Don't sell yourself short. I like your more academic and historical approach. While practical knowledge like the other 3 have, that can also tend to overshadow other information, as they show a lot of the moves etc.
Knyght Errant lead me here! I haven't seen any of your other clips, I scrolled a tad through your video list and saw this, as a practicing HEMAist I chose to watch this video first, now, I don't know if you've started training yet... But a few things right off the bat:. 1. Honesty is something that makes me happy, I've gone off on long rants about my local, horrendous reenactment groups that are very dishonest about their authenticity... To themselves as well as others, heh, so, yeah... Being honest about ones knowledge is awesome. 2. You underestimate yourself. Being able to read ancient Italian is extremely useful... You've read Fiore, all you need to do is to interpret the techniques and do it with a friend(or more) and then you're practicing HEMA, that's how our modern Art started, that's how most clubs started... That's how the most knowledgeable of us started. On top of that... Yeah, you can read that stuff, HEMA is understaffed when it comes to translators, methinks you could potentially be a great resource for HEMA... There's still Italian stuff that isn't translated! 3. Olympic fencing and kendo are great bases for HEMA, a lot of good HEMA fencers have their backgrounds from there. =) 4. I'll check your videos out a bit more in a while and I might very well recommend you on my HEMA blog! =)
+Max Ronnby Hello Max thank you very much for taking the time not only to watch my video but to also comment. I appreciate your suggestions and I'll keep them in mind. I still haven't started to formally train in the art but I'm trying to organise a Metatron study group with friends. I hope you'll like the rest of my content and hope you'll find it worthy of your blog :)
I have alway watched your channel primarily for your sharing of Historical, Cultural, and Martial information you share. I like your style of presentation of the subject matter quite alot. I think that when you move from sport fencing to HEMA you will have fun and deepen your knowlege. Most people forget that much of the European martial arts had to be recreated from manuscripts where as the Asian arts have been kept alive. I enjoy HEMA saber and rapier but like you it is very difficult to find trained instructors. I will keep enjoying your channel.
As someone who also watches scholagladiatoria, lindybeige, and skallagrim, I will point out that I haven't subscribed to any of their channels but I have subscribed to yours. Apart from your exquisite accent and magnificent diction, I find your videos thoughtful, informative, and well presented. You make a valuable contribution to the HEMA community by providing a unique perspective.
"The Noble 700." I see what you did there :P Great video as always. We appreciate your honesty, knowledge, and preachy-teachy style! I do, anyway. Really holds my attention because it communicates (and passes on) your excitement about a topic better than the words themselves.
I always considered channels like yours to be essential to the continuation of HEMA. Many people attamt to learn historical swordsmanship off of TH-cam, but many channels lack information which provides a historical context. in short, channels like yours help maintain the H, in HEMA.
Hi Metatron. I'm in the same boat as you, living in a small town with the nearest HEMA club several hundred kilometers away. I've been following Swordcarolina's series on German longsword for some solo practice and I've found their instruction to be very clear and helpful within the limitations of videos as opposed to face to face teaching. They are well worth checking out if you haven't already, although it obviously may not be so helpful if you are specifically interested in Fiore.
beautiful video! hey, something unrelated, i ve seen that there is a very old jousting event taking place in italy called the joust of the saracen. if you have time id love to hear some of the hisrory behind this event and stuff. oh and dont be so humble, even without a school you can study fiore and practice with friends and on the pell while you search for a solution in your search for a school! i wish you all the best my friend
+ShaNagmaImmuru Thank you very much for commenting and for your support, you are a good man :D I am organizing a study group and will be posting our sparring sessions soon :3
In another video, I thought your Japanese pronunciation was very good. With this video, now I understand. Good luck in finding a good HEMA club in the future.
I kinda have the same problem as you, I can't practice HEMA right now. There is a club in my town but it's not very economical for me at the moment. I already practice kendo, I'm going to buy a hakama and I'm going to build a PC, plus I'm going to college next year, so unfortunately it will have to wait :C
Metatron greeting from Prague dont be so humble youre like one of the most wise clever and cool guys here on this crazy yt world :D keep it up! I listen to your videos while working on my art! Its great! Love from cz
Don't feel alone, there's no clubs where I live either. Martial arts in general is popular, but not HEMA specifically :( However, the Viking/Asatru community does seem to include practitioners. Hurrah!
