Perhaps an odd suggestion: how much rubber, or what kind of specific rubber, would be necessary in order to block most weapon attacks? Considering Luffy is made of rubber himself.
I honestly just really hope you’ll eventually do a Ludwig’s Holy Blade build that would be soooo EPIC! I also think it would be right up y’all’s wheelhouse of cool.
This weapon is basically a chainsaw without the chain and bigger teeth. You hit someone with it, you’re not meant to slice through with the initial blade strike, but the subsequent blades ripping through.
Arlong is 8 foot 8. He is literally an order of magnitude stronger than the humans in his region of the world, even out of the water. The sword is 6 feet long and is more of a saw on a stick than anything. He fights entirely with speed and power, no skill at all. It's absolutely meant to be terrifying to face, since Arlong *will* rip you apart with it.
Thanks guys, very interesting. One thought, the "teeth" of Arlong's sword meet at the bases. Being sharpened along their entire length, so there are no significant gaps where the target material would reach an unsharpened bit. This is true for the live action and animated series. I have no idea if that would improve the real world performance, but you asked for feedback and that's something I noticed.
Yeah, I think that's the biggest difference here. Also the teeth on Arlong's sword have a different angle for the blades, more pyramid and less dagger. I think that would make it cut better. And I think on this smaller version the teeth could also be made shorter to reduce weight.
Yeah, there's no real gap shown, so it's more of a single serrated edge, rather than blades with space between them. Plus, as mentioned in the next comment, the angle of the blades isn't as extreme.
@@DigitalAwakening i think the more shark fin shape of the teeth on arlongs version forces whatever you hit to slide across the rounded edge of the blade aswell
Yeah, I was gonna say this, as it was low key driving me a tiny bit nuts that this went undressed in both videos. There IS no gap between teeth in the original sword. The next tooth starts at the exact point the previous one ends, so your flesh would absolutely be getting cut and separated by both teeth before any part of you makes contact with the base of the weapon. It's more like a razor sharp, weighted saw rather than multiple blades tied (or bolted) to a club.
I think shape-wise that makes sense, but mechanically it doesn’t actually saw through anything. This is a very weird/loose comparison, but I view its function like a strange multi-headed pick/axe but all the blades face the same direction.
Arlong is also an 8'8" tall fishman, so the size in the manga fits the character a lot better. The size difference between weapon and wielder is much crazier on Mihawk.
@@Shadow25071 yes and the average fishmen is naturally multiple times stronger than a human. We have 150+ cm two handed swords So Arlong have a nearly body height sword is "fine" because he is super strong
I have seen macahuitl reproductions tested on gel dummies. I initially looked to it as a club but the damage it did was comparable to a sword. Cuts were mostly clean and not jagged though it left obsidian behind here and there. Looks like a club cuts like a sword. It is often called a sword. Imo its a sword.
Move the blades closer together to close those gaps, add a hand cross guard for safety and more utility, perhaps even install a pommel to optimize the balance, and I think you would have a very deadly limb-chopper. What I see happening is that one blade starts a miniature draw-cut, then the next blade in line finishes the cut. It's almost like a swinging scissor effect.
Yeah, and the thing about this that bothers me is that the blades being closer together is actually part of the original blade's design. Each blade ends at the precise point that the next one starts, practically making the weapon one unbroken sword edge, like a big weighted saw blade. So their assessment isn't quite as accurate as it could be because their design is a bit off since those gaps between blades are unique to their own design, not the original.
One defense of the weapon that wasn't mentioned is that in One Piece, it's used by Fishmen. They're stronger and bigger than humans, so if it does catch the opponent's blade, they'd have more leverage to control the opponent's weapon and even if it binds, they can just use that as a chance to get in close with a grab. Also, I wonder if it might be more functional with alternating tooth sizes. Like, one normal sized, the next half sized, rinse and repeat.
All Tyranth has to do is put those blades further apart of each other, due to its Original Size the Tips of the Teeths are further apart of each other too, making the chance of hitting the target with a single tooth much higher than shown on this example that Tyranth has made, so by saying he made it more "functional" he actually made it less functional, cause he downscaled it without taking into consideration that due to its size, the tips of the teeths on Arlongs Sword are further apart of each other. so the Original Design is actually more functional than what Tyranth made, due to him downscaling it 1 to 1 which you simply cannot do on a Design like this.
@@haxkztasy Is it designed to fight against Fishmen or against humans (targets smaller than fishmen)? Because if its designed to fight against Fishmen, the bigger size gets mitigated by the fact that Fishmen are bigger, so the chance for one to still hit with multiple spikes is similar as against humans with human size weapon.
@tabull8180 It was mainly used by Arlong, who used it to terrorize the people of East blue, so in this case, it was mostly used against humans, and not other Fishmen.
I'd say it's more of an oversized, one-sided leiomano, the macuahuitl-like weapon used by the Pacific Island cultures that used shark teeth instead of sharpened stones or obsidian flakes. Leiomano and macuahuitl tend to be classified as "bladed clubs", but they're really their own distinct thing. As mentioned in the video, Arlong's sword in the source material has a rounded spine, but it also has sharktooth-shaped blades and no empty space between them, so the front "edge" is sharp all the way down, and the individual teeth are so big that a human-sized target is likely to get hit by only one or two at a time. Not to mention that visually the weapon looks like it _wants_ to be swung in more of a draw cut than a standard slash.
Arlong's sword reminds me of the Aztec macuahuitl, a wooden club with obsidian blades stuck in the sides. That's probably the best real world equivalent.
There are equivalents from islands like Hawaii and other jungle areas. The need for something with replaceable blades and use against viney vegetation probably demand it along with all the humidity.
exactly what i was thinking👍 , the blades are too pronounced for the weapon to be a "spiked club" but its not a continues edge like a conventional sword.
Some depictions in the manga have the teeth meeting in a sharp "V" giving it a complete edge before it gets to the spine, instead of the gap you have here. They're pretty dang close to meeting on the live action version too. Also, as I've said it seems to be inspired by the Polynesian Leiomano, so it's probably meant for cutting up unarmored opponents and human bodies aren't as bouncy as Boromir. Even if they aren't as deep, a swing and a rip and that thing is still gonna open up multiple wounds and shred people and bleed them out quick. Man, I wish you guys could get Ballistic Dummies.
But it's not as effective as just one "tooth". It's physics. When you have teeth your Force is spread out. Vs when it's just 1, like a normal ax, it's cuts deeper.
