery" is my word of the day.

So many moment where you can add a quick, "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!"

Excellent lesson and great topic too.

This video always improves my mood. 😺

In Hungary, shepherds(and people herding other animals) used a tool similar to a quaterstaff clad with an iron sleeve, but it was clad with lead or tin which had a pattern. It was good for herding, self defence and they could rest on it while watching the animals. Here's an example: www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2048106/101467.html

im a scout, what a shame we dont train with quarterstaff.... "hey buddy, stop hitting that kid with that stick.... but im earning my quarter staff merit badge.... ah ok, go ahead"

@Radioactivesquirrel2

8 жыл бұрын

The original handbook actually included a section on basic quarterstaff techniques

@Fede_uyz

8 жыл бұрын

Radioactivesquirrel2 why wasn't i told about this??!!!

@gorillaau

6 жыл бұрын

Perhaps it is part of the sealed forbidden arts of the scout. :-)

@captaintimcurry1713

5 жыл бұрын

the girls came in and told all the boys that fighting is mean so they got rid of it

Very good! Make more videos like this please! Thank you.

lol to the 'boing and laughter noise'. oh yes i remember have a staff as the assistant patrol leader when in the scouts! Always useful for keeping the patrol in line!!

I carry a quarterstaff only so that I can speak softly.

Shao Lin monks could kick ass with this.

@ExcaliburForge

7 жыл бұрын

A single well trained monk could hold off a dozen attackers with one.

@bmxriderforlife1234

7 жыл бұрын

except the staff they use is much different then a europrean style staff, they use flexible staffs for the most part.

@bmxriderforlife1234

7 жыл бұрын

not all monks were martial, many are pacifists, however yes there are monks that were better trained then the miliatries of those days, however in japan and china you also had nobles being taught by monks so some samurai and in china soldiers were probably as well trained.

@oddluck4180

6 жыл бұрын

And a guy with a proper weapon could hold off a shit ton of bald people with sticks.

@mrobligatory.5234

3 жыл бұрын

Odd Luck a gun is cheating in this instance.

Thanks from Texas, very enjoyable.

As a spring pole lathe turner of green wood, I often give the same explanation about which part of the tree and how it is derived. I carry some examples of wood turned from from branch wood rounds and centered in the pith at the center of the piece. More often than not, they have split open as the outer wood dries and shrinks while the wood in the center can't dry and doesn't shrink. Well said.

0:35 No, no, no; it's big sticks WITH WHICH you hit people. No dangling participles here in the Kingdom of Pedantia, sir.

@StraightOuttaJarhois

7 жыл бұрын

That is something up with which I will not put.

@GrimrDirge

7 жыл бұрын

StraightOuttaJarhois Gah! *head explodes*

@DanDart

7 жыл бұрын

Bogus rule again >.

@gorillaau

6 жыл бұрын

diceman199 Speak backwards you do, hmmm?

@ZGryphon

5 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: Yoda's basically just speaking German, but with English words.

The problem with the staff (Big Stick) he's holding, is that it isn't straight-grained. As can be clearly seen, the grain runs out of the side of the staff, so it is more likely to fail, especially if used as a poleaxe haft.

a heat sapling certain thickness and smoothed and rubber coated help too done that in area of staff used as walking stick. or splitting a smaller tree for 2 walking sticks and or bows can be made too.

My two bits: It should be about your height, or at least above eye level, so that you are not knocking yourself in the face while you traversing with it. If you should find yourself going into battle with it, the least you could do, would be to sharpen it up into a spear. I have always called it a myakka stick, hard wooden dowel from Home Depot. It is a natural response if you want to go tromp around the flooded parks of Florida. You want enough length to give you some reach, but not so much weight, that you are not strong enough for the stick.