All I can say about strobe is from those that have used it a lot. Their conclusion on those of the receiving end was is that strobe made it hard to detect if the person holding the light was moving. With just the regular light they could detect movement but with the strobe it was harder to catch their movement. This was from a gun night training academy. So if a person found it important to hide their movement more, then the strobe makes a difference. As for me, I'll use the strobe in such circumstances. Oh, I should add, my Dad never told me to use a flashlight to look for things in a room with lights on but I do VERY often with my trusty Baton 3 (that is on me all the time), It will bring out details and colors to help you pinpoint things better. And if I drop something on the floor and can't find it, I put the flashlight horizontal on the floor and rotate it. You will see everything on that floor including how dirty it really is. Your house will be cleaner doing this.
You've done it sir. This is indeed the best flashlight video ever created. It had loss, relationships, excitement, triumph, wisdom and mocking of idiots. And cheap beer. A lot of cheap beer.
It's the curse of dads to always be the wisest but least listened to members of a family. We do it to our dads and our sons will do it to us. All we can do is laugh.
Fun fact: Micarta gets grippier when it gets wet (or bloody) which is important when the knife is this small...or you're sweaty with stress sweat, or beer sweats 😆
20 plus minutes of drinking, pleasurable touching of knife grips and some pretty great advice on being a better son... This is the greatest fistlight video of all time! Fantastic video!
I hope people listen to you regarding flashlights for self defense. I use them frequently, and live in one of the most violent areas of California. Most impressively, they function to prevent problems. And are very helpful, for emergencies other than violence, as well as automobile problems, even during the day. For which Olight Warrior 2 mini is excellent for. The Javelot is absolutely amazing for search at night with fog present.
Started as a flashlight review, turned into a buzzed tirade about trusting your life to a flashlight. 😂😂 Love it and makes me want to crack a cold one with ya.
My tactical edc load.. Main "weapon": Warrior M2R Back up "weapons": I have a bunch of obulbs I could use like ninja stars. Last line of defense: my cat with several Olight weapon lights attached to him (Mr. Hobbes Esquire). Self explanatory how they hate being tossed and will claw the shit outta whoever u toss them at.
The Baton 3 is absolutely a great gift. I gave one to my mother (with the tactidcal charging flask) and it is still to date her favorite thing I've ever given her. Uses it daily. Well, nightly.
The most relatable thing in the entire video. Losing the light you just had in hand. Looking for it for a while with no luck.. wife comes in and finds it in sub 1 minute 😂😂😂😂😂
wHaT aBoUt YoUr MiNd? Serious question for you though regarding weapon mounted lights: Flood or Spot? I know you normally are more into spot style stuff, but I feel like having a flood type light on a weapon makes it easier to illuminate something without pointing your weapon at it, since the light throws in a wider area. I know you said that you can't think of a scenario where you need to illuminate someone and not point a weapon at them, but still, being able to would be a benefit I think.
Having flashlight with back switch that is quick touch enabled and has a good amount of lumen and Candela works wonders together with situation and environment awareness. Warding off unwanted contact with a flashlight lit in the face of the opposer is like using garlic on vampires in most of the times especially if your awareness gave good distance. I shit you not that aggressively babbling ppl often immediately shut up and turn 180° going away from you. Even most agitated dogs goes away or calms down when lit on.
The Obulb MCs (specifically the new ones with the *s* on them), have a motion sensor that turns the light on when it is plugged in. The Obuddy is just a cute way for that function to work. Charger goes in the backpack, and when you walk by him, the light pops on for a bit.
I've found the strobe works very well on animals. A bright light just stops them for a sec or even makes them curious...but a strobe sends them running.
The truth is.. it doesn't have to completely blind them for couple seconds like it does during the night. Even 1000 lumen flashlight in broad daylight provides enough distraction to give you at least that "one free shot" which is always way better than nothing and can be a difference between life and death. I've been testing that and it's quite difficult to look at the flashlight and aim at somebody even something basic like 1000 lumens and bright adjusted eyes you have to look down or away. Obviously you were able to find him and hit him because he was just standing there.. he could jump to the side give you a front kick and run for his life.. still better than standing there with empty hands. It is a no-brainer EDC even if you have any other weapons. (in UK you can't have anything so flashlight + some skills can make all the difference)
Did not disappoint with the title. Ended up ordering from your warrior 3 video and that thing is an absolute beast for being a small flashlight. I absolutely agree that the Keychain light is the best. The small promo one that came for free has been invaluable!
