Interesting video. Thank you for sharing. Some tips, from a Chinese point of view, if you are interested: - When attacking, we thrust continuously and relentlessly at various targets until the opponent is dead, rather than launching single thrusts. - Thus, the gap between a feinting thrust and the real attack should be a fraction of a second, rather than two separate movements. - When thrusting, we slide the rear hand all the way to the lead hand to get maximum reach. - When the opponent's weapon is shorter, there is no need to lean in to get extra reach. - We keep the opponent at spear's length, rather than moving in to (in this case) axe length. By the way, my comments only apply to the first 65 seconds. I don't practise spear with a shield, so I cannot comment on that. Kind regards.
Modern European spear users forget foot, look at how they flow with swords sabers and rapiers but the second they touch a spear they become flat footed and lose all sense of rhythm and flow I love watching Chinese spear practitioners because they have preserved the living form of spear play
It is nice to see the full potential of spear fight because at reeactment you are not allowed to thrust upwards. So very nice video. Keep up the uploads.
Brilliant demonstration! While easy to see the benefits of shield and spear combo, watching someone use a Dane axe with speed makes of far easier to imagine how a strong and highly skilled user could strike a neck, arm or shoulder, or drag a shield out of place. And also how a strong user could potentially overwhelm an opponent with brutal thrusts and hacks. Well done, and thank you!
You guys are my favorite channel by now, just cuz you guys fight good with The dane axe (my favorite weapon). keep up these videos 😁 and always with viking weaponry
Great video, from my experience, the "safe" danes vs spear acts differently from their heavier metal counter parts. The metal danes have a slower recovery speed, but with the added weight they have a stronger parry. The safest way to fight metals is in armor, eastern style, but eastern fighting has it's own disadvantages too. Keep up the good work guys.
Great videos. Does adding a shield actually help against the dane axe? To me it looks much more effective to just use two hands on the spear and make full use of the reach advantage. With only one hand on the spear, it seems too easy to get your point batted to the side, allowing the axeman to move in.
2 handed spear seems to be utterly overpowered against everything with all the testing we've done, this is probably helped by how intuitive it is to use and requires very little training to be effective with. We do however have to keep in mind the context in which these weapons would have been used as a spear held in 2 hands leaves you quite vulnerable against any projectiles shot or thrown at you so they do have their strengths and weaknesses.
Interesting video. Thank you for sharing.
Some tips, from a Chinese point of view, if you are interested:
- When attacking, we thrust continuously and relentlessly at various targets until the opponent is dead, rather than launching single thrusts.
- Thus, the gap between a feinting thrust and the real attack should be a fraction of a second, rather than two separate movements.
- When thrusting, we slide the rear hand all the way to the lead hand to get maximum reach.
- When the opponent's weapon is shorter, there is no need to lean in to get extra reach.
- We keep the opponent at spear's length, rather than moving in to (in this case) axe length.
By the way, my comments only apply to the first 65 seconds. I don't practise spear with a shield, so I cannot comment on that.
Kind regards.
Modern European spear users forget foot, look at how they flow with swords sabers and rapiers but the second they touch a spear they become flat footed and lose all sense of rhythm and flow
I love watching Chinese spear practitioners because they have preserved the living form of spear play
It is nice to see the full potential of spear fight because at reeactment you are not allowed to thrust upwards. So very nice video.
Keep up the uploads.
after this many milennia of nerfs on the spear, it is still OP in meelee fight
Brilliant demonstration!
While easy to see the benefits of shield and spear combo, watching someone use a Dane axe with speed makes of far easier to imagine how a strong and highly skilled user could strike a neck, arm or shoulder, or drag a shield out of place. And also how a strong user could potentially overwhelm an opponent with brutal thrusts and hacks.
Well done, and thank you!
You guys are my favorite channel by now, just cuz you guys fight good with The dane axe (my favorite weapon). keep up these videos 😁 and always with viking weaponry
Thank you pal, means a lot to us 😁
Great video, from my experience, the "safe" danes vs spear acts differently from their heavier metal counter parts. The metal danes have a slower recovery speed, but with the added weight they have a stronger parry. The safest way to fight metals is in armor, eastern style, but eastern fighting has it's own disadvantages too. Keep up the good work guys.
Shield and spear is my favorite combination. :)
Great videos.
Does adding a shield actually help against the dane axe? To me it looks much more effective to just use two hands on the spear and make full use of the reach advantage. With only one hand on the spear, it seems too easy to get your point batted to the side, allowing the axeman to move in.
It may just be because we are relatively new to it, however the fella in green is much better than me to be fair 😄
2 handed spear seems to be utterly overpowered against everything with all the testing we've done, this is probably helped by how intuitive it is to use and requires very little training to be effective with. We do however have to keep in mind the context in which these weapons would have been used as a spear held in 2 hands leaves you quite vulnerable against any projectiles shot or thrown at you so they do have their strengths and weaknesses.
This is why if you wield an axe you need heavy armor
I'm also thinking more aggression and power with the axe.
He kept pressing L1 and R1 together by accident
why do these videos always try to make a point with someone who has never fought AGAINST a spear before?
Not making a point or drawing any conclusions, just sparring with spear and a Dane axe as the title says