ARMA - Pell training (Cutting with the longsword)

So don't let anyone tell you that the European longsword is slow. Because it's not.

All credits to ARMA. I am /not/ the guy in this video (however much I wish to be). Keep up the awesome work, as always. :D

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• european
• longsword
• cutting
• pell
• swordplay
• renaissance
• martial
• arts
• swordsmanship
• ARMA

[ThePhilosophersTruth]

What does "Pell training" mean?

[insertoriginaluser]

Pell training means to train your cutting technique on a pell. :D

[ThePhilosophersTruth]

I assume the person in the video is you? It looks like fun, but that poor tree :-)

I've been training in martial arts since I was 5, but never got into swords of any kind, always wanted to try fencing though.

And where is this video taken at? Sure is a nice green place, after living in Las Vegas for the last 7 years I'm ready to move to a nice green place like that.

Enjoy your surroundings, enjoy your "pell training", looks like a lot of fun and also such a nice place to do it in....

[insertoriginaluser]

Haha no, if you read the description it's from a renaissance swordsmanship group called the ARMA. This was taken at the Iron Door Studio which is outside of Atlanta, Georgia.

I've been training in European swordsmanship for 2 years, though without any prior martial arts history. I admit that I love swinging swords around more than unarmed combat though both are essentials. xD

I do my own pell training(in a city), but I don't think I'm ready to post it up yet. This guy's waay better than me. :D

[leavemealone2006]

maybe a little :P

But seriously, it's learning about our ancestors. For so long I've been told that my ancestors were lumbering idiots with no martial proficiency or military tact to speak of. It's nice to know that my ancestors were actually martially intelligent.

Also, after reading through some of the medieval and renaissance martial literature, I have discovered that we actually have a lot to learn from them.

[Okaruwazashi]

Longsword is the right term. Pretty sure it's taken from fencing manuals of the period.

[DuykRuyk]

The sword is as slow or fast as you make it.

[gurkfisk89]

@xxTeutonicKnightxx

Drill bits are not made out of titanuim. But some are coated with titanium carbide or titanium nitride (that's the gold looking one). Both these ceramic materials are very hard, but also very brittle, so if you make the whole drill out of it they would break instantly because they can't handle the stress.

[MrAlepedroza]

@CavalerVlah : watch?v=mjT4JepA-Vc

This is the real european swordsmanship, not the clumsy style that Hollywood and popular culture presents to us almost always. If you want more, see some ARMA vids I have on my channel.

Hope you'll like it.

[nivarion]

@xxTeutonicKnightxx Well, there were. But they were fifteen feet long, and had silver and gold laid into the blade and didn't have an edge and only a clinically insane man would have tried fighting with them.

They were meant to look big and flashy and to be carried over the shoulder during a parade by a hero of a battle. Unfortunatly, a lot of idiot's think art depicts real life. If that were true, well look at how hollywood portrays guns.

[ThegnThrand]

This is Thrand!!!

Nice pell work with with hand and a half sword :P

[CavalerVlah]

@xxTeutonicKnightxx WHOA! take it easy you pompous sorry arse... for short martial art means the art of war, the art of combat. Read my previous post and try to understand it. Shouldn't be too hard, even for you.

I merely stated that swinging that blade over your head like that has no real combat value: an easy side parry from your oponent leaves you totally open and utterly exposed for a direct lethal blow to your mug. Then it's curtains. It may look spectacular but so does morris dancing.

[xxTeutonicKnightxx]

@KissakiSan I do not know about that, I handled tools that the drill bits are made out of Titanium so it can drill through steel. I also read about Titanium and it’s strength, it is about as strong as a 1065 heat treated steel or a bit stronger but much lighter…

[xxTeutonicKnightxx]

@chillnshred Long swords are only about pounds not 20. There is no Western sword that is 20 pounds.

[xxTeutonicKnightxx]

@CavalerVlah This is a martial art. Do you even know what martial art means? It come from the Roman word art of Mars. And if this is not an art of the God of War, then what is this?

You do not know about sword fighting do you? Do you even know why he is going that? It is like Punching a punching bag like they do in boxing, help you get a hang of what you are doing. This video is also to show you that you can use both edges of the sword... Some thing you can not do with a Katana.

[xxTeutonicKnightxx]

@KissakiSan Why not? Titanium is as stron as steel or a bit stronger...