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Cool vid! I’ve been binge watching your RUclips for a couple days as I got recently injured and not working for a bit. So down the rabbit hole I went on RUclips!!! 😂 Learning a lot about my Celtic ancestry these past few years and I think what you do is different and culturally relatable. What was the name of the fight training you mentioned at the end? Apologies as I couldn’t understand your accent 😁
Just wanted to let you know that I'm currently working on a fantasy book heavily inspired by Pictish, Caledonian, and Scottish highlander culture and mythology and your vids are an absolute treasure trove when it comes to research
Great video. My son and I started doing these as a workout and just to do something together. I live in America but my family (Grant) came from Scotland in the 1700's. All your videos are great for discovering my families past.
The "Bushcraft" dirk could easily be seen as a dirk that had the blade snapped off and was reground by a local smith to make it useful as a tool again. I made one of my own and I love the design. Thanks for the great channel and content.
it is amazing to see that this is much like Silat here in South East Asia, where it is very much a close quarter combat with a keris replacing the dirk dagger. Although the main way to hold the keris/dagger is the blade facing forward. The fighting stance and footsteps are eerily the same with the point of balance and gravity is as close to the ground as possible, with the main exception being silat has grappling and throwing core build into if and when there is no keris or dagger involved and it turned into purely hand and feet based closed combat. Sometimes it amazed me that these cultures were never in contact in the far past but have similar looking fighting style.
Wow you are soooo cool! You can do self defense, survival and you also make things. Thank you for all this wonderful content. I am learning sooo much. And I'm loving Scottish culture even more the more I know about it. You guys are sooo cool. I love and naturally gravitate towards warrior cultures. They just fascinate me and these cultures just speak to me on a personal level.
Great vid, I can see myself having a lot of fun practicing Dirk techniques in my back yard. Something to break the monotony of self isolation is always welcome!
Mr. dozy, most outstanding instruction on practice and exercise with the Dirk. Your video was highly inspirational and I find your topics are sensationally crafted! Thank you for providing illumination on our history, great work!
Hey mate. I discovered your videos about a week ago. They're really fun and interesting to watch. They've helped motivate me to learn more about some of my Scottish heritage and I really appreciate that. Thanks, all the way from New Zealand :)
Nice work. Left side...lol...the bane of all right handed martial artist, and I guess vis versa. The way you demonstrated basics and then built onto them is great and key; you clearly know what you’re talking about. I liked the fact that you took time to show different dirks, and the subtleties and necessity of different grips. And instead of just talking, you took time to demonstrate how a person should practice...talk the talk and walk the walk. Informative and fun to watch. Nice work!
Hey Tom, this is great! I'm really into your highlander series. I know you have incorporated some Gaelic in past videos (plant names etc). Have you thought about doing more of that? I'm six months into learning our language at the moment and it would be so great to see it infusing Scottish RUclips some more. :) For this video, for example, you could count your reps in Gaelic (a h-aon, a dha, a tri, a ceithir, a coig...) and talk about the Gaelic words for dirk, combat, warrior, stance, training, etc.
Hi mate! Yes planning on incorporating it again. I am pretty terrible at remembering and learning languages, but my sister is fluent in Galeic and know other people too, so may try have more guests on to help me with that aspect
Hey man, love your content! I don't actually have much opportunity to try out much of what I've seen in your videos as I'm a city person. But I've had a lot of time recently for some DIY projects since the whole quarantine. Anyway I just wanted to say, the thing that really stands out to me about your videos and why I love checking out your content--regardless of whether or not it's even relevant to me--is that you just seem like a really awesome guy with a great attitude and a wonderful passion for your culture. I'm an American but I have some Celtic ancestry and I love the history. Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much for the consistent uploads man, you’re doing great. Really love the direction the channel is going, keep it up! Workouts at home for me have consisted of high rep push-up and pull-up variations with a handful of kettlebell exercises (28kg- so pretty challenging to put overhead for reps). Again, keep up the awesome work my guy!
Fandabi Dozi Actually been saving for a truly functional and historically authentic great sword, can’t wait to incorporate sword drills into my workouts. Thanks for the reply and big up from Newcastle!
I am from Novascotia, I find a lot of your videos cool cause I can imagine a lot of the techniques in your videos being used by Scottish people when they arrived in the new world. In fact a large portion of fur traders were from Scotland. Fur trading was also a very difficult job and some of the fur traders went deep into the wilderness of Canada to trade furs.
