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They're slowly becoming deadly... to themselves

This show not only fills the void that Mythbusters left in my soul, but takes it even farther and covers a wider variety of topics other than just legend testing. I can't understand why it doesn't have 10M subscribers yet.

"So if you stand like this..." Everyone slowly backs away

We need a crossover with this instructor and the HEMA quarterstaff guy.

I'd like to see Ranton review this

I'd just like to correct a few things that this man said about the Japanese bo. For one thing, the bo is not a weapon that was traditionally used in Japanese martial arts. It's an improvised Okinawan weapon owing that status to the fact that the Japanese confiscated the more lethal weapons from the Okinawans. Also, the Okinawan bo is nothing like what he called the "Japanese" bo. The bo is traditionally about the same height as the person using it and it can be wider in the middle and taper down towards both ends or it can be a constant width. Note: I say this as an actual martial artist that practices and is an instructor in an Okinawan martial art.

The aesthetic of this channel with the fairly quick texts and the little circle showing how much time is left of a segment is really nice. Makes this channel stand out more imo. And the hosts are just two dudes being grown manchildren, which never gets old

Guy: pronounces mandarin words incorrectly me, speaking 0 mandarin after 8 years or mandarin: i don't t r u s t you

As someone who trained with actual shoalin monks for 5 years and has been through the same thing it’s very fun to see this from the other side.

I was 100% in as soon as Jason said, "I almost hit myself in the boing loings!"

Shailon also teaches chain whips, swords, and other bladed lethal weapons.

you should do a series where you attempt to convert the van that sits on the property

congratulations on 1 million subs

Shaolins are Warriors. Not just monks. The staff is a *Lethal* weapon. A *very* powerful one too.

I hope Ranton will react to this

I still remember holding the horse stance from my old days of training... I felt the burn in my legs just watching you guys do it.

you know you need to get your hema quarterstaff friends up against these guys right?

YES! I remember asking for this about a year ago or so! Thank you guys for doing it!

I miss the old Modern Rogue opening.

When I first looked at the thumbnail with my peripheral vision, my eyes saw the phrase 'Idiots Learn Staff Fighting.' First thought: _"Well, I guess that's one way to deal with a bad case of office politics..."_ *Looks again* «facepalm» 😂

We need a Ranton reaction to this

I always love it when Jason surprises Brian after doing a different move than what they are specifically practicing.

Note* THAT staff is for sure non-lethal. Take one of those English quarter staffs, and you've got a totally different story. One of those will split your skull in half.

Jason could master quarter staff in his backyard along his nunchuk moves

Any time I see a middle aged white guy teaching martial arts I get skeptical. There's been too many of those "chi knockout" dudes around that were taught be ancient Chinese masters.

Weird I thought this video was going to be about fighting your fellow co-workers in the office? Still a good vid!

You know. YOU KNOW, I want more Shaolin kick butt awesomeness. Please more with these guys.

Honestly I love this channel. Great video as always... Also that ATLA reference comment was absolute GOLD

I was literally thinking about this sparingly in the last two days and you guys post a video on it. Wow. Prophetic.

13:20 Mario: "You're fine." Also Mario: "And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

Two things. Brian cheated at the end, making him drop the staff like that, but perfect ploy for a rogue. ;) ...and Jason could have taken the temple cause his awesome beard would have cowed the temple members into submission. ::nods:: Thats my theory and I'm sticking to it.

That’s staff. But that’s not fighting. That’s dancing.

I believe the philosophy behind the staff is as follows - "Avoid, rather than check. Check, rather than hurt. Hurt, rather than maim. Maim, rather than kill. For all life is precious, nor can any be replaced."

came here after recently playing the surge 1 and 2. the animations are spot on

my man Ranton, come review this

‘The Shaolin temple abhors violence’ Ranton would like to know your location

I'm more impressed by Meyer's or Swetnam's "HEMA" staff than this.

I want to see a rerecord of grilled cheese available on all platforms

Watching in 2020 From my non martial art knowledge, this seems like a pretty comprehensive teaching, Much love from the UK rogues

3:50 'a guard might get nervous...'

Laoshi... Lol replace the "i" with a "u" and it means mouse.

老师：Who are you? 老西：I'm you but stronger

How did I end up spending my morning watching two grown men swing sticks at each other?

13:07 Ah, I see in the background that they brought their training dummy along to learn!

The intro sounds like a Simpson opening.

