DCDC 3/18/08 - German longsword vs Italian longsword - pt 1

Eric Wargo fights a la Liechtenauer against the Fiore stylings of Scott Aldinger

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[koloblican11763]

What steels are you guys using, I would really appreciate the info. Btw Fiore rules face :D.

[lhommedormant]

@koloblican11763

We're using Albion Meyers. The best steel sparring swords out there. And no, Liechtenauer rules. :)

[JohnRaptor]

Slippery grass is a deadly foe.

[fdsv777]

Stop film the Shaolin fencing. Nobody fence like that

[bieberMAN93]

very nice!!!

[TheFrostedLlama]

Hey, i'm curious about the masks you guys are using. Little insight? ... Liechtenauer!!! ; p

[GetitUnderCool]

@deathbyazure wore plate armours but being them commanders they didn't physically fight often, they wore plate armours for protection and rode horses in order to have better mobility on the battlefield, they carried swords only for emergencies, and i think that this applied even to other commanders in other places of europe and even japan, the only ones wearing full plate armours that physically fought were heavy knights, and the cavalry fights on the back of horses.

[GetitUnderCool]

@deathbyazure longswords and katanas were used to cut even against armored foes, i practiced kenjutsu for a while and even i used a keikogi i was told that combat against armor wasn't very different, and half-sword game is for very short distances. to finish, just remember that not everyone could afford chainmails, plate armours and samurai armors, so there were chances that those wearing such armors weren't fighting in the first lines, and sometimes not even fighting (italian condottieri

[GetitUnderCool]

Rispondi a questo video... you tend to rub ( but not to much) the edge against the body of the opponent, doing so you can disembowel him even with little impact power (provided that he is not wearing a plate armoru or chain mail of course!). the lever thing that you do with the longsword however, the high impact power allows you to hurt the opponent even if the blade is not very sharp, and even if the opponent wears platearmor or a chain mail. by the way,

[GetitUnderCool]

@deathbyazure well, i was said that katanas had to be sharpened only once after being forged, while maybe longswords had a tendency to get dull more often than katanas (anyway, try to cut through steel with a katana and tell me what happen to its edge), anyway, katanas are also curved, and that means that slashing with a katana is a different thing than doing it with a longsword, in fact with a longsword you use the sword as a lever with your right wrist as fulcrum, while with a katana

[deathbyazure]

@deathbyazure If there was still a cutting vulnerability, and there were generally fewer hammer or mace-like weapons in their warfare, it seems the katana could combat samurai armor with a combination of point-stabbing, cutting with the edge, and pommel striking at key points. The specific weak points of their armor would have still been vulnerable to cutting, hence the premium placed on the sharpness of the blade's full length. This is an unqualified hypothesis by a non-expert, but there it is.

[deathbyazure]

@deathbyazure so actually, while I'm writing this I'm revising. It seems to me that the plates of samurai armor are basically cut proof for the purposes of one-on-one combat. However, it may be that it has more of a gap under the armpit or at the neck than European full-plate usually had. I therefore take it as a possibility that a draw cut or slash at these areas might have been possible, and could have been effective as a combat move.