Cossack sword art - Shashka (Adyghe: (Сашьхъуэ),Russian: (Шашка))

Cossack sword art with shashka, mostly performed by girl.

Name of the song:
Казачий хор - ойся ты ойся, ты меня не бойся
(Kazachnij chor - ojsja ty ojsja, ty menja ne bojsja)

What is shashka?
The Shashka (Adyghe: (Сашьхъуэ),Russian: (Шашка))
is a special kind of sabre; a very sharp, single-edged, single-handed, and guardless sword.

In appearance, the shashka was midway between a full sabre and a straight sword. It had a slightly curved blade, and could be effective for both slashing and thrusting. The blade was either hollowed or fullered. There was no guard, but a large, curved pommel.

The absence of the guard is inherited from the original Caucasian construction, in which the shashka is nearly completely hidden in the scabbard, together with the hilt. The hilt is slightly curved down, thus providing an additional leverage for pulling the shashka and for additional force by wrist action.

The hilt was frequently highly decorated. It was carried in a wooden scabbard that enclosed part of the hilt. It was worn with the cutting edge to the rear, opposite to the sabre.

The blade of the sabre was generally double or triple-fullered, and due to its greater width than that of the European sabre, and its unique styles of tempering, it was much stronger too, able to deal damage to light body armor.

The shashka originated among the mountain tribes of the Caucasus in the 12th or 13th century. There are two styles of shashka: the Caucasian shashka and the Cossack shashka.
The word shashka came from the Adyghe word Adyghe: ( Шашькуэ) "Shashkwa" means "long knife".

It gradually replaced the sabre in all cavalry units except hussars.
In the Russian Army, this type of saber was first officially introduced in 1838. In 1882, when the cavalry was reorganized, the regular dragoons were armed with the shashka. Several forms of shashka were carried by Soviet cavalry into the Second World War.

Length of sheath: 1 020 mm
Length of blade: 866 mm
Weight: 1330 grams

More videos of this girl you can find on AstraSacra's channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/AstraSacra

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Kozaci
• cossacks
• russian
• sword
• girl
• shashka
• medieval
• Шашка

[Roagdohi1]

what is the name of the woman preforming the swordsmanship? Sorry but i cannot read russian yet!

[payomagic]

@Roagdohi1 Name of the girl-performer is Ксения (read: Kseniya). Xenia written in other languages. Check their channel (link is in description)

[grittygreenhorn]

As Japan has the katana, does Russia have a traditional sword?

[SlavaSvarogu]

@grittygreenhorn ,,Shashka,,its cossack sword,its very similar to katana

[payomagic]

@SlavaSvarogu It is not similar... it has different technic of how it is made, it is different in dimensions and it is totally different in usage... Both are very sharp, but that's it in similarity.

[payomagic]

@grittygreenhorn Read the description pls, just added new info

[vld400]

Великолепная работа, и девушка очень красивая.

Молодцы, так держать!

[Roagdohi1]

it is hard not to watch a beutiful woman dance with such presison and skill and wish one could meet her.

[OSHEHIN]

Im from Mexico I love many kinds of swords around the world, but this is WOW! and the music is hypnotic, strong, same likes siux or aztec maybe, how can get this music because i loved and can´t founded, So CONGRATULATIONS you have a great tradition!

[markofthebeastxx]

respect from Iran, very cool :)

[iskander943]

попробуй подойди к такой! именно из-за таких до сих пор бояться казаков чорные! слава КАЗАЧЕСТВУ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!

[SlavaSvarogu]

@Hulibam в одной 6 части суши по Русски каждые 100 км говорят по разному

[SlavaSvarogu]

@payomagic yes,technic and philosofy is not same,but blade its very similar

[gallaros9]

*le me watching the dance*

music- awesome

girl- me gusta

dance- epic, but there is now way this could.... *starts to dance with 2 swords*

i stand corrected...

[nerdlish]

She can slice you into many tiny bloody pieces and look elegant doing it.

[TheTodesritter]

Great!

[LevShumilov]

Оператор чертовски рисковый нашёлся )))

[52veles]

Ты красава, мужи выпьют чару, подмогнут))))