After doing some research I found my family came from Scotland back in the early 1800's. Find your RUclips videos has opened my eyes to a very interesting history. Keep up the great videos.
Love it. You are a clear instructor, very similar to the Wing Chun methods my instructor is showing us. I have forwarded your video to him. Congratulations on the size of the following. I pray you produce more videos to help many more people.
I have a Scottish Dirk in my collection. It is surprisingly light for it's size. I'll give it a go, your video is a good starter hopefully I'll be able to pickup what you demonstrated. Stay safe and healthy.
Looks very much like one of the big contributers to this is rondel dagger fighting. Which I suppose makes sense! Also, if anyone wants a cheap trainer to start learning this with. The Cold Steel rondel dagger is about 15 quid, pretty much indestructible, the correct length and you can't accidentally impale yourself!
Great workout. May I suggest a fencing footwork addition. Skip a line, daisy chain crossover walk a line. Hop a line Squats a line. Fencers do this to losses up the agility of legwork. Sort of like a dancer. This was something our college fencing instructor had us do daily.
Shortsword and shirt axe paired, plot twist! The axe is your primary, the ss is more a distraction/defensive item and psychologically opponents tend to assume the sword is threat No1.
You are light on your feet and have good foot work plus your body mechanics are good and functional. Although i rewatched in 2x speed and it is awesome. Thank you for the information.
Great video! A good workout, and also valuable self defense techniques ( handy for us ladies too!) all wrapped in a historical narrative. This is why I subscribe to your channel. Well done!
I recently found out my ancestors acquired a minor castle near Inverness in their time and nowadays it’s an inn you can stay at. Might just need to get me a dirk and take back the family castle!! (Jokes aside, this video gives me a better appreciation for my ancestry. Well-made, my man!)
3:35 What a lot of people don’t realize is that “traditional” boxing is the UK’s indigenous martial arts. It was used just like Fandabi shows here: to train blade work without the danger of live steel.
Brilliant video! Loved the informative aspect and the training recommendations. Your technique is good, but you could be faster. Try staying looser and making each cut one motion. Throw out the blade and retract the blade in ONE motion. Stay loose, stay fast. Like a spring.
Love this video and it's intent, especially with the addition of calisthenics. Great call! For a follow up video, might I recommend the same attack drills, but with a partner showing the appropriate defensive moves to each attack. That would demonstrate the importance of that footwork, and show how to put together a complete fight... Thanks again for a great video.
Your attacks all line up with traditional basic angles of attack and defense for Kali and eskrima. And depending on school, the numbers 1, 3, 9, and 12 (overhand stab) line up perfectly.
Eskrima is basically the same word as esgrima, which is Spanish for sword-fighting. I bet there's a fair amount of Spanish esgrima in eskrima which mixed in with the more native fighting styles.
When I was a wee lad and two big dogs ran towards our yard and frightened me my dad came to me and after giving the dogs his "Celtic War Chief Stare" which could turn a charging bear in its tracks, he put his hand on my shoulder and knelt down to my level and said, " you are my son, you descend from a long line of Celtic Warchiefs and thereby are the most fearsome of all God's creatures and have no need to fear any man nor beast." I get chills every time I recount his words. So basically I never needed to fight. I just give my opponent that stare. I've seen some go pale and faint. Lol
A rope with a knot hanging from a tree makes a good fast moving target at the height you want. I use this kind of target for nunchucks too. It helps a lot with practicing timing.
Some idiots say Europeans didn't have effective martial arts systems, but we know they're wrong and what I can see is that the tradition has been preserved better in Scotland and I remember seeing. The dirk and the Scottish shield being used in combination? I also heard the battle-axe and the Warhammer were really popular in Scotland?
Yes, according to the story about Ranald of the shield, the Dirk might have been used occationally with the Targe. You can find one experimental sparring and some lessons on it in my channel. Battle-Axes were quite popular especially in the Western Highlands and on the islands, where the Norse cultural impact during the "Viking-Age" had been strongest. One famous BAttle is the one of Harlaw in 1411, when the long Axes were used by the MacDonalds in a very bloody fight.
