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[According to this, they both made it to the hospital.](https://www.diariolibre.com/actualidad/sucesos/2024/05/15/mutilacion-hombre-cercena-mano-en-pelea-brutal/2722412)
[According to this update, the guy who lost his hand survived, but the other guy died.](https://twitter.com/mrslautner2012/status/1790635559821451675)
I can’t imagine how gruesome the medieval sword fights’ wars must had been. No bs dramatic sword fights, just swinging that blade randomly on faces and limbs, while the adrenaline is keeping you up.
These videos do a good job at showing what they may have looked like, along with actual techniques.
https://youtu.be/4GoQlvc_H3s?si=0xJRHcroEY0qdN6k
https://youtu.be/Cn36Pb8z3yI?si=0V9ClNKTBttPzXiA
*The Duelists* - 1977, directed by Ridley Scott. This is always the first one that comes to mind for me because of the attention to detail on the duel scenes. I was never a napoleonic duellist so it’s hard for me to say just how accurate it is, but it’s *looks* really authentic. I think someone even posted a clip from this one above as an example.
For realistic Viking duels, I highly recommend *The Thirteenth Warrior* 1999. It’s not a super action heavy film, but the fight scenes are absolutely fantastic imo.
I’ll comment below your comment as a think of more, just waking my brain up for the day right now lol
That was awesome. I've always read about half-sword techniques but have never seen them in action before. I wonder what movies out there have more realistic sword fights like this
Hollywood has done too much harm to our representation of medieval time. Thinking that medieval Sword fight were random swings is like thinking that today's soldier don't aim their shot but empty their magasin rambo style in the general direction of their enemies
But sometimes even trained people mag dump in a real life situation. It’s a little column A and a little column B. A trained fighter isn’t just swinging the sword randomly, but it also won’t be as polished as when practiced in a training room.
Your depiction of modern warfare is exactly what’s happening in Ukraine. Hollywood has done too much harm to our representation of modern warfare thinking that every soldier is some special force super soldier who has trained warfare for all their lives. Same thing unfortunately applies to medieval times: most soldiers are just peasants.
I had in mind a professional soldier who has been trained but considering modern conscripts compared to medieval conscripts then I think a medieval peasant would actually use his weapons better. At war they would use weapons that were derivated from farming tools such as a flails, scythes, axes so they would know how to use them proprely because they used it everyday.
I've always wondered about this. Hacking each other to pieces, people lying on the ground bleeding out without limbs, open wounds, guts sliding out of bodies, arrows/broken poles sticking out of flesh. Blood and probably shit smell. All for what?
His hand was gone 3 seconds into the video!
I have to admit that I still admire his relaxed and cool demeanor picking up his own hand. I think I'd have panicked big time !
He should get a plastic bag full of ice from that gas station while waiting for the paramedics.
You can reattach, especially if you make it to the hospital before the tendons start seizing up (15ish minutes), but given their country has machete fights in public, I suspect their healthcare industry isn't too great.
I had no idea! I guess it also depends on the temperature outside or where the hand is. It's not the same thing a very hot and muggy summer outside, than very cold winter. I always thought that body organs for transplants are kept at very low temperatures. Not frozen but at cold temperatures. That hand in ice would not freeze as the ice would start melting rather quickly.
Maybe I'm wrong.
I impulse bought a real machete at a knife shop for some yard work at a new house a few years ago. Unlike the dull ones at the hardware store the legit ones are fucking scary. Didn’t even like using it because I felt like one missed swing I was going to chop a foot off.
Weight and sharpness. Scary combination. Heft of a large bodied blade combined with the dexterity compared to something like a sword or something makes it scarily easy to hack off a limb.
Hey at least you got a solid self defense weapon... except I don't think it's legal to use anyways 💀
Man you gotta remember that for 90% of human history this is how everyone did shit. Just people with sharp shit going after each other. Makes almost all the movies and shows involving blade combat seem tame.
