May 17, 2021 1:11 PM
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kanoPositivityMaker
Yea, its a sword like weapon
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
Shad of Shadiversity. I don't always 100% agree with him, but he's usually well researched and amusing. Check him out for medieval stuff.
Chair5768
He's done ~3hrs talking about the nunchaku but still hasn't answered how many nuns would a nunchuck chuck if a nunchuck could chuck nuns?
Sidewaysgts
Shadiversity. Great channel.
Hoodzilla86
Because Michelangelo was cooler than Donatello!
OgreMkV
They were originally for harvesting rice. Since the Japanese removed all weapons from Okinawa, they used farming implements as weapons.
marsgoose
There is no reason for rice farmers to own sticks of war. It's time to give our sticks to the emperor.
NespreSilver
I'll give you my sticks when you pry them from my cold, dead hands
DeathBySwarmOfKittens
Why the annoying text?
tantallous
yeah. the clip was funny the text added nothing of value.
GozerTheGozerian
And yet, the most commonly used monk weapon is the staff, ie a stick.
Shad has been very successful with his stick....
ThorFirebrand
Shadiversity response to Nunchuk lovers https://youtu.be/Zc9LHDohjB0
FinancialRavioli
It cracks me up that he did 2 videos on why nunchuks are terrible and then did this one as a response and it's still 90 minutes long!
EvilMasterBetty
/a/3K02GaO a fellow chucker I see
Treblaine
I love how the UK has "banned" these, clearly MPs watched some martial arts movies and thought it was all real.
BethanyAnne
CRENELATIONS!!!
PhilipJFryIII
It was surprising when Drawwithjazza showed up on one of his videos and we found out that they are brothers.
Junktrunkjunkie
That's really cool I love DrawWithJazza.
Shawnthegirl
THAT'S WHY I RECOGNIZED HIM! Shad was in one of Jazza's videos too
ExiNos
Thanks. Now I need to watch more if his stuff. So funny. Erectile stickfunction
jumpehjumpeh
"I am a stick"
Shmeadicus
Yes, but now you have two stick. Stick win every time.
ScrapCode
stick unbreakable only become more stick!
MaybeSlightlyRelevant
MoopsyLD
not if the are connected by a wire cause that is a stroke stick
TheElderBowls
two stick tied together is no longer stick. It is disabled stick.
imgurj17
*Jennifer Lawrence double interview.gif*
Hamsan76
KEKW Spear is a stick with pointy thing at the end and a nunchuck is a stick with a stick at the end
Grapeape2000
Nunchaku are just fidget spinners for the martial artist
swedeninmyheart
Love the intensity. +1
Kaileeb92
I freaking love shadiversity. His childlike delight when he tried debunking sephiroth's sword and found it could actually kind of work 1/
4vie
Link? :)
https://youtu.be/aebUrqdyEpA enjoy the tom-foolery
thanks!
in a battlefield setting was so pure 2/2
DancesLikeDriftwood
He certainly is passionate about a stick
BeardedWonder82
harthram
What if you want to conceal and carry?
PaladinAstro
Telescoping baton, cane, umbrella, all > nunchucks. Knives are no joke either. Instant fight enders, if you get close enough.
gothicloli
Walking sticks dont need to be concealed, and make a much better protective measure. He literally just made a video about this.
steel baton or carry something else that can easily be dropped so people will think nothing of the stick
poodleguts
Yeah, and when your stick breaks in half at the first blow where are you?
Nunchucks would do better in this situation? Whatever force broke that stick would NOT be kind to the nunchucks, I'm sure.
marthafarquar
v
Whatwhatsomethingbutt
I guess sitting on your butt, attaching a rope or chain to the the two ends while everybody waits for you.
Astramancer
Then you tie the two sticks together!
CaptainStinkyVonPoopberg
Now you have two sticks!
mrose50
Stick win every time.
Rock
DustyMcKnuckles
Stick always win
konmari
have you heard the sound of 1000 US marine crying
someth1ng17
2 pointy sticks even!
yup unlike nunchucks which suffer from erectile stickfunction you have 2 strong healthy teenager sticks
lMrBodybagl
TheScotchKraut
Whoops, this meme fell into my pocket. Might as well keep it.
