hails from oregon! i love your videos i wish i could join the group! i fight with a steel bastard sword and i practice from watching the demonstrations. the `trained` men here who show up to gatherings in town are fucking girls and never match there steel to their words
And I like, although I like lighter weapons like backswords and late cavalry sabres.
At 1:18 looks like teacher narrowly avoided a thrust or leg cut after student grappling his sword arm - I wonder how.
At 2:10-2:13 a quick exchange of cuts from quarte to tierce and vice versa at so close distance looks unnatural - a thrust in face with opposition seems appropriate here, or ceding parry with passing step forward and grapple. But I'm not expert, of course.
Thanks for the comments- informed commentary like this is much preferred to the other kind.
At 1:18, I escaped by using a beat with the false edge combined with an evasion.
In the sequence from 2:10 on, the distance was indeed much too close for normal fencing, the reason being that Matt was trying to close the distance to facilitate a grapple. He eventually did close in, but wasn't able to grip my arm before I could hit his leg.
are aluminum swords good to use?
DKassaian1219 2 years ago
Yes, they're excellent actually.
gilbride100 1 year ago
hails from oregon! i love your videos i wish i could join the group! i fight with a steel bastard sword and i practice from watching the demonstrations. the `trained` men here who show up to gatherings in town are fucking girls and never match there steel to their words
chopsuey518 3 years ago
And I like, although I like lighter weapons like backswords and late cavalry sabres.
At 1:18 looks like teacher narrowly avoided a thrust or leg cut after student grappling his sword arm - I wonder how.
At 2:10-2:13 a quick exchange of cuts from quarte to tierce and vice versa at so close distance looks unnatural - a thrust in face with opposition seems appropriate here, or ceding parry with passing step forward and grapple. But I'm not expert, of course.
MorangRus 4 years ago
Thanks for the comments- informed commentary like this is much preferred to the other kind.
At 1:18, I escaped by using a beat with the false edge combined with an evasion.
In the sequence from 2:10 on, the distance was indeed much too close for normal fencing, the reason being that Matt was trying to close the distance to facilitate a grapple. He eventually did close in, but wasn't able to grip my arm before I could hit his leg.
Thanks again,
Chris Thompson
gilbride100 4 years ago
eh i dont realy like broadswords.
rolthox 4 years ago