Hope you enjoyed watching the video! And a massive thank you to Matt Easton for all of his HEMA and battle expertise. Want to match more from Matt? Make sure to check out his channel! kzread.info/dron/t14YOvYhd5FCGCwcjhrOdA.html

@vroomkaboom108

Жыл бұрын

Clicked because of him, whoever had the idea to have him deserves q raise!

@-umbra-1590

Жыл бұрын

cool video! you should watch the scene where Aemond trains with Criston in the court yard, when Aemond is older in episode 8

They said they intentionally made the jousting armor ridiculously ostentatious and nonfunctional, to show how decadent they’ve become due to going 60 years without a major war

@boarfaceswinejaw4516

Жыл бұрын

what always bothers me is the lack of neck protection.

@oggiwa

Жыл бұрын

They made it like that cause it’s fantasy

@lorddaquanofhouserastafari4177

Жыл бұрын

Sure mister sheep what other excuses do you have for us

@kahlbutomacfarland

Жыл бұрын

Hi there!

@Hc.krd1

Жыл бұрын

@@chriseffpunkt4333 or maybe you’re a spastic and can’t understand anything

Regarding Daemon's open helmet: It's customary in Westeros to hold back against royals(kings, princes) in tournaments for fear of injuring or even killing them. By wearing an open helmet Daemon forces his opponents to hold back even more or harming a prince.

@beenright5115

Жыл бұрын

Still doesn't discount the point of flying splinters, unless they weren't supposed to hit him at all

@koreancowboy42

9 ай бұрын

​@beenright5115 again it's all about style and representations of their house. After all most jousting tournament people wear all kinds of armors

@Kalenz1234

8 ай бұрын

Yes, that would be the point. Daemon is very clearly a daredevil with little to no regard for his personal safety (shown later by his solo charge at the beach). All for his personal glory. So by wearing an open helmet he increases his chance to win the tournament a little but increasing the risk of injury immensely is part of his character. @@beenright5115

@kingjonstarkgeryan8573

2 ай бұрын

@@beenright5115 Daemon is honestly just that fearless. He is the most dangerous man in the world during this time period.

Finally someone gives credit for how awesome A Knight's Tale was

@stevenhernandeznon-profitf968

Жыл бұрын

Right?!

@ben1ben2ben1

Жыл бұрын

the jousting anyway. The movie was awful

@StUCaboose

Жыл бұрын

@@ben1ben2ben1 False

@amiciprocul8501

Жыл бұрын

"You knew me, and still you rode?"

@christophermccarthy884

Жыл бұрын

Great movie, but that ridiculous armor with the exposed throat just made me shudder.

In GRRM's world, the term Longsword is usually misapplied to mean a long but single handed arming sword. Daemon wields the famous sword Dark SIster, which is a Bastard sword with a slender Valyriansteel blade originally made to be used by a woman.

@Alexander-tu3iv

Жыл бұрын

@@magnusthered4973 It was specified that the blade was "made for a woman's hand" Although it's unknown which woman as it was forged before Visenya was born

@asherroodcreel640

Жыл бұрын

Swords are dexterity weapons, a narrow blade would just require better edge alignment and in exchange for faster movements

@mediumvillain

Жыл бұрын

@@magnusthered4973 As per GRRM's description of it, the size & shape of the blade was literally "designed for a woman's hand", so no, theyre not confused, they just read the description of the weapon, which is on the wiki and sourced

@theoldpokemonsage3067

Жыл бұрын

@@magnusthered4973 You're the confused one lmao.

@RhaevanHeims

Жыл бұрын

@@magnusthered4973 Both the sword hilt and blade is slender compared to other typical Bastard swords.. Doesn't mean it's very small or slim or anything.. just a little bit slender.. It's the same length as any other bastard sword in the story..

Interesting historical fact: Horse Armor was the first DLC in history.

@InvictusByz

Жыл бұрын

...no it wasn't?

@VinnyFromTheBurb

Жыл бұрын

Older games used to have expansion packs with whole new disc with the content.

@InvictusByz

Жыл бұрын

@@VinnyFromTheBurb And even after that, a quick google search will confirm a DLC recognizable by all today's standards in 2002 for a mech game on Xbox. And taking your angle and pushing it even further, tabletops games have had expansion books and boxes for decades before Horse Armor.

