Does size matter in a fight?
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Huge thanks to Richard from orderoftheblad... for throwing me around!
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Someone had a lot of fun doing this video...
Wish I had a Shrek size guy. Id give him a great sword and gnome triscuts.
And it wasn't our guy
I had a lot of fun watching it
I think it was both of them ;3
Same
"Size isn't everything." One-hands a Zweihander.
"but it does help", as stated in the final seconds of the short.
It's not the size of the tool but how you use it
GERMAN, GERMAN, ZWEI IS GERMAN FOR TWO!
Tbf, it aint as heavy as they look
@@cryochick9044dee’z nut’z
Always good to see Elves & Giants working together.
Here's the comment I was looking for XD
I only liked to get to 700 likes
Hahaha 😂
The best comment!
I lol'd for real. Accurate description.
😂
"Size isnt everything" turns a zweihander into an einshander
Zweihänder into an Einhänder. ;)
Aaaaand now I need to find my PS1.
@@MrJinglejanglejingle what
@@theworldsgreatestjidiot9667 Einhander is a game on the PS1. Pretty good game, too.
@@MrJinglejanglejingleCan't wait for the sequel zweihander
Good to know the strength build vs. dex build discrepancy is actually canon
Now the question of fast & big comes in.
@@oxmorLook up jujimufu for the answer to that question
@@oxmor then you get bob from tekken
@@Bowls1033 SPEEED AND WEIGHT!!!!!
Not really, any advantage a small guy can get a big guy can also train for. Having the strength to move your own body rapidly doesn't depend on you being small.
The quiet giggling at the end when he gets thrown down is everything to me
And totally missed by me, as my brain was fixated on processing my comment...
very funny thanks for pointing this out.
>~
As a guy it's not often you get to be thrown around like a little kid lol
I remember this quote that I think holds up pretty well on this subject: Size matters more than the smaller guys want to admit, and less than the big guy thinks.
Well, we gotta remember that single combat isn’t the only kind of combat. Guerilla warfare might favor smaller people. Smaller people require less rations. And of course guns make size pretty irrelevant.
@@cjfelldownagainwith weapons yes, but unarmed combat, someone with the skill level of batman losses 100% of the time if he weighs 104 lbs and he's fighting a 400lb strongman who has never thrown a punch before. Skill is useful, but there is no substitute for a 300lb advantage until you get into guns
@@andrewli6606except it doesn't, firstly, strength means you carry more gear, guerrillas needs the strength to move supplies and weapons long distance rapidly, a 125 lb guerilla can't carry a mortar with him, and he will be slower in full combat load because he's not as strong, size is always a giant advantage outside of getting hit
@@cjfelldownagaindepends how how big the difference of skill and size is
Also something he didn’t mention is bigger people can also put a lot more weight and inertia behind their “melee attacks”, and are also much harder to knock back or over or pickup
@@calebbarnhouse496 not if you aim for the vitals though.
An experienced fighter could KO someone with one good hit to a weak spot, while a strong but inexperienced fighter wouldn't know exactly where to aim so that fighter can only wear his opponent down with multiple heavy hits.
The whole point of "matters more than small people admit but less than big people think" is that it's harder for smaller opponents to fight so they need to rely heavily on skill, but it's not impossible so if a bigger opponent isn't skilled enough to avoid one-shot or really good hits or to land good calculated hits, then they're out.
blumineck getting tossed around like a ragdoll was not what I expected to be seeing today.
But it was thoroughly enjoyable to watch! 😂😂😂
Awesome video!
And it's just what I needed for the afternoon.. 😂
But, boy is it enjoyable!
Really? I sort of expect to see that every day.
*This is just an Elf and a Goliath training together.*
In the Reacher books, Reacher makes a point of being terrified of small and fast guys with knives
I'd be terrified of anyone with a knife unless I was armed with something longer and out of reach. Even then, I'd only be slightly less concerned.
I would only be interested in fighting that close without a knife if I was armored.
That's a perfectly reasonable thing to be terrified of. Knives are super scary. They do tremendous damage, move fast, and are hard to spot. Wielded by a fast little guy, they're even harder to spot.
More than a few big guys have paid a big price for underestamating small guys carrying concealed knives... Personally I've seen it once.
And I am sure most of those big guys didn't even consider the other could be carrying. But that is besides the point.
Yup. It's the closest humans get to having claws, without specialized equipment, like a sai or clawed glove or gauntlet.
