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Here’s what: would you rather be poked, or slashed? Neither really, but unless the poke is to the head or heart, the poke is less likely to take you out than a slash. Especially if it’s a Longsword. Add some armor to the equation, and the rapier becomes so much less of a danger. Context matters. In sparring, you point every rapier stab. In actual combat, a stab is not equal a slash.

Di you have a link for this stuff?

What does AHF mean? I already tried google and cant seem to get an answer there

Everybody wants to imagine they are Zorro.

To win against the Rapier, the longsword should become a pike. 😤

KORYBUG BURKETT: My goodness. That sword is very, very sharp

Ox Guard stance beats rapier ez

Fighting full intent without back of the head protection. Could hurt

It's smaller than I expected.

The shield is obviously too big. It should be smaller. 🤡

As brilliant and masterful as Nick and Mike are, the star of this vid is the unrepentant 70s soundtrack. Bravo!

Phenomenal soundtrack, by the way…saw C.O.C live quite a few years ago in a TINY venue down south…it remains one of the best shows I’ve seen.

Would be nice to know the rules of the bout. Would think the Longswords hands would be chopped up in a fight. Are the gloves considered proof against attack?

This would be so much better without the music. Otherwise great video.

Putting up a hanging guard while retreating is a reliable way to stay alive.

this is bullshit. hacking, lunging? learn how to fight the person, not the sword.

Love the soundtrack

The biggest problem with regards to HEMA would be that a “historically oriented” fencer would have to search for all strands of discourse and evidence from the medieval period (law, literature, theology, medicine, historiography, art and cultural history, etc.) and create/collect a corpus of mutually complementary information on exercise methodology, weapon characteristics and application systematics in the various forms of combat, so that they would have the vague possibility of achieving what they want. However, the unfortunate truth is that most HEMA fencers are too lazy to even read about German stage fencing (the only existing descendant art of Liechtenauer’s fencing tradition).

Longshore should take a single handed fencing stance to cut down his profile. Only way to seal with the range and speed disadvantage

Speaking as someone who knows very little about HEMA, it seems like the longsword user had the most success when he used one-handed strikes, letting his blade close that extra bit of distance. In a way, he had to use his longsword more like a rapier to beat a rapier. Or maybe I'm talking bs, I don't know

Both absolutely reckless if a real fight is what they are trying to reenact. If they trained without padding, many strikes or thrusts would not even have been attempted because the pain in training would have shown that they are too risky. Same for some of the one-handed longsword cuts where control of the weapon was totally abandoned in the hope of hitting the opponent. Technically very good, but they visibly never fought with sharp blades against anybody who wants to hurt them ....

I can't begin to express how much I love spears. They're often incredibly overlooked by people today, with everybody solely fascinated with swords. A spear has reach, speed and is incredibly cheap to make. It's one of the oldest and most effective (close combat *and* ranged) weapons known to mankind. It really deserves more love from more than just the HEMA community.

git gud

Music spot on

Conclusion: spear is the supreme weapon.

Love the spear, also love the Sasquatch tune playing 🤘

It's so crazy how you chose this song. As a kid I always imagined myself with a rapier fighting a ton of Spanish guards dancing across the floor. I am pursuing HEMA now but you just dug up a long lost memory for me. Thanks!

I think I'd choose a bastard/longsword over the rapier. The rapier is longer and single-handed. I have both.

Those were some beautiful exchanges, especially the double parry !

Isabella vs Marie

Give the guy with the buckler a bigger shield, like a Viking shield, perhaps.

The sword would not be much cop at 300m against an experienced archer, either. Stick these two in a confined corridor and it'd be a different story. As for a WW1 soldier with a bayonet and rifle...

3:00

It's all fun and games until you lose a thrust trade by taking a rapier to the throat.

Техника боя с холодным оружием имеет приоритет - скорость и точность, и потом сила. Сколько видео просмотрел - везде сумятица сплошная... Вроде метлы держат

That's why my sword is a 1911 colt

What is the music name ?

1:10. This is the problem with these matches. They are glorified tag and completely unrealistic. Here the long sword guy barely has a hold on his weapon as he has almost thrown it to make a very weak connection with his opponent. In real life this would done very little damage and he would never attempt it. He'd risk losing his sword and the encounter completely. Instead he scores a point?!? This unrealistic, point based sparing, also leads to bad technique. 5:27. Same BS from the long sword guy. It's just a game of tag to him. Hitting with the flat side of his sword while tossing it. 🤦‍♂️ They both move very well and I like the rapier guy. That longsword guy would get shredded to pieces in a real sword fight against a real long sword opponent trained for real combat.

Pointless

It's almost like the spear dominated in history or something (cries is sword fan)

No floating foot pls lol

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Pointy stick goes poke

Or how to win with the spear in open field combat lolol

Come down to Texas I'll show you swordsmenship

By shifting leg position striking before ur first foot alway strike would open ur world up but u need a camera man to see the real chaos lol

Notice there fighting like ppl on skateboards number one mistake you see 95 percent of so called gentlemen warriors do

If you don't change stance after each strike or block you leave your head stomach n lead leg at risk

I hate when they don't Ying yang step atleast

If u look at military portrayal it's a downwards grip with a strap shield n some Graves n helm n leather body you fucking stomp out 5 swords men