It's not the guy in front of you who usually get you- Me suddenly realises: that's probably why Pawns take diagonally!

"I just got hurt doing a knife disarming lesson" There is a lesson to be learned here.

Most people : " I'm learning a new language in lockdown" Me : learning to wield a one handed spear with a broom in my kitchen

"Dueling with spears is rubbish!" oh boy do i know from playing banner lord tournaments 1v1 spears

First cut in 9 years, and he apologizes. What a gentleman!

Lindybeige prepping us for postpandemic warfare

10:01 Lloyd single-handedly wins the Hundred Years War: Orléans, 1429 Colorized

Can we all appreciate the fact that lindybeige goes to such lengths to ensure that his viewers can hear him clearly that he starts to yell when a loud motorcycle passes? “I’M REALLY USEFUL!” The amount of dedication this man has for his videos is tremendous. Much respect.

I imagine during ancient times spear/shield infantry will face off each other stabbing and blocking until the bell rings and everybody retreats for lunch.

Every Lindibeige video feels like "Eh do I want to watch this? I'll try for 2 minutes." Then 30 minutes pass and you think "Wait! I want to know more about this obscure historical concept!"

"hey, there is a small strip of dirt beween a busy road and a railroad. That would be perfect for our video" Lindybeige, the day after knife disarming lessons.

I like how much this demonstrates just how important unity among the group is. A single person taking a step back could cause the formation to shatter as the man next to him get killed, and a hole opens in the line

When they start dueling at 9:25 it reminded me of bannerlord when you are sometimes given a shield and spear to duel someone in a tournament.

I have a student (I teach college) that does a lot of reenactment, and predominantly uses 1h spear and shield. They have to argue how effective the spear is against everyone else's point of view the sword is the best thing ever. One day I brought a lot of my boffer gear, and let them do a demo. I had 2h swords, 1h swords, 1h spears, and a variety of others... The student always carries their shield with them in their vehicle, and mopped the floor with the other 20 students or so. Since that day, students respect the spear and shield! I need to send them this video!

"It's almost never the guy directly in front that gets him but one of his team mates to the side" (paraphrasing) this is why in chess pawns cant attack in front but only diagonally, they are representing conscripts with shield and spear.

It is 3 in the morning and for reasons I can’t really explain, I am completely enthralled by a KZfaq channel that explains how all my favorite movies are wrong about everything. Incredible.

During this house arrest it would be great to read “In Search of Hannibal”.

My man apologizing for one video cut when most youtube videos are made from million cuts... You're humble legend, sir

This is why the Gauls decided that if both armies felt like it they’d just send their best guys out to duel it out with swords and shields, while both sides watched and then just go home afterwards accepting whatever payment they had to make to the other side when both sides where Gaulish

10:45 Actually a tactical win, he prevented and thus won the NEXT generation of their fight, rendering his son's future opponent nonexistent!

“He is not fertile anymore” - First known German to crack a joke in history

Lads poking each other with long things seems right up my alley.

Looking at this, you start to realize why shield walls became such an effective formation and later why a shield wall formation would collapse their center on purpose and if the enemy pursued, the enemy would find themselves flanked.

"Alright you horrible invaders, come at me one at a time!"

Oh I assure you Lindy I'm very experienced in one-handing my spear already.

I imagine Lindy's ancestors fought in every war in history, and they were all exactly like him. "Alright lads! Fight vigorously!"

The “you’re no longer fertile” was easily the prime of this video

Real Soldiers: use spear and shield LARPers: that`s illegal

"For those of you who love spending money, Macintosh" That was a pretty good jab. (spear pun)

LINDYMAROON! Doesn't have the same ring to it.

This video showcases the teamwork needed during a fight back then. You had to make opening for others to seize. I wonder how much of a tendancy they had to think like gamers in fighting videogames nowadays ( " my teammates suck, look at how many openings i've made and they did nothing" ) and how much of an impact that had on morale.