Teamwork is the answer, as the big guy can toss the little one as a projectile.
Fastball special
The old fastball special
"Don't tell the Elf..."
"Let's do get help."
fastball special, but shooting arrows.
We need more of this friendly giant
Fully agree
Robin Hood and Little John
One of the few good movies.
"They call me Little John, but I'm actually quite large in person."
Perfect
♫Walkin through the forest♫
🎵Laughing back and forth at what the other'n has to say🎵
This is legitimately incredibly useful to me as an aspiring fantasy author, thank you very much! It's so cool and informative seeing edge cases like this, like two differently sized people and how they'd fight each other. This can also affect some "more similar" matchups because it shows how a lazy/short step might affect reach, stuff like that. Thanks fellas!
“Size isn’t everything, but it does help”
Words to live by
Edit: I’ve never seen this before. Usually, replies make a normal comment… questionable…, and a questionable comment even worse. These replies un-innuendo my comment, and that’s amazing. We’re cleaning the gutter today 🔥🔥🔥
Keep in mind that they moved on pretty quick to weaponry to bridge that gap; because strength and body mass matters quite a lot for when it's unarmed.
@@Joppi1992What about mobility?
@ They were showing that while armed. If you're curious about mobility while unarmed, then I suggest you check out any martial art competition, or even UFC if you're so curious about what it can be like depending on body mass and strength.
@@eliyahukuperman9250
Mobility is much less important in unarmed combat compared to arm, it's still a very important physical factor (if you can headkick, and someone doesn't know how to properly defend, that's a fight ender right there), but with weapons you have the potential to instantly end a fight with the first hit.
A lunge with a pointed blade, for example, where you move into range before they do and strike can be extremely effective. Meanwhile you don't really see strikes like this in unarmed combat because you simply put yourself out of position (if you lunge forward to punch in that manner, getting kicked in the leg will not go well not to mention the fact that you are primed for your opponent to transition into a single leg when you try and move out of that position), won't generate that much force compared to planting properly, and bring your head into range of your opponents legs without forcing them to compromise structure or bring their leg to head height.
Stances tend to become narrower and taller with "smaller" footwork in hand to hand combat compared because you are more than any style of swordplay likely going to exchange several shorter range strikes and then end up grappling. Longer stances open you up to attacks to the leg, and also make it more difficult to adjust your hips quickly when grappling, while also preventing rapid weight shifts that you see in shorter stances (e.g. sprawling from a long stance is always going to be slower).
Mobility is definitely important in both striking and, especially so, grappling where flexibility and rapidly moving across your opponents frame can allow you to lock in a hold before your opponent can react, but it isn't so big an advantage as it is when using a bladed weapon that can quickly end someone by targeting major blood vessels.
If you look at images of traditional Boxing and Karate (which look nigh identical as do most general combative methods designed for unarmed conflict), then compare it to the modern MMA metastyle, the optimal method for hand to hand tends to be more static where you stand relatively tall. You tend to be more focused on defending vulnerable areas during longer exchanges, and keeping decent structure in case your opponent manages to get ahold of you (because being taken to the ground is always bad outside of a specifically one on one fight, and even in that case being on the bottom is a terrible position if you can at all avoid it). Strikes tend to be planted and "bigger" in terms of rotation, with a focus on keeping grounded unless you create an opening to bring your leg up or use a more dynamic technique, and being overly mobile can easily compromise your position against anyone decent.
Basic combative mechanics are largely the same between armed and unarmed combat, but the game changes significantly when a single strike can end the fight immediately, and is this far common with weapons where being more mobile can let you debilitate or even end someone because you don't necessarily need much force with the right weapon (a knife designed for fighting, for example, doesn't really need to be planted when striking and will cut your opponent with even minimal force, so you will see more rapid strikes and movement as a result).
Compare styles designed for armed combat to those proven to be consistent in unarmed combat. Hell, we even see martial arts likely intended for being used with weapons tending to be ineffectual when adapted directly for unarmed combat.
Wing Chun is most probably an example of this, it seems to have been designed for knife fighting which somehow transitioned to an unarmed style without the necessary adaptations. It's defined by very quick movements without much rotation and keeping your opponents hands under control as much as possible, doesn't really work at all for unarmed combat if your opponent is savvy, but similar concepts are the basis for knife fighting.
