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I thought they were used left hand on top in order to avoid the opponent’s shield.

I have a very nice and light weight Dane Axe. And this video has taught me quite a bit about how to use it, if I ever have too. Mine has a very nice "Beak" for thrusting. And I do know, when things get close. Choke up on the head, make small attacks. Also using the Axe for a blunt force attack is good. Not to mention a butt stroke with the base of the handle. Axes are brutal, and you need to be strong, but watching these two spar, really brings home how a Dane Axe is supposed to be used.

How do you find the heater? Love seeing people fight with it the way you are. Honestly, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it- in whatever format that would take. Always enjoy the way you all fence.

I really enjoy the way you all fence. I feel like a lot of the time, binds are completely omitted in SB sparring. I've seen a lot of SB fights- especially in tournaments- where it takes on a rock/paper/scissors feel. This is great stuff! I also love the sword/shield content as well. Love to see more heater shield combat- or even kite!

Cool shield. I like the strap!

Finally someone who knows how to use a dane axe. A really terrifying weapon for the man on the other side, had a lot of "occasions" to fight against it. One might think that after breaking the distance its easy but the grip on that shaft can be shortened in no time, allowing to cut short. Honestly I think the hardest part of fighting the dane axe is to gather the courage to charge him and effectively kill before he can sidestep and counter. Nice one!

Still going to chose poleaxe if I get isakei'd but I do love some spear fighting.

Wow these moves are so beautiful! I love how deceptively simple they seem to appear but the art to wielding it has quite the depth.

First time seeing such use of a shield. Is it actually useful, doesnt it get in the way for arm movement and parries ?

An actually totally historically accurate.....always go for the gaps in the armour! 😅

The reason why Dane axes are used left handed is that the blows would ideally land on right (i.e the sword arm) of your enemy, fighting a left handed boxer is completely different.

Spear is so much fun, feels the most knightly to fence with

Nice harness dude!

Viking: "Come here so I can stab you." Danish wayfarer: "See how cool my axehead is.."

Shield and spear is my favorite combination. :)

Looks like a halberd is basically a Dane axe with a spear point, best of both worlds.

pretty cool! how come not wearing proper plate helmets? also, the title says full plate armor but you only have partial plate on

some cool exchanges. 0:04 it looks like red man fails to hold the spear due to gauntlets, causing him to drop the spear and maybe gets stabbed in the face for it. Does the gauntlets make it much harder to grip things?

I like the long graceful swings that you depict. But I notice the axes are mostly held back, giving little defensive value. Often your bigger swings expose you both to "double-kills". Perhaps combine more thrusts and minor swings? The axe can also parry and deflect more, (used like a Halberd)? These axes were very sharp, so small swings will cut flesh, bone, and leather. I've seen effective light cuts achieved by a crank-like counter-rotation of the hands. Strikes to mail might require bigger swings for concussive damage, but also risk breaking the blade's edge on steel helms, bosses, or getting stuck in shields.

Wow very nice.

He kept pressing L1 and R1 together by accident

why are you showing stab injuries you are in full plate you cannot stab through plate you must find the gaps should rename it to just sparring with arming swords because you are clearly trying to replicate unarmored combat

Too could be interesting sword vs flail,because "language" and fencing of both weapons vary between one to another. Even could be done flail vs montante.

footwork is George Silver's and filippino in same time. nice

Switching to your second handgun is sometimes termed "New York Reload." Draw and fire one round accurately time is faster than sword draw and thrust time or spear reload.

danish bearded heavy axe hits would be a great thing of seeing.

for a carnival event it's just too boring

SPEAR!!!

How much do your spears weigh?

Brilliant demonstration! While easy to see the benefits of shield and spear combo, watching someone use a Dane axe with speed makes of far easier to imagine how a strong and highly skilled user could strike a neck, arm or shoulder, or drag a shield out of place. And also how a strong user could potentially overwhelm an opponent with brutal thrusts and hacks. Well done, and thank you!

Nice fight! Can't unhear the other people in the back making questionable noises tho!

6:54 😂

Very good indeed

MISSED YOU GUYS HELL YEAH

This fight is vere interesting, good gob !

Hey out of curiosity. . .where do you guys buy replacement handles? Sweet video by the way I learned a lot by watching

I like the MC Hammer pants! Can't touch this!!

What sword is the guy on the right using? Also love the video, and slow sparring in general. Really helps you see what your doing wrong in the moment rather than having to learn from hindsight and reconstruct the mistake from memory. Its alot simpler to start moving the sword to do something, see its not going to work in real time and realize why in the moment. Then as you learn what will work and what wont, as you go back to normal sparring those lessons translate to knowing when to do what.

So good to see overhand grip, just good work, you clearly know what you are doing

Do you also train with a metal headed Broadaxe? From training with mine (ca. 120cm haft 1350gr weight) i made the conclusion that the only way of defense with these against each other is evasion by going out of distance. They have so much inertia that i am very sure that such small beats and displacements as in the video wouldnt work against a full force blow and blocking downward vertical strikes with the haft would also require a lot of force or else the arms of the defender collapse and the axe head reaches the head.

Nice sparring! Looks more realistic to me than this no protection, hip hinge tap him with a sturzhau stuff…Did you use any secondary sources to learn centergripped roundshield and sword?

Really excellent video, thank you!

Is this HEMA?

Remember switching to your side arm is always faster than reloading

why do these videos always try to make a point with someone who has never fought AGAINST a spear before?

Simulate what would happen if the axe man were properly armoured. Spear guy gets wrecked. If you're doing "unarmoured" its very apparent that the spear has a huge advantage. Its just boring to watch a damn spear doing the hokey pokey.

Lovely stuff as always. I really need to find some time to get to an event your at. Our group have musters that youd happily attend but we are midlands based so is a fair treck. I am currently working on stuff myself with dane work and appears we are coming to some of the same conclusions, ao would love a play sometime and compare notes as it were.

You're on a roll with how hard these thumbnails go

Interesting video. Thank you for sharing. Some tips, from a Chinese point of view, if you are interested: - When attacking, we thrust continuously and relentlessly at various targets until the opponent is dead, rather than launching single thrusts. - Thus, the gap between a feinting thrust and the real attack should be a fraction of a second, rather than two separate movements. - When thrusting, we slide the rear hand all the way to the lead hand to get maximum reach. - When the opponent's weapon is shorter, there is no need to lean in to get extra reach. - We keep the opponent at spear's length, rather than moving in to (in this case) axe length. By the way, my comments only apply to the first 65 seconds. I don't practise spear with a shield, so I cannot comment on that. Kind regards.