How Dangerous is a Whip?

“Wish we could turn back time…”👴🏻

I really love how honest you are with your shortcomings while practicing things

Bro is slowly becoming the most dangerous man in the world with these skills

11:02 Castlevania fans when they upgrade the whip:

Thanks for including me in your opening shot, Mike! Welcome to the world of whips, my friend.

Having mucked around with whips alot when I was younger... - Your choice of a bullwhip for this was perfect. A bullwhip with a longer handle would've decreased the physcial effort. Bullwhips have the best accuracy. And snake whips, but they are difficult. - The vertical cracking technique you tried towards the start of the video is actually the easiest to learn, the most accurate, and I would argue the most powerful, and the safest. - The best tip I can give you.... to help you with any technique, is that whatever movement you are doing, when done correctly,actually sends a coil down the length of the whip, which makes it crack away from you. Even done slowly will result in a crack. The reducing width of the whip, increase the speed the coil moves, leverage is in your favour. Most techniques require a steady application of power through the handle, not a sudden jerk, thats why you whipped yourself. 🙂 - Adding steel to a whip at the end is EXTREMELY dangerous. It has a heavier density than the cracker and leather, and can break towards you, and send sharpnel your way. - If destroying something or hitting something hard with accuracy, you actually want to strike with the last bit of leather down the length of the whip (Knot conencting the cracker), not the cracker itself. Thanks for the entertaining video!

Bro said "fuck it" and became a belmont

The nostalgia from this sequence is hitting harder than my great-grandpa on his farm😔

WE GOING OUT OF 1800S WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥

You know in Star Wars there’s a Lightsaber variant called the Lightwhip. And yes it’s basically a whip with the same cutting power as a Lightsaber. I have no idea how anyone could practice with such a weapon without amputating themselves within seconds.

There is a one thing about the technique that Anthony De Longis exploited for better control and accuracy with a whip. He calls it the De Longis loop. The idea is to loop the spine so the whip has a direction to go than flailing wildly. You would have to watch his videos to see how it's done. There's also a mythbusters episode where Adam learns how to use the whip properly from Anthony De Longis. De Longis worked with Michelle Pfeifer and Harrison Ford. Great job with the effort. Pretty awesome how much work you put into it. :)

2:12 the nostalgia’s hitting harder than my grandpa’s slaves were😔

I love how he always finds new and random ways to entertain us.

this video not only made me love Mike's talent and determination but also made me nostalgic for old Indiana Jones movies ❤

Well back to work 👨🏿‍🦲

it's Nice to see you , get the Physic of the Bullwhip , and see getting the technic little by little , well done !!

Back to the old times we go 👨🏻‍🦳

1:17 relatable 👨🏿

Look at that vampire killer

Where your technique is falling short is you're doing a lateral crack. I suggest looking into the physics behind a whip crack and how the conservation of energy plays into it.