Comments I read range from 8 yrs old to 4 yrs old w/ 1 one month ago; I've seen a few of your logician arguments and recognize the Philosophic protocols you use (& "truth table" forms), Truth be told, I like your style. I like the videos re: sword fights as martial arts. If I were younger (I'm four-score yrs of age now) and even if I were neared some who practice these forms, I would attend to view any events, and practices (but OK has nothing remotely near) so no personal practices for me. A query; are you still doind this and am I simply cruising the wrong video lanes?
currently, i'm praticing a few fundaments from kali and "papamachete"(aperently, an armed haitian martial art/fencing technique that uses a machete as main weapon). i decided to pratice staff, machete and dagger techniques, because they are cheap and easy to get, the machete, for exemple, is the most popular tool in Brasil and i can buy a big one for just 12-16 reais(brasilian coin). in my opinion "HEMA", is much wider in therms of concept, i mean, the fundamental stone for the techniques execution can be adapted for a bunch of weapons and for that, i see HEMA as a concept, not a martial art itself. once again, great video o/
Yes, HEMA is definitely a concept in that it encompasses a wide variety of sort-of-separate-sort-of-not martial arts (Kunst des Fechtens, Armizare, Abrazare etc.)
I guess the first rule of HEMA is not to tell anyone what HEMA is :D :D :D I like your videos, I just thought I'd post a silly comment about having to go and google what you're talking about :)
I have heard that you can only keep antique armory in England :/ Its a bit funny that a country that has spread this whole medieval culture stuff around the world has such laws. I also heard that in Japan you have to get some license to own a real sword or katana. And here in Brazil we have a severe laws against firearms, but none forbidding the ownership of swords, knives, axes of any size. Well you can't walk around holding a sword or knife but you can keep it and you don't even have to get a license or anything. Ok, this is not related to this video. It was just my thoughts about how strange the laws can be in different countries.
Hello Metatron have you tried reenactment. If you find a group with unscripted combat it'll be fun. Although not as skilled as hema. But my group it's pretty good.
urbanmyths95 I know there is a very nice historical fencing in Florence but that's super far from where I live, I don't think there is an historical re-enactment in Sicily unfortunatly :( I''ll have to wait for when I move back to England, which eventually I will.
So, it sounds like I would much prefer the "jutsu" more than the "do" I'm the kind of person who prefers to keep his fighting and his meditating separate.
"a certain way of speaking" haha yeah, you remind me a lot of my university professors, they all have this kind of "preaching" quality to their speech, i think that is the one thing they all have in common.
Sadly, we don't do it in the Cathedral, but we do practise in a late Victorian church. Maybe one day we can convince the Cathedral to let us fence there. :)
@@baldrickthedungspreader3107 I'm not sure at the moment, as it'll depend on the status of the UK, but we can hope. :) It's been far too long since I have had a chance to fence.
HEMA guys ever do matches against actual sword practitioners such as Kendo, Kumdo, or Chinese styles? I know HEMA guys always have a vast store of trivia, but what skills do you possess? th-cam.com/video/h6PhIFnqPjo/w-d-xo.html
From our western point of view yes, but if you tell a Japanese he will always say no, it's a cultural thing, they distinguish budo from sport. ;) Thank you for the comment
A thought: you could start a club? You've got 51k subscribers, maybe there's one or two in or near you. Or hell, just start asking us all to ask our friends... someone's gotta know someone in western Sicily who's interested in learning to hit each other with steel.
It includes a number of formal rules that have little to do with historical fighting, such as the fact that you score just for hitting the opponent first (and don't have to worry about getting hit yourself), not to mention the fact that fencing weapons are really light compared to historical ones.
Thanks, I've wondered that for a long time since the basic format is pretty old. Savate is one of the youngest martial arts around, but has a following within the HEMA community and it is categorized as HEMA, where fencing is much older and isn't.
+Metatron Have you looked at the HEMA club finder map? I was really surprised and delighted to find there was a club near me *(been going for 8mths, and never regretted it) -www.communitywalk.com/user/view/81443
This is a little off topic but you insinuate that you know multiple languages. So i would like to know how many languages do you know fluent or otherwise?
