The PROBLEM with Martial Arts on YouTube
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I would be 100% interested in a sword channel that frequently posts sparring content, like those BJJ channels who post their rolls with people then break them down after. I think that kind of content would go FAR in the Sword community on RUclips. Oh wait, I already watch sellsword arts!
That's very kind of you 😁
if only there was such a channel
@@HEMA_Fight_Breakdowns Go check out this man's channel! It's also linked on my main page!
Is it wrong that my brain went "what RUclips martial artist is gonna try to call him out for attacking them!?"
😂😭
Not at all. He already stirred rhe pot with
...whatever channel I don't watch. And the back and forth was anticlimactic. But there was some expectation that it would continue.
Thankfully it has not.
No offense to David, but the title was phrased very clickbait-y and almost implied something was going wrong
@@tylerroman4179 hey man, got to get those views.
In my opinion, there is something wrong, but it's not something we can fix. It's just the nature of humanity. So no use being sad about it, instead just be mindful of it.
@@SellswordArts hey,I was not judging the title, I understand what it takes to get views. I just mean it seemed like a new problem emerged oppose to an underlying one. Love your content
I'm not a fan of Bruce Lee, but he did popularize a great saying "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." That time in practice/on a pell/on a bag spent drilling through hundreds of repetitions of basic techniques is the most important fundamental. To me, the next most important fundamental is to play and experiment with those (or any technique you learn) to find the ways it *doesn't* work as well as the ways to improve etc.
👏👏👏 As a jazz musician I feel the same about how shorts/instagram reels interact with my art form. Love this video!
Hmm. Maybe the it’s a systemic issue🤔
Yessir! there is a difference between entertainment and instructional content... but You and Skall have found some great niches!
This is one of the issues I've found with the Aikido club near me. It feels like each time we train way too many different techniques (like warm ups and 3+ techniques in the same hour). It's still fun enough, since it seems like the least likely martial art to give me brain damage aside from fencing, and it's the only one that fits into my only free timeslot, but when I'm used to my foil club doing like an hour drilling general footwork, then maybe one blade drill before free-fencing to practice that blade drill under pressure 4 days a week, learning so many techniques at once feels very overwhelming.
Well, different places can have different learning schedules planned and cycles. So if you jump in in middle or end of the cycle it will overwhelm you, since most people are training what they already know.
I'm here for the sparring, the basics (and the goofing around). The lightsaber stuff is not that interresting for me personaly.
So many truths distilled into a 6 1/2 minute video.
I studied martial arts for 20 years, but I've also been a juggler for 45 years and the concept is the same. There are a million juggling tricks out there and you can pick up minor variations pretty quickly, but anything that is significantly different from what you've done before is going to take hours and hours of practice to internalize. Most jugglers rely on a handful of tricks and (if they are performing) one or two flashy moves that wow the audience.
In the end, nothing replaces the dirt time.
I enjoy your sparring videos, both the full reel ones with resets and participant commentary and the shorter ones just showing highlights.
It's not just a problem with martial arts.
The problem is with RUclips. I am subscribed only to a handful of channels - and yours is one of them, but I did unsubscribe from a lot of channels that I used to like, because...
Well, to be absolutely blunt, they shifted from making interesting content to making algorithm fodder. Or they kept milking the same topic over and over, and over again. I'm not going to name names here, but if you're a musician and watch guitar-related content, you probably know what I'm talking about.
And when it comes to sword-related content - honestly, one of the biggest reasons I am here is your athleticism and your fight choreography. If you were just discussing how superior European swords are to katanas, I'd be out. Not because I love the katana so much. Because every sword-themed channel eventually does this. That's the other problem - that a lot of channels seem to cover the same topics, which I, honestly, find to be boring.
And, again, it's not just about martial arts or swords. Try music. How many music RUclipsrs rant how modern music sucks, because of quantization or pitch correction? How many times do we actually need to hear them rant about the copyright claim system?
How about film reviews? I mean, I just don't watch them anymore, because... Honestly, they all seem the same to me.
Sorry for the rant.
