European Martial Arts: Hutton's Two-Hand Sword #1

[lebarosky]

what do you think of richard francis burton's Book of the Sword?

[regisaugusto1]

Congrats for the video post and the knowledge shared. It's a very very interesting thing. We don't have sword fights for real today (thank God!!!), but for cultural and historical reason (and, why not, for sport reasons too, once we have martial art in Olympics...) it is enjoying know about historical fencing (although I still think that the most enjoyable aspect is the fact we have no more duels these days).

[pyrohomunculus]

Oh, we don't have sword fights these days because guns went and made such weapons 'obsolete'.

Why bother taking the time to train with a time-honored and skillful weapon when you can put a shard of metal through someone's skull in .8 seconds?

[regisaugusto1]

Lol!!! Nice observation, heheheh.

[1Soahc]

well not to be the person to debate because im not i just wanted to say no weapon is ever truly obsolete as long as it can get the job done.

the gun just makes it to wear the sword must be used more wisely rather than charging in like the days of old.

[kokotenks]

true in someways that the sword isn't obsolete, but its time on the battle field is all but over, but the lessions we can learn from it in training can teach us alot about how to react in combat, my family still requires us to learn various "obsolite" weapons along side our marksmanship for this very reason.

[artiepoore]

idk if i ever ran out of ammo or was drawn into a close quarters situation i'd love to be armed with some kind of modern tactical sword

[gigasbleach99]

hey someone should post a few vid's on the zweihander? Aside from cold steels vids....D:<

[Spatha85]

The website is thearma"dot"org under historical manuals (youtube wont let me post the link properly)

[argonald]

nice technique,i only knew fiore and thalhoffer's school,but hutton seems interesting,lets google it :D

[Spatha85]

Actually Hutton when designing these lessons drew mainly from Marozzo, di Grassi, and Alfieri. So this in a way this is only his interpretation of the Italian masters (plus Meyer). I saw a digital version of Old Swordplay on the site of ARMA if you wanted to have a look!

[argonald]

thanks!! :D

[chookulian]

Its funny how similar blade work is from different contenents. only the length of the blade dictates the motion..

[Spatha85]

Yes, although its not really that surprising: biomechanics is the same, what changes is, as you said only the length and the weight of the sword, and even there, at the end of the day, the differences are not that big. Although I think there is an importantly difference in the weapon that is often ignored: the form of the guard. You can see that even in this basic technique: with the long sword you use your crossguard a lot, and the position of the hands takes that into account.