Guards: Intro to Longsword

An introduction to a treatment on the 4 basic longsword guards.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• WMA
• German
• longsword
• guards

[Kantzarakos]

So I guess that all those non-Asian instructors teaching asian martial arts must feel completely out of place to you... I mean, come on, it's not like martial arts are passed down through DNA...

[GNSplinterCell]

It shouldn't be a surprise, Martial Combat is not limited to race when practiced.

Little known fact, even though the main weapon for *Filipino* martial arts are machetes/bolos, knives, and spears another big weapon practiced is the Espada with variations to short, long, and rapier type swords.

Moral of the story, no martial art should be (atleast right now) distinguished by race.

There was a French and English Samurai you know.... look it up

[OzVegan]

The basic strikes of all weapons are the same based upon + and x making eight striking angles. A person's background is irrelevant to learning and teaching a martial art.

Especially now during a century where people and information have travelled so far. We've intermingled, interbred and picked up each other's cultures.

It is hard to tell someone's country of origin from their physical appearance in our modern culture. These are great times we're living in :-)

[pacs8311]

These various racist comments are total Bull---How many blond haired and blue eyed instructors convey their love of Asian Martial arts and no one thinks twice. This guy actually going to the trouble of researching and then teaching forgotten Occidential arts is a good sign that we are getting something right.

[Ryooken]

@GNSplinterCell I will chime in here. Even though martial art combat isn't limited to a race. Each group had their own distinctive forms of martial arts depending on region and culture. So seperating styles out along the lines of who developed them and why isn't wrong. What is wrong is when you try to do it to define superior vs inferior systems.

[Anathematicmusic]

@GNSplinterCell

That would be due to the Spanish occupation of the Philippines, the Espada being a Spanish sword. Espada is actually Spanish for sword.

[TalonusX]

@Kantzarakos ....it's not? DAMN!!!

[Altonahk]

@GNSplinterCell and also the Kampilan, a large hand-and-a-half cleaver sword used in the Philippines.

[mrAbaterWhite]

unless of course you count the rich martial tradition of the west historically, and even up to world war one when savate was all but wiped out. Not to mention boxing, wrestling and CQB.

[Ieatbabyseals]

Nah they had folk wrestling styles that developed in Appalachia and cane fighting styles that were popular in New York. Most of those developed on their own although they did have roots in European Post Industrial Revolution fighting tactics. But you're right most fighting styles in America are adaptations of foreign martial arts.

[Ryskimus]

There are actually several 'martial traditions' that originated in North America. Many native tribes had their own martial arts, and competitions. Every country or even populated landmass has their own unique arts. Look at all the different militaries around the world, and tell me which of them use the same exact system.

Informative videos, by the way.

[Irrehaare]

You guys are over sensitive, political correctness ate your reasoning. I have to see here yet a racist comment.