Modern Rogue Injuries
This is a listing of all notable injuries during the filming of Modern Rogue episodes.
Reset Conditions
- The counter is reset upon drawn blood.
- The counter is reset when pain / an injury impedes production in some way.
- Ultimately, any given reset is determined by the editor's discretion.
- The counter tracks time between published date of episode, not when the injury actually occurred.
Statistics
| Jason | 10 |
|---|---|
| Brian | 7 |
| Rick Smith Jr. | 1 |
| Katelyn | 1 |
| Number of Times Injured | |
| Jason | 10 |
| Brian | 8 |
| Katelyn | 1 |
| Jason self-inflicted | 7 |
|---|---|
| Brian self-inflicted | 5 |
| Katelyn self-inflicted | 1 |
| Jason injures Brian | 3 |
| Brian injures Jason | 2 |
| Rick Smith Jr. injures Jason | 1 |
- The longest duration between injuries (excluding the first reset) is 118 days, which occurred on Turning Balloons into Deadly Slingshots.
- The shortest duration between injuries is 2 minutes, which occurred on Razor Blade Flail.
- There have only been 2 instances of the injury counter resetting twice in the same video, in these instances it counts minutes instead of days.
Timeline of Injuries
Desperate Defense: Glass Ashtray
Episode 187, 2019-05-24
Days since previous injury: 42
- Timecode - 2:18
- In demonstrating that a glass ashtray can effectively bat away a knife attack, Brian hits Jason's hand harder than expected.
Sliding Across the Hood of a Car
Episode 178, 2019-04-12
Days since previous injury: 55
- Timecode - 3:21
- Jason's hand gets caught on a knob on the hood of the car, drawing blood.
- Jason also injures a leg off-camera over the course of numerous slides, this can only be seen in the FPE.
Crafting Knives out of Saw Blades
Episode 168, 2019-02-16
Days since previous injury: 20
- Timecode - 20:14
- Katelyn cuts her hand while wrapping tape around her knife's base as a handle. It is not immediately evident that she was cut, but after a brief moment, blood is drawn.
- This is the first instance of a guest being injured.
A Fool's Guide to Nunchucking
Episode 163, 2019-01-25
Days since previous injury: 35
- Timecode - 4:18
- Brian, immediately after being handed a pair of foam nunchucks, flails it around and hits himself in the right eye.
Minutes since previous injury: 16
- Timecode - 20:48
- Jason develops two welts on his arm after attacking DAVE and having the nunchucks bounce off and hit his arm on the rebound.
Turning Balloons into Deadly Slingshots
Episode 154, 2018-12-21
Days since previous injury: 118
- Timecode - 5:06
- After filming for the episode is finished, Jason is discovered to have a welt forming on his hand from a flying ball bearing launched by his own slingshot.
Razor Blade Flail
Episode 136, 2018-08-24
Days since previous injury: 21
- Timecode - 1:24
- Brian attacks Jason with two makeshift shoelace whips.
Minutes since previous injury: 2
- Timecode - 3:27
- Jason takes off his cut-resistant gloves for "dexterity," and subsequently pokes himself with a razor.
Improvising a PVC Bow
Episode 128, 2018-07-06
Days since previous injury: 21
- Timecode - 24:20
- Jason releases an arrow at DAVE, a rubber man, who reflects the arrow back at Jason's hand that is holding his bow.
Throwing Cards Like a World Champion
Episode 125, 2018-06-15
Days since previous injury: 34
- While Jason holds celery, a wound on his hand from earlier in the day is re-opened when Rick Smith Jr. hits it with a playing card.
Fighting with Quarterstaffs
Episode 117, 2018-05-12
Days since previous injury: 71
- Timecode - 32:20
- Brian and Jason square off. Jason holds his staff horizontally, effectively acting as a guide for when Brian thrusts his quarterstaff, striking Jason in the groin.
Starting Fires with Batteries
Episode 107, 2018-03-02
Days since previous injury: 77
- Timecode - 11:56
- Brian's hand starts bleeding... sort of for no discernible reason at all. He thinks steel wool poked him when reaching for a Leatherman.
How to Fight with a Sword and Buckler
Episode 96, 2017-12-15
Days since previous injury: 25
- Timecode - 14:53
- Jason attacks with first ward, and Brian's defense had enough give that Jason's sword hit Brian's eye.
Making PVC Blowguns
Episode 92, 2017-11-20
Days since previous injury: 80
- Timecode - 5:18
- Brian stabs his finger with a sharpened nail as he tries to push it through a paper cone.
Crafting Camouflaged Dead Drops
Episode 81, 2017-09-01
Days since previous injury: 35
- Timecode - 8:44
- Brian cuts his finger with a razor blade while trying to shape foam.
12-Year-Old Stunt Driver Teaches Drifting
Episode 76, 2017-07-28
Days since previous injury: 28
- Jason punches a barrel from the passenger seat of a car that Brian is actively drifting in donuts.
How to Fight with a Longsword
Episode 72, 2017-06-30
Days since previous injury: 83
- Timecode - 28:14
- While in a sword bind, Jason feigns kneeing Brian in the stomach but inadvertently hits him in the groin.
Shattering Frozen Locks
Episode 60, 2017-04-07
Days since previous injury: 377
- Timecode - 10:50
- Brian hits a frozen lock with a mallet, sending icey shrapnel which burned through Jason's shirt and cut up Brian's hand bad enough to end the episode there. The next day he went to the ER, where they informed him that he waited too long to come in for them to do much.
Crack a Bullwhip and Do Tricks Like a BOSS
Episode 6, 2016-03-25
Days since previous injury: N/A
- Timecode - 6:34
- Jason tries to do an overhead whip crack and manages to hit himself in the head.