Full Contact Greatsword Sparring (Oskar ter Mors vs Michel Rensen)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Hello there! I'm steadily working through my back log, so I can find some peace of mind to do more messer stuff after that. Almost done! :D Last April, I had the absolute pleasure to be able to do a few bouts of greatsword and longsword with Michel Rensen. Here's the resulting video. :)
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I don’t know why, but this is the most “understandable” sparring I’ve ever seen. Usually I just see sparring and know “X left their side open and Y just hit them there” or “X moved too fast for Y to counter.” But here, I can actually see how each fighter responds to pressure and the intent behind each strike. Maybe it’s the bigger swords or just really clean fencing.
I think I see what you mean. I think it's both really. Michel and I both fence quite cleanly and clearly for various reasons (if I do say so myself), but since every movement gets bigger with the Greatswords, you will likely have an even easier time seeing what happens.
It's cool to see that the hype for big swords survived past the pandemic (when most people seemed to have picked it up.)
Beautiful to see.
Yeah, I'm really happy greatswords are here to stay. :)
@@VirtualFechtschule Hopefully one day more people will also seriously pursue halberds, threshing flails and other polearms.
Beautiful fencing. Truly. I don’t really think of montante as a dueling sword, but why not! It’s great SIGI forge has made these feders safe and effective for sparring.
Dequitem or frederico malutti or whatever tf did full contact great storage sparring in one of his videos I believe recently at least within the last month
Yeah, they both did recently. Pretty fun coincidence. :D
Well look at that. Steel Montante sparring with contemporary gear. And you are both still alive? No mask shredded to bits at all? And people said it couldn't be done.
At what point along the spectrum of greatsword weights and sizes would you say longsword techniques become noticeably difficulty or even borderline detrimental to employ? Montantes tend to be on the lighter end of this spectrum, don't they? What about their german cousins?
That depends on the German sword in question. I've handled one that was 4.1 kg, but it was so well balanced that I could see it happening with some effort. :P But that's really pushing it, and for most post 1550 battleswords, I would suspect it would be less than practical.
I've always wondered, why do you move like a game character? I'm not saying it is bad, but I've never seen anyone else doing that.
You move from one perfect text-book pose to another one. But does it really have any benefits or is it just you being notorious with the manuscripts?
I'd imagine he just pays a lot of attention to his structure/body mechanics when training
Hehehe, I haven't heard it described like that yet. :D I think there's two things going on here. One is that as an instructor, I've been working a lot on trying to transmit what I think is good form whenever I show fencing, so that means I've just gotten used to making the movements very clear. Secondly, I do think it has an actual benefit as well, as the text book positions have a few big advantages to them. Firstly, they are usually very good positions to perform windings and free attacks from, which you may not notice as much with longsword, but much more so with things like Messer and greatsword. Secondly, and more importantly, these are positions that allow you to fence for control rather than just hits by keeping your hands safe from direct attacks, meaning you invite your opponent to rather attack your deeper targets as a first intention. This allows you to more accurately predict where they'll attack and also means they'll be closer when they do; so fencing from windings gets easier as you're at least in the right distance. This is just what I think is quite close to what historical sources envisioned, and maybe it's not very meta at tournaments, but in a historical context, going for control over hits makes sense. And even so, I don't do too badly at tournaments if keep my shit together mentally. :)
@@VirtualFechtschule Thank you for the insight!
@@VirtualFechtschule Hum, very interesting the point about invitations with the hand close to the body, i always see them as evasions from direct attacks to the hand.
What’s on top of left fighter’s helmet?
The remnants of bunny ears. A Zwaard en Steen tradition when going to this event called Bunny Bash.
@@VirtualFechtschule Bunny ears on helmets >>> Viking horns on helmets
@@VirtualFechtschule for a minute I thought he had a GoPro camera fixed on top of his mask, and I was hoping we would also get a POV video of this sparring 😂
@@frenchgalloglass5204 Sorry. Would have been truly epic, but perhaps an idea for the future. :)
@@VirtualFechtschule the first step would be to find a way to protect the camera from greatsword strikes 😅 great sparring btw. Michel is an amazing fencer