Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Top 10 Most Effective WEAPON BASED Martial Arts" video.

  1. I really wonder what you intend as "effectiveness". With the training weapons they use, almost none of those martial arts is really effective. If you instead put in the practitioners' hands the weapon their usual tools are meant to represent, in unarmored combat, then the olympic epee fencer armed with a dueling sword, or the olympic sabre fencer armed with a dueling sabre will make short work of positions 2 to 8 90% of the times, and of the hema practitioner 60% to 70% of the times. Parries are part of the training of the fencer, even if in matches he is obvioulsy more willing to take a double hit than he will be in real life, due to the absence of real danger (and that's EXACTLY what happens in HEMA), and the reflexes and speed of those guys are insane. BTW "olympic fencing"was practice for life and death real duels at least until the beginning of 20th century. https://www.unifimagazine.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/3.-duello-Savigliano-391x580.jpg
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  2.  @Narrmo  The weight of those weapons had been estabilished when their real life counterparts were still used, to be good proxies for the real thing. An epee weights 770g, that's substantially HEAVIER than a 19th century duel sword (here you can see the weight of real samples https://fencingclassics.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/weapons-eight-dueling-epees/ ). It weights more than a smallsword (600g) and even more than a 1786 pattern spadroon (700g, obviously the spadroon has more weight in the blade). At 500g the sabre is pretty lightweight, but not that much. A 19th century duel sabre weighted around 600g, and both the duel sword and the duel sabre were easily lethal. All in all they are more similar to their real counterparts than a 440g shinai / 500g bokken to a 1.1/1.2 kg katana, or all the wooden proxies used in the other martial arts listed.
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  3.  @hailhydreigon2700  Fact is that their weapons, as stated above, are already realistically weighted for 19th century duel weapons.
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