Thank you very much for this video. The term "Mordhaw" appears in Paulus Hector Mair's Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica (1542). But it is a hewing action with the blade of the pollaxe ("Mordagst" in the source). So the term exists, but it has a different meaning. Interestingly, Fiore dei Liberi in the early 1400s, in his fencing books, indicates that holding the sword in the blade allows it to be used as an axe. However, the axes depicted in Fiore's works do not have blades, they are more like the hammer in this video, although they are intended to be used with both hands. Please keep up the great work!
Thank you for the clarification! I will add this to the description. Seeing this, my original point is true and not true at the same time.😁 Appreciate the warm words, I'll try to keep the series going!
Amazing Video guys! Its so sweet that you remind " no not end your friends"😂❤ its importand! As a Short Person, i think that halfsword and Hammer Attack would probably work for me as well. Happy to try that next time at Training. Keep going guys 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
Going to be hugely contraversial here. But I'm going to be super honest. It almost seems like people in "modern times" are lookin at old sword fighting manuscrips and actually think this is how it was actually done. In the arts of all styles of fighting, there is "whats possible" and "what actually F**KING works in real life. This whole, grab the sword by the blade and start swinging it like a club or something, is down right hilarious. This is for sure one of those things that is a possible technique, but overall just a nonsensicle trash attack.
For some people will Sound it weird. Thats true. But in a realistic combat[maybe in medieval times] you cant expect how fast a Situation can change and handle it without Losing your live. Nobody go into a battle and swinging a sword like a mace. So better you cut yOur own hands ,as losing your head. What will you do, if your blade is broken ? Fistfight? And yes in modern Times You have no choice to bring it to life from your fantasy combined with a medieval source. Nobody will say all is 100 accurate. All martial Arts today has techniques for practice Not for realistic application.
@@wanato614 I gaurantee you the "best" knights on the battlefield, in any era of warfare, as long as it involved hand weapons and armor, I gaurantee like all martial arts, the best of the best were only super good at a handful of "moves", extremely good at a couple slash moves, cutting moves, blocking moves, and thrusting moves, advanced basics wins in real life time and time again. Master 1 really good thrusting motion, I gaurantee if your good enough you can beat anyone on the battlefield. Now have thousands upon thousands of peasants trained to be extremely good at one thrusting motion. You have urself a world conquering army.
I don't think that it is as controversial as you think. Matt Easton from @scholagladiatoria made a whole video why he "hates" the Mordschlag. The techniques describing it are just a part of a compendium, there are many more things you can do. Nonetheless, it exists to that extent that the Mordschlag is in almost every treatise concerning armored fencing and there were specialised swords to do exactly that. Of course, as people practising martial arts, all we can do is try to understand how it worked and interpret where it could have been applied. Finding out if certain techniques really work and what impact they have, would require to seriously injure our partner. That we cannot do, but what we can do is theorize about it.
Another great video. Thanks.
Glad to have found your channel. ⚔️
Welcome aboard! Always happy to teach people who enjoy what I do!
Thank you very much for this video.
The term "Mordhaw" appears in Paulus Hector Mair's Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica (1542). But it is a hewing action with the blade of the pollaxe ("Mordagst" in the source). So the term exists, but it has a different meaning. Interestingly, Fiore dei Liberi in the early 1400s, in his fencing books, indicates that holding the sword in the blade allows it to be used as an axe. However, the axes depicted in Fiore's works do not have blades, they are more like the hammer in this video, although they are intended to be used with both hands.
Please keep up the great work!
Thank you for the clarification! I will add this to the description. Seeing this, my original point is true and not true at the same time.😁
Appreciate the warm words, I'll try to keep the series going!
Amazing Video guys!
Its so sweet that you remind " no not end your friends"😂❤ its importand!
As a Short Person, i think that halfsword and Hammer Attack would probably work for me as well.
Happy to try that next time at Training.
Keep going guys 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
The quality of your videos keeps improving, it gets easier to follow along 😊
Happy to hear that!
Going to be hugely contraversial here. But I'm going to be super honest. It almost seems like people in "modern times" are lookin at old sword fighting manuscrips and actually think this is how it was actually done. In the arts of all styles of fighting, there is "whats possible" and "what actually F**KING works in real life. This whole, grab the sword by the blade and start swinging it like a club or something, is down right hilarious. This is for sure one of those things that is a possible technique, but overall just a nonsensicle trash attack.
For some people will Sound it weird. Thats true. But in a realistic combat[maybe in medieval times] you cant expect how fast a Situation can change and handle it without Losing your live.
Nobody go into a battle and swinging a sword like a mace.
So better you cut yOur own hands ,as losing your head. What will you do, if your blade is broken ? Fistfight?
And yes in modern Times You have no choice to bring it to life from your fantasy combined with a medieval source.
Nobody will say all is 100 accurate.
All martial Arts today has techniques for practice Not for realistic application.
@@wanato614 I gaurantee you the "best" knights on the battlefield, in any era of warfare, as long as it involved hand weapons and armor, I gaurantee like all martial arts, the best of the best were only super good at a handful of "moves", extremely good at a couple slash moves, cutting moves, blocking moves, and thrusting moves, advanced basics wins in real life time and time again. Master 1 really good thrusting motion, I gaurantee if your good enough you can beat anyone on the battlefield. Now have thousands upon thousands of peasants trained to be extremely good at one thrusting motion. You have urself a world conquering army.
I don't think that it is as controversial as you think. Matt Easton from @scholagladiatoria made a whole video why he "hates" the Mordschlag. The techniques describing it are just a part of a compendium, there are many more things you can do. Nonetheless, it exists to that extent that the Mordschlag is in almost every treatise concerning armored fencing and there were specialised swords to do exactly that. Of course, as people practising martial arts, all we can do is try to understand how it worked and interpret where it could have been applied. Finding out if certain techniques really work and what impact they have, would require to seriously injure our partner. That we cannot do, but what we can do is theorize about it.