When you were facing the camera and "threw" the spear, I flinched. 😀
@Le_Rappel_des_oiseaux24 күн бұрын
A little unrealistic, but overall cool.
@HungarianWarHorse26 күн бұрын
Cool stuff
@TheWildManEnkidu28 күн бұрын
Genuine question! - I realise it was probably the sportsman's thing to do and go for your rondel so it was more of an even fight, but would your opponent have any advantage over the sword with just his rondel? Maybe you were in danger of being charged and tackled, so needed the dagger? Just wondering!
@Iverson322 күн бұрын
i think he'd be at a huge distance advantage with the sword but i think he could probably get close and it can go either way, not sure
@joneppler925928 күн бұрын
When in doubt close in and go for the dagger!
@jedpcuk28 күн бұрын
Nice slo-mo my friends, very nice :-)
@robertusaugustus200329 күн бұрын
Looks small but that could be a very nasty wound from a sharp
@joneppler925929 күн бұрын
Sniper quit sniping!!!
@AnotherScribblerАй бұрын
Oh wow, just when I feel like maybe I’m doing ok for my advanced beginner’s class as I realize that if I had to do the guards or cuts by name I’d be utterly lost. 🤣
Really helps me visualise the passages in your books.
@pnzrldrАй бұрын
Please, please, release the next 'Chivalry' novel sooner than later! P.S. if you get a chance, would love to see some more recommends for 12th-15th century fiction that you think is worth reading.
@paulandrewwandless3167Ай бұрын
I always learn so much from your videos. Thanks for sharing.
@stevehammel2939Ай бұрын
In the book Moralia III , in The Sayings of Spartans, there is a story about a father who had just lost his son in battle proclaiming about the bloody lifeless body 'Never will I shed a tear for you my son, seven spear wounds, all in front, you are not only my son but Sparta's as well.' It just goes to show how horrific the phalanx was using multiple spears on one person.
@jack91xАй бұрын
You should REALLY consider seeing how they're actually used before claiming that they were used in a specific way that doesn't actually fit historical context, or fighting treatises, or anything else for that matter. Please find a HEMA school or read Lonnergan, Roworth, Angelo, Tuohy, etc, before you make claims that simply are not supported by fact.
@OneMindAnyWeaponАй бұрын
You could really consider studying the person before making assumptions about what they don't study and then commenting on their videos
@joneppler9259Ай бұрын
Context is important for all weapons.
@Kenji17171Ай бұрын
Hello, I am reading your chivalry series and it is awesome.
@tatumergo39312 ай бұрын
Although the Europeans never developed an art completely dedicated to sword drawing combat, it was not unusual for the existence of sword drawing methods. It would just had been something logical to do!
@1Phokion2 ай бұрын
Interesting. I am pretty sure of the crescent as early as the 8th century. But I am willing to be wrong! As to curvesmd curved swords vs straight-of course! Islamic Mamluks preferred straight blades; the Swiss used a curved sabre, as did other Christians. I’m speaking of a general cultural affinity as an influence on weapons
@batulefou2 ай бұрын
I didn't mean to say you are wrong or anything. I hope my comment didnt come across that way. The early Muslims, especially Arabs werent keen on using symbols (due to blasphemy as i gather. However they did use likeness of people on their coins which is a contradiction) on their banners and coat of arms. Muhammad and later the Abbasids used a black flag without any drawings on it. Though some early Muslims did use banners with symbols, mostly letters. About the crescent and the star; it's actually bonkers that Turks adopted it because the reason Constantinople had this coat of arms was because Byzantion had it earlier. Because Byzantion's patron Goddess was Hecate, the goddess of magic whose symbol was crescent and star. History can be so cool sometimes.
@batulefou2 ай бұрын
Hi Christian. Long time fan. I need to tell you that crescent wasnt an Islamic symbol until Turks conquered Constantinople. It was originally the seal of the city, which the Ottomans adopted as the "heirs of Rome". Moreover, crescent swords started showing up in the Middle East with the Turkish immigrations to the region. (11th century) Iranians and arabs alike used straight swords until the Turks showed up. It's a matter of preference -fighting on horse back, being able to hit from real close etc- that did it for the Turkish soldiers.
@batulefou2 ай бұрын
Hi master. I hope you will be able to talk about sabres as well. I have difficulties imagining how would a sabre fare and how it would interact with the enemy armour. You write the Turks so well in your books; so I wanted to ask this from you. Many thanks.
@1Phokion2 ай бұрын
Will do!