@@Ashtor1337 Maybe it's an axe/spiked club trading depth for a larger more sword-like area of offense. It seems based on a Leiomano."Effectiveness" in battle is subjective. I imagine 2 or 3, simultaneous 3x3 punctures, landing with a bone-breaking club-like blow, with the wounds potentially connected by a ripping pull at the end, probably averaged out to be just as "effective" at taking the adversary out of the fight as the extra depth of an axe/single spike. Especially when factoring in how many times the smaller cutting area of an axe missed its mark. Or that Maiming is just as effective as killing in certain situations, like a raid. You don't care if he dies as long as he's no longer capable of preventing you from taking his stuff. I also think if you cracked a person in the head with that thing, they're done with all the living they were gonna do. Man, I wish they could get Ballistic dummies or even a pig carcass because even with the force being spread to multiple points, I bet this thing would still deal out grizzly carnage.
@@washingtoncommandcenter5541also if the person is strong enough the semi club like nature adds in bone breaking or fracturing capabilities to this thing making it even more nasty against inarmored opponents
This is EXACTLY what I was thinking. That is essentially just a small hay mower with a paracord wrap. It totally works, I made one as a kid out of the old rusty blades that dad replaced. It's wild seeing pretty much the same thing here
In the manga/anime, the teeth of Arlong's sword are connected together, creating a more single edge rather than individual teeth. Not sure if that would help with the cutting power though. The issues with weight, and being able to catch other blades is still going to be an issue, unless you're some sort of superhuman with the strength needed to wield it.
Finally someone mentioned this. Its frustrating watching those two complain how the target would hit the pole(or in this case rectangular) part that holds the teeth when its actually not the case. Every 2 teeth blades make a giant scissors, so there is not a chance that the object being cut will ever hit the pole part.
My immediate thought on seeing how the swords get trapped in each other was, "what if you retreat and pull"? Two factors being, the width of the kiribachi's blades allows you to angle the longsword away from your body (so you're essentially using it as a shield), and if you're using that sword in the first place you probably have some strength advantage over the opponent. The intent being to either disarm the opponent, or bring him into a range where you could do some 'alternative melee combat' like tripping or headbutting them (or biting, if you're a fishman). The mockup design they have here is probably not strong enough to try something like this though.
Was really impressed by the performance of this sawtooth... thing in Screen Tested, it was a good idea to showcase it here too, I wanted to see more of it! Thanks Tyranth and Shad!
The hawaiian native people did something similar with shark teeth and it proved to be quite brutal and effective, im pretty sure it had a heavy role in the inspiration of arlongs sword
Its a SAWRD, Also it shoudl be possible to have more cutting surface if you over lap, or design the teeth to have some excta cutting surface in between the teeth rather then letting it hit a dull zone. Like there are a lot of things that can be done to improve this and make it really functional.
To be clear, the blades on Arlong's sword meet at the edges and opposing swords shouldn't be reaching the rounded spine. Also, although drawings will change shape sometimes, the blades are generally wider than long, so there's some potential to reduce weight and even out distribution in that regard.
AFAIK, the "Macuahuitl" was not really used to kill, but rather to maim. From what I've been told, it was used by their fastest runners to catch people who were running away from justice for a crime, or to catch someone for blood sacrifice to the gods. They'd swing it at their legs to cut their muscles and tendons so they could drag them back. That's what I was told anyways.
the blade trapping aspect is really interesting although this design is obviously flawed in this sense, the best idea i have when it comes to improving it and keeping the overall theme would be to decrease the size of the teeth the further u go up the blade and reduce the space in between them, that way sliding at the top would become a possibility and trapping with the strong of the blade should become easier
There are also weapons that were made by Polynesians or Hawaiians or something like that that was like a flat club with shark teeth attached to form a serrated blade.
It's apparently called a "shark sword" and used by the Fishmen, so it's more likely taking inspiration from the shark-tooth "swords" of the Pacific islands. Same design as the Macuahuitl, but different origin.
I mean, I guess its akin to the Pacific Islanders weapons, where they'd basically just stick shark teeth, obsidian, and particularly sturdy rocks they could find through wood, and smash/slash with it.
Exactly, I don't think these weapons were ever designed (at least the IRL equivalent) with clashing or swordplay techniques in mind. They were for simple brutalizing i.e. smashing into like a cleaver. With that said, if the inner space between the saw teeth was reduced to nearly zero (saw edges touching), any sword caught between the saws might get trapped more easily w/out room to twist - since the teeth would be grinding the blade during a rotation. Still not great for any technique other than "smash and slam"
A spiked club implies the weapon would have a girthy shaft with spikes embedded to it, while in this one the shaft acts only as structural element to attach the the blades to. I think this is another weapon category entirely, "combat saw" maybe?
i'd count it as warpike or something close to that... it just has more than one spike and is able to cut a bit... bit its also topheavy... was there equalivent for one handed (or one and a half handed) halberd?
In the case of Arlong's "canon" weapon, he is shown using the blades to stab, not to chop through things necessarily. He uses it like a spiked club, for all intents and purposes; the blades impale, and the weight of the central spine smashes the target aside. It's a destructive and dangerous weapon for an indiscriminate fighter, lacking the finesse of a sword but fitting his saw-shark aesthetic, and giving him a brutal implement to symbolize who he is and how he tries to rule.
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That makes sense if you listened to the following sentence that they mentioned. By size they are referring to the size of the "teeth" and by mass they are referring to the overall weight of the weapon. In other words they are trying to determine if it is performing the way it does because of the shape or because of the momentum of the sword.
So it made sense how Arlong used it. He's a very tall and strong.. fish. The "blade" was a lot longer and heavier. Arlong was either swinging it almost fully extended or holding it to people's throats, threatening to pull it back like a saw. I'm guessing the simple plan for a fish like Arlong with his original blade would be.. swinging hard, mabe from angled from the bottom, then just immediately pull it back once it gets stuck. The weight makes it so that the blades are likely to make contact with the body, even when parried.. and well, the superhuman strength allows every pull back to rip through clothing. Maybe viable for the likes of Hafthor
One thing to consider is that Arlong has super human strength, so he would basically always have more leverage if his "sword" got "caught". But yeah trying to appropriate that design for humans it doesn't really catch blades in a way that helps the user much.
Exactly, however, if you made it right, this thing could be devastating because you'd intentionally 'break' and 'bend' other blades by hitting them really hard. Or vary the length of the teeth rather than keep symmetry to disperse the wolverine effect.
there is also the aspect to consider with the wielder in this case, they talk about the longsword being in a favourable position, but given Arlong famous teeth and bite, anytime he has any way of getting close to you, you are in immense trouble.
The weapon is very much designed to fit Arlong. Not only does he have the superior strength and stamina to wield such a blade physically but the weapon is also a good fit for a thuggish tyrant who cares more about inspiring fear and maiming potential dissenters than he does about killing his cash cows. Arlong doesn't actually want to kill any of his subjects as they can't earn him money that way. He just needs them scared enough to obey him without resistance.