@Mk_Otaid

Жыл бұрын

Horse armor ain't the first dlc in history but it was the first of the "microtransaction/cosmetic-only" kind. It's notorious for being the one that started the whole trend of selling smaller bits of content that aren't necessarily remarked as expansions.

@caad5258

Жыл бұрын

what a meme

so what I'm gathering from his final thoughts is that GoT might have actually learned from their mistakes.

@lolcats987654321

Жыл бұрын

Condal is killing it.

@Swarm509

Жыл бұрын

Maybe not so much learned as have new people working on this one with different priorities with the combat/weapons/armor. That being said there is less and less excuses for why they wouldn't know how medieval combat/etc actually happened with just what is on KZread these days. A major wealth of knowledge to be found.

@alexman378

Жыл бұрын

Yes. First things first, replace the original team.

The reason they are running is A: to save Daemon and B: to surround and trap the crab feeders army before they can retreat into the caves. So they have to run.

@kingjim9619

Жыл бұрын

Exactly theres analysis and not even watching it at all

@gameco5162

Жыл бұрын

@Dank Waifu thats what happens when an army runs into a battle, formation gets pretty well thrown out the window.

@axlYode

Жыл бұрын

@@gameco5162 only in poor movie battles, guarantee you no one ever fought this way

@Silverfish-qv8ig

Жыл бұрын

Whatever the circumstances, running out of formation at a well-drilled opponent is suicide. He is absolutely right.

@Moobeus

Жыл бұрын

@@Silverfish-qv8ig are you serious? If they don’t encircle them, they all go back in their caves, their plan fails and they lose the war. . In war there is no such thing as “never”, you have to be willing to break any convention to achieve victory. Chuichi Nagumo and you would get along very well, you can find him at the bottom of the pacific.

on the battle against the crabfeeder it makes sense for them to sprint, the objective of the velaryon army is to prevent the pirate army form retreating into the caves, the pirates are also not keeping a formation because Leanor and his dragon may arrive at any time so they need to kill Daemon asap, if they do they win the war and force the Velaryons to retreat

@DainHunter

Жыл бұрын

Nice one!

Daemon is crazy enough to joust with an exposed face. A few nutters have in the real historical past, and daemons as crazy as they come lol Also the battlefield is too broken up with debris and ship parts for proper unit cohesion, they're trying to get the pirates stuck into a melee before they can get back into their caves

@joshuawatts1924

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure most knights took dives against royalty especially if the dude had an exposed face lol

@seanpoore2428

Жыл бұрын

@@joshuawatts1924 that's is also definitely a possible factor lol

Lets see him react to Malenia's Waterfowl Dance.

@nikkothegoblin

Жыл бұрын

It's clearly a technique from 13th century Spanish manuscripts

@stefvanroey8191

Жыл бұрын

Honestly sekiro would be fun

@ZagorTeNayebo

Жыл бұрын

@no fun you wot mate

Always love when this dude shows up

@SeemsLogical

Жыл бұрын

You can see him show up every day if you sub to his KZread channel: ScholaGladiatoria. He's arguably the most well read and accessible historical arms expert on the internet today.

@happy_camper

Жыл бұрын

@@SeemsLogical well-put. He’s very in touch with his community and makes content to suit.

@nicholasricardo8443

Жыл бұрын

Sub to his channel then!

@Orinslayer

Жыл бұрын

Yeah he's actually a teacher unlike certain other... individuals.

Always love to see Mr. Easton talk about penetration and the flail he has in his study. And Vegetis.

What do you think of the design of the king's guard armor, especially over the chest. The way the banding comes together seems ideal to catch a point and insure it is guided in for a solid thrust. Reminds me of the big V or chevron reinforcement on jousting armor to take the tip off the chest and to the shoulder away from the face but when the show designers turned it upside down it has the opposite effect and seems very dangerous

it's worth noting that most of the original wasn't about the fights. They didn't prioritize them for that reason until about season 4. There's even a battle in season 1 (I think) where they just skip right past it.

@coldscorpion6973

Жыл бұрын

it was for lack of budget

@rightmunted7538

Жыл бұрын

D & D absolutely did not want to just skip over their fight scenes, most of the battles they skipped over they did because it was out of their budget. Not to mention how they actually inserted fights where they could, for example in the books Jaime vs Ned isn't a fight between the two, Jaimes men attack Neds on horse back and Ned rides down one or two Lannister soldiers before his horse trips and break his leg but in the show they made it a whole fight.

