The Arditi: Italian Hand-to-Hand Combat Élite Troops in WW1 (The True Story)
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
- The Arditi were Italian special forces during the First World War.
"Ardito" means "He who acts with courage, with audacity; intrepid, courageous, daring."
In 1917, following proposals and studies by some generals aware of the need to use troops that went beyond the classic formula of the frontal assault on the enemy lines "softened" by the artillery, they decided to test a specially constituted unit commanded by Major Giuseppe Bassi. The newly formed assault units therefore developed as a corps in their own right, their task was no longer to open the way for the infantry towards the enemy lines, but the total conquest of the latter using new tactics.
Dagger fencing was the pride of the Arditi, and they were also trained in unarmed hand-to-hand combat by studying forms of Jujitsu and Judo adapted to their type of warfare and with Italian influence.
Much of the footage used was taken from the Facebook page "ARDITI della GRANDE GUERRA" which I thank and recommend visiting: / arditidiguerra
#arditi
#ww1
#jujitsu
#martialarts
#hema
0:00 - Who were the Arditi?
0:11 - The precursors
1:26 - The birth of the assault units
2:02 - The training
2:41 - Assault Tactics
3:39 - Equipment
5:38 - Dagger Fencing
6:19 - Italian Jujitsu of the Arditi
8:30 - The battles
9:28 - The dissolution
10:11 - The exploitation
10:32 - Arditi of the People
11:40 - The Traditions
11:52 - The Hymn
CLARIFICATIONS:
"Does the video scold the Arditi's ties with fascism and act as if the ties with communism, socialism, and anarchism are honorable?
Does it praise communism and consider communists good guys?
No, this is an apolitical martial arts channel, there is no political praise or bias in the video. Those interested can learn more about the various political currents in the places that deal with the topic in question.
There is a section regarding communists, anarchists, and socialists because that was who the Arditi del Popolo were and what they did.
I wanted to underline an opposite view to the incorrect and widespread viewpoint of "Arditi = Fascists". It just happened that in that period most of the anti-fascists were of those political currents, if there had been others, they would still have been in the video.
The participation of some in the Spanish Civil War was briefly mentioned because various symbols of the Arditi were also imported into Spain, such as the skull with the dagger between its teeth, so it was certainly worthy of mention, to clarify for anyone who might come across it.
Whether they were good guys or bad guys is something that must be seen individually and is not related to their politics.
Mio nonno era negli arditi, ho a casa il suo pugnale, un vecchio pezzo di ferro arrugginito con il manico troppo piccolo, su cui sono incise le parole “ Piave Fert”. Si stenta a credere che sia quella l’arma micidiale tanto temuta dal nemico, ma è così. Era l’uomo che la impugnava a fare la differenza.
These are the men who fought in a war that you saw into the eyes of the enemy
Not in verdun
My grandfather was an Arditi, he fought the Spanish Civil War and thought WW2. It even got decorated for valor by General Franco himself!
He didn't like to talk about war that much, but on the few evenings were he would get more wine than he could handle we (kids) sit around him to listen to some hairy story. Miss him. RIP grampa Luciano❤
Grazie from Italy to remember those heroes! Unfortunately Italians of today are not patriots as it used to be, that’s why I love Thai patriotism! My grandfather was in the Alpini corps! He escaped from concentration camps in Piemonte🔝🦾
I love your channel I follow since long time ago🇮🇹❤🇹🇭🙏🔝👏
my step farther was in the Alpini he fought in Russia and Grease
How I can be a patriot with a nation and politicians that ruin my life with taxes, no work, high cost of life and lowest salaries of europe...
Viva Italia.
@@LetitslamThere's a difference between being a patriot for your country and a patriot for your government.
While there are no compendiums that I know of for the Arditi, one of the several manuals they trained with and the inspiration behind their name, is the Fior di Battaglia (Flower of Battle) also featured among the dagger & grappling images in this video. The name Arditi comes from a quote in the Flower. The manual states that a man-at-arms must possess 4 virtues. Strength, Discernment, Speed, and Courage. The word and accompanying quote for Courage are "Ardimento - Più de mi Lione non porta core ardito, pero di battaglia faço a zaschaduno invito." It's written in very old Friuli (an old Italian dialect, so modern Italians reading this may be slightly confused). It roughly translates to "More than I, the Lion, no one bears a more ardent heart, and battle, to everyone, I invite thee."
It's basically the medieval Italian version of "Come at me, bro."
The Flower of Battle contains several techniques still practiced by modern people, as one of many systems under the umbrella term of Historical European Martial Arts, or HEMA for short.