@CyberMercy2 ай бұрын
Forgive me for quoting the Father of Minimalism, I am looking forward to your Form Follows Function approach to various swords. 😎☕💋
@lincs4life3 ай бұрын
I've just finished the emperors sword and really enjoyed it, I can't wait for the next book! The chivalry series is my new favourite book series. I'm going get stuck into the Tom Swan series now!
@petermurnane95673 ай бұрын
God I love these videos so much!
@tatumergo39313 ай бұрын
Amazing! Excellent work.
@tatumergo39313 ай бұрын
Beautiful, but still it is funny hearing anglophones trying to pronounce Latin based languages. Well done though!
@robertgallasch82363 ай бұрын
Love the chair too!
@tatumergo39313 ай бұрын
What was the first thing she said? Guarda Alta or Carga Alta...
@JustinAquino3 ай бұрын
Charles Christian got it! Thanks for the recommend!
@tatumergo39314 ай бұрын
I like that dress, I just realized that it looks like an armour! I might just become a transvestite for that dress...so kool.
@maycontainnuts31273 ай бұрын
i think if thats the first thing youre considering that then theres a chance you might not need to "become" one, already
@tatumergo39313 ай бұрын
@@maycontainnuts3127 . I identify as a comedian and you can address me as Mr. Funny...
@lincs4life4 ай бұрын
Currently about half way through "the long sword" after really enjoying "the ill-made knight" and the part where Will fights in the alleyway after taking the letters for the (scots/irish cant remember which) well that part is one of my favourite parts of the story as I do like rondels. I have a Tod Cutler rodel myself so I listened to the audio book I tried some of the movements myself and can see how that fight would flow. Excellent work, I love the historical accuracy of it and looking forwards to reading, well listening too the rest of the series.
@1Phokion4 ай бұрын
Thanks! Some of the new writing fighting episodes (209-212) are about rondel fighting too
@lincs4life3 ай бұрын
@1Phokion brilliant ill take a look! I've just pre ordered "the emperors sword" so I'll watch my way through your videos while I wait for that and finish off "hawkwoods sword" These books/audio books of yours are absolutely fantastic, even though on audible the narrator changes after the second book which through me off a little bit but still very good. The end of the "sword of justice" had me at the edge of my metaphorical seat, unsure of the spelling as I do the audio books but I hope Cameo gets a bloody good kicking.
@TofusRevenge4 ай бұрын
I’ve been reading your chivalry series and just wanted to say I love the books a lot and can’t wait for the new one!!
@jayimperator80884 ай бұрын
First of all, I just want to say I LOVE the Tom Swan series. The Red Knight was an absolute joy too. Now, fanboying aside: So. I have 'sport fenced'. I did not go to the Olympics and in the grand scheme of Metal Noodle Wizards was never all that. I have, however, disarmed people during full intensity sparing. I've also untied their shoes, knocked them down (yes, it can be done), and left half inch dents in mask meshes. Things things are related. The way the sport fencing disarms I did worked were so counter intuitive it was a little hard for me to believe, even after I did it. They are probably hard to believe and I don't blame any reader if you don't buy it. What untying shoes, knocking people down with a thrust, and leaving deep dents in masks have in common with disarms is simple. Energy. Sport fencing is (as far as I am aware) unique among combat sports in that you can spar at 100% intensity as long as you can mentally take it (at first it hurts but don't worry; if you stick with it it'll hurt way worse!). At first this isn't all that special. After months and months of it, hours a week, things change. Sparring intensity MATTERS. You can, and will, develop awareness and fine control when moving at your absolute maximum force. Your maximum EFFECTIVE force is a lot higher than you think. You can't really turn your maximum potential force into your maximum actual force until you combine many, many, MANY hours of drilling movements into biomechanically optimized (for your body) and automatic kinetic chains with a LOT of experience going AS HARD AS YOU FUCKING CAN. (I drop the f-bomb deliberately here. You can't just 'go hard'. You have to give it absolutely everything you've got to really 'get there'.) When you've put in the sweat, you can generate a great deal more force faster than seems possible at first, and you can direct that force, in split second time frames, through technically convoluted series of precision movements. It sounds like a bunch of nonsense but you really can. This is necessary for legit sport fencing disarms. Disarms have this 'technique' aura but my experience was that in when both parties are giving it all they've got it's really more about explosive athleticism and surprise. Pretty easy to stop if you even suspect it's coming. Another fencer showed me this and I didn't believe it until I tried it and sent someone's epee on a long and airborne journey. You make blade contact, harder the better. Parry, beat, whatever, doesn't really matter as long as you're far enough away to have good