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Never fence against sword, thou fence against opponent🫡

Super awesome fighting here

Very good. Additionally, I have found to further protect yourself, it helps to move your body and head to the left (sometimes with a lunging step) towards your opponent’s right shoulder. This allows you to strike deeper and move your body past where their sword can strike.

Excellent stuff!

Very solid stuff

Your partners fall into well-described in sources trap of holding sword too high when parrying, thats why they get hit with mittels. I may be easy to fix - all they need is to loosen up a bit and look less after your weapon, since this makes them to move their sword much too early.

Dude, you're improving! Got some sick actions there. Second intention winden ripostes, vorschlag oberhewen... This is really something!

Any time I see "Arto Fama" in the title of a TH-cam video. If he put out a series on baking or small engine repair, I would watch it hoping to become a better fencer...

Haha, you fancy a bicorno, aren't ya? :D

The very first exchange is the very reason why start with the arms.

0:34 - haha by the book. This works with saber also. And with lognsword too, if we had more mobile gloves (I suppose Meyer has some plays like that).

Your sparring partners sometimes give you passive bind with light pressure, try sneaking in duplieren or auswinden in there, this should work if there is no lose of additional tempo.

Amazing stuff! What feder are you using?

Is there any sort of signal given that the one guy is about to make an overhead stab towards the face? I'm just thinking even with the face mask that would still be really risky if that strike somehow connected

Technical breakdown: -First exchange: Schielhau -2nd exchange at 5 secs: parry + Mittelhau -3rd exchange at 9 secs: Zornhau -4th exchange at 12 seconds: parry + left Zwerchau -5th exchange at 15 secs: Zornhau -6th exchange at 18 secs: Ansetzen -7th exchange at 21 secs: parry + Mittelhau -8th exchange at 24 secs: parry + right Zwerchau to low opening -9th exchange at 26 secs: Thrust from Ox guard -10th exchange at 29 secs: Schielhau -11th exchange at 31 secs: parry + right Zwerchau -12th exchange at 34 secs: Abnehmen -13th exchange at 37 secs: Duplieren -14th exchange at 40 secs: parry + Mittelhau -15th exchange at 43 secs: Schielhau -16th exchange at 46 secs: Zornhau -17th exchange at 49 secs: Abnehmen -18th exchange at 54 secs: parry + Mittelhau -19th exchange at 58 sec: parry + left Zwerchau 20th exchange at 1min03: right Zwerchau breaks Vom tag -21st exchange at 1min07: Ansetzen

looks like fun and good workout

They make it look so easy but it’s not

lovely catch on the hands and a good save exit! love to see it.

I feel like there were quite a few good chances for the red to go in for a thrust. Good sparring still though.

1:16 was nice.

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you guys look so tired.

cool exchanges

Yessssss the Zettel is back!

Great examples taken "from real life".

''The Animated Zettel'' For a while now, I have been gathering clips of "textbook" techniques or tactics applied in full gear sparring. I will start posting one every week on tuesdays. I have 16 already made and footage to make a few more. It's very easy to find on TH-cam tons of videos of people demonstrating source-based techniques against cooperative partners, or in simplified drills, but it's difficult to find all these techniques applied in actual sparring while also being described at the same time. It could be (I hope) a tool for beginners to get an idea of what it could look like when done against someone who doesn't want to get hit. Some links and important notes in the first comment below. This series was inspired by Michel Rensen's "Techniques in the Wild" series (link in the comments) All the footage comes from sparring and tournament fencers of the Blademasters Academy Constructive criticism always welcome. Enjoy 🙂 Blademasters Academy youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@BlademastersAcademyHEMA ''Techniques in the Wild'': th-cam.com/play/PLUINovERBtY1_G3hsL1t3dybK2-r9t_NS.html&si=BD0W8-PcxNLls-le

It is impressive how decisively Arto secures the center line and initiative with such small and concise movements.

