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Those are Spes FGs There still on SPES I believe. czcams.com/video/Y0GoLqvZZ3U/video.html&t=

@@superiorhema thanks!

Lol, well most sources do say cut 7 as well. But in Rowarth he doesn't actually list it, he mentions there's a cut 7 but it's too easy to defend and recommends to not use it. I also mainly do medieval fencing where its diagonal downwards as well. Even if it's close to vertical I always have a bit of a diagonal lean, that allows it to connect to your body, and you don't have to stop the cut from hitting the ground. You can just flow the cut left or right, and have opposition against a sword.

Thats the eternal question. But i think there are too many caveats to it. Time frame. Body type. The weapon you have at hand. Most trained ppl would crush an untrained person no matter what. Self defense, or duel… As much as i am attracted to the meyer, and marozzo style…. Fiore feels better to me. I try and steal some from everyone…. But i am just a nobody, who did 10 years of jiujitsu and i train myself in fencing for fun.

Thanks! Well in my Fiore series intro I mention it a little. KDF has hundreds of sources that the practitioner has access too. Whereas Fiore is essentially just 1. (4 italian copies + Blumes des kampfes.) So KDF is more open source feeling, theres nothing you can do with a sword that you can't find in a Liechtenauer connected source. Fiore is like getting a source of someone's preferred things. So it's a lot less techniques and less choices. Which might be nice, learn these 2 things instead of deciding from these 40 things for a given problem. But for me, I need my thwart cuts, so I'm a zettel fencer absolutely

@@superiorhema Thats really interesting. As a dude who just plays around and tries to pick stuff i like (like i mentioned in previous comment). That makes a bunch of sense. And with my actual ground fighting experience, i used to do just that. Not everything works for everyone

​@@sandozman6085 Ya especially as an individual you're going to want to try everything and keep what works. But what I've found for teaching it can be an issue adding mental friction if students have too many choices. Because in fencing the choice generally has to be muscle memory and done instantaneously, or the opening is gone. So it's been a bit of choice what to drill etc, In BJJ it can be slowed and you can work new choices a bit easier. The mental friction doesn't have to bog you down as much. For example in olympic fencing it makes it really easy to teach, especially foil, because they're is a right or wrong with each choice. And you can make complex drills that really work stuff, because the best choice has been found already and you need to do it if you want to win. Doing something else will probably be less effective and reduce your success. (there are still times where you can choose from a few things.)

Lol ya it's hard to not do things, at 1:14 I recover with thumb on the blade and change it back lol.

Ya it's one of those things where, until you've used enough feders for a while, you won't really know what you want or don't want. Because all tournament level standard feders feel so similar you won't notice much until you've really used them. As I got better at thrusting I wanted more flexible feders so I didn't have to hold back. So you can't go wrong with a standard Medium blade Regenyei. And any custom stuff on it shouldn't negatively affect it. Thats a good first feder. Added crossguard and pommel on it are fine. For blade length you want the standard length. 100cm. You can get shorter ones later for practice. But if you want to compete go with standard. Grip lengths will be around 30cm. in general longer is more competitive and allows more positions to be used. Any standard sword maker will have tested whats acceptable. POB will be anywhere from 5 - 10cm. That mainly affects how fast the tip moves, and how light the tip feels. But POB can be "light" (5cm) and if the sword feels heavy and doesn't have much taper it might still be too slow. But again any standard feder will all be in the same ball park. Heavy pommel is dependent on sword. It just needs to make the sword feel balanced. As you use swords you can sometimes feel that you'd prefer a lighter or heavier one on it. I prefer grips to not get too thin. So some waisted grips haven't felt good with gloves. Generally just the standard oval feels best with gloves. Bare hands can usually be fine with anything. I like cord wrap the best. But anything is ok, it's gonna get hit and be taped at somepoint anyway. The biggest factor is you, your shoulder width, glove size, height, weight etc. People with bodies on the extremes need to try more swords. But if your an average man, 5'9", 180lbs, you can generally use any sword. And then the main choice is just how much do you want to spend.

@@superiorhema Thanks alot for your insights. I'll go with a standard feder for now and save some cash, until i know what measurements fit to me.

Just poke holes in velcro, and zip tie it. I think you do have to cut the pieces shorter though. Maybe had to drill one new set of holes in the plastic. It's ok. Definitely usable, but I have lots of other forarms to use.