On arlong's sword, there's no gap between the blades. It's not exactly something you want to hit with the point of the teeth, but with the edge of teeth/in between the teeth for the guillatine effect. But even then, I think it would probably be more efficient to take half the tooth, and make it the whole length of the sword so that it tapers toward the handle (wider side at the end). The maximum cutting ability in terms of shape would be less, but you would need far less percision and there's much more inertia in your swing (which also means it's more top heavy which is a give and take).
I think you're both off the money here, it's neither a sword nor a club. It's an axe with multiple blades instead of one bigger blade. The final presentation and your comment "if it had a single tooth it would've been more effective" is pretty much like saying "if it was a long axe it would've been more effective"
It looks like a Hawaiian war club called"leiomano" the word is derived from the Hawaiian language and may originate from lei o manō, meaning "a shark's lei." The weapon resembles a thick ping-pong paddle inset with shark teeth, typically from the tiger shark. These teeth are placed into grooves in the club and sewn into place.Its also called a"Koa war club"that comes from the Polinesian warrios that called them selves"Koa".The onepeace weapon should be called"shark tooth war sword"or "Saw tooth war sword"
14:36 I would try to catch the blade at the tip and swing the handle in to attack with the lower teeth (as if trying to punch with the handle type motion)
its a weapon built to smash straight through guard. the opponents weapon is caught between the teeth as you are still driving it into them. a weapon that require you to fully commit to the attack and you ether end them or they dodge and end you.
This makes the sword even more terrifying, because you then have to think, when you see Arlong using it, how powerful he must be to overcome it's weaknesses.
Arlong was a tyrant who cared more about keeping his subjects in check via fear rather than actual force. An intimidating weapon designed to main rather than outright kill suits him best as a dead person can't earn money for him and it creates a pesky martyr.
You don't see Arlong using it. He pulls it out and it immediately gets shattered by Luffy. Arlong spends most of the fight using his teeth instead. What the sword is more meant to convey is Luffy's strength. He stopped the full-size weapon in full swing by digging his bare hands into the metal.
This thing...I agree with Shadi. It might as well be a club. You need to smash your opponent's sword into him and rely on overwhelming force to get the teeth to bite in. Which necessitates you having overwhelming force. Even if you put swordbreaker notches between the teeth, that would barely help, since your opponent can easily decide which pair of teeth grabs his sword and...well, we got a demonstration of what happens after. The anime one is a bit more functional IF you can even swing it, since it's going to have so much mass and force on the drop that it will demolish a conventionally armed opponent IF it connects, and it's still a worse titan sword. Might as well grab a pick. Nobody wants to mess with that. There's a reason we don't use saws in battle.
13:13 Try catching/deflecting the sword with the spine of that saw, dive in and catch shad's neck with the teeth instead, and just pull backwards as hard as you can until his head comes off.
Spiked club or sword? As someone who has no idea what theyre talking about: Id say its an Axe with multiple.... heads? Multiple cutty parts. You know what i mean. Edit: spelling
9:00 To be fair, in case of Arlong´s sword it doesn´t matter too much that the cross section is a pole since the blades have no space in between to make whatever is cut reach the cross section area
I loved guys! It's awesome that you are making this kind of test in fictional weapons. One thing to take in consideration besides the sword is the swordsman, in the source material (OnePiece manga & anime) the user Arlong is a fishman. Fishman is a race that is a the least 10 times stronger than a regular man. So the amount of strength he can put behind is just different, to me this means that amount of strength is needed to make it a functional weapon. In the other side it is a different shape sword, so it might need a different set of motions to make it work better.
1:19 Rather than a club i'd say iot's more like an axe witrh several axe heads along the shaft. The problem with that though is the short handle. Curious about how that would work.
I would call it a polearm with multiple heads along the shaft. This seems like the best fit both for the size and the general depiction. It's wielded like a sword, but that's to emphasize the character's super-human strength, swinging around an unwieldy weapon.
Arlongs sword is way more spaced and has these curves in it that allow slicing that this weapon doesn't have. If you look at the original design it's curved teeth like shark teeth spaced in a curved geometry, like a wave. They will definitely tear into a body because of its curves and spacing. This weapon doesn't have that spacing nor curves. I'd like to see that in action.
The Polynesians also had a club/sword called a leiomano that resembles Arlongs sword. Given it was made using sharks' teeth, makes it fitting to Arlongs charecter.
In the manga/anime/live-action, the teeth of the sword didn't have space between them, they were kinda bland together. so, if you fixed that, it would be even more effective, you can keep the scale, but pay more attention to the teeth
Originally called it a sword in the poll, but seeing this episode made me reconsider. I can definitely see this is more to hit like (appropriately themed) a shark bite: swing down hard on someone to puncture, pull away to rip them to shreds. I know Tyranth mentioned the "Wolverine Effect", making the multi-blade aspect a hinderance, but I think the point was that it was massive and heavy, weilded by a super-human being. At the very least, a real kiribachi would have a lot of mass behind it, likely weilded by someone who could manage a huge club-like weapon.
I think the idea is not to catch the opponets blade, but to leverage the higher mass to possibly hit it with so much force you either bend or force your to drop it.
That's going to require a LOT of force with spring steel. Something that might work once in a long while, but I think the longsword would have a decisive advantage in most cases.
14:36 What about as a hook? You catch the blade, and in the binding position, you pull on their blade, disorientating the opponent and potentially either tripping them or breaking their blade. The only downside is that it could just be too heavy to feasibly do so
One important thing I feel is worth pointing out is that in the original design of Arlong's blade, the spikes actually converge when they get to the pole connecting them, meaning there isn't a blunt section in between.
--12:40.. it's backside, is a bludgeoning tool/weapon. If you are catching and turning away the opponent's sword..successfully, you don't actually have to have a sharp edge to hurt your bad guys. Just a good solid smack with heavy chunk of heavy metal, is usually enough to knock most living things off their marbles. -Even plants..lol.
The Aztec Sword worked amazingly well. The obsidian blades were extremely sharp and they wore practically no armor so it was basically razor blades against skin. Also they would break off from time to time so you'd have shards of stone stuck in your flesh.
I'd love to see this idea revisited, so that Tyranth would actually pick it xD Halloween is coming, maybe then the topic could come up again? It's kind of a saw/aztec club/swordbreaker - what if the blades could be modified, so they could actually catch the sword blades (for example each blade could have a tang, so when the opponent's blade goes in, it would be harder to take it back), and overall the weapon was more agile with a pommel? The problem with Boromir is that it's not a good human body reference i guess, it bounces many things. We could all agree that this weapon won't do much against armor, but i would not want to get hit by that even if the force would be divided by 4 or 5 honestly. Love all your work guys, keep it up!
