Testing medieval weapons on EACHOTHER

This is what it's all about right here. You cannot beat this guys. This is the most fun you can possibly have. Let's go. What's up and welcome back everyone. It is Dash Render and today I have Art with me again from home. We are Ragnar and Rollo Lothbrok. We're gonna be testing Hollywood trope and myths with the Viking eras, Game of Thrones and everything and putting to test some of the ideas they put out there and whether that would work or not. Now uh if you shoot the arrows at this is it gonna go through? I mean enough to where I do worry about you. Okay. You know first myth we are testing comes to the 300 and that's gonna be basically Breaking the arrows as you slash down with your spear after you've been punctured in there And we are gonna test that out to see I'm gonna put three arrows in that thing and see if you can just snap them off with the might of his Viking ancestry So Art how was it behind the shield taking the arrows I trust you all right I've seen enough of your videos. I've seen you shooting that I wasn't too concerned. Oh and definitely feel the impact I was really excited about that. These are cheaper older arrows that I made long long ago I want to actually have him try it I'm gonna actually willingly sacrifice a heavier duty war bow arrow to see if that'll work Oh, I think he's got a shot But we're gonna test this out and I'm gonna do a bigger draw to get it deeper in there. All right, okay challenge accepted Let's go the next movie trope. We are going to do which is the easy clean head decapitation What I have left for my ballistic dummy is an intact vertebrae here have him try here with the hand and a half sword to see if you can get a clean cut through that thing in just one easy foul swoop. All right, I'm gonna give it my best shot. Straight through, dude, look at that. Caught, it caught my, my edge was a little off. I came off a little bit. Oh, that's good, man. It like splintered pieces everywhere. Through and through that bone very, very easily. So, you know, in movies when they're lopping off heads or cutting through skulls, that's definitely gonna be in that realm of, yes, it can happen. Maybe the movies aren't, uh. Well, most of them are, but so far, so far, this has been surprising. All right, all right, so this next test comes to us from Vikings. So we got our dummy here and there's a scene in there, I think in the second season, where they're in a shield wall and someone tries to jump over the shield wall and they throw a spear and the spear actually halts him, changes his momentum and pushes him backwards. Now I think that breaks all the laws of physics. What we're gonna do is Art's gonna throw the dummy up here and I'm gonna throw the javelin and we're gonna see if it changes the trajectory in the air, if that floating weight is actually gonna have any impact to move it backwards or push it one direction. I'm gonna throw it here. So yeah, scoot back a little right there. Throw it up right there and I'll be right over here. Like near your camera. I'll do three, two, one, go. Okay. Three, two, one. I don't think so, man. And then that's it going sideways. Yeah, exactly. It's a good throw though. Thanks man. So could you hit someone jumping through the air from a shield wall position? Yes, you certainly could. Will it change their momentum or direction? No. That was even like probably 60 or 50 pounds of the dummy moving sideways. and that's not even forward momentum. And so there's just no way. I mean, obviously that's more just fun to see. That's very tropey, but that one is definitively a no. Maybe a ballista. I think, ooh. A ballista bolt would definitely. Dude, I don't know. Yeah, I don't have a ballista. Next time, we'll build one. But no, as far as with the spear, I mean, this is the size of a ballista bolt, but it's coming out slower. So I think that's definitely a busted, I would say. Yep, so now we're what? We're three for four. Yes, yes, yes, three for four. All right. Good day so far though, good day. Ah, nothing like some destruction. All right, well, I'm lucky to have Art here because he is a brave individual. This is not going to have a tip on it, but we're going to test the impact of a thrust of a spear against a shield. All right, let's try it. You know, funny story, in the Marine Corps, whenever we did any kind of like martial arts or fighting, I was always the one who was volunteering to like be the test subject for the move. So they'd be throwing me. That's awesome. I'm pretty durable, I guess. All right, yeah, you're durable. Tried and tested. I bounce, I bounce well. we're gonna start this off in gradient so I'm gonna do like a 50% okay all right ready good how's that good 70 all right all right 100% go how'd that feel so the first two the shield smacked me in the head a little bit so I learned and then I braced my head up okay but it was good man all right adapt adapt and learn not as as hard as I thought okay so like imagine a shield wall yeah totally you wouldn't