That really is a bad arse coat.

It's a great coat, but I'm sad that I would look super ridiculous in it.

He would have to send over a contraption to skall, or skall would have to send over his swords.

Not necessarily. I remember several videos of Jörg when he visited the USA and did some range shooting videos with self built devices. Maybe he can visit Skall in Canada and together they build a rubber-powered thrusting device ;)

@@AFCAWorldBodybuildingArchive Jörg no longer does YT fulltime, so it's less likely he can do that now.

Doubt he would want to travel to the USA just for that.

@@EwokBb hmm... Skallagrim and the Build Team testing sword penetrations: A Mythbusters Spin off! Grant builds the testing robots! :D

This was the first thing that came to my mind! Lol I love being a nerd.

Aldor Oh nevermind, I guess I am just a fool as always. (+1 to dunce score, I apparently don't know how to scroll.)

Oh, shit, I'm sorry.

Sorry for what?

hahahaha. I remember that meme upvoted

It looked shite, I remember seeing them on the road, and thinking "why?"

@@markziff7234 Just means they weren't for you.

It was originally just made as a dealer demonstrator to show all the colours the car could come in, then VW started getting requests from buyers who WANTED their car to look like that, so they obliged.

www.rossvw.com/harlequin/ 264 produced.... probably!

Wow, I always wondered what the deal with those golfs was.

Aldor Indeed, it allows for quicker and more numerous thrusts. Edit: I was gonna compliment your daddy Skall comment, but I guess you switched gears.

@@BlackMarcer I wonder which tip. That of Chunchunmaru or of Excaliber.

@@mennograafmans1595 wtf mate

There's for sure all sorts of techniques and grip adjustments that further increases piercing power in thrusts when wielding Japanese swords. Same thing goes for Chinese sabres and shamshirs. Both Shinogi zukuri's kissaki & the thick (but slender) iris-leaf points of Chinese sabres were without a doubt designed to be used against tough armor like mail and lacquered leather, considering the popularity of those armor types throughout the Qing/Korea and Japan.

Not really. It holds well to itself, but it's not viscous enough to cling to anything else other than dirt, sand, and dust

Since ballistic gel is... gel, essentially a soft crystal, it is more resistant to slower moving objects, because it has more time to squeeze back and generate friction against a blade or an arrow than it can against a faster object like a bullet. This is particularly obvious in hunting bow tests, where an arrow that would pass straight through a deer (assuming no bone impact) will only embed partway into a gel block. You could push a sword through flesh slowly and relatively easily, but you can't duplicate that on gelatin. Flesh is, as the V'ger AI put it, "...bags of mostly water." If you look at the raw footage, you'll see how a lot of Eric's thrusts stopped penetrating because the whole target had rocked back from the grip of the friction. I think they would get more telling comparisons if they could have the target more solidly anchored.

This effect of increased surface area creating more resistance would exist when stabbing through muscle, skin, and organs as well, so this would be consistent with trying to stab into a person anyway.

The width of the Willow leaf sabre likely doesn't have anything to do with it. The difference in width between it and that of the Katana is honestly minimal. (Willow leaf sabre being about 34~35 mm and the Katana 32 mm). The particular model of Willow leaf sabre produced by Hunauo is spring-tempered. While it may make it slightly more resilient, it will in turn sacrifice some degree of performances in cutting and piercing ability (due to decrease of stiffness) in comparison to the differentially-hardened Katana. There's differentially hardened models of Huanuo's Willow leaf sabre. If those models were tested instead, the piercing ability of both Willow leaf sabre and Katana would have essentially been the same. This particular style of Willow leaf sabre blade is rather similar to Shinogi zukuri style geometry in terms of characteristics, sans the cross-section. (clamshell/thick wedge vs. appleseed).

As opposed to with a sharp steel non metal object?😄

😂😂

It has a Jetta front end though, some cars came out of the factory in that colour scheme, but this one may have been modified to recreate it.

Ain't it?

Yes

Yes

Yes that's what I noticed. For the katana, the ones that barely went through were the ones that made contact with the small edge that transitions from the tip to the actual blade

Yes, centimeters. Inches are ridiculously inaccurate. :p

Nonsense.