Been watching the Highlander series for a while now and I kept thinking Tom reminds me of someone, then in this video I finally realised. He looks just like Joseph Fiennes in 'Shakespeare in Love', it's the white shirt! 🤣
I own the Highland dirk's ancestor, the bollock dagger. Actually, the example I own is sort of a bollock-rondel hybrid. It actually has three "balls"!😂 I was just noticing what an exquisitely made piece yours is, and it was right afterwards that you said that it was made by "Tod" Todeschini! Guess who made my bollock dagger!... 😃 Your dagger is a gorgeous specimen of the genre! That "false edge" really makes the blade visually pop! Fantastic video as well!
It's sad that I'm out of breath just watching this video. It would seem that I have my work cut out for me. Being in your sixties sucks. Excellent video.
Much tomahawk and long knife fighting was Scots in America adapting sword with Dirk techniques to their new environment, and the Indians picked up on this combination VERY quickly. Prior to the introduction of steel trade weapons, Indian melee fighting was either stone axe/war club in dominant hand and hide shield (a targe, essentially) in off hand-- Flint or chert knives are too brittle for combat, so steel knives were a game changer.
The Dirk was the Scottish seax. A man without a knife is improperly dressed....unless you're in Britain, where we will be arrested for cutlery Great video
That’s because far too many kids are killing one another. I’ve had a daughter die in my arms. Is that what you want. And I started karate in 74 and have had many swords over the years. But wee kids playing hard. Can still kill far to easily.
@@garygalt4146 It's her killers fault, not knife's. He could have killed with anything, it's easy to select melee weapon from nothing. Also, where I live, everyone can carry a sword on his back. And knife crime is marginal, far less murders than in Great Britain.
@@taranis6009 I know, right? No one in his right mind is restricting the most dangerous weapon of them all. Brain. Common knowledge in chemistry and some harmless materials are enough to make a bomb. Basic tools and knowledge are enough to make a gun. (To make a melee weapon you don't even have to be smart.) If you think about it, there's so many ways to kill someone, yet we can all agree that knowledge should be spread, not suppressed. If we are restricting guns and knives shouldn't we restrict books? Since they can be far more dangerous. In my opinion, the answer is not to restrict everything dangerous, but to stop restricting shit.
I dont have any weapon training but i am an amateur mma fighter with a record of 2 and 0 You could add basic takedown defence or a sprawl and a teep to make this more versatile
The way you’re holding the dirk as a dagger is just as I was train but I was trainned to hold the dagger behind me to hide the blade to use it as a surprise but also make it more Difficult to be disarmed. The focus was to He’s a stab or slash to stop the attacker with one or two movements.
@@aaronsmith3484 It is the best Dirk I ever had. Especially for the super-fair and affordable price. When you compare the big companies liek Cold Steel, Windlass or Hanwei, they are around the same price or even more expensive and are not nearly as great as Tod Cutler´s Dirk.
@@FandabiDozi Noticed this too. Where can I find one? I've recently been looking for one...!... just through internet searches but to no avail. Great videos man.
Ever see Native American Scout Training or Otava Yo Russian Couplets While Fighting on youtube? The first one is toward the end of the video & second one is a song, so the training stuff comes along as it goes, but both of them would have aptitude for those conditions. The Forge by Sonny Puzikas is good, too.
I have just released some additional Dirk martial art training ideas on my Patreon page. Donate as little as $1 a month and get access to all my extra content. Hopefully see you there! www.patreon.com/TomFandabidozi
Can you please email me this video?
Load of pish
Cool vid! I’ve been binge watching your RUclips for a couple days as I got recently injured and not working for a bit. So down the rabbit hole I went on RUclips!!! 😂 Learning a lot about my Celtic ancestry these past few years and I think what you do is different and culturally relatable. What was the name of the fight training you mentioned at the end? Apologies as I couldn’t understand your accent 😁
Just wanted to let you know that I'm currently working on a fantasy book heavily inspired by Pictish, Caledonian, and Scottish highlander culture and mythology and your vids are an absolute treasure trove when it comes to research
Thats awesome mate! Glad I could be of help. Good luck with it!
I do scottish videos to just like theses ones pal 🏴
@@EastCoastHighlander you just got another subscriber friend
Thank you so much Firestorm
If you ever publish your book please do tell us here! I'll be sure to buy it!
Great video. My son and I started doing these as a workout and just to do something together. I live in America but my family (Grant) came from Scotland in the 1700's. All your videos are great for discovering my families past.
Great to hear it :D
The "Bushcraft" dirk could easily be seen as a dirk that had the blade snapped off and was reground by a local smith to make it useful as a tool again.
