It's nice to watch your swordplay. I am a begginer, started my saber training today and my journey to be swordman. And also I am Polish so it's an honor to see someone outside my country doing so well with my ancestors fighting style. Hope you will get even better ⚔
Bro i love your footwork, your distancing is amazing also. Sometimes I can't practice or watch you without thinking how awesome it would be to live during the time before modern firearms.
Crossbow would like to know your location. So would every spear and pike in existence. Fancy saber guys when I roll up with my homies in Macedonian phalanx 💀 Jokes aside, still impeccable footwork and it makes the inner boy who used sticks smile. Funny thing is, I feel like sabre feels most natural to anyone who did stick fights as a kid, since most points in sabre duels are done into legs, and without equipment we all avoided aiming for head and torso anyways.
Funny thing is that this style of saber fencing was alive and well during the age of firearms right up to the revolver and repeating rifle! Officers in the late 1800s would absolutely have had a saber and pistol in combat.
@@MrMrtvozornik And to you sir, I'm obviously talking to like minded gentlemen not a brute such as thyself, take your polearms and begone, us saberist will catch you on the cobblestones lol. But I'm not talking about what weapon is best, I'm simply saying there's few things that feel as nice as having a well balanced Saber....or swiss saber.....in hand.
@@JDdeleon1 I would definitely agree, being kited out with fancy saber is far more glamourous going to 1v1 combat, compared to being given the long stick grueling in the battlefield with hundreds of others in same exact position as you. I still have to reprimand you though, for sin of "neo-nostalgia" as historians call it. It's for your own good, I've seen people go down that route, ignoring real warfare, focusing on fantastical scenarios from the past. It's so very much common in my country especially, since it got to empire status at one point and now is nothing but a spec on the map (all be it, 70% of European countries could say the same). First step is light daydreaming. Second step is asking around "Oh how jolly it would be if we were born in X year". Third step is realizing your talents/interests don't jive with the modern world. Attributes work for that too, like realizing how much clout and resources you could get if you were 6'4" and in middle ages compared to now if you live in one of the tallest on average countries in the world, or the flip side, if you're 5'3" and thinking how much more you'd be at home before industrial revolution and increase in growth in humans. This step usually makes you jaded towards modernity of any kind. Fourth step is dabbling lightly in open discrimination against people who "wouldn't make it" back in the day. Then you go and go, till you get to like fifteenth step where you literally become Ted Kaczynski. Obviously there's a reason why even in Ancient Greece you wouldn't be considered "armed" with just a shortsword, and only would be so if you had a spear on you. Or the fact that the fancy dueling like this only survived in the upper class nobility who had luxury of prancing like that. After saying all that, I'll still practice HEMA, sabers especially lmao. My point is simply don't let light daydreaming of the past stop you and make you jaded for the present and future. Obviously anyone on 1st and 2nd step say "That's silly, I would never go that far" but that's what everyone who got to step 7 also said back in the day when they were at those steps. Basically, thread carefully with your fantasies, sometimes they can take hold of you in ways we don't expect. This same line of reasoning could be applied easily to other types of fantasies, be it Greed, Lust, Wrath or Pride. But you get the point, and my comment is long enough as is.
Sabres are most absolute favorite to watch when it comes to HEMA. I especially love Polish Sabres and how fast it can be! The techniques remind me of a dance number of death.
Thanks for the content! I am a writer, my work involves the Middle Ages, so when describing battles or battles, your fencing helps a lot. I wish you success
Hello there! I've been following you for quite some time now. I'd like to order a Polish saber for my fencing practice. Could you please tell me how much your Polish saber weighs?
I know you've gotten good at it, but standing in distance and trading parry ripostes is not a good idea. I was hoping this kind of saber fencing would go out of style.
@@gavinrnI'm not just a keyboard warrior, I coach top rated historical fencers. He's relying on speed along to keep him safe, instead of stacking bonuses using speed, distance, tactics, funneling. His game is good but shallow. He could be so much better if he didn't rely on this one thing. People see this and think, ah, to get good I have to be fast, but there is so much more to fencing than that. Glad it works for him, though.
It's nice to watch your swordplay. I am a begginer, started my saber training today and my journey to be swordman. And also I am Polish so it's an honor to see someone outside my country doing so well with my ancestors fighting style. Hope you will get even better ⚔
Gdzie ćwiczysz? :)
@@Agilled Gwiazdy Katowic
I would opt for a Kendo dojo.
@@bluedog101c no way, kendo is gay
@@Agilled Then it should be perfect for you.
Bro i love your footwork, your distancing is amazing also. Sometimes I can't practice or watch you without thinking how awesome it would be to live during the time before modern firearms.
Crossbow would like to know your location. So would every spear and pike in existence. Fancy saber guys when I roll up with my homies in Macedonian phalanx 💀
Jokes aside, still impeccable footwork and it makes the inner boy who used sticks smile. Funny thing is, I feel like sabre feels most natural to anyone who did stick fights as a kid, since most points in sabre duels are done into legs, and without equipment we all avoided aiming for head and torso anyways.