To be fair on OP Wiki this weapon is listed as saw pattern saber and even Arlong didn't go for conventional maneuvers like you would with a sword instead he was using it to deliver huge all-out slashes, relying more on his superhuman strength than skill. In this context this weapon can work really well since it is heavy with even more force behind it in big sweeping motion. This scaled version might be bad against long sword but real thing wielded by Arlong would snap most types of swords in half. Edit: The replication of the blade is also not correct because Kiribachi doesn't have gaps between the teeth like this version has so it can change the abilities of the weapon a bit.
I love these videos and you make me want to get into medieval weapons. You two together make me crack up! Your pool noodle stand, boronir and your stress test wood beam drive me a little crazy. You need to secure them better. Maybe use a wide 2x2 meter plywood base or wood beam cross to set them on so they don't tip over when you strike them. Maybe you already thought of this, but it triggers my OCD every time I see them tip over 😂. Keep doing a great job!
A few more infos: The fishmen of the One Piece universe are bigger in stature than human and are said to be 10 times stronger. Considering this it makes the weapon way more viable. The long blade exceeds a human sword reach and the blunt force would tear people like the pool noodles. I's actually not the worst design to have, especially for the fishmen.
This reminds me of the Polynesian war clubs from Hawaii. They took flat koa wood clubs, carved channels around the edge, and inset shark teeth into the channels.
Just as reference for Tyranth, the macuahuitl pronunciation would be someting like ma - like MAshed potatos cua - like the word QUArter hui - like the french oui tl - this is the hard part for most people, so don't worry about it. Great video as usual guys! Much love!
Interesting discussion. The sword is definitely made for the sake of aesthetics, shark teeth obviously but it does do some cutting. Of course considering the source material the sword is much larger and longer, like the length of a nodachi and Arlong is a very large, super strong fishman who can swing that around with impunity. It’s made for size and intimidation much like the advantages Arlong has over normal people, but in reality he’s a small fish who escaped the ocean into a tiny pond. In that sense it fits its user.
I'd categorize that weapon as an axe. In Soul Calibur there's an axe with two heads, both triangular in shape, and Arlong's "sword" reminds me of that axe. Or it could be also count as a sword, if the shichishito is anything to go by.
The ideal way to use that weapon is to use the backside to deflect and parry and only use the cutting edge when necessary if an opening appears. Using the backaide should allow for more powerful and balanced movements and maybe even better leverage. Axes were used that way often for battle.
one thing i could see is that if tooth length is big enough relative to opponent sword - its still dangerous to block those because tooth is extending beyond the opponent blade, so that could maybe work for some heavy inertial swings
This would be a great weapon for the slow-mo camera. This way you can better see what's going on during each swing, as to how much is actual cut, and how much is straight up just tearing.
During the bind testing, I noticed that if you slid up to the cross-guard, the teeth would circumvent it and still strike the hand. That could be a valid strength.
Try to catch nad pull to pass the point of the long sword. So lets say similar to wrath guard you swing with it from up right to diagonaly left down and you get the bind. You then need to trap the blade by changing angle between long axis of swords (same as with bladebreaker) and than pull down and back (with proper foot work the long sword point should be outside your siulette. This have disarm potential. If longsword is still help by user the goal is to pass the point and go for graplling or compromise posture of opponent with pull and attack by flat to head. This could also work with halfswording.
The American weapon is the maquahuitl. Pronounced something like "Mack-Waddle." Alongside the gunstock war club and the Ojibwe war club, it's a terrifying instrument of pain.
Im noticing that its actually a disadvantage to catch, and then not leverage break the attacking sword. You do basically a parry, into a leverage duel. Where a parry with a straight blade offsets the opponents energy sent completely away, the teeth on this opens you to your opponent re-directing swing energy.
In the show, there aren't any gaps between the blades, which would result in a theoretically cleaner (though not by much) cut. I also posit that this thing works so well because it's reducing the overall surface area of the cutting surface, resulting in a greater amount of effective force applied. It would be more effective against an armored opponent than a pure-cutting sword (in lieu of a piercing sword), offering some piercing function, but I feel like the biggest thing is that sheer "wtf" factor of facing off against someone who has it, lol.
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what other One Piece Weapons should be done?
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Perhaps an odd suggestion: how much rubber, or what kind of specific rubber, would be necessary in order to block most weapon attacks? Considering Luffy is made of rubber himself.
Mihawks sword, obviously.
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I honestly just really hope you’ll eventually do a Ludwig’s Holy Blade build that would be soooo EPIC! I also think it would be right up y’all’s wheelhouse of cool.
This weapon isn't about finesse, or precision. This weapon is about sending a message. A bloody and ripped apart message.
This weapon is basically a chainsaw without the chain and bigger teeth. You hit someone with it, you’re not meant to slice through with the initial blade strike, but the subsequent blades ripping through.
@@rabbidcreature9681 ....So a saw.
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@@rabbidcreature9681 Good answer!
Arlong is 8 foot 8. He is literally an order of magnitude stronger than the humans in his region of the world, even out of the water. The sword is 6 feet long and is more of a saw on a stick than anything. He fights entirely with speed and power, no skill at all. It's absolutely meant to be terrifying to face, since Arlong *will* rip you apart with it.
Thanks guys, very interesting.
One thought, the "teeth" of Arlong's sword meet at the bases. Being sharpened along their entire length, so there are no significant gaps where the target material would reach an unsharpened bit. This is true for the live action and animated series.
I have no idea if that would improve the real world performance, but you asked for feedback and that's something I noticed.
Yeah, I think that's the biggest difference here. Also the teeth on Arlong's sword have a different angle for the blades, more pyramid and less dagger. I think that would make it cut better. And I think on this smaller version the teeth could also be made shorter to reduce weight.
Yeah, there's no real gap shown, so it's more of a single serrated edge, rather than blades with space between them. Plus, as mentioned in the next comment, the angle of the blades isn't as extreme.
@@DigitalAwakening i think the more shark fin shape of the teeth on arlongs version forces whatever you hit to slide across the rounded edge of the blade aswell
@@DigitalAwakening the teeth on arlongs sword looks like shark teeth
Yeah, I was gonna say this, as it was low key driving me a tiny bit nuts that this went undressed in both videos. There IS no gap between teeth in the original sword. The next tooth starts at the exact point the previous one ends, so your flesh would absolutely be getting cut and separated by both teeth before any part of you makes contact with the base of the weapon. It's more like a razor sharp, weighted saw rather than multiple blades tied (or bolted) to a club.
I would argue that it's not a sword or a club. It's just a really big saw
this actually makes so much fucking sense.
its just a saw with really large teeth
the english manga actually called it the "shark saw", so that is pretty accurate
The way it works, it is a very weird axe.
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I think shape-wise that makes sense, but mechanically it doesn’t actually saw through anything. This is a very weird/loose comparison, but I view its function like a strange multi-headed pick/axe but all the blades face the same direction.
Arlong is also an 8'8" tall fishman, so the size in the manga fits the character a lot better.
The size difference between weapon and wielder is much crazier on Mihawk.