I made one of my own and I love the design. Thanks for the great channel and content.
it is amazing to see that this is much like Silat here in South East Asia, where it is very much a close quarter combat with a keris replacing the dirk dagger. Although the main way to hold the keris/dagger is the blade facing forward. The fighting stance and footsteps are eerily the same with the point of balance and gravity is as close to the ground as possible, with the main exception being silat has grappling and throwing core build into if and when there is no keris or dagger involved and it turned into purely hand and feet based closed combat. Sometimes it amazed me that these cultures were never in contact in the far past but have similar looking fighting style.
So cool.. A real workout..thats fun n functional...with the historical lesson to boot. Great stuff Tom!!
I'm guna gie that a bash when am no drivin the lorry bud. Keep up the guid work lad 🏴
I had a stroke trying to read this
Tactical tacho breaks :-)
Heh?!
Translation: "I'm going to give that a bash when I'm not driving the lorry, bud. Keep up the good work, lad 🏴"
Wow you are soooo cool! You can do self defense, survival and you also make things. Thank you for all this wonderful content. I am learning sooo much. And I'm loving Scottish culture even more the more I know about it. You guys are sooo cool. I love and naturally gravitate towards warrior cultures. They just fascinate me and these cultures just speak to me on a personal level.
Play, workout, and training with a few historical techniques. Very fun indeed. Thanks for the content, was looking forward to this.
Thanks mate!
Great vid, I can see myself having a lot of fun practicing Dirk techniques in my back yard. Something to break the monotony of self isolation is always welcome!
Mr. dozy, most outstanding instruction on practice and exercise with the Dirk. Your video was highly inspirational and I find your topics are sensationally crafted! Thank you for providing illumination on our history, great work!
Hey mate. I discovered your videos about a week ago. They're really fun and interesting to watch. They've helped motivate me to learn more about some of my Scottish heritage and I really appreciate that. Thanks, all the way from New Zealand :)
Nice work. Left side...lol...the bane of all right handed martial artist, and I guess vis versa. The way you demonstrated basics and then built onto them is great and key; you clearly know what you’re talking about. I liked the fact that you took time to show different dirks, and the subtleties and necessity of different grips. And instead of just talking, you took time to demonstrate how a person should practice...talk the talk and walk the walk. Informative and fun to watch. Nice work!
Thanks buddy! I appreciate it. Heiko deserves the credit for teaching me. Still plenty to practice :)
Hey Tom, this is great! I'm really into your highlander series. I know you have incorporated some Gaelic in past videos (plant names etc). Have you thought about doing more of that? I'm six months into learning our language at the moment and it would be so great to see it infusing Scottish RUclips some more. :) For this video, for example, you could count your reps in Gaelic (a h-aon, a dha, a tri, a ceithir, a coig...) and talk about the Gaelic words for dirk, combat, warrior, stance, training, etc.
Hi mate! Yes planning on incorporating it again. I am pretty terrible at remembering and learning languages, but my sister is fluent in Galeic and know other people too, so may try have more guests on to help me with that aspect
Hey man, love your content! I don't actually have much opportunity to try out much of what I've seen in your videos as I'm a city person. But I've had a lot of time recently for some DIY projects since the whole quarantine. Anyway I just wanted to say, the thing that really stands out to me about your videos and why I love checking out your content--regardless of whether or not it's even relevant to me--is that you just seem like a really awesome guy with a great attitude and a wonderful passion for your culture. I'm an American but I have some Celtic ancestry and I love the history. Keep up the good work.
Hi mate! Thanks very much for the support. Glad you are enjoying the videos and fins some use from them :)
Thanks so much for the consistent uploads man, you’re doing great. Really love the direction the channel is going, keep it up! Workouts at home for me have consisted of high rep push-up and pull-up variations with a handful of kettlebell exercises (28kg- so pretty challenging to put overhead for reps). Again, keep up the awesome work my guy!
Thanks for the support mate :) Nice! Now you can throw in some dirk shadow boxing too :) Have fun with it and thanks again!
Fandabi Dozi Actually been saving for a truly functional and historically authentic great sword, can’t wait to incorporate sword drills into my workouts. Thanks for the reply and big up from Newcastle!