move okay and even then I wasn't you know I think if I braced them A little bit heavier. Uh-huh. Like imagine me and like three other guys. Yes, exactly overlapping the view to shield Yeah Yeah, so that makes sense like you'd close the distance and like clench up in this way because you're basically shoulder-to-shoulder and it's a Push right? Yeah, and then here you come over top just like that because that's how you're gonna get through that So could you imagine fighting like this? Just breathing next to some dude just like this close. That's crazy It's like a thin sheet right there. Yeah. Oh My gosh, it's like I used to wrestle and you get exhausted from two minutes in a match Yeah, you know armor and the whole thing crazy. I don't think people realize right? No. No, I don't well I cannot let Art take all the risk and we are gonna disprove today one of the biggest cliche myths in Hollywood It's slashing through armor. So what I have right here is some brigandine armor underneath it I have a padded game to sit here and just get a slash like 50% against the stomach right in there Yeah, go for it. Yeah So I can feel that through the body But as you can see it's not gonna happen now give it a slash like you're a cut cut across I'm going to go with the sword to show that's less effective because that's not going to slash through anything. All right, ready? Ready. Nice clean. That hurt. I can feel it. The armor survived right in the solar plex. I felt the power. Oh, God. Take a breather. But, I mean, that's swinging, you know, if I swung full force, I think it would knock the wind out of you. I think you would, too. You'd feel like getting hit with a bullet with a bulletproof vest, you know? I think it would knock the wind out of me. I fully agree. Based on that, like, I could tell I'd be like, oh, man. But yeah, I don't think I want to do that That was awesome Get a quick scene if you want to come With like an overhead slam on the shield If you want, why don't we do this And I'll do like a kick And you do something cool like roll away or something So we're already basically clashed together And you're going to give me like a kick off So we're in here And Taewon The good thing is we got these hands too These are hardened steel So nothing's going to hurt to punch through there All right, well, let's change the angle over the head. Yeah, and I'll just come down like like centered on that Yeah, and if you just put it far enough away from your body. Yeah Right right there. Yeah. All right ready ready go and then you can duck under right? Yes Okay, let's do it. That's I'm gonna come down you duck under so from here We were here and then I come down duck Did you lose one? Yeah, but I ended up grabbing this with two hands and like doing like a spin. Okay, cool Here, why don't I kick it away kick that that's the spear with this the axe you dropped it, right? Yeah, you think we got that? Probably it looked cool for like it walked up and just kick it away All right, so leave it kind of where it was like on the ground because it was like this I don't know if they'll see it but just kick up some dirt, you know, so you're there. Yeah, okay Well, ladies and gentlemen is that time again? We have finished and it has been a ton of fun, battered and bruised We got some really fun choreographed things So be sure to check out Art's page for that because he's got good editing for all that so he's gonna be putting those in shorts and everything as well, is what are some things that we missed that you guys would like to see us test again, I'd love to hear more additional thoughts, I was thinking about it all the other day and I was asking her about it but I know there's more tropes so if there's more you guys want to see just let us know in the comments so we can add those in next time he comes down and we'll make it epic and fun, that was a ton of fun man, as always you can't beat something like this, grab yourself some weapons do it safely somewhere with some friends, it is the best time you're gonna have in your entire life and that is the important thing guys is do it safely, these are all people I have been doing this for most of my life, Art is a marine he has been trained in combat and skills so don't just get something sharp and play around with it unless you know what you are doing what the capacity of the weapons is and the armor that you are using is, so always be safe and always have fun, this guy his videos amazing ever since I started watching them a few years ago, I was hooked so if you guys are looking for more stuff like this, I'm telling you I cannot get enough of it, make sure you hit that subscribe on his channel And if you guys are dads looking to get fit and everything, that is his wheelhouse right there. I am not the fitness guy. That is him. So check him out if you're looking to lose some weight, get healthy, get fit. And he's going to teach you some cool stuff like maybe backflips, which I'll never do. Never. I'll leave it up to you. Thanks, man. No problem, dude.