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Skallagrim sleeps with a troglodyte.

Fatty and hurt Skall vs fatty and stamina depleted Shad. Hard take.

They can fight ?they kind of , missed out of training for a long time.

Feel like Alber, or the Fool, is the German equivalent for Boar's Tooth.

Skall feels he has more skills id why

Skall. Skall would easily win.

If only Shad defended himself with his sword as hard as he defends himself online 😂

"Facing the most experienced larper" LOL. Maybe shad should just train instead of larping as a swordsmen and causing drama..

Interesting... interesting. With this video, coupled with the rare, but existing cases of people making spinning attacks work for them in sparring or HEMA, I'm starting to wonder what would happen if you took the "Hollywood swordfighting" tropes: "(Reverse grip, spinning attacks ect.) took what has been shown to work for them in real life, and tried to build an actual functioning fighting style out of it. What would this Reconstruction look like? What would its uses be?

Skallagrim, because Shad would be winded due to his condition

Whaat? Respectfully pointing out weaknesses of your peers and teaching how to train those? I can't watch this, where's the blood sports? /s

the music in this video was great

This might be random but would you be able to make a pinch grip work. Being able to swivel into the attack as an alternative opening. Just some thoughts

That is a like.

Very nice analysis, as per usual, but I think it's very important to mention that the biomechanics of one-handed reverse-grip and two-handed reverse-grip are radically different, and should be treated as completely separate matters. There are a number of reasons for this, but perhaps the easiest to explain (though I'll probably botch it anyway, since I'm sick as a dog right now) is that when you're wielding a weapon one-handed, your wrists are free to rotate, and when you're wielding it with two, your wrists are constrained (ie, you can't move them without moving other joints as well). That means that the muscles that flex/rotate your wrist are the weakest links in the kinetic chain when wielding a weapon one-handed, but not a part of the equation when two-handed. _EDIT:_ Yup, I botched it. A two-handed grip will usually leave the wrists unconstrained on one axis of rotation. However, it's usually the axis that experiences the least torque and is typically controlled by the strongest muscles in one if not both forearms, so my point still stands.

I think the beard is looking pretty good like this. Also lovely exploration of the historical showings here. Definitely seems like a sometimes option that's good to have in your kit.

Gonna try dual wielding saber and holding one in reserve in reverse grip. Mainly cause saber is practically always one handed anyway so having that swipe up surprise could be fun. Not thinking it will be good but dang will it be funny if it works.

Of the 18 comments in my feed so far, 7 could easily have been generated by a non-LLM AI.

First time I've heard someone other than myself pronounce it "KAH-tah-nah".

This was good you showed new applications.

Your opponents are so bad at judging distance and staying out of your measure it's no surprise reverse grip worked.

Great video :D

After watching TONS of these kind of videos about “reverse grip” validity, think I can safely say that; “it” is legit as an ADDITION to your properly structured style, I.e. sneaking in “rg” moves between regular cuts n such. Which I think was what this guy was saying at the end, but idk for sure cuz “you suck” is a pretty stupid ending to a seemingly fair minded video. 😬

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I gotta say, your work here has best visual so far. It would be great scene in a movie, where swordsman goes against spear - he defends himself with reverse grip, luckily incapacitates spearman. Then has not enough time to reverse grip to normal or just don't want to for some reason and tries to pull of some of the moves you showed. To some, but limited success, then he feels that he needs to grip proplerly, as another guy turns out to be skilled too. Something like that. Not overly theatrical, not overly Hollywood, just old style fencing. Also, I hace flu, sorry for bad grammar.

Thank you! looks very fun to try

The impression I got from the vast amount of variance in Fiore manuals, is that Fiore believed one should be able to handle the sword all sorts of ways and remain highly capable with it. If my life depended on it, I think I would be a far more versatile guitarist. Perhaps if HEMA practitioners thought their lives may one day depend on it, they would be far more versatile too. I see an exciting future ahead for HEMA, as that mastery of the sword gets rediscovered.

Beautiful work. Nice to see someone doing the proper research.

Seems a viable tool in the toolkit. Excellent work bringing quite a bit of light to the matter. Maybe this will urge others to give the matter some more respect.

First! Haha yeah

Matt Easton, easily. Both Skal and Shady are in pretty bad physical shape. Also - real combat is something all the armchair reenactment warriors cannot even fathom.

i love this concept - pretty well executed as well so far... granted only 3 mins in but the tale of the tape is a cool idea.

This was very interesting to watch tysm for sharing this perspective its rather changed my mind

Shad for me, way to smooth, skallwill loose quickly imo. Neither are swordsman and move through their core properly. With that footwork id say both are amateurs, and never had real fights nor sparing in their lives. Shad can actually weild a sword with speed. Ya cant fight properly nicely. With 2 hours of training shad i beleive could have him beating skall every time, i cant say the same vice versa, skall just cant use it properly yet, not enough years and too new to it. And martial arts in general.imo

Skall insta Ko's by throwing pummel

I know we have a lot of hindsight now but I can't believe you just glossed over that Shad obviously hasn't fought anyone ever at any point who wasn't a guest or cocreator on his channel

This is like asking if a man who’s never entered an actual rim g before could beat a heavyweight boxer. Shads footwork is dogshit, his body is unhealthy and is winded easily, he has very little actual experience, he’s overconfident and just wrong about fighting, most of his videos are him fighting his employees and it’s clear that they know nothing and just let him wail on them. Shad is a glorified LARPER, skal wins no diff.

This would make a fun match make it so😊

skall solos

Lots of Tech people I bet.

that's awesome man! 🤘💀 did you make a video while you were there? (besides this one obviously lol)

Thats Really Great!

Skall all day.

Shad isnt real, he cant hurt you🦊