Thanks for keeping ME FIT DURING LOCKDOWN TOM!!!!! MUM AND DAD ARE HAPPY WITH MY PHYSIQUE NOW!!!! :)))
Same here
@@j.m3902 oH REELLY? WE ARE fitness tins
is this guy deleting our comments !!!!??!!!?!?!?!?!????!?!
@@j.m3902 i konw but he sitll helps my pishyque so i cnat be mad
hope can fight like warrior when i meet him
I am from Novascotia, I find a lot of your videos cool cause I can imagine a lot of the techniques in your videos being used by Scottish people when they arrived in the new world. In fact a large portion of fur traders were from Scotland. Fur trading was also a very difficult job and some of the fur traders went deep into the wilderness of Canada to trade furs.
this is the only channel I watch half the time and its slowly making me scottish
Excellent! I have the Paladin Press book on Highland Knife Fighting ( Dirk & Sgian Dubh).
That is the excellent book by Cateran Society founder Chris Thompson, which is also the base for our work
An admirer of Tod's Workshop! Very good indeed 🍻
After doing some research I found my family came from Scotland back in the early 1800's. Find your RUclips videos has opened my eyes to a very interesting history. Keep up the great videos.
Love it. You are a clear instructor, very similar to the Wing Chun methods my instructor is showing us. I have forwarded your video to him. Congratulations on the size of the following. I pray you produce more videos to help many more people.
I have a Scottish Dirk in my collection. It is surprisingly light for it's size. I'll give it a go, your video is a good starter hopefully I'll be able to pickup what you demonstrated. Stay safe and healthy.
Awesome! Have fun with it!
Looks very much like one of the big contributers to this is rondel dagger fighting. Which I suppose makes sense!
Also, if anyone wants a cheap trainer to start learning this with. The Cold Steel rondel dagger is about 15 quid, pretty much indestructible, the correct length and you can't accidentally impale yourself!
Hey. Ive enjoyed watching your videos. I was pleasantly suprised at how similar some of your perspectives are to mine even across cultures. Keep it up
Great workout. May I suggest a fencing footwork addition. Skip a line, daisy chain crossover walk a line. Hop a line Squats a line. Fencers do this to losses up the agility of legwork. Sort of like a dancer. This was something our college fencing instructor had us do daily.
I love to watch your videos.
What you show definitely helps to bust self-confidence as well as physical health.
Keep it up!
Broke: Workouts Woke: Twerkouts Bespoke: Dirkouts
Good one 🤣
I'm woke and I dont twerk out so this is perfect for me
@@mmmorgi what?
I use a seax, beserkouts?
The fuck
Dagger AND staff fighting? That's my jam.
Shortsword and shirt axe paired, plot twist!
The axe is your primary, the ss is more a distraction/defensive item and psychologically opponents tend to assume the sword is threat No1.
You are light on your feet and have good foot work plus your body mechanics are good and functional. Although i rewatched in 2x speed and it is awesome. Thank you for the information.
this is fantastic. thank you.
I like martial arts. Currently working on my staff skills, good and informative video!
Wow. Found this by accident!!
Great stuff, make and practice this in lockdown, thanks 😁
Peace be with you
I need to learn this Dirk Kwon Do
😄
If you throw some Fiore's Master of Dagger, I think you'll see some fun augments to the Dirks potential.
Great video! A good workout, and also valuable self defense techniques ( handy for us ladies too!) all wrapped in a historical narrative. This is why I subscribe to your channel. Well done!
Thanks very much! :D
I recently found out my ancestors acquired a minor castle near Inverness in their time and nowadays it’s an inn you can stay at.
Might just need to get me a dirk and take back the family castle!!
(Jokes aside, this video gives me a better appreciation for my ancestry. Well-made, my man!)
3:35
What a lot of people don’t realize is that “traditional” boxing is the UK’s indigenous martial arts.
It was used just like Fandabi shows here: to train blade work without the danger of live steel.
Well Done sir well Presented
Reverse blade fighting steals reach and power from slashes. It should be reserved for short blades and extreme close quarters, imho.
Brilliant video! Loved the informative aspect and the training recommendations. Your technique is good, but you could be faster. Try staying looser and making each cut one motion. Throw out the blade and retract the blade in ONE motion. Stay loose, stay fast. Like a spring.
Love this video and it's intent, especially with the addition of calisthenics. Great call! For a follow up video, might I recommend the same attack drills, but with a partner showing the appropriate defensive moves to each attack. That would demonstrate the importance of that footwork, and show how to put together a complete fight... Thanks again for a great video.