Eddafred
THINK BARBARIAN THINK!
Ordostank
Barbarian to Monk who KO himself: Think, Monk, think!
HappyLittleIdiot
Do you think, that just maybe, perhaps, possibly this guy prefers a stick?
[deleted]
Hes got a wife and kids, so why not both?
Dakksys
It's become a meme on his channel now. Started off just saying a random ass stick off the ground is better than nunchucks
BuckRavers
A stick of the same size & mass* ?
KinetoPlay
He did a half hour video on why nunchucks suck. Then a 40 minute rebuttal on why they still suck. Then another half hour on stick=good
KoalaOnTheJuice
Not sure. Hard to tell from this.
Rageofthepentahook
He's got big stick energy
ScarecrowSticks
Stick
PhailRaptor
He just likes to polish his stick
zrXO
nah
DrWhy9
More of a carrot person myself
PotatOSTheCreator
Why have a stick when you can just hit them with a carrot?
KaraokeLemur
What is a carrot but a pointy stick?
SomebodyThatIsntMe
imsomewhatofaboobmyself
How many crayons do the Marines have?
pareidoliaperson
Marine wouldn't shoot a stick. A stick is far more enhance camouflaged exterior than marine.Stick could reveal marine location if stepped on
ShiaIabeouf
the good old meme’s
DrewK98
Do crayons count as stick?
butts4hats
My money is on the stick
itrynottocommentbutyoumakemecringe
I do not get it.
azgrak
Neither does the stick guy who doesn’t know about fire.
TwinkleTwinkleLittleShit
And thus, stick won again
Allusernamesaretakensoichoosethis
Found the Marine!
SkeletonsLoveBooty
It's a nonsense argument for a joke. Breaking a stick makes two sticks. Soon you'll have many sticks and not be able to break them smaller.
Marine make fire, no more sticks.
freezingpilot
That's a bold assumption to make, that a Marine can figure out how to set something on fire intentionally.
ruferto
ash gets in marine's eyes. marine blind. stick win, every time.
Poopoopeepeevagina
Needs fire to cook crayon
RelevantImgurian
stick turn to smoke, smoke choke marines, stick win every time
BlindGibberer
Now the stick can spread miles on the wind as ash. Stick win again.
acuteavocado7
put stick in tungsten ball and launch into deep space
juiciestjuicyjuice
Just because ash is made from stick, doesn't mean ash is stick tho
Beezlebubble
Stick has evolved into ash and made you blind, ruined your vehicles and equipment, killing logistics. Stick win
But now we've reached the age old question of what came first? The chicken or the stick? If the stick evolved, is it still stick?
ChaosInherent
Stick is stick. Case closed.
CaturdayEveryday
Stick it up your butt. Case opened.
lancell
DeadnCold
Shadiversity on YouTube if anyone is wondering.
slinkiisu
Nerfgunner
Shady nasty's
AsAHistorian
Shadynastyyyyyyyyy!!!
Standaloneghost
Really, because the thumbnail had me fucking convinced it was Kevin James
Shaldier
Usually not keen on his stuff by comparison to other YouTubers of the same type but this was pretty damn funny
Kerberos623
best 20+ minutes of someone talking about a Stick I've ever watched.
insongwhang
His brother is awesome, too!
iprettymuchhateyouall
He does reviews of the Skyrim settlements as well
XVUltima
He hates nunchaku more than he loves machicolations.
Harryteeters
You can also search Shadman on Reddit
brusilov
Hhahahah
No don't
LaronX
DubiousFacts
I mean you CAN
eldonq
Geodreamer
Dirty boy!
Darthnarciss
Shad no!
BobbyVegana
Shad yes
Karmak
I came, I read, I upvoted! What? No! Came as in... You dirty fucking degenerates!
iputmymouthonit
He's very well informed, but I always come away from his content feeling like I've been talked down to for half an hour.
ABonkeysManana
Exept when he nerded out over his back scabbard. That made me happy.