The thing that really turned me off about olight is the internal battery system. I need to be able to periodically carry extra batteries and replace them as needed when they wear out. Internal batteries can only recharge so many times before they are no good any more. So i went with the streamlight protec hlx. Its awesome. But this year they just released the protec 2.0. its a new battery system but same micro USB charging. It has a removable and replaceable battery. Hasn't failed a single time.
Thanks Coach Mike. As always some very valuable information. I'm from the Uk which as a country is a very non permissive environment. My olight came today and i couldn't be happier. It was your recent video with Gabriel Varga as to the usage which really hit home , its not a kubitan (although it could be), but mostly that dazzling effect shining the light on someone. I am buying one for all my closest friends and insist they have it on them should the need arise. Not something i would have ever thought of but for your videos. As always, learning a lot and putting it into practice with great effect. Appreciate all you do dude.
13:52 I can vouch, flashlights are amazing for finding loose crap that fell down and rolled away. Even your phone’s camera light will work, but the brighter the better.
This is the first video I've seen from your channel but after watching it I thought to myself "yup, this guy gets it". I will be following and you have gained a fan here.
In my head, whenever Mike leaves his house, he's wearing a trench coat like that scene in The Matrix, except instead of guns, it's just flashlights. Dozens of flashlights of various sizes
my experience with strobe.. many many years ago when i airsoft'ed.. flashlight with turbo.. people would duck out of the light, put a hand up to block the light, blind fire at light. with strobe people would seem to grit and try to look through light, and continue to blind themselves, trying to see you when the flashlight blinked "off". i like olight stuff, they arnt benchmade or big flashlight brand.. it is good mid-price stuff for what you get.
Been loving your videos after recently discovering you the other day and I gotta say, this is probably my favorite video just because you can see your condition slowly deteriorate as the beers stack up on your desk 😂
I usually don't trust knives from brands that knives aren't their main business, but I looked up those knives you showed and I'm impressed. Decent price, good working steels, and what appears to be good construction. I'm going to give the Parrot a shot. Normally I stick with Benchmade, Spyderco, Civivi, Chris Reeve, etc, but this looks worth a shot and for under $60, not a huge risk.
Ozarka trail makes a billy club with a rubber grip that is also a flashlight. Its fairly bright with an adjustable beam tightness, and very affordable. If we are talking about flashlights you can use as clubs, that one has GOT to be up there.
@@hard2hurt I bought it when i used to work repo; I had to have a flashlight to check VIN numbers that had a narrow beam that wouldnt draw a ton of attention, and the fact it was also a potential self defence weapon was nice. Nowadays I grab it in addition to a gun IWC when something sus happens in the backyard.
I bought an Olight warrior with your code awhile ago and this Fall my older brother and his wife came over to my house to ding-dong ditch. I went outside and turned the corner to my garage and hit him square in the face with as many lumens as the turbo mode button could throw. It was glorious.
I have a steam light microstream I love it it’s super bright rechargeable and small and has the clip that can go on your hat like that olight pen light you showed
That Parrot probably has a micarta handle, which is cloth layered with a adhesive like epoxy or some sort of glue. Good stuff, cheap to make, very resilient to chemical and most physical damage. Cool. vid, big like, also that gun and flashlight video would be awesome to see.
After taking advantage of O-light's Black Friday deals, to add to my growing addicti-...collection of flashlights, I came back to watch this video again. Becuase it truly is a masterpiece. As we see the wall of Bud Lite cans on the desk, we get to know Mike more, as the flashlight doesn't just illuminate an attacker, but his inner psychology. Or something like that. Regardless, it's great.
Since people are talking about their dads, to young people, cherish your dad. My dad passed away three years ago Christmas. I was 24. If you do the math, I'm now 27 and just now and realizing how little I know but I can no longer ask him. My dad wasn't just a dad to me, he was dad to my friends. One friend grew up in an abusive home and he told me that it was my dad who taught him how to be a man and he hopes he can live up to that ideal and that my dad is proud of him. Listen to your dad. He knows more than you think and loves you more than you realize. Also, neat flashlights.
