It's too late. Rapiers are the new katana, I've seen a man chop a tank in half with a rapier.

@Max PaineWas it a rapier? Or was it a 1796 light cavalry sabre? God help us if it proves to be the spadroon.

@Max Paine Undoubtedly thrusting whilst shouting his deafening battle cry "Have at you, good sir!"

Aren't hexagonal sections decent at cutting?

@@jordanwilliams6972 depends how broad the blade is. A flattened hexagonal section on a broad cutting blade? Works fine. A 10mm wide hexagonal blade with distal taper from 8mm to 4mm? Not a good cutter

Is that not like comparing a musket and an S&W 6-shot revolver?

lol

I can't help but visualize a thigh high pile of edged weapons just out of frame, with a single path between the camera and the wall for him to pace back and forth.

Like a ball pit, but swordy.

Having seen several prior incarnations of Matt’s home, you’re not wrong.

Bag of holding off camera

Mimics disguised as spadroons

Exactly my opinion of the rapier. Throw on some armor and get inside the reach with your own weapon . . It is the sword version of the WWI bayonette.

I believe the people of the era referred to the weilders of the silk handkerchiefs as "Fops". That said, it wasn't an uprising, they were already in charge.

I just got a hilarous image in my head of a reknowned swordsman showing his cutting prowess by slicing silk napkins out of a large silk sheet hanging from a clothesline.

A handkerchief cutter is like an Olympic rifle. Useless for combat, but perfect for flexing your skill on a target.

@@psychedashell But if you wanted to show the fops who's boss, bifurcating their pocket square would likely cause them to collapse with a case of the vapors.

Gotta start at the basis, we are not all experts on the matter... Geez, elitist community...

​@@duranpredur1098 ...Where did that come from? Did you even read the comment you replied to?

@@Evan-rj9xy Pretend that i did and make your way backward. I assure you, it may draw a smile from you.

This pun got me laughing out loud. You stranger rock

Menwhile koncerz walks up to it: Don`t worry... they still love us

Estoc bestoc Not really, though... that thing was annoying as all hell to play against :P

"phat"

​@@Elluem Loyce, Ah, I See You're a Man of Culture As Well.

@@Tacticaviator7 Actually, my name isn't a reference to Dark Souls. I had this name long long before Demon Souls came out. Also, it's spelled Eleum Loyce which is SLIGHTLY different. However, I've been waiting for this to happen ever since that dlc dropped. You're the first person to call it out lol My name is actually a reference to Odd World. There were creatures called Elums. Which is Mule backwards. I used the name Elum when I was very young without realizing the joke lol. When I tried to use the name in WoW, it was taken. Probably for a mule account to store items. So I added the e. I do love that zone, though. It had my favorite weapon in the series (tied with zweihander)... BONEFISTS!!!!

agreed. and you cut a muscle, by that i mean to the bone so cut it in half from a point in its length, -as some people say they saw it did- and said muscle will still function...? how? the movement range must suffer. yes some muscles can do "some" of other muscles moves, but it doesnt matter, even if you do(?) the said move, power behind it and the effectiveness of it must change. well, if you re hulk, and your 50 to 10 percent power still bests your opponent, what are you doing playing with him, get a respectable sized stick and your opponent is a pudding. just because the man didnt feel the cut and went on whatever he was doing doesnt mean he was proficient with said limb, wheter hand, forearm -and i reeeally want to see a man- -properly grasp and properly use- -even a knife- -with a diagonal cut to the bone at the forearm- -especially at the palmar side- biceps or legs. again they need to be very strong to efficient(ish)ly using a sword with reduced range and power, not saying it can never be done, but it sounds highly unlikely for most of the time to me. and i saw two videos where a man was cutting tatami mats with a rapier. not hankerchiefs.

Not its speed; simply its reach. It isn't any more difficult to set aside the rapier than any other sword through the slow hand's movement. It's in fact easier if one accounts for the rapier's less-dense mass distribution. That reach alone is what makes the rapier fearsome. One can easily parry the rapier's movements all they like, but compared to most other swords, the rapier will make futile more of those parries unless the distance is finally closed. Many of those comments imply an argument based upon stopping power. It can't be disagreed that, in most cases, a sword hand or neck chopped through holds much more stopping power than a thrust through the same hand or neck. Combat's always moreso about suppression than killing

@Lord Admiral Spire Yhee!

@@RheaMainz The word I would use is incapacitation--rendering your opponent incapable of continuing aggressive or threatening actions--rather than suppression. This holds true even into our age of firearms as well, which is partly why you see the police mag-dumping into suspects (the other part of this would be atrociously poor fireams training among American law enforcement, but that's a completely different issue). Diction aside, your argument is 100% sound.