I had been wondering when this would finally come out. As a member of Tremonia Fechten, let me say that we (or atleast everyone I've talked to) had a tremendous amount of fun over the course of your visit. Not only in the informative spear-pointy part, but also the late evening talks around the fire. Cheers, mate!

What are those weird loud horseless chariots that keep passing in the background??

I was under the impression that a two-handed spear was held with the off-hand in front, to maximise your thrusting capability from the back, with your dominant hand.

Your longer video's are very nice to open up on my second screen whilst working from home during quarantine. Thank you!

I just tried out the great courses plus, and I've gotta say, your content is far and away better and more engaging then theirs.

A spear video without an ever longer option? Unacceptable. Heh.

Ever since his last thing about spears all I ever use in dnd or RPG’s is the spear and shield whenever possible, and even in game it’s honestly done me better than all the times I used swords

Ahhhh Lindy, i love these types of videos! Thank you

Hey Lindy, your field trip videos have always been the best. Please do more!

"Und jetzt bin ich tot." lol. Please do more German videos, Lindy!

Thank you for keeping contents out in this quarantine time, I don't mind having a video from 1997.

Any video you make is amazing. i wish more youtubers were like you lindybeige. Knowledgeable, charming and witty.

Great video, I love how you explain many facets of the fighting. Nice job!

spear are good tool to teach people about social distancing xD

Love this upload, it's fascinating with this kind of history. Thanks Mr Beige

2:17 Lindybeige proving one of "Murphy's Laws of Combat" again: "If the enemy is in range, so are you". :-)

This was amazing!! Absolutely fascinating!

I've actually never been more hyped for one of your videos after the last spear demonstration. Well done.

Why have a spear as opposed to a sword? Because I’m poor.

Great video, very useful to visualise how these battles went down. I was starting to miss these kind of videos

Lindybeige's sponsored messages are the only ones I'm not guaranteed to skip, since he somehow manages to present them with enough humour to make them worth watching! That Router bit was pretty good ;)

thank you lindybeige i love spear sheield

And on that day lindy defeated 20 spearmen using only a sword and a shield

Love ya Lindy, you always make my day

wonderful stuff love the practical demonstrations

no beige tshirt??? MADNESS

You use the spear to keep your social distance

Looks like a joy to learn and teach you guys were having some serious fun!!

Spears that were used overhanded like those used by hoplites typically had a weighted spike at the back that was heavier than the spear tip so its center of gravity was actually near the back. This excorise fails to notice many of the finer points of hoplite tactics starting with this misconception. Once you realize that the counter weight gave the over hand just as much reach as under hand, things start to make more since. This means the front line can strike low while the next line strikes high almost guaranteeing an opening. Over hand spears also don't get trapped between your allies when you fight in multiple ranks so the guy behind you can strike on the diangle just as well as the front line. Greeks also put thier most armored men on the front line with Corinthian helm, Greeves, and currass, so even most hits that get past the shield would be deflected by armor, so the front lines would probably choke back on the shaft to find gaps in the armor more easily and make sure first and second ranks hit together... So there is a whole level of complexity there that is hard to account for when you just play for hits. Next time you do this exorcise, break into ranks two or three deep and try over hand on a second row and underhand on the first row. And ignore any hits on the front line that would hit armor zones on a heavy hoplite. Ideally you want much larger teams so you can form at least a 3x4 man block to really start to see how hoplite unit cohesion works out when you have enough allies that they can get in your own way if you do it wrong.

Everything gets a Remake these days, even the classic "Spear usage" (2010). It may have lost some of it's charm, but the visual effects are much better. PS: I am kidding, of course. Lloyd is as charming as ever ;)

Personally i would gaffer tape the spear to the muzzle break of a Leopard 2A7 and charge for the French king!: "Huzzah!"

I just found your vids and really enjoying them. You remind me so much of the archaeology lecturer I had back in my student days (which was long ago now) although you're a fair bit younger! I remember we fondly referred to him as 'Professor Ron' and he was known most memorably by his students for smelling distinctly of rum when lectures took place after lunchtime and struggling to suppress giggles when he had to refer to "fossilised... poo".