@@hard2hurt one of the more profound things a teen said to me after he had just talked about how much he loves and respects his dad was in response to my question of why. He said that his dad has been battling leukemia for almost his entire childhood. He knows his dad is sick and in pain, yet he watches his dad get up every day and work a physically demanding job so that he and his sister don't have to want for anything. Something I wished I noticed with my own dad and the kind of dad I hope to be one day.
This is defenetly *The Greatest Flashlight Video Ever Made,* no doubts about that. But for some reason I think it might be better if we keep as a general rule to not drink 10 beers while making your videos. Or maybe we should make drinking *at least* 10 beers per video the new standard. I don't know.
I lived in a dark-sky city for two years and a flashlight with a strobe was the most important safety tool I had. Not for “bad guys” but to make sure dumb college kid drivers saw me as I was walking.
you know what I've always wondered... why do small lights normally mean small lumens? They seem to focus on battery life, big output usually means a big honking battery compartment. But for a self-defense light I don't necessarily need it to last 25 hours at full output-- 15 minutes would be just fine! the actual LEDs are usually much smaller than the battery compartment, you could use a stack of coin cells that would last 15-30 minutes and have a lot more output when you need it in something that's still pocket sized.
Hey Mike, I remember you saying you used to play fighting games a while back. Why not collab with Justin Wong? He's still making Marvel vs Capcom 2 videos.
Here is how I approach flashlight brands and what I like ... Personally I like high output Thrunite lights that I can carry on my belt line Thrunite T2 suit my all arounder needs out in public or when working. If strictky tactical Thrunite TT10 is my personal choice. That being said for non flashlight collectors or casual users I buy Olight flashlights . They come pretty much ready to go charger battery the whole 9 . That warrior x 3 is going to be my gift to myself as a tactical light , Yes I also think flashlights for self defense are great . I also carry knives and a pistol for same reasoning . Its a matter of distance and escalation. Verbal deescalation first if posible , Flashlight deescalation at distance at night , then close in if a sudden thing my knife is coming out if person is not armed with a gun .
My impression has always been that the strobe is not as good as a steady beam because these smaller tactical flashlight beams are very tight, so in a dynamic situation you only really nail the retina with the brightest center cone of the steady beam intermittently which causes a kind of random flashing pattern for the recievers brain to deal with anyway. The strobe is a bit more hit and miss as only some flashes will happen to line up at the right time when beam aim is optimal, so the actual effective flash interval is less than the strobe pattern itself, allowing too many unhindered perception windows for bad man/lady. Also steady beam is simple. Keep it simple. Same beam used to disorientate other is same beam you can use to orientate self.
I love watching mikes disappointment towards stupid people, he is to old to get mad at the people, he just gets sad at how dumb people are and I love watching it.
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Go check out the Olight Flash Sale where you can get up to 45% off at www.olightstore.com/s/LPZSK3
Do Olight ever NOT have a sale on?
And in the end, we realized that the best light was the light inside us all.
Morgan Freeman voice, of course.
🤣👌🏼
Yes, enlightenment!
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
That’s not where your supposed to put them dude 🔦 🍑
This video helped me buy a flashlight, hyped me to train and even call my dad. Top tier content 👌
Wow I feel like I just bowled a turkey.
This world needs more story time with Tipsy Mike in it
hard2walk?
@@Enthymene I like it
Holy drunk Batman.
Who took my keys?!?!?!
@@hard2hurt We have fun here.
"These flashlights are making me thirsty!"
All I can say about strobe is from those that have used it a lot. Their conclusion on those of the receiving end was is that strobe made it hard to detect if the person holding the light was moving. With just the regular light they could detect movement but with the strobe it was harder to catch their movement. This was from a gun night training academy. So if a person found it important to hide their movement more, then the strobe makes a difference. As for me, I'll use the strobe in such circumstances.
Oh, I should add, my Dad never told me to use a flashlight to look for things in a room with lights on but I do VERY often with my trusty Baton 3 (that is on me all the time), It will bring out details and colors to help you pinpoint things better. And if I drop something on the floor and can't find it, I put the flashlight horizontal on the floor and rotate it. You will see everything on that floor including how dirty it really is. Your house will be cleaner doing this.