I'm sorry. That was flip and uninformative. And it's not like I expect you to do things in inches. I'd like it, but I don't expect it, that that would be silly. If I were being pedantic and math-teachery, I'd point out that even centimeters were too big and you had to go to half-centimeters. I notice you had what seemed to be a tape measure and similarly, they break inches into half, quarter, eight and sixteenths. And eighth of an inch is 3 7/40 mm and a quarter is 6 7/20, so quarter inches are perfectly reasonable, if you wanted to use them. If you were doing engineering, you' have thous, tenths and millionths you could use, but that's getting excessive and halving something is lot easier anyway. But none of this addresses why I say things like that. The surface reason is that I'm adapting a line from How I Met Your Mother, but that's a pretty lame “why”. Americans do several things different from other people and I sick of getting nonsense over it. We live in a large, heterogeneous world, why be so shocked that people are different? And much of the commentary is both condescending and ill-informed. So I get combative. Like I did with a guy at Dunkin' Donuts just now who wanted to tell me that a quarter and a nickle are 25 cents. I'm not proud of that. So what do I mean by ill-informed? There are people who act like if you don't march in them lockstep, there's something wrong with you. On some issues, this is true. This is not one of those issues. Nature doesn't care how you measure it. All you really need for a measurement system is something that accepted by your audience--meaning that the people you're communicating with understand what is meant, is consistent--meaning that wherever you go all the units relate the same way, is standardized--meaning that wherever you go where it's being used, it's the same. And as long as you're used to them, conversions other than powers of ten aren't a problem. It's not like there's something magical about the metric system. The system of prefixes and the very common (but not universal) use of powers of ten are cute but not why anyone switches. I've done some research and I've concluded that countries do switch to metric only for one or more of the following four reasons: They are France or were part of the French Empire and thus didn't have a choice in the matter; their native system was not consistent or standardized (a big problem in France, Spain, Italy, Germany and India where the same unit could have drastically different definitions depending on where you are); they are a radical republic trying to make a point or that they were tightly tied to international trade and thus didn't have much of a choice. The U.S. doesn't fall into any of these categories. The English system, which the U.S. Customary system is based on*, has been consistent and standardized since the 12th, 13th or 14th century (there's a little confusion about the date of the relative legislation) and at the same time, the prototype yard and pound in London was made official--you could approximate them if you had to using people's feet or produce, but that's not how they were defined. That means a foot is twelve inches and a mile is 5,280 feet (and there are other units in there too) and a pound is sixteen ounces if you're in London, York, Dublin, Toronto, New York, Philadelphia, Sydney, Melbourne, San Francisco, Durban, pretty much anywhere. The U.S. was never that radical, but that's a long discussion that I won't get into here. And finally, we consume most of our industrial output. Yes, we export a whole lot. But that's a small amount of everything we produce. Now, there was a break in standardization because when the U.S. become independent, part of the peace deal was that we'd get copies of the standard yard in London and they were not well manufactured. But since the International Yard and Pound treaty of 1959, they've both been the same for everyone except for when you have to interface with land surveys that predate the treaty and they're also precisely defined in terms of the meter and kilogram and are as accurate as those two are. And it's not like the metric system is immune from that. In 1901 the liter was re-defined as one kilogram of water until there was a desperate stab towards sanity in 1964 when it was re-defined as a cubic decimeter again. Even the Imperial gallon is no longer defined in terms of mass. And yes, there are obsolete units in our system. The English experimented with different pounds until they two they liked. The Middle Ages like for each commodity to have its own hundredweight and gallon for an interesting reason that doesn't enter in here, and it took a while for people to settle on just one. What's interesting is that the U.S. and the British settled on different ones, but there were ways around that. But there are also obsolete units in the metric system. Steres, sthenes, circular millimeters and others were all metric units that no one uses any more. To be fair, BTU's are not rigorously defined, but neither are calories. That's why joules exist. Also, until very recently, the international prototype kilogram was changing mass! They had to redefine it so it would stop doing that. Since they did their job correctly, you won't notice, but not things are weird with some electrical units which used a previous definition of the kilogram and not don't quite match any more. So I don't expect you to measure in inches or ounces. It would just be nice to do so without the condescension I typically get to read. And I'm going to make a prediction that someone's going to come in, make a comment about how the metric system is so much easier and modern and why don't we change basically ignore everything I've just said. Because that's what happens. * Note: the U.S. does NOT use the Imperial system, that was created in 1824 after our independence, damnit!

hearing her scream in the background at the end makes me think yes

@@argr4sh Hmmm my volume must of been to low. I honestly didn't hear anything hah.

all the way at the end, when he says HEMA fashion show

@@argr4sh Yeah I just went back. Haha.

@@argr4sh yes, 15:12

Caras "WHAT??" at the end xD