Mobility can help. It's all about time and position
Absolutely baffled at the size of this lad. The "small" Blumineck is already tall
@@jojojojojojojo-vh6my Richard is 6’10”! I felt pretty small when he just bodily chucked me off camera!
@@blumineck For, uh, research purposes, what's yours?
@blumineck tbh the ease at which he did that just gives off Brookly 99 vibes
"Do i even weigh anything to you?"
"No, its like holding a bunch of grapes"
@@blumineck WHOA. I figured you guys were like...5'8 and 6'5? I didn't really pay attention to the exact size of the height gap.
My partner is 6'4 plus fluffy hair, but minimal muscle mass. Do you think Richard could pick him up?
@@ArcanineEspeonwhat does fluffy hair have to do with it
Getting real big brother little brother vibes from these two
Brothers.....
I got that, too. They just immediately had brother vibes.
@theduchessofdarknessofficial Is it? Is that actually his dad? I could see it.
Really? I get more of a bear/twink dynamic.
@@JonasHansable get your mind out of the damn gutter
"(wishes he had his bow)"
Zoner behavior
ARCHER! (derogatory)
Spotted the fighting game player
Me in any game that could have a bow frfr
He's just like me...
Looks like a zoner/grappler or zoner/bully dynamic to me in full force haha
It's nice to see you’ve found someone, i hope you two are very happy together
If you haven't seen fights between people in full armor, it can be quite suprising how often it ends up being a wrestling match.
and most K.O.s use dagger
That is when size matters because being bigger mean a much higher chance to win a wrestling => easier to pin the opponent down and finish him with a knife.
They don't use sharpened weapons though. It was also quite rare for fighters to actually wear full plate in the wild. It was mostly reserved for a small fraction of the elite.
submissions, especially the arm bar would help alot too
Bro puts the Eins in Zweihander.
Subarashii
@@RuneKatashimaMore like WUNDERBAR
@ I know about keeping it German but I was actually making a phonetic joke only a few people watching this video might pick up ;D
Now I want to see the big guy on the pole
THIS! Do it, Blumineck! Do one or two moves on the pole and teach him!
Now I fear for the sake of the pole...
THE POOR POLE.. 😢
@explosive_nuclear_catz don't worry, poles are designed to take a pounding!
Oh my gosh yes!
There is something to be said about the intimidation factor _alone_ of someone using a great sword one handed.. and that is: oh sh!t!! Lol
As someone who is a lean tree (6'4 and close to 200 pounds) I am pretty big and ever since I did martial arts my father taught me how to use my size and long arms to my advantage and to pay attention not to over extend my arms bc they are also a weakness. He also taught me to work hard on balance bc bigger ppl have weirder balance than most
I love how Blumineck is ACTUALLY getting flinged around in this video 😂😂😂
Spears: The second great equalizer
considering the existence of the "differenciation" between pikes and spears, it's not really a great equalizer, since the main thing that would define a spear as a pike, was if the person wielding it was tall and strong enough to hold it with one hand comfortably or not, so the fact that richard there is tall and strong enough to comfortably hold a damned zweihander with only 1 hand (the weapon is literally called 2 hander in german), a spear on his hands would be a pike in blumineck's hands, and a pike on richard's hands would be unusable on blumineck's hands
tl;dr: because of richard's size he can use much longer spears much more comfortably, giving him a great advantage because of his size alone
@@ghostknight1352 Once you account for stance there little in it, the tip shifts regardless off the user.
(what you going to make the pike stiffer an heavier? thus limiting stances and endurance even more.)
Correcting a long lever even if your bigger an stronger is still hard, better and more points of leverage only goes so far.
True...that is untill you throw armor into equation. And then size starts dominating again
"blumineck wishes he had his bow" is hilarious
Takes me back to my childhood when I'd intentionally piss off the bullies during PE classes so they'd throw me around on the mats. They always took my joyful laughter for further insult. They never understood how awesome flying around feels
🤨
Found the masochist
Ayo? 🤨
That's hilarious
I'm laughing, reading your comment because it feels like you were a magician, and turned their own game, their own "spells" against them in your favor and came out better for it. 😂 Awesome!
> name Zweihander
> looks inside
> one handed
What an absolute unit, he gotta have some points in titangrip with how he wields a zweihänder in one hand
“In a fight, right?”
Of course 😅
The fighter that multiclassed into bard: Both.
He didn’t say “right” he said “rugh!”