Came here for an awesome flashlight unboxing video and ended up trying to fix my relationship with my dad
Yeah. He may have made some mistakes but you were also a shit head a lot of times
I feel like I went on a journey with Mike in this video
Nah man that's just a regular Monday night lol
I want to know who he lost a bet with. Curse laden hilarity and Olight…surely not. (Either Maddox or Seth for my money.) 🤣🤣
You've done it sir. This is indeed the best flashlight video ever created. It had loss, relationships, excitement, triumph, wisdom and mocking of idiots. And cheap beer. A lot of cheap beer.
If there were flashlight video awards this would for sure sweep it.
I like the nice subtle way that Mike is trying to get a Bud light sponsor.
That would be a few steps up lol. Do you know someone?!
@@hard2hurt Not a step up anymore lol
Might be my new favorite IcyMike video, lost my dad a few years ago and can just hear him laughing and saying “told you so”
Good shit, man
It's the curse of dads to always be the wisest but least listened to members of a family. We do it to our dads and our sons will do it to us. All we can do is laugh.
I've watched a lot of flashlight videos, this is in fact the greatest ever made.
I knew it!
The material on the parrot is micarta, which is in fact fabric compressed with epoxy into blocks that can be shaped into handle scales.
Well I'll be...
Fun fact: Micarta gets grippier when it gets wet (or bloody) which is important when the knife is this small...or you're sweaty with stress sweat, or beer sweats 😆
20 plus minutes of drinking, pleasurable touching of knife grips and some pretty great advice on being a better son... This is the greatest fistlight video of all time! Fantastic video!
Is a fistlight like a woman's/sodomite's version of a fleshlight?
"Reloading!" burrrrrp... awesome.
I'm drinking a beer while watching this, and I feel like I'm having a beer with Icy Mike.
Well that's because you are!
You are definitely my favourite reviewer of flashlights and stuff
Lol is that a big list?
I hope people listen to you regarding flashlights for self defense. I use them frequently, and live in one of the most violent areas of California. Most impressively, they function to prevent problems. And are very helpful, for emergencies other than violence, as well as automobile problems, even during the day. For which Olight Warrior 2 mini is excellent for. The Javelot is absolutely amazing for search at night with fog present.
Started as a flashlight review, turned into a buzzed tirade about trusting your life to a flashlight. 😂😂 Love it and makes me want to crack a cold one with ya.
My tactical edc load..
Main "weapon": Warrior M2R
Back up "weapons": I have a bunch of obulbs I could use like ninja stars.
Last line of defense: my cat with several Olight weapon lights attached to him (Mr. Hobbes Esquire). Self explanatory how they hate being tossed and will claw the shit outta whoever u toss them at.
Need a video on the tac-cat
@@hard2hurt Tac-cat with 10 flashlights pointing in random directions with strobe upon toss at target lmao.
The Baton 3 is absolutely a great gift. I gave one to my mother (with the tactidcal charging flask) and it is still to date her favorite thing I've ever given her. Uses it daily.
Well, nightly.
The most relatable thing in the entire video. Losing the light you just had in hand. Looking for it for a while with no luck.. wife comes in and finds it in sub 1 minute 😂😂😂😂😂
wHaT aBoUt YoUr MiNd? Serious question for you though regarding weapon mounted lights: Flood or Spot? I know you normally are more into spot style stuff, but I feel like having a flood type light on a weapon makes it easier to illuminate something without pointing your weapon at it, since the light throws in a wider area. I know you said that you can't think of a scenario where you need to illuminate someone and not point a weapon at them, but still, being able to would be a benefit I think.
Ive never had a wml that didn't have enough flood indoors. Even with a bright spot. So i guess my answer is why not both?
Well my dad's gone to buy milk and never came back, so you're my dad now Icy Mike.
Get a haircut.
Having flashlight with back switch that is quick touch enabled and has a good amount of lumen and Candela works wonders together with situation and environment awareness.
Warding off unwanted contact with a flashlight lit in the face of the opposer is like using garlic on vampires in most of the times especially if your awareness gave good distance. I shit you not that aggressively babbling ppl often immediately shut up and turn 180° going away from you. Even most agitated dogs goes away or calms down when lit on.
“I’m gonna be going through this 12 pack”
Grabs the case above the hard seltzer
You went full Rick for this video 😂
Don't get the reference! But thanks for making it!
@@hard2hurt Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty. And you’re welcome!