I find that if you set everything you learned before that you thought was correct aside, you'll learn important correct info
BryanTenn
Some pay extra for that.
flavivsaetivs
No, he's really not. Try Historian's Craft, Study of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Knyght Errant, and Tod's Workshop instead.
SlightlyAnnoyedDwarf
Dot.
OlympicFail
I love Tod’s workshop. I built a mace from copying his videos about it. It’s in my posts :)
Ooh, I only knew two of those. Thank you, general. Good luck at the Catalaunian Plains.
Slattefors
He's a treat! If you are into viking and mideval stuff!
codpeace
medevil
lazerhosen
****medieval
midiville
Madvillain
Not really. Way better youtube channels for that stuff than Shad/Skallagrim/Schola Gladiatoria. (I will give scholagladiatoria that (1/2)
Easton is an actual expert on the 17th-19th century stuff he talks about, but there's a lot he still doesn't know about earlier eras. (2/2))
Atomic2
Nunchuks are a training weapon. Not really a combat weapon. We just popularized it in films because they look cool.
BillyM00n
They're effective in combat to disarm someone with a sword or pole arm. Nunchucks are a farmer's improvised defence against soldiers.
I feel like thats urban legend but I cannot be arsed to really go and research this further.
DongSayaDae
Thats an assumption really, like, its nigh impossible to find accurate and historic records about it. Anyone claiming something "for sure"
would do it with at best "doubtful evidence". So urban legend isnt too far off really.
And his videos are him pointing out how shit they are in combat. Shad himself trained with them for years btw.
dogwithahumanface
Dan Inosanto taught Bruce Lee nunchucks based on Filipino eskrima so he used them more like you would with 2 sticks than actual nunchucks.
an old cabbie i know used to train w/ nunchucks w/ his friends in nyc in the 80s. used em too. that's why NYC made them illegal
fun fact! that nunchuck ban was recently lifted
WonderfunkJones
Sidekicks. Chuck Norris baby.
MrJosephNorth
Oh man, that movie doesn't get brought up nearly often enough.
Bytencoder
Uhhhmmmm? (Bruce Lee, probably)
Thats exactly my point. Used in movies, not really in real life (for combat)
Just because Bruce Lee beat Chuck Norris OVER THE PHONE doesn't make him a real-life badass with nunchaku
TheMasterDB8er
No no no you see thats where you’re wrong. Bruce lee was absolutely a real life badass, and was extremely well trained with nunchucks.
I believe he also said that he liked them for how flashy they looked on film. He knew they weren't practical.
BennyGaga
Not even a training weapon, it's a farm implement.
Lichelf
No, it's only theorised to be a kind of flail. But way worse because it's short enough to hit yourself while working and requires more power
ExogenousDataStructure
Also possibly a horse bridle.
Specifically a rice thresher. The modern version is valid to that criticism.
WoodfolkFae
okay but why would you train with them, what do you learn from it?
I guess you could say proper arm positioning
JimboTCB
You learn how to hit yourself in the dick with nunchucks.
numbonvalium
They are swinging limp sticks at you, so they can swing them harder with less risk of hitting you with a stick.
As others have said, reflexes, agility, but also martial arts is a lot about discipline and mastery of your body.
AutumnalDreams
Reflexes and agility. Spatial awareness too
godskook
What do you learn from them that's warrants training in them as opposed to training in something else. Cause you learn those 3 elsewhere.
You can learn those 3 elsewhere, of course. They aren't the only way to learn those three, but their very high margin for error if you >
> don't do things well promotes quite a bit of development and patience and allows you to translate the experience onto other things since >
LordFranca
Aside from reflex, agility, etc.. Way back they were used before handling swords. Once you have motion control of chucks, blades are 1/2
Easier to maneuver via experience with more unwieldy weapon, as well as fine muscle development
Why would you not just spend the time you practiced with nunchucks on the sword instead, if that's the ultimate goal?
well swords are sharp
kanoPositivityMaker
Yea, its a sword like weapon
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
Shad of Shadiversity. I don't always 100% agree with him, but he's usually well researched and amusing. Check him out for medieval stuff.
Chair5768
He's done ~3hrs talking about the nunchaku but still hasn't answered how many nuns would a nunchuck chuck if a nunchuck could chuck nuns?