Iconic

That thrust and body void at 0:28 is *chef's kiss*

The quick and subtle ripostes looked nice!

Nice counter zwerchhau !!

obsessed with emmet's off-hand posing

Looking good guys

First exchange: white throws a falso manco provocation to my sword followed by a riverso squalembro. I parry and riposte with an imbroccata, which white parries in guardia di testa. He ripostes with a mandritto fendente, which I parry, and I riposte with a mandritto tondo to the leg. Second exchange: I try to provoke with a punta dritta (guardia d'entrare), but white doesn't take the bait and merely displaces it without committing. Then I throw a punta riversa (guardia di faccia), but this time it's not a provocation; I get in opposition on his sword and land the thrust to the mask. Third exchange: white throws a falso manco at my sword, followed by a riverso, which I parry. I riposte with a riverso, which white voids. Then I attempt a thrust, which is too short, and white hits my face with a mandritto tondo. Fourth exchange: white throws a direct mandritto fendente to my head; I parry in guardia di testa and riposte with a mandritto which white also parries in guardia di testa. We're back to guard and white throws a strong punta riversa (guardia di faccia thrust) in opposition on my sword, but somehow I manage to parry it and I riposte with a riverso ridoppio to his body. Sixth exchange: I throw a thrust, white parries it with a falso manco; he ripostes with a riverso squalembro, I parry it and riposte with an imbroccata, which white also parries before riposting with a mandritto. I parry it and riposte with a riverso, which white parries, and now we're back to our guards. White throws a strong punta riversa (guardia di faccia thrust) in opposition on my sword, and lands it beautifully in my face. Seventh exchange: I throw a thrust, white parries with a falso manco and ripostes with a riverso. I parry it and riposte with an imbroccata, which hits his belly. Eighth exchange: White throws a tramazzone at my forearm. I try to parry it with a falso manco but I am too slow and get my wrist cut off. Ninth exchange: white throws a riverso at me, I parry and riposte with an imbroccata, which he parries. He ripostes with a mandritto fendente, I parry it in guardia di testa and I riposte with a riverso tondo to the body. Tenth exchange: white attempts a provocation but I don't take the bait and step back. I then attack with a mandritto fendente, white parries, he ripostes with a mandritto fendente, and I parry it too. I attempt a thrust which white parries while stepping back. I attempt a second thrust which white parries before riposting with a mandritto to my head. Eleventh exchange: I throw a direct thrust to white's arm, he attempts to parry it with a falso manco but my thrust is faster and lands. Twelwth exchange: white provokes my by tapping my sword, I take the bait and raise my arm to cut at him; he then throws a mandritto riddopio to my sword arm Thirteenth exchange: I transition from guardia d'alicorno into porta di ferro stretta and from there throw a direct stoccata to his hand. Fourteeth exchange: I probe with a non-committed and non threatening thrust, white throws a falso manco towards my sword, but I pull back to avoid the bind, white keeps the initiative and throws a riverso squalembro to my elbow, and my arm being pulled, I am unable to defend myself against it.

Good show gentlemen!

Finally, something to subscribe to that’s interesting! Nobody shaking their ass no rap music no crackhead digging through a garbage can be filmed. I’m so sick of this world but this I can sit and watch all day. Thank you, sir. You are a legend in my book.!

A shwing and a miss!

Never considered entering with Middle, but it sets you up for that hanging parry. I should think more about that.

Are those Sparring Gloves

Nice

Nice trust good bind and lockout

Fencing with steel? Props for the pain tolerance, mate.

Going to have to say yall both had nothing in that exchange Beautiful exchange though

I like how you setup that zhecwch and then cover at then up

Nice

I think they doubled on the second exchange who with Me

What a beaut! I think that's one of the most "authentic" uses of the hanging parry too, using it to sort of hang in the bind and then cut around with a zwerch.

Good.

lovely aim on that thrust mate

Outstanding! Brilliant! Superb display!