@junethanoschurchill6750

Жыл бұрын

@@coldscorpion6973 it wasn’t for lack of budget, the battle is skipped over in the book too

@grymckr

Жыл бұрын

@@junethanoschurchill6750 Think he's talking about Green Fork, which is not skipped over in the book - we read it from the perspective of someone in the thick of the melee.

@eunit8899

Жыл бұрын

@@junethanoschurchill6750 you're thinking of Whispering Wood

I'm disappointed he didn't talk about Corlys Velaryon's axe, but it was used in the video footage.

Why's it making a metallic sound? It's an Ironwood Bannister of course 😉👌

When is someone going to make a movie or series where Matt Easton plays a sword combat trainer. I'd watch it in a heartbeat. As long as he's also off screen trainer.

@infantiltinferno

Жыл бұрын

Lol every episode would start with a disclaimer saying it would be "quick" and then it would go off on a 20 min sub-plot for context.

Dunk and Egg has the potential to be a 10 episode class on 15th century/ Westerosi weapons.

One correction: We have copious documentation of folks jousting with a loose helm/open face, or no helm at all. People be cray-cray the same way they will engage in countless other forms of deadly combat without a helm, so too with jousting. Indeed, many soldiers of all types throughout history have been willing to forego, or willingly compromise their head/face protection for the ability to see, hear, speak and breathe more easily. On the one hand, helmets are without a doubt the most important bit of kit you could ever have. One bonk to the head, and you're done. However, they also rob the wearer of many of their most vital senses. The only reason they use such overbuilt helms in jousting is because the rider doesn't actually have to do anything but look forward and go along for the ride. They aren't really "fighting" in any 3D, dynamic sense.

Dragon rider is who matters at the end. Not the dragon. Doesn't matter how big the dragon is. Rider must be experienced. Look at how small Moondancer is and what she does to Sunfyre.

@gunplagoblin9658

Жыл бұрын

Sunfyre was already heavily injured during that battle though.

@isiaharellano3789

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but who was the most dragon kills in the Dance tho? Moondancer is just basically fighting a ragged Sunfyre. Not at all amazing.

@Captain_Insano_nomercy

Жыл бұрын

Sunfyre fought Maelys and Grey Ghost before Moondancer

@Mourtzouphlos240

Жыл бұрын

Battle at the God's Eye.

@kingjim9619

Жыл бұрын

Spoiler

That stop thrust followed by the power assisted downward cut was just *chef's kiss.

Always a pleasure when Matt is on these segments!

the velaryon army was running to surprise the crabfeeders so they couldn’t escape to cave

What about the noblemen carnage during the tournament? Bye to the future of so many houses... Hilarious

@14:29 In the books, this is actually Criston Cole's choice of weapon.

I've been watching the Highlander tv series lately, and have been wondering what our expert here thinks of the sword fights in the show. Some are obviously limited by the low skill levels of their guest stars, but some are quite interesting, particularly a series of fights involving an antagonist who has an old fashioned hook hand.

"Who doesn't have a flail sitting around in their study?" - cracked me up

Been waiting for this one.

The fights have been better than GoT, so have the hero weapons. The weapons in GoT looked like something from Marto and the stage combat looked like a renfaire. Those aspects are far improved.

@SvenDzahov

Жыл бұрын

Yeah imo the attention to detail and production is far increased

@keighlancoe5933

Жыл бұрын

The annoying thing is GoT started out so well, everyone wore actual suits of armour, helmets, everything; then it all devolved and practically everyone was prancing around in leather.

Love my boy Matt Easton, these shows need to hire the bloke seriously

Love these videos

I'm surprised by how much Matt liked these. Nice hear of these improvements.

8:45 not to mention that this type of helmet (a great helmet) is 13th century thing, while their armour looks about century or two more advanced.

This was a great breakdown, thanks.

Hi. Nice video, btw Chair in backgeound is just gorgeous.

Narratively speaking, the fact that the kids aren't wearing helmets may also indicate how needlessly cruel sir Criston was when he had the kids start sparring with each other.

Since, “A Knight’s Tale.” That is my go-to background movie, always on during laundry.

around @5:13 the Arrows stopped because he was wearing plot armor, that's the reason why it didnt go through his body as much as it would and all injuries are 100% non-lethal.

18:01 Yup and having the knees bent also helps you lunge forward more quickly and explosively

If you shoot at a spinning or turning person the arrow won’t penetrate as deeply as a still target. Hang a roast beef on a string and spin it , and shoot it wile it’s spinning. It would make a great video Matt. Do you have a bow Matt ? We never see it if you do ?