Sidewaysgts
Shadiversity. Great channel.
Hoodzilla86
Because Michelangelo was cooler than Donatello!
OgreMkV
They were originally for harvesting rice. Since the Japanese removed all weapons from Okinawa, they used farming implements as weapons.
marsgoose
There is no reason for rice farmers to own sticks of war. It's time to give our sticks to the emperor.
NespreSilver
I'll give you my sticks when you pry them from my cold, dead hands
DeathBySwarmOfKittens
Why the annoying text?
tantallous
yeah. the clip was funny the text added nothing of value.
GozerTheGozerian
And yet, the most commonly used monk weapon is the staff, ie a stick.
marsgoose
Shad has been very successful with his stick....
ThorFirebrand
Shadiversity response to Nunchuk lovers https://youtu.be/Zc9LHDohjB0
FinancialRavioli
It cracks me up that he did 2 videos on why nunchuks are terrible and then did this one as a response and it's still 90 minutes long!
Hoodzilla86
EvilMasterBetty
/a/3K02GaO a fellow chucker I see
Treblaine
I love how the UK has "banned" these, clearly MPs watched some martial arts movies and thought it was all real.
BethanyAnne
CRENELATIONS!!!
PhilipJFryIII
It was surprising when Drawwithjazza showed up on one of his videos and we found out that they are brothers.
Junktrunkjunkie
That's really cool I love DrawWithJazza.
Shawnthegirl
THAT'S WHY I RECOGNIZED HIM! Shad was in one of Jazza's videos too
ExiNos
Thanks. Now I need to watch more if his stuff. So funny. Erectile stickfunction
jumpehjumpeh
"I am a stick"
Shmeadicus
Yes, but now you have two stick. Stick win every time.
ScrapCode
stick unbreakable only become more stick!
MaybeSlightlyRelevant
MoopsyLD
not if the are connected by a wire cause that is a stroke stick
TheElderBowls
two stick tied together is no longer stick. It is disabled stick.
imgurj17
*Jennifer Lawrence double interview.gif*
Hamsan76
KEKW Spear is a stick with pointy thing at the end and a nunchuck is a stick with a stick at the end
Grapeape2000
Nunchaku are just fidget spinners for the martial artist
swedeninmyheart
Love the intensity. +1
Kaileeb92
I freaking love shadiversity. His childlike delight when he tried debunking sephiroth's sword and found it could actually kind of work 1/
4vie
Link? :)
Kaileeb92
https://youtu.be/aebUrqdyEpA enjoy the tom-foolery
4vie
thanks!
Kaileeb92
in a battlefield setting was so pure 2/2
DancesLikeDriftwood
He certainly is passionate about a stick
BeardedWonder82
harthram
What if you want to conceal and carry?
PaladinAstro
Telescoping baton, cane, umbrella, all > nunchucks. Knives are no joke either. Instant fight enders, if you get close enough.
gothicloli
Walking sticks dont need to be concealed, and make a much better protective measure. He literally just made a video about this.
MoopsyLD
steel baton or carry something else that can easily be dropped so people will think nothing of the stick
poodleguts
Yeah, and when your stick breaks in half at the first blow where are you?
PaladinAstro
Nunchucks would do better in this situation? Whatever force broke that stick would NOT be kind to the nunchucks, I'm sure.
marthafarquar
Whatwhatsomethingbutt
I guess sitting on your butt, attaching a rope or chain to the the two ends while everybody waits for you.
Astramancer
Then you tie the two sticks together!
CaptainStinkyVonPoopberg
Now you have two sticks!
mrose50
Stick win every time.
CaptainStinkyVonPoopberg
Rock
DustyMcKnuckles
Stick always win
konmari
have you heard the sound of 1000 US marine crying
someth1ng17
2 pointy sticks even!
MoopsyLD
yup unlike nunchucks which suffer from erectile stickfunction you have 2 strong healthy teenager sticks
lMrBodybagl
TheScotchKraut
Whoops, this meme fell into my pocket. Might as well keep it.
Eddafred
THINK BARBARIAN THINK!
Ordostank
Barbarian to Monk who KO himself: Think, Monk, think!