Matticuss StormBlade Business level = Engish, Italian and Japanese still need some work = French, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and last one Greek, which I have just started. You can find videos where I speak these languages, for example "the phone call" in the comedy section ^^
You are correct he used some kind of staff, so I stand corrected :) I got confused with the duel against kojiro :) well, in his life Musashi used the bokuto a lot. :D I shall add a note ;) Anyways the concept was that he used a wooden weapon and not a katana for that duel :D
I feel as though you cannot not speak in a way that makes you sound like the most knowledgeable person in the room teaching your interests. For example as I am watching this video I feel as though you are teaching me that you don't know what your talking about in such a way that you could very well be the most knowledgeable person in regards to knowing nothing about HEMA. That's teaching at its finest
I teach English, mostly in secondary school, and then I teach special afternoon courses for secondary school students and middle school students (Japanese classes on tuesday ;) ) . I also teach afternoon and evening courses for adults, exam preparation and so on. The school is indeed my primary source of income and then I also work as an international certification interlocutor and invigilator, and I travel to various cities here in Italy. Sometimes I also teach special projects of language learning which are funded by the European Union which are a lot of fun xD I occaionally make little conferences in my school about history and culture, I'll see if I can get some of those on youtube one day :D It is true that sports can be very efficient, but there are many rules and limitations which make then somewhat unrealistic from a real duel point of view I think. I hope this satisfies your curiosity :D thanks for watching
As a former competitive saber fencer and current HEMA practitioner, I can tell you with certainty that if I were going into a duel with sabres, I'd MUCH prefer to have studied, say, Hutton over modern sport fencing. That difference gets far more pronounced when talking about weapons like messer and longsword. That said, my sport fencing experience was definitely quite useful overall despite giving me some habits that I still need to eliminate.
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Don't sell yourself short. I like your more academic and historical approach. While practical knowledge like the other 3 have, that can also tend to overshadow other information, as they show a lot of the moves etc.
Knyght Errant lead me here! I haven't seen any of your other clips, I scrolled a tad through your video list and saw this, as a practicing HEMAist I chose to watch this video first, now, I don't know if you've started training yet... But a few things right off the bat:.
1. Honesty is something that makes me happy, I've gone off on long rants about my local, horrendous reenactment groups that are very dishonest about their authenticity... To themselves as well as others, heh, so, yeah... Being honest about ones knowledge is awesome.
2. You underestimate yourself. Being able to read ancient Italian is extremely useful... You've read Fiore, all you need to do is to interpret the techniques and do it with a friend(or more) and then you're practicing HEMA, that's how our modern Art started, that's how most clubs started... That's how the most knowledgeable of us started. On top of that... Yeah, you can read that stuff, HEMA is understaffed when it comes to translators, methinks you could potentially be a great resource for HEMA... There's still Italian stuff that isn't translated!
3. Olympic fencing and kendo are great bases for HEMA, a lot of good HEMA fencers have their backgrounds from there. =)
4. I'll check your videos out a bit more in a while and I might very well recommend you on my HEMA blog! =)
+Max Ronnby Hello Max thank you very much for taking the time not only to watch my video but to also comment. I appreciate your suggestions and I'll keep them in mind. I still haven't started to formally train in the art but I'm trying to organise a Metatron study group with friends.
I hope you'll like the rest of my content and hope you'll find it worthy of your blog :)
I have alway watched your channel primarily for your sharing of Historical, Cultural, and Martial information you share. I like your style of presentation of the subject matter quite alot. I think that when you move from sport fencing to HEMA you will have fun and deepen your knowlege.
Most people forget that much of the European martial arts had to be recreated from manuscripts where as the Asian arts have been kept alive. I enjoy HEMA saber and rapier but like you it is very difficult to find trained instructors. I will keep enjoying your channel.
As someone who also watches scholagladiatoria, lindybeige, and skallagrim, I will point out that I haven't subscribed to any of their channels but I have subscribed to yours. Apart from your exquisite accent and magnificent diction, I find your videos thoughtful, informative, and well presented. You make a valuable contribution to the HEMA community by providing a unique perspective.
"The Noble 700."
I see what you did there :P Great video as always. We appreciate your honesty, knowledge, and preachy-teachy style! I do, anyway. Really holds my attention because it communicates (and passes on) your excitement about a topic better than the words themselves.
I always considered channels like yours to be essential to the continuation of HEMA. Many people attamt to learn historical swordsmanship off of TH-cam, but many channels lack information which provides a historical context. in short, channels like yours help maintain the H, in HEMA.