The Obulb MCs (specifically the new ones with the *s* on them), have a motion sensor that turns the light on when it is plugged in. The Obuddy is just a cute way for that function to work. Charger goes in the backpack, and when you walk by him, the light pops on for a bit.
I've found the strobe works very well on animals. A bright light just stops them for a sec or even makes them curious...but a strobe sends them running.
I love how much engagement you do in your comments. Rocking an EDC warrior mini 2 thanks to your channel.
Feels like dad just woke us up because he came home a little tipsy and wanted to spend some time just talking about flashlights.
The truth is.. it doesn't have to completely blind them for couple seconds like it does during the night. Even 1000 lumen flashlight in broad daylight provides enough distraction to give you at least that "one free shot" which is always way better than nothing and can be a difference between life and death. I've been testing that and it's quite difficult to look at the flashlight and aim at somebody even something basic like 1000 lumens and bright adjusted eyes you have to look down or away. Obviously you were able to find him and hit him because he was just standing there.. he could jump to the side give you a front kick and run for his life.. still better than standing there with empty hands. It is a no-brainer EDC even if you have any other weapons. (in UK you can't have anything so flashlight + some skills can make all the difference)
Did not disappoint with the title.
Ended up ordering from your warrior 3 video and that thing is an absolute beast for being a small flashlight.
I absolutely agree that the Keychain light is the best. The small promo one that came for free has been invaluable!
The thing that really turned me off about olight is the internal battery system. I need to be able to periodically carry extra batteries and replace them as needed when they wear out.
Internal batteries can only recharge so many times before they are no good any more.
So i went with the streamlight protec hlx. Its awesome. But this year they just released the protec 2.0. its a new battery system but same micro USB charging. It has a removable and replaceable battery.
Hasn't failed a single time.
Thanks Coach Mike.
As always some very valuable information. I'm from the Uk which as a country is a very non permissive environment.
My olight came today and i couldn't be happier.
It was your recent video with Gabriel Varga as to the usage which really hit home , its not a kubitan (although it could be), but mostly that dazzling effect shining the light on someone. I am buying one for all my closest friends and insist they have it on them should the need arise.
Not something i would have ever thought of but for your videos. As always, learning a lot and putting it into practice with great effect.
Appreciate all you do dude.
"I'm making the Greatest *Hyup* flashlight video of all time"
Bro you were killin those seltzers
Icy Mike has become Advanced Light Bro. That's it, that's the comment.
Good comment
Your right about listening to your old man. I thought I was grown up and at 27 I still find myself learning.
13:52 I can vouch, flashlights are amazing for finding loose crap that fell down and rolled away. Even your phone’s camera light will work, but the brighter the better.
5:54 - “I feel pretty good about this video… I think this will be the greatest flashlight video ever made.”
*PROCEEDS TO OPEN UP A KNIFE*
I'm transcending the rules.
Can you do a review on the Olight Javelot Pro flashlight please?
Came for the flashlights but stayed for the wholesome step dad rant.
YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY DO A ONE MAN ROOM CLEARING VIDEO
But... you should nEvEr ClEaR aLoNe!!!111
@@hard2hurt One man room clearing, aikido-based with a kubaton
The whole talk at the end of the video was Icy Mike saying "YOUR MIIIIIIND IS YOUR GREATEST WEAPON!!" but with lots of extra detail lollll :P
This is the first video I've seen from your channel but after watching it I thought to myself "yup, this guy gets it". I will be following and you have gained a fan here.
In my head, whenever Mike leaves his house, he's wearing a trench coat like that scene in The Matrix, except instead of guns, it's just flashlights. Dozens of flashlights of various sizes
my experience with strobe.. many many years ago when i airsoft'ed.. flashlight with turbo.. people would duck out of the light, put a hand up to block the light, blind fire at light. with strobe people would seem to grit and try to look through light, and continue to blind themselves, trying to see you when the flashlight blinked "off". i like olight stuff, they arnt benchmade or big flashlight brand.. it is good mid-price stuff for what you get.
New to the channel and I already know how much you love flashlights
"I was in a boonch of fishlights with fashlights" lol
Look at all the words I got right man! When you're running very fast, a trip up can be way more catastrophic you know.
@@hard2hurt we all do we should laugh at it 😁 happy thanksgiving.