Krieg und der Liebe ist das gleiche
@Nein
Seeing him getting manhandled filled me with emotions I have a hard time explaining.
Hold on, are we all just degenerates????
He’s certainly formed… an audience
shamefully my fastest click
I feel funny inside.
@ Hey it's good to be honest with oneself.
I used to think size and swordsmanship mattered. Then I took an arrow to the knee
og quote
Did someone steal your sweet roll?
Havent heard this joke since 2011. Time sure flies. Now let's do some Harlem shake challenge together
Oh look
Robin has finally made friends with Little John
Lol, thanks! Your short videos are really helpful when thinking about fantasy combat!
This is why fighters and rangers can be Strength or Dexterity based.
Really the issue is that in reality it's always both.
You might be a fighter that tends slightly more to strength or dexterity, but you can't be one that neglects either, or you'll be useless.
Using one stat for accuracy and the other for damage is an effective way to make both useful
@@seigeengine I'm still tickled that Vex in Vox Machina is like 8 Strength -- because a weak archer doesn't exactly have a great draw strength, but mechanically in the game it's fine.
All sorts of shortcuts when you're trying to establish a simple mechanical system to cover a wide range of details.
@@Arkylie Sure. It's all about abstractions and where and how you draw which lines.
For example, I very much dislike many of the fundamental mechanical approaches of D&D, like I hate AC and how it really represents a vague "ability to avert damage." I would prefer a different approach that would trade off different things.
Slightly better is how HP has to be interpreted in an abstract wooey way to justify the lack of consequences of lowering HP and the ridiculousness of D&D stat growth. I don't particularly enjoy the idea of lowering HP having mechanical consequences, so I don't mind that so much, but it's the stat growth that makes it even more ridiculous. D&D is effectively built like it's a game about people who become superhumans, like it's for DBZ characters or something, but doesn't conceptually embrace that, which leads to lots of peripheral jank.
@@Arkyliethat’s part of why I prefer pathfinder from a “realism” standpoint-extra damage on bows can be gained from feats of accuracy (dex scaling) and high draw weights (str scaling)
For melee, most damage comes from strength but there are ways to build dex to damage in ways that make sense as well.
The Mountain vs the Red Viper of Dorne…
Just don’t insist on a verbal admission of guilt and you’ll be just fine!
I want to see more including this special guest. The both of you fit nicely
It also depends on armor, most of HEMA is focused on unarmored dueling as such size is less of an advantage because you’re essentially a big target. The hands, arms, and legs are longer and easier to hit. Even a slight slash can take out tendon, nerves, and other important bits. In armor? Its a clear bulldoze for the bigger man as they can tank strikes like its nothing with heavy plate.
Yep. The heavier the armor, the more likely it goes into grappling, which is where size has the largest advantage compared to any other type of fighting.
Yep, years ago when that foam-stick and other "fighting" started I was asked to try it. I asked if I could shield slam and shoulder charge and was told no... said wouldn't do it then because they are handicapping my natural talents and leaving me as just a big target.
isn't there some loss of efficiency as you slide the mass to volume ratio?
@ In terms of energy expenditure, agility, and coordination/fine motor skills sure. More mass=more energy to move mass, the balance is different so being agile is much harder to do, and the human nervous system get stretched out the taller you are so fine motor skill and coordination is impacted.
Then again this is a weapon fight, they tend to end very quickly and violently as HEMA was based on unarmored judicial duels which weren’t always to the death sometimes first blood. A taller longer man can reach you a lot quicker than you can reach him and in armor grappling is king where size REALLY matters because the armor adds to it. Whoever ends up on bottom losses most of the time
@@nathanpetrich7309 Energetically? Yes, but burning more calories than your opponent is generally not considered much of a disadvantage.
Thank you for the guest! I love seeing you interact with others!❤
Thanks Mr. Hughes for coming out to throw Blumenick around. I'm sure it was a difficult decision to make when asked. Lol
This is an awesome collaboration and I'd love to see more.
So many people quick to comment yes ignore the nuances that the creator is explaining.
Ofc it matters in a fight, doesn't mean it's an auto win for the bigger guy. That's the point.
90% of his videos prove everyone who learns combat from playing video games is going to be evicerated before they even finish signing up at the recruiters office. The comments are the biggest reason the first 8-10 weeks of required bootcamp is to knock all the "No scope 360 with tons of handicaps" nonsense out of people's minds and teach them how real pain actually is when they feel it and not the character they're controlling like they're "god".