Not doubting their authenticity, but I'd be worried about stabbing armour or another hard surface with the eared dagger displayed- there doesn't seem to be a lot to stop the hand slipping up the dagger on impact and causing injury to the user. Much rather have something more substantial personally!

Cool to have Matt on IGN, love the HEMA community and how this is being brought more mainstream. Hope to see Skallagrim, Shadiversity, Metatron, etc on mainstream channels too

@henrikaugustsson4041

Жыл бұрын

Skallagrim and Shadiversity are basically hacks, imo. They BARELY know what they're talking about and get butthurt when someone points it out. Matt Easton and Metatron at least have a lot of credibility. Wish Antony Cummins would get some more airtime, though. He's an expert on lots of samurai/ninja stuff.

@1v966

Жыл бұрын

@@henrikaugustsson4041 give me literally one instance of Skal getting butthurt

Sword expert reacts to The last duel maybe....

Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon will always have better combat than Rings of Power.

@gaunterodimm6370

Жыл бұрын

Ofc. Serious shows vs a children’s show

@desmondd1984

Жыл бұрын

Choreography laughably bad on RoP.

@alphanerd7221

Жыл бұрын

@@gaunterodimm6370 These aren't serious shows. They are soap operas.

@afazekas81

Жыл бұрын

lol. Gandalf would solo the whole HotD cast! Tbh they couldn't even defeat Jamie, Arya or Jon!

@afazekas81

Жыл бұрын

@@desmondd1984 Gandalf hair is more epic then anything this crap can dish out!

6:02 did you notice when he says you are more likely to fall over due to running a dude actually falls over?

It's Valyrian leather, its as strong as chain mail

@Baelfyre

Жыл бұрын

There's no such thing as Valyrian leather.

@bigbitehood1353

Жыл бұрын

@@Baelfyre there's also no such thing as jokes. Lighten up dude

@labangrankvist2993

Жыл бұрын

xD

@Gigipretty64

Жыл бұрын

Dragon leather no?

@sniffsniffmmm8873

Жыл бұрын

@@bigbitehood1353 WOOOOOOOSSSHH nice XD

Even once firearms were a thing, one generally didn't just sprint as fast as possible. There's a lot of ground to cover, and if you're too tired to fight effectively when you get there, that's bad. Full-on sprinting for as far as possible didn't really come in until guns that could shoot fast enough to make every second crossing the open field highly dangerous. An ordered advance, followed by a charge at the last moment where you have just enough distance left to get up to speed before encountering the enemy is usually the much better tactic.

@sjonnieplayfull5859

Жыл бұрын

Rome: Total War had quotes from historical figures during loading screens. One of then read: "What can a man do, who charges when out of breath?"

love that roll

16:09 Ned Stark sparring with a dwarf

I’ve always figured a flail was used for laying about from horseback. That on foot you would use a fixed mace.

It was Morbin time.

Well done

Body armor with no helmet or gauntlets could be weight/endurance training

Makes sense that the troops went running because it was their Prince and a dragon rider, who went in to drag out the crabfeeder

More respect for the series after hearing this! Wow...

technically speaking his valyrian sword should have broke the chain off criston morning stat

@josephdragunov374

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, if that was Dark Sister, that could have cut anything since Valyrian swords are supposed to be the sharpest in the world.

Matt Easton! Wohooo! 🥰

MORE MATT EASTON MATTS OUR GUY

17:35 I'm not sure if Cole meant this as a comment on stance or pride in general.

great technical term, higgledy-piggledy

“Higgaldy piggaldy” 6:10

6:45 Yup. The showrunners wasted a moment to build up a true Westorosi armored force facing rebels. Could have really made the Valaereon men at arms as a formidable force.

“Who doesn’t have a flail sitting around in their study?”😂

Really more historically accurate than the last duel?

Bro that was a flying knee which is a devastating move

Mr Easton!

thats it, im going to create the "higglety pigglety formation"

Have him analyze the rest of the episodes.

Splintered lances lead to the deaths of several medieval kings.

higgeldy piggeldy is now my phrase of the day

GOT still wide shots with the peerformers performing iss just better for me

If we believe Thucydides, Greek hoplites would frequently charge the enemy on foot during their advance, and it seemed to work for them. Just ask the Persians.

@CaptPoco

Жыл бұрын

There's a difference between a charge in formation... and just running forth like an unruly mob of Braveheart extras.

