Very cool video! Lots of goofy grips in here I never would've guessed had actual usage and felt like something I would've done as a kid because I thought it looked cool haha. The spear fighting grips were interesting too, seeing how you can use your sword to augment what is in most cases a "better" weapon or defend against it.
it seems to me that for such an application as in the picture, you need to be able to move and even think in a completely different way. here, most likely, this is not a defense like in your video, but an attack. an unexpected attack from an awkward position.
The impression I got from the vast amount of variance in Fiore manuals, is that Fiore believed one should be able to handle the sword all sorts of ways and remain highly capable with it. If my life depended on it, I think I would be a far more versatile guitarist. Perhaps if HEMA practitioners thought their lives may one day depend on it, they would be far more versatile too. I see an exciting future ahead for HEMA, as that mastery of the sword gets rediscovered.
Not bread and butter =/= bad... just means something not you build a fighting style around. Also, blow my mind, alot of guards makes reserve gripping a longsword look tame, reality can be stranger than fiction. Also, Bard core Rick Roll :D
@@Apperceptive_Swordsman correct. If a technique exists for one specific reason and that reason is so random it had to be because of an isolated incident.
@@Apperceptive_Swordsman also to add to this, I’m going to theorize that the only reason why the technique was written into text was for bragging rights because they did it and it was cool.
Sorry for the green screen issues. I didn't realize when filming that small differences in lighting would throw things off so much!
Take that sellswords arts.
Uh oh what did I miss 😅
@@Apperceptive_Swordsman😅 your video remembers me to all the reverse grip didn't work stuff on sellswords arts channel.
Oh man. Well he can take this as a reason to offer another reverse grip video to the Dark Algorithm Lord
@@Apperceptive_Swordsman I hope he will mention you. You owned it.
Man, you are great! Excellent, very visual work done! Respect from Russia!
Thanks! Respect from me to you as well!
Very cool video! Lots of goofy grips in here I never would've guessed had actual usage and felt like something I would've done as a kid because I thought it looked cool haha.
The spear fighting grips were interesting too, seeing how you can use your sword to augment what is in most cases a "better" weapon or defend against it.
it seems to me that for such an application as in the picture, you need to be able to move and even think in a completely different way. here, most likely, this is not a defense like in your video, but an attack. an unexpected attack from an awkward position.
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The impression I got from the vast amount of variance in Fiore manuals, is that Fiore believed one should be able to handle the sword all sorts of ways and remain highly capable with it. If my life depended on it, I think I would be a far more versatile guitarist. Perhaps if HEMA practitioners thought their lives may one day depend on it, they would be far more versatile too. I see an exciting future ahead for HEMA, as that mastery of the sword gets rediscovered.
Would be fun to do a weird guard roulette sparring session.
that would be fun!
Not bread and butter =/= bad... just means something not you build a fighting style around. Also, blow my mind, alot of guards makes reserve gripping a longsword look tame, reality can be stranger than fiction. Also, Bard core Rick Roll :D
I am wondering if some of these techniques were used just because that’s how the scholar was holding their sword at the time 🤔
Why? Because they seem random?
@@Apperceptive_Swordsman correct. If a technique exists for one specific reason and that reason is so random it had to be because of an isolated incident.
@@Apperceptive_Swordsman also to add to this, I’m going to theorize that the only reason why the technique was written into text was for bragging rights because they did it and it was cool.
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