freedom of movement in your arm and hip but close enough to get strong/strong blade contact. INSTANTLY after the impact (if you wait for the vibration to pass up the forearm it's too late) you just spin your blade around theirs (I'm sure there's a fancy french word for this; I've no idea, I was athletic and had good reads, not 'fencing educated') WHILE you jerk your elbow back toward the outside of your lead hip. You will basically rotate your blade around theirs while dragging the blade contact from 'strong/strong' to 'middle/middle' (roughly). As your blade rolls over the top of their blade, you snap your blade into the hardest number 2 parry you can, while jerking your front hip back. This is the part that's hard to believe: you generate so much friction with his blade it rips it forward, down, and to your outside. It flies out of his hand, past the outside of your lead leg and bounces off the studio floor after it sails past your butt. I've never noticed thumb position to matter, or even hand position. When I first pulled it off I suspected people of letting me do it because it feels weird. It feels like you didn't really do anything and he just let go of the blade. When it's done TO you, it feels like Darth Vader just force-snatched your sword out of your hand. The 'forward pull' goes from 0-60 so fast you don't have time to react. And anyone fencing hard enough for long enough to pull this off has some BLAZING reflexes at that point. So when I say fast, I mean FAST. One second you're holding the blade, the next second you're trying to figure out what the hell just happened. It flat out doesn't work against anything but french grips. Won't work unless you're going full blast either. And I mean HARD. You've gotta have good timing and be athletic. You must use as stiff a blade as you can. It helps if your opponent has a floppy epee because you can kinda jerk the wave in the blade. But it works just fine against a good stiff Leon Paul blade too. If someone knows it's coming they can stop you a lot of ways. Don't let you get the blade position, don't let you get the distance, or just squeeze. At that point everyone has the deathgrip of Popeye all the time anyway and some people can turn it up even more to hold on to the blade. Other people just don't have the hand for it and have to do something else. I know what everyone is thinking. "That wouldn't work with a REAL sword." You're probably right. Real swords are way heavier and way, way slower. It's tough to get any speed going with them, much less the multiple direction changes in some fraction of a second that you have to make. (Beat/parry, twirly wrist thing, jerk and whip-seconde.) But the real reason they wouldn't work with a real sword is you just can't get that good with a real sword. There's no way to spar that hard, that frequently, and live long enough (much less remain un-crippled) to build the 'wizard skills'. (Story concept; healing magic lets swordsmen who can afford it Olympic wizard good, not just regular good.) (There's another disarm where you basically parry on the outside, seconde hard over to the inside as you lunge and it kinda pops the blade out of their hand. Because of the distance they know you're coming. It's simpler, biomechanically more efficient, but I found it hard to get off because I had to shoot from the opponents mental 'I'm in danger' range not the 'he's playing around out there' range. Probably some great setups for it if you can get a good threat fork going though.)
@curranegan55124 ай бұрын
Well I've got to try that!
@CyberMercy4 ай бұрын
Care& Up-keep: I heard that Cats & dogs became part of the Crew because Rats love Armor almost as much as rsts love Food & Waste. Any historic accounts you're aware of?
@kainopoulo4 ай бұрын
Hi, i love you content. Just a question/request. I see alot of content on dueling and infantry warfare. I even see a few infantry vs cavalry. But what i see very little of is men fighting on horseback. On cavalry warfare i see alot about formation and equipment, some about ranged cavalry, but it seems to like we have no idea how men on horseback fought each other. I often wander, especially about my favourite era (Hellenistic/roman-punic) but i read about battles that were decided on cavalry vs cavalry clashes, but i am nut sure what this would look like. I am hoping that you might know.
@1Phokion4 ай бұрын
Let’s see what I can come up with
@simonmagnum78214 ай бұрын
Where can we find that armor-print legging ? It looks dazzling !
@jasonmed21194 ай бұрын
Great video
@davidemelia62964 ай бұрын
The thing to remember is that this isn't anything close to a serious 'fighting art'. HEMA practitioners" are hobbyists, not serious fighters in any sense. That's why no-one respects HEMA, except as a hobby (and it's a great hobby) or a historical exercise. So, so-called 'HEMA practitioners' can hold onto all sorts of delusional ideas. They'll never have their ideas tested, except by other 'HEMA practitioners'. I mean, if you're having fun play-fighting, that's awesome! That's really good. That's the most important thing. Because you'll never, ever, ever, have to use any of this stuff in anything close to an 'actual fight'.