Arlong is also a fishman, a race that is on average 10x stronger than the average human
Arlong is tall af and the "sword" is still big for his size lol
@@Shadow25071 yes and the average fishmen is naturally multiple times stronger than a human.
We have 150+ cm two handed swords
So Arlong have a nearly body height sword is "fine" because he is super strong
Mihawk's sword is pretty well balanced though, due to the large handle/crossguard.
I think we can safely call it a stick-like weapon
a pickaxe?
It is more like several sequential heads on an axe or war pick.
Well said, a modification of the Mighty STICK .
agreed a sharp metal stick
I have seen macahuitl reproductions tested on gel dummies. I initially looked to it as a club but the damage it did was comparable to a sword. Cuts were mostly clean and not jagged though it left obsidian behind here and there. Looks like a club cuts like a sword. It is often called a sword. Imo its a sword.
Move the blades closer together to close those gaps, add a hand cross guard for safety and more utility, perhaps even install a pommel to optimize the balance, and I think you would have a very deadly limb-chopper. What I see happening is that one blade starts a miniature draw-cut, then the next blade in line finishes the cut. It's almost like a swinging scissor effect.
Yeah, and the thing about this that bothers me is that the blades being closer together is actually part of the original blade's design. Each blade ends at the precise point that the next one starts, practically making the weapon one unbroken sword edge, like a big weighted saw blade. So their assessment isn't quite as accurate as it could be because their design is a bit off since those gaps between blades are unique to their own design, not the original.
One defense of the weapon that wasn't mentioned is that in One Piece, it's used by Fishmen. They're stronger and bigger than humans, so if it does catch the opponent's blade, they'd have more leverage to control the opponent's weapon and even if it binds, they can just use that as a chance to get in close with a grab.
Also, I wonder if it might be more functional with alternating tooth sizes. Like, one normal sized, the next half sized, rinse and repeat.
I like that. Might even be able to get the teeth closer together a bit easier as well with that idea
All Tyranth has to do is put those blades further apart of each other, due to its Original Size the Tips of the Teeths are further apart of each other too, making the chance of hitting the target with a single tooth much higher than shown on this example that Tyranth has made, so by saying he made it more "functional" he actually made it less functional, cause he downscaled it without taking into consideration that due to its size, the tips of the teeths on Arlongs Sword are further apart of each other.
so the Original Design is actually more functional than what Tyranth made, due to him downscaling it 1 to 1 which you simply cannot do on a Design like this.
@@haxkztasy Is it designed to fight against Fishmen or against humans (targets smaller than fishmen)? Because if its designed to fight against Fishmen, the bigger size gets mitigated by the fact that Fishmen are bigger, so the chance for one to still hit with multiple spikes is similar as against humans with human size weapon.
@tabull8180 It was mainly used by Arlong, who used it to terrorize the people of East blue, so in this case, it was mostly used against humans, and not other Fishmen.
@@galeden5700 Okay, thanks. I agree with you then.
I'd say it's more of an oversized, one-sided leiomano, the macuahuitl-like weapon used by the Pacific Island cultures that used shark teeth instead of sharpened stones or obsidian flakes. Leiomano and macuahuitl tend to be classified as "bladed clubs", but they're really their own distinct thing.
As mentioned in the video, Arlong's sword in the source material has a rounded spine, but it also has sharktooth-shaped blades and no empty space between them, so the front "edge" is sharp all the way down, and the individual teeth are so big that a human-sized target is likely to get hit by only one or two at a time. Not to mention that visually the weapon looks like it _wants_ to be swung in more of a draw cut than a standard slash.
It's a very well built orc chopper
what's a "chopper"" It's only propa' to spell it "choppa".
I stand corrected. Dang blast you auto correct. I should have included a WAAAGH to.
"We're professional idiots here" love that line!
Arlong's sword reminds me of the Aztec macuahuitl, a wooden club with obsidian blades stuck in the sides. That's probably the best real world equivalent.
Dang it I was about to say the same thing but I couldn’t remember it’s name
They point that out at 4:10
There are equivalents from islands like Hawaii and other jungle areas.
The need for something with replaceable blades and use against viney vegetation probably demand it along with all the humidity.
One idea is shark teeth which arlong can spam.
exactly what i was thinking👍 , the blades are too pronounced for the weapon to be a "spiked club" but its not a continues edge like a conventional sword.
Some depictions in the manga have the teeth meeting in a sharp "V" giving it a complete edge before it gets to the spine, instead of the gap you have here. They're pretty dang close to meeting on the live action version too. Also, as I've said it seems to be inspired by the Polynesian Leiomano, so it's probably meant for cutting up unarmored opponents and human bodies aren't as bouncy as Boromir. Even if they aren't as deep, a swing and a rip and that thing is still gonna open up multiple wounds and shred people and bleed them out quick. Man, I wish you guys could get Ballistic Dummies.
But it's not as effective as just one "tooth". It's physics. When you have teeth your Force is spread out. Vs when it's just 1, like a normal ax, it's cuts deeper.
@@Ashtor1337 Maybe it's an axe/spiked club trading depth for a larger more sword-like area of offense. It seems based on a Leiomano."Effectiveness" in battle is subjective. I imagine 2 or 3, simultaneous 3x3 punctures, landing with a bone-breaking club-like blow, with the wounds potentially connected by a ripping pull at the end, probably averaged out to be just as "effective" at taking the adversary out of the fight as the extra depth of an axe/single spike. Especially when factoring in how many times the smaller cutting area of an axe missed its mark. Or that Maiming is just as effective as killing in certain situations, like a raid. You don't care if he dies as long as he's no longer capable of preventing you from taking his stuff. I also think if you cracked a person in the head with that thing, they're done with all the living they were gonna do. Man, I wish they could get Ballistic dummies or even a pig carcass because even with the force being spread to multiple points, I bet this thing would still deal out grizzly carnage.
@@washingtoncommandcenter5541it’s quite literally designed for tearing and puncturing than cutting
@@washingtoncommandcenter5541also if the person is strong enough the semi club like nature adds in bone breaking or fracturing capabilities to this thing making it even more nasty against inarmored opponents
Disregard typos because my RUclips comment box is bugging out and piling all words on top of each other
Me as a farm kid wanting to make a sword out of the spare blades to the hay mower. You have done it lads. You did it.
This is EXACTLY what I was thinking. That is essentially just a small hay mower with a paracord wrap. It totally works, I made one as a kid out of the old rusty blades that dad replaced. It's wild seeing pretty much the same thing here
It's actually kinda fun watching Tyranth make something then later see it on Shadiversity. It's like I know about the thing ahead of time
In the manga/anime, the teeth of Arlong's sword are connected together, creating a more single edge rather than individual teeth. Not sure if that would help with the cutting power though. The issues with weight, and being able to catch other blades is still going to be an issue, unless you're some sort of superhuman with the strength needed to wield it.
