How to Fight 7 Swordsmen at Once - Donald McBane's 18th Century Pub Brawl Survival Tactics

Ok i love McBane lol to be so honest is the pinochle of morality. I definitely have to but that book lol thank you for the video

I truly have enjoyed these last two videos on McBane. I believe I would have loved to have a cuppa with the swordsman simply to hear and see the tales and ability he wrote about. Thanks so much for sharing about him.
For some reason this video brought to mind a more modern story of learning about fighting and self defense. a friend of mine who was very much into marshal arts went to an exhibition done by a black belt in karate. after the usual demonstrations of hand to hand combat and feats of speed and power, the Sensei proclaimed that he would demonstrate how to defeat 5 other black belts at one time, easily and without much effort. he then had the 5 other black belts present, encircle him at about 10 feet distance as he sat on a chair. as all was ready he screamed out the "begin" command and as the audience leaned forward in anticipation............ he jumped up on the chair, pulled a revolver from his sleeve and proceeded to shoot blanks at his 5 opponents who all fell to the ground. the reaction was of course shock at first and than gasps of breath and finally hilarious roars of laughter as he bowed very low to the crowd and said, "even a black belt can use a little help defending themselves at times" - my friend was laughing as he told me the story and said it was without a doubt the most truthful exhibition of self defense he had ever witnessed.

Your clothes...give them to me

Woah, he went into battle in the traditional highland fashion..? Bare breasted and carrying in this case, a 35 pound toddler?! Crown that man with the ancient stone bonnet of McAdder!

To answer the opening question, I would die. Very quickly.

Mike and Paul McDonald were there? Any Campbells?

I went to School wee a Davie McBane. He wiz a theiving B*** Anna.

I didn;t realize you had such a large family!

This Donald McBane fella would be hell of a DnD player. This man sounds like he was born a level 3 human fighter and just kept rolling his saves. He sounds like a riot! lol
Loved the informative video as always.

So basically the same tactics of mount and blade bannerlord. Out run, skirt, repeat against bandits.

This has probably been answered before, but where did you get your baskethilt trainer? Im thinking of getting a few for my group and delving into that and targe.

What do you do when fighting 7 swordsmen? You die.

Love your content man! Keep going. You have taught me and so many more about outdoors and Highlander history and myths! Thank you

I love McBane; he's a great antidote to all the romantic nonsense in books and film!

Thank you for sharing

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In answer to your first question, I'd shit myself.

Good stuff!

7 swordsman that look like Tom, walk into a bar… And each buy you a beer;)

Fascinating. I had not thought how practical it would be just to slash an opponent's sword-hand Any more on swordplay? Do you have any sources which deal with women fencers?

"What would you do if you had to fight seven swordsmen all at once?"

Iunno, die probably.

Reminds me of playing cod zombies

McBain arrives bleeding, torn and ragged, panting. Wife does not rush to him with concern, no, she has seen this before. Instead she scolds him for being out drinking and fighting yet again. LOL he had to show her the crowns to get her to call a doctor and then I bet the doctor got the crowns.

And thus, man invented circle strafing, and he found that is was 1337!

Damn. I don't know why I've never heard of McBane until now! Dude was a Scottish Musashi.

donald mcbane: how to rob someone 101

In our Kendo dojo, the younger Sensei used to ask us if we wanted to play, after the Armor and Shinai were put away.
And he would take on all comers at once, hand to hand, and even though we had some real trained fighters, and a lot of enthusiastic amateurs like I was then, he ALWAYS came out on his feet after having disposed of as many of us as wanted to play.
And mostly it was because of his situational awareness, he was always able to trip people or turn them into others, while setting himself up for a throw on the actual guys who could compete with him.
He left me to last one time, and as I tried to get my hands on him, he had time to say "Are you ready to fall properly?" because he saw I was committing too strong and fast, and didn't want to hurt me. 🤣🤣🙃
He weighed only 65 Kgs, and I weighed 90 and could, at 20, throw 70 Kgs from the ground, up over my head with one hand and I told him that was what I was always planning on doing to him if I got the chance and he smiled and said
"Good luck with that" :) :)

To awnser your question from the start id probably die or get very very hurt

It would be hilarious if we invented a time machine and met the guy who wrote this and it was a carbon copy of master Ken from enterthedragon dojo.

Hello there, great vid. Enjoy the wee snippets of history you bring to us. Was also very nice to meet you in Dingwall. M y daughter are learning archery thanks to watching you vids. Cheers

That was good advice at the end, but did McBane practice what he preached?

Excellent video. This is similar to the concepts I was taught in Hwarangdo and Krav Maga. Forward aggression, constant movement, and stacking to avoid fighting two people at once. I gotta say, I think it's much harder to follow these principles in empty-handed combat, because it's so easy to get sucked into clinching range where you can get tied up. Long range weapons allow you to maintain distance, and as long as you don't get run through or cut down, there's always a fighting chance you'll survive.

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Cast fireball! Great vid.

Thanks for the video - this is Fandabi Dozi!

Isn't it amazing how often arseholes are charismatic xD

People seem to forget the origin of "conman" - it's a portmanteau for "confidence man" heh

Cirano De Bergerac killed more than that at once.

I'm actually reading that exact version of the book right now. I'm not sure I believe every "word" out of his mouth, but even the things that have been verified by other sources are crazy.

Fantastic video. I especially enjoyed the use of candles for illustration.

Tactic 1, do everything you can to avoid having to fight all 7 at the same time, and break it up into 1 on 1 fights.

If i was attacked by 7 swordsmen, I'd probably take my chances with another hand grenade.

First rule of fighting - avoid it, if you can. Fascinating content, as ever, Tom.🙏🏻

Not sure if you've heard of him, and he's Irish not Scottish, but with all your Zen and Buddhist influences, I think you'd appreciate learning about U Dhamaloka. He was an Irish american drunk, who got a job on a mail delivery ship between continents across the pacific. For drunken conduct he got kicked off the ship in japan, ended up traveling a lot of southeast Asia, became one of the first modern European Buddhists, being ordained in Burma. He fought in anti-colonial anti-missionary work against England which was trying to force Christianity in the area. Dhamaloka is his Buddhist name, and there is in fact some debate over his old name, and the honorific U, means uncle.

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If there were seven Toms right in front of me, I'd piss ma self

Nice channel mate. Was that Mr McDonald armouries himself in that intro? Runs fb big cat groups? Seen a few myself. Have a gander at my witness testimony vid if you want. Ever seen any on your travels? I bet you move quiet enough to bump one.

Hello from Detroit Michigan brother thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise and for taking us on your adventure through time and history GOD-BLESS brother