@niklasbarre73304 ай бұрын
This is the sort of braindead take you see on every martial arts related video. Nothing is "real fighting" to you street fight bros, but you'll never step into the ring to prove your point because at your core you're an insecure loser who has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. Mouth-breather.
@1Phokion4 ай бұрын
Care to explain what a ‘serious fighter’ is? B/c as a military veteran and life long martial arts nerd.. the only serious fighters are professional military personnel. All others are amateurs. I found your comment offensive and patronizing and I’d be happy to discuss in a mature manner.
@eabt4 ай бұрын
If you actually get into the primary texts that describe fighting systems of the past (like Fiore, I.33, Talhoffer, etcetera), you will find that the biomechanics of the techniques they describe line up nicely with techniques used in modern fighting systems. They are absolutely describing "serious fighting arts", and they absolutely were used to kill, wound, and capture people in the past. They are systems that worked effectively with the technology of the day, and continue to work today - Fiore's 14th century abrazare (wrestling) techniques a) map almost perfectly onto modern Aikido, Judo, Ju Jiutsu, Tae Kwon Do, and MMA techniques, and b) obey basic biomechanical truths. (The basic arm-bar Fiore describes is very useful for any young woman who finds herself with an unwanted arm around her shoulders at a bar or a concert.) His dagger techniques map very nicely onto modern knife-fighting, allowing for differences in knife design. I would bet (though I haven't tested it) that polearm/spear techniques would be applicable to bayonet use (bayonets are still issued to modern soldiers, albeit as a weapon of last resort, and were a standard part of their fighting kit until well after WWII). It is a "historical exercise" only in the sense that it was designed to work with a specific set of weapons that are mostly no longer in conventional use. A number of accomplished HEMA fighters are also ranked MMA fighters, and they don't seem to find the ideas delusional. Just because something is a "hobby" doesn't make it valueless or impractical. Daniel Jacquet (an academic - you can google his work) has done excellent work testing the limits of 15th century armour against modern fire-fighters' and soldiers' kit, and the results might surprise you ...
@bryancole18865 ай бұрын
You're not doing the envelopment right. You dont rotate the wrist. You should study some spanish rapier ie La Verdadera Destreza. There are many attacks using expulsions. They work best against longer rapiers not sideswords. Expulsions have a similar effect to a blade beat but you don't need to break contact for a wind-up. They are done by accelerating the blade and sliding the point of contact (like an automatic gear box). You don't need to make your opponent drop their sword but sometimes it happens.
@vladimirkovacevic16565 ай бұрын
thats realy awesome seax i love that long handle
@matthewwilliams54075 ай бұрын
Thanks for the advice. Best of luck on your test!
@carbon52615 ай бұрын
Good luck!
@user-ed4co1kr2s5 ай бұрын
This is utterly ridiculous, this would never work against an opponent who doesn't literally hand you their sword. She just lets go of the handle completely. This might be satire and I'll look dumb, but idk he seems way too confident. Please nobody ever try this, you'll look like a fool. Edit: Not to mention there is absolutely no reason to go behind your own back like that. Its inaccurate, significantly reduces range and penetration power, and if you miss which you are very likely to, you're left in an awkward and indefensible position
@1Phokion5 ай бұрын
Works a charm. I’ve done it in free play. Sorry you don’t like it.
@jamesrempel30935 ай бұрын
I agree that your opponent does need to pretty much drop their sword for this to be a disarm, but I have used it in sparring with me grabbing their sword and controlling the blade while stabbing them from behind my back. There is absolutely a reason to go behind your own back, it allows me to get my sword away from the one thing they have left to stop me, which is their empty hand. And you are right that this does reduce your range, it is specifically meant to be used when your in too close to use many other techniques. You can find this in manuals dating at least to the mid 1500s, it was written about by actual fencers, so it seems to me that it should be good enough for us.
@rhomboidq70015 ай бұрын
I’m sure you could write this same exact diatribe about a spinning back fist or spinning headkick, but elite fighters land those attacks in combat on a frequent enough basis.
@umungus5185 ай бұрын
@@rhomboidq7001that is completely different as it doesn't sacrifice power or range and when done correctly doesn't leave you in an awkward position. Not the same at all. This thrust would never get through any type of armor. Your opponent would never just hand you their weapon. This is not real, maybe for play fighting now where there is no danger and nobody is fighting for their life it works but in a real fight with your life on the line, with armor and your opponent only stopping when they're fatally wounded or dead; this would get you killed.