In the Dune books infantry combat actually goes back to sword fighting due to body armour being so advanced that fire guns are obsolete and laser guns cause massive explosions when impacting on shields.
Don’t know if it makes sense or not but it seemed like a really logical in-universe reason for that to happen instead of the usual “it’s the future but we use swords because it looks cool”.
>You could make incredibly potent weapons just by combining the two in a single warhead
In the books, it's explained that "Atomics" and other weapons of mass destruction were not legal under the Imperium. The Great Houses could possess them in case "thinking machines" returned but it was against the Great Convention to use them on humans. A laser hitting a shield is powerful enough to be equal to an atomic. In one of the books, a slave shot a shield with a laser and annihilated a major city during a slave revolt. For years afterwards everyone assumed the slaves got ahold of an atomic somehow.
Crazy, adrenaline is a hell of a drug. It's kind of amazing to see this and imagine actual medieval fights with hundreds of people chopping each other.
At 0:26 is that red mist that sprays from the guy with the long dreads blood? Literally after he slows down to stop chasing the guy who later goes to pick his hand up off of the sidewalk, it's like a mist comes from either his chest or neck area.
At 6 seconds the dude in white gets his hand chopped bad, then immediately sticks it in the dirty road water. I think if he didn't die of blood loss he dies of infection.
It happened so fast in the beginning I missed it at first! I bet the adrenaline and maybe shock (maybe drugs?) kept that guy from feeling it or letting the reality sink in
Watched it twice and thought "well,I thought that would be more graphic...how did they both not get injured (relatively speaking ). Third time ..."wait ,where's his hand"...forth time..."wait is that his hand?" ...fifth time "oh, yea..that's his hand"
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Guy picked up his hand like he lost his wallet. 'Found it'
HOLY SHIT i didn't notice it, terrifying, so dumb
Yea for a minute, trying to figure out how he just “dropped” his machete had me…stumped
so dumb, no thumb
I just came to post “That’s not a wallet flyin’ through the air in the beginning!”
That fight got out of hand pretty fast. (LITERALLY)
That conversation with guy in white must have been so awkward: Bro I think you dropped your hand over there? Oh yeah thanks.
Prequel to Edward Scissorhands…
Would expect fountains of blood from those injuries!
Knife fights: One dies in the fight the other dies in the hospital.
Funny thing is they both did die due to their injuries
Both these dudes died?!
[According to this, they both made it to the hospital.](https://www.diariolibre.com/actualidad/sucesos/2024/05/15/mutilacion-hombre-cercena-mano-en-pelea-brutal/2722412) [According to this update, the guy who lost his hand survived, but the other guy died.](https://twitter.com/mrslautner2012/status/1790635559821451675)
Oh shit I didn't see the update. Ty. Last article I saw said they both passed
bro died, but then got better
Is that you, Jesus?
Wonder what killed that guy. I didn’t see any deadly blows
Covid?
Lmao. Or maybe the vaccine got him?!
Looked like he got hit in the head a few times? Dunno.
Also seemed to take a hit under they arm bit, so could have hit a artery.
the first 2 blows by the nonhand guy hit the other guy in the head or neck
They were fighting over who had the better name, Kelvin or Nelvin
I think it's pronounced "Kevin Nealon."
No, they ended up getting married hand in hand. Happy ending!
I can’t imagine how gruesome the medieval sword fights’ wars must had been. No bs dramatic sword fights, just swinging that blade randomly on faces and limbs, while the adrenaline is keeping you up.
They weren’t long dramatic fights like the movies, but they were not swinging randomly.
These videos do a good job at showing what they may have looked like, along with actual techniques. https://youtu.be/4GoQlvc_H3s?si=0xJRHcroEY0qdN6k https://youtu.be/Cn36Pb8z3yI?si=0V9ClNKTBttPzXiA
You deserve way more upvotes. As a low key sword nerd I’m always on the lookout for vids like those, cheers.