Thanks for the Scottish Dirk Dagger Basic lessons
This video makes my heart brave
Your attacks all line up with traditional basic angles of attack and defense for Kali and eskrima. And depending on school, the numbers 1, 3, 9, and 12 (overhand stab) line up perfectly.
Eskrima is basically the same word as esgrima, which is Spanish for sword-fighting. I bet there's a fair amount of Spanish esgrima in eskrima which mixed in with the more native fighting styles.
Inspiring! Will alter my parkour/climbing/hiking with more of this type of training! Cheers!
I'd just like to let you know that I really love your videos and I'm so glad I found them. (You have a very nice yard, by the way)
...hey,cool video...!
...i love the knives!
Very nice dress,a hug from Italy 😉👍🏻
Just found your channel a few days ago and I'm loving the content. Keep up the great work! I'd love more content about Scottish mythos....
When I was a wee lad and two big dogs ran towards our yard and frightened me my dad came to me and after giving the dogs his "Celtic War Chief Stare" which could turn a charging bear in its tracks, he put his hand on my shoulder and knelt down to my level and said, " you are my son, you descend from a long line of Celtic Warchiefs and thereby are the most fearsome of all God's creatures and have no need to fear any man nor beast." I get chills every time I recount his words. So basically I never needed to fight. I just give my opponent that stare. I've seen some go pale and faint. Lol
As a 20 year practitioner of Krav Maga I appreciate the practical application of this video🍻😎🕎
Sometimes I wish I was a Scot.😺🍻
Your video is very interesting,thanks for sharing this.
I've always thought Scotland looks so beautiful. Such a nice place. I have never been there though.
This is awesome! I feel this is very effective and practical. Can you show defense moves and how to use footwork to move in and out attack and defend.
Thanks for uploading this! I need to get back in shape, so I think I'll give some of this workout a try!
hell, I have to get into better shape so I can WATCH the workout.
A rope with a knot hanging from a tree makes a good fast moving target at the height you want. I use this kind of target for nunchucks too. It helps a lot with practicing timing.
Awesome! I'll try that cheers mate!
with ancestors on both sides of my family coming out of Scotland, I'm finding this really cool
I may not have a Dirk but I did have a bowie and I'll be working on these 👍
Thankfully I survived me youth
Great post!
Respect from Vietnam. Thanks for amazing videos Bro! :)
The Dirk what historical blade ..I was in the army with a guy named McCollum he was good with one great form
Some idiots say Europeans didn't have effective martial arts systems, but we know they're wrong and what I can see is that the tradition has been preserved better in Scotland and I remember seeing. The dirk and the Scottish shield being used in combination? I also heard the battle-axe and the Warhammer were really popular in Scotland?
Yeah many european traditions have effective martial arts. They are beginning to make a come
back
Yes, according to the story about Ranald of the shield, the Dirk might have been used occationally with the Targe. You can find one experimental sparring and some lessons on it in my channel. Battle-Axes were quite popular especially in the Western Highlands and on the islands, where the Norse cultural impact during the "Viking-Age" had been strongest. One famous BAttle is the one of Harlaw in 1411, when the long Axes were used by the MacDonalds in a very bloody fight.
@@FandabiDozi exactly bro
@@tuerkefechi thanks
Been watching the Highlander series for a while now and I kept thinking Tom reminds me of someone, then in this video I finally realised. He looks just like Joseph Fiennes in 'Shakespeare in Love', it's the white shirt! 🤣
I can't un-see it now, lol
Great video
Jesus loves you and your family
I like your videos
Good work Brother
I own the Highland dirk's ancestor, the bollock dagger. Actually, the example I own is sort of a bollock-rondel hybrid. It actually has three "balls"!😂 I was just noticing what an exquisitely made piece yours is, and it was right afterwards that you said that it was made by "Tod" Todeschini! Guess who made my bollock dagger!... 😃 Your dagger is a gorgeous specimen of the genre! That "false edge" really makes the blade visually pop! Fantastic video as well!
Cool man. I like your videos. Gonna make a plaid on the weekend
Similar to stuff in polynesia, but we got told to always keep our guard high. We got our blades during 1600-1700 from the dutch.
Awesome video, mate, it was a pleasure to cooperate with you once more :-)
Very nice and interesting video
All kidding aside, excellent video sir.