The Italian call them "mulignan"-Tony Soprano

"unit cohesion" in battle.....watch "The Last Kingdom" with shield walls.

Why didn’t he cover the kid fight 🤔

Moulinette Rouge was a very different movie.

now lets see what this guy says about the fight scenes in rings of power

@sjonnieplayfull5859

Жыл бұрын

Fight scenes????

Hey! Matt on IGN?!

We can excuse running and losing formation because it's GRR Martinworld, not reality

Higgledy- piggledy :D

Just realized Eamon beat Criston with a sword while sparing him in a flail...foreshadowing?

@joshuawatts1924

Жыл бұрын

He lost the sword in the middle of the fight. Didn’t win with it for sure and he lost the fight overall

Daemon only wears armour for the looks of it.

Surprised he was fine with the Crab Feeder's men attacking Daemon one at a time 🙄. They had plenty of time to surround him.

@RhaevanHeims

Жыл бұрын

Crabfeeder thought Caraxes must be near.. So he sent his men in formations to kill Daemon.. When he realised it wasn't working, he sent his entire force.... And look what happened..... Seasmoke happened!

@criticalbil1

Жыл бұрын

@@RhaevanHeims he sent out his men one at a time so Daemon killed them one at a time 😂

@RhaevanHeims

Жыл бұрын

@@criticalbil1 yes.. when Crabfeeder realised that wasn't helpful he sent out in groups and daemon had to stay a second longer and he got hit my arrows... When you're a battle commander, you don't send your entire men in one big wave.. Just like that.. there's a huge chance that they've been watched and could've been ambushed.. But when Daemon was getting too close, Crabfeeder realised ambush or not, he must send more men, and he did.. And he got ambushed.. The only thing one could judge about this battle is how Corlys and the soldiers ran, without formation, just sprinting... One could argue it's because Daemon was surrounded.. (but he wasn't, since Laenor and Seasmoke already cleared the field)

In the Dameon on the beach scene it bothers me that the enemy come at him one after another, allowing him to take down each one singly.

@cptclonks7279

Жыл бұрын

There are arrows flying. Most are tryna sprint at him to stop him. If they stopped and formed a formation they'd get hit with arrows and daemon could just go elsewhere.

@mattweems7842

Жыл бұрын

@@cptclonks7279 What he's doing is something nobody did in muscle powered warfare except berzerks who then quickly died. You stay in formation, a man on the left and another on the right and engage as a group.

Lots of people making fun of this one guy and all those bows and they don't hit. Actually it is very difficult to hit a moving target. Just ask a hunter or if you have tried to shoot clay pigeons.

If a guy was galloping full force and hit you with a massive lance in a gap in your plate armor in a joust, would mail armor really make much a difference? I’ve seen experiments where arrows have no problem penetrating mail, so would a lance be any different?

@ninodino444

Жыл бұрын

It definetly helps for the splinters and it is one more barrierer that the lance has to go through if it can penetrate the plate . But yes Mail alone would never stop the lance let alone the force it produce on the body

@Drelam

Жыл бұрын

Probably not much, but at least it'd hold your body together a bit better though you're still going to probably die it won't be so sudden.

Me thinks a decent historically based drama wouldn't go a miss.

Isn't this the guy who Otto ordered the hanging of during Ep 9? Bro tried to snitch

Higgledy piggledy

Now do a reaction to Ring of Power

@Roxas77

Жыл бұрын

So that he can vomit from the wokeness?

@awesomness36

Жыл бұрын

@@Roxas77 actually come up with real criticisms rather than repeating a word like an impotent moron

To be fair, they wouldn’t have had practice swords to train the hobbits

Great video, really, but please can we stop the "high tech" sound effects? It didn't work in 2005, even less today.

In game of thrones they have a tourney and one of the guys dies cause a splinter goes through his neck.

Oil is how you deal with people in caves

I'm looking for a way to learn swordsmenship..

@BigDave15

Жыл бұрын

Look for a local HEMA group or other weapons martial arts group near you online.

Okay, but.. I;ve never heard of this 'eared' dagger. What are the ears for?

@garrenbrooks4778

Жыл бұрын

Oh wait until you hear about bollock daggers lol

Not even a mention of Corlys' dane ax Mat? Im dissapointed.

Can someone confirm that "higldypigldy" is a legitimate English saying? (Please say yes)

Can you do it with the movie Kingdom of Heaven ? please