Marysia Kay's Combat Showreel

[MrSmallsword]

If your man in the long coat is going to use sai in a fight routine...please send him to classes first!!!

[sssftw]

gay

[Genessender]

Couldn't make out a word of the yelling part... oh, wait, I heard "traitor"...

[blueyesblake]

How can something be funny and sad at the same time?

[kml382]

Gotta love Bartlett and Yount...

[lapislazuline]

insane but TOTALLY cool ! :)

[haidner]

From a martial perspective it all isn't that good. At least they are trying. And it is stage combat, after all. While eventually one would like stage combat to look real, most of the general audience wouldn't understand it if it did. They need all the extra moves and wide misses and big swings, which are ridiculous in a real fight. The staff work is the best. The sword work is the worst. And, yes, those are longswords, not broadswords.

[Zebatinsky]

Are we calling longswords broadswords now?

There is a difference. The broadsword is a *one-handed* weapon popular mostly on the British Isles. The longsword is... what you were using - a two-handed sword popular on the continent, especially Germany and Italy.

[marysiak]

The sword I was using was a hand and a half broadsword or bastard sword, two handed long sword are longer again. We also have single handed broadswords which we use for sword & shield.

[Zebatinsky]

"The French épée bâtarde references the bastard sword, a type of longsword. The terms "hand-and-a-half sword", "greatsword", and "bastard sword" are used colloquially to refer to longswords in general."

-Wikipedia

If you'd like to look it up somewhere more credible (like Oakeshott or Angelo), by all means. Your findings will be similar. The cruciform sword you use is in the family of longswords, and has little to nothing to do with broadsword traditions.

[qyark]

@marysiak Sorry for resurrecting, but I always understood broadsword to be a later style of sword, similar to rapiers. And a long swords to be what you used in the beginning (Also known as a bastard sword).

[doctorcatsburger]

Totally Cool

[FOSEEBOY]

Would you consider wearing a leotard while doing this?...

[austin11235]

Your fucking weird. Do girls like this turn you on?

[johnswackyworld]

like always -- you amaze me!!

[rwstoney]

The whole showreel is impressive. I can hardly believe the length of the broadsword fight. It must be exhausting. Great work.

[EddyBergman]

Cool!! I was so hoping you would kick that guy's ass. It looked so real =]

[eduardoguti2]

it certainly was!!