《A chi la vittoria ?》
《A NOI !! A NOI !! A NOI !!》
Wow, I would have never thought that the Arditi would study Judo and JJJ (Japanese Jiu-Jitsu). I've always wondered what kind of training they had, and this video has finally satisfied many of my curiosities! Many thanks from Rome, Sir, for this gem!
exelent documental ive heard about these warriors from italian veterans here in argentina and now i know how it really was
how have i never heard of these guys until today they are badass
As a former Army Infantry soldier, I have much respect for the elites among us, but what a waste of humanity and resources. 100 years later, we still haven’t learned anything. The powerful send us minions to die. For what?
Great mini documentary on the Arditi. Bravo!
Thank you!
Great job, very accurate
Thanks from Italy!
the first special forces in history were the Red Devils of the Sassari Brigade (the 151st and 152nd regiments) stationed in Sardinia in 1915. They were the first to experiment with bladed weapon assaults using the famous Sardinian knife "sa resolza". After these episodes which earned the Sassari Brigade the award of two gold medals for military valour, the military command formed the battalion of the arditi on a voluntary basis
GLORIA E RICONOSCENZA AGLI ARDITI. GRAZIE DELLA MEMORIA.
Thank you for this great documentary
Great video! Thank you for the breakdown of Arditi knife fighting techniques using the images.
Do you know what type of bad azz you have to be, to charge enemy machine guns armed primarily with daggers and hand grenades? These men were beasts, brave beyond our comprehension.
Yes, unfortunately I see that many devalue the courage and individual training of these troops due to the discreet results obtained and the significant ones that arrived late.
A war is not based only on soldiers but on many other factors, in which Italy was lacking.
I'm glad someone is still able to understand what these soldiers had to go through, thank you for your comment!
A good overall view of the Arditi a formation which has long been overlooked, interesting and balanced !
watching this on the 24th of May 2024
NON PASSA LO STRANIERO !!!
Pax et Bonum
Very interesting! Quite a group of interesting souls, that loved their country since school!
This is very different from your content on muay boran and I'm glad your doing more and showing different things your interested in
I really appreciate the positive reception of the new content. I will continue to cover new martial arts and combat systems, so that everyone can benefit from it, both in terms of knowledge and repertoire that they can implement in their training.
@@GaawutProductions also where did you find the manuals especially that one with the 6 techniques
@@abrahamlincoln6201 I don't own the manuals, they are extremely rare. I trained with an expert in Italian military combat.
Some pictures you saw (like the throw paired with the web of hand strike) come from another old book on Italian jujitsu by Carlo Oletti. I will surely made another video on this form of jujitsu and show the other techniques.
The best Arditi documentary. I hope you'll do a documentary on Okinawan Uechi Ryu (pang hai noon) and Early Kano Jiujitsu.
As and italian I found this video complete, neutral and well narrated!
Just what the Arditi story needed!
Bravo!!👍
edit: I think the cry: "A Noi" could be also translated into: "Now it's our turn!".
Interesting documentary.There was even a Japanese guy,among the Arditi,Shimoi Harukichi.
Vero...
...MAGNIFICO!!!!!
Viva l'italia 🇮🇹🖤
thanks, it was a great video!
Thanks !
Excellent video, I'm very interested in their combat techniques. I'm a big fan of close quarters combat.
Excelente mini documental. Sería muy interesante asistir a una clase de combate con daga 🗡️.
Te saludo desde Argentina.
My great-grandfather was an Austro-Hungarian soldier in ww1, he was a Croat from Zadar, member of "22. Dalmatinisches Infanterie Regimente" in 5th-10th battles of Isonzo, he must have fought fought against arditi, because we still have 2 of those badges mentioned in the video along with his medals and other ww1 memorabilia, i never met him, he died in 1971. i was born in 1979. He was highly decorated. It didnt help, Austro-Hungary lost the war.
Honor to your great-grandfather and all the other Austro-Hungarian soldiers.
Onore !
!THANKS!
Probably they were the closest successors to the Western Roman Palatina Guards and Comitatenses, well armed and well trained. And the knife fights from Dune movies were also probably influence by Arditi knife fencing other than Eskrima, Wing Chun and Krav Maga.
I invented a special troop type for a scifi story i am writing. I call them Dartidi. My inspiration for the name was nothing close to an actual historical warrior, i misunderstood lyrics to a song years ago, thought it said dartidi, wondered what it was, no one to ask, so i made it up on the spot. I learned about the Arditi from Battlefield 1, long after i came up Dartidi. I found it interesting. My Dartidi are also specialized mountain troops.
09:56
Never disband all of your spec forces. Never, EVER do that.
The first special Force
Pretoriani
Nice to hear about the Italian soldiers.
That was Awesome
Thank you!
Good idea for a unit but they would need good body armour and shields to survive the art of getting close.
They needed to quickly assault the positions and that often included climbing mounts, so the armour and shields of that time would have slowed them down significantly as they were too heavy.
As explained in the video, they did some experiments with armor and shields with the Death Companies, but they didn't work.