Hi Metatron. I'm in the same boat as you, living in a small town with the nearest HEMA club several hundred kilometers away. I've been following Swordcarolina's series on German longsword for some solo practice and I've found their instruction to be very clear and helpful within the limitations of videos as opposed to face to face teaching. They are well worth checking out if you haven't already, although it obviously may not be so helpful if you are specifically interested in Fiore.
beautiful video! hey, something unrelated, i ve seen that there is a very old jousting event taking place in italy called the joust of the saracen. if you have time id love to hear some of the hisrory behind this event and stuff. oh and dont be so humble, even without a school you can study fiore and practice with friends and on the pell while you search for a solution in your search for a school! i wish you all the best my friend
+ShaNagmaImmuru Thank you very much for commenting and for your support, you are a good man :D I am organizing a study group and will be posting our sparring sessions soon :3
In another video, I thought your Japanese pronunciation was very good. With this video, now I understand.
Good luck in finding a good HEMA club in the future.
I kinda have the same problem as you, I can't practice HEMA right now. There is a club in my town but it's not very economical for me at the moment. I already practice kendo, I'm going to buy a hakama and I'm going to build a PC, plus I'm going to college next year, so unfortunately it will have to wait :C
Metatron greeting from Prague dont be so humble youre like one of the most wise clever and cool guys here on this crazy yt world :D keep it up! I listen to your videos while working on my art! Its great! Love from cz
My only advice: Hit them before they hit you. Good luck mate :)
Don't feel alone, there's no clubs where I live either. Martial arts in general is popular, but not HEMA specifically :( However, the Viking/Asatru community does seem to include practitioners. Hurrah!
Comments I read range from 8 yrs old to 4 yrs old w/ 1 one month ago; I've seen a few of your logician arguments and recognize the Philosophic protocols you use (& "truth table" forms), Truth be told, I like your style. I like the videos re: sword fights as martial arts. If I were younger (I'm four-score yrs of age now) and even if I were neared some who practice these forms, I would attend to view any events, and practices (but OK has nothing remotely near) so no personal practices for me.
A query; are you still doind this and am I simply cruising the wrong video lanes?
currently, i'm praticing a few fundaments from kali and "papamachete"(aperently, an armed haitian martial art/fencing technique that uses a machete as main weapon).
i decided to pratice staff, machete and dagger techniques, because they are cheap and easy to get, the machete, for exemple, is the most popular tool in Brasil and i can buy a big one for just 12-16 reais(brasilian coin).
in my opinion "HEMA", is much wider in therms of concept, i mean, the fundamental stone for the techniques execution can be adapted for a bunch of weapons and for that, i see HEMA as a concept, not a martial art itself.
once again, great video o/
Yes, HEMA is definitely a concept in that it encompasses a wide variety of sort-of-separate-sort-of-not martial arts (Kunst des Fechtens, Armizare, Abrazare etc.)
I guess the first rule of HEMA is not to tell anyone what HEMA is :D :D :D I like your videos, I just thought I'd post a silly comment about having to go and google what you're talking about :)
I have heard that you can only keep antique armory in England :/
Its a bit funny that a country that has spread this whole medieval culture stuff around the world has such laws. I also heard that in Japan you have to get some license to own a real sword or katana.
And here in Brazil we have a severe laws against firearms, but none forbidding the ownership of swords, knives, axes of any size. Well you can't walk around holding a sword or knife but you can keep it and you don't even have to get a license or anything.
Ok, this is not related to this video. It was just my thoughts about how strange the laws can be in different countries.
it was a good comment ;) Here in Italy you can keep wallhangers, but if you want to own and keep a sharp sword you need a licence, which I have xD
Hello Metatron have you tried reenactment. If you find a group with unscripted combat it'll be fun. Although not as skilled as hema. But my group it's pretty good.
+urbanmyths95 What's the name of your group?
Metatron
Historia Normannis and it's based in England.
+urbanmyths95 That would be fantastic, but I live in Italy
Metatron
there could be something similar near you
urbanmyths95 I know there is a very nice historical fencing in Florence but that's super far from where I live, I don't think there is an historical re-enactment in Sicily unfortunatly :( I''ll have to wait for when I move back to England, which eventually I will.
So, it sounds like I would much prefer the "jutsu" more than the "do"
I'm the kind of person who prefers to keep his fighting and his meditating separate.
"a certain way of speaking" haha yeah, you remind me a lot of my university professors, they all have this kind of "preaching" quality to their speech, i think that is the one thing they all have in common.
What are your thoughts on the SCA?
Metatron if you move back to England, you could move to the Great city of Exeter were they practice HEMA in its great cathedral, you’d love it
Sadly, we don't do it in the Cathedral, but we do practise in a late Victorian church.