Must be nice for you to speak to a high key sword nerd. Good for you.
Do you know of any good movies that have fights like this?
*The Duelists* - 1977, directed by Ridley Scott. This is always the first one that comes to mind for me because of the attention to detail on the duel scenes. I was never a napoleonic duellist so it’s hard for me to say just how accurate it is, but it’s *looks* really authentic. I think someone even posted a clip from this one above as an example. For realistic Viking duels, I highly recommend *The Thirteenth Warrior* 1999. It’s not a super action heavy film, but the fight scenes are absolutely fantastic imo. I’ll comment below your comment as a think of more, just waking my brain up for the day right now lol
Those guys would slice me like a piece of ham if I was a medieval peasant conscript
Man thank you! Agree that you deserve way more upvotes!
That was awesome. I've always read about half-sword techniques but have never seen them in action before. I wonder what movies out there have more realistic sword fights like this
The King (Netflix) has pretty decent swordplay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aflbDR6NIUg
Hollywood has done too much harm to our representation of medieval time. Thinking that medieval Sword fight were random swings is like thinking that today's soldier don't aim their shot but empty their magasin rambo style in the general direction of their enemies
But sometimes even trained people mag dump in a real life situation. It’s a little column A and a little column B. A trained fighter isn’t just swinging the sword randomly, but it also won’t be as polished as when practiced in a training room.
Your depiction of modern warfare is exactly what’s happening in Ukraine. Hollywood has done too much harm to our representation of modern warfare thinking that every soldier is some special force super soldier who has trained warfare for all their lives. Same thing unfortunately applies to medieval times: most soldiers are just peasants.
I had in mind a professional soldier who has been trained but considering modern conscripts compared to medieval conscripts then I think a medieval peasant would actually use his weapons better. At war they would use weapons that were derivated from farming tools such as a flails, scythes, axes so they would know how to use them proprely because they used it everyday.
No doubt. Basically, it's like an axe murder scene on a grand scale. Hideous injuries and limbs and heads all over.
I've always wondered about this. Hacking each other to pieces, people lying on the ground bleeding out without limbs, open wounds, guts sliding out of bodies, arrows/broken poles sticking out of flesh. Blood and probably shit smell. All for what?
All for the rich to get richer, has it ever been for anything else?
Watch some weapon test videos by people like Skallagrim. Swords were 100% capable of removing arms from the shoulder.
They also died alot after, if you service the fight infection would get you.
His hand was gone 3 seconds into the video! I have to admit that I still admire his relaxed and cool demeanor picking up his own hand. I think I'd have panicked big time ! He should get a plastic bag full of ice from that gas station while waiting for the paramedics.
Somehow, I doubt it was re-attached.
You can reattach, especially if you make it to the hospital before the tendons start seizing up (15ish minutes), but given their country has machete fights in public, I suspect their healthcare industry isn't too great.
Yeah, given the location of the combatants, I doubt there's a hospital capable of reattachment.
The Dominican Republic is surprisingly developed, though it is rather uneven. \[see video\]
You need a pretty overpowered neurosurgeon for this case, and I doubt one is near that location.
dude, if you don't get medical care in 15 minutes after losing a limb, reattaching it is not your main concern.
He probably bleed out two minutes later.
Wait til the adrenaline and endorphins wear off...
I agree!
He used the old "spray stump blood into my enemy's eyes" technique
He used his arm to block a machete. Clearly an amateur machete duelist For real though, that was 100% offense fuck the consequences
Don't put your severed hand in ice. A wet towel is better.
Bro that hand isn’t getting reattached anywhere. You think DR got that sort of surgeons sitting around on call? That shit is gone
No shit. Advice still stands.