Finally someone mentioned this. Its frustrating watching those two complain how the target would hit the pole(or in this case rectangular) part that holds the teeth when its actually not the case. Every 2 teeth blades make a giant scissors, so there is not a chance that the object being cut will ever hit the pole part.
And your superhuman strength statement statement is super fair when you consider how many times stronger a fishman is compared to a normal human
My immediate thought on seeing how the swords get trapped in each other was, "what if you retreat and pull"? Two factors being, the width of the kiribachi's blades allows you to angle the longsword away from your body (so you're essentially using it as a shield), and if you're using that sword in the first place you probably have some strength advantage over the opponent. The intent being to either disarm the opponent, or bring him into a range where you could do some 'alternative melee combat' like tripping or headbutting them (or biting, if you're a fishman). The mockup design they have here is probably not strong enough to try something like this though.
Was really impressed by the performance of this sawtooth... thing in Screen Tested, it was a good idea to showcase it here too, I wanted to see more of it! Thanks Tyranth and Shad!
The hawaiian native people did something similar with shark teeth and it proved to be quite brutal and effective, im pretty sure it had a heavy role in the inspiration of arlongs sword
Its a SAWRD, Also it shoudl be possible to have more cutting surface if you over lap, or design the teeth to have some excta cutting surface in between the teeth rather then letting it hit a dull zone. Like there are a lot of things that can be done to improve this and make it really functional.
Omg Shads reaction to the horizontal cut got me rolling.
To be clear, the blades on Arlong's sword meet at the edges and opposing swords shouldn't be reaching the rounded spine. Also, although drawings will change shape sometimes, the blades are generally wider than long, so there's some potential to reduce weight and even out distribution in that regard.
AFAIK, the "Macuahuitl" was not really used to kill, but rather to maim. From what I've been told, it was used by their fastest runners to catch people who were running away from justice for a crime, or to catch someone for blood sacrifice to the gods. They'd swing it at their legs to cut their muscles and tendons so they could drag them back. That's what I was told anyways.
It’s not a cutting weapon per se it’s a closer to a ripping weapon. It’s not gonna sink super deep but it will definitely tear up muscles and such.
the blade trapping aspect is really interesting although this design is obviously flawed in this sense, the best idea i have when it comes to improving it and keeping the overall theme would be to decrease the size of the teeth the further u go up the blade and reduce the space in between them, that way sliding at the top would become a possibility and trapping with the strong of the blade should become easier
There are also weapons that were made by Polynesians or Hawaiians or something like that that was like a flat club with shark teeth attached to form a serrated blade.
Skallagrim did a video on that.
NOTE - Arlong's height is 8ft 7in.
And an absolute unit of a fishman.
Holy cow, that is nuts! :O he's a giant
I would call that a modernized Macuahuitl. The major difference being the blades favoring one side
It's apparently called a "shark sword" and used by the Fishmen, so it's more likely taking inspiration from the shark-tooth "swords" of the Pacific islands. Same design as the Macuahuitl, but different origin.
Yeah, I was thinking about that atzec weapon, and also the japanese shichishito. They both look related to the shark blade.
I think if the blades were a bit closer together it would be much better.
Even less penetration, though.
I mean, I guess its akin to the Pacific Islanders weapons, where they'd basically just stick shark teeth, obsidian, and particularly sturdy rocks they could find through wood, and smash/slash with it.
Exactly, I don't think these weapons were ever designed (at least the IRL equivalent) with clashing or swordplay techniques in mind. They were for simple brutalizing i.e. smashing into like a cleaver. With that said, if the inner space between the saw teeth was reduced to nearly zero (saw edges touching), any sword caught between the saws might get trapped more easily w/out room to twist - since the teeth would be grinding the blade during a rotation. Still not great for any technique other than "smash and slam"
or the Macuahuitl of the Aztecs
@@drthmik Indeed.
Congratulation Tyrant for the work! It's very well done! Very good video guys 💪
A spiked club implies the weapon would have a girthy shaft with spikes embedded to it, while in this one the shaft acts only as structural element to attach the the blades to. I think this is another weapon category entirely, "combat saw" maybe?
**girthy shaft**
A "Warsaw" 😁
Warsaw
i'd count it as warpike or something close to that... it just has more than one spike and is able to cut a bit... bit its also topheavy... was there equalivent for one handed (or one and a half handed) halberd?
In the case of Arlong's "canon" weapon, he is shown using the blades to stab, not to chop through things necessarily. He uses it like a spiked club, for all intents and purposes; the blades impale, and the weight of the central spine smashes the target aside. It's a destructive and dangerous weapon for an indiscriminate fighter, lacking the finesse of a sword but fitting his saw-shark aesthetic, and giving him a brutal implement to symbolize who he is and how he tries to rule.
As someone who watched the anime I would say it is a sword.
Great video, love you guys.
Keep on going
The whole time i was laughing at the dramatic irony of tyranth and the audience knowing the horizontal cut would break shads brain
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"I think the size is actually helping it perform a bit better."
"Is that the size, or the mass?"
-Shadiversity
yes
it's not the size or mass of the tool, but how you wield it
That makes sense if you listened to the following sentence that they mentioned. By size they are referring to the size of the "teeth" and by mass they are referring to the overall weight of the weapon. In other words they are trying to determine if it is performing the way it does because of the shape or because of the momentum of the sword.
@@redragon_istaken my brother in christ it's a joke about the penis
@@redragon_istaken OP was making a dick joke.
So it made sense how Arlong used it. He's a very tall and strong.. fish. The "blade" was a lot longer and heavier. Arlong was either swinging it almost fully extended or holding it to people's throats, threatening to pull it back like a saw.
I'm guessing the simple plan for a fish like Arlong with his original blade would be.. swinging hard, mabe from angled from the bottom, then just immediately pull it back once it gets stuck. The weight makes it so that the blades are likely to make contact with the body, even when parried.. and well, the superhuman strength allows every pull back to rip through clothing. Maybe viable for the likes of Hafthor
One thing to consider is that Arlong has super human strength, so he would basically always have more leverage if his "sword" got "caught". But yeah trying to appropriate that design for humans it doesn't really catch blades in a way that helps the user much.
They should call it the Arshort sword since it’s normal size.
Exactly, however, if you made it right, this thing could be devastating because you'd intentionally 'break' and 'bend' other blades by hitting them really hard. Or vary the length of the teeth rather than keep symmetry to disperse the wolverine effect.
there is also the aspect to consider with the wielder in this case, they talk about the longsword being in a favourable position, but given Arlong famous teeth and bite, anytime he has any way of getting close to you, you are in immense trouble.