Maybe one day we can convince the Cathedral to let us fence there. :)
@@Theswordundrawn that would be neat to do it in the actual cathedral but still the church is nice enough, and very fitting for the martial sport
@@Theswordundrawn must have wrote this comment before I joined the club, back then I thought it was at the cathedral lol
@@Theswordundrawn also I hear the club will be reopening for training on the 17 of may possibly?
@@baldrickthedungspreader3107 I'm not sure at the moment, as it'll depend on the status of the UK, but we can hope. :)
It's been far too long since I have had a chance to fence.
HEMA guys ever do matches against actual sword practitioners such as Kendo, Kumdo, or Chinese styles? I know HEMA guys always have a vast store of trivia, but what skills do you possess? th-cam.com/video/h6PhIFnqPjo/w-d-xo.html
I have had a tendency to think of Kendo as both a Martial Art and a Sport. Can't it be both?
From our western point of view yes, but if you tell a Japanese he will always say no, it's a cultural thing, they distinguish budo from sport. ;) Thank you for the comment
A thought: you could start a club? You've got 51k subscribers, maybe there's one or two in or near you. Or hell, just start asking us all to ask our friends... someone's gotta know someone in western Sicily who's interested in learning to hit each other with steel.
isnt dante medieval writer?
Why is Fencing not considered a form of HEMA?
It includes a number of formal rules that have little to do with historical fighting, such as the fact that you score just for hitting the opponent first (and don't have to worry about getting hit yourself), not to mention the fact that fencing weapons are really light compared to historical ones.
Thanks, I've wondered that for a long time since the basic format is pretty old. Savate is one of the youngest martial arts around, but has a following within the HEMA community and it is categorized as HEMA, where fencing is much older and isn't.
A little late now perhaps, have you found a club now, I wonder?
+LoricSwift Not yet :(
+Metatron Have you looked at the HEMA club finder map? I was really surprised and delighted to find there was a club near me *(been going for 8mths, and never regretted it) -www.communitywalk.com/user/view/81443
+LoricSwift 97 clubs in Italy apparently.
LoricSwift Yes but I live in Sicily O.O
I saw two in Scilly I think, though they were on the east coast (unless I have my geography horribly wrong, which is entirely possible ofc)
This is a little off topic but you insinuate that you know multiple languages. So i would like to know how many languages do you know fluent or otherwise?
Matticuss StormBlade Business level = Engish, Italian and Japanese
still need some work = French, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and last one Greek, which I have just started.
You can find videos where I speak these languages, for example "the phone call" in the comedy section ^^
yes I've seen a few of them just checking out the channel really like it
Matticuss StormBlade Thank you very much, I am glad you do and welcome :D I hope you too will become one of the Noble ones :D
already have my freind
I think you'll find Musashi killed with a quatterstaff at 13 not a bokuto :P
I thought he just used a random stick.
Rodrigo Ugarte The source I read said it was a staff. Wiki says it was a 6ft quatterstaff.
You are correct he used some kind of staff, so I stand corrected :) I got confused with the duel against kojiro :) well, in his life Musashi used the bokuto a lot. :D I shall add a note ;) Anyways the concept was that he used a wooden weapon and not a katana for that duel :D
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I feel as though you cannot not speak in a way that makes you sound like the most knowledgeable person in the room teaching your interests. For example as I am watching this video I feel as though you are teaching me that you don't know what your talking about in such a way that you could very well be the most knowledgeable person in regards to knowing nothing about HEMA. That's teaching at its finest
"No actual HEMA experience? Unsubscribe!"
I teach English, mostly in secondary school, and then I teach special afternoon courses for secondary school students and middle school students (Japanese classes on tuesday ;) ) .
I also teach afternoon and evening courses for adults, exam preparation and so on.
The school is indeed my primary source of income and then I also work as an international certification interlocutor and invigilator, and I travel to various cities here in Italy.
Sometimes I also teach special projects of language learning which are funded by the European Union which are a lot of fun xD
I occaionally make little conferences in my school about history and culture, I'll see if I can get some of those on youtube one day :D
It is true that sports can be very efficient, but there are many rules and limitations which make then somewhat unrealistic from a real duel point of view I think.
I hope this satisfies your curiosity :D thanks for watching
As a former competitive saber fencer and current HEMA practitioner, I can tell you with certainty that if I were going into a duel with sabres, I'd MUCH prefer to have studied, say, Hutton over modern sport fencing. That difference gets far more pronounced when talking about weapons like messer and longsword.
That said, my sport fencing experience was definitely quite useful overall despite giving me some habits that I still need to eliminate.
Metatron Thanks for answers! Teaching never looked so fun. xD