No, I totally get it!
It's tough to create content on RUclips. Trying to find that perfect sweet spot between what your passionate about, and what you know the audience is going to watch.
Every time I post fencing footage I know it's going to absolutely bomb, but it's worth it to me. I know what's going to make me my views is my little sketches, and a couple of the weirder technique highlights, but I try and space them out.
I also like to try and use disguised repetition. I'll talk about the same basic concept five different ways. It's a way that I can keep hammering home important points while still making it slightly new and exciting every time.
But there's a limit to it. And that's why I'm moving more towards a patreon sponsored channel rather than trying to chase AdSense. Especially with shorts, people want either cookie cutter trend following, or they want something wild and crazy new.
In order to keep up the amount of uploads I do, I've got to like it. And in order to like it, I've got to be doing stuff on interesting. Sparring footage, technique breakdowns, choreography, those are all things that make it fun for me.
dude, this video has actually helped me a lot! sometimes I forgot that success comes not with doing a lot of good fun things, but with doing several things good.
David, where is the Sellsword Calendar?
It's in the works 😏
The what now?
It's true. RUclips is a platform based on the fact, that people can be hooked on digesting videos, and allways seeking new and new content. That's to the first half of the video. And also, practice makes perfect, and that's of course going to be repetitive! Sometimes these two things can"t be added together.
Sorry for the phrasing, It's not my native langauage. But I do hope I was understandable.
Also, keep up the good work, even if it's repetitive! Love from Europe!
I'd love more sparring videos with comments like you did a few months back! Really helps me understand what's happening and can also help me in my own sparring and training.
It's pretty simple actually: I go to youtube to watch any kind of sword content to be 1) motivated and 2) entertained. I love swords, after all. However, in order to become a better fencer, I go to fencing classes and read fencing manuals. All of this is equally important for me. My favorite videos are sparring footage with cool music - motivating and satisfying at the same time.
For sure, totally agree. I tried to get into posting martial arts and fitness stuff on RUclips on a seperate channel, and realized that I’ve shown everyone everything i do to train in about 3 videos… and was like well… now what?
I practice over and over same movements in every kendo training session. Similar technics on every seminar I go every couple of months. There is nothing new, just to catch the moment, link technics, etc etc. Love it. It is a never ending path
This is why I have all my martial arts videos that I use to train and improve my craft in one playlist, and I will often have videos of the exact same technique performed and explained by different people. I also watch them as diligently as I can. It's YOUR training, it depends on you to put the work in every day
I personally love all your content. The funny stuff and the techniques. I thoroughly enjoy it all. Keep up the good work
I love this point. It’s like anything habitual: weight loss, budgeting, six-pack abs, playing piano or guitar. The headlines all love clickbaity nonsense, and it’s up to us viewers to glean the wheat from the chaff. So much stuff online is patently bullcrap, and that’s almost okay. Sometimes I just want to watch people wipeout on a treadmill. But searching for real info demands a discerning eye.
Thanks for this! it's definitely a challenge to balance contents for the casual viewers, those coming for the arts deeper dives of the already very niche community of Martial Arts - (let alone the particular styles and branches of the particular styles)
I feel the same thing happens with practicing independently piano. I found myself searching for thjngs such as more modes, chord progressions, and intervals and all of these different things instea dof actually practicing the same "boring" scales that would actually make me brtter at music.
When i finally matured and realized this, i found that it hard to find videos with exercises that help the fingering of certain scales, or arps, or how to practice the cadenza. And in martial arts, its even more lonwly in the results screen to find videos like that.
Shad bustin nuts tryna scrap together a 2hr response video to this
"Sellsword Arts can't edit content: blames viewers"
@@thekenyonsquad5672 you're not fooling anyone, shad
@@thekenyonsquad5672this suggestion has NOWHERE NEAR enough CAPITALIZED WORDS to DRAW viewers ATTENTION!
Great video sellswords,and a very good point as well.