This was a great video. Thanks.

*Spear Hero:* Spear and Shield working together?! *Shield Hero:* Must be a glitch in the Matrix

If it weren't for the invention of spears, man today would not be where it is. One of the first tools made for hunting was the spear.

Thank you sir. Great vid!

Greetings from Argentina please keep sharing HEMA videos and techniques

i do not know why im learning this but i like it.

It would be nice to see how combat works while fighting from the second rank! Great video as always

Excellent video - more please!

Fantastic video!

First, great video! I'm working on a book set in late bronze age/early iron age, and this type of experimental archeology is the best thing possible for researching. Second, to answer your end-credits question about finding what's safe to eat (if you don't already know and were only asking rhetorically/for fun); I'm sure plenty of early people died in the quest for non-poisonous foods, but what *should* be done (and likely was, at least to some extent as humans came across new things to stick in their mouth) when you encounter an unfamiliar food source is start by touching it. If you can rub it on your skin and you don't break out in hives, then you can lick it. If that doesn't cause you to have a severe reaction, take a (small) bite, and hold it in your mouth. Still no bad effects? Then the next step is to actually swallow the small bite. From there, if it hasn't made you incredibly ill it is generally safe to eat, but start with a small portion and if you're still alive in the morning then you can have more. Note that with each step, you should wait a few hours to see if any negative reaction occurs. It's time consuming, but will let you find food that won't kill you!

rather good demonstration of melee spear and shield wall defense, an the contrast. jolly good show!

great stuff! very interesting! thanks for sharing!

Excellent video! Learned something new! That looked like a fun lesson.

"Two handed spears won both times". That does support the dominance of the macedonian phalanx vs the greek. Just as Lindy says it's better as long as missile weapons aren't a to big threat. Really good video, hope to see more of these in the future

When they start sparring, Lindy starts to sound like a drill sergeant. "Be-cause-our-spEars and-our-shiElds keep-us-safe!"

Nice one Lloyd!

This video is just gold!!!

This helps my writing, thanks Lindybeige

ScholaGladitoria did something on this, and explained it very well, and why whenever you see historical pictures of battles(formations), they hold it in an overhand grip. In a more one-on-one situation, you might switch to the underhand grip. Part of the overhand grip's advantage is that the other person doesn't know if you're going to throw it. You pose no threat of throwing it if the enemy sees you holding it in an underhand grip.

Love you energy bro.

the video was interesting and informative but the ad for the VPN was probably the best bit of video I've seen on KZfaq ever. I can't remember the last time I enjoyed watching an ad. And I am putting my router back in my wood shop and have called my internet service provider for help.

Wherein Lindy makes a bunch of points he made a long time ago (if you've been watching him for a long, long time) but this time outside and with helpers to help make the points. And with a few additional points to sweeten the deal.

The problem is when you are in a tight formation you often need to hold the spear above you, both to prevent hitting your comrades behind you and also so you can strike your opponent over the top of their shield. Plus it allows you to throw it at a moment's notice which is useful. Plus the stick Lindy is using for a spear here is probably about three feet shorter than many spears were historically. And that may well be because you need the extra reach due to the grip.

Glad you the conjectured overarm thrust, release and catch came up towards the end of the video. In my mind, this definitely would have been a tool of the spearman, but a high risk - high reward tactic employed when opportunity arose. Also worth mentioning that with all melee combat, leaving yourself vulnerable can work as a feint (albeit, requiring coordination amongst comrades). I imagine something like a Rugby Union lineout scenario where, done successfully, a call followed by a confusing defensive and offensive shift among soldiers can overwhelm the focus of the opposing side and lead to casualties.

It's like a super-cut of all of Lindy's videos to date.

if you connect a router to your computer... you've got a CNC milling machine...