Too true. I've been practicing martial arts for 25 years, and I cannot count how many times I've gotten the whole "David and Goliath" spiel, while simultaneously getting struck by the same people a quarter of my mass and them looking dumbfounded when their strikes do nothing. It's just as funny when I teach them how to capitalize on their size disadvantage, and they toss me like a ragdoll. ("Use the weapons God gave you." to my students.)
Everyone should go watch Enho Yuya fight. He's a sumo wrestler whose strategy is be shorter, lighter, and faster. (And let's always remember that sumo wrestlers are walls of solid muscle, training 6 hours almost every day). Anybody can decide to get really effin good in their discipline.
I don't think any reasonable person would ever consider it an auto win in the first place, which is why the rhetoric comes off as weird. It's like it's organized to argue against a position nobody capable of intelligent thought would ever take.
@@seigeengine, you might be surprised how many people aren't all that reasonable.
"size isn't everything"
Ein-handles a zweihandler
I love these videos so much. You guys are entertaining and educating at the same time.
What a hell of a title: "Instructor, Order of the Blade".
You started awesome and you only keep on improving, I know why we all follow you and thanks for all the funs and giggles while still being accurate and freaking skilled in so many fields. You rock! 💪🤘
Size is a tool. But if you don’t have it and your opponent does, it’s one more tool they can use against you.
Big judo energy
Size has its fair share of advantages and disadvantages. So basically the lack of size could also be considered "a tool", no?
@@SonilotosIt realistically has a lot more advantages than disadvantages. And what benefits of being smaller there are are generally less advantages and more just lack of disadvantages.
@rolfneve I'd really appreciate some examples for your first sentence, otherwise I'm just working with no basis here. (and not in an "in bad faith" kind of way, I'm just confused)
"Size isn't everything. But it helps." - that's what she said.
Bro casually holding a montante like a longsword
I’ve seen a few videos covering this topic and I think this is one of my favourite
I have no experience with weapons but in unarmed combat hight difference really means alot. People often forget that being taller and stronger DOESN'T automaticaly makes you slower. I met plenty of guys who were taller, stronger AND faster than me or most of population. And well... you can predict the efects of our sparings😅
Football players come to mind.
Yes it does. Just like how a smaller person has to train extra to compensate for the power a larger person more easily has, a larger person has to train harder to compensate for the speed a smaller person more easily has.
The bigger people that are quicker than people smaller than them are only that way because the conditioning they get compared to the conditioning the smaller person gets is enough to compensate for it. But just like all other factors being equal means a larger person has more power, all other factors being equal means a smaller person has more speed.
And that's not even the biggest dif. The biggest difference is cardio and stamina.
With two people who are trained even somewhat equally, if they are both doing about the same amount of moving, the bigger person will ALWAYS run out of stamina first. Again the only way this is not the case is if the other factors aren't equal. If the bigger person trains stamina, and cardio enough to mid dif the smaller person who doesn't train the enough, then it will be better, but that's the only situation. That's why big people just cannot keep up in any types of competitions where near constant stamina is required. Like climbing, or swimming.
In fighting there's potential for luls to allow you to get some stamina back, but thats just knowing yourself and pacing yourself, not having better stamina.
@@anthonypolonkay2681 "...all other factors being equal means a larger person has more power, all other factors being equal means a smaller person has more speed"
This is incorrect. All things being equal, the only difference is that the bigger person is bigger, and the smaller person is smaller. All things being equal, the only considerations is physics (not conditioning, complexities of physiology, nor training) - therefore, only gravity, air resistance, etc. are taken into consideration.
All of which are negligible at the human scale.
If a small person and a big person both have no training, they will both be slow in non stride/span-related events. More muscle mass isn't inherently slower in any meaningful amount.
You're just attributing video games/anime/movies/cartoons to reality, and that doesn't make sense. You need to apply logic and physics.
@@ReclaimerTyphoon dog, physics is why what I said is true. The larger you are the more inertia Any given movement your body has, which means it's both harder to start and stop any given movement even if it's all muscle (which it can't ever be) and it might be negligible between people who's only difference is like 20lbs, and under. But between anything going up from there you are going to have an exponentially difference in the shere effort it takes to do anything. And you may be tempted to say that it levels out since you get more muscle to carry that size around, but anyone who has ever done pull ups, or running, or jump rope, or yes, fighting to. Pretty much everything besides lifting more wieght, and putting more force into something gets harder, and harder to do as you gain weight, even when it's all muscle.