@eabt5 ай бұрын
So, this is a very advanced technique, and if you want to pull it off you have to practice a lot. Like we did. Point control and audacity are everything with a technique like this, and that takes strength, dexterity, guts, and PRACTICE. It is true: if you try to do it without practicing it, you will look like a fool. But it is absolutely possible. And I did not "just let go" of my sword; Christian tore the hilt out of my hand. If your opponent can get a good grip on your hilt, you can lose your sword fairly easily. Note that Christian pulls the hilt out of my hand by prying it out in the direction of my thumb, which is weaker than my fingers. This is basic doctrine for breaking a hand-hold in any martial art that works. Try it at home and see.
@levitheleviathan27925 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot for this kind of info it’s rather intriguing and helpful please keep posting my
@JeffStevens5 ай бұрын
So the defense is... Retreat? Or move off center?
@1Phokion5 ай бұрын
The ‘defence’ is to avoid allowing your blade to be taken, by judging mesura, by footwork, by not remaining passive at the moment of engagement …
@JeffStevens5 ай бұрын
I love this. Charity. And a demonstration of knighthood. And visualized.
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Cool. Very interesting blade.
Who made you your helmet?
Jiri Klepac. Czech Republic
@@1Phokion Thank you.
When you were facing the camera and "threw" the spear, I flinched. 😀
A little unrealistic, but overall cool.
Cool stuff
Genuine question! - I realise it was probably the sportsman's thing to do and go for your rondel so it was more of an even fight, but would your opponent have any advantage over the sword with just his rondel? Maybe you were in danger of being charged and tackled, so needed the dagger? Just wondering!
i think he'd be at a huge distance advantage with the sword but i think he could probably get close and it can go either way, not sure
When in doubt close in and go for the dagger!
Nice slo-mo my friends, very nice :-)
Looks small but that could be a very nasty wound from a sharp
Sniper quit sniping!!!
Oh wow, just when I feel like maybe I’m doing ok for my advanced beginner’s class as I realize that if I had to do the guards or cuts by name I’d be utterly lost. 🤣
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@@1Phokion Done
Really helps me visualise the passages in your books.
Please, please, release the next 'Chivalry' novel sooner than later! P.S. if you get a chance, would love to see some more recommends for 12th-15th century fiction that you think is worth reading.
I always learn so much from your videos. Thanks for sharing.
In the book Moralia III , in The Sayings of Spartans, there is a story about a father who had just lost his son in battle proclaiming about the bloody lifeless body 'Never will I shed a tear for you my son, seven spear wounds, all in front, you are not only my son but Sparta's as well.' It just goes to show how horrific the phalanx was using multiple spears on one person.
You should REALLY consider seeing how they're actually used before claiming that they were used in a specific way that doesn't actually fit historical context, or fighting treatises, or anything else for that matter. Please find a HEMA school or read Lonnergan, Roworth, Angelo, Tuohy, etc, before you make claims that simply are not supported by fact.
You could really consider studying the person before making assumptions about what they don't study and then commenting on their videos
Context is important for all weapons.
Hello, I am reading your chivalry series and it is awesome.
Although the Europeans never developed an art completely dedicated to sword drawing combat, it was not unusual for the existence of sword drawing methods. It would just had been something logical to do!
Interesting. I am pretty sure of the crescent as early as the 8th century. But I am willing to be wrong! As to curvesmd curved swords vs straight-of course! Islamic Mamluks preferred straight blades; the Swiss used a curved sabre, as did other Christians. I’m speaking of a general cultural affinity as an influence on weapons
I didn't mean to say you are wrong or anything. I hope my comment didnt come across that way. The early Muslims, especially Arabs werent keen on using symbols (due to blasphemy as i gather. However they did use likeness of people on their coins which is a contradiction) on their banners and coat of arms. Muhammad and later the Abbasids used a black flag without any drawings on it. Though some early Muslims did use banners with symbols, mostly letters. About the crescent and the star; it's actually bonkers that Turks adopted it because the reason Constantinople had this coat of arms was because Byzantion had it earlier. Because Byzantion's patron Goddess was Hecate, the goddess of magic whose symbol was crescent and star. History can be so cool sometimes.
Hi Christian. Long time fan. I need to tell you that crescent wasnt an Islamic symbol until Turks conquered Constantinople. It was originally the seal of the city, which the Ottomans adopted as the "heirs of Rome". Moreover, crescent swords started showing up in the Middle East with the Turkish immigrations to the region. (11th century) Iranians and arabs alike used straight swords until the Turks showed up. It's a matter of preference -fighting on horse back, being able to hit from real close etc- that did it for the Turkish soldiers.
