Renaissance Staff Fighting of Paulus Hector Mair, play number 2

[deathsBinky]

This looks wonderful. I have a question, though: the translation on wiktenauer say "step with your right foot on the inside" - you step a little bit to the outside. Would it make sense to step to the opponent's right with your right foot? That means you'd move your centre away from him, but you also go further from the staff and get a little bit more breathing room. Just a quick thought, still have to try it out to see if it'll work at all. :)

[ArielchanTempest]

If this is # 2, what's # 1? Just wondering b/c I have a staff @ home for medieval festivals, and would like to learn how to use it properly. I keep getting confused around the middle of the video, and was wondering if play # 1 was more noobish.

[cerkuenik]

How do you effectively whirl the staff after the durchwelsen? In our group is a lil hard because it´s too slow, and the opponent reacts faster.

Do you push with the right hand? Or the motion is done only with the left?

Thx a lot!

[ArmeAntica]

@cerkuenik, yes you have to use your whole body to be faster. One hand is insufficient. Plus, this means that realistically you can move your body separately as your arms are "doing their thing" so that even if the opponent counterattacks in that moment, you can put yourself in a safe place and send his attack into the void with your body movement alone as your hands/weapons/whatever continues their relentless attack....which is also shown here as attacks mutate into defenses due to circumstance

[bob23yer]

Very interesting, when are you starting a club in Belgium?

[ArmeAntica]

@bob23yer, LOL! : ) I spent a weekend in Liege a couple of weeks ago. Very nice city, very friendly people the Belgians I have met. Great local food, too.

[jettarulz]

Wow! Im going to have to study this one! Nice!

[ProzacPreacher]

Great stuff. Love the flow in the techniques.

Just out of curiosity: Is there a lot overlapping technique between polearm and staff?

Anyway, keep up the good work!

[ArmeAntica]

Thanks.

Yes, there is quite a bit of overlapping. The staff as it is portrayed in these German works of Paulus Hector Mair is in fact the foundation of polearm work.

First you learn the pole, then you stick a point(s) on it and then extrapolate the point(s) advantages holistically into the techniques.

You see this in this video's sequence by all of the points/thrusts, which would take no elaboration to turn into spear techniques, and little for halbards, etc.

[crashnlearnevideos]

This video is awsome and iff I wached it would get to atached to that perticular style.

[ArmeAntica]

...watch the video...watch the video...watch the video... LOL : )

[dickcassidy]

there is a good book by David lindholm on the staff. I have been working from that and found it very usefull. nice job!!

[ArmeAntica]

I haven't seen that one. Thanks for the tip.

[dickcassidy]

sorry i read the wronge comment, yes its a real good source book

[taichisabre]

Great

[Veilliron]

Very nice! Good to see, that there are still people working with the more "exotic" weapons too, not only the longsword...

Thx for the upload! :-)

[ArmeAntica]

Thanks, and you're welcome! I feel that an artist will never "get it" if s/he works with only one tool. Distance is perhaps the most fundamental concept to master in fighting.

[Veilliron]

Yes, I'm the same opinion - working with different weapons is very important, giving you new possibilities in martial arts. But I also think that learning with too many weapons can lead to "knowing everything and nothing" at the same time, especially for beginners.

I think, that - beside distance - the timing and explosivity are the most essential factors...

Thanks again!

[ArmeAntica]

Very true. A sea of material can drown students! :)

What I like about certain styles (the medieval martial arts being among them) is the idea of a core set of principles that then get applied throughout all of one*s training, whether it^s unarmed fighting or dagger play or sticks or whatever. That kind of holism, if it can be grasped, can help push the mind beyond the technique or tool in hand.

Cheers!

[Veilliron]

Hehe, I know what you mean! Simply told: "Gairon"! (as you are interested in bujinkan too, you know what I mean) :-)

Keep training, very nice work - hope to see more of you and your students!

[ArmeAntica]

Haha : ) Summed up perfectly in one word.

[zukuru]

Tx for sharing - good stuff with the staff !

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[ArmeAntica]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it!

[Djemps]

Great work! I was looking forward to this and i wasn't disappointed. Some of those plays at the end were lightning fast!

[ArmeAntica]

Thanks, man. I'm glad you weren't disappointed! : )

[WulffSuzaki]

staff has always been my favorite weapon.

[ArmeAntica]

Yes, it is a great and sublime weapon, oft-overlooked by over-lofty egos. ; )