The weapon is very much designed to fit Arlong. Not only does he have the superior strength and stamina to wield such a blade physically but the weapon is also a good fit for a thuggish tyrant who cares more about inspiring fear and maiming potential dissenters than he does about killing his cash cows. Arlong doesn't actually want to kill any of his subjects as they can't earn him money that way. He just needs them scared enough to obey him without resistance.
On arlong's sword, there's no gap between the blades. It's not exactly something you want to hit with the point of the teeth, but with the edge of teeth/in between the teeth for the guillatine effect. But even then, I think it would probably be more efficient to take half the tooth, and make it the whole length of the sword so that it tapers toward the handle (wider side at the end). The maximum cutting ability in terms of shape would be less, but you would need far less percision and there's much more inertia in your swing (which also means it's more top heavy which is a give and take).
I think you're both off the money here, it's neither a sword nor a club. It's an axe with multiple blades instead of one bigger blade. The final presentation and your comment "if it had a single tooth it would've been more effective" is pretty much like saying "if it was a long axe it would've been more effective"
the weapon is suppose to be like a shark tooth with little bit of serration on each bit of the tooth
so it's be more like Saw
a really big Saw
@@lag00n54 It's a sickle bar mower blade. Which does work like like a saw, just for cutting grass and hay instead of wood.
It looks like a Hawaiian war club called"leiomano" the word is derived from the Hawaiian language and may originate from lei o manō, meaning "a shark's lei." The weapon resembles a thick ping-pong paddle inset with shark teeth, typically from the tiger shark. These teeth are placed into grooves in the club and sewn into place.Its also called a"Koa war club"that comes from the Polinesian warrios that called them selves"Koa".The onepeace weapon should be called"shark tooth war sword"or "Saw tooth war sword"
14:36 I would try to catch the blade at the tip and swing the handle in to attack with the lower teeth (as if trying to punch with the handle type motion)
its a weapon built to smash straight through guard.
the opponents weapon is caught between the teeth as you are still driving it into them.
a weapon that require you to fully commit to the attack and you ether end them or they dodge and end you.
Tyranth's build is a spiked club, arlong's is a sword. The difference is arlong's weapon has a continuous sharp edge and the real life version doesn't
It's 6 teeth. Just like this. It's wider, that hurts it's cutting power, they addressed it. It's at best a multi headed ax.
Glad Shad mentioned it, because I was thinking of the Aztec obsidian sword the moment I saw this thing.
This makes the sword even more terrifying, because you then have to think, when you see Arlong using it, how powerful he must be to overcome it's weaknesses.
Like Jackie Chan fighting with furniture.
Or like someone fighting with a sheathed blade.
Arlong was a tyrant who cared more about keeping his subjects in check via fear rather than actual force. An intimidating weapon designed to main rather than outright kill suits him best as a dead person can't earn money for him and it creates a pesky martyr.
You don't see Arlong using it. He pulls it out and it immediately gets shattered by Luffy. Arlong spends most of the fight using his teeth instead.
What the sword is more meant to convey is Luffy's strength. He stopped the full-size weapon in full swing by digging his bare hands into the metal.
This thing...I agree with Shadi. It might as well be a club. You need to smash your opponent's sword into him and rely on overwhelming force to get the teeth to bite in. Which necessitates you having overwhelming force. Even if you put swordbreaker notches between the teeth, that would barely help, since your opponent can easily decide which pair of teeth grabs his sword and...well, we got a demonstration of what happens after. The anime one is a bit more functional IF you can even swing it, since it's going to have so much mass and force on the drop that it will demolish a conventionally armed opponent IF it connects, and it's still a worse titan sword. Might as well grab a pick. Nobody wants to mess with that. There's a reason we don't use saws in battle.
huh i just platium one piece pirate warriors 4 and this was posted what good timing
It's the blade of an old combine harvester.
I used to make these "swords" when I was a kid.
It looks like an island weapon made with a sawtooth shark upper jaw
13:13 Try catching/deflecting the sword with the spine of that saw, dive in and catch shad's neck with the teeth instead, and just pull backwards as hard as you can until his head comes off.
Spiked club or sword?
As someone who has no idea what theyre talking about: Id say its an Axe with multiple.... heads? Multiple cutty parts. You know what i mean.
Edit: spelling
9:00 To be fair, in case of Arlong´s sword it doesn´t matter too much that the cross section is a pole since the blades have no space in between to make whatever is cut reach the cross section area
I’d call it a seven-headed axe. A hydra-axe?
I loved guys!
It's awesome that you are making this kind of test in fictional weapons.
One thing to take in consideration besides the sword is the swordsman, in the source material (OnePiece manga & anime) the user Arlong is a fishman. Fishman is a race that is a the least 10 times stronger than a regular man. So the amount of strength
he can put behind is just different, to me this means that amount of strength is needed to make it a functional weapon.
In the other side it is a different shape sword, so it might need a different set of motions to make it work better.
1:19 Rather than a club i'd say iot's more like an axe witrh several axe heads along the shaft. The problem with that though is the short handle. Curious about how that would work.
I think it's Ax-ceptional
I would call it a polearm with multiple heads along the shaft. This seems like the best fit both for the size and the general depiction.
It's wielded like a sword, but that's to emphasize the character's super-human strength, swinging around an unwieldy weapon.
Not shark enough
Need more shark
+5 shark good shark :)
Should have made or used a leiomano.
Arlongs sword is way more spaced and has these curves in it that allow slicing that this weapon doesn't have. If you look at the original design it's curved teeth like shark teeth spaced in a curved geometry, like a wave. They will definitely tear into a body because of its curves and spacing. This weapon doesn't have that spacing nor curves. I'd like to see that in action.
1:50 depends on if obsidian or shark-tooth swords are swords. Same basic principle.
You can not really cut with shark- teeth.
@@jonathanparada293 you can cut
it be more like saw motion
I was reminded of a Macuahuitl. It's be cool to see one of those tested
The Polynesians also had a club/sword called a leiomano that resembles Arlongs sword. Given it was made using sharks' teeth, makes it fitting to Arlongs charecter.
The first thing I thought when I saw this was "one-sided macahuitl."
In the manga/anime/live-action, the teeth of the sword didn't have space between them, they were kinda bland together. so, if you fixed that, it would be even more effective, you can keep the scale, but pay more attention to the teeth
Delightfully creative stuff you’re doing!
Originally called it a sword in the poll, but seeing this episode made me reconsider.
I can definitely see this is more to hit like (appropriately themed) a shark bite: swing down hard on someone to puncture, pull away to rip them to shreds.
I know Tyranth mentioned the "Wolverine Effect", making the multi-blade aspect a hinderance, but I think the point was that it was massive and heavy, weilded by a super-human being. At the very least, a real kiribachi would have a lot of mass behind it, likely weilded by someone who could manage a huge club-like weapon.
I think the idea is not to catch the opponets blade, but to leverage the higher mass to possibly hit it with so much force you either bend or force your to drop it.
