When are they on uk TV?

Hi

I think you should ask them to make an aruval which is a south indian blade which is widely used in india

Just a suggestion

Nice thx

Terrible joke but still made me laugh

Nathan Carabajal mission success

Serial smither

No decapitation? Not even a throat slit? That ballistics dummy must be gutted!

Hahha that one was good. But the first time I heard Dough saying that I reallsy thought he was.

Same

Same especially after they said the weapon is known for taking heads 🙄

I dont think Doug didnt wanted it. Its more like the contestant’s design sucks for a real head chopper. Look at ancient original Indian talwar, u wont find it with thick blade and long hilts. Its slander with small hilt just enough room for one hand swing. Without exerting much energy head and limbs will be severed.

The sword isn’t meant for cutting off heads

Ya..i was looking forward to it...

what kill test? there are only keeeeeel tests

I believe it’s due to the design of the tulwar. The disk pommel makes you use the sword in a way that favours a drawing cut or slice because it makes it uncomfortable to go for chops by digging into your wrists. Doug is probably not trained to use the tulwar as it was intended to be used so going for the head would have been uncomfortable for him

@@davidpavlovic4612 You got that right. Indian melee combat was largely about striking the body, and not the head.

Karl Dönitz It’s to force the user to cut a certain way. With a European Saber you hold it in a handshake grip and can rotate your wrist, flicking the sword outward to hack into the target. With the tulwar you’re locked into a hammer grip that keeps the sword at a 90 degree angle to your wrist. You can see this as they do the tests. Where the European sword movement is like cutting with an axe, the tulwar is like slicing a tomato, drawing the blade across the surface. Why the Indians preferred this type of cut I do not know. Maybe it has to due with the length of the wound as chopping will go deeper but a slice will make a longer cut. A downside to this type of cut is lack of range as compared to other ways of cutting. Scholagldiatoria has great videos on the subject if you are interested.

@@CS-Student I believe Indian rulers had a long history of bringing home the decapitated heads of enemy commanders or rulers. Beheading was pretty common in the battlefield.

This one was not custom made for the judges, though.

Interesting info Amit, thanks!

If that's the case, then he should of thought ahead and made the handle bigger...

Proof?

akshay kumar google?

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XD

95% of weapons keeleed in this show

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Keal* Keep everyone alive

😏 It will kieaul

I die everytime I hear him say that 💀💀💀😂😂

Shaggy cleaned up didn't he

Clearly he’s changed he went from being a stoner hanging with a talking dog. To forging a sword strong enough to cleave three ribs in two swings

Hahahahahaha!

If Fred and Shaggy had a kid

Who tastes vomit?

What is the purpose at all ? To taste vomit ?

@@YaBoiDREX in some cultures, they only eat vomit.

@@timothyrowland1525 Name the culture in question

Also, Forged in Fire Post-Kill Test janitor

Yeah man, I hands-down agree with you. Jordan's sheer commitment shoes in his sword.

It is wrong on Hinduism

Yeah... Really it's a wrong thing to do.

Oh the irony

Maybe they were Punjabi Talwars?

I was thinking about that too.

Lmao I was thinking the same thing

Mughal Empire approves.

Talwar was used by Indians. But mainly muslim indians from north and Turks origin. Original Hindu Indian like the Tamils and Marathas usually used long straight swords.

Mera bhai ajj v banta hai main sikh hu je too kush v nhi hamere pass gold design wali hai

HAHA

Also that hilt was super sick.

The handle really a work of art

It seldom comes down to those particular details. More often the judges prioritize the weight and strength of the weapon. Lighter weapons always win over heavy weapons (as long as its role as a weapon isn't challenged by a lack of weight) and stronger weapons always win over weaker ones. The problem is that in testing the weapon, it is swung by two or more people with drastically different hand sizes, so even if the handle construction is crucial to overall function of the weapon, it's still two or more people who has to swing the weapon properly. Custom made weapons made on commission for a single buyer should of course be custom fit, but most of these weapons are army weapons, made to be somewhat mass produceable, a regular soldier would likely never be able to get a great custom fit back in the day. If you make a sword that's much lighter and/or stronger than your opponent's you'll never lose anyway. Sure, if your handle construction seriously does not work well for either wielder then you've messed up as the smith, because you likely never molded the weapon to fit even just yourself in that case.

I currently own 5 tulwars (have owned about 5 more). The hilts are always tight, they clamp your fingers together and the disc pommel digs into the bottom of the palm so you can't moulinet, you have to do full arm cuts.

