The Art of the Sword of Grandmaster Liechtenauer - Part 1
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- čas přidán 7. 11. 2015
- Paired and Solo forms of the General Lessons and the Five Hidden Hews are depicted here in Part 1. This is not meant to be so much an instructive video with great detail, but more of a demonstration of the Art that showcases the techniques as well as somewhat guides those who are studying the Kunst des Schwerts.
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Fantastic demonstration! Beautiful background scenery. Love the basic Classical music. Great video!
Fantastic video. I really like how you guys are withdrawing the hands in pflug, just like the images and text. Not many people hold it like that.
great and thorough! wonderful resource!
Really great video guys. I am a Fight Director and long time practitioner of Historical Martial Arts. I use the Historical martial Arts in order to make my stage and screen fights better. German Longsword is one of my favourites and this is some of the cleanest work I have seen. I try to watch HEMA tournaments but they just seem to end up wailing on each other and lose all sense of style. If they fought like this it would be so much better, and so much more respectful to the actual art. Unfortunately I see HEMA tournaments heading down the path of sport fencing, all that matters is making the touch. Great video. Keep it up.
Looks like you don't watch the experts. I recommend taking a look at Anton Kohutovic or Martin Fabian's plays.
whoo hoo for #2!!! please come out soon!!
Great source of inspiration - well done!
Love the video! do you mind if i ask for a source for the music?
I wish you had been in a little closer with the camera
+MrOttmandus I wish that we had a cameraman :)
well done and good job! this video is great!
Wonderful work!
Thnx for the awesome videos!
I'm just a bit confused about the abnemen, I always thouht of it as being like a cut from the other side, with a stance shift
Thanks! Some sources describe the Abnemen as you have, but others seem to indicate that the downward trajectory of the blade to the head is along the same plane that the sword first traveled while moving upwards to clear the opponent's sword.
oh, nice! Thnx for the answer, and congrats for the video! :D
Guys what is the music you are using for your videos. I've been looking stuff like this for ages and can't find anything I like. I like these. Thanks K
What does the left hand of the left guy do way up on the swords grip ? Isnt it in Lichtenauer too supposed to grip the pommel ? Looks weird to me ^^
+Blank- blade MS 3227a is the only primary source to address specifically how to grip the sword in the Liechtenauer Tradition, and states: "Also know that a good fencer should at first grip his sword safely in a secure manner with both hands between the cross and the pommel because this way he will hold his sword safer than by having one hand holding the pommel. He will also strike harder and more accurate this way if the pommel overthrows itself, swinging in behind the strike. This results in a much harder strike compared to having one hand at the pommel and pulling the strike. Pulling the strike this way is not as perfect and
strongly, because the sword is like a pair of scales. If the sword is
large and heavy, the pommel also must be heavy - just like on a pair of
scales."
MEMAG Ah, thank you for the profound answer :)
Blank- blade There is only few situations where you might want to hold sword directly by its pommel. In case of short cut to the hands, in case of neccessity to double fast performed zwerchhau and some following cuts as abnehmen with short blade after that zwerch... in situations when you do not have space for propper cut and you need more acceleration than momentum or you really need to change direction of your cut. It is lil faster and lil easier with your hand on the pommel in this situations which appears occasionally. If you hold your pommel and get closer to your opponent with necessity to use your pomel to strike, you have to keep it in mind and change your grip or it will be weak strike or you could break your own fingers...
Sometimes in case of wearing Spes heavies...
This was amazing
Most excellent!
This is all fine and good but what whould you do if someone were to come at you with the renaissance technique as taught by Hutton in 1892?
Hope that someone invented the gun moments before they did, and handed it to you?
Guys... you cant cut into static guard of your opponent or you get easily killed. Even krumphaw on ochs or schielhaw on pflug doesn't work that way...
The music reminds me the Final Fantasy IX
Most historical sword fights with these swords lasted seconds?
+jonnyy40 Well, all it takes is getting hit once if you're not wearing any armor, so...
+jonnyy40 Yep! Also, the techniques demonstrated here are the "plays" & techniques from Liechtenauers Kunst des Fechtens (Art of Fencing) -- each one usually ends with either a fatal wound, or disabling your opponent. Even the "zeck rur" (tag hits) to the hands would likely end the fight, as you can't hold a sword if your hand has been disabled.
Lol to be factual, real sword fights were indeed very short, seconds or a few minutes. Being stuck once usually ended the fight, and as you can see there are more opportunities to get hit than not to get hit, even as an expert, one lucky unexpected swing and it's over.
0:29 thats not a oberhau thats a scheitelhau
Kendo discipline applied to Western technique = amazing.
It's not from Kendo. This is purely Western, they took nothing from the Japanese methods. They are just similar in apperance because of universal body mechanics.
Music is distracting from content.
Ever heard of a volume switch?
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So sick of "instructional" videos that don't say a thing.