Funny thing is that this style of saber fencing was alive and well during the age of firearms right up to the revolver and repeating rifle! Officers in the late 1800s would absolutely have had a saber and pistol in combat.
@@gavinrn Very much true, which is one reason modern firearms was specified.
@@MrMrtvozornik And to you sir, I'm obviously talking to like minded gentlemen not a brute such as thyself, take your polearms and begone, us saberist will catch you on the cobblestones lol. But I'm not talking about what weapon is best, I'm simply saying there's few things that feel as nice as having a well balanced Saber....or swiss saber.....in hand.
@@JDdeleon1 I would definitely agree, being kited out with fancy saber is far more glamourous going to 1v1 combat, compared to being given the long stick grueling in the battlefield with hundreds of others in same exact position as you.
I still have to reprimand you though, for sin of "neo-nostalgia" as historians call it. It's for your own good, I've seen people go down that route, ignoring real warfare, focusing on fantastical scenarios from the past. It's so very much common in my country especially, since it got to empire status at one point and now is nothing but a spec on the map (all be it, 70% of European countries could say the same).
First step is light daydreaming.
Second step is asking around "Oh how jolly it would be if we were born in X year".
Third step is realizing your talents/interests don't jive with the modern world. Attributes work for that too, like realizing how much clout and resources you could get if you were 6'4" and in middle ages compared to now if you live in one of the tallest on average countries in the world, or the flip side, if you're 5'3" and thinking how much more you'd be at home before industrial revolution and increase in growth in humans. This step usually makes you jaded towards modernity of any kind.
Fourth step is dabbling lightly in open discrimination against people who "wouldn't make it" back in the day.
Then you go and go, till you get to like fifteenth step where you literally become Ted Kaczynski.
Obviously there's a reason why even in Ancient Greece you wouldn't be considered "armed" with just a shortsword, and only would be so if you had a spear on you. Or the fact that the fancy dueling like this only survived in the upper class nobility who had luxury of prancing like that.
After saying all that, I'll still practice HEMA, sabers especially lmao. My point is simply don't let light daydreaming of the past stop you and make you jaded for the present and future. Obviously anyone on 1st and 2nd step say "That's silly, I would never go that far" but that's what everyone who got to step 7 also said back in the day when they were at those steps. Basically, thread carefully with your fantasies, sometimes they can take hold of you in ways we don't expect. This same line of reasoning could be applied easily to other types of fantasies, be it Greed, Lust, Wrath or Pride. But you get the point, and my comment is long enough as is.
Sabres are most absolute favorite to watch when it comes to HEMA. I especially love Polish Sabres and how fast it can be! The techniques remind me of a dance number of death.
Движение твоих ног что-то невероятное. Пришлось видео пересматривать, потому что впервые раз я следила только за ногами 😅
Thanks for the content! I am a writer, my work involves the Middle Ages, so when describing battles or battles, your fencing helps a lot. I wish you success
This is what should be in the Olympics..as real as actual sword fighting
Olympic saber blowssssss, but epee is real sword fighting.
Excellent swordsmanship with beautiful music
Ahh such adaptability, such skill! Such Honor!! Wonderful video! ❤
I love your style, great footwork.
This is so elegant to watch.
Amazing as always
This guy is like a virtuoso with the sabre 🤌🏼
Sir I need you to understand i need MORE OF THIS lol
Dude I had to watch this in half speed to get what happened 🤣. The fencing is goated.
at 1:23 i got up out of seat. what a moment ⚔
I have to watch this at half speed to see where the blows connected, and its not easy even then.
Really appreciate the fencing though!
Bro, I'm reconstructing Medieval sword fighting in the Middle East and you're inadvertently doing 80% of the leg-work
where can I find pants you're using? They look pretty cool
This is amazing, any chance you could post some solo drills for us to work on at home?
Good match!
It seemed that he had coordinated the movements of his legs and saber with the music, like a mezhnigap symphony
Great fighting from both of you. Can I ask one thing? I look for good shoes for fencing, what boots do you use?
super!
well-played fool's guard 0:50
Hello there! I've been following you for quite some time now. I'd like to order a Polish saber for my fencing practice. Could you please tell me how much your Polish saber weighs?
How do you get such mobile wrists?
Epic
this is the fool's guard video match
I know you've gotten good at it, but standing in distance and trading parry ripostes is not a good idea. I was hoping this kind of saber fencing would go out of style.
As opposed to what? Do you actually fence historical saber? Our man Josh here is a top 100 saber fencer in the world. He’s quite good at it!
@@gavinrnI'm not just a keyboard warrior, I coach top rated historical fencers. He's relying on speed along to keep him safe, instead of stacking bonuses using speed, distance, tactics, funneling. His game is good but shallow. He could be so much better if he didn't rely on this one thing. People see this and think, ah, to get good I have to be fast, but there is so much more to fencing than that. Glad it works for him, though.