Brain and The Modern Rogue, I love the show, but I'd like to throw a tiny nugget of information at you. I have watched for a long time, and I noticed something in this video particularly (Although I've noticed it in others, it wasn't as pronounced) when YOU Brian Brushwood are doing these kinds of exercises, and the main difference between yourself, Jason Murphy, and those who had done these kinds of exercises often. Tension. I'll explain my observation, and try and explain why I think this is happening, and make a suggestion as to how you can change the situation, should you chose to. (Oh course, this is the internet, and opinions are like assholes, we all have them, but think everyone elses' stinks, lol.) When Jason starts his practice, you can see that his mental headspace is trying to learn the physical motions, and while that DOES take him a while, they do come more naturally to him, as he's not stressed out about them, he's just having a fun cool time, and trying to figure something out. Your mental headspace seems different. It seems like in your head, you're thinking of this as a real combative experience from the get-go, and so you're actually quite tense. You ARE more precise, at least at the beginning, but in those first few motions, that precision means nothing, because you don't yet know what you SHOULD be doing, lol. Now I'm going to explain a small piece of helpful advice when it comes to mental headspace, and how it connects to both actual combat, and muscle-tissue bio-kinematics. It's easiest to imagine your muscles as elastic bands (it's not precisely correct, but it's a not-entirely-inaccurate analogy) pulling on your bones, and eventually transferring that force into the ground, through friction and contact with the ground. Now if you take an elastic band, and stretch it halfway, how much farther can you stretch it? In comparison from when the elastic was completely relaxed? Not as far. Your muscles are kinda the same in this regard. The more tension they have, they less energy they can provide when contracting quickly, in order to produce a sudden strike. This actually means that tension is precisely the enemy you must face if you want to fight at full efficiency. In general, with most martial arts, (and this staff fighting is no exception) and in fact many sports as well, there is something of a whip, or chain effect when it comes to the different parts of your body, and how they had to move, in order to deliver the maximum possible force to the target. Everything starts slowly, and picks up speed as the motion moves through your body to the eventual point of maximum dynamic expression. In the case of that initial staff-strike, the intent is to have the motion start in your feet, your toes digging into the ground, pushing off, in order to change their orientation, in relation to the ground. The motion then should move up your legs, to your hips, where it picks up tremendous force and speed, and only as you cannot stop the motion, should your arms and hands move. The arm and hand motions should be delayed slightly after the foot and hip motions, in order to gain maximum force, you don't do all those things simultaneously. It's kinda like the difference between pushing a swing as it comes to a standstill, instead of stopping the swing to push it. One obviously works better, lol. And this is where the headspace thing comes into place. If you thing of these kinds of practices as just fun interesting movements, you won't be as tense. If you're not as tense, you won't be using your muscles as much, and you won't tire out so fast. You'll also be changing your muscles from a fully relaxed state, to a fully contracted state, which is the maximum energy-output possible for muscle fibres. In other words, by trying to relax and enjoy the experience, you'll actually do a lot better, be a lot smoother in your execution, and learn a lot easier. Not this is all just my own observation of your motions, posture, timing, etc. and I could easily be wrong, so always take anything I say with a grain of salt. Not to mention the fact that I don't claim to be any kind of expert on this kind of thing, but I will say that I know a few things, and I'd rather share them in the hopes they help. I'm sure there are others here who can kindly correct some of the specifics in my suggestions that are slightly erroneous, that's assuming they or anyone even reads all this... TL;DR Brain Brushwood, you should just try and relax, and have fun with this kinda stuff, lol. Don't let your competitive nature trip you up! Anyways, hope you're well, keep up the good work!

I saw the intro and my immediate thought Avatar The Last Airbender. The staves look like Aang's (minus the gliders) and the fighting style (seemed) to be similar.

Up next: Ray Park teaches you how to do this, but with double bladed red lightsabers.

I havnt watched these guys before but they are really great students to watch learn, I feel like they ask all the important questions to get the right lessons out of the teachers

Brian, in all these martial videos you need a narrower stance. They say shoulder width and you go almost double. In this one he said double shoulder width and you went almost triple.

5:10 - I don't know, why but my point of focus at this part of the video was Jason and I was into wheezy old man laughter territory in no time! First 2 cycles of the stick were spot on and then he sees speed introduced and suddenly it's all over the place haha. The hallway concept got him back on track. If only someone told me about spinning the broom in a hallway when I was 7, I'd be a Shaolin monk now.. bah!!

This seems like more show than defense or anything

[Ranton has joined the chat]

Shit, that takes me back. I haven't done any kung fu in almost 20 years now. Still have my gun staff in the wardrobe, now that I think of it.... though I always thought it was spelled guan - but I guess since it uses a completely different writing system, a bit of variation is to be expected.

I'd love to see more of this, maybe get into smoother moves as you get better? Keep it up lads

7:15 Jason gets: *High Five!* Brian gets: *TREE GUARD*

Hey guys thx for the Raycon promo! I didn't know they existed. I just ordered their headphones (instead of the ear buds) and can't wait for them to arrive.

