Today I survived my first HEMA tournament 🥳 And your channel really helped me a lot in my preparations, training and all in all having the correct state of mind to fight there and enjoy the process. So, many thanks 🖖
To sum up the video: 1.Have a plan before the round starts suited to your preferred style. 2.STICK TO IT. 3.Change it if context/style given by opponent doesn't allow it. 4.Make sure you change your plan when out of measure of the opponent's weapon... 5. Have at least 2-3 backup plans in mind and on the ready at all times. (PS: Changing plan when mutual action is launched within measure, is already too late, give yourself space and take your time.)
You are probably the most insightful, truthful and reasonable fencer on TH-cam. You just tell it like it is. The farce of tournament rules and how these silly rules affect the way fencers fight oftentimes in the most unrealistic ways. Kendo should take a note or two.
@@UltimateTruthChannel in the end, all fencing varies depending from context. All kinds of training are unrealistic when the application is deadly, so, in the end, we simply apply different aspects of fencing depending from which context we deal with. I personally enjoy most of them.
I started dabling in fiore, and love your channel I'm a boffer fighter for about 10-11 years now start dipping my feet in hema, but some of the philosophical and strategic ideas you share here I have found true in boffer aswell. Ciao!
0:47 You know, I don't think Thibault deserves this much shade, let me just open a random page in his book... Never mind, he absolutely does deserve it.
@@EconaelGaming well, ti be honest, every fencing simulation is a game. Sparring has its rules too, but aren’t written and more a fruit of the conventions we have on average in a given countries and, sometimes, clubs. For instance, certain clubs have years long afterblow time, other people have no afterblow at all, they stop after being hit. Other people train a lot with continuous fencing. Certain people stop at contact, other only when they receive a car accident on their mask. So in the end. Everything we do is a game, sparring is simply slightly more free because it’s fruit of a partially unconscious ruling of the game, like an on the road social interaction rather than a formal work meeting. So as far as I like what you say, it has to be put into perspective: Training is always a game, games aren’t bad, as humans we learn mainly by playing!
My first tournament is coming next week after a little more than a year of training, but my biggest issue is the tournament start on 9am while I am being use to sleeping in 3am :(
@@chanalan7670 hehe, well today I won bronze at a tournament after 5 hours of sleep, so it’s possible to manage it in some ways. But well… Try to sleep more xd
Interestingly enough, a lot of my training (from a reenactment fencing perspective) has been trying to make training less competitive and more about learning, compared to making tournaments less like training.
Different systems in reenactment fencing also make the difference in competitions or circles even starker as some use arms, some don't; some use heads, some don't; etc.
@@footchess387 it’s part of a video on Patreon, but you can find it also in the video I made a couple years ago in which I talk about my martial experience. I’ll link it below in another comment
Today I survived my first HEMA tournament 🥳 And your channel really helped me a lot in my preparations, training and all in all having the correct state of mind to fight there and enjoy the process. So, many thanks 🖖
@@erling921 you are welcome! This is very good!
To sum up the video: 1.Have a plan before the round starts suited to your preferred style. 2.STICK TO IT. 3.Change it if context/style given by opponent doesn't allow it. 4.Make sure you change your plan when out of measure of the opponent's weapon... 5. Have at least 2-3 backup plans in mind and on the ready at all times. (PS: Changing plan when mutual action is launched within measure, is already too late, give yourself space and take your time.)
You are probably the most insightful, truthful and reasonable fencer on TH-cam. You just tell it like it is. The farce of tournament rules and how these silly rules affect the way fencers fight oftentimes in the most unrealistic ways. Kendo should take a note or two.
@@UltimateTruthChannel in the end, all fencing varies depending from context. All kinds of training are unrealistic when the application is deadly, so, in the end, we simply apply different aspects of fencing depending from which context we deal with. I personally enjoy most of them.
Great advise thanks.
I started dabling in fiore, and love your channel I'm a boffer fighter for about 10-11 years now start dipping my feet in hema, but some of the philosophical and strategic ideas you share here I have found true in boffer aswell. Ciao!
3:53 The Codex Astartes approves of this slide
@@alexandercain8904 thanks battle brother
0:47 You know, I don't think Thibault deserves this much shade, let me just open a random page in his book... Never mind, he absolutely does deserve it.
@@MartinGreywolf LOL
good to find the new vid just back home from Como!
Eat a big breakfasts! Fills you up for the day, don't have to worry about eating while there. Plus its historical. Thanks, hannibal!
@@SirKanti1 lol! I’ll also talk about nutrition eventually
What do you think of: "Treat a tournament more like a game, than a fencing simulation."
@@EconaelGaming well, ti be honest, every fencing simulation is a game. Sparring has its rules too, but aren’t written and more a fruit of the conventions we have on average in a given countries and, sometimes, clubs.
For instance, certain clubs have years long afterblow time, other people have no afterblow at all, they stop after being hit. Other people train a lot with continuous fencing. Certain people stop at contact, other only when they receive a car accident on their mask.
So in the end. Everything we do is a game, sparring is simply slightly more free because it’s fruit of a partially unconscious ruling of the game, like an on the road social interaction rather than a formal work meeting.
So as far as I like what you say, it has to be put into perspective: Training is always a game, games aren’t bad, as humans we learn mainly by playing!
My first tournament is coming next week after a little more than a year of training, but my biggest issue is the tournament start on 9am while I am being use to sleeping in 3am :(
@@chanalan7670 hehe, well today I won bronze at a tournament after 5 hours of sleep, so it’s possible to manage it in some ways. But well… Try to sleep more xd
@@FedericoMalagutti Will do! Might have to swallow one or two can of monster before entering the ring in the worst case XD
@@chanalan7670 ahahahahahah!
Interestingly enough, a lot of my training (from a reenactment fencing perspective) has been trying to make training less competitive and more about learning, compared to making tournaments less like training.
Different systems in reenactment fencing also make the difference in competitions or circles even starker as some use arms, some don't; some use heads, some don't; etc.
Where is the footage at 1:03 from
A museum in Rima - Alto Sermenza. Dedicated to a local Sculptor named “Pietro della Vedova”
@@FedericoMalagutti in wich video is it ?
@@footchess387 it’s part of a video on Patreon, but you can find it also in the video I made a couple years ago in which I talk about my martial experience. I’ll link it below in another comment
This one: th-cam.com/video/zpr0wjEKn0Y/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
@@FedericoMalagutti thx
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