Also, I'm not sure they got the resources to provide an armor to all the Arditi, considering that there was even a shortage of their uniform.
A NOI 🏴🇮🇹 ULTIMI VERI ITALIANI
A NOI !!
A nome dei miei nonni= urrà, urrà, urrà @@walterpoluzzi9846
Italy still rules with ❤
Thank you for this dive into italian knife fighting martial arts.
Blocking knife/dagger attacks is a tricky one i would not really advice to training that form. It maybe a different philosophy under which i learned, but generally from that i summaraized that rather leading/redirecting the opponents strike onto himself or towards a position noone is in the way of the strike reduces the by chance hits or should the object be accidently released in full swing from the opponents hand and therefor still hitting the mark us the original target.
If you had to block though and see that as last chance, a double block with both hands could be made an argument for, though that reduces the chance for a counter attack or rather side stepping avoiding the swing altogether and only reentering range should an oppening become clear.
If you do not have a weapon yourself that you are accustomed to or any selfdefense training and even if you do, like with all fights the best defense is not a good offense, as we are not in american football, but a good 100 meter sprint time. As in the infamous words from Battleship "fight the enemy where they aren't."
It is sad to see that partiotism seems to be missused by fascist tendecies even nowadays to the extant that those in its grasp don't even realise and claim not to be. As also seen portrait here, other ways can be ventured, but not necessarily as successfully, but i would say at least with their honor intact.
There is a picture series, like 3 and it shows a soldier rolling onto a road and placing a mine under an Allied tank. The soldier is smiling and the tank is moving fast. As a kid my grandpa told me- you see that fella, he is Special Forces from Italy, they were the nastiest devils of the war, and its good they joined the Allies. I knew then at 5, what i was destined to do.
As an ex member of the Btg Alp. Susa Taurinese AMF NATO. I can tell you that the Arditi regiment still exists and is still full operational special forces 9 regiment Col Moschin. They participated in various wars and conflicts. Today it's a modern Alpini infanteries assult regiment one of Italy elite.
Never heard of them , sound very brave .
Forza 🇮🇹 Italia!!
i could use this to expand tactics and repertoire for muay wong luang!❤
Viva l'Italia
The first world SF. First SF to be parachuted into enemy line and tgeir moto, the Daring Ines, the British SAS copied, who dares wins!
Also, the SAS stem copied the Arditis.
Sadly, because of WW2, they were made to close tge regiment , but under cover from the government I think kept on training.
Forza e onore 🇮🇹
Onori sempre agli italiani indomiti raccontati e anche quelli dimenticati
I alway said they were the first special service not inafe on them .im from that zone
To the author, what application are you using to create the photo-pan / 3D effect?
It's pretty neat, but the edit could be slowed down a bit. 🤙🏿
I've used Capcut for the effect 🙏
What was the name of the writer of "Dagger fencing for the Arditi"?
Where can I find this book?
Amazing video!
The author is Gino Gobbi, I don't know where you can find it.
Accurate!
Viva l'Italia è viva Cristo Re!
Do you have any links to the book you referenced for there hand to hand training?? I googled and couldn't find anything
Nope, it's extremely rare, even in Italy there are only few libraries with a copy.
I couldn't use the actual pictures because I'm not sure about their copyright status, but the pictures of the first technique come from another manual on that form of Italian Jujitsu by Carlo Oletti.
I'll make a video on Italian Jujitsu and feature more techniques and applications.
All the techniques were selected by the Italian Army from Flos duellatorum of Fiore dei Liberi ,which is widely available.
@@antoniotorcoli5740 Actually it has never been confirmed, it might be true for some techniques on the manual, but there are others not found in Fiore's style. The Guard Position for example is one of those.
It's also worth noticing that there were various instructors, but only one style survived beside that of Gino Gobbi, and it has some differences.
From what I've seen though, Italian Jujitsu and other Italian military combat systems that came after have similarities to Fiore's manual, but Japanese Jujitsu already had techniques identical to Fiore's Abrazare when it came to Italy, so it's not clear if it is just a coincidence or if there was an actual influence in the selection of the techniques.
I'll look deeper into the topic and made a video about it.
Anyway, that's a good advice, check out Fiore's Manual!
The Death Company on Amazon thank me later
@@jonnytwocombs198 I checked out the book, very interesting, it is a translation of Bassegio's book, but be aware that the Arditi Volunteers of Basseggio are other precursors of the Arditi of the Assault Units, and had nothing to do with the latter regarding their structure, training, strategy, etc.
I want these books
you're pretty good
Thank you 🙏
If these troops, which also were pioneers of modern special forces, had been any other European, there would have been volumes written on them. Imahine if they were English. I knew of these units lobg sgo when i read hair raising tales of Monte Grappa. It's an excellent production, and i dont mean to darken it with my comment, but i noticed this a lot about Italy. They were also pioneers in the use of frog men in ww2m
Avanti Savoia!