HappyLittleIdiot
Do you think, that just maybe, perhaps, possibly this guy prefers a stick?
[deleted]
[deleted]
gothicloli
Hes got a wife and kids, so why not both?
Dakksys
It's become a meme on his channel now. Started off just saying a random ass stick off the ground is better than nunchucks
BuckRavers
A stick of the same size & mass* ?
KinetoPlay
He did a half hour video on why nunchucks suck. Then a 40 minute rebuttal on why they still suck. Then another half hour on stick=good
KoalaOnTheJuice
Not sure. Hard to tell from this.
Rageofthepentahook
He's got big stick energy
ScarecrowSticks
Stick
PhailRaptor
He just likes to polish his stick
zrXO
nah
DrWhy9
More of a carrot person myself
PotatOSTheCreator
Why have a stick when you can just hit them with a carrot?
KaraokeLemur
What is a carrot but a pointy stick?
SomebodyThatIsntMe
imsomewhatofaboobmyself
How many crayons do the Marines have?
pareidoliaperson
Marine wouldn't shoot a stick. A stick is far more enhance camouflaged exterior than marine.Stick could reveal marine location if stepped on
ShiaIabeouf
the good old meme’s
DrewK98
Do crayons count as stick?
butts4hats
My money is on the stick
itrynottocommentbutyoumakemecringe
I do not get it.
azgrak
Neither does the stick guy who doesn’t know about fire.
TwinkleTwinkleLittleShit
And thus, stick won again
Allusernamesaretakensoichoosethis
Found the Marine!
SkeletonsLoveBooty
It's a nonsense argument for a joke. Breaking a stick makes two sticks. Soon you'll have many sticks and not be able to break them smaller.
azgrak
Marine make fire, no more sticks.
freezingpilot
That's a bold assumption to make, that a Marine can figure out how to set something on fire intentionally.
ruferto
ash gets in marine's eyes. marine blind. stick win, every time.
Poopoopeepeevagina
Needs fire to cook crayon
RelevantImgurian
stick turn to smoke, smoke choke marines, stick win every time
BlindGibberer
Now the stick can spread miles on the wind as ash. Stick win again.
acuteavocado7
put stick in tungsten ball and launch into deep space
juiciestjuicyjuice
Just because ash is made from stick, doesn't mean ash is stick tho
Beezlebubble
Stick has evolved into ash and made you blind, ruined your vehicles and equipment, killing logistics. Stick win
juiciestjuicyjuice
But now we've reached the age old question of what came first? The chicken or the stick? If the stick evolved, is it still stick?
ChaosInherent
Stick is stick. Case closed.
CaturdayEveryday
Stick it up your butt. Case opened.
lancell
DeadnCold
Shadiversity on YouTube if anyone is wondering.
slinkiisu
Nerfgunner
Shady nasty's
AsAHistorian
Shadynastyyyyyyyyy!!!
Standaloneghost
Really, because the thumbnail had me fucking convinced it was Kevin James
Shaldier
Usually not keen on his stuff by comparison to other YouTubers of the same type but this was pretty damn funny
Kerberos623
best 20+ minutes of someone talking about a Stick I've ever watched.
insongwhang
His brother is awesome, too!
iprettymuchhateyouall
He does reviews of the Skyrim settlements as well
XVUltima
He hates nunchaku more than he loves machicolations.
Harryteeters
You can also search Shadman on Reddit
brusilov
Hhahahah
slinkiisu
No don't
LaronX
DubiousFacts
I mean you CAN
eldonq
Geodreamer
Dirty boy!
Darthnarciss
Shad no!
BobbyVegana
Shad yes
Karmak
I came, I read, I upvoted! What? No! Came as in... You dirty fucking degenerates!
iputmymouthonit
He's very well informed, but I always come away from his content feeling like I've been talked down to for half an hour.
[deleted]
[deleted]
ABonkeysManana
Exept when he nerded out over his back scabbard. That made me happy.
MoopsyLD
I find that if you set everything you learned before that you thought was correct aside, you'll learn important correct info
BryanTenn
Some pay extra for that.
flavivsaetivs
No, he's really not. Try Historian's Craft, Study of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Knyght Errant, and Tod's Workshop instead.
