Renaissance Sickle Fighting part 1

This video shows a small part of Arme Antica's work on translating and realizing the art of wheat sickle combat as documented by Paulus Hector Mair in his work. Collectively in parts 1 and 2 are shown the four steps of the first play. In addition are examples of how play might continue from each step in the manner of sickle combat as it is laid out in the text and from general Medieval and Renaissance fight lore, as Mair's sickle fight fits in quite well, holistically speaking, with the rest of his documented aspects of the Athletic Art. Part 2 also shows other various aspects of sickle combat as well as finishing the first play.

The play is taken from a private translation of the original Latin of Mair's work. The various endings added after each part of the first play are a training habit at Arme Antica, used to develop a heightened sense of creativity, flexibility, and non-linear responsiveness in the student.




Enjoy!

Monty Chance
www.armeantica.com

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• hema
• martial
• arts
• self-defense
• scherma
• medieval
• medievale
• scrima
• combattimento
• combat
• ringen

[jinnd319]

I see lots of hooking but no cutting. Can you gut with those things?

[ArmeAntica]

@jinnd319 All of the hooking implies cutting, as the entire inside edge of a sickle is sharp. That's actually the danger of the sickle...the hook traps whatever part it grabs, and the inside curve gives not only a deep but wide cut. It's easy to cut around a very large portion of a limb by circularly hooking it, even halfway around. That's a far larger cut than you could as easily do with a straight edge, for example.

[19HOMEMADE86]

Just throw it

[ArmeAntica]

@19HOMEMADE86, maybe if it had a cord or a chain attached to the end, then things would get fun.

[Kunstdesfechtens]

This is currently my favourite out of your videos. :)

[ArmeAntica]

Glad you like it. Sickle fighting is a blast, very active and fast. It is also quite similar to Mair's dagger in principle of body movement and positioning, so the parallels are nice, too.

[19HOMEMADE86]

@ArmeAntica Deffinetly bro

[kelbek00]

Wow, it's like an Aikido move, kinda.

[99wit99]

You are very good, sir, thanks for the vid.

[ArmeAntica]

Yes, we're of a similar mind on these things. Things have to be finished. That said, real life has its own equations>law, circumstances, etc:.

But holistically speaking, you never know what your adversary is up to, in the sense of his capabilities. Training to a point where the technique "ends" might not respect reality.

Good adversaries can roll with the blows, in ways that might seem totally unexpected to you, possibly leaving you unprepared for further eventualities.