With brute force methods and tools, it it's not working, it's because your are not using enough brute force
That's going to require a LOT of force with spring steel. Something that might work once in a long while, but I think the longsword would have a decisive advantage in most cases.
14:36 What about as a hook? You catch the blade, and in the binding position, you pull on their blade, disorientating the opponent and potentially either tripping them or breaking their blade. The only downside is that it could just be too heavy to feasibly do so
One important thing I feel is worth pointing out is that in the original design of Arlong's blade, the spikes actually converge when they get to the pole connecting them, meaning there isn't a blunt section in between.
--12:40.. it's backside, is a bludgeoning tool/weapon. If you are catching and turning away the opponent's sword..successfully, you don't actually have to have a sharp edge to hurt your bad guys. Just a good solid smack with heavy chunk of heavy metal, is usually enough to knock most living things off their marbles. -Even plants..lol.
Ah yes, it’s the classic Kanata-nunchucks-English longbow weapon of classic mythology and combat.
Who of us could forget the Katchow
@Shadiversity, I'd describe it as more of an axe.
The Aztec Sword worked amazingly well. The obsidian blades were extremely sharp and they wore practically no armor so it was basically razor blades against skin. Also they would break off from time to time so you'd have shards of stone stuck in your flesh.
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Arlong's weapon is a spiked club but Tyranth made it into a sword.
Damn, did not expect the results but still love the idea coming to life and tested.. that you made that is the coolest spectacle
I saw Tyranth’s video. It is absolutely a sword.
I'd love to see this idea revisited, so that Tyranth would actually pick it xD Halloween is coming, maybe then the topic could come up again? It's kind of a saw/aztec club/swordbreaker - what if the blades could be modified, so they could actually catch the sword blades (for example each blade could have a tang, so when the opponent's blade goes in, it would be harder to take it back), and overall the weapon was more agile with a pommel? The problem with Boromir is that it's not a good human body reference i guess, it bounces many things. We could all agree that this weapon won't do much against armor, but i would not want to get hit by that even if the force would be divided by 4 or 5 honestly. Love all your work guys, keep it up!
To be fair on OP Wiki this weapon is listed as saw pattern saber and even Arlong didn't go for conventional maneuvers like you would with a sword instead he was using it to deliver huge all-out slashes, relying more on his superhuman strength than skill. In this context this weapon can work really well since it is heavy with even more force behind it in big sweeping motion.
This scaled version might be bad against long sword but real thing wielded by Arlong would snap most types of swords in half.
Edit: The replication of the blade is also not correct because Kiribachi doesn't have gaps between the teeth like this version has so it can change the abilities of the weapon a bit.
I love these videos and you make me want to get into medieval weapons. You two together make me crack up! Your pool noodle stand, boronir and your stress test wood beam drive me a little crazy. You need to secure them better. Maybe use a wide 2x2 meter plywood base or wood beam cross to set them on so they don't tip over when you strike them. Maybe you already thought of this, but it triggers my OCD every time I see them tip over 😂.
Keep doing a great job!
A few more infos:
The fishmen of the One Piece universe are bigger in stature than human and are said to be 10 times stronger.
Considering this it makes the weapon way more viable. The long blade exceeds a human sword reach and the blunt force would tear people like the pool noodles.
I's actually not the worst design to have, especially for the fishmen.
This reminds me of the Polynesian war clubs from Hawaii. They took flat koa wood clubs, carved channels around the edge, and inset shark teeth into the channels.
It is very fun to see these weapons on Tested and then further used here without Shad knowing what he is in for.
I love ALL Shadiversity videos!!!! ❤
Just as reference for Tyranth, the macuahuitl pronunciation would be someting like
ma - like MAshed potatos
cua - like the word QUArter
hui - like the french oui
tl - this is the hard part for most people, so don't worry about it.
Great video as usual guys! Much love!
For the binding/sword catching. Try having one hand on each end? Basically use it like a Klingon Bat'leth
Interesting discussion.
The sword is definitely made for the sake of aesthetics, shark teeth obviously but it does do some cutting.
Of course considering the source material the sword is much larger and longer, like the length of a nodachi and Arlong is a very large, super strong fishman who can swing that around with impunity.
It’s made for size and intimidation much like the advantages Arlong has over normal people, but in reality he’s a small fish who escaped the ocean into a tiny pond.
In that sense it fits its user.
I'd categorize that weapon as an axe. In Soul Calibur there's an axe with two heads, both triangular in shape, and Arlong's "sword" reminds me of that axe. Or it could be also count as a sword, if the shichishito is anything to go by.
The ideal way to use that weapon is to use the backside to deflect and parry and only use the cutting edge when necessary if an opening appears. Using the backaide should allow for more powerful and balanced movements and maybe even better leverage. Axes were used that way often for battle.
one thing i could see is that if tooth length is big enough relative to opponent sword - its still dangerous to block those because tooth is extending beyond the opponent blade, so that could maybe work for some heavy inertial swings
This would be a great weapon for the slow-mo camera. This way you can better see what's going on during each swing, as to how much is actual cut, and how much is straight up just tearing.
During the bind testing, I noticed that if you slid up to the cross-guard, the teeth would circumvent it and still strike the hand. That could be a valid strength.
Try to catch nad pull to pass the point of the long sword. So lets say similar to wrath guard you swing with it from up right to diagonaly left down and you get the bind. You then need to trap the blade by changing angle between long axis of swords (same as with bladebreaker) and than pull down and back (with proper foot work the long sword point should be outside your siulette. This have disarm potential. If longsword is still help by user the goal is to pass the point and go for graplling or compromise posture of opponent with pull and attack by flat to head. This could also work with halfswording.
The American weapon is the maquahuitl. Pronounced something like "Mack-Waddle." Alongside the gunstock war club and the Ojibwe war club, it's a terrifying instrument of pain.
Im noticing that its actually a disadvantage to catch, and then not leverage break the attacking sword. You do basically a parry, into a leverage duel. Where a parry with a straight blade offsets the opponents energy sent completely away, the teeth on this opens you to your opponent re-directing swing energy.
Arlong is a fishman, and they have superhuman strength, so i think he wouldn't strugle with lifting it
There's some really wonky physics and geometry going on here to make it cut so well.
I love how both of them had the same face of “wait… this wasn’t supposed to work…”
In the show, there aren't any gaps between the blades, which would result in a theoretically cleaner (though not by much) cut.
I also posit that this thing works so well because it's reducing the overall surface area of the cutting surface, resulting in a greater amount of effective force applied.
It would be more effective against an armored opponent than a pure-cutting sword (in lieu of a piercing sword), offering some piercing function, but I feel like the biggest thing is that sheer "wtf" factor of facing off against someone who has it, lol.
A claymore sized version of this with the sharktooth blade design would go hard