Black Watch Tomahawk.wmv

[designtoexpire]

Also, where do you get your music from? Who is this? I love it.

[gilbride100]

@designtoexpire It's Gaelic singing, but I can't remember the singer- maybe Donnie Murdo MacLeod?

[designtoexpire]

@gilbride100 Indeed. Also, it seems like a tomahawk might get caught easily when doing those upward and downward slashes. Any thoughts on this? I've obviously never tried it on a person.

[gilbride100]

@designtoexpire Yes, I can see that. Something about the tomahawk just inspires you to go a bit crazy...

[designtoexpire]

@gilbride100 I wonder if it actually will just slice right through, the tomahawk is fairly devastating any ways. I wonder if maybe touching up the grind would reduce the occurrence of catching. How will I ever know if I don't get to try it on someone? Anyways, thanks for the information. I can;t find anyone that will practice with me, but I will. Thanks.

[designtoexpire]

I would love to get really familiar with these techniques. Which references do you use for these?

[gilbride100]

@designtoexpire The techniques are mostly drawn from the Black Watch broadsword system in "Anti-Pugilism."

[Dragonfist12185]

How many of the first u.s. army rangers, do you think used these same techniques?

[LoneIndividual]

A different type of tomahawk would allow for different techniques to be more easily executed.

If the tomahawk had a longer face, you could parry the sword by thrusting the top or side of the axe.

Size matters.

I'd like to see different attacks from the sword being countered by a different axe design .

[entmage]

I think it's a little weird to strike a guard (#9? St. George/Hanging) unless you will pull through and thrust after.

[gilbride100]

@entmage I'm slightly confused by this. You can punch the top of the axehead into the opponent's face, but that's not exactly a thrust. Can you clarify what you mean here?

[entmage]

@gilbride100 It looks like the tomahawk guys goes into the St. George Guard, then waits a little, and then the Broadsword guy strike straight down right into the guard. Also for the punching into the face; I always hold the tomahawk with the head facing away, so I'm not sure how that would work.

[gilbride100]

@entmage Oh, I get you now. The lessons are for teaching the tomahawk guy, not the sword guy. So the point of this lesson is not that the swordsman ought to attack that way, but that if you (as the hawk guy) get a parry on the hanging guard, you can turn it into this disarm. All the swordsman is doing is making the most basic possible attack to illustrate this.

[entmage]

@gilbride100 ok, still looks nifty to me

[snowcelt]

Good vid and I love the music! Great taste sir, as always. Hard to beat sean-nos. :)

[gilbride100]

I'm glad you liked our technique, but I'm sorry you didn't like the music. It's a field recording (in other words, not a professional singer) of a Gaelic folk song. To me, it is very beautiful.

[MrOttmandus]

@gilbride100 All good, as long as you like it! There is a metal/folk band band called eluveitie that sings in gaulic.

[MrOttmandus]

@MrOttmandus I meant gaulish I guess that differs from gaelic

[gilbride100]

@MrOttmandus Yeah, we use an Eluveitie tune in one of our other videos.

[MrOttmandus]

good technique lousy music