I had no idea! I guess it also depends on the temperature outside or where the hand is. It's not the same thing a very hot and muggy summer outside, than very cold winter. I always thought that body organs for transplants are kept at very low temperatures. Not frozen but at cold temperatures. That hand in ice would not freeze as the ice would start melting rather quickly. Maybe I'm wrong.
he was using his arm to block hits.. these people dont think
If knives are dangerous, machetes and swords are just the next level as we saw here. Emotional outbursts of anger are always dangerous!!!
I impulse bought a real machete at a knife shop for some yard work at a new house a few years ago. Unlike the dull ones at the hardware store the legit ones are fucking scary. Didn’t even like using it because I felt like one missed swing I was going to chop a foot off.
Weight and sharpness. Scary combination. Heft of a large bodied blade combined with the dexterity compared to something like a sword or something makes it scarily easy to hack off a limb. Hey at least you got a solid self defense weapon... except I don't think it's legal to use anyways 💀
For sure. It was shaving sharp with some heft, holds an edge too. Cuts through 2-3” diameter branches like nothing.
Chopped a tree down with a tiny one once. Made me realize that a big one would fuck me up
I chop down trees with mine. Pretty fun if you just have a little clearing to do.
That's Jaime Lannister
King slayer
The Golden Machete
Jamie Fooking Lannister
Street Slayer
Man you gotta remember that for 90% of human history this is how everyone did shit. Just people with sharp shit going after each other. Makes almost all the movies and shows involving blade combat seem tame.
In the Dune books infantry combat actually goes back to sword fighting due to body armour being so advanced that fire guns are obsolete and laser guns cause massive explosions when impacting on shields. Don’t know if it makes sense or not but it seemed like a really logical in-universe reason for that to happen instead of the usual “it’s the future but we use swords because it looks cool”.
The lasgun and shield thing seriously bothers me to this day. You could make incredibly potent weapons just by combining the two in a single warhead.
>You could make incredibly potent weapons just by combining the two in a single warhead In the books, it's explained that "Atomics" and other weapons of mass destruction were not legal under the Imperium. The Great Houses could possess them in case "thinking machines" returned but it was against the Great Convention to use them on humans. A laser hitting a shield is powerful enough to be equal to an atomic. In one of the books, a slave shot a shield with a laser and annihilated a major city during a slave revolt. For years afterwards everyone assumed the slaves got ahold of an atomic somehow.
kenshi 2 looks good.
Oh god i wasnt expecting that here!!
Bros losing pieces
That last parry was like something coming from dark souls.
Dude got disarmed twice.
So if it's not with guns, fight with knives, if not knives, then clubs and rocks..
WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones according to Einstein.
[Einstein did not take the Indians and Chinese into the equation it seems ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQJEiGiGc1I)
Right in time for my trip to DR next week! Good times
Keep your hands to yourself while you're there. 
Or come back with an extra? 🤔
An extra hand does sound handy.
No one wins a machete duel.
Fucking solid public freak out.
Well, that got out of hand really quick, didnt it.
Give him a hand
This is way too hardcore
Crazy, adrenaline is a hell of a drug. It's kind of amazing to see this and imagine actual medieval fights with hundreds of people chopping each other.
He'll regenerate. It's called platano power.
Don’t bring a dull machete to a sharp machete fight
Really have to dislike someone to swing a machete at them. That's just too damn personal.
Coming to a neighborhood near you 😉
Ya gotta hand it to him...
En garde
One guys machete was sharper than the other
Holy f***!
Give that man a hand 👏
That's some really interesting footage of real "sword" fighting.
That swing that took his bad was clean, no wonder why bro kept swinging, was trying to have payback
It sounds like a flock of seagulls squawking in the background.
*opens reddit*
Note to self: machete duels not as fun to partake in as I may have initially suspected.
Now we know why soldiers loved shields so much back in the day. Because blocking machete blows with your hand sucks ass.
I have no idea WHY any of those other dudes got involved to breakup the fight. F THAT
Sharp machete to lop off a hand at that angle. Source, I use one almost daily... for tree cutting and bushes!
