Jake Fighting for the Scholars Prize, Longsword Sparring

Fighting for the Prize, the celebration of having attained the skills required for a particular rank. Jake is our first ranked member, having achieved the title of Scholar.

Fighting for the Prize takes place after a student has proven their knowledge of the appropriate weapon(s), it is a display and celebreation of that process. Fighting for the prize is also pressure and endurance testing, at Scholars rank, you have to fight 10 continuous bouts without rest.

Congratulations to Jake, well done.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Longsword
• Swordfight
• sparring

[mechupanlamonda]

in your combats, do you block with the flat part of the sword? or how do you do it? does the blade sustain damage on the edges when you parry? or did the forge get better at the time of the development of the longsword, so you didn't have to worry about edge damage.

[Nikos3000]

@mechupanlamonda You use both edge and flat depending on the technique. Sharps would inevitably sustain some edge damage during combat, but its not like they are expecting to face the regular battering of training swords. Additionally, most of the longsword prinicipals of the German rely on displacing energy rather than the dead parries which would result in the most damage. Also appreciate that a break is more likely with pressure on the edge, better to take some edge damage than lose the blade

[mechupanlamonda]

@Nikos3000 thanks, man. last question, can you tell me the songs of this video. than you very much.

[Nikos3000]

@mechupanlamonda Honestly I am terrible at remembering songs names and artists and it was ages ago that I edited this. Sounds to me like both tracks are from Motorhead, pretty sure.

[Ulver27]

i enjoyed the vid...but even though i love motorhead...why you had to put it? You should have let us enjoy the sword clashes...

[bronxman4u2000]

video good. music baaaaaad. fire bad too :)

[mechupanlamonda]

@Nikos3000 no problem, thanks anyways.

[Nikos3000]

@JeromeBrass Yeh, will just damage your sword. Curved blades naturally slice better, straight blades better for the thrust. We cannot forget trauma though, which is just as important to a sword strike as the actual slice is. To maximise cutting power with a straight blade you want a blade with as little taper as possible. Look up the Oakeshott sword typology, you will want something like a type XIIIa, but plenty of options.

[Nikos3000]

@JeromeBrass As armour developed to plate, longswords began to taper more, giving a slight decrease in cutting effectiveness but a major improvement in thrusting ability, with an acutely tapered and stiff blade. The broader cutting blades did still continue in usage as well though. Thrust work (especially half swording techniques) are rarely seen in fiction as it isn't as dramatic on film or in novels.