If only Italian politicians were sane, such men could change the world.
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What if the Arditi still exist today?
Try to look for 9° reggimento "col moschin"
Comsubin also
Looks like there are some Savate illustrations
Yes, You are right! As explained in the video I couldn't use the actual pictures from the two books, so I had to use similar ones from other manuscripts
@@GaawutProductions 👍 that has inspired me to get back training. It was a sign lol
What are the names of the authors of the two manuals?
Giovanni Racchi is the author
Name of that banger of a song?
Which minute?
Heirs of Ardite?
Where can i watch these techniques on youtube
I will make a video on Italian Jujitsu and I will show more techniques
Onore a Voi 🫡
Mit messern zu schiesserei??
Battlefield 1 covered these guys and more legends like the Harlem Hellfighters
If we had had something as strong as the arditi del popolo in germany it might have helped... there was of course lots of fighting in the streets against the SA but never on a sufficiently organized level. It was a lost cause against the organized fascists...
The nazis' theory was that they needed to take control of the streets to control public discourse and sadly that worked out well.
Italian win the 1st World War in battlefid , in Vittorio Veneto, and antes was betrayed..
They must have been disbanded by WW2.
"Mamma non piangere..... Avanti Ardito le fiamme nere..... Pugnal tra i denti le bombe a mano.
11:09
Waitwaitwait... anarchists, fighting under a... chief??? It is as if they had noticed that they ideologies could do nothing over reality, especially when it comes to warfare.😂
Most anarchists show themselves to be commie control freaks
Some define anarchism as being against unjust hierarchy. Also there was a whole civil war in spain where anarchists were very numerous and militarised - it wasn't that rare.
In southern Europe anarchists are just people skeptical of authorities
It’s not as ideologically rigid as the Russian anarchists who were complete nihilists
Renzo Novatore was an Italian anarchist that argued only nobility and aristocracy had a duty to be anarchists by forgoing their unearned inheritance
"wich however was easily penetrated" ofcourse, cause today fake historian pretending that the Farina armour was made against bullets, it wasn't. It was suited to the Arditi to protect them from schrapnels, it's only job was to allow the soldier to arrive in the enemy trenches and not being protect from machineguns etc.
Yes indeed it was for schrapnels, I have no clue why the belief that it was for bullets spread out.
But still, they weren't worth the effort.
🌹🦋🦋🦋🌄😇🌄🦋🦋🦋🌹
Ah, the good ol' days ... when Italians had brain and 🥎🥎.
I like how the narration scolds the Arditi connections it had to later fascist Italy but then acts as though they were honorable when gaving ties to " socialists,communists and anarchists" 😐
They were honorable because they managed to put aside their political differences to fight together against the deprivation of liberty and violence of fascism (as civilians and without large support behind), and the subsequent Nazi occupation.
This is an apolitical martial arts channel, there is no political praise in the video.
Those interested can learn more about the various political currents in the places that deal with the topic in question.
@GaawutProductions it seems quite bias actually, as well as the part about the volunteers fighting in the Spanish Civil War against Franco as though the Republicans and Spanish communists were default " good guys". It seems like a very Anglo/American viewpoint.
@@HalideHelix That was who the Arditi del Popolo were and what they did.
I wanted to underline an opposite view to the incorrect and widespread viewpoint of "Arditi = Fascists". It just happened that in that period most of the anti-fascists were of those political currents, if there had been others, they would still have been in the video. The participation of some in the Spanish Civil War was briefly mentioned because various symbols of the Arditi were also imported into Spain, such as the skull with the dagger between its teeth, so it was certainly worthy of mention, to clarify for anyone who might come across it. Whether they were good guys or bad guys is something that must be seen individually and is not related to their politics.
@GaawutProductions fair enough,I was probably in the wrong I guess.Youur video was very well done though, I did learn a lot from it.
@@HalideHelix I appreciate a healthy and polite discussion, wish everyone were like you. Thank you for your comments and feedback. I wish you the best!
Lol so they also pioneered flashbangs without the flash to then leap and slash/stab their enemies with the dagger...dang that is some Italian shit if i ever heard it.
Speaks big long paragraph in Italian.
What did he say?
Arditi. 😐
Which time?
Italian the best ...Arditi , Decima Flottiglia Mas, NP, Battaglione Vega team Nesgap ...
Grazie. I miei nonni erano Arditi.
Whaaat? Arditi masters of hand-to-hand combat? Hahahaha. You totally missed the true masters: Brigata Sassari, the Red Devils. With all kinds of sardinian knives that you can find in all WWI museums or, of course, in Sardinia. They represented the first line of fight and arrived where Arditi were unable to.
Hi, I'm aware of the Brigata Sassari but unfortunately there is not enough material available to make a video for this channel 🙏
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