Fundamental Longsword Guards of Paulus Hector Mair

[JohnRaptor]

Nice video. Your technique looks great.

[deathsBinky]

Your videos are amazing (this one a bit less than unarmed & dagger, but still great). Do you attend any internetional seminars? I can't remember seeing your group anywhere... Also, i love how you explain the basic principles, and stress distance. Overall, awesome.

[GetitUnderCool]

di essere impugnate senza dover necessariamente tenere la sinistra sul pomo" spade che non siano spadoni a due mani intendo, sempre spade lunghe.

scusa l'ignoranza in materia, ma la lunghezza dell'impugnatura di una spada è qualcosa che mi ha sempre interessato!

[GetitUnderCool]

solo una domanda, quella che chiami in inglese "long sword" è la spada "da una mano e mezza"? all'inizio del video sembrava che le mani fossero entrambe allogiate tra l'elsa e il pomo, mentre verso la fine sembra proprio che la mano sinistra afferri il pomo. ho provato la spada "da una mano e mezza" quella che ho provato io mi costringeva a mettere la mano sinistra sul pomo, e non l'ho trovato molto confortevole! la domanda che mi preme è "esistono spade storicamente accertate che permettono

[jokendorf]

Nice video for learning longsword. Thank you, ArmeAntica, I use this video with my historical combat club.

[ArmeAntica]

@jokendorf, you're welcome! Have fun and good training!

[Vincenzo689]

Il vostro lavoro è molto bello, fa conoscere alla gente il nostro patrimonio marziale, l'italia è unica anche in queste cose, grazie.

[jettarulz]

Awesome, knowledge thank you :) I love how you break it down the way you do. I feel as though you are a awesome teacher and thank you for the knowledge that you bring.....

by the way where do you get your practice swords knives etc were would you recomend I buy at?

[bsapaka]

icewind dale!!!

[carmen14201]

4:26 LOL

[carmen14201]

molto interessante!

[EvilRuski]

Icewind Dale 2 music + swordsmanship = EPIC WIN

[archegonus]

very nice & didactic video! :)

but i have a question, ¿why "First the Sword Moves, then the Body Follows"?

[kardentyrell]

@archegonus Or you could very well step right into an enemies blade :p

[archegonus]

@kardentyrell jaja nop, but i thought that sword & body moves togheter

[kardentyrell]

@archegonus they do, but the sword is forward first, the leg moves slightly behind. Kinda like Swing...lift leg, Swing end, Step

[halfassedfart]

Because your sword needs to be your shield or to present a threat when you move into range of your opponent's sword.

If you do neither of those and step into range, he can hit you with ease.

[ArmeAntica]

It's a general rule, and this is perhaps a difficult subject, Footwork doesn't always happen. I have a sickle video up, tit has an example. Even the halberd can move without the feet.

It depends on Time, Need, and future possibilities. See, there are no set rules. Mair has sword positions that seems "crossed", like in other weapons, where the weapon is on the same side as the forward leg.

Holistically, body and weapon are one...but that doesn't necessarily include the feet.

[11kman1]

@ArmeAntica i agree with that, you can cut/ countercut at long distances without necesarily moving too much, its just about balance transition. the feet move first , then the sword..is taken from the japanese swordmanship, especially the sport form known as kendo..i practiced for 4 years..i apreciate the discipline and the respect kendo gives you, its a good art, but its a bit unpractical and unrealistic..u just move forward and hit with speed and timing if youre good enough

[deathsBinky]

@archegonus

You already got the answer, i'll just try expanding it. :) In most cases, if the body moves first and the sword follows, or if they move at once, you close the distance without being covered by the sword. If the sword moves first, then you are covered in your strike. Also, if the body moves first, you step before the strike hits and you lose a lot of the power in that strike (you should finish your step just as the blow lands, putting your weight into it).

[Kunstdesfechtens]

Hi ArmeAntica,

In Middle High German, Tag/Tage/Dach is definietely "roof", not Day, in contrast to the Latin shown here. :)

[ArmeAntica]

Fantastic, thank you! : )

[isereth]

Molto bello, e anche molto utile! Questo "nuovo approccio tecnico" mi piace molto... Cosi' potro' ripassare durante l'estate! :)

[ArmeAntica]

LOL, molto divertente con la parte del "nuovo approccio tecnico", mi ha fatto proprio ridere (e so cosa intendi) : ) Mi fa piacere che lo trovi utile.

[tiddlestidd]

superb, To my mind the finest longsword/wma work on youtube.

[zukuru]

tx for sharing.

Good stuff.

°v°

[PissedFechtmeister]

I always that that it was called Fool, because you looked like a fool who was leaving all his targets exposed (the real fool, of course, was the one who thought the man in Alber was wide open for attack).

As to Vom Tag, when I first saw the words I translated them as "from the day" (I suppose "of the day" might be better). Then others told me it should be translated "from the roof". Do we actually know for sure if they meant it as roof or day?

[ArmeAntica]

I completely agree with your take on the Fool aspect. I prefer Poplar, personally. Besides being positive-sounding, it tells you how you're supposed to actually "act" in guard, as I see it, as the poplar is a straight and upright tree (therefore exposing one's head,etc).

From the latin, "custodia de die" translates to the guard of the day. I don't know about the German, but the "die" specifically refers to "day". Very interesting what you say about your thoughts on translating "vom tag"!

[fortejeff]

Kudos on a well-constructed video! Quick question -- just wondering which plates from PHM you're using to draw your interpretations and translations from? That would be great for everyone if you could clarify -- thanks...

[ArmeAntica]

Hello! This is a synthesis that comes mostly from the exposition at the end of the 120 plays. The text kind of wanders, so you find things on pages 9R to 10V, and then further on, there is 11V-R,13V-R, 15R. You can see some of these things, and more, in the longsword plays, for ex. 7-9, but those include much more than the simplicity that the exposition gives us. I wanted to try to stick to the most basic aspects--there is more on the Poplar simply because it seemed more lacking in coverage.

[fortejeff]

Excellent -- I assume this is from the Munich copy of Mair and not the Dresden, yes? If so, thanks for clarifying!

[ArmeAntica]

Yes, that's right. This comes from a private translation of the Latin text of the Munich copy. The guard names in the video are in English, Italian, and Latin in descending order, the Latin coming out of the Munich' text.

The English and Italian are what i devised. Maybe it coincides with someone else's. I don't see it's necessary to rely on German terms when we can say in English, "Mutate or transmutate or curved strike". We still even have some terms in English, like "double around".

[trueyoghi]

I video di arme antica continuano a migliorare

sia come chiarezza che come realizzazione

questo è veramente notevole.....una rarità in italia

[311korn]

Very nice explainations and demonstrations. Excellent video quality as well.

[rocketboy60120]

Great video!

Really well done. I would like to visit you guys if I ever make it out to Europe.

Keep making the videos!