Hi master. I hope you will be able to talk about sabres as well. I have difficulties imagining how would a sabre fare and how it would interact with the enemy armour. You write the Turks so well in your books; so I wanted to ask this from you. Many thanks.
Will do!
Forgive me for quoting the Father of Minimalism, I am looking forward to your Form Follows Function approach to various swords. 😎☕💋
I've just finished the emperors sword and really enjoyed it, I can't wait for the next book! The chivalry series is my new favourite book series. I'm going get stuck into the Tom Swan series now!
God I love these videos so much!
Amazing! Excellent work.
Beautiful, but still it is funny hearing anglophones trying to pronounce Latin based languages. Well done though!
Love the chair too!
What was the first thing she said? Guarda Alta or Carga Alta...
Charles Christian got it! Thanks for the recommend!
I like that dress, I just realized that it looks like an armour! I might just become a transvestite for that dress...so kool.
i think if thats the first thing youre considering that then theres a chance you might not need to "become" one, already
@@maycontainnuts3127 . I identify as a comedian and you can address me as Mr. Funny...
Currently about half way through "the long sword" after really enjoying "the ill-made knight" and the part where Will fights in the alleyway after taking the letters for the (scots/irish cant remember which) well that part is one of my favourite parts of the story as I do like rondels. I have a Tod Cutler rodel myself so I listened to the audio book I tried some of the movements myself and can see how that fight would flow. Excellent work, I love the historical accuracy of it and looking forwards to reading, well listening too the rest of the series.
Thanks! Some of the new writing fighting episodes (209-212) are about rondel fighting too
@1Phokion brilliant ill take a look! I've just pre ordered "the emperors sword" so I'll watch my way through your videos while I wait for that and finish off "hawkwoods sword" These books/audio books of yours are absolutely fantastic, even though on audible the narrator changes after the second book which through me off a little bit but still very good. The end of the "sword of justice" had me at the edge of my metaphorical seat, unsure of the spelling as I do the audio books but I hope Cameo gets a bloody good kicking.
I’ve been reading your chivalry series and just wanted to say I love the books a lot and can’t wait for the new one!!
First of all, I just want to say I LOVE the Tom Swan series. The Red Knight was an absolute joy too. Now, fanboying aside: So. I have 'sport fenced'. I did not go to the Olympics and in the grand scheme of Metal Noodle Wizards was never all that. I have, however, disarmed people during full intensity sparing. I've also untied their shoes, knocked them down (yes, it can be done), and left half inch dents in mask meshes. Things things are related. The way the sport fencing disarms I did worked were so counter intuitive it was a little hard for me to believe, even after I did it. They are probably hard to believe and I don't blame any reader if you don't buy it. What untying shoes, knocking people down with a thrust, and leaving deep dents in masks have in common with disarms is simple. Energy. Sport fencing is (as far as I am aware) unique among combat sports in that you can spar at 100% intensity as long as you can mentally take it (at first it hurts but don't worry; if you stick with it it'll hurt way worse!). At first this isn't all that special. After months and months of it, hours a week, things change. Sparring intensity MATTERS. You can, and will, develop awareness and fine control when moving at your absolute maximum force. Your maximum EFFECTIVE force is a lot higher than you think. You can't really turn your maximum potential force into your maximum actual force until you combine many, many, MANY hours of drilling movements into biomechanically optimized (for your body) and automatic kinetic chains with a LOT of experience going AS HARD AS YOU FUCKING CAN. (I drop the f-bomb deliberately here. You can't just 'go hard'. You have to give it absolutely everything you've got to really 'get there'.) When you've put in the sweat, you can generate a great deal more force faster than seems possible at first, and you can direct that force, in split second time frames, through technically convoluted series of precision movements. It sounds like a bunch of nonsense but you really can. This is necessary for legit sport fencing disarms. Disarms have this 'technique' aura but my experience was that in when both parties are giving it all they've got it's really more about explosive athleticism and surprise. Pretty easy to stop if you even suspect it's coming. Another fencer showed me this and I didn't believe it until I tried it and sent someone's epee on a long and airborne journey. You make blade contact, harder the better. Parry, beat, whatever, doesn't really matter as long as you're far enough away to have good freedom of movement in your arm and hip but close enough to get strong/strong blade contact. INSTANTLY after the impact (if you wait for the vibration to pass up the forearm it's too late) you just spin your blade around theirs (I'm sure there's a fancy french word for this; I've no