Scimitars

7.62 for the win, every time.

But D&D hero Drizzt Do'Urden dual wields 2 scimitars, so he can't exactly rest a hand against the back of one. He just plows ahead slashing.

pretty sure I recognize that sweater.

this video came out a year after I was born that is remarkable

A few times I used to try using a katana in a way very similar to this, almost exactly. Makes sense for infighting and even in grappling ranges

Is that real?!!

Why not just use a knife? Easier to get an unprotected spot quickly and then retreat into the crowd

This came out 12 years ago

Three guys took on a platoon. With scimitars.

Hmmmm

I showed this video to my martial arts teacher and he said that it's an effective way to wield one

I've recently seen an FN FAL and they're not that big.

I greatly enjoyed that

Oh dear

This is very inspiring to someone digging for old scimitar technique and learning how it was really used historically 👌

Please tell me this is legit.

Apparently I need to get out more....

watching this in 2018 :D

Not one of those soldiers had a side arm? tut tut

Good skyrim meme.

Can't wait to find the video where Matt Easton corrects you. There seems to be quite a lot of those.

I need to get out more...

It should be the platoon set upon the scimitar wielders, since they're the invaders obviously

Do scimitars have unscrewable pommels?

Scimitars are the best in runescape ftp

Sabre awkward to use? Seriously?!

That could be very effective for using a curved edged weapon in close quarters fights. Not sure it is a common practice in wielding a scimitar/saber in the East, but it can be found in the swordplay (Duo 刀) in Chinese Martial Arts, in which the left palm is placed on the bunt back edge to generate full cutting power of the blade.

They dont teach close combat rifle and bayonet drill in the British army??

That is so much cooler than I've ever seen scimitars used before!

Ah, so this was back when he still filmed with a potato

meanwhile me and all of my other Arabian friends are laughing at this video.......

Anyone else notice that the farther back you go with these videos the more beige the lighting is?

Seems a knife would have been just about as effective if you aren't going to use the reach of the weapon.

This "scene" was in Indiana Jones.

As a point of fact, there is a Lebanese sword fighting manual transcribed in the 1940's from oral traditions. I believe they are exceedingly rare, and the only ones in print today are photocopies. I believe it's called "Saif ou Tarsa" and uses an indigenous short sabre weapon and buckler.

damn, this video is old, man, keep it up

end titles are priceless

I need to get out more.

But what if you carry a shield? I guess then you revert to big hacking motions?

Maybe one of the most historically important videos on the channel.

noa ah shit ah sherlock.(trademarked)

what you just described is used in some schools of Japanese and chinese swords as well

That may be the case for close-quarters, compact fighting. But i do remember a documentary where they investigated a casualty of war during one of the Crusades. The particular individual had his jaw split in half from a blow that came upwards, from the evidence they concluded it was a blow from a scimitar swung from a looping down to upwards motion. I can see that the method you describe being used. I would also say the the scimitar as is most weapons, is effective based on the users skills.

actually they were historically used with darkmoon blade

Isn't that just the scimitar equivalent of half-swording?

So thats why Pirates used it. It can be crowdy when your boarding a ship.

They're basically giant steak knives so it makes sense you don't need much effort to do damage with them. I really wouldn't want to see the result of said damage. I'm just imagining what I did to my steak a few nights ago instead...

There are many reasons they replaced it with the sa80, 1. 5.56mm ammunition is far lighter thus can be carried in larger quantity by solderers giving them effectively more fire-power, 2. 5.56 bullets are far more likely to maim making them more effective in draining enemy forces supplies and man power 3. It is far lighter than the slr makes it easier for a solder to carry around all day 4. it is far more easy to use in CQB as its a bull pup design giving it a shorter barrel, making it more ideal for urban combat of which is the more likely combat zone for the modern solider.

if the scimitar wielders had had smoke bombs or some other vision obscuring weapon they would have downed way more men. dont British soldiers have e tools or something?

Why didn't they go to their sidearm if their FN Fal couldn't be used?

In fact, the British Army did not use the FAL or an FN rifle at all. What was used was the L1A1 Enfield SLR (Self-Loading Rifle), manufactured at the Enfield Plant (and at Lithgow for the Australians).

Though it was a derivative of the FAL/G3/CETME rifles and had a VERY similar design (with the same roller-delayed blowback operation), it was not the same.

Back in those days, our army still had pride enough to at least manufacture our infantry rifles in our own nation. Rather than today, with the L85 being manufactured by Heckler and Koch out of Germany, primarily. Although BAE Systems do at least own H&K.

Frankly, as long as there are no Frenchmen involved, it doesn't bother me whether it's German or English. ;)