Exactly what i was looking for!!! 8D
this was so epic
This actually has similar origins to muy thai kickboxing which also originated from knife fighting. very cool
Ничего не понял из рассказа, но Дарк-кинжал шотландских горцев, меня таки впечатлил! Лайк!!!
It's sad that I'm out of breath just watching this video. It would seem that I have my work cut out for me. Being in your sixties sucks. Excellent video.
That is sad but dont give up, I'm sure you can maybe try and cut ou some part
Much tomahawk and long knife fighting was Scots in America adapting sword with Dirk techniques to their new environment, and the Indians picked up on this combination VERY quickly. Prior to the introduction of steel trade weapons, Indian melee fighting was either stone axe/war club in dominant hand and hide shield (a targe, essentially) in off hand-- Flint or chert knives are too brittle for combat, so steel knives were a game changer.
Never underestimate a Scotsman with a big knife
Or an Aussie with an even bigger Knoyf!
Or a Norseman with a seax
3:10 i like the grass and the rocks look cool
Nice one, interesting to see the differences between this and modern knife or short sword fighting
Genius
The Dirk was the Scottish seax.
A man without a knife is improperly dressed....unless you're in Britain, where we will be arrested for cutlery
Great video
That’s because far too many kids are killing one another. I’ve had a daughter die in my arms. Is that what you want. And I started karate in 74 and have had many swords over the years. But wee kids playing hard. Can still kill far to easily.
@@garygalt4146 It's her killers fault, not knife's. He could have killed with anything, it's easy to select melee weapon from nothing. Also, where I live, everyone can carry a sword on his back. And knife crime is marginal, far less murders than in Great Britain.
@@andrzejsobanski6752 exactly, it's all about what's in your head, not what's in your hand, if you get what I mean.
@@taranis6009 I know, right? No one in his right mind is restricting the most dangerous weapon of them all. Brain. Common knowledge in chemistry and some harmless materials are enough to make a bomb. Basic tools and knowledge are enough to make a gun. (To make a melee weapon you don't even have to be smart.) If you think about it, there's so many ways to kill someone, yet we can all agree that knowledge should be spread, not suppressed.
If we are restricting guns and knives shouldn't we restrict books? Since they can be far more dangerous.
In my opinion, the answer is not to restrict everything dangerous, but to stop restricting shit.
I dont have any weapon training but i am an amateur mma fighter with a record of 2 and 0
You could add basic takedown defence or a sprawl and a teep to make this more versatile
Your a beast man, sent from Mr. Bjørn Andreas Bull Hansen
The way you’re holding the dirk as a dagger is just as I was train but I was trainned to hold the dagger behind me to hide the blade to use it as a surprise but also make it more
Difficult to be disarmed. The focus was to He’s a stab or slash to stop the attacker with one or two movements.
Though this is not my area of immediate interest I find this VERY interesting.
Great stuff. Kung Mac Fu! love it!
Inspired ar all !
My neighbors already think I'm weird so I'll be trying this in my backyard later.
I have the same dirk from the Tod Cutler range. He does great work.
Been collecting a few daggers from that guy can’t wait to grab a Dirk they really are amazing for the money.
@@aaronsmith3484 It is the best Dirk I ever had. Especially for the super-fair and affordable price. When you compare the big companies liek Cold Steel, Windlass or Hanwei, they are around the same price or even more expensive and are not nearly as great as Tod Cutler´s Dirk.
I think a dirk would be the perfect item to have while hiking in grizzly country. Same maneuvers could be used when attacked.
Thanks i would like to see more also thank you
Nice workout.
I think if you were to go into some parts of Glasgow you would see a more modern style of the auld dirk martial arts
As a fellow Scott I can see myself watching a lot of your channel. Please come back to make more videos!!
Hello from Aberdeen ma man!
"Never overextend your thrust. You are vulnerable... and off balance!"
Great vid! Really well explained!
Thanks mate! :)
Can't wait to try it out. I see you have a new vest.
I do! Its sheep skin. very cosy!
@@FandabiDozi Noticed this too. Where can I find one? I've recently been looking for one...!... just through internet searches but to no avail. Great videos man.
Ever see Native American Scout Training or Otava Yo Russian Couplets While Fighting on youtube? The first one is toward the end of the video & second one is a song, so the training stuff comes along as it goes, but both of them would have aptitude for those conditions. The Forge by Sonny Puzikas is good, too.