I think Silat might interest you. It is a martial art commonly associated with elite military units, and involves the use of knives and machetes. It would be awesome if you could cover the Kukri, it's a beautiful machete that is used as both a working tool (you can even use this thicc blade as a shovel) or a weapon (basically chops through anything)
OMG MAN! you really spot on waht you said! I always post my training videos in my channel and i get a lot of hate comments and negativity. im actually used to it already but what you said is true, repetition makes people judge you more unless you do fantasy things like jumping flying or whatever idk. some people are so toxic that every video is the same person commenting. they even said its the same thing all over again..dang man...idk what to say..im frust but what can i do right? its media social anyway.
The only reason I stopped martial arts is because I no longer had the money or the access to continue instruction 🤷🏾♀️
And I admit, I love the repetitive sparring breakdowns, precisely because it allows me to practice picking out the different stances, moves, and plays throughout the different match ups and exchanges! 🙂
Cuts are always fun, but I'd love to see more footwork videos! 🖖🏾✨
Do you keep your Adorian in the sheath? I've read somewhere that the chemicals leather is treated with make it corrosive and it's not good to store blades in the leather sheath. However, adorian's sheath is half tanned so it probably won't affect the blade.
A while ago, you posted a video of you and another guy doing longsword practice. I would watch lots of those.
3:05 nice Messer
2:30 True, hell. Even actual fencing manuals generally don't include e.g. footwork. And can a lot of the time be interpreted in various different ways. That's one of the interesting parts about HEMA, investigating which interpretations work and which don't. Workshops with different clubs, so knowledge gets exchanged.
Are all our interpretations as the techniques would have been done historically? Maybe not, then again, there's only so many movements you can make, that's pure physics and biology.
Hell, in Das Fechtbuch, I know a short paragraph in the shortsword portion, which literally states "... and has thrown the pommel at your neck." (Geworfen in German). Which I am pretty sure some people would take literally as throwing with the pommel (to be fair, in that case, you can look at the preceding paragraph to know it means bashing the pommel against your opponent).
Another detail, some parts of the fencing manuals are best left to history. Das Fechtbuch has e.g. When your opponent stabs at your privates, stab him in the privates. Which is one of the tamer parts. Some parts you probably shouldn't do during fencing at all (if you ever want to fence with said partner again, or stay out of jail, depending on the technique in question)
Thanks, this is really true
The thing is, if you’re practicing, you don’t need to watch a video, you just remember the technique and drill it without the video. Yes, there are like only a handful of actual basic cuts, but once I watch a video on that cut, I don’t need a video to practice that cut. So I don’t need videos of the same cut over and over again. I just need one:
Totally on point; if there's one thing an expert in anything is guarenteed to have, it's a bit of patience to go through that grind. It's not about 'paying your dues' or whatever, it's about building up the internal understanding of whatever it is you're doing and then applying it in many different ways to challenge that understanding. It's also about understanding that the 'expert' level is years and years away... generally, a lifetime, and that it's never ending.
What editing software do you use?
That is true, especially in various of Martial Arts. I am a kung fu guy whatI see on youtube is different because the things that has been learned is in the classroom. Because there’s a lot of repetition involved along with the training and various ways on using it. Also RUclips only shows how it’s done and not how to teach it. Teaching comes from the instructor to be passed on to students. There is no easy way of learning. It’s hard in the beginning because some are learning it from the beginning. While others want to learn quickly because they want advance. However, learning it quickly comes with the training as it takes along time to develop. Along with the discipline that comes with it.
Something I really hate about going to a martial arts school back when I was a student teacher with teachers, one lesson one day and a completely different lesson the next.
This happened in every Japanese martial law. I took that's why I had to quit.
Until I went to Taekwondo, that's where my teachers taught properly, and I was able to learn the right way, doing the same repetitions every day, and once they became second nature, a new lesson was learned and over and over and on and on until we were able to defend ourselves.
The same when I took Muay Thai.
Something a lot of people, another reason why a lot of people quit martial arts is because once they realized that the training is hard and not as easy as it looks in anime, they leave that to me is Unacceptable
Preach! Seriously, this is real, deep and factual.
