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Recording from the live stream of Swordfish 2011 Historical European Martial Arts tournament finals and fights for 3rd place, with mad comments from Matt Galas and Scott Hellroth.

Big THANKS! for www.smarttv.se for sponsor us with the livestream this evening.

Swordfish is an annual HEMA event organized by Gothenburg Historical Fencing School in Gothenburg, Sweden, info can be found here: http://www.ghfs.se/swordfish

Quickjump:
Rapier 3rd:
Smit vs Keskitalo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tD_iG65DraI#t=360s
Rapier Final:
Jörnlind vs Ljungqvist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tD_iG65DraI#t=943s

Sabre 3rd:
Hartikainen vs Norwood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tD_iG65DraI#t=1510s
Sabre Final:
Engström vs Sjöberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tD_iG65DraI#t=2437s

SnB 3rd:
Zajac vs Nylokken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tD_iG65DraI#t=3071s
SnB Final:
Konsmo vs Sannemalm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tD_iG65DraI#t=3917s

LongsW 3rd:
Stepien vs Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tD_iG65DraI#t=4528s
LongsW Final:
Nagy vs Smit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tD_iG65DraI#t=5181s

Longs 3d:
Petersson vs Ryrberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tD_iG65DraI#t=5820s
Longs Final:
Chodkiewicz vs Gevaert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tD_iG65DraI#t=6485s


http://www.ghfs.se/ historisk fäktning - kampsport och riktigt bra träning

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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 @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!

  • 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 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

    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 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.

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  • This is possibly the best thing on youtube ever

  • 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...

  • I'd love to see a high speed camera film fights like these.

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