This is because while you do get more muscle to move that size around, the strength gain from that muscle is less exponential than the square cubed law around any given body of mass you are exerting force on. At least past a certian point of size, and that size is actually pretty small. Those diminishing returns start pretty early.
The smaller a person is, the exponentially less inertia is there impeding any motion. And the proportionally more strength they have to move that smaller mass.
This is why something like a squirl can change directions damn near faster than you can see it, but something like a bull has a turning radius if the mf is moving at all. Granted the disparity between people ain't ever gunna be that much, but it's definatly enough to make it to where all other factor being equal, the smaller person WILL be faster. The reason you are encountering lager people who are faster than you is because they have likly trained those twitch muscle fibers for those motions more than you have, but had you the same amount of training in those same twitch muscle fibers you will be faster than them.
@@anthonypolonkay2681 "Granted the disparity between people ain't ever gunna be that much"
This is the point I'm making. At human scale, the inertia difference is negligible, all other things equal. A human can move a body-length faster, and change direction faster than Godzilla. But that's not what we're talking about.
Also, "bigger" doesn't inherently mean "more muscular".
Who said I was encountering larger people who are faster than me? How would that even play into the conversation of "all things being equal"? It doesn't. It's wild that you brought it up.
Informative, comical (at times). No wonder my bucket list is to know combat like archery and sword fighting.
you should get into archery dude It's alot of fun
Having held a big sword before I’m ridiculously impressed at how bigger guy can handle that gigantic ass sword (and it’s a cool as hell one)
Haha I love this - I hope you both had as much fun making it as we did watching it!
This warms my heart.
Bro had to specify, “In a fight”
😂 the way I would be uncontrollably fear/fawn giggling if I was picked up like that!
*This gives me Vax and Grog hanging out vibes*
Mike Tyson was a "small" heavyweight being shorter with less reach then most of his contemporaries. Just some food for thought.
True, but...he ultimately proved to be too vulnerable to larger men who weren't intimidated by him and who had superlative jab-uppercut and jab-cross combos.
But hi was a heveweiths .
yeh, he also was (and still kinda is) a monster of an athlete with a style centered around dodging strikes while closing the distance with explosive steps. Any lesser being attempting his style gets gassed out by the third round
@@williamstone1536 yet it took many years to develop a way of how to counter him
And his entire boxing style was hyper-focused around breeching his taller opponents' guard and using side-to-side leverage to generate power while in-fighting. As long as he maintained his conditioning, he was usually alright, bobbing and weaving fast enough to breech the guard.
Sibling energy 😂😂
Love your vids
love seeing the combination of your personalities and demonstrations
(and you being thrown around made me crack up loll
The interactions look so positively and it holds my attention, i like ittt
And this voice
It does help a lot.
It does indeed. A polearm or ranged weapon helps too.
for sure, I had glasses and good grades so they tried to bully me... but I'm also tall so it didn't work.
stood up and it fixed the shorties, bitch slap and even tallies went away. guys that had been help up 3 years were significantly bigger than me so crotch kick settled that. the old art of nut fu.
@@derekskelton4187thanks Einstein
Weight does play a part in it though, physics wise that is
it can go both ways, someone taller and heavier if falling will receive a greater impact
@@KwehShiroand potentially take more time to recover. It also takes more energy for them to move their body in general.
Am i the only one who is not thinking of physical fight????
Leverage plays a much larger part than the wielder's weight
@@CorwinAlexanderit’s all multipliers, weight is just one of them but it’s one of the biggest ones.
Usually, yes.
😂😂😂 i love your content. My thanks to the guest for the assistance in production
One of my favorite pieces of flavor text/quote from a MTG card declares:
"A bullet renders all sizes equal."
I refuse to believe that the buster sword is impractical
Beautiful hip throws. 🤙
Beautiful hips yes
Sumi-otoshi when you're 6'10" is kinda unfair as you'd manhandle everybody like a child. I am impressed that Richard got down to blumineck's level for the sukui nage though.
Fighting dirty helps, especially when an opponent isn’t expecting it.
With three older sisters, closest four years older, that’s the only way.
@ I bet!!!
That was a delightful mix of fun and informative.
