Stav Axe Training

Graham Butcher and Tim Abbott demonstrate the basic cuts and defences with the battle axe. The video includes applications of the five principles of Stav in two person axe drills. See www.oxfordstavclub.co.uk for more information.

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Sports

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• Stav
• battleaxe
• five-principles

[zer0ing]

This is just embarrasing. As a swede i would love for there to be a "viking" martial art. It is however just to obvious that these clowns just stole the "kendo" concept and traded the japanese swords for axes and staves... FFS

[032125]

I dunno man, none of the drills seem to take into account axes biting, or axes locking.

First of all, none of the secondary strikes are preceded by the delay of having to dislodge your axe after the first strike.

Also, axes tend to get tangled and can be a devil to get apart again. Sometimes it's best just to close quickly and pull a seax. Some of these moves show parries with the stav axe that could really bind you up with a norse axe, but they just glide right out of it.

[skjaldulfr]

Asian wannbes

[rulebook]

its funny, the more you look at old european fighting styles and japanese styles, they start to look rather similar. There's an easy reason for this: there's only so many ways to swing a sword, or throw a punch, or stab with a spear, and whoever studies how to do it well will come to the same general endpoints.

[Johtas1]

Lets not troll. Its really quite impressive how they've adapted something similar to simple Japanese swordsmanship to fit with a large european polearm/long axe. I wouldnt say axes tho, they look more like shortened glaives or bardiches but hey, it looks good and seems to work. Only problem I have is I've used a Dane axe and have folks in my society that use them and they can't be moved with such grace or quickness, like a sword or those practice ones do. Sorry ^^''

[MonthuRa]

vikings don't use martial arts... we go into battle, destroy our enemies. easy. we either are victorious or go to valholl, nothing fancy aboot it.

[kapteenijuhani]

This is fukin shit. Viking-samurais lol

[1buergervonatlantis]

Good action. More in the forest? If you like:

watch?v=2nE55oKZyRo

[bhibatsu]

@gilmaris

Flamming everyone with your self-fancied bloated ego, you're depriving a cave somewhere of a troll!

Galumph along now!

[Gilmaris]

@BlackCatYupo What happened to the cont'd? I am very curious to hear your reasoning that they didn't have shield walls, for instance.

[Gilmaris]

@Matunaagah "I didn't think any texts regarding the use of this kind of axe survived."

From the viking age? No, they haven't. I do believe there are manuals dealing with the use of axes (among other things), but much more recent than the viking age. This looks too much like Kendo practice to me.

[Gilmaris]

@bhibatsu Scientific studies? Flimsy and prone to breaking? Shock power? Where do you get all this nonsense? I realize these are old comments, but they are absolute rubbish. Sure, a viking sword is by no means worse than a katana, but they were made for completely different purposes. And, I might add, varied in quality just as much as historical katana, and other swords for that matter.