JillBearup

Do Your Worst (or best?)

Hello Patrons!

I am making an upcoming episode which is ranking ✨lady armour✨ from movies and Tv shows. I’ll be soliciting suggestions from the YouTube community, BUT…

The Patre...

Early Bears - What's Missing from the Top 20 Duels?

Got some messages about this article, had an opinion. Got a chance to talk about a classic fight or two. What's not to like? :)

How I got started in stage combat

Or, it’s all the fault of Star Wars 😁

This will show up in a few weeks on YouTube if you’re not a tiktok person!

I Made Armour in a Cave* from a Box of Scraps

*shed

But still, it was something of A Project. I hope you enjoy watching my adventures!

I think this might be the most beautiful thing I’ve ever made

And it started life as a box of sofa offcuts and some curtains.

Wish me luck editing the video 😂

Have a Shang Chi review!

I went to a cinema! I saw a movie! It was a pretty good movie and I liked it! Boy, it's been a while since I did a relatively contemporaneous movie review. It's nice.

Mostly, gotta say, loved...

James Bond, Swashbuckler (Early Bears!)

Hope you've all had a lovely summer! Have some James Bond analysis and bonus Random Fencing Stories!

Livestreaming in ten minutes :)

Hope to see you there!

This Friday livestream Q&A for everybody! 1500 BST

SO! I have a lot of questions that people have about stage combat (more than a hundred of them, in fact) and I’m going to answer as many of them as possible in a couple of hours. Or until I lose ...

SO HAPPY

Yer an Actor Combatant, Harry! I mean...Jill!

I'm going back to bed. :D

One Villainous Scene: With Bonus Content!

Surprise! It's another One [INSERT ADJECTIVE HERE] Scene collaboration in time for the release of The Suicide Squad! (Not to be confused with...Suicide Squad, no 'the') 

This time it's O...

Loki Episode 6 Fight Analysis (Spoilers Abound)

Hello! It's been a while since I saw something and immediately thought, 'I'm going to write a short video about this!' but I did that thing yesterday, and it was nice.

Turns out Loki isn't as...

I TESTED Corsets vs. Knives (and a companion video!)

It's here! I finally got Mannequin Skywalker out of the shed...and Duncan and I got to stabbing XD

The companion video is here: 2021-07-01 07:50:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Corset vs Knife: The Reckoning

Well, I was very much not convinced by the slash attack that took place in The Nevers episode 1, where a possibly supernatural chap slashed through a shirt, a corset and an under layer to make a ne...

I Made The Perfect Murder Dress (Early Bears!)

Hope you enjoy this absolute nonsense, I had a ball making it (pun not originally intended but now absolutely intended).

Harley Quinn eat your heart out!

That looks much more impressive than it felt, I have to say. Did some filming today for a video coming out in July. Went pretty well, though high heels were very much not in evidence.

The Perfect Murder Dress

Aka how to accidentally go viral on TikTok.

I'm also having a lot of fun making a story series over there at the moment, but I thought you all might enjoy this sneak peek at the Murder Dress....

By popular request: COMBAT SHOES

A friend of mine said to me the other day, 'Jill, imagine if you went back 10 years and told yourself that in a decade you'd be making your living from videos where you stabbed corsets and kicked t...

Early for Patrons: A Very Collaborative Short

It's my birthday in about a week and a half and I decided to celebrate by making a really dumb meme short from Tumblr circa...a couple of years ago, probably.

The crossover between people who...

Can You Sword Fight in a Wedding Dress?

Our survey says: yeah, probably, as long as you take appropriate skirt-dealing-with actions. 

I would say this is the oddest video I've ever made but...I mean, if it is, it's not by much...

My Favourite Prequel Scene (and the bit I no longer like so much)

May the Fourth be with you, and all that jazz. Enjoy!

Shhhh! Also: SQUEE!

Hey, do you remember that I teased merch at the end of my 10 year anniversary video?

Well, they’re here: WE HAVE SWORD PINS AND THEY ARE SO PRETTY LOOK!

We have a limited number of sw...

Celebrating A Small Win!

Hello lovely Patrons!

Today I am celebrating digging myself out of Email Purgatory. Which is to say, it took all morning and several hours over the last week, but my inbox no longer looks li...

10 Year Anniversary!

Hello lovely Patrons! This is my super duper special (and by special I mean off topic and also over 20 minutes long) video on 15 things I've learned from ten years making videos. Technically my You...

Early Bear: Wonder Woman 1984

Physics, eh? Physics! Physics. Physics! It exists in this film. Mostly.

Streaming at the top of the hour!

Here's the link! Don't forget to click through to the YouTube page so you can join in the live chat if you'd like to.

And if you have any case of rapiers or stage combat related questions, dr...

Public livestream TOMORROW (10th April) 3pm BST

Let's have a half hour (ish) stream tomorrow and talk about case of rapiers and...other things which may relate to swords! :) If you haven't got notifications turned on, fear not, it'll be public s...

Case of rapiers fight (just for you!)

Hello Patrons! Apologies for being quiet recently, there has been a lot going on, though most of it good!

I just took a three day course in case of rapiers for stage combat (four swords! Such...

Mad Max vs. Imperator Furiosa: Fury Road Fight Analysis

If you've been missing me, know that I am a silly person who locked herself out of her Patreon account. But I'm back now! Hope you enjoy this fight analysis, I certainly enjoyed making it!

200k subscribers! 🥳

The last month has been...quite eventful, YouTube-wise. Apparently YouTube Shorts are indeed extremely broken. But I am not complaining 🤣

Welcome new Patrons. We are all glad to see you �...