Realistically your choreography is good too. I don't know if there's any audience for it or not but a "how its made" might be an interesting look because that requires so many moving parts to function.
one of the things that has lead to the popularity of grappling martial arts is there is room for innovation and learning new things, its fun but its also a trap because just as you said the key to getting good at grappling is learning what you line to do and getting really good at that limited skilled set
What's interesting to me is that these same pitfalls pervade to other parts of youtube, as well.
Such as nutrition, diet/exercise, drawing, or even 3D Modeling. This was educational in a lot of ways you probably didn't even anticipate, SSL. ;)
As a language teacher, this resonated.
well every video has its viewers. But the fact is, most of people who are interested in swords content, are just that: interested in swords content. Me included. So I love to hear about it, I love to learn about it, I love to see it in practice. But yes, I will never be trying to achieve some mastery, or even become regular practitioner, because I simply dont have time, nor will it improve my day-to-day life. Its fun and relax, but as you said, our brains need something new every time to consider it fun and interesting, as rigorous training or analysis doesnt have value for people like me.
Now if I was trying to get better or master some combat style, sparring content and analysis is absolutely amazing for me. But there is a LOT smaller base of this type of viewer, than those like me, regular "somewhat interested" people.
And its upto you, how you deal with that and make living out of that. Mixing up content is great. Monetizing content on different basis can work great aswell.
But for average viewer, we are much more likely to click on clickbaity title about usability of cool giant sword than "27th longsword sparing this month".
Not to say I dont love to watch those videos aswell, but I will probably watch 3-10 minutes of it per week and be done, UNLESS it brings some extra entertainment value. You got actually much better at it lately, so I am watching more and more regualrly. Now you can start doing movie combat analysis and such, and we will definitely watch those aswell en masse :D
Also weapon vs weapon style videos are usually very popular... =)
How about repeating the same content (specially basic techniques) but updated each year ?
That's something that I can do, but that's maybe 20 videos that repeat every year. We have to put out a video everyday
Great video!!! More like it.
Well said!
>sparring footage and technique breakdowns will never be as popular as a silly lightsaber video
don't I know it 😥
I love your work though!
I enjoy fight commentary! I also like commentary on stage/screen fights, good and bad. I do it all the time with friends
As a martial artist since 14 and still training at 36.
I know perfectly the difference between a legit martial artist and a Mcdojo...
RUclips needs to block Mcdojo "tutorials"
On my channel I've noticed the Long fights art as popular as the shorts I get more views than likes which I just want to show people wat we do . Which is Kool enough for me lol I use RUclips for reflection training. Glad ppl like it lol
THE COUCH WARRIOR COMMUNITY IS UNDER ATTACK.....
😂😂😂
The martial arts channels I follow have a lot of content on the basics. And these experts seem to be good at finding more nuances in these basics that are often overlooked. From there, they often analyze fights, and this seems to be where they tap into more novelty I guess. Maybe the difficulty is that HEMA isnt as popular as most modern martial arts.
You do well with experimenting sparring videos ☝️ Skallagrim and Shadiversity the same as well. But with age, they have forgotten who they used to be 😤 But maybe they have joint problems and have slowed down greatly with age 🤷 I noticed they both just mainly talk and rant more now, compared to when they were younger.
Haha, I’m sure your points are valid for most audiences, but I sure never tire of sparring footage and training. That’s my preferred content. Maybe repetition of practice is familiar to artists, and we appreciate how you can sketch something new using the same basic techniques. Each fight is its own art piece, in that perspective!
The content that originally brought me to your channel was your POV sword drills, and I would really like to see more of those, as they area great teaching resource, especially for when you don't teach a system. I know Italian Rapier, Bolognese Sidesword, and some Fiore Longsword, teach a bit, but every so often I get questions about German Longsword, and I always pointed to your POV drills, as I don't know German Longsword. Not sure how great they are for views, but they are appreciated for giving people some starting points for other systems.