@@Schwarzvogel1 We could look at the biggest wars to demonstrate my point. The vast amount of shells, bullets and strikes miss, and are often not even directly aimed at people(perhaps analogous to say most melee weapons are targeted against other melee weapons in the form of parries most frequently). I think it more accurate to say Suppression rather than Incapacitation as the primary goal of most combat scenarios

The falchion types Elmslie F1d, F2 and F3c through 5c would disagree with your statement.

Doubly useful if your opponent has a maul.

@@silentdrew7636 Or a mall, where you can set a paint and rapier store.

Context, my friend... He was clearly talking about the right to use weapons... Now on a (not so) serious note, This made me laugh so hard, that I had to show it to everyone at the dinner table. Then I went and read their replies, and had to laugh some more!

Let's not overlook the fact that he mentioned people having bear heads, as well.

Correct, always carried on their right. That's where the saying comes from: "The right, to bear arms". Punctuation is relevant.

I don't think a katana or an arming sword would reliably hack through mail, either--provided that it is proper riveted mail, not the butted mail flogged as genuine armour to the ignorant.

on the counter, i.e. static and unable to dispers energy by giving way, and likely not clad in a linnen shirt and a cloth doublet with glazed linnen linings in the sleeves?

@@LutzDerLurch Yup, the only glazed lining involved was honey and lemon-pepper, the only scientific control was using the same motions once with a rapier, and 5 more times with a butcher knife as I finished turning the brisket into steaks for the smoker. I wasn't surprised the butcher knife did better, I was surprised just how deep the push & draw cuts from the rapier got.

He also referenced cutting pig carcasses

And it will kiel

You mean edged weapon specialist Doug Marcada.

@@sureokk For such an expert he treats swords like baseball bats lol

@@sureokk that's his name! I forgot.

@Jim Nickles try being into guns as well. I'll never have all the fun stuff I want

I wouldn't call that a problem

" I like swords" - "I like turtles"

Freud would say that's not the type of problem you have.

They're So picky about that!!

"Hey Matt, I've hacksawed through all my swords to see their cross-sections & would like to know how you put them back together?"

Don't write rapiers into your medieval fiction

@@jeanpaulgartier3404 I have been coming back to matt's channel for almost two years. I know rapiers don't fit into a typical medieval setting. But I'm writing about a fantasy world so if I want a character to have a rapier than I will give them one :p

They originated in spain, they were taken to the italian territories

@@kyomademon453 thank you for the correction. I guess I should have better indicated that I was thinking of Spain & Italy being where they first became popular & technically developed.

Watch the video :-) There are some rapiers that realistically cannot cut.

@Aint Jack no, but we definitely see square and narrow hex section rapiers with ~ 1x1cm blades at the ricasso

@Aint Jack usually, due to the hilt design. They're just thrust optimised versions of rapiers, often with Taza (cup) hilts

As well as some cup-hilted (particularly Spanish) rapiers which are pretty edgeless for the second half of the blade, there are also transitional rapiers (proto-smallswords) which have similarly edgeless blades. You might be able to get some kind of draw or push cut on bare skin with them, but they aren't going to be chopping through any clothing or flesh.

@Aint Jack oftentimes, yes. Daggers especially are often classified and named almost exclusively by their hilt design. Matt makes a similar point in the video.

This... is a tremendously gross but very valid point. Not just thrusting in-out, but any "sideways" motion or twisting motion while your blade is inside your opponent would vastly increase both the chance of lethality and the speed of incapacitation due to all that nasty internal damage.

Go in peace.

lol

scholagladiatoria epic

Like this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b7Ocoryky528eX0.html Honestly, as much as it's fun to hear Matt Easton rambling, sometimes it would be better if he showed things rather than stating the obvious.

That's the whole point behind rapier wit. Sharp, quick, and to the point.

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Spadroon, Shearing Swords, Pig Sticker...

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Swords with tiny hilts that sandwich your hand between the guard and pommel tend to promote more of a drawing motion (examples include a lot of Indian and Norse swords) . Cavalry swords tend to emphasize moderate chopping to slicing to very dedicated slicing (sabers, kilij, tulwars with a pronounced curvature, etc) Infantry/'standard' cutting specializations were frequently oriented around either the particular task/role or bypassing the expected armor. The harder and more solid armor gets, the less effective slicing becomes (you may chop through maille, not so much draw cut through it) , whereas draw cuts can be plenty effective against opponents in only textile armor, clothes or bare skin. Against plate armor, sword cuts become pretty negligible in their damage whatever their specialized type, though, hence their increasing tendency towards narrower, more thrust-specialized blades that cut with a thin, fine edge once plate really got going rather than a more hack-style of blade more suitable for chopping into maille or padded armor.

@Lord Admiral Spire I'm talking about the typical cruciform dagger which came after the sax and stayed up to the Renaissance. It's essentially a miniature sword. Besides the misericordia, I'm not aware of any daggers without a blade, except for some Sai.

@@edi9892 If I'm not mistaken, some rondels and stilettos also did not have sharpened edges, as they didn't need them.