@@Brigadier9 100%. I've also noticed talwars feel very awkward to people not trained to use them. Other one handed blades allow for more adjusting of the hand while the talwars forces you to have a tight hanmmer fist grip on it to condct the type of slashing cuts it was designed for.

@@kronos1794 Where could one receive training for wielding a talwar? Is there an Indian counterpart to HEMA?

@@mcwiwi5915 Unfortunately there aren't many schools for that around. You could get some basic ideas of draw cutting by practicing some saber traditions, but beyond that I'm not sure.

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Agreeeee

I think that will be the catchphrase.

hahaha I thought the same, man has surpassed the dwarven

you know Elven is much better. even the grandmaster armorer was taught by an elven master.

@@intellectracoon *laughs in fire giant*

Elven vs Dwarves, when its about swords of course the Elven win

I searched for this comment because I knew out there, were scumbags just like me.

Correct! That was my first impression when I saw some talwars in India, a long time ago. Short and tight handles for my European mind although I was aware that my knowledge of the swords was and is less than modest.👍⚔👀👳‍♂️

Then it can also be done with a straight sword

Unfortunately the designs didn't help- the idea is to LOCK your wrist into that hilt so you don't use it, and those hilts didn't let that happen.

Ik

me too 😭

underrated comment lol

fun fact: the brahmins (who today militantly profess the prohibition of cow meat eating) themselves used to be the biggest cow munchers on this land, a few millenia ago, while also cooking it in the cow's ghee (a milk product) to make it more savoury.

No problem a talwar is not a Hindu weapon.

@Peter Griffin The Vedas hahha

@@diplodocus3 where'd you learn that genius, from Romila Thapar's book !!? You know that the Aryan invasion theory has been debunked which basically discredits everything in her book, and yeah next time refer to someone who's credible rather than some fool who gives out statements baselessly and then makes a fool out of herself

Talwar not pure Indian.

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Zoinks.

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@CARNAGE !!! It's hindi word taken from sanskrit.. Not farsi

@CARNAGE !!! No it's hindi word taken from sanskrit.... Farsi word is shamsir... Hindi is derived from sanskrit and farsi has no connection from sanskrit language... So how can be a sanskrit word be farsi word??

@CARNAGE !!! The language u are talking about that's avestan... And talwar has no connection with farsi... Persian use shamshir word for sword... Where hindi use talwar for sword.... U can get this basic knowledge by just single google search

@CARNAGE !!! And talwar is laon word in farsi (only in indian subcontinent)

I think it's mostly that the show headhunts accomplished smiths no matter what kind of smithing they do, leaving little or no room to practice if you're still doing your 9-5 non-weapon smithing. It only serves to add credibility to their abilities as a smith if they can bang a competent blade out in a competitive time frame when they've never done it before.

The market is for knives, therefore swords would only be created if a smith was experimenting or living in a region where there is a high enough demand. Most people who want hand forged steel are not looking for as much as a sword with as little utility. Plainly, even if a smith has the skill and experience to produce a sword, they may not have the incentive to.

@@Elrohof Yeah, plus most of them are knife-makers which gives them just enough expertise

Gregory F. Cherry the best sword smiths are back ordered for years so idk about that

Forging a sword is mpre difficult than any other forging job. Forges people use at home are design for smaller blades which makes everything lot harder because you can only heat a small area .

Him saying that alone, is worth 10k

It was the arms lol

Exactly, ancient genuine talwar comes with short hilt but enough to severe limbs. Not these long hilt swords. Furthermore, genuine battle tested swords and design are nothing compared with parade sword we usually seen in Museum. Less ornament and more deathly edge.

Yaa true brother that's what I was thinking too..........Even tho I just love Doug He is clearly Not trained to use a Talwar.

@@anmolshoral no training required to do just a cutting test.

@@RUPEETRADER It is required. Different weapons have different holding technique, Swing techniques and Cutting/Thrusting angles.......so yeahh Proper training is required

@@anmolshoral so, what is holding technique for talwar. If you know please tell.

Lol it's a weapon from Hinduism

Not Indian

Yeah I wanted to see the head off

Especially with a draw cut.

sameer thakur yes..: i realised contestant in This show doesnt really know Asian sword. Even for chinese sword, they forged a fantasy version rather than historically correct version. Genuine Chinese dao is slender, long and single edge with longer hilt capable of using it single handed or two handed. Not some fancy huge broad sword shown in movies.

A genuine talwar will cut in a same manner.

@@jackalshine1369 chinese used different swords in different time periods.

Talwar is not a true Indian weapon

Worrier?

@@ultranium7414 search for The Rathore's history

@@rahulrathod2357 you meant a warrior ,cuz a worrier means the opposite thing of a warrior