3:45 I don't watch sword videos to become the greatest swordsman in the world. I'm sure most people don't have that as a goal, I'd imagine a lot of people who watch sword videos don't even own a sword of any kind. Being a master of the sword requires a devotion of time and effort and resources that is impossible for a lot of people. Having to hold down a job, spend time with your family and train every day would be a difficult if not impossible balance to manage. Some people could do it but not all.
We've reached it
This channel done a "the problem with X" video.
I did that a long time ago, look at the reverse grip series
have you ever tried axes? my club has been using them and they are super fun. so are spears
To be fair this is not a new problem. Italian fencing masters in 1500-1700 England sold their schools on a basis of teaching secret thrusts, the idea was picket up by novelists in the Edwardian and Victorian age, even today you will find RPGs like 7th sea basing their combat system in the idea on secret moves and it's a lot of fun, see princes bride for the Wesley vs inigo fight scene as a classic example. Its backed into the culture,.but at the end of the day it is what separates the real students from people like myself who tend to be more eclectic
Fear not the man that does 1000 kicks once, fear the man that does 1 kick 1000 times
Completely agreed, but there is difference between wanting to be "good" at something or wanting to be knowledgeable about it.
Look at BJJ. You have like 10 million new technics per year. But most matches end with a rear naked choke, armbar, or triangle. If it is a foot lock, heel hook, straight ashi, or toehold. Usually, you see like six sweeps and three takedowns.
MMA is even more complex on paper, but not really. 6 strikes, 2 takedowns, and 2 finishes in the majority of the fights. Bc if you were trying to do anything fancy, you would be punched in the face.
The difference between a world-class legkick and an amateur level, is that world-class athletes have a diet and training program, and they are hitting the bag and sparring for 3 hours, daily. If they stopped doing that, their performance would decline.
Gimme flirty calendar patreon goal.
Can I recommend fight commentary breakdowns as a channel that gets around this. Similarly the modern martial artist has solved this problem as well.
Fight commentary works well for professional matches, but for Hema, it's still not that popular.
I've done a bit before, but the sword community isn't really into it yet. Doesn't mean I'm going to stop trying, but it's not a popular avenue in this niche as of now
@@SellswordArts another option for you might be starting a league like street beefs. I think one way or another you're going to have to break some ground, because I can definitely see the rut you're stuck in. I think thats one of the problems shadiversity ran into, but it seems similar to a problem a channel like scholagladiatoria might have.
Get ready for an essay. I think RUclips is just bad for sword content in the first place. I'm not taking shots here but people who want to be RUclipsrs I feel will fall off. Its a honby and like anything the moment a job becomes a hobby the fun dies (I have seen this with a lot of music education majors in college) There are also different genres of sword RUclips from Shad to Matt Easton to Sellswords, and there isn't one universal sword RUclipsr. Matt is great with informative videos, Shad does his "What if" more backyard style content, Sellswords being a mixed bag. Not everybody will be into everything. Some may only like the history bits while never wanting to spar in HEMA and vice versa. I like schools that have channels like Iron and Blood and Academy of Historical Fencing because they seem to enjoy it more and be more laid back (It's not their primary source of income) Sword RUclips is a weird place at the end of the day no matter where you stand
"Can't make the same video over and over again" - tread carefully, all Art School channels will go after you next ;D
1:52 Yeah basically every martial art is the same. Because every human is basically the same.
The illusion of consumerism,,
You could always switch over to just starting random fights with other youtubers or making unhinged conservative rants about children's media. I hear that works well. Real talk tho I'd love to hear someone talk about scoring methodology in HEMA, like how tournaments decide to award points and what that communicates about the sport, I feel like there's some fear about the sport turning into olympic fencing.
Word. But please get your shoulder down on your hook.
I don't think it's a problem with martial arts on youtube, I think it's the problem of being a content creator on youtube. If you want to reach a wide audience, you either need a) novelty, like you said, or b) to go deep into a subject that grabs the interest of a lot of people. People watching Elden Ring or League of Legends videos don't do it because it's "new", but because they enjoy watching their favorite videogames.
And you're a content creator about martial arts (a niche), especially swordsmanship (even more niche). So you have the choice to either cast a wide net to attract a lot of audience, but as you noticed, it's going to be hard to no repeat yourself. Or you can go deep and retain only a portion of your viewers, but it's a tough decision since it's your living.
