This is a video repeatedly demonstrating the restraining power of the BoloWrap, a device that fires a non-lethal bola (a cord with a weight on each end that quickly wraps around a target, ensnaring them) to limit a suspect’s movement and make apprehension easier. Hey, whatever works, but there’s no

These are a couple videos of Master S. Kamaraj of Vajram Warriors (a program that teaches Indian martial arts, blowgun, gymnastics, and basic self defense to youths) demonstrating his axe inspired boomerangs. The first video is of a traditional single headed axe, but the second is a double-headed axe. Obviously,

Note: Check your volume, cannon. This is a short video from the Netherlands of what don’t appear to be the old timey war reenactors I expected firing a cannon while Johnny Cash’s ‘Ring Of Fire’ appropriately plays in the background and the shock wave breaks every window on the house

Note: Just watch the video, if you aren’t impressed by thirty seconds you’re unimpressible. This is a video of the first place sparring routine at the 13th World Wushu Championships in 2015 as choreographed and performed by Xiao Wu and Long Long Shi with an insane empty hand versus spear

Sporstmanship: maybe it isn’t entirely dead after all. Case in point: this archery match between Sergio Garrido of Spain and Claudio Alves of Portugal where Claudio’s arrow release wouldn’t trigger, causing him to forfeit a shot. Sergio asks what happened, and walks away from the line on his next shot,

Because you’re not going to wow audiences with an explosion that looks like my buddy Dave clenching a firecracker between his butt cheeks (classic Dave), this is a video of Tom Scott working with a professional pyrotechnician (my dream gig) to explain why movie explosions look so much grander than

Seen here wasting perfectly good ammo by crying from the wrong eye (you have to focus!), this is a video demonstration of the Tear Gun, the brainchild of designer Yi Fei Chen while she was in design school that freezes a user’s tears for immediate reuse as biological weapons. Some

This is a video of a woman demonstrating her nunchucking skills by attempting to extinguish a row of candles with a horizontal swing. She gets all but two out on her first pass (although it looks like they were all out momentarily), then finishes them off with her second. Like,