Literally one of my faves you have ever done
People often forget, bigger doesnt mean slower. Large men often move slower, not out of necessity but as to not scare people. While size means a bigger hit box, it also means more breathing room on dodges.
I'm not sure about dodging repeatedly as that would stem from agility among others, but I understand that power lifters have the greatest bursts of speed potential of any body type. And if the Olympic 100m event was cut in half, we might see power lifters on the track.
Absolutely! I remember hearing about a stat that about 1 in 100 sprinters are the size of Usain Bolt (just over 2m iirc)... but the thing is, just about 1 in 100 people in the world as a whole are Usain Bolt's size! So that's most likely why You don't see HUGE sprinters... not because they're slower, but because there's fewer of them in the first place!
So bigger doesn't mean slower! And in something like running, even if You moved Your limbs a lil' slower, the added distance per stride could easily compensate for it, for instance 🤔
Bigger = slower is only a meme due to game balance requirements over the last 50 years
@@CorwinAlexander Game balance requirements + looking at big animals like elephants and hippos.... when they're not running/sprinting and just being placid and hanging out there 🙃 An elephant can easily outrun a human I think
Also, whales are giant but can look slow when there is only a uniform background for reference... But a slow, gentle tail swipe for a whale can propel them several dozen meters forward iirc!
I think the stereotype comes from the fact that many proffessional weightlifters have a very chonky build, combined with priorotizing raw strength over actively training fast movements, rather than muscle size itself slowing one down.
oh to be thrown by someone larger than me
Technique is more important than strength- but you need a LOT of technique to overcome a small strength advantage, so having both is best!
Strength is always paramount!!
Absolutely, I’m an unarmed fight, someone at 175 pounds would need to have years of training to have solid chances against a guy at 220.
Even when both people are highly skilled, weight is a huge factor, that’s why weight classes are often no more that 10 lbs in weight difference allowed.
@@ineedpowers5151ah yes, i’m sure some random giant would beat a highly trained spearmen in a spear fight🥸
@@fluppet2350 I don't buy that at all. By your logic my fat, unfit and unskilled self at 212lbs would somehow best my 160lbs fighting fit self with several years of martial arts experience. Weight does play a part, but the advantage is often dramatically overstated.
Sumo wrestlers and bodybuilders would be the kings of combat if weight was the prime determining factor. Assuming gender is the same, skill and a person's frame (which allows more potential for quality size) are more or less equally important. Frame is much more important than the actual weight itself.
@@Teo_live I think its also a difference if the weight is fat or muscle lol... and height + weight or just one
why is this video just AMAZING LOL
they look like they had so much fun together
This is an excellent short! Bravo!
My old martial arts teacher was a small Chinese woman, and I'm 193/6'4. She'd use me for demonstrations on moves and their goals, arm locks, twists, etc. and there'd always be someone asking about this. So I'd occationally resist her movements, and she couldn't budge me AT. ALL. She would point out to the girls and smaller guys that if you end up in a fist-fight with someone bigger than yourself, fight dirty, kick the groin, thumb their eyes, and RUN! Don't try to actually fight a bigger person, you'll lose badly 99 times out of 100, even if you have amazing technique. The technique is meant to be used between relatively equal opponents, not between people with a huge size difference.
We call those honest self-defense teachers. Good on her. Always go for the eyes. I'd avoid the groin. My experience is guys will just take it and then get pissed.
Leverage and honestly luck is more important in a fight. I've been able to sweep and throw people that outweigh me by 60 lbs just because I knew how to move their weight around.
Sure, but I think people are kind of being dishonest in saying stuff like this. "A smaller person can win by outmaneuvering a bigger person and throwing them" is sort of saying "a smaller person can win by being more skilled."
Like, yes, smaller fighters can beat larger ones, but if they're fighting a larger fighter who is just as skilled, careful, etc. as they are, they're going to lose most of the time.
@@seigeengineNot true!!
Large Fighter do get beaten to pulp by smaller Fighters
@@ineedpowers5151 When? There are size categories in combat sports for a reason. Find me a single featherweight boxer who can beat even the worst professional heavyweight boxer. It's not just that they can't, any real fighter will admit that it's just an unwinnable fight because a featherweight boxer will straight-up break their hands long before they actually do any real damage to a heavyweight.
Now of course, that's in unarmed combat. If both guys have spears or swords then the smaller guy doesn't need to be as strong as the big guy to inflict a lot of damage.