I don't know how much you make, or what kind of content gets you more money, I can only speak for myself. Sparring is fun to watch, as long as it's not too technical. Trying unusual situations, like asymmetrical weapon fighting, or several opponents against a single fighter, is a way to apply the same basic techniques in different ways, and brings some kind of novelty. The Weaponism channel does this a lot and it's always fun to watch. Exploring other weapon martial arts with your experience and giving your opinion is also novel, and can help people know about obscure martial arts. You may even help someone find their calling!
Setting goals for yourself is a way for us to get invested. If you participate in a tournament, it has stakes, and we'll want to watch the next video to see how it ends. Another cool thing to get an audience invested long term is to mentor someone from the start, show us their progress and explain how they're doing.
The reverse grip meme has been done over and over again, and while it's cool to see some new techniques from time to time, I rarely watch your content and think "oh boy, I can't wait for the next video!". Don't get me wrong, what you do is truly impressive, but you're always going to be limited by how obscure your main topic is.
Wax on, wax off.
Why dont you make an alt-channel where you do all the sparring content you want, all the footwork repetition, all the boring grind and see how it goes, without compromissing your main channel? Maybe you would be surprised.
Nice haircut
Short on funds, so here’s an algorithm comment
Have you noticed that Shadiversity isn't doing the "Art" anymore?
You all should do an association and promote each other instead of checking who have them bigger.
What?
Dude, that hair is so long your head is tilting.
This roast comes from love, ignore it if you find it untasteful :D
I think with people* you mean, the vast majority of people, laymen. The core audience, the comparably few; they don't draw many clicks and they love repetition by their fave youtubers👍
Yes, which is why I kind of made the caveat in the video. The people who are watching this video probably don't fall into that audience, but I kind of want all of you to understand the struggles of the algorithm.
I want to post a lot more fencing footage, technique breakdowns, fight analysis videos and stuff like that. But every time I do I take a hit. I still do it, but I've got a ration it out
@@SellswordArts I totally see that, it feels hard!
the silly brings them in, they can then learn the truth with the other videos.
it would be interesting to know how many people watch your shorts, then also watch the videos.
and on the videos that arent gettign the views. people you can turn the video on, mute the tab (not the video) and walk away
I'm not really complaining about the sparring footage not getting views. It's completely expected, and it's not worth yelling into the void about.
But I'm still going to keep putting it out. Even if it doesn't get tons of use, I think it's worthwhile for people to have access to.
Even if it messes with my metrics a little bit, I'd rather stay true to what I want to do rather than bending to the algorithm.
And luckily, I have growing support on Patreon which means I'm not as dependent on AdSense and the algorithm.
The ideal situation would be for me to be able to turn off ads and reject sponsors unless I really liked them, and just have many of my fans support me for $1 a month.
It would mean I could give them exactly what they want, and make the content that I want. The perfect relationship. But, I've got a long way to go before that.
I'm just going to keep putting in the work!
A lot of excellent points made here. The tough grind of monotonous drilling towards mastery in any martial art contradicts the typical expectation of instant gratification in our fast food world. Martial arts at one time were a much more exclusive club where the students had to prove their worth (physical, mental, moral/ethical) as a part of that grind. Unfortunately our modern consumer culture whether intended or not establishes a client/customer relationship between teachers and students; where teachers are selling a product instead of pushing the students to their limits. I'm not saying this is all bad (instructors need to make a living), but how many students waste years dabbling in entertainment when they could be working towards authentic mastery?
Careful dude, you might make shad get butthurt again
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I'd say yes and no.
You have barely scratched the surface of fencing techniques on the channel and you know it.
But we also know that the videos don't get views aside feom the people that know stuff about it.
Of course technique videos only get views from people that practice HEMA and the HEMA community is small.
The HEMA channel barrel is deep.
Martin Fabian
Federico Malagutti
Daniel Pope
Anton Kohutovic
even my dumb ass.