Wow, that style is extremely inefficient. Looks good though!

I used to watch this channel all the time, but for whatever reason stopped. I recently started watching again, and oh man did I forget how much I loved this show!

This had nothing to do with learning the basics of fighting my co-workers and counter-workers. 1/10

Congratulations on finding 1,000,000 other rogues! We’ve finally gained an army and now we shoot for 10 million!

All I can think about when watching this is "Star Wars Kid".

Congrats on 1 mil

Congratulations on 1 MILLION subs guys! Much deserved and maybe a bit concerning..

Congratulations on 1M subs!!!

Modern Rogue learns staffs... Step back people given 'em LOTS of room.

seems more theatrical than martial..

I was waiting for this I need to know how to beat ninjas fast

I have taken one main thing away from this video, while that man may have trained for years, and have attained his position through dedication and time, he is not a master. He just seems to have difficulties explaining the simple ideas. Now one thing to note, he is trying to explain to two laymen things that typically are introduced after 6months-1year of training, after developing a decent foundation upon which things are built upon. Taking that into account, I am willing to concede that not having a foundation, or even knowing them well, would have caused many people to have difficulties explaining. As my Instructor always said in the decade or so I trained with him, as a teen/young adult, "You have to learn to walk before you can learn to run, so why would I teach you to control an external weapon before you have control over your internal ones?" Yes, he was blunt, but he made a good point, you have little hope to learn a small portion of a martial art without the proper building blocks of the whole thing. Like doing only the center of a puzzle, only you have half the pieces missing. What I would like to see though, is them going through a proper training system, something more than just the day or two they spend with these guys, perhaps something where they compare a month vs 6 months vs 1 year. I don't mean everyday for 16 hours a day training either. I am thinking along the lines of 2-3 hours every other day(and that is including proper strength building/cardio/flexibility as well) But this comment was long, and will be ignored by most.

Brian is such a teachers pet 😂😂 love this channel!!

11:49 the perfect parallel squat :)

I listened to this video with the raycons I bought after your first sponsored video with them. Gotta say, they're definitely worth it. Good choice in sponsor guys!

Congrats on 1 million 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Congrats on hitting a million!

'Historical Weapons Guild VS Shaolin Temple Cultural Center ; A Rogue's Deathmatch' I can see this happen right now....

call Ranton

I loved the way you recorded this video

fighting with broomsticks

0:55 - Bob from Film Riot.

You guys should do something with DTMF (Duel-tone multi-frequency) tones. One thing you can do is call a phone from a touch-tone phone without pushing the buttons of the touch-tone phone you are calling from, there might be more things you could do with DTMF tones and I was wondering what you might come up with.

Very happy to watch you guys hold sticks for 20 mins

Not to be mean or anything, but that guy kind of sounded like Kermit the Frog.

When looking for a Kung Fu master don't go to someone that says that teaches "Shaolin Kung Fu". Shaolin Kung Fu is an umbrella term because Shaolin monks learned different styles depending on the region they were. The most general style is Wushu. In addition, the Japanese bo staff was originally used as a farming tool in Okinawa used for carrying buckets, which explains the thickness. And in the first kobudo kata for bo staff you also perform the batting move that this guy in the video says that isn't done with the Japanese bo staff. You guys should go to a kobudo or karate dojo that teaches weaponry to learn bo staff fighting.

You guys need to do an episode on how to get into a locker vehicle to retrieve your keys (or other things).

brain-wan kenobi he’s in his Jedi training

You guys should have done this with ranton, great youtuber and ex shao lin

Now we just need a beatdown between the shaolin Stick guys and the Longstaff boys from HEMA >:D

Seems kinda illegitimate, at AHWG at least y'all got to test things out with the smelly armour

Happy 1 mil!

Shaolin takes forever to get good at, it takes a few years. It also didn't look like Shaolin techniques at all.

I wasn’t expecting another upload so soon. I’m stoked about it though!

if love to see you guys trying to do all those jumping moves 😂

i love that you guys upload more and more frequently😉

The staff is so dangerous it's banned in Australian medieval combat simulations. Because poking some in the face or most places is so much force it's going to break something. But the skill involved is really interesting. Thanks for the video. But even a broom handle is a deadly weapon!

is the fighting staff similar to a pool cue?

I love how murphy is just there in the background for most of the video

*DISCLAIMER:* Despite what the Laoshi said, a waxwood staff can ABSOLUTELY be used as a deadly weapon. Train responsibly.

One of these days you guys need to have orange slices on set ready for when Jason makes that joke.

The boingloings, somebody got hit in the boingloings, the boingloings.