@@giantWariowho is talking about a fist fight dude? This is clearly talking weapons
@ The video yes (for the most part at least, they do talk about fist fighting). But the comments I was replying to no, they are obviously not. Unless you somehow think you can: ''sweep and throw people'' or ''get beaten to pulp'' with swords and spears.
this is so cute
Your instructor had a blast chucking you around in front of a camera.
Thank you for this lovely short ❤
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Hilarious! Love it. Richard I, Edward I and Edward IV were all much taller and larger men than the average of their respective days. They were all terrors on the battlefield so yes there's definitely an advantage for the larger and stronger man, provided he knows what he's doing.
The stronger the weapon, the better the Equalizer. For the most part.
Unarmed -> stick-> Knife -> spear -> gun -> drone -> orbital missile.
If you are counting swords as "knife" then yeah, if not, sticks win over knifes (a baseball counts as a stick right?). At the end of the day it's the combination of reach and power that matters the most.
@@cuellas1338 I'll take a quarterstaff or a pair of Escrima sticks over a knife...
Back in the day the only people who could afford to grow big and tall, were the same guys who could afford armor.
It just wasn't fair
One of my favourite videos from you!
not to mention various martial arts like judo, aikido, jiujistu, etc are meant to use an opponents weight and momentum against them. So a person who is smaller framed but uses one of those arts can hold up against someone larger who doesn't know those martial arts.
And someone with a gun beats somebody without a gun. What’s your point?
100%, but why are we arguing against the strawman that no small person can ever beat a bigger person in a fight?
@@conormurphy4328 But can they beat Goku?
@@seigeengine There are people saying this (bigger untrained person beats smaller trained person) in this comment section, its not a strawman.
@ You're literally attacking a strawman right now, lol.
Size is definitely an advantage, but fitness counts for a lot as well. Big guys are often gasping for air after a minute or so, which means the smaller fighter just has to keep them moving as much as possible to gain an advantage (source: many years of being the smallest but fittest person in a ju-jitsu class!).
Not to mention that in the context of a war or long adventure in harsh conditions, larger men will have a harder time keeping their muscles and energy up on limited rations.
That will be difficult since tall people with lots of muscles are very fast. So you won't be able to keep your distance when you're not protected by the rules of your sport. Real fights usually last seconds, not minutes.
@@iliketoast-q9b Height doesn't impact speed, being big does. Runners are scrawny.
@@stewagner Except it does, the fastest sprinters and football players are tall and big, you're thinking of marathon runners.
@ Not at all. The fastest female 100m sprinters are 5'6, 5'8, 5'5 and 5'2. For men, it is 6'5, 5'11, 5'11, 6'3.
So somewhat above average, but not all tall. Doesn't seem like height is that big of an advantage.
Worth noting that Usain bolt is a genetic abnormality - he is able to run like a 5'11 person at 6'5 or something, which is why he is so dominating, that does not apply to other sprinters.
For reference - I'm European, the average height at 20 here is 5'5 for women and 5'11 for men. That is the base I judged their height from.
Compare that to other sports like jumping where height is an actual advantage.
Edit: looked up fastest (male) football players, it's 6'1¹/₂, 5'10, 5'9, 5'11¹/₂. You're just wrong. That is exactly average. The result you'd expect if height does not matter.
And with big I meant weight.
"A good big fighter will beat a good small fighter every time." If their skill is roughly equal, their size is plenty to tip the scales.
Unarmed, absolutely. But the deadlier the weapons you have, the less it matters.
Thing is, outside a fighting gym skill is mostly unequal.
Troy had such good fight scenes! I think this video does a great job of showing how skill is the true measure of a fighter, not just size
That just made me laugh. I needed that. Thanks guys
The bigger guy is at a disadvantage the longer the fight goes.
This must have been so much fun to make together.
Size IS everything in unarmed combat.
I believe that the Ancestor sums this up perfectly:
"Prodigious size alone does not dissuade the sharpened blade."
Firstly, loved the video, it was great fun. Secondly, being a taller man with a friend on the shorter side, I've come to notice that I'm at a disadvantage when someone shorter is too far in my personal space. The range of attacks I can pull off in comparison are certainly fewer due to me needing more space to perform them, which also make my actions more predictable and easier to counter.
u traded in mobility vs reach. Also noticed that.
Love your videos, brings some fantasy to our bleak world. Thank you