I could go on forever.
What you are complaining about is that the fantasy, sword community doesn't want to watch HEMA content.
You are trying to morph them into something they are not. So naturally they don't watch it.
I also wish it was possible and it's cool you are trying to do that, but it's gonna be a lot of work.
It's the same with martial arts vs self defense and "does this self defense video work?" Content in martial arts.
It was the martial arts gateway to views, because that was most people's tangent with martial arts. I went down that rabbit whole, but as you said it's shallow and after a couple videos you have seen them all.
That doesn't mean there are no popular martial arts youtuber though.
Jesse Enkamp,
Sensei Seth,
Hard to hurt,
Rokas.
They are great channel with content to enjoy that is for broader audiences where you don't need to know the depths of the martial arts themselves. They still make it work by having just really good video topics.
But after the hundreth video on reverse grip swords, or in the mma space the "this woman's self defense tips are the worst." video, it gets boring.
I don't see where you disagree with me.
I didn't say there are no popular martial arts RUclipsrs, there are tons of them. But they're not the ones who are making the highly technical and informative videos. Like you said, other the people bringing fun silly things into the martial arts space.
I love all of the other Hema channels that you mentioned, but none of them even crack 100K. Most of them don't even crack 10K.
The martial arts channels that you mentioned also have a healthy dose of does x technique work, and other type of videos like I'm talking about.
Like I said in the video, there's nothing wrong with that. But it's not how you learn martial arts. It's infotainment at best, and just entertainment most of the time.
I feel like your comments actually completely in agreement with me.
@@SellswordArts I feel like you put lots of emphasis on the repetition in martial arts and that'snot interesting to watch, but I don't see that beeing the reason why the channels are not big, or HEMA content isn't popular.
The reason it's not popular is that only HEMA practitioners are interested in the in depth technique stuff.
There is so much possibility for in depth content. And the way you said it made it seem like it would be repetetive to talk about footwork basics all the time. But that's not all there is to HEMA. There is endless techniques to work through.
I think too many people get caught up in endless techniques.
Always searching for that new thing to practice, instead of working on the techniques they've only have learned. And that's the problem.
Continuing to push new videos about new things, most of which aren't going to be nearly as useful as some of the basics. I actually have quite a few technical breakdown videos, technique videos, and other things. Some of them popular, some of them aren't.
I mean, when you go into class, do you learn new technique every week? Probably not. But that's the expectation on platforms like RUclips. New things, interesting things, novel things.
I use disguised repetition to talk about the same things over and over again on here, and it does work, but like I said before it will never be quite as popular as "do spinning attacks work?" "Secret technique from Italian fencing master" ECT.
But like I said at the end of the video, that's not necessarily a bad thing. It just means that you have to understand when you make those more technical videos, you're going to take a hit in views. And as long as you're willing to do that, and you have an audience that wants to watch it, there's not a problem.
Like I said at the end of this video, this is a think piece. It's not about asking the audience to change or the algorithm to change, just asking people to be mindful of their viewing habits, and maybe consider looking at other things as well.
@@SellswordArts I think you are right, it's not about endless technique. But it's about meaningful interpretation and how to get the point across.
HEMA instructors suck at teaching. There is little pedagogy in HEMA and the videos.
Honestly going into fight commentary might be the way (YT channel HEMA fight breakdowns is on to something here). Rather than simply trying to put new spins on the same repetitive techniques, why not make content commenting on how those techniques work in sparring and tournaments? Your audience knows the basic fundamentals of swordplay, so what if you talked about how those fundamentals work against each other in an actual fight between actual fencers? Why did fencer X win against fencer Y here? Was it simply due to superior measure and distance management, or was it down to bladework? Is there a serious win gap between fighters who perfect technique versus those who rely on distance and timing? And if so, what techniques consistently work the best in sparring and tournaments? This treats HEMA as a living art with ongoing practitioners who continue to develop the art through practice and application. Thank of how much UFC changed since the early 2000s, and how people know things now they didn't then. That's in part to the ability to analyze what techniques actually work in competition and how to pull them off.