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Excellent! Subsribed. Greetings from Poland

As a HEMA background guy getting into SCA, this is all gold information. Thank you

I like this idea of framing lessons with “the opposite lesson” very useful training tool for conceptual development.

Which kingdom are you based in?

NICE! I have a squire that I'm trying to teach how to use a longsword, but I MYSELF need to learn it first. This is a GREAT help your grace!

You still in the SCA friend?

Nice video! Could you add a link to the wisby gauntlets and the finger bucklers? Thanks again !

Thanks mark

Wow! I saw a sword cut on your opposing front leg! This is very cool, before there was a lot of controversy that this cannot be done in HEMA. In our club, on the contrary, it is a very widely used movement!

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I appreciate your videos man, found you through a friend

An interesting exercise to improve footwork.

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The duke used HEMA inspiration for SCA and here I am using SCA inspiration for HEMA.

The best structured HEMA lessons series. Is not fancy visually, but as information is a real treasure. Thank you for your work and clarity! Waw,wau,waw. Please don't stop!

This was helpful as I have found that the steel/metal "pieces" that go onto the sword make them heavier. As a female that stands 5'2, I'm looking for something that won't make my sword so heavy lol I will have to try this out myself.

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Thank you for the great content. Who made the sword you are using in this video?

Great video and explanation. The rough part of this is when we're using modern fencing masks it can be hard to use those squinting deceptions because the opponent can't see our eyes. There was one time I was really able to use my opponent's gaze to determine when and where he was going to strike and that was in a well lit studio...but it was beautiful. saw where he was targeting and did winding to counter it in-time, maybe a little pre-emptively and got the stab to the chest.

I had to watch it twice 👍. Do not miss out > "Promo sm" !!

Awesome video! =D to protect your body from the wear and tear of fighting did you also have a full body stretching routine that you use, even when not fighting?

Thank you Mark. Merry everything :)

Thank you so much for all of this information. I hadn't thought about utilizing the angles in such a way. I definitely will be incorporating this into our defense drills to work on my legged movement.

Your explanation of why to create the initial point of contact forward made a bunch of stuff I've been working on click. a lavalier mic might help your audio quality

Love this feint/cut. Ill take my lead hand off the haft and throw with it, leaving my bottom hand at the pommel and get farther out of range. You can get enough power when done correctly with one hand. Great vid. Thanks as always.

This is amazing stuff thank you so much!

Interesting interpretation! I was having trouble visualizing this guard from the description alone. Thank you for the context and rationale.

Do you use butt spikes at all in place of your pommel?

Nice work- I love fighting with my 2hander

Great look at provocation. Love the experimental reconstruction to figure out how to make this thing work in a "real fight". I'm not a Meyer scholar, more studied in RDL, so the idea of intentionally smacking someone with the flat seems counterintuitive. I'm imagining prellhau as a "less than lethal" measure for dueling as a "hey my guy....I could kill you if I wanted, but I'm choosing not to". Does that seem about right?

Great advice as always, dude.Thanks for the input!

Could you show how you have your finger bucklers strapped? I've had challenges with figuring out how to keep them sitting in place (or straight up staying on my hand) while shifting my grip on the weapon.

Love it!

Incredible video, that belt bouncing off the plate is incredibly distracting though...

I really dig this. There's a real shortage of hema videos that go beyond the elementary details of the KdF system into more of the advanced details of really how to fine tune your fencing. You're doing that wonderfully and I appreciate it. Thank you!

Hey for some reason this video keeps glitching out every 30 seconds

How cool that you do these, and what a marvelous resource they are! I wished for something like this when I was a young fighter. Much praise.

I love these ringeck training videos you do!

Thanks Mark. Super informative as always. Just wish youtube didnt decide to not show your video in my feed since you switched to the monthly schedule. I'll just be more diligent in checking.

Your arms and legs are evident from other videos, but what do you wear on your torso?

Thanks so much for this. Always happy to learn more about beating sword-and-shield guys.

Hi Mark, love the application of chaining thrusts and chops, but can you show a chain of more then two shots together, I find as you get further into the chain maintaining posture, position, line, measure etc gets more complicated and nuanced. Great video by the way please keep them coming.

as a newbie, I feel that all my feints are those robotic, isolated motions you mention.

Great stuff like usual, nice easy explanation of the difference.

Thanks again for your insight! This has helped clarify thoughts I've had on this topic. One question that comes to mind on this topic is how does this difference apply to short edge cuts? I feel short edge cuts tend to be more percussive in nature, relying less on the structural following through and more on speed and whip-like mechanics.

Awesome. Thanks Mark

First, thank you for this series of videos on the great sword or long sword. Ive learned a lot from watching you. Im a knight in the Middle Kingdom and fight almost exclusively with greatsword, anywhere from a 6' in melee to smaller in tournaments. Im mostly self taught, but apparently ive picked up a lot from the treatise on great sword techniques. I guess when you find out what works, you find that other people before you have found the same thing. But to the point; is there any way you could do some advanced video training against shieldmen with a greatsword. We are stuck fighting against magic shields that will never break and therefore we have to create openings with feints, body or sword or both, lateral movement is key to that ability, something im working on, as well as slipping shots or just not being there when the shot comes. But as Im one of the only fighters out here dedicated solely to the great sword, its difficult to come up with new attacks/ defense after the initial shots are learned by my opponents. So im wondering what can I do to add to my arsenal against the shieldman, which is the overwhelming majority of fighters in the SCA. I am a fair hand with the great sword against others using the same, but against shields, with their wrap shots, especially round shields that they use to blind you, getting that center grip right in your face and then throwing wraps to your legs. They'll peak their sword out a bit, for instance, high and to the offside, and then throw a leg wrap to the onside. Its difficult not to bite on the feint because you cant see whats going on. In a large lyst its not that big of a deal. Get out of range. But i find myself in small lists with nowhere to go and end up getting nailed by that shot in particular. So any advice would be more than appreciated.

Wicked helpful vid! the hand rondels or besagew bit answered a burning question as I also have wisby style non grounding gauntlets I love and want to use SCA great weapon ! Now I have an answer. many thanks.

Great technique and explanation, thanks Mark!

Thanks Mark!