medieval streetfighting demonstration

medieval european dagger techniques in realistic situations

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• medieval
• wrestling
• dagger
• knife
• knifedefence
• sword

[Ranziel1]

The left hand is held behind, because otherwise it could be sniped by a fast strike.

[the26thhour]

The Asian Art was Aikido, if anyone cares? 8)

[AuGeUNDoHr1]

im not sure, but in garching we also train medievial fighting by wolfgang gerleigner, and he told us, that there could be reflexes to defend your left body side, so you have your hand behind... (ok, bad english, i know :P)

[l3054]

i like the first music that plays

[csmith2985]

3:45 to 3:57 lol the only time a knife throw would actually work.

[DiabolusIgnis]

@MadPyrotechnicus That's very possible, since the 1-in-4 pattern isn't as good, but weighs much less. Thus it was used mostly by lightly armoured infantry, or by soldiers in places a brigandine just couldn't protect.

[MadPyrotechnicus]

@DiabolusIgnis I might be wrong about this but the ones I saw were 1-in-8?

[DiabolusIgnis]

@MadPyrotechnicus Depends on how you connect them. I know a person who makes chain armour in 1-in-4 pattern. He makes them with short sleeves, about to the groin in 6 months, by doing one hour of it every now and then. I believe a skilled blacksmith could make it a lot faster. Of course, any more dense pattern is harder to make, and would probably take more time. But I still do believe it was way cheaper than any full plate armour =)

[MadPyrotechnicus]

@DiabolusIgnis What I heard by several blacksmiths in musea, "artisan villages" was that it was so expensive because it took ages to make and connect all the rings. Plate armour was expensive too because it required much more ores of metal and measuring to make it perfectly... That, I know.

[DiabolusIgnis]

@MadPyrotechnicus Actually, a chain armour was one of the cheapest metal armours. It took much less skill to make than a plate armour. But then again, not everyone had the money for that either.

[putronicus]

nice work guys!

[MadPyrotechnicus]

People wore chainmails... Right... The Nobility did because they were the only ones that could afford one. It's like having a collection of ferrari's as underwear in terms of price...