You…didn’t need to read the ENTIRE German title and subtitle of the book 😂 but you did that for US!

Bro, when he read the title of the book in the original German (?), that straight f'd me up....

@georgea5991

4 ай бұрын

I mean, that's the first test, so 🤷🏻‍♂

I just started HEMA longsword yesterday and was desperately trying to understand this diagram and you made it easy. Thanks for the exceptional quality of your walkthroughs!

@MauriceBooij

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad it helps!!

@ragataurous5356

Жыл бұрын

How is the HEMA going today a year later?

@veg0machine

4 ай бұрын

Two years later you still training?

@veg0machine

4 ай бұрын

Two years later you still training?

Did this for 15 mins and it buurrrnnns. Thank you

I've practiced kendo for 5 years and just recently got into HEMA, training with longsword and Sabre. Absolutely loved this video. Keep up the great work man! The quality of this is too good and it's super that I can learn accurate German pronunciation along the way🤣

@MauriceBooij

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot , I'm glad it helps!!

@beastofchaospureanarchie

7 ай бұрын

About the pronouncation..... Nicht mal deutsche können so sprechen.😂

Maurice, I've been practicing Hema in a school that teaches Meyers longsword now for about 4 months. Im using your videos to practice drills, which have been excellent, by the way. However, im curious why you're no longer making videos? The quality is supurb and very helpful/informative.

@MauriceBooij

4 ай бұрын

I'm happy you find them helpful! It's taking me a bit of time, but more vids are being planned. Expect a bunch later this year!

As a Fiorist, I've wanted a clear video these drills. You certainly delivered!

@MauriceBooij

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad it helps!

I can't believe I've finally found a good channel that teaches properly how to longswrod. Thank you kind sir

Amazing video!!!!! A great training!!! Thanks!! ⚔️

Nice to hear your voice to guide everyone through!

And this is now my daily training exercise. Thank you!

Thank you so much for making these videos! I'm just starting in buhurt and look forward to longsword training now!

I like how you demonstrated. Easy to understand. Thank you ❤❤❤❤

Thank you!

I just found this video and it finally clicked! I will definitely be taping some numbers up on a mirror! Thank you for this video!

This is bloody brilliant! Thank you! Im looking forward to more videos coming out. Your techniques are beautifully fluid, and explanations exceedingly clear! Thanks again!

Amazing video

keep up the good work

Das ist eine der einfachsten Erklärungen, super. Great explanation and easy to understand. Thanks... Dankeschön ;)

great channel, smooth execution, I hope you post more video soon.

@MauriceBooij

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I will!

Thank you for you explanation. It was informative.

@MauriceBooij

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad it helps!

Real good stuff, thanks!

@MauriceBooij

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

Love it: very clearly narrated!

@MauriceBooij

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

thank you

I love this video for its clarity, specificity and a really nice voice. Sub and like! I wait for more, good work! :)

@MauriceBooij

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!

Sir... you're a #Legend👑for this!✨👍It makes so much sense!🤔

@MauriceBooij

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad it helps!

THKS A LOT FOR THIS,!!!!WELL EXPLAINED WITH MOVEMENTS AND WHAT IS IMPORTANT SLOWERED SO WE CAN SEE THE MOVEMENTS CLEARLY!!! PLZ MORE ABOUT THIS,HELP PLZ!!!

Goed bezig!! Heldere uitleg, mooie opbouw, prettige en humorvolle voice-over! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

@MauriceBooij

3 жыл бұрын

Dank!

Brilliant. This looked like Greek to me before watching this video. Thanks!

Now only i truly understand the Meyer Square. Thanks alot. Your explaination and demonstration is very clear. And I also appreciate the suggestion for variation if exercise using the Meyer Square. It makes the exercise more exciting and challenging.

@MauriceBooij

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad it helps!

Hi, I am from China where HEMA is blossoming and I am start learning Meyer sword, thank you for your guides, very well made video, subed

@MauriceBooij

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad it helps!

Yeah, we do that routine quite often, you can also include strikes with inner and the outer flat if you want more of a challenge 🙂

Very good! Thanks! 😁😈

This is awesome...an overlay of a human silhouette would probably help more. Also, be able to widen the scale/figure, and raise/ lower for height, would make it a wonderful training aid.

This is a good explanation of the Meyersquare. However, I noticed something and have a small objection. When doing this exercise, keep the point of the sword pointed at your opponent whenever possible. After every stroke you always end up in the plow or ox (Pflug oder Ochs) For example, if you cut a right Oberhau, then you can of course pull the blow through to the boar's tooth, but that does not threaten the opponent with the point and you are also not protected by your own sword. It makes more sense to cut into the left plow. Shortly after you have passed the long point position with the blow, you simply pull your left arm up against your bodys. In principle, the blow is absorbed by the right arm, which is pulled towards the body. The right forearm hits the lower body lightly, which stops the blow. Now all you have to do is move your arms forward a little and you are already standing in the left plow and you can stab straight to the long point. Wile standing in plowguard you have two options. You can cut an undercut to the right ox position. Or you first wind from the left plow into the left ox and then cut the undercut in the right ox. Try to stab either from plow or ox after each stroke to make this exercise a little more challenging and you will see what I mean. That is actually the idea of ​​this exercise. One is supposed to learn the basic strokes while constantly building a threat with the tip of the sword. Greetings from Germany to all HEMA friends out there.