idea, I was athletic and had good reads, not 'fencing educated') WHILE you jerk your elbow back toward the outside of your lead hip. You will basically rotate your blade around theirs while dragging the blade contact from 'strong/strong' to 'middle/middle' (roughly). As your blade rolls over the top of their blade, you snap your blade into the hardest number 2 parry you can, while jerking your front hip back. This is the part that's hard to believe: you generate so much friction with his blade it rips it forward, down, and to your outside. It flies out of his hand, past the outside of your lead leg and bounces off the studio floor after it sails past your butt. I've never noticed thumb position to matter, or even hand position. When I first pulled it off I suspected people of letting me do it because it feels weird. It feels like you didn't really do anything and he just let go of the blade. When it's done TO you, it feels like Darth Vader just force-snatched your sword out of your hand. The 'forward pull' goes from 0-60 so fast you don't have time to react. And anyone fencing hard enough for long enough to pull this off has some BLAZING reflexes at that point. So when I say fast, I mean FAST. One second you're holding the blade, the next second you're trying to figure out what the hell just happened. It flat out doesn't work against anything but french grips. Won't work unless you're going full blast either. And I mean HARD. You've gotta have good timing and be athletic. You must use as stiff a blade as you can. It helps if your opponent has a floppy epee because you can kinda jerk the wave in the blade. But it works just fine against a good stiff Leon Paul blade too. If someone knows it's coming they can stop you a lot of ways. Don't let you get the blade position, don't let you get the distance, or just squeeze. At that point everyone has the deathgrip of Popeye all the time anyway and some people can turn it up even more to hold on to the blade. Other people just don't have the hand for it and have to do something else. I know what everyone is thinking. "That wouldn't work with a REAL sword." You're probably right. Real swords are way heavier and way, way slower. It's tough to get any speed going with them, much less the multiple direction changes in some fraction of a second that you have to make. (Beat/parry, twirly wrist thing, jerk and whip-seconde.) But the real reason they wouldn't work with a real sword is you just can't get that good with a real sword. There's no way to spar that hard, that frequently, and live long enough (much less remain un-crippled) to build the 'wizard skills'. (Story concept; healing magic lets swordsmen who can afford it Olympic wizard good, not just regular good.) (There's another disarm where you basically parry on the outside, seconde hard over to the inside as you lunge and it kinda pops the blade out of their hand. Because of the distance they know you're coming. It's simpler, biomechanically more efficient, but I found it hard to get off because I had to shoot from the opponents mental 'I'm in danger' range not the 'he's playing around out there' range. Probably some great setups for it if you can get a good threat fork going though.)
Well I've got to try that!
Care& Up-keep: I heard that Cats & dogs became part of the Crew because Rats love Armor almost as much as rsts love Food & Waste. Any historic accounts you're aware of?
Hi, i love you content. Just a question/request. I see alot of content on dueling and infantry warfare. I even see a few infantry vs cavalry. But what i see very little of is men fighting on horseback. On cavalry warfare i see alot about formation and equipment, some about ranged cavalry, but it seems to like we have no idea how men on horseback fought each other. I often wander, especially about my favourite era (Hellenistic/roman-punic) but i read about battles that were decided on cavalry vs cavalry clashes, but i am nut sure what this would look like. I am hoping that you might know.
Let’s see what I can come up with
Where can we find that armor-print legging ? It looks dazzling !
Great video
The thing to remember is that this isn't anything close to a serious 'fighting art'. HEMA practitioners" are hobbyists, not serious fighters in any sense. That's why no-one respects HEMA, except as a hobby (and it's a great hobby) or a historical exercise. So, so-called 'HEMA practitioners' can hold onto all sorts of delusional ideas. They'll never have their ideas tested, except by other 'HEMA practitioners'. I mean, if you're having fun play-fighting, that's awesome! That's really good. That's the most important thing. Because you'll never, ever, ever, have to use any of this stuff in anything close to an 'actual fight'.
This is the sort of braindead take you see on every martial arts related video. Nothing is "real fighting" to you street fight bros, but you'll never step into the ring to prove your point because at your core you're an insecure loser who has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. Mouth-breather.
Care to explain what a ‘serious fighter’ is? B/c as a military veteran and life long martial arts nerd.. the only serious fighters are professional military personnel. All others are amateurs. I found your comment offensive and patronizing and I’d be happy to discuss in a mature manner.
