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Bensei's whip experiment gets a reverse-grip solution

Jacques the Whipper joins him to test a viewer suggestion, and the useful weight turns out to be at the other end.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 538,305 views a day, 19 times a normal first day on this channel (27,851).

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Adding a weight sounds like a straightforward way to turn a bullwhip into a meteor hammer. Keeping it working as a whip is the tricky part, as Bensei discovers with Jacques the Whipper.

Their collaboration has drawn nearly 350,000 views in eleven hours, an unusually fast start for instructor_bensei's Shorts. It also gives viewers something more specific to discuss than a successful strike: why the first idea doesn't work.

Jacques brings a bullwhip and explains how its narrowing construction helps the tip move fast enough to crack. Beside him, Bensei struggles to tie a weight onto the popper, with captions gently making fun of the knot expert's difficulty tying a knot. Jacques's explanation continues uninterrupted.

The weighted whip doesn't crack, and Bensei finds its movement erratic. But Jacques points out that the whip already has a heavy component: its handle. Bensei turns it around, swings that end instead and knocks a target off its pole.

The comments pick up both discoveries. Viewers keep returning to the reverse grip, while others single out Jacques's sudden shift into practiced explanatory mode. Several compare the pair's experiment to MythBusters, especially the combination of an impractical question and a serious attempt to understand it.

For a creator whose channel introduction is "I bonk things with a rock," this is a particularly on-brand detour into physics. Bensei closes the experiment by considering what their findings mean for Dungeons & Dragons weapon damage types.

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What viewers say

So a reverse grip whip works like a meteorhammer, got it
@BugEyedFairySee it on YouTube
Ben and Jack have real Mythbusters energy here. When Jack was explaining the physics, you can see Bensei’s brain catching up and hitting “Oh I get it!” And honestly that’s brilliant in itself
@jamesbailey4304See it on YouTube
I love that you can see the passion and neuron activation as Jacques explains a whip. One of my favorite things to see people do
@brocksells197See it on YouTube

5 more comments

REVERSE GRIP!!!!
@EindrideOdinsonSee it on YouTube
Love the scientific breakdown of why tying on the weight didn't work, and how they figured out it works as both with no modifications.
Just have to embrace the reverse grip 🤣
@InfiniteWrongTurnsSee it on YouTube
That's a great answer to a curious question
@JaunusEnderSee it on YouTube
The sheer sleeper agent activation of Jack's tone changing as he explains the mechanics of a whip crack 😂 you really can tell he's repeated this explanation a bajillion times from all his performances 😂
@lettuced8565See it on YouTube
These are the kinda experiments that inspire crazy DnD Shenanigans 😁😜
@IrathearSee it on YouTube