@MauriceBooij

2 жыл бұрын

You mean like explained at 4:08?

@eulenspiegel6689

2 жыл бұрын

So similar. Only in our school we had to make sure, that we didn't move our right wrist down too far when we strike an Oberhau into the plowguard. We called this mistake the "broken wrist position.“ In the final position after the Oberhau, the angle of the wrist in relation to the forearm should not be more than max. 45 degrees. Pay attention to the position of the right wrist in the plow or long point. The wrist is never stretched too far forward. (It's only a minor thing, but your wrist will thank you in a long run)

nice

@MauriceBooij

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I love this, thank you! It's a wonderfully clear explanation of the pattern and variations. Here's a silly question, though: If you're left-handed (like me), would it be best to flip the numbers of the Meyer Square to begin on the left, etc.? Cheers!

@MauriceBooij

Жыл бұрын

You totally could! Then again; the second half of the pattern is basically from the 'left handed' perspective, so you'll be practising that anyways. (Personally I love training patterns like this with both hands, anyways, not just to get good with both hands, but to learn and see a fight in terms of lines, angles and principles...)

@thormusique

Жыл бұрын

@@MauriceBooij Ah, of course, that's a great point, thank you!

Wonderful stuff, thanks. I wonder can this be used with other swords as well

@MauriceBooij

Жыл бұрын

Certainly! The principle of cutting around a defense remains the same, whenever it is a good idea to do so :)

🤯

Either he read the title of the book so fast that I didn’t understand OR it was in an other language cuz that’s the longest damm title I heard

@MauriceBooij

10 ай бұрын

Welcome to the very verbose world of 16th century 'Early New High German' 😄

@budgingcampthedingus1458

10 ай бұрын

@@MauriceBooij 😅

I noticed the steps and footwork are away from the direction of the cut, this reduces power, but this best to maintain balance?

@MauriceBooij

2 жыл бұрын

It is mostly because of the angle that it creates, creating a more useful line of attack, and with the blade covering the centre line; protecting the body that stays outside. In actual fights, this sideward footwork can become rather small, but since it's something we don't do on a daily basis (we walk in straight lines, usually), it pays to train it in exaggerated forms.

what about stabs?

@MauriceBooij

3 ай бұрын

That's a different thing, so it gets a different drill. Though: the aim of the cuts in this cutting drill, as designed by Meyer in the 16th century, is to close off the opposing line of attack with your secondary strike. So as long as you do make sure that the line of attack gets closed properly with your own offensive actions, you can definitely incorporate thrusts. In fact; any time you find yourself slightly out of range; using the cutting motion to close off the line does perfectly set up a thrust with opposition.

can someone explain the short edge and long edge strikes?

@MauriceBooij

Жыл бұрын

What would you like to know?

@rackety7797

Жыл бұрын

@@MauriceBooij what’s the difference? Does it refer to which edge you’re striking with?

@MauriceBooij

Жыл бұрын

@@rackety7797 Exactly! The original medieval German sources tend to refer to the edges as the long edge and the short edge, but in modern English also the phrases 'true' and 'false' edge are used. The Long/True edge is the edge on the side of your fingers, if you were to stretch out your hand. The Short/False edge is the edge near your thumb/wrist. So any simple descending cut, for instance, will be done with a long edge strike. A useful mnemonic: In curved blades, such as sabres, this inside curve is indeed shorter than the outside curve.

@rackety7797

Жыл бұрын

@@MauriceBooij thank you! That’s what I was thinking I just wanted confirmation

@acelibrarian

11 ай бұрын

If you have trouble remembering which is which, pretend your longsword is a pirate scimitar, a saber, a katana, or some other curved blade.

0:40 impressive german i must say

@MauriceBooij

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Living next door to Germany helps 😁

zornhau and oberhau are diferent things

@MauriceBooij

7 ай бұрын

Indeed! But Joachim Meyer has his own personal definitions of those strikes, that are not necessarily the same as in other, earlier manuals. Hence the choice in this video to use the generic terms, as used in manuscripts for roughly 100 years before Meyer started doing his own thing; to keep it simple for a broad audience :)

@gehtdichnixan3200

7 ай бұрын

@@MauriceBooij thank you for the explanation im mostly familiar with meyers book so it hit my eye

Sword fighting, many great men killed by lucky idiots.

seems like a rather useless and confusing diagram, it's much easier to remember the pattern without it anyway, so what's the purpose?

@Qwiggsy

2 ай бұрын

Start outwards. 1, 2, 3, 4. Then next row inwards. 1, 2, 3, 4. Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it's useless.