If you actually get into the primary texts that describe fighting systems of the past (like Fiore, I.33, Talhoffer, etcetera), you will find that the biomechanics of the techniques they describe line up nicely with techniques used in modern fighting systems. They are absolutely describing "serious fighting arts", and they absolutely were used to kill, wound, and capture people in the past. They are systems that worked effectively with the technology of the day, and continue to work today - Fiore's 14th century abrazare (wrestling) techniques a) map almost perfectly onto modern Aikido, Judo, Ju Jiutsu, Tae Kwon Do, and MMA techniques, and b) obey basic biomechanical truths. (The basic arm-bar Fiore describes is very useful for any young woman who finds herself with an unwanted arm around her shoulders at a bar or a concert.) His dagger techniques map very nicely onto modern knife-fighting, allowing for differences in knife design. I would bet (though I haven't tested it) that polearm/spear techniques would be applicable to bayonet use (bayonets are still issued to modern soldiers, albeit as a weapon of last resort, and were a standard part of their fighting kit until well after WWII). It is a "historical exercise" only in the sense that it was designed to work with a specific set of weapons that are mostly no longer in conventional use. A number of accomplished HEMA fighters are also ranked MMA fighters, and they don't seem to find the ideas delusional. Just because something is a "hobby" doesn't make it valueless or impractical. Daniel Jacquet (an academic - you can google his work) has done excellent work testing the limits of 15th century armour against modern fire-fighters' and soldiers' kit, and the results might surprise you ...
You're not doing the envelopment right. You dont rotate the wrist. You should study some spanish rapier ie La Verdadera Destreza. There are many attacks using expulsions. They work best against longer rapiers not sideswords. Expulsions have a similar effect to a blade beat but you don't need to break contact for a wind-up. They are done by accelerating the blade and sliding the point of contact (like an automatic gear box). You don't need to make your opponent drop their sword but sometimes it happens.
thats realy awesome seax i love that long handle
Thanks for the advice. Best of luck on your test!
Good luck!
This is utterly ridiculous, this would never work against an opponent who doesn't literally hand you their sword. She just lets go of the handle completely. This might be satire and I'll look dumb, but idk he seems way too confident. Please nobody ever try this, you'll look like a fool. Edit: Not to mention there is absolutely no reason to go behind your own back like that. Its inaccurate, significantly reduces range and penetration power, and if you miss which you are very likely to, you're left in an awkward and indefensible position
Works a charm. I’ve done it in free play. Sorry you don’t like it.
I agree that your opponent does need to pretty much drop their sword for this to be a disarm, but I have used it in sparring with me grabbing their sword and controlling the blade while stabbing them from behind my back. There is absolutely a reason to go behind your own back, it allows me to get my sword away from the one thing they have left to stop me, which is their empty hand. And you are right that this does reduce your range, it is specifically meant to be used when your in too close to use many other techniques. You can find this in manuals dating at least to the mid 1500s, it was written about by actual fencers, so it seems to me that it should be good enough for us.
I’m sure you could write this same exact diatribe about a spinning back fist or spinning headkick, but elite fighters land those attacks in combat on a frequent enough basis.
@@rhomboidq7001that is completely different as it doesn't sacrifice power or range and when done correctly doesn't leave you in an awkward position. Not the same at all. This thrust would never get through any type of armor. Your opponent would never just hand you their weapon. This is not real, maybe for play fighting now where there is no danger and nobody is fighting for their life it works but in a real fight with your life on the line, with armor and your opponent only stopping when they're fatally wounded or dead; this would get you killed.
So, this is a very advanced technique, and if you want to pull it off you have to practice a lot. Like we did. Point control and audacity are everything with a technique like this, and that takes strength, dexterity, guts, and PRACTICE. It is true: if you try to do it without practicing it, you will look like a fool. But it is absolutely possible. And I did not "just let go" of my sword; Christian tore the hilt out of my hand. If your opponent can get a good grip on your hilt, you can lose your sword fairly easily. Note that Christian pulls the hilt out of my hand by prying it out in the direction of my thumb, which is weaker than my fingers. This is basic doctrine for breaking a hand-hold in any martial art that works. Try it at home and see.
Thanks a lot for this kind of info it’s rather intriguing and helpful please keep posting my
So the defense is... Retreat? Or move off center?
The ‘defence’ is to avoid allowing your blade to be taken, by judging mesura, by footwork, by not remaining passive at the moment of engagement …
I love this. Charity. And a demonstration of knighthood. And visualized.