Im mostly amazed that someone would ask him to teach HEMA

SUCH A GOOD VIDEO!

Thanks! Im learning spear and shield/axe and shield fighting for historical accuracy.

Very interesting video, I always wondered why Sword fighters would counter spear fighters in video games

Some bits regarding the end of your video. 1.) I'm glad you admit that you cannot conclude one way or another regarding the gigging/sliding of the spear because you cannot safely test it. This *has* been tested though, by the way, but you can't use solid dowels! You must use (first of all good HEMA gear, expensive sadly) a good rubberized spearhead or some other item/material up front that will bend/dissipate the energy well. Secondly, if your thrust actually contacts the target as intended, it should be a little easier to pull it back as it won't simply fall down, but stick to the target. 2.) You do not know how to properly 'threaten low and high' with overarm. You don't actually need to move the spear low and high, low and high as you do here. You simply alter the angling. You can threaten by a feint that's cut short and doesn't reach the target, as opposed to the wide theatrics done here. 3.) Nobody of sound theory thinks Greeks and various other peoples of times past *FOUGHT* by pushing. Simply put, a push isn't a way of defeating your opponents by itself. It's a lot like suggesting someone fights by moving forward, or by claiming space. It's an aspect, but not the whole of it at all. Your accurate suggestion that swords and daggers are better off at such ranges is, well, accurate. But it is inconsiderate of various factors; the ability for a spearmen to rear back the spear at the half point and continue to threaten your face/neck when you're shield to shield with them, and their own attempts to *prevent* you from slicing their throat! You're right to say that that would be your immediate priority, but you would be remiss to not consider that the man directly in front of you won't consider defending or preventing that all the same. I'm not saying the function is completely negated, but I am saying that it might not be so easy when both men are in mortal risk! The theory is more that 'it happened' as a matter of the rear ranks crowding in to use their long spears. 4.) When you suggest 'what's to stop both ranks from stabbing each other in the head'? Helmets! They might still try, and certainly some concussive effects would be unpleasant, but most men have various forms of helmet and shield and so the mortality rate would be I think to your surprise, a bit lower, or 'slower' if you will, thank we'd think. Spears overhead like that, in deep formations, also get quite cluttered together. You can suspect numerous small injuries, but it can be a little difficult to put a lot of force into a blow if there's some tangling going on. 5.) If you wanted to 'stay behind your shield', you most certainly wouldn't move to your right. Depending on your shield, you can hold it in front of you with little issue. This speaks, if anything, to trying to get behind your comrade's shield to your right, in my perspective. There's virtually no reason to do this in loose formation as you are in this video. It makes no sense whatsoever. You're actually safer with a bit of room to maneuver shield and spear freely, or in a close overlap but behind the shield to your right.

Lindybeige please post more in this time of quarantine, I crave a 2 hour Loyd rant (much like your video on gladiators), so please please please make more videos Love from Las Vegas

I liked this video because I was impressed by the ad. The rest was also interesting, the digression on routers was excellent.

I would love to see a formation of 20 v 20 with two ranks, ideally with full armor and splinter-safe spear points to permit all tactics, and start to fully develop the second-rank tactics. The overhand long throw-thrust movement comes into its own from the second rank if you can step just into range to hit a face as a target of opportunity. You can also imagine a well-drilled troop tactic of waiting for the front rank to be fully engaged, possibly getting a momentary advantage of a few of the opposing front rank down, and then throwing all spears from second and third ranks together and immediately charging with swords through the front rank. I can imagine this as a safer Roman tactic too: front rank throws light javelins only, closes defensively with shield and spear, second ranks support with javelins, then when opportunity presents also throws pila and charges through the cover of the front rank.

HEMA : Historical European Martial Arts.

A return to form of the old videos. Good on ya lloyd

I am no weapon guy, all I've done in my life was a year of judo and a half a year of fencing... but boy is this historical reconstruction a total marvel. After all those books on military history, it was so much to learn in just a half an hour video. I've had no choice but to subscribe.