Swordfish 2011 Livestream
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This is possibly the best thing on youtube ever
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GREAT!!! really cool to be able to see this again (and again and again I have a feeling). Love the quality of the fights, the excellent narration, and the atmosphere of the event. Great work guys...
greetings from the Netherlands, Maarten.
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I don't know the rules or why either of them are getting points but I can't stop watching...
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I'd love to see a high speed camera film fights like these.
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great event, great fights!
nice to hear u guys are planning a grappling tournament. under which rules u think this would run: freestyle, greco, judo, submisson grappling, catchwrestling or some cool mixup?!
maybe with dagger on the ground or some other crazy shit :-P
keep it real,
greetings from germany
Flow1987 2 months ago
@Flow1987 @Flow1987 Thank you! Rulesets for a HEMA grappling tournament are discussed right now by an international group of practitioners at this webforum: medievalwrestling . proboards . com Such a tournament at Swordfish would be with rules made specifically for HEMA grappling, not simply copied from Judo, submission wrestling or any other martial arts. Hope to see you at Swordfish 2012!
GothenburgHFS 2 months ago
Would you guys ever expand your event to include weapons and styles from all over the world? It would be highly entertaining to see a weapon-based equivalent to the UFC.
robaart 2 months ago
@robaart Hi, we agree that would be very cool :): At the moment there are no such plans as we don't currently host mixed weapon tournaments are are focused on building the HEMA scene, but we would be on the first plane to any such tournament. In the future we might host one ourselves too!.
GothenburgHFS 2 months ago
@GothenburgHFS
Have one or two guest fighters as an experiment and observe how the audience reacts. That way you can still focus on HEMA, but you will plant the seeds for a future expansion.
I'm sure it will be fun and exciting for everyone involved!
robaart 2 months ago
@robaart The tournaments are open to all practitioners, for example this year we had amongst others a ninjutsu practitioner. Getting sparring weapons that works is the difficult thing, if you know anyone who makes katanas that flex and stand up to this level fo fighting let us know, but most good fighters can adopt to most weapons, so a kenjutsu practitioner could enter teh longsword tournament, for example.
GothenburgHFS 2 months ago