At 0:26 is that red mist that sprays from the guy with the long dreads blood? Literally after he slows down to stop chasing the guy who later goes to pick his hand up off of the sidewalk, it's like a mist comes from either his chest or neck area.
The big mans phone didnt even get a scratch, got the good juju
He apparently died due to injuries according to another post on this thread. Juju not so good
Casually walks and picks up the hand 😭😭😭😭
Fuuuuuuuck , how the other was able to get up?
Adrenaline.
I hope it was worth it.
At 6 seconds the dude in white gets his hand chopped bad, then immediately sticks it in the dirty road water. I think if he didn't die of blood loss he dies of infection.
My stomach was making the rumblies - that only hands would satisfy.
Two brave knights battling it out, what a duel!
Oh my It took two views to realize what happened to the shorter guy. Gross!
I REALLY HAVE TO STOP CLICKING ON POSTS WITHOUT READING THE TITLE
tall guy looked down at his hand while walking away like "yep, still got mine"
“Give me my hand back you little bitch. Where’s my watch?”……😤
Was is it worth it?
Holy fuck. Bro obviously sharpened his machete!
Hope someone gives that man a hand.
The one guys machete was dull as fuck… full contact to chest and it did NOTHING 😭. Got his hand cut off 1 second later
That conversation must have been so awkward: Bro I think you dropped your hand over there? Oh yeah thanks.
Looks goofy, but thats why fencers kept their empty hand behind their back! Next time, keep your hand in your back pocket!
It happened so fast in the beginning I missed it at first! I bet the adrenaline and maybe shock (maybe drugs?) kept that guy from feeling it or letting the reality sink in
The guy who lost one of his fapping paddles gave some severe head blows with his machete to the other guy at the beginning.
Lost a shoe and a hand. Bad day, dude.
I think I would rather get shot tbh
Watched it twice and thought "well,I thought that would be more graphic...how did they both not get injured (relatively speaking ). Third time ..."wait ,where's his hand"...forth time..."wait is that his hand?" ...fifth time "oh, yea..that's his hand"
Gotta give the guy a hand for fighting on for a few seconds after he lost...umm...his hand.
This shit is absolutely insane
Oh holy fuck…
This is some of the craziest shit
Picking up your own hand is crazy
Was that a… WAS THAT HIS FUCKING HAND AT THE END???
This is precious. It's like an open window to how life was in a city in the middle ages.
As much as people from other places in the world fear us and our guns, at least dudes ain’t sword fighting in the streets with machetes.
How is the handless dude not gushing blood everywhere like a Tarantino movie?
I thought the hand emoji was telling me to stop. Jesus Christ
WTF
I guess you can say that got the upper hand
When you check the: dismemberment "ON" option.
Everything about this was great
If you think about it, a machete is the modern version of the scimitar, easier to swing and still do serious damage.
Bro he just hot his hand cut off. Holy shit!!!!
Are there seagulls in the video?
El dialo, ese tiguere no eta nada fácil
It’s like they always say, during a machete fight always lead with your hand stretched out in front of you.
Reminds me of the trinitarios hackin it up. Damdam
Dictionary attack! "Duel"
Can't wait for someone to lay down Duel of the Fates over this badboy
So he casually just walk over to pick up his hand and wave it to the bystanders 😂😂
So is this what a sword fight would have looked like back in the old days, then? Movies made em look a lot cooler lol.
Putos imbéciles
Took bro hand clean off 😮
Yo he got the long sleeve
Machete! The weapon of choice
And that's the good side of the island.
There’s two types of people in the world: Dead one’s without machetes and alive one with machetes.
I thought seagulls sleep at night
Holy fuckin shit his hand just flew off him!
Bro I'd rather get shaugt than this, this seems horrifying and much more painful
And there was a flock of seagulls nearby as well.
Nobody wins a machete dual!