@@yeoldebanjo5470 ya lol, it’s a light blade

Well... the hit happens before anything else. So the only ruleset that could have a potential change is continuous fencing. It's still the main way I thrust in any ruleset, I train follow ups, and can do anything afterwards. And if you have a good fleche (leaning pass) then you're only using it when you know you can hit. So my success rate is higher than most other things. Because I only fleche when I'm confident I'll hit. Where as my passing step, advance, and lunge all have a far lower success rate, because I can send them whenever. Probably 90% of my fleches hit or lead to my hit. Where as, out of every attack I've made with a pass, it's probably like 15% have actually landed. In this tournament I only had 3 fleches that had a successful parry riposte against me.

Multiple fleches in this vid from swordsquatch, continuous fencing. They just don't have a jump, cause that's not what defines fleche czcams.com/video/ytW92MMiZmM/video.html

Fleche works better in tournaments with grappling. The rapier and smallsword texts show the Flèche or full pass as it's called to end in a grapple. In an ideal world you run them through with opposition and then trip or throw at the end.

Ya for sure, it also means you know the distance and body length pretty well. Cause you can look foolish if you fleche out of distance, should generally only be done when you know it's going to land. Ya because the zwer is short some people don't assume it will land when they see those hands prepare. So I land the direct hit instead. Also great vid about the "Don't parry" lol. Made me laugh pretty hard, watched it a bunch. I've been teaching a lot more about "right of way" and "priority", so people understand vor and nach better. So it connected really well.

@@superiorhema Ah yeah the one with Pepin?😂😂 He came out of nowhere with this. Caught me offguard. I was dying when he sent the full video after the sparring.

@@petritzky czcams.com/video/oCxSCc5Vo8A/video.html thats you right?

@@petritzky Lol, ya that was great 😆

🤣 lol...

That guy sucks

@erikm5402 nice one Erik!!!

Ya there’s also 46 exchanges or 46 wins as options.

Had the Italian regenyei day 1. And there custom feder day 2. It’s a nice sword, there moving closer to mass production.

@@superiorhema Thanks for the response! Their italian feder is their custom feder, rigth? Could you explain more ? Lenght of the blade, flexibility, etc..

@@MarioTwinden No. Day1, The Italian regenyei strong blade. Standard length. Day 2 is Chinese made feder. I don’t have the stats. Probably similar to a medium blade, regenyei short. It was nice and might order a few to have here. I don’t know how to order in china. I’d just be asking them. I didn’t bring any swords, just used what’s there

@@superiorhema Thx man! I am searching for a new feder with strong blade presence, your game has a very good middle distance, wich feder would you recomend for that? Keep up the good work

@@MarioTwinden I would say the Kvetun ffg. It’s the stiffest I’ll go without pulling thrusts. So the best bind presence in a full speed sparring sword. The long handle means I can use crossed arm positions like zwers, ochs, plow, krumps, etc without a big handicap. For non competitive there’s more options, because you can go a bit stiffer. But usually I just go back to Kvetun ffg as middle of the road

Ya I have done some reviews on go now foams. The nice ones for hema just weren’t as widely known at the time

@@superiorhema believable, also shipping. I feel sad thinking that people were stuck with the cold steels in the primordial era.

Lol... no from Canada

@@superiorhema For a self learning guy wihtout access to some fencing schoool / club you made repsectable progress over thsoe five years or so. Even more for a murrican (Canada is like the same island anywayam I rite?)

Yes hema, was invited by someone there.

czcams.com/video/ES-OkV6p7NY/video.html AP lights are better in most contexts. But that's why there double the price.

Oh my, thanks:)

Oh ya, lots of good fencers

Thanks! No all those gloves are made in China. So those were sort of a koning copy. Most are spes copies.

That one is probably the most original-deisgn one, a self-development 5-finger glove that is supposed to in the same standard with St.mark, but we all know how bad 5-finger gloves are for longswords lol. Personally, that's will be a not bad option for your non-dominant hand, but I simply just choose Lobsters anyway.

@@cloudgu3383 very interesting, thanks for the info!

Lol ya… he wore it for a few years, but moved to a lighter jacket this year.

Oh I'll maybe see you next year then! Thanks!

Maybe a third of each group would speak enough English to have actual conversations. So often a lot still had to get translated.

"The only word I need to know is 'Mortschlag!'" 😈