@@Schwarzvogel1 rondel were typically single edged. Stiletto is for me the modern Italian folding knife. I don't know what you mean instead.

only on thursdays.

AnkanBob is it reference ?

@@Ake-TL 1:58

Don't get too tied up with the thrust, if you don't get any penetration it won't matter. But then, you also don't want to over-penetrate.

Couple inches of tip should be sharpened to provide quick penetration. Zorro didn't cut that pretty Z without a sharp edge.

After all, how deep do you need to go?

It's a custom by Danelli

The original has some decoration on those disks and it's in the Wallace Collection. There are a couple of old videos where Matt goes into more detail.

A gash slash in a flash bash mash by a rash 'tash fash for stash cash.

A backsword with a guard?

Mine is double edged, and it’s almost a full coverage hand guard but less so the a “claymore,” slightly heavier then an early rapier.

If its a spaniard whose using the rapier we don't even need to bother

Still curious if you could join the Longman and the Toxic Brood on a EFAP stream. (Considering how you can cover a subject at length in quite the interesting context, I thought you would be a wonderful guest.)

To be more on topic, this is why Sideswords are bae. (They can be quite fabulous looking as well.)

I believe people in medieval times always referred to swords properly. "Omg, he's got a oakeshott type X! Run!!!"

Sword, sword, sword etc

@@jeanpaulgartier3404 Matt said in video, that "rapier" ment different kind of swords in different countries... So, I suppose its more complicated

@@Mihalkoff rapier comes from the Spanish Espada ropera which means dress sword, I suppose there are exceptions when a sword would be called something or other, but generally? I doubt it

It is a combination of factors. Blade geometry, point of balance, sharpness, heft. Cutting is essentially force or pressure being applied to a proportionally small surface area. This produces a greater density of pressure compared to striking with a broader surface and results in a separating effect, tearing through mass away via teeth like a saw (basically all edges are jagged, the only variation is how small) and/or driving a wedge into it and pushing material away to the sides. Anything that spreads the energy out over a greater area reduces the cutting effect whereas additional energy pushing it in or further reducing the area affected increases it. There are different ways of increasing the potency of this manner of application of force. Some particulars (this is likely not a comprehensive or exhaustive list) -Further reducing the size of the point of contact (ie, making the edge narrower and thus sharper) . However, the sharper the edge, the more fragile it is and the greater its inertia, the more damage the object takes in striking. As inertia increases the energy and thus improves cutting capacity on its own, the larger and heavier the blade is, generally, they will often have an increasingly less fine of an edge for durability purposes and rely more on the inertia to drive the edge through the target. -Increasing the total energy in the motion of the blade, either by moving it faster, making the blade heavier or altering the shape of the blade so as to focus greater inertia into it (and especially towards the tip of the blade) -Altering the edge geometry. Cutting is driving a wedge into something; it is not only the width of the initial contact edge (the sharpness) that matters but the width and rate of increase of that width that matters how easily something will cut because the bigger it is, the more the greater the area that energy gets distributed across. Then there are also factors such as curvature which affect the application of cutting more than the actual cutting capacity of the sword itself. As example, swords that curve away from the cutting edge, as a result of the energy and drag distribution on account of the curve, naturally gravitate towards the curve pulling back and thus effectively helps correct edge alignment. The same is also somewhat true for wider blades. Blades with a very strong curvature, such as some types of sabers or 'scimitars', end up sliding a greater length of sharp edge along a target when swung properly and thus essentially cut with a greater length of the blade, making them very suitable for deep, drawing cuts. There are also different types of cut to consider-chopping, slashing, slicing, pick your terminology. The angle of the cut and how much close it is to perpendicular as compared to parallel are significantly different and some are very effective against certain materials while being very inefficient against others; additionally, how effective a given blade is at any of these types of cut varies significantly by factors such as its curvature, inertia, blade geometry, sharpness, handling and so on. Different sword types can cut in very different ways suited to very different circumstances and targets, so what constitutes as a 'good cutting sword' depends greatly on the complete context. Broadly speaking, though, wide blades, fine edges, a point of balance further towards the tip of the blade, significant curvature and heft are each traits that promote a better cutter in one manner or another.

I think it was Mythbusters that tested straight swords v curved swords( Medieval style arming sword & a sabre) to see which cut better & found they both did much the same. It had been thought the curved sword was better.

Nobody is ever right or wrong, as long as you get the proper context.

@@johnladuke6475 that's just another way of saying that right and wrong are dependent upon the context.

@@biggrigg4281 But it's also a quick summary of 90% of Matt's videos. "Can X object perform Y task?" will pretty much always be answered with "maybe or maybe not, it depends".

Your argumentation ability will greatly increase if you realize that 90% of the time, there is no need for argumentation.

@@krillissue I disagree. Improving your argumentation ability takes practice. Argue about everything as mush as you can.

Looks like a rolled tip, designed to make it safer to thrust with in sparring.