SlightlyAnnoyedDwarf
Dot.
OlympicFail
I love Tod’s workshop. I built a mace from copying his videos about it. It’s in my posts :)
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
Ooh, I only knew two of those. Thank you, general. Good luck at the Catalaunian Plains.
Slattefors
He's a treat! If you are into viking and mideval stuff!
codpeace
medevil
lazerhosen
****medieval
codpeace
midiville
lazerhosen
Madvillain
flavivsaetivs
Not really. Way better youtube channels for that stuff than Shad/Skallagrim/Schola Gladiatoria. (I will give scholagladiatoria that (1/2)
flavivsaetivs
Easton is an actual expert on the 17th-19th century stuff he talks about, but there's a lot he still doesn't know about earlier eras. (2/2))
Atomic2
Nunchuks are a training weapon. Not really a combat weapon. We just popularized it in films because they look cool.
BillyM00n
They're effective in combat to disarm someone with a sword or pole arm. Nunchucks are a farmer's improvised defence against soldiers.
Atomic2
I feel like thats urban legend but I cannot be arsed to really go and research this further.
DongSayaDae
Thats an assumption really, like, its nigh impossible to find accurate and historic records about it. Anyone claiming something "for sure"
DongSayaDae
would do it with at best "doubtful evidence". So urban legend isnt too far off really.
Dakksys
And his videos are him pointing out how shit they are in combat. Shad himself trained with them for years btw.
dogwithahumanface
Dan Inosanto taught Bruce Lee nunchucks based on Filipino eskrima so he used them more like you would with 2 sticks than actual nunchucks.
ruferto
an old cabbie i know used to train w/ nunchucks w/ his friends in nyc in the 80s. used em too. that's why NYC made them illegal
ruferto
fun fact! that nunchuck ban was recently lifted
WonderfunkJones
Sidekicks. Chuck Norris baby.
MrJosephNorth
Oh man, that movie doesn't get brought up nearly often enough.
Bytencoder
Uhhhmmmm? (Bruce Lee, probably)
Atomic2
Thats exactly my point. Used in movies, not really in real life (for combat)
lazerhosen
Just because Bruce Lee beat Chuck Norris OVER THE PHONE doesn't make him a real-life badass with nunchaku
TheMasterDB8er
No no no you see thats where you’re wrong. Bruce lee was absolutely a real life badass, and was extremely well trained with nunchucks.
PaladinAstro
I believe he also said that he liked them for how flashy they looked on film. He knew they weren't practical.
BennyGaga
Not even a training weapon, it's a farm implement.
Lichelf
No, it's only theorised to be a kind of flail. But way worse because it's short enough to hit yourself while working and requires more power
ExogenousDataStructure
Also possibly a horse bridle.
BennyGaga
Specifically a rice thresher. The modern version is valid to that criticism.
WoodfolkFae
okay but why would you train with them, what do you learn from it?
MoopsyLD
I guess you could say proper arm positioning
JimboTCB
You learn how to hit yourself in the dick with nunchucks.
numbonvalium
They are swinging limp sticks at you, so they can swing them harder with less risk of hitting you with a stick.
Atomic2
As others have said, reflexes, agility, but also martial arts is a lot about discipline and mastery of your body.
AutumnalDreams
Reflexes and agility. Spatial awareness too
godskook
What do you learn from them that's warrants training in them as opposed to training in something else. Cause you learn those 3 elsewhere.
AutumnalDreams
You can learn those 3 elsewhere, of course. They aren't the only way to learn those three, but their very high margin for error if you >
AutumnalDreams
> don't do things well promotes quite a bit of development and patience and allows you to translate the experience onto other things since >
LordFranca
Aside from reflex, agility, etc.. Way back they were used before handling swords. Once you have motion control of chucks, blades are 1/2
LordFranca
Easier to maneuver via experience with more unwieldy weapon, as well as fine muscle development
PaladinAstro
Why would you not just spend the time you practiced with nunchucks on the sword instead, if that's the ultimate goal?
WoodfolkFae
well swords are sharp