OLIGHT does make the best and lights for Every thing
Been loving your videos after recently discovering you the other day and I gotta say, this is probably my favorite video just because you can see your condition slowly deteriorate as the beers stack up on your desk 😂
I usually don't trust knives from brands that knives aren't their main business, but I looked up those knives you showed and I'm impressed. Decent price, good working steels, and what appears to be good construction. I'm going to give the Parrot a shot. Normally I stick with Benchmade, Spyderco, Civivi, Chris Reeve, etc, but this looks worth a shot and for under $60, not a huge risk.
Ozarka trail makes a billy club with a rubber grip that is also a flashlight. Its fairly bright with an adjustable beam tightness, and very affordable. If we are talking about flashlights you can use as clubs, that one has GOT to be up there.
Besides the thought that it is a club and not easy to carry a club on day to day basis.
I think I have one somewhere in the closet.
@@hard2hurt I bought it when i used to work repo; I had to have a flashlight to check VIN numbers that had a narrow beam that wouldnt draw a ton of attention, and the fact it was also a potential self defence weapon was nice. Nowadays I grab it in addition to a gun IWC when something sus happens in the backyard.
I bought an Olight warrior with your code awhile ago and this Fall my older brother and his wife came over to my house to ding-dong ditch. I went outside and turned the corner to my garage and hit him square in the face with as many lumens as the turbo mode button could throw. It was glorious.
I have a steam light microstream I love it it’s super bright rechargeable and small and has the clip that can go on your hat like that olight pen light you showed
You know. I think this was the best flash sale video ever made. Real talk, real advice, and real funny stuff xD
You’re so funny yet soo serious. Love it!!!!!
How about fleshlights?
Are they good for self defense and what mode/pattern should you use?
I'm glad it's not only me that loses stuff I had in my hand 5 seconds ago lol
I was debuffed
Olight just had 215,000+ lights recalled lol
That Parrot probably has a micarta handle, which is cloth layered with a adhesive like epoxy or some sort of glue. Good stuff, cheap to make, very resilient to chemical and most physical damage. Cool. vid, big like, also that gun and flashlight video would be awesome to see.
15:00 - 15:10 had me chuckling. So true.
A moment of anthology. You rock, dude. The more I watch your videos, the more I like you 😌
I think Mike is feelin’ it. Looking a tad glassy eyed.
This may be the best Olight video ever.
And you still remind me of Phillip from The Americans.
After taking advantage of O-light's Black Friday deals, to add to my growing addicti-...collection of flashlights, I came back to watch this video again. Becuase it truly is a masterpiece. As we see the wall of Bud Lite cans on the desk, we get to know Mike more, as the flashlight doesn't just illuminate an attacker, but his inner psychology. Or something like that. Regardless, it's great.
The best one ever is to listen to someone just using
The knife scales were made of fabric, the material is called "Micatra" and it is resin bonded fabric.
Feels like im cracking a few cold ones with Mike who is being a beacon.
Mission accomplished.
this is your best video ever
agreed
Since people are talking about their dads, to young people, cherish your dad. My dad passed away three years ago Christmas. I was 24. If you do the math, I'm now 27 and just now and realizing how little I know but I can no longer ask him. My dad wasn't just a dad to me, he was dad to my friends. One friend grew up in an abusive home and he told me that it was my dad who taught him how to be a man and he hopes he can live up to that ideal and that my dad is proud of him. Listen to your dad. He knows more than you think and loves you more than you realize. Also, neat flashlights.
You got the real point of this video for sure.
@@hard2hurt one of the more profound things a teen said to me after he had just talked about how much he loves and respects his dad was in response to my question of why. He said that his dad has been battling leukemia for almost his entire childhood. He knows his dad is sick and in pain, yet he watches his dad get up every day and work a physically demanding job so that he and his sister don't have to want for anything. Something I wished I noticed with my own dad and the kind of dad I hope to be one day.
This is defenetly *The Greatest Flashlight Video Ever Made,* no doubts about that.
But for some reason I think it might be better if we keep as a general rule to not drink 10 beers while making your videos.
Or maybe we should make drinking *at least* 10 beers per video the new standard.
I don't know.
It's very hard to say.
That's what made so epic!!!! I love this channel and watch religiously and this was the best episode yet!!! I laughed half way through it.
