Yari (spear) fighting

Free sparring with yari (spear) performed by Japanese chanbara practitioners.
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• spochan
• tanabe
• chanbara
• spear
• pike
• yari
• so
• jutsu
• sojutsu
• nihon
• kobudo

[elgostine]

to add toi wenzels 368's comment, a glaive is roughly defined as a single edged, usually curved blate atop a haft, glaives, unlike most other polearms, do not have top spikes, but they can have flukes,



[elgostine]

usually i hesitate to call naginata a 'halberd' since halberds have topspikes as well as a varying head shape naginata, if grouped with european polearms would DEFINATELY be a glaive.

[Wenzel368]

to any one who may be confusing what exactly a glaive is, A glaive is european, a guan dao is chinese, a naginata is japanese, other things simliar to the glaive are the halberd, the voulge, the partisan and the guisarme. they are all their own weapon classified under the weapon type polearm. :)

[Wraithlord88]

@DiabolusIgnis well, i guess, it was not that easy to understand from that post :)

[DiabolusIgnis]

@Wraithlord88 Ah, I see. My bad then. I just got the image of that you meant that Glaive is what Europeans called a Naginata.

[Wraithlord88]

@DiabolusIgnis well then it's a misunderstanding. What I meant was that polearm is the "weapon class" as such, but it is handled much in a different way than most medieval polearms in europe, so I thought "glaive" to be the most suitable way to classify it. however, I made an mistake in that way, as I could not find any word for the more apropriate (german) term "Sturmsense" so I did use Glaive as synonym. The word could be translated as battle or assault scythe, which is more alike the naginata

[DiabolusIgnis]

@Wraithlord88 Nope. You said the glaive is the European name for an Asian weapon, where they are two separate weapons. Or did I misunderstand or miss something here?

[Wraithlord88]

@DiabolusIgnis that was already stated, just as I stated my reasoning. no need to repeat everything already said.

[DiabolusIgnis]

@Wraithlord88 Not really, it's a polearm. The glaive is an European type of polearm.

[DiabolusIgnis]

@shaolinkungfu666 The glaive is an European weapon.

The Asians have a polearm called a naginata.

They're different, although very alike =)