Definitely need more vids with 10 beers consumed first before we make the final ruling.
I got a free keychain light from Olight when they were sending free masks to people in 2020. Love my little 3EEOS!🔦
that was one of the best videos I've seen full stop
Wow high praise.
Came here for flashlight info… left here rethinking my entire weapons platform.
I lived in a dark-sky city for two years and a flashlight with a strobe was the most important safety tool I had. Not for “bad guys” but to make sure dumb college kid drivers saw me as I was walking.
What is a dark sky city?
Dark Sky City?
@@necromancer0616 a city that intentionally minimizes light pollution. Fewer street lights and very dim ones. They had an observatory there.
Well that was anticlimactic. I thought you lived in Silent Hill or Chernobyl or something.
do you see loads of stars in the sky with the minimized light pollution?
you know what I've always wondered... why do small lights normally mean small lumens? They seem to focus on battery life, big output usually means a big honking battery compartment. But for a self-defense light I don't necessarily need it to last 25 hours at full output-- 15 minutes would be just fine! the actual LEDs are usually much smaller than the battery compartment, you could use a stack of coin cells that would last 15-30 minutes and have a lot more output when you need it in something that's still pocket sized.
This is the best video ever hands down.
I'll accept this award!
The IS the greatest flash light video every made.
I was pretty sure.
Hey Mike, I remember you saying you used to play fighting games a while back. Why not collab with Justin Wong? He's still making Marvel vs Capcom 2 videos.
Holy crap going to sub right now i dodnt know
Super informative as always ‼️
lol maybe
Lol, Mike's stepdad teaching him The Way of The Flashlight.
"I've been in a bunch of fishfights with fleshlights" - IcyMike... kinda... :D
Here is how I approach flashlight brands and what I like ... Personally I like high output Thrunite lights that I can carry on my belt line Thrunite T2 suit my all arounder needs out in public or when working. If strictky tactical Thrunite TT10 is my personal choice. That being said for non flashlight collectors or casual users I buy Olight flashlights . They come pretty much ready to go charger battery the whole 9 . That warrior x 3 is going to be my gift to myself as a tactical light , Yes I also think flashlights for self defense are great . I also carry knives and a pistol for same reasoning . Its a matter of distance and escalation. Verbal deescalation first if posible , Flashlight deescalation at distance at night , then close in if a sudden thing my knife is coming out if person is not armed with a gun .
I got my butt kicked by a Flashlight 🤣😆🤣 I bet is the most embarrassing admission by a criminal to the other inmates 🤣😆😂🤣👍
As if it wasn't bad enough it was a 5'5" 140 lb nerd.
Bud Light.
Coors Light.
Keystone Light.
Bud Light Lime.
Miller Lite.
Amstel Light.
And flesh light...
The ring on that light is designed to be used with a pistol as well as for striking.
Light is the very first and simplest line of defense
9:17 PEAK hard2hurt content
At the end, this dude was as lit as his flashlights! LOL
What are your thoughts on the Thyrm Switchback?
You said I know that their bright oh godddd on the exact moment I flashed myself with my warrior X😂😂
The new flesh light I got has been working wonders!! Oh wrong video
Lmao 🤣 can’t with this video. Icy Mike is extra icy! Love it! Dare I say, cold as ice… cold blooded 😂
You've sold me on flashlights in the course of running your channel.
My impression has always been that the strobe is not as good as a steady beam because these smaller tactical flashlight beams are very tight, so in a dynamic situation you only really nail the retina with the brightest center cone of the steady beam intermittently which causes a kind of random flashing pattern for the recievers brain to deal with anyway. The strobe is a bit more hit and miss as only some flashes will happen to line up at the right time when beam aim is optimal, so the actual effective flash interval is less than the strobe pattern itself, allowing too many unhindered perception windows for bad man/lady. Also steady beam is simple. Keep it simple. Same beam used to disorientate other is same beam you can use to orientate self.
Great dad advice.
I thought those were energy drinks at first. I was worried your heart was gonna explode mid video.
I love watching mikes disappointment towards stupid people, he is to old to get mad at the people, he just gets sad at how dumb people are and I love watching it.
Yeah I used to take joy in people being dumb... as I become older and kinder I just get frustrated.
GOAT flashlight